Participants
On this page you will find the names of all artists, speakers and other participants. At the bottom of the page is a list of all individuals that registered at this website as a visitor.
Artists&Speakers
5VOLTCORE (A)
5voltcore (A) is an artist collective formed by Christian Gützer and Emanuel Andel. They create works that deal with the behaviour of closed and formal systems and their manipulation. Their work was shown at various festivals from Madrid to Tokyo. They were winners of the transmediale award 2005. ... Read more...
- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition knife.hand.chop.bot,
Aaajiao (Xu Wenkai) (CN)
Computer visuals programmer and website designer. Born in 1984 in Xi'an City, and currently resides in Beijing. In 2003 he established the sound art website: cornersound.com, and in 2006 he founded the Chinese take on the blog we-make-money-not-art: We Need Money Not Art. He is devoted to Processing, an open ... Read more...
Adam Hyde (NZ)
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Alain Depocas (CDN)
Head of the Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D) of The Daniel Langlois Foundation since September 1999, Alain Depocas has been named Director of the CR+D in March 2003. In this capacity, he is in charge of a documentary collection covering the history, works and practices associated with the media, ... Read more...
elpueblodechina a.k.a. Alejandra Perez Nunez is a sound artist and performer working with FLOSS tools, DIY electronics and critical writing. She has a degree in psychology and aesthetics from Universidad Catolica de Chile and a M.A. in media design from Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.
She is developing a practice with ... Read more...
Alessandro Ludovico (I) is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine since 1993, for which he received a honorary mention of the Prix Ars Electronica 2004. Since 2005 he collaborates with Ubermorgen and Paolo Cirio on Google Will Eat Itself and the Amazon Noir project. ... Read more...
- Events FEATURES: Mag.Net Reader 2 - Book Launch, Exhibition
- Exhibition Amazon Noir,
Alma Schaafstal (NL)
Dr. Alma Schaafstal has over twenty years of experience in the field of training and simulation, from a number of perspectives: research, research management, business development, and consultancy. Some of those years were spend abroad: University of Manchester, UK, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, and more recently the Naval Air Warfare ... Read more...
- Events Interrupting Realities,
Amanda Rodrigues (BR)
Amanda Rodrigues Alves was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1976 and currently lives and works in São Paulo. She studied History at the University of São Paulo and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) and a Diploma in Art Education at the Centro ... Read more...
Andrea Natella (I)
Andrea Natella is the creative director of guerrigliamarketing.it; a sociologist, a journalist investigating youth culture and media communication, and a writer for TV programs about magic and, using a variety of pseudonyms. He has published essays on UFO's, extreme sex and the art of sabotage. In 1995 he was known ... Read more...
Dr. Andreas Broeckmann is an art historian and curator who lives in Berlin. From 2000 to 2007 he was the Artistic Director of transmediale - festival for art and digital culture berlin. Since 2005 he has been one of three artistic directors of TESLA - Laboratory for Arts and Media ... Read more...
Angelica Schmitt (D)
Angelica D. Schmitt studied Art History, Audio Visual Media and Philosophy. She is a researcher, writer and theorist on contemporary media art practices. Her focus is to question if interaction can be seen as an aesthetical quality which is adressing the adaptation of traditional art theory to digital conditions. She ... Read more...
Anne Nigten (NL)
Anne Nigten is the manager of V2_Lab, the aRt&D department of V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. ANne is lecturing on research and development in the interdisciplinary field from an art perspective. She is advisor for several media art and science initiatives in Europe and ... Read more...
- Events Transdiscliplinary Innovation,
Antoine Schmitt (F)
Antoine Schmitt (F), is an artist and programmer who stands at the crossing of abstraction and dynamic simulation. He uses programming as artistic material to create installations, online exhibitions, performances and CD-Roms, in which he confronts abstract artificial systems with visitors or performers. His work has been shown at various ... Read more...
- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition World Wide Ensemble,
Anton H.J. Koning (NL)
Anton Koning (born 1968) received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam in 1991, specializing in Robotics and Image Processing. His Ph.D. research on parallel volume visualization algorithms was done at the Computing Vision group of the University Hospital Utrecht. Having received his Ph.D. in 1996, he ... Read more...
