Dejan Atanackovic was born in Belgrade in 1969. He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Since 1994 he has accomplished projects of contemporary art and public communication. In collaboration with Belgrade’s Center for Cultural Decontamination, since January 1999, he has developed a project called Perfect Future, financed by the Government of France. Since 1999, the works that were part of the project Perfect Future (CD-ROM, posters, billboards, installations) have been presented in Yugoslavia, Italy, Canada and Albania, and as part of group exhibitions in Slovenia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Mexico. Since 1995 he has curated a number of exhibitions of artists, art students and psychiatric patients. Since September 2000 he has taught Multimedia at the American university program Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence, Italy. Since 2000 he has been a member of ULUS (Serbian Association of Fine Artists). He initiated the project in art education entitled Outside - as part of the SACI program - consisting in a series of exhibitions, lectures and publications. In October 2002, he organized Outsideproject / Belgrade 2002, a week of lectures and workshops on the theme of contemporary culture and cultural heritage in Yugoslavia, financed by SACI and Serbian Ministries of Culture and Education. He is the author of the Outsideproject book Letters on the Body: Projects for a Sustainable Sacred, for the pubblisher Morgana Edizioni, Florence 2003. Since March 2003, he teaches Digital Projects at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. In collaboration with Oscar Antino, he is the author of the Outside Project web site. At the competition Premio Web Italia, this web site was awarded as the best designed site in Italy in the year 2003. Since June 2003, his multimedia installation Golem Project was presented in Belgrade (Belgrade Cultural Center and October Salon), Sarajevo (Winter Festival) and in Florence (La Corte Arte Contemporanea). In 2004 he curated an exhibition entitled Infinity Enclosed with the works by Krista Steinhauer,
R obert Gligorov, Aroldo Marinai, Luca Matti e Melania Lanzini.