Annette Schindler
Director
Annette Schindler studied art history and sociology at the university of Zürich and Madrid and wrote her thesis on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of taste. Annette Schindler is currently the director of a new media art space [plug in] in Basel. She developed the concept for [plug in] redefining the structures of traditional art institutions to suit the specific needs of new media cultural production. From 1997 - 2000 Annette Schindler directed the Swiss Institute in New York and from 1992 — 1997 the Kunsthaus Glarus in Switzerland. Her exhibitions, publications and projects have contributed to contemporary discourses such as, feminist approaches, critical art practice, digital cultural production and technoculture.