- Events Interrupting Realities,
Antony Hall (UK)
MA Art as Environment at Manchester Met University. Antony Hall investigates the way we interface with technology, visually physically and ideologically, and how these interactions effect us creatively and socially. Often working in collaboration with scientists and technologists, the work takes the form of long-term research projects, residencies, performance, web ... Read more...
- Events Critical Ecosystems,
Arie Altena (NL)
Arie Altena writes about art and new media. He is editor/researcher for the V2_Archive in Rotterdam and theory tutor at the department of Interactive Media and Environments of the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen. In 2006 he was researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. His blog-research In ... Read more...
Armando Menicacci is a musicologist and a dance scholar. He has studied several years of dance (Vaganova technique) piano and music composition in Italy. Has a BA in History of Music at the Rome University "La Sapienza" and a PhD in Paris 8 University on the use of digital technology ... Read more...
Atau Tanaka (JP/F)
Atau Tanaka (USA)
Participant in STEIM on Tursday 12-04-2007starting at 20:00 in Arminius
Atau Tanaka was born in Tokyo and raised in the U.S. He studied with Ivan Tcherepnin at Harvard, and there met John Cage. While living in the San Francisco area, he was commissioned to compose the first piece for ... Read more...
- Events STEIM,
Brice Bignami (F/J/CN)
Long since fascinated by the asian life styles and mentalities, Brice's career as architect and artist has developed in response to the culture of Japan and China. After studying architecture in School of Architecture Paris Malaquais and interactive digital medias in University of Sciences Nancy 1, ... Read more...
- Events FEATURES: Project Space,
Chen Xiaoqing (CN)
Chen Xiaoqing is Dean of the New Media Art and Design Department at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and a key figure in the development of media art education in China during the last decade. She is furthermore Director and research committee Chairman of the Council of Asian Society of ... Read more...
Christine Sehnaoui (LB/F)
Living in Paris, Christine Sehnaoui is from lebanese origins. When she discovered improvised music, Sehnaoui decided started to focus on sound experimentation on the alto saxophone. Her main musical partners include Sharif Sehnaoui, Michel Waisvisz and Mazen Kerbaj.
- Events STEIM,
Cliff Randell (UK)
Born in Cardiff, educated in Glasgow, Cliff chose the University ofBristol to study Electronics and Electrical Engineering for his firstdegree. After a career in broadcast engineering and resource management with the BBC, he returned to academia to complete a Master's Degree in Computer Science, and then undertake research into Wearable ... Read more...
Code31 (B)
Code31 (B) is an open studio for research, development and discussion about techniques and methodologies in media art. It stimulates interchange between artistic disciplines and serves as the space to experiment with new technologies. Code31 gathers artists and engineers. The core members are Gert Aertsen, Hendrik Leper and Pieter Heremans. ... Read more...
- Events Opening, ExhibitionPerformance Code31
- Exhibition SE/30,
Critical Art Ensemble (USA)
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- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition Screening: Marching Plague,
Dan Phiffer (USA)
Dan Phiffer is a new media hacker from California, interested in exploring cultural dimensions of inexpensive communications networks such as voice telephony and the Internet. Drawing on his computer science background, Dan’s software projects seek to provide meaningful creative opportunities through intuitive user interfaces. Dan now lives in Brooklyn, New ... Read more...
DanCoyote (USA/Second Life)
An alumni of the San Francisco Art Institute, DC Spensley has lived and worked in this most tolerant and beautiful of North American cities for 20 years. Co-founder of quasi art movements like "The Gomi School" and "Critical Mass", Spensley's latest project spoofing the meta-narrative is called Hyperformalism which ... Read more...
- Events Interrupting Realities,
David Garcia (NL)
David Garcia is Professor of Design for Digital Cultures, University of Portsmouth /Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht.
His work combines making personal installations, videotapes and TV programs, together with extensively published theoretical writing on critical media and Internet culture. This work is combined with organizing large-scale public events in ... Read more...
Davide Quadrio (I)
Director BizArt, Shanghai.
Davide Quadrio manages BizArt Art Centre in Shanghai, the first creative lab not for profit and independent in China. Through BizArt and its team, he organizes exhibitions, work-shops and artistic activities:
sourcing venues and sponsorships, designing spaces, dealing with the media.
