Rena Tangens, artist and networking pioneer, lives and works
in Bielefeld, Germany. Her works bring together diverse
practices such as experimental film, video and free radio.
She founded the gallery and art project "Art d´Ameublement"
together with colleague padeluun in 1984. She has been active
online since 1987, and she brought the first modem to the
international art exhibition Documenta (1987). Rena Tangens
is co-founder of the association FoeBuD e.V., the Bionic
bbs and the independent networks Z-Netz and CL (Germany)
and Zamir Transnational Network (set up during the war in
former Yugoslavia, 1992). She is curator of the ongoing
monthly culture and technology event, Public Domain, since
1987. In collaboration with FoeBuD, she published the first
manual on PGP encryption in German language. Since 2000,
she organises and is jury member of the Big Brother Awards
in Germany.
