Vincensius ‘venzha’ Christiawan graduated from interior design faculty (BA), Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) and has focused on new media art since 1999. He built ‘the house of natural fiber, Yogyakarta new media art laboratory’ (HONF) www.naturalfiber.com and determined to fuse education, art and technology with local communities without cultural limitation. He produced and organized a lot of projects such as public art installation, media performance, media art festival, technology research, videowork festival, workshops, discussion, DIY gathering, electronic and media culture movement, etc. Venzha is founder of HONF lab, 10:05 news project, and electrocore sound project. He and community were presenting media art projects in many places and countries worldwide. HONF produced special projects in media art field called Education Focus Program (EFP). The goal of the EFP is to build connections and interactions between local/creative communities(whose interest and focus is on new media), scientists, and creators/artists. A second innovative aim is to make a connection between universities with expertise in technology and media artists/theorists who are interested in new media art and technology. He tries to reinforce the interest in and analysis of technology in artistic production and theory. He intends and focuses for building new bridge between art and technology itself in Indonesia together with HONF. Venzha is also a conceptor and director for YIVF (Yogyakarta International Videowork Festival) and CELLSBUTTON (Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival), which is produced and organized by HONF every year.
