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Andreas B., active for two decades in the BDSM-scene (privately and also as BDSM location- and event organiser), studies in jurisprudence [Mannheim]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: Don’t be afraid, they only wanna play – On the necessity and the need for deviance in rules and standards
  

Paul Bach, game collector and owner of more than 300 chess games, pensioner, globetrotter [Ludwigshafen]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: 1. The King and his vizier, and how the rooks became mobile – Chess pieces as representatives of their cultural origin, 2. The African coca cola-can car: Toys from a pick-up society
  

DI Michael Bachler, coordinator of the charitable organization VinziWerke, entered the social sector in a lateral move [Graz]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Graz/ steirischer herbst, Sept. 2007
  Expert: Advice in Dealing with Beggars
  

Gabriela Badura, actress at the National Theater Mannheim [Mannheim]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: Eternal seduction – A course in flirting
  

Dr. Dirk Baecker, Professor for Sociology, University of Witten/Herdecke,co-editor of "Soziale Systeme" magazine, editor of the book series "copyrights" [Köln, Paris, Bielefeld, Witten/ Herdecke]

• Mobile Academy Ruhr, Bochum 1999
  Curator: The Future of Work
• Black Market of Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Berlin 2005
  Expert: The Turing-Machine. The Desire to Play and the Desire to Win
• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, March 2007
  Expert: Modes of Mobility within the Social Change of the Last Five Thousand Years
  

KS Professor Olaf Baer, Singer, Dean of the Lied and Concert Class at the College of Music "Carl Maria von Weber" [Dresden]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Dresden, March 2010
  Expert:  A Singer's Approach to Schumann's Lied Compositions from Dresden

Carla Amina Baghajati, media speaker of the Islamic Congregation, teacher educating future Islamic religion teachers, teaches creative design at the professional Islamic school for social professions

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Vienna, May 2008
  Expert: If People do not Reconcile, God Does not Forgive

Prof. Dr. Malek Bajbouj, Professor of Psychiatry at Charité Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, and head of the cluster's Junior Research Group "Artificial modulation of emotions" and of the project "The Neurobiology of Empathy in Narcissistic Personality Disorder", Member of the Excellence Cluster "Languages of Emotion" of Free University Berlin [Berlin]

• On the Scene of Intimacy. A Phantasmagoria, Berlin, Dez. 2009
  Expert: Das Grübeln

Jim Baker, Founder and Director of Querverlag [Philadelphia/ Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: Ghetto-Books. Lesbian-Gay Literature in the U.S.A. and in Germany after Stonewall
  

Garip Bali, social worker, engaged with Allmende - House of Alternative Politics of Migration and Culture and with PLATAFORMA of migrants and refugees [Malatya, Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, March 2007
  Expert: Migrants' Self-Organization in Berlin. A Historical Survey Since the 1970's
  

Mag. Thomas Ballhausen, author, film and literature scholar, lecturer for comparative literature and film history at the University of Vienna, member of research staff at the Film Archive Austria

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Vienna, May 2008
  Expert: Tomorrow was Always Worse. Dystopia in Film, Literature and Other Arts

Dr. Anja Bandau, Junior Professor at the Institute for Latin American Studies, FU Berlin, Research Focus on: Hispanic Cultures and Literatures in the U.S.A. [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: a] Why the Aztec Gods Are so Highly Esteemed Among the Chicanos
  b]The Malinche: A Pop-Icon

Cynthia Barcomi, Founder and Manager of Barcomi's Coffee Roasters and Deli, former Dancer [Seattle/ Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: Ambassador of Taste. How I Make the Germans Familiar With American Cuisine

Dr. Yechiel Michael Bar-Ilan, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, and internal medicine specialist, teaches medical ethics and philosophy, and is head of Meir Hospital Ethics Forum. He publishes on human rights, bioethics, art & medicine, and collects paintings and images with medical themes, especially the figure of the doctor [Tel Aviv]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: 1. Ars Moriendi: How to Die in the Middle Ages and Today, 2. The ethics of Anatomy – How to Present and Stage the Human Body and Body-parts

Isabel Barros, Teatro de Marionetas do Porto [Porto]

• Mobile Academy, Berlin 2004
  Lecturer: Course Animation The Mechanism of the Body

Yael Bartana, artist, working primarily with video, focuses on the “Israeli condition”. The point of departure for her videos is everyday life and rituals related to actions of the state and the constant presence of war. Her films are often centered on a personal poetic expression, achieved through the manipulation of sound, movement and images, and they spark off responses regarding the political as well as questions of machismo, gender and human relationships

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: 1. Mary Koszmary/Nightmares: Jews! Poland Needs You (2007)
  2. Wall and Tower (working title): Building a Settlement in Warsaw (2009)

