Klaus Nicolai

studied cultural science (1997 – 1982)
teaching: did his PHD at the former Karl-Marx-University in Leipzig (until 1987), at Hochschule für Bildende Künste (University of Fine Arts) Dresden (1987 – 1992), at the Dresden International University (since 2005)
advisor for media culture at the cultural office of the (provincial capital) City of Dresden (1995 – 2005)
co-founder of the international festival for computer-aided art CYNETart in Dresden (1997), of the Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V. (TMA) (2001), of the light-sound-festival transNATURALE (2005) and of the Dresdner Innovationsfonds für Kunst und Medientechnology (DIF) (Innovations Funds for Art and Media Technology) (2007)
head of the CYNETart festival (1997 – 2005) and artistic director of the transNATURALE (2005 – 2009)
spokesperson of the management board and is responsible for the project development of TMA
author, project designer and mediator of the European Tele-Plateaus – transnational sites of encounter and co-production (ETP)– a project funded by the European Union
author and leading project manager of the Virtual Parliament an internet platform, which went online on 11th August 2009
lives in Dresden and works as freelance project manager , lecturer and author