Over the last ... Read more...
De Geuzen (NL)
De Geuzen is Riek Sijbring, Femke Snelting and Renée Turner. They are anart and design collective that has been working together since 1996. In their work, they deploy a variety of strategies both on and off line to explore their interest in female identity, critical resistance, representation, and narrative archiving. ... Read more...
Denis Beaubois (AUS)
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- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition Screening: In the Event of Amnesia the City Will Recall,
Detlef Mertins (USA)
Detlef Mertins is Professor of Architecture and Chair of of the Department of Architecture at Penn University of Pennsylvania. Amongst his numerous publications are The Presence of Mies, and Metropolitan Mutations: The Architecture of Emerging Public Spaces. His research focuses on the history and theory of modernism in architecture, art, ... Read more...
- Events Symposium,
DJ Sniff (JP/NL)
dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) believes in the autonomy of the turntable as a musical instrument and the musicianship of the DJ. His music focuses on the selection of sound material amplified through the phonographic needle and its reconstruction through electro-acoustical methods and techniques of turntablism.
Sniff articulates his sensitive, ... Read more...
- Events STEIM,
Donna Conlon (PA)
Donna Conlon (USA) lives and works in Panamá City, Panamá. She began her artistic career as a sculptor, but has shifted her attention to video, installation, photography, and performance art. In 2005 she participated in the Venice Bienniale. Her work has been shown in many countries including Costa Rica, Panamá, ... Read more...
- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition Coexistence,
Edwin van der Heide (NL)
Edwin van der Heide (NL) works as autonomous artist in the field of sound, space and interaction. He works on the edge and the characteristics of the used medium that he explores and redefines. His work is performed and exhibited all over the work. He teaches at the Royal Academy ... Read more...
Ellen Pau (HK)
Ellen Pau is a filmmaker, media artist and curator, her video works had traveled widely to numerous International Festivals and Biennials, such as Kwangju Biennial, Video Brazil, City On the Move, Johannesburg Biennial, Venice Biennale and Shanghai Biennial. In 1986, Ellen founded Asia's first media artists' collective, "Videotage" and Microwave ... Read more...
Emergent Geographies investigates the potential of a cultural interchange between Extremadura (ES) and Latvia (LV) in a unique, emancipatory and futuristic context.
Emergent Geographies explores two singular hyperterritorial experiments that are in a peripheral situation in the European context of the new world order and that are becoming central in ... Read more...
Eric Kluitenberg (NL)
Eric Kluitenberg is a theorist, writer, and organiser on culture, media and technology. He is head of the media program at De Balie - Centre for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam, where he also co-ordinates the CultureBase / Living Archive research trajectory. He lectures and publishes extensively on culture, new ... Read more...
Eric Postma (NL)
Eric Postma is a professor in Artificial Intelligence at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He received his M.Sc. at the University of Nijmegen and defended his Ph.D. at Maastricht University. His research focusses on machine learning, situated agents, image recognition, and cognitive modelling. His main interest is in understanding how intelligent ... Read more...
- Events Not Everything Is Interaction,
Exonemo (JP)
Exonemo (JP) is an art unit consisting of the Japanese artists Kensuke Sembo en Yae Akaiwa. Since 1996 they create many experimental projects that one can browse on their website. They also realize spatial installations and live performances, and organize events such as Dorkbot-Tokyo. Their work The Road Movie (2005) ... Read more...
- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition Object B,
Feico Sobel (NL)
Feico Sobel is a dutch theatre-director, who's been making theaterical performances since 2002. His performances tend to be political, situated at non theatrical spaces, like for instance classrooms or musea, with an active, participating role for the ordeance. Apart from making his own performances, Feico Sobel also cooperates ... Read more...
- Events Critical Ecosystems,
Florian Cramer (D/NL)
Florian Cramer, born in Berlin in 1969, Course Director of the Media Design M. A. programme at Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academie Rotterdam, studied and taught Comparative Literature, writer on (among others) experimental and computational arts.
http://cramer.plaintext.cc ... Read more...
Fu Ge (CN)
Journalist, art and culture editor of Nanfang Weekend. ... Read more...