Elisa Barth, cultural scientist, works for the Merve Verlag publishing house [Weimar, Lyon, Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, March 2007
  Expert: a] On the Self-Conception to Engage in the Temporality of Driving a Trabant in the 21st Century
  b] Paul Virilio: Thinker of Velocity

Nabih Bashir, PhD candidate at the department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, research subject: the Development of Mediaeval Judaic Exegesis in the Shadow of Islamic Culture, has worked as a researcher at Mada Al Carmel and Galilee Society and is a husband and a father of one lovely boy

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: Intertwined Worlds: Intertwined Worlds: The Influence of Islamic Culture on the Development of Mediaeval Judaic Exegesis

Dr. Natalija Basic, Historian, Postdoc-scholarship holder with the cluster project "War criminals, concepts of enemy, emotions", Member of the Excellence Cluster "Languages of Emotion" of Free University Berlin [Berlin]

• On the Scene of Intimacy. A Phantasmagoria, Berlin, Dez. 2009
  Expert: Den Haag / Aufräumen / Vergebung

Claudia Basrawi, Writer and actress, current publication: Mittelmeeranämie (2009) [Berlin]

• On the Scene of Intimacy. A Phantasmagoria, Berlin, Dez. 2009
  Charismatic Counsellor: Sich Verlaufen

Biblab Basu, Historian [Berlin]

• Blackmarket of Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, 2005
  Expert: Only the Powerless Question the Definition and Application of Knowledge

Dr. Jürgen Baudewig, Mathematician, head of the cluster's Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) lab, Member of the Excellence Cluster "Languages of Emotion" of Free University Berlin [Berlin]

• On the Scene of Intimacy. A Phantasmagoria, Berlin, Dez. 2009
  Expert: Der Kernspintomograf I + II

Dr. Do Bauer, head of the Social Circle in the St Leonhard parish Graz, voluntary staff member at the Marienambulanz in the fields of street work with drug addicts and mobile outpatient clinics [Graz]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Graz/ steirischer herbst, Sept. 2007
  Expert: The Impossibility of Saving People

Günther Bauer, head of the refugee office of the regional government of Styria, the regional government's representative in the Expert Board for Asylum and Migration Affairs as well as in the Coordination Board for Refugees of the Federal Republic and the Federal States, chairman of employee representation in the social department of the regional government, university degree in crisis and disaster management [Graz]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Graz/ steirischer herbst, Sept. 2007
  Expert: About the Necessary Invention and Construction of Documents, Identities and Truths in the Asylum Procedure

Dalit Baum, feminist activist - lesbian - butch, one of the founders of Kappa, Black Laundry, Community School for Women and Coalition of Women for Peace, always looking for the links between the different oppressive systems in our lives, in order to tease them apart. She teaches Activism and Gender Studies at the Haifa University and Beit Berl College, and heads the Who Profits from the Occupation project at the Coalition of Women for Peace.

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: Who Profits from the Occupation?

Professor Andreas Bauman, Vice Chancellor for Artistic Practice and Dean of the Opera Class at the College of Music "Carl Maria von Weber" Dresden, freelance Opera Director [Dresden]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Dresden, March 2010
  Expert:  Be Afraid! Fears of Exams, Failures and Survival and their Instrumentalisation in Carl Maria von Weber's "Freischuetz" [The Marksman with the Magic Bullets]

Dieter Baumann, Dancer and Choreographer, part of the artistic head of the Tanzcompanie Rubato [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, April 2006
  Expert: As Far as the Feet Will Carry or: What the Aging Dancer-Body Knows in Order to Continue Dancing

Anna Baumgart, Visual Artist [Warsawa]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Warsaw, Oct. 2005
  Expert: Ecstatic, Hysterical and Other Saintly Ladies
• Blackmarket II [city version], Warsaw, Aug./Sep. 2006
  Expert: Trance of a Little Brain - or Goodnight Llet the Bedbugs Bite". Contemplative Workshop on Dreams and Lullabies

Sebastian Baumgarten, Drama and Opera Director, directed "The Soldier's Tale" (Stravinsky), "Wozzeck" (Berg), "Peter Grimes" (Britten) at the Semper Opera [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Dresden, March 2010
  Expert: Punch, Espionage, and the Incursion of the Unknown. On the Production of "Der goldne Topf" [The Golden Pot] by E.T.A. Hoffmann at the Dresden State Theatre

Yohannes Bayu, officially recognized refugee living in Israel for 12 years, founder and director of the African Refugee Development Center

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non- Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: Who Profits from the Occupation?

Geoffrey Beattie, Head of School and Dean of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester. He has published 15 books and has been the resident psychologist on all seven "Big Brother" series.

