Thierry Vandenbussche

Currently Artistic Director at Privacytopia/Privacy Salon (VUB), Thierry Vandenbussche launched his curatorial career in 2001 bringing to life the festival Courtisane, a platform for film and audiovisual arts, exploring the relationships between image and world, aesthetic and politics, experiment, and engagement. 
In 2007 his attention shifted to photographic work on the edge of the medium, the fusion between the still image, its own history & technical background vs. other artistic media (like sculpture, performance, painting…). The ‘Outlandish’ organization was a curator/artist collective. A gallery space was opened in Antwerp - still gallery. Borger, Borg Biennale and Observatorium have been other local initiatives by Thierry Vandenbussche, presenting many Belgian and international artists from all artistic media. 
In 2019 he co-curated ‘Festival of Control’, an exhibition about the controlling nature of humans. Today his focus is on data use and its implications on individuals and society. Not only surveillance, privacy and data protection are dealt with, also AI, IoT, Machine Learning, robotics, cyborgs…