Garnet Hertz (CDN)
Garnet Hertz (CDN) is a media artist, Research Fellow at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and a doctoral student at the University of California Irvine. His current interests include the history, theory and practice of electro/mechanical art, computing, media theory, digital/internet art and robotics. He has shown ... Read more...
- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition Experiments in Galvanism,
Gazira Babeli (Second Life)
Gazira Babeli was born in Second Life on 31st March 2006. Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. It is totally based on the religion of Gadgets just as the world we consider as real... or Western.
Gazira caused a stir ... Read more...
- Events Not Everything Is Interaction,
Graham Smith (CDN/NL)
Graham Smith (CA) is an artist and inventor who has been creating both art and science using his robotic, virtual reality, photographic and telepresence projects. He has exhibited his art work in Canada, United States, Mexico, Brazil, France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden and Germany. His co-invention PEBBLES (Providing Education By Bringing ... Read more...
- Events CREATE, Exhibition
- Exhibition Morphing Machinery, MOBI
Herman Hintzen (NL)
Herman Hintzen (NL) (1966) likes to unleash his creativity in the world of entrepreneurship. After having started up several businesses himself, in 2005 he founded HENQ Invest with the aim to support startup tech companies in their early stage. To this end a 6,5 million fund was raised, part of ... Read more...
- Events CREATE,
Herwig Weiser (A)
Herwig Weiser (A) is an interdisciplinary artist. His long term investigation of the relationship between electronic information and data systems, and the raw hardware that drives these technologies, draws on aesthetic, engineering and programming disciplines, as well as a wider spectrum of scientific principles. His work was exhibited in amongst ... Read more...
- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition Death Before Disko 3.1,
Howard Caygill (UK)
Howard Caygill is Professor of Cultural History at Goldsmiths College in London. His research interests are in the fields of the history of philosophy, aesthetics and cultural history. Currently he is completing a book on the philosophical and medical aspects of the body. He is the author of several books, ... Read more...
- Events Symposium,
Hu Jie Ming (CN)
Hu Jie Ming (CN) lives and works as a media artist in Shanghai. His work was featured in various international exhibitions like 010101: Art in Technological Times in the SFMOMA , Connected to You, BizArt Shanghai, and China Contemporary, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam. ... Read more...
- Events GLOBAL BENDING: Media Art Education in China, Exhibition
- Exhibition Go Up! Go Up!,
Huang Haiyan (CN)
Huang Haiyan is artist and Associate Professor at the Xi´an University of Technology in Shaanxi since 2003 and PhD student of Information Art and Design at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Together with Sven Travis, she had been one of the initiators of the collaborative art project SpyLab between Tsinghua University and ... Read more...
Ine Poppe (NL)
Ine Poppe (1960, NL) works in Amsterdam as an artist, writer, director -has her own company IP-productions. As a journalist Poppe writes extensively about digital culture. At the moment for the Art Section of the major dutch newspaper NRC-Handelsblad. She also has researched and directed television documentaries for National Television. ... Read more...
- Events Critical Ecosystems,
Jan and Nejc Trost (SLO)
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Jan Willem Dol (NL)
Jan Willem Dol (1964) is coordinator of the Communications Department of Greenpeace Netherlands. Greenpeace is an international non-profit organisation, with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. As a global organisation, Greenpeace focuses on the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's biodiversity and ... Read more...
- Events Critical Ecosystems,
Jean-Baptiste Barrière (Paris, 1958) studied music, art history, philosophy and mathematical logic. Parallely to composition, he made a career at Ircam/Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France, where he was first researcher starting 1981, then directed Musical Research, Education, and finally Production. In 1998, he left Ircam to concentrate on composition.
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Jeanne van Heeswijk (NL)
Jeanne van Heeswijk is an artist without a studio, who organizes, facilitates, and creates conditions for visual art to come to fruition and engage people. She is one of the leading names in socially oriented art, where her role fluctuates from organizer, host, policy maker, editor to producer or researcher. ... Read more...
- Events Symposium,
Jeroen Joosse (NL)
Is a graphic and interface designer. He studied new media at the Department of Film and Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam and works for De Balie as part of the Living Archive research project. He also created the Oracle Machine, a 5-screen interactive installation for the facade of ... Read more...
