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Uta Bekaia – New York based multimedia artist, costume and fashion designer was born in 1974. Uta has been living and working in New York City since 1998. Primarily a costume designer, he has worked on over 150 projects with theater and film companies, extensively used his background of fashion designer. Always keen to express his visions and experiment with new ideas, Uta has lent his creative eye to numerous other projects involving fine and performance art, interior and industrial design. His main objective is to find beauty in daily surroundings and highlight it for everyone to see. Uta is co founder of fashion lines " Saint Hollywood Fashion " and " Uta Levan "

Natalie Beridze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, on 28.03.1979. She graduated from two master courses in political sciences and media.
in the meanwhile she was a member of a artistic collective Goslab, which existed in Tiflis. Besides her academic studies, she started to make short films and music videos. one of her videos won a second prize at Oberhausen short film festival. soon after that, she switched to making music.
in 2002 she got a record deal in Germany and decided to move there. she's been living and working in Germany under an artist name 'tba'. she's been releasing music on the label called 'max.Ernst', a cologne-based label, formed and run by a electronic music producer thomas brinkmann. she's released about 7 full albums and 12" and have delivered single tracks on labels such as max.Ernst, Monika records, collette, CMYK, Mille Plateaux, chain-music, an internet based platform, run by ryuichi sakamoto. beside her solo albums, she's been collaborating with different musicians, such as Thomas Brinkmann, AGF (Antye Greie), Gudrun Gut, Joerg Follert, Nika Machaidze aka Nikakoi, Ryuichi Sakamoto. since 2009 she's been releasing on Berlin-based labels - Laboratory Instinct and Monika Enterprise.

DISCOGRAPHY - FILMOGRAPHY
2001 - music video `Game`. directed by Natalie Beridze, music - Nika Machaidze (Oberhausen short film festival. "MTV - MuVi Awords" 2nd prize)
2002-(max.Ernst)CDtba/tba 2002 - LP tba `georgia is like spiritual Tokyo`
2003-(max.Ernst)CDtbanatalieberidze`annulè` 2003-(monicarecords)CD`4womannocry` 2003 - (collette) mix CD collaboration/tba
2005-max.Ernst)CDtbaempty`stupidrotation` 2006-(max.Ernst)double12"tbaempty`stupidrotation`
2007 - soundtrack `Trigger Tiger`/ regie-Salome Machaidze, premiere in Volksbühne, Berlin.
2007 - (max.Ernst) double CD tba-natalie beridze `size and tears`
2007 - (max.Ernst) CD natalie beridze `The Other`
2007 - (chainmusic) collaboration, tba `menik`
2007 - (max.Ernst) LP Nate Fisher `donoteatonlsd`
2007 - Animation short (technical pilot) "forget/fulness", by Nika Machaidze (soundtrack)
2008 - Short film "Folds and Cracks", by Zaza Rusadze (soundtrack)
2008 - CMYK Nate FIsher. net28
2009 - Documentary film by Sandro Jandieri (soundtrack)
2009 - Short animation "share my breath with you", by Nika Machaidze and Nino Chubinishvili (soundtrack)
2009 - (Laboratory Instinct) CD Tusia Beridze "Pending"
2010 - (Laboratory Instinct) EP Tusia Beridze "dunno"
2010 - (Monika) EP Natalie Beridze tba "What about things like bullets"
2011 - (Monika) CD Natalie Beridze tba "Forget/fulness"