Dagmar Glausnitzer-Smith, Founder

Charles F. Ryder, Curator

team development

Since the establishment of transitstation in 2003, we’ve worked closely together on all aspects of the project: curation, programming, media, websites, funding applications, scheduling, networking, seminars, educational programmes, concept and text documentation, logistics, host city scouting, press, graphics, team development.

We are looking for team members, cultural volunteers, funding application experts, and jury members for ongoing and future projects.

Please use the contact page for expressions of interest.

Dagmar Glausnitzer-Smith

Creative Director Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith graduated from Goldsmiths' College in London  in 1994 and from the Royal College of Art in 2000. She created transitstation in 2003 as the culmination of her two-year Stanley Picker Picker Fellowship at Kingston University London. She then returned to Germany, organising international T.a.T. (pure action in art in action) Performance Art Workshops and city site-specific 12-hour Marathon Performance Art Workshops called 'Werktag'.

Glausnitzer-Smith’s work concentrate in virtual spaces (website-project), temporary floors, site-specific places, the Public, International Festivals and Events, Radio Interviews, Books and Publications, Essays, Open Studio, curatorial projects, appointed situations and invented public projects.

Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith

Charles F. Ryder

Curator and Communications Director Charles Ryder is a versatile arts professional with a career in museum and gallery design, curating, painting and information technology. He is a co-founder of transitstation, instrumental in the creation of the exhibitions-as-events in London, Berlin and Edinburgh.

He has designed fine and decorative art exhibitions for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Collection and the Frick Collection in New York, and the Museum of Islamic Art of the Kuwait National Museum, as well as exhibitions for English Heritage, the National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside, and the National Trust in the UK.

Ryder’s freelance design practice caters to artists, musicians and cultural institutions. He divides his time between England and Normandy where he has a house not far from the summer studio of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

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Paulo Ricca

Technical Director Paulo Ricca is a cross-skilled technologist and researcher passionate about blending technology and art.

After being on the board of Lisbon's Hackerspace, working in a tech company's R&D department and being awarded a PhD in Computer Science by Royal Holloway University of London, he co-founded Artist Media Agency – a technology and design agency based on the core idea of bringing technology to creative and art projects. Paulo has worked with dozens of clients from musicians to large companies on projects such as interactive projections for live concerts, light installations or event production, with work present at The Roundhouse, O2 Academy, Red Gallery, XOYO, Hackney Downs Studios, St Sepulchre's Church or The Forge.

More recently, Paulo co-founded Buzzbar, a new take on the tech and creative agency that focuses on making technical, creative and marketing work accessible to individuals and small companies.

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Bernhard Winkler

Photographer Bernhard Winkler lives and works in Berlin. He studied visual communication at the HdK Berlin and then worked for 20 years as a feature film cameraman and as a lecturer for film and photo design. Since 2005 he has been concentrating exclusively on fine art photography.

“My pictures capture the reality of my inner pictures. They express what my eye sees, which is continuously moving in the surrounding space. They show things as a connection between space and time. I expose for a long time to make time visible. During this exposure time something changes, something that cannot be seen with the naked eye, but can be felt. Things become visible behind things, the space around things becomes visible and with that I create a connection to my very own reality, my imagination. Blurring, caused by the movement of things and the camera, creates a tension between the ‘documentary’ camera and painting. Space is created for your own imagination.”

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Gao Yuantian

Photographer Gao Yuantian（b. 1992 is a Chinese artist. He is currently studying media art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne（2020). He participated in the Weimar Art Festival while studying fine art at Bauhaus University.

Gao’s works in the fields of space design and experience design, exploring the relationship between human rational cognition and the world network. His work investigates the authenticity of people's self-narratives through communication and participation in the intersection of physical and virtual habitats.

Ana de Matos

Videographer Ana de Matos is an all-round filmmaker and visual anthropologist. The foundation for her current work started in the improv dance/theatre scene in London.

Her current practice explores the possibilities and challenges of the audio-visual medium to create ‘live’ and immersive experiences for the viewer. In the last twelve years, she has engaged with the limitations of the moving image in coming close to the essence of live performance and the imprint it leaves in the memory of the viewer.

Since 2006 she has documented and collaborated with around 500 international artists. She remains committed to capturing the essence and journey of a story or an artwork, and finding a creative way to translate that into film / immersive experience.

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