Mari-Liis Rebane Emerging artist
Artist's country of origin: Estonia
Mari-Liis Rebane (born 1988) has been an active co-thinker, conceptualist, curator and critic in the field of audiovisual culture. In 2013-2015 Rebane was the head of the biggest international festival of animation film in the Baltic States. She considered her main objective to extend and redefine the concept of animation while interconnecting animation with other fields of art. Mari-Liis Rebane has reinforced her skills in several countries in Europe and taken part in audiovisual festivals as an outside expert (member of jury at Ars Electronica 2016; moderator of the panel discussion at The Prix Forums of Radical Atoms Festival). In 2015 she started her studies in the department of new media at the Estonian Academy of Arts while focusing on sound art.