Melentie Pandilovski is an art critic and curator working in Adelaide, Australia and Skopje, Macedonia. He currently is Director of the Visual and Cultural Research Centre at the Euro-Balkan Institute in Skopje. He previously held positions as Director of the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide (2003 – 2009) and Director of the Contemporary Art Center in Skopje (1999 – 2003). He has curated more than 100 exhibitions and organized numerous symposia, conferences, and workshops, in Australia, Europe, and US, among others SEAFair (Skopje Electronic Art Fair) in the period between 1997 - 2002. His theoretical research deals with the examination of the links between art, culture, technology, individual identity, and consciousness. He is the editor of “Art in the Biotech Era” (EAF Adelaide, 2008) and “Understanding the Balkans” (CAC, Skopje, 2002). His publications include "On Modes of Consciousness(es) and Electronic Culture", in Glimpse, Phenomenology and Media, San Diego, California, 2000; "The Position of Culture in Southeast Europe", in Understanding the Balkans, Contemporary Art Center, Skopje 2002; and "Consciousness and Electronic Culture", In Consciousness Reframed (Catalogue of 4th International CAiiA-STAR Research Conference), Perth, 2002. He has delivered texts for international conferences such as “The Phenomenology and the Web” in San Diego, “Consciousness Reframed” in Perth, “Qi and Complexity”, in Beijing. He contributed to the International Symposium of Electronic Arts as artist and theorist (Chicago 1997, Liverpool/Manchester 1998, Nagoya 2002, Singapore 2008). Melentie is on the board of Directors of The Society for Phenomenology and Media in San Diego and PhD Researcher, Visual Arts, University of South Australia.