Jo FRGMNT Grys (D)
Born 1963 in Essen/Germany. Studied chemistry, philosophy, mineralogy etc at theJustus-Liebig-University of Giessen then more & more turned towards artsusing scientifically influenced thinking to investigate formation ofstructure from noise & order, from error & law and feedback as his mainartistic themes. Grys is working with videosnow, electronics, computers,body & brain. ... Read more...
- Events Critical Ecosystems, DIY Networks
Joel Ryan (USA/NL)
Joel Ryan is a composer, inventor and scientist. He is a pioneer in the design of musical instruments based on real time digital signal processing. Released from the spell of academic modernism, Ryan seeks to bring a concreteness to digital electronic media through the intelligent touch of the performer. ... Read more...
- Events STEIM,
He studied fine arts at the Universidad de Salamanca and broadened his training at the Technological Educational Institution of Athens. He did postgraduate and doctoral studies at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB-UPC). He is director of the project in progress Archive Cultures, which was launched at Fundació ... Read more...
José van Dijck (NL)
José van Dijck is a Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Chair of the Media Studies Department. She published a number of articles and books on medicine, technology and media, including Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent. Debating the New Reproductive Technologies (New York University Press ... Read more...
- Events Not Everything Is Interaction,
Scientist and media theorist. Jury member of the Vida Prize. Founding member of Alta Tecnología Andina-ATA and currently researcher at the Information Systems Group of the London School of Economics.
http://is.lse.ac.uk
http://www.ata.org.pe ... Read more...
- Events FEATURES: Soft(n) / VIDA,
Jouke Kleerebezem (NL/F)
Jouke Kleerebezem is an artist whose work since the 'public offering' of the Internet/www in 1993 has been informed importantly by media development and reflection. After 10 years of Internet based practice (in individual projects and with Mediamatic; Doors of Perception), in 2004 he re-entered museum space at Museum De ... Read more...
Julien Ottavi (F)
Studied drums and percussions and photography at the Art school of Nantes.Since 1997, he develops composition works on voice and his transformation by the computer. His research background came from Sound poetry like Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidseick, Kurt Schwitters, Jaap Blonk…etc, he’s also influenced by Contemporary music with composers like ... Read more...
- Events Critical Ecosystems, DIY Networks
Jun Yang (CN)
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- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition Screening: Camouflage. LOOK like them - TALK like them,
Kati London (USA)
Kati London designs, develops and builds opportunities for interacting with others -- whether that be for people and plants, residents of Baghdad and New York City or an international conference of mobile game developers. Her varied interests have led her to curate cultural programs at one of New York City’s ... Read more...
Keith Baker (NL)
Open Innovation Manager Philips Applied Technologies DSEStarted his career in Research with GEC were he was very active in self-test and Design for Testability, and was one of the founders of the JTEG testability initiative. later IEEE 1149.1.
At Philips Research was very active in design for testability tools and ... Read more...
- Events CREATE,
Knowbotic Research (D/CH)
Knowbotic Research (Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Huebler, Alexander Tuchacek) was established in 1991, and has experimented with formations of information, interface and networked agency. Their more recent projects present artistic practice with media in an attempt to find viable forms of intervention in the public domain.
Since 1998, Knowbotic Research has ... Read more...
Laila El-Haddad (PS/USA)
Is a Palestinian freelance journalist, photographer, mother and media consultant based between the United States and the Gaza Strip.
She spent the past three years in Gaza reporting for the Aljazeera Satellite Network's english language website (now part of Aljazeera English) and Pacifica Radio's Free Speech Radio news. Her work ... Read more...
Lars Spuybroek (NL)
Lars Spuybroek is Professor and Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and the principal of NOX, an art & architecture studio in Rotterdam. Since the early 1990s he has been researching the relationship between art, architecture and computing, not only by building but also by writing, ... Read more...
- Events Symposium,
Lauren A Wright (UK)
Is a curator, researcher and writer. She is a member of the London-based media art organisation, Furtherfield, an organiser of the NODE.London season of media arts, and a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. Lauren has a particular interest in critical collaborative and open-ended approaches to curatorial practice, and is ... Read more...
Li Zhenhua (CN)
Li Zhenhua is a multi-media Artist/Curator and producer for both international and Chinese contemporary culture since 1996. He is founder and director of Beijing Art Lab, a virtual and physical platform for art, research, and exchange. In 2002 he produced the first international new media art festival "MAAP" in Beijing ... Read more...
