The Biennial gained international attention with major film and video retrospectives of Vito Acconci, Michel Auder, Harun Farocki, Robert Filliou, Jochen Gerz, Jean-Luc Godard, Gary Hill, Thomas Hirschhorn, William Kentridge, Nam June Paik, Jean Painlevé, Artavazd Pelechian, Carole Roussopoulos, Roman Signer, Pierrick Sorin, Steina et Woody Vasulka, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Anna Winteler, Chris Marker, Guy Debord, Joan Jonas, Stan Brackage, Philippe Garrel, Chantal Akerman, Anna Sanders Films, Rebecca Horn.
His strong vision and attention towards media by initiating festivals, Internet sites, artistic multimedia productions, a public video collection and collaborating on European projects.
[2] Andre Iten was also the first to invite curator Simon Lamunière to do exhibitions with video and photography as well as to challenge digital media, websites and cd roms.
In 1997, as curator of the documenta X website, Simon Lamunière commissioned several internet projects[3] with artists Matt Mullican Martin Kippenberger, Antoni Muntadas, jodi, Heath Bunting, Herve Graumann in coproduction with the CIC.
The Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine also gained attention by constituting the most important Swiss media library with more than 1000 titles, including complete video works by Vito Acconci, Hanspeter Ammann, Laurie Anderson, Emmanuelle Antille, Marina Abramović and Ulay, Michel Auder, John Baldessari, René Bauermeister, Samuel Beckett, Saddie Benning, Robert Breer, John Cage, Claude Closky, Douglas Davis, Sylvie et Chérif Defraoui, Jan Duyvendak, Harun Farocki, Robert Filliou, Oskar Fischinger, Sylvie Fleury, Jochen Gerz, Joe Gibbons, Jean-Luc Godard, Hervé Graumann Fabrice Gygi, Alexander Hahn (artist)|Alexander Hahn, Lothar Hempel, Gary Hill, Thomas Hirschhorn, Hubbard / Birchler, William Kentridge, Simon Lamunière, Jérôme Leuba, Korpys-Loeffler, Klara Kuchta, Tracy Moffat, Avi Mograbi, Gianni Motti, Jean Otth, Nam June Paik, Jean Painlevé, Artavazd Pelechian, Pipilotti Rist, Carole Roussopoulos, Daniel Schibli, Richard Serra, Roman Signer, Pierrick Sorin, Beat Streuli, Nelson Sullivan, Steina Vasulka and Woody Vasulka, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Ingrid Wildi, Bob Wilson, Anna Winteler.