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Liverpool, Nov. 2008
  Expert: a] The gestures in a dialogue: talking with hands
  b] The role of silence in a dialogue

Kevin Beavers, Ph.D., American Composer, taught composition and theory at the University of Texas/ Austin and the Interlochen Arts Camp [Columbia/ Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: a] Jack "Legs" Diamond. Setting a Gangster to Music. A Sound Poem [2000]
  b] Immigrant Classical Music

Frank Becker, Hacker, Net Citizen and Data Traveller, Member of the Chaos Computer Club Dresden (c3d2) [Dresden]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Dresden, March 2010
  Expert: Analogue Reality comes into Collision with the Biotope of Net Citizens and both are being swirled

Gisela Becker, magician, chairwoman of local circle MA-LU-HEI of Germany’s magic circle association [Mannheim]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: Why I let myself be sawn in half. Illusions of magic as enrichment, thimblerig as a con

Jochen Becker, Curator, Author, Critic [Berlin]

• The Refugee. Services rendered to Undesirables, Berlin 2002
  Talk: Facts of Legalized Lack of Rights: The Social Living Conditions of Refugees
  Mobile Academy, Berlin 2004
  Scout: Teufelsberg - Rubble Heap of History, Cold War, Living on the Top
• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, March 2007
  Expert: FREE EUROPE! The Second World War and the Soldiers from Colonial Africa in Film Clips by Sembene Ousmane

Rashad Becker, Spurious Freelancer [Berlin]

• The Refugee. Services rendered to Undesirables, Berlin 2002
  Talk: Self-Organization of Refugees

Sarmen Beglarian, Curator at the Piotr Nowicki Gallery, cooperates with the Polish Modern Art Foundation [Warsaw]

• Blackmarket II [city version], Warsaw, Aug./Sep. 2006
  Expert: Invisible Shows. Exhibitions in a Time of Censorship

Christian Beiersdorf, gaming author, long standing commissioning editor and product manager in the toy industry, among others for "Ravensburger", owner of the service- and licensing agency "Projekt Spiel" [Freiburg]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: 1. Game authors: From the initial idea to the finished game, 2. Who actually owns the game? Games as cultural heritage – the copyright’s stepchild

Markus Beisel, actor and director at the Oststadt Theatre [Ludwigshafen, Mannheim]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: The thrown-away key from La Cage aux Folles: Travesty as zoo and the drag queen as the problem bear

Dr. Michal Ben Naftali, writer, translator and editor of The French series in Hakibbutz Hameuchad publishing house, among her books: “A Chronicle of Separation”, Resling (2000), “Childhood, a book”, Resling (2006), her translations include: “Mal d'Archive” (Archive Fever) by Jacques Derrida (Resling 2006), and “Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas” by Jacques Derrida (Hakibbutz Hameuchad 2007)

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: Thoughts on Secrets, Literature and Forgiveness - In the Footsteps of Jacques Derrida

Aya Ben Ron, artist, living and working in Tel Aviv, teaching in The School of Art, Beit Berl College, and the University of Haifa. In her practice she combines video, print, sculpture and painting, her works have been shown in Israel and abroad, she creates rules and lives by them

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: Margalith - the Ghost of a Girl-flower (2007)

Dr. Rafi Ben Shahar, environmental consultant, spent ten years in a nature reserve in Africa studying the behaviour of elephants, their communication, and their effect on their habitat, he also has an impressive collection of model airplanes that he built himself

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: The Olfactory Organ as a Tool to Understand and Know the World: The Elephant’s Way!

Regina Bendix, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology [Göttingen]

• Mobile Academy, Berlin 2004
  Lecture: Fakelore - Who's that Girl?

Orly Benjamin, senior lecturer at The Department of Sociology and the Gender Studies Unit, Bar-Ilan University, currently involved in teaching teenagers economic literacy and working to instill in them socio-political critical thinking

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: The Effect of Privatization on the Poverty of Working Women in Israel

Richard Bentall, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Bangor. His most recent book "Madness Explained" (2003) received the British Psychological Society Book Award.

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non- Knowledge, Liverpool, Nov. 2008
  Expert: Dialogues with people who are not there: The nature of auditory hallucination

Dr. Tamar Berger, writer and cultural critic who studies Israeli space, her critically acclaimed book "Dionysos at Dizengof Center" (1998) was adapted to a play by the same name, her second book "In the Space Between World and Playing - The Model in Israeli Culture" was published in 2007

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: Sand Dunes, Vineyards and Ghosts – Tel Aviv Between Invention and Suppression

Gabriel Berky / Mag. Gabu Szeberenyi, [Translation] for 8 years now Gabriel Berky is coming regularly from Hungary to Graz to beg [Hostice]
Gabu Szeberenyi is sworn translator for Hungarian, voluntary work in the Vinzenz community [Graz]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Graz/ steirischer herbst, Sept. 2007
  Expert: Begging - About the Difficulty of Taking

Andreas Bernard, Cultural Scientist and Editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung, has recently published "Die Geschichte des Fahrstuhls" [The History of the Elevator] [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: Up & Down: The Elevator - On the History of an Invention From New York