Lu Xiaobo (CN)
A renowned information designer, industrial designer and educator. Lu holds many prominent positions including vice director of Research Center of Art and Science of Tsinghua University, chair of Information Art & Design Department of Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University; Vice director of degree committee of Academy of Arts ... Read more...
Manu Luksch (A/UK)
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- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition Screening: Faceless - The Spectral Children,
Member of the Ludic Society ... Read more...
- Events The Evening of the Ludic Society,
Mark van Doorn (NL)
Scientific researcher, Media Interaction - Philips Research, Eindhoven. Since 1999 working for Philips Research on the topic of Ambient Intelligence and involved in ExperienceLab, the usability and feasibility center at the High-tech Campus in Eindhoven. Originally started in the area of multimedia information retrieval and web presentation technology for consumer ... Read more...
- Events Transdiscliplinary Innovation,
Marko Peljhan (SLO)
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Marnix de Nijs (NL)
Marnix de Nijs (NL) is an artist who explores the dynamic clash between bodies, machines and other media. His works include mainly interactively experienced machines that play with the perception and control of image and sound. He has presented his works at several national and international media-festivals and won prizes ... Read more...
- Events Interrupting Realities, Exhibition
- Exhibition EI 4 (Exercise in Immersion 4),
Matthew Fuller (UK)
Matthew Fuller is David Gee Reader in Digital Media at the Centre forCultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has worked with the artist groups I/O/D and Mongrel and with www.runme.org. His books include, 'Media Ecologies, materialist energies in art and technoculture', 'Behind the Blip, essays on the ... Read more...
- Events Critical Ecosystems,
Maurice Benayoun (F)
Maurice Benayoun digs a Tunnel under the Atlantic after offering the only acceptable explanation of the imperfection of the World (Quarxs), launches a Photo Safari in a Land of War (World Skin, 1997), dares to ask the Big Questions: Is God flat? (7) and the Devil curved? He shares ... Read more...
Max Moswitzer (A)
Member of the Ludic Society ... Read more...
- Events The Evening of the Ludic Society,
Mazen Kerbaj (LB)
Mazen Kerbaj was born in 1975 in Beirut and lived there since. His main activities are comics, painting and music. In 2000, together with Lebanese sax player Christine Sehnaoui, he played what could be considered the first improvised music concert in the Middle East. In 2001, together with guitarist Sharif ... Read more...
Merijn Oudenampsen (NL)
Merijn Oudenampsen (1979, Amsterdam) is animator of the critical platform Flexmens.org. He has been involved in organising political projects and debates around flexibility and precarity, such as the PrecairForum in 2005, and a Mayday symposium at de Balie in 2006. He has written on gentrification, the vicissitudes of being a ... Read more...
Michel Waisvisz is a composer/performer of live electronic music, who has developed new ways to achieve physical touch with electronic music instruments. Sometimes this is done by literally touching the electricity inside the instruments and thereby becoming a thinking component of the machine. After numourous tours and collaborations with a ... Read more...
- Events STEIM,
Michelle Kasprzak (CDN)
Michelle Kasprzak (CDN) is an artist, theorist and Programmes Director of New Media Scotland. As adjunct faculty for the Canadian Film Centre's new media program, she designed and delivered curriculum that addresses the most recent creative applications of new technologies. She has extensive experience on juries and committees. An artist ... Read more...
Is by training a biologist, who holds an MFA Computing in Arts and Design from Middlesex University, London. He is the principal developer of the CultureBase Content Management System of De Balie, which is scheduled for open source release as part of the larger MMBase.org project in the Fall of ... Read more...
Mitchell Whitelaw (AUS)
Mitchell Whitelaw is an Australian academic, writer and artist with interests in new media art and culture, especially complex generative systems and digital sound and music. His work has appeared in journals including Leonardo, Digital Creativity and Contemporary Music Review. His work on a-life art was published in the book ... Read more...
- Events Not Everything Is Interaction,
Mushon Zer-Aviv (IL/USA)
Mushon Zer-Aviv designs, teaches and creates within new media. He is interested in challenging the perception