Michele Thursz, Seek-Art Co-founder and Artistic Director

Michele Thursz is an independent cultural producer and consultant based in New York City. She has consulted private collections and acted as Director for Contemporary and Outsider Art Galleries, Media Collectives and Art advisory companies.

In 1999, Thursz co-founded and directed Moving Image Gallery [MIG], NYC. MIG was one of the first galleries to show contemporary artists using electronic and computer-based mediums, giving first exhibitions to artists such as Cory Arcangel, Yael Kanerak, Paper Rad, Golan Levin, Carlo Zanni, and co- producing events such as Whitneybiennial.com, Miltos Manetes, Blip (a monthly event devoted to the celebration of the birth of video games and their effects on artist practice, subculture and society),and Floppy 1.44 (an exhibition on a floppy for Rhizome with all works to be equal to or less than 150K).

Moving Image Gallery (MIG) evolved into The Post Media Network, dedicated to the continuous evolution of media and its effect on artists and cultural practioners.

Thursz's Post Media Network cultural productions include Bulletin Board Café, 193 Institute, KY, Meme: Romanticism, EFA Gallery, NY, Thread, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pattern: Modernism as Mediator, Borusan Gallery, Istanbul, Prints and Chips, Bitforms, NYC, Cine-O-matic, The New Museum, public.exe: Public Execution, Exit Art, NYC, and Democracy is Fun, White Box, NYC, Carlo Zanni, My Temporary Visiting Position from the Sunset Terrace Bar, Sandroni Rey Project Space "They Always Say That Time Changes Things..." Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum, LA, CA, and Chico MacMurtrie, Inflatable Architectural Body, NY.

These exhibitions introduced a cross section of emerging and mid-career artists, including Ellen Gallagher, Space Invaders[FR], Carlo Zanni [IT], Claudia Hart, Scott Hug,K-48 Magazine, Kelley Walker, Reynold Reynolds, Robert Lazarini, Rafael Lorenzo-Hemmer[MX], , Tobias Bernstrup[SWD], Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, Marina Zurkow, Michelle Handelman, Siebreen Versteeg, Tal Hadad[FR], Beth Coleman and Howard Goldkrand, Andy Warhol, Soundlab and Serkan Ozkaya [TRK], Kendall Geers and more.

Michele Thursz has written and lead public conversations about contemporary art and related professional issues pertaining to contemporary art, including: public.exe: Redefinition of public in relationship to artistic practice, and the institution, <Fresh> New Media Projects, New Museum, Curating In and Outside the Institution, NYC, Collecting the Un-collectable, Guggenheim, NYC, Dealers GO to School: P2P_. EDU: Peer-To-Peer Educational For Art Dealers P2P.

Thursz's actions and exhibits have been reviewed and featured in the New York Times, Forbes, ArtByte, Wired, and Art Forum, Art in America, Frieze, LA Times, Asia Art Pacific, and Timeout New York and many international periodicals and web publications.

She also teaches Thesis Research and Writing, for the MFA, Computer Arts Program, The School of Visual Arts, NYC.