Professor Dr. Christian Bernhofer, Director of the Department of Meteorology at the Technical University Dresden; reseearch emphasis on: Applied Meteorology, Regional Climates, Reciprocations of Land Surfaces [Dresden]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Dresden, March 2010
  Expert: Parameters of a Romantic Sunset

Lars Bethke, Multiple European Champion in Rodeo riding [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: Wild Horse Riding and Bull Taming: What You Have Always Wanted to Know About Rodeo [with Homevideo on Palm]

Rafał Betlejewski [Betlej], Entrepreneur, specialized in marketing and brand strategies, Activist [Warsaw]

• Blackmarket II [city version], Warsaw, Aug./Sep. 2006
  Expert: Betlej acts Betlej. Four faces, four places". Workshops in constructing the self

Otmar Bettscheider and Karin Herrmann, certified linguists, game authors and -publishers, owners of game publisher "BiWo Spiele" [Mannheim]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: 1. Game producers: From the idea to becoming self-publisher, 2. Speech producers: Games as catalysts for creativity and communication

Marek Beylin, Journalist, Commentator, "Gazeta Wyborcza", specializes in post-war history and collective social memory [Warsaw]

• Blackmarket II [city version], Warsaw, Aug./Sep. 2006
  Expert: Memory

Mıraz Bezar, filmmaker [Ankara, Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, March 2007
  Expert: A Time for Drunken Horses? What is this? A Short Journey through Kurdish Cinema

Dr. Laura Bieger, Americanist at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin, Specialist on Urban and Spatial Experience [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: a] From Neon to Neo-Baroque - Las Vegas: Casino-Architecture as a Model for Contemporary Spatial Experience
  b] "The Venetian", Las Vegas: A Journey to Perfect Venice [with Visual Examples]

Prof. Agata Bielik-Robson, Philosopher, Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences and American Studies Center, Warsaw University [Warsaw]

• Blackmarket II [city version], Warsaw, Aug./Sep. 2006
  Expert: The Uncanny. Ghosts, Spectres, and Demons in Sigmund Freud

Prof. Dr. Kaspar Bienefeld, Director of the National Institute for Bee Research, Honorary Professor at the Agrarian Faculty of the Humboldt University [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, April 2006
  Expert: Information Dances of Cave Breeding Honey Bees in the Dark

Ruth Bierich, psychologist, psychoanalyst, work [amongst others] for Xenion, psychosozial help for victims of political persecution e.V. [Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Paris, Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, March 2007
  Expert: Refugees of Civil War in Berlin [Tschetschenia, Turkey, Black Africa]. Structural Conditions, Difficulties Concerning the Right of Residence, Possibilities for Therapeutic Help

Christoph Biermann, Freelance journalist, sports editor of Spiegel and Spiegel-Online, author, current publications (selection): Fast alles über Fußball (2005), Wie ich einmal vergaß, Schalke zu hassen (2007) [Berlin]

• On the Scene of Intimacy. A Phantasmagoria, Berlin, Dez. 2009
  Expert: Wir-Gefühl

Bryan Biggs, Artistic Director of the Bluecoat, record collector and visual artist who lives in Liverpool.

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Liverpool, Nov. 2008
  Expert: a] Mining the Vinyl Junkyard: sonic treasures retrieved from a reservoir of discarded discs
  b] Fashionably forgotten: Esquivel, Scott Walker, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and other waste wax, now waxed lyrical

Jacob Bilabel, Former Director of Creative Concepts for Universal Music Germany [Berlin]

• Mobile Academy, Berlin 2004
  Scout: Musical Dreams and Nightmares and Reality

Bildungsclown Jörn, sport- and chemistry academic, coach for communication, pantomime [Mannheim]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: On the seriousness of building a table rocket

Adolphe Binder, Curator, Producer, Director of Binder + Partner/Berlin, former Director of the Berlin Ballett - Komische Oper [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, April 2006
  Expert: a] Alternative Ways of How the Berlin Dance and Ballet Scene Could Have Been Changed. On Adopted and Rejected Suggestions
  b] How Legible are Body Encodings From Other Cultures? Aspects of Eurocentricity in the Perception of the Body

Rainer Binder-Krieglstein, drummer, music producer and musician, last album: "Alles Verloren" [2007], produced by Shantel for Essay Recordings [Graz]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Graz/ steirischer herbst, Sept. 2007
  Expert: The Perception of Music from the Producer's, the Consumer's and the Drummer's Perspective

Dr. phil. Angelika Birck, Psychologist, Staff Member of the Berlin Center for the Treatment of Torture Victims [Berlin], [she died in 2004]

• The Refugee. Services rendered to Undesirables, Berlin 2002
  Talk: The Traumatized Refugee. Persecution, Illness, Therapy

