Nat Muller is an independent curator and critic based between Rotterdam and the Middle East. She has held positions as staff curator at V2_, Institute for Unstable Media (Rotterdam) and De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics (Amsterdam). Her main interests include: the intersections of aesthetics, media and politics; media art and contemporary art in the Middle East. Her latest projects include Trans_European Picnic - The Art and Media of Accession (Novi Sad, 2004), DEAF_04: Affective Turbulence: The Art of Open Systems (Rotterdam, 2004); INFRA_ctures (Rotterdam, 2005), Xeno_Sonic: a series of experimental sound performances from the Middle East (Amsterdam, 2005), DEAF07 (Rotterdam, 2007), the workshop 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Negotiating Artistic Practice, Audiences, Representation and Collaboration within Local and International Frameworks' (Amman, 2007), the 2-day media art event 'CitySense: Secrecy, Control, Surveillance' (Istanbul, 2008). She has taught at the Willem de Kooning Academy (NL), ALBA (Beirut), the Lebanese American University (Beirut), and A.U.D. in Dubai (UAE). She serves as an advisor on Euro-Med collaborations for the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and the European Commission, and has recently been appointed an advisor on E-culture for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Nat was the first curator-in-residence at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo in 2008-2009. Together with Mediamatic in Amsterdam she is preparing a site-specific project for 2010 on Amsterdam Noord. Nat Muller blogs irregularly about her adventures in art and culture on 'Passing in Proximity': http://www.labforculture.org/en/users/site-users/site-members/nat-muller/passing-in-proximity