Anne Quirynen studied art history in Leuven and video art at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas in Brussels. Since 1993 she has been working freelance with William Forsythe and Wim Vandekeybus among others. In 1994 she belonged to the founders of the independent production company for digital art De Filmfabriek. A grant from the Nipkow Program led her in 1999 to Berlin. Today she lives and works in Berlin. Since 2004 she is assistant professor for Film, Video and New Media at the Chicago Art Institute and since 2007 she is professor for moving image at the European Media Studies, a cooperation between the University of Potsdam and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Her films and video installations have been shown at international festivals, such as Berliner Festspiele, the Forum of the Berlinale Forum Expanded, the International Festival of New Film Split, Rotterdam Filmfestival, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, World Wide Video Festival Den Haag and Art & Video in Europe Kopenhagen as well as in art centers like the Centre Pompidou Paris, MoMA in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Nippon Cultural Centre in Tokyo.