Kati Bischoffberger, Painter, Graphic Designer, Homeopath-in-training [Dresden]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Dresden, March 2010
  Expert:  Self-Portrait with a Sheep, or: What Art has to do with Homeopathy

Michael Bittner, Author and Literary Scholar, Part of the Reading Circle "Sax Royal", Columnist at the Saechsische Zeitung, currently working on his doctoral thesis on romantic love [Dresden]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Dresden, March 2010
  Expert:  The Invention of Modern Love, Friedrich Schlegel, the "Jena Circle", and the notorious Lucinde

Hakim Bishara, Palestinian freelance journalist based in Tel Aviv, his resume includes news editing and magazine writing in Israeli and international print and electronic media, nowadays he is involved in documentaries and social change projects. "Story telling is my only comfort. You call it passion, I call it service." [Tel Aviv]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: Sex, Religion and Murder in the Name of Family Honor – the Development of the Palestinian Tabloid in Israel since 1948

Hartmut Bitomsky, Director, Author, Documentary Film Producer, Director of the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie [Berlin]

• Mobile Academy, Berlin 2004
  Lecturer: Course Film The Folklore of Poverty. Film Analysis

Dr. Benjamin Blankertz, Mathematician, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology in Berlin with a focus on Brain-Computer Interfaces [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, April 2006
  Expert: Berlin Brain-Computer Interface: Controlling Simple Applications with Mind Power

Dr. Jochen Blaschke, Sociologist, Director of the Institute for Comparative Social Research [Berlin]

• The Refugee. Services rendered to Undesirables, Berlin 2002
  Talk: Migration Research and No-Border Camps
• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, March 2007
  Expert: Successful Migration Management

Frau Blau, is Helena Blaunstein and Philip Blau's fashion brand. Since 2002 they have been creating high quality fashion with a special ambiance, through a profound and optimistic view of life and their aim to bring joy to everyday life. "Frau Blau" is German slang for "drunk lady", a fact that is reflected in the "serious-nonsense" air of the couple's designs. They won the 2007 Ministry of Education and Culture's award for textile and fashion design

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: How to Create a Whole Wardrobe out of Two Shirts - a Workshop Based on the "Double Trouble" Design

Dr. Sladja Blazan, Author and Assistant Professor for American Culture and Literature, HU Berlin [Los Angeles/ Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: On Being Haunted and Happy in American Cinema: An Explanation for the Friendliness of American Ghosts
• On the Scene of Intimacy. A Phantasmagoria, Berlin, Dez. 2009
  Charismatic Counsellor: Fremdgehen & Shopping

Mag. Eva Blimlinger, historian and civil servant, project coordinator of art and research funding at the University of Applied Arts, 1998-2004 research coordinator of the Austrian Historians' Commission

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Vienna, May 2008
  Expert: Disappropriation, Restitution and Compensation 1938 - 2008 - Guilt and Debts of the Republic of Austria

Georg Blochman, director of the Goethe-Institute in Tel Aviv, grown up in a small village in north-western Germany, graduated in history of art from Köln University with a thesis on identity building of German artists of late 19th century, worked as an editor, curator and researcher. The first opera he attended was Verdi's "Trovatore", but the first opera music he remembers is his mother singing "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore" from Puccini's "Tosca". He is trying to become a "Perfect Wagnerite" (G.B. Shaw) since his early twenties [Tel Aviv]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: Retelling the Opera “The Flying Dutchman” by Richard Wagner (1843). With sound Samples

Philipp Blom, writer, journalist and translator

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Vienna, May 2008
  Expert: How Did it Really Happen? Historical Truth as Impossible Dream - And the Need to Tell us Stories

Catherine Blondeau, Cultural Attaché in the French Embassy [Warsaw]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Warsaw, Oct. 2005
  Expert: a] Invisible Tricks in French Cooking, b] Chatting with Ghosts and Spirits from the Contemporary African Literature

Tim Blue, Composer, Performer and Video Maker, Member of the Berlin-based performance group CHEAP [Portland/ Berlin]

• Blackmarket of Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Berlin 2005
  Expert: a] Export Tyranny: Activism and Art on the Eve of War, b] Eat Propaganda, Shit Democracy: The Role of American Artists during War
• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: Nomadic Sonorities. The Migration of Underground Sounds from America to Asia. Audio Examples from the No Wave Movement of NYC to the Esoteric Noise of Osaka, Tokyo and Taiwan
• On the Scene of Intimacy. A Phantasmagoria, Berlin, Dez. 2009
  Silhouette: The True Story of Susanne Sachsse, Marc Siegel, and friends (1999-2009)

Ute Bock, educator, refugee aid worker, responsible for more than 350 persons seeking asylum in Vienna, UNHCR Refugee Award, Bruno Kreisky Award for Human Rights, Dr. Karl Renner Award, first winner of the Ute Bock Award for Civil Courage (2000) named after her

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Vienna, May 2008
  Expert: On the Cruelty of Not Being Able to Become Anything

Dr. Manuel Bodirsky, Researcher in Theoretical Computer Science, Tango Dancer [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, April 2006
  Expert: A Notation System for Tango Argentino

Casino Internationale / Kathrin Böer, cultural studies scholar, postgraduate at the laboratoire d'Esthétique théorique et appliquée - Paris 1 [Paris, Berlin] and Felix Sattler artist [Weimar, Berlin]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: Casino ornamentale: On Persian carpets, mirrors and other ornamental histories from the world of casinos
  

Michael Böer, engineer and owner of a company for power plant technology, member of 1. Croquet Club Südwest, European Championship participant in golf-croquet in 2009 [Mannheim]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: On self-administered justice. Fair Play in croquet
  

Univ.-Doz. Dr. Arno Böhler, philosopher, teaches at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, filmmaker (GRENZ-film)

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Vienna, May 2008
  Expert: a] On the Innocence of Becoming. How you Become What you will Have Become (Pindar, Nietzsche), b] Limited Inc.: Life with Limited Liability. What it Means to Assume Responsibility Towards our Ancestors (Derrida, Spectres)
  

Prof. Edgar M. Böhlke, actor, until 2005 Professor for drama at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt Main [Mannheim]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: The attics of my mind – a possible way to authentic play
  

Paul Böhm, venture capitalist, Hacker-Space/ Community organizer, safety advisor and conference organizer, contracted a passion in startups as well as in strategies and patterns in complex self-organizing systems Metalab [Vienna]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Graz/ steirischer herbst, Sept. 2007
  Expert: Consulting for Startups and Setting up Business in the Field of Software, Web Applications and Peer-to-peer Software
• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Vienna, May 2008
  Expert: Launching a business like in San Francisco - impossible in Austria?
  

Dr. Hannes Böhringer, Professor for Philosophy at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Braunschweig [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: Mythologies of the New World. "Red River" [Howard Hawks, 1948] and "Key Largo" retold [John Huston, 1948]

Isabel Bohrn, Head "Affective and aesthetic processes involved in reading", Member of the Excellence Cluster "Languages of Emotion" of Free University Berlin [Berlin]

• On the Scene of Intimacy. A Phantasmagoria, Berlin, Dez. 2009
  Eye-Tracker: Facts vs. Fiction

Dr. Eva Boesenberg, Professor for North American Studies, HU Berlin, Research Interests: Afro-American Literature and Culture, Gender Studies, Basketball [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: Killing Gatsby - Money and Masculinity Since F. Scott Fitzgerald
  

Dr. Manuela Bojadžijev, member of Ultra-red and Kanak Attac, does research on migration, racism and political theory [Frankfurt/ Main, Berlin, London]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: Ultra-red: Blok 70. The Latest Project from the Sound Art-Group from Los Angeles in a Shopping-Mall in Novi Beograd
• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, March 2007
  Expert: a] Original Migration. On the Myths of Labor Recruitment
  b] A Brief Introduction to the Theory of Racism
  

Luc Bondy, director, managing director of the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen)

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Vienna, May 2008
  Expert: The Spectre of Murder in Jean Genet's "The Maids" - A Report from Theater Work (premiere: June 4, 2008)

Dipl.- Ing. Carsten Borck, kurdologist, editor, graphic designer [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, March 2007
  Expert: "Moving Into the Districts of Kreuzberg, Neukölln and Wedding Not Permitted": On the Choice of Place of Residence of Kurdish Migrants in Berlin
  

Christian von Borries, Musician, Conductor [Berlin]

• The Refugee. Services rendered to Undesirables, Berlin 2002
  Talk: Stay of Juvenile Refugees for Humanitarian Reasons - Education instead of Deportation
  

Claudia Bosse, Director, Space Expert, Theatercombinat [Wien]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, April 2006
  Expert: Jumping Lines - Textual Movement
  

Irena Botwinik, teaches linguistics at Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, fields of research: syntax, syntax acquisition and language processing, she has also studied astrology

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: Behind the Sounds – How Unvoiced Words Influence Sentence Structure and Meaning

Helen Brady, Novelist, poet and actress, mother of seven children. In her early seventies she graduated from The Ruskin College, Oxford and from Liverpool John Moores University with a BA(hons) in Imaginative Writing.

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non- Knowledge, Liverpool, Nov. 2008
  Expert: How to actualize a childhood ambition after 55 years. An autobiographical story

Mag. Dr. Andrea B. Braidt MLitt, film scholar, member of the research team at the Institute of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna; focus of interests: feminist film theory and genre film; most recent publication: "Film-Genus. Gender and Genre in der Filmwahrnehmung" (2008)

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Vienna, May 2008
  Expert: On the Problematic Connection Between Guilt and Homosexuality

Dr. Elisabeth Brainin, psychiatrist and neurologist, psychoanalyst (WPV/IPA)

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Vienna, May 2008
  Expert: The Forced Dissolution of the Association of the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society in 1938 and its Refounding in 1946

Nathan Brand, director, writer and VJ, starred and served as head writer for the Israeli cable TV children's channel during the 90s. As a specialist in emotional, political and theoretical contemporary vampirism, he shares his knowledge in a weekly show, Vampires as Human Beings, on the internet radio station Halas.am., fell from the sky in helicopter in 2002

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: 1. Why Everyone Can See the Vampires Except for Themselves, 2. What does Vampirism Have to do With it? Personal Advice for Everyday Problems and Conflicts

Dr. Dagmar Brandi, Paediatrician, Psychologist [Hamburg]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Hamburg 2005
  Expert: Everybody is Able to Flirt from the Beginning.

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter, Prof. for Theatre Studies with a focus on dance, Founder of the Centre for Movement Research at the Institute for Theatre Studies FU Berlin, Literature studies, Writer, Member of the Excellence Cluster "Languages of Emotion" of Free University Berlin [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, April 2006
  Expert: Choreography and Cartograph
• Future Perfect Advice Bureau Berlin, 2008
  Expert: How I will have moved
• On the Scene of Intimacy. A Phantasmagoria, Berlin, Dez. 2009
  Expert: Sich Langziehen

   

Eva Brechtel, Physiotherapist, Manual Therapist, Pilates instructor, Dancer [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, April 2006
  Expert: a] For Beginners: The Pilates-Method - Movement From a Strong Centre b] For Insiders: Modified Pilates-Method Exercises under Physiotherapeutic Aspects
  

Andreas Bredenfeld, Translator, City Guide [Berlin]

• Blackmarket of Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin 2005
  Expert: Rules of Protocol for State-Visits of Foreign Delegations
  

Gilia Breger, preservation architect, has been working on a survey initiated by the Tel-Aviv municipality to research preservation possibilities in the north of Tel Aviv [Tel Aviv]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: Forgotten Territory, Lost Places and Buried Houses – Palestinian Signs in North Tel-Aviv

Dr. Hans Joachim Bremme, former President of SV Waldhof Mannheim football club, former Head of Public Relations for BASF, founder-chairman of the metropolitan region of Rhine-Neckar GmbH [Heidelberg]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: SV Waldhof Mannheim – Football caught in the crossfire between chaos and integration
  

Olaf Breuning, artist, photographer [Zurich/New York]

• Mobile Academy, Warsaw 2006
  Lecturer: Course Images / Photography: Zombies

Dr. Maja Breznik, researcher at The University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts and at The Peace Institute, received PhD degree in sociology, publishes on cultural history, sociology of culture and cultural policy in various journals and books [Ljubljana]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Graz/ steirischer herbst, Sept. 2007
  Expert: 1. Keeping while Giving: A Gift Exchange in Renaissance, 2. New Relations of Social Dependencies: The Author's Rights as Gift Exchange
  

Paul Bronkhorst, Career Counsellor, Chairman of the International Organisation for the Transition of Professional Dancers [IOTPD] [Den Haag]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, April 2006
  Expert: What Could Come After the Dance Career and How to Get There

Ronnie Brosh, TV connoisseur, studied linguistics in Tel Aviv University, has worked as an editor, translator and trivia writer, co-ran an Angel-related fan campaign which raised over $20,000 for The International Red Cross. Having recently been described by Aaron Sorkin (A few Good Men, The West Wing) as "brilliant, charming, and very witty," she can now die happy

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: The Soul in Buffy Mythology

Schwestern Brüll [Gudrun, Karin, Monika], researchers, artists, DJs, glamour girls, theorists, fashion makers, radio makers, singers, enthusiasts, graphic artists [Vienna]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Graz/ steirischer herbst, Sept. 2007
  Expert: Jausnen [The Traditional Austrian Way of Taking a Snack]. Strategies of Realizing an Ideal Identity. Synchronous Choreography with an Organigram Accompanying a Kaffee-, Tarviser- and Speckjause
• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Vienna, May 2008
  Expert: Film-Reenactment in 3 x 10 minutes: "Lina Braake or the Interests of the Bank Cannot be the Same Interests that Lina Braake has" (1975, directed by Bernhard Sinkel)

Sonja Brünzels, author and political activist, released the "Handbook of the Communication Guerrilla" with Luther Blissett [Germany]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: Carnival, a game full of ambivalence, is not the revolution. It opens the door to the world of “what if…?”, allowing those who have no wish to be martyrs to enter a world where the game of fantasy makes it appear almost utopian
  

Agnieszka Brzeźańska, Visual Artist, Photographer and Painter [Warsaw]

• Blackmarket II [city version] Warsaw, Aug./Sep. 2006
  Expert: A Talk on the Project "Is nothing not enough?"

Tomasz Brzozowski, Publisher of "Swiat Literacki", Bookseller and Owner of "Czuly Barbarzynca" [Warsaw]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Warsaw, Oct. 2005
  Expert. Ghost Library: a] Retelling the Book "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino [1972] b] Retelling the Book "The Nonexistent Knight" by Italo Calvino [1959]

Carmen Bruder, Psychologist, PhD TU Berlin, Research Area: Men-Machine-Interface [Berlin]

• Black Market of Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin 2005
  Expert: Why it's Not Your Fault if Your Computer Goes Nuts. On the Psychological Background of Technical System Development. And What You Can Contribute
  

Monika Bruns, Aura Reader [Berlin]

• Black Market of Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin 2005
  Expert: Individual Reading of Your Life Energies. An Aura and Chakra Reading
  

Arthur & Benjamin Brux, high-school students, ardent skaters and footballers, experts for X-Box 360 sport- and action games [Mannheim]

• Mobile Academy License © No. 1/2009, Blackmarket for useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Mannheim, Juni 2009
  Expert: Having fun with the X-Box 360: Fifa-Football, Tony Hawks, Kung-Fu Panda and Indiana Jones
  

Dr. Nurit Bublil, DNA recognition expert at the National Center for Forensic Medicine", teaches in high schools and other forums, played for the Israeli National Basketball team in the past, any connection to that Bublil is incidental

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Jaffa, Sept. 2009
  Expert: The Mystery of the German Tourist and Other Cases – on the Limitation of DNA Recognition

Alexandrina Buchanan, Lecturer in Archive Studies at the University of Liverpool.

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non- Knowledge, Liverpool, Nov. 2008
  Expert: a] The lifecycle of the document and how does a document become archival?
  b]. From archon to on-line: What (and where) is the archive?
  

Matthew Buckingham, Artist [New York/Berlin]

• Mobile Academy, Berlin 2004
  Lecture: Ways of Narration. Only the Clouds Remained the Same
  

Veronica Buckley, writer ("Christina, Königin von Schweden: Das rastlose Leben einer europäischen Exzentrikerin" and "Madam de Maintenon: Die geheime Frau von Louis XIV"), presently working on her next book "The Other Woman: An Intimate History of Sex without Marriage"

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Vienna, May 2008
  Expert: Unmarried Sex: "Look to the Lady!"

Adam Budak, curator at Kunsthaus Graz, co-curator of Manifesta7 [Trentino, 2008], co-founder of post-graduate studies in curatorial practice and theory at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow [Krakow/ Graz]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Graz/ steirischer herbst, Sept. 2007
  Expert: Impossible Architecture of Curatorial Generosity. On Precarious Life, Ethics of Mutuality and Unavoidable Harassments
• On the Scene of Intimacy. A Phantasmagoria, Berlin, Dez. 2009
  Silhouette: The True Story of Susanne Sachsse, Marc Siegel, and friends (1999-2009)
  

Stefanie Bürkle, Artist, Photographer, City Researcher [Berlin]

• Mobile Academy, Berlin 2004
  Documentation: City Bag
  Scout: Potemkin Villages at the Potsdamer Platz - The Architecture of Scenography
  

Bogna Burska, Visual Artist, Activist and Co-Founder of Warszawski Aktyw Artystów [Warsaw Collective of Artists] [Warsaw]

• Blackmarket II [city version], Warsaw, Aug./Sep. 2006
  Expert: What Can't Be Seen. Bloody Art - Bloody Stories

Heiner Busch, Journalist, Police Expert, Publisher and editor of the magazine Bürgerrechte und Polizei [Civil Rights and the Police] [Bern/Berlin]

• The Refugee. Services rendered to Undesirables, Berlin 2002
  Talk: Systems of Control: The Expansion of the Central Registry for Foreigners, the Recording of Biometric Data in ID Cards, Pinpointing Suspects by Means of Computer Data and EURODAC

Nicholas Bussmann, Musician, Composer [Berlin]

• Mobile Academy, Berlin 2004
  Show: Folklore of FeelingsLove Song Competition

Jörg Buttgereit, Director of Art-House Horror Films, Film Critic [Berlin]

• Mobile Academy Warsaw 2006
  Films & Commentaries: The Undead - Horror Films
• On the Scene of Intimacy. A Phantasmagoria, Berlin, Dez. 2009
  Expert: Die Kettensäge

Friedemann Büttner, Professor a. D. of Politics and the Middle East at the FU Berlin [Berlin]

• Mobile Academy, Berlin 2004
  Scout: Dahlem to the Left and Right of the Line 1

Barbara Buxbaum, Institute for Latin American Studies, FU Berlin [Berlin]

• Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Berlin, Nov. 2006
  Expert: Juan Soldado. Tijuana's Sacred Border Figure. Religion and Migration along the US-American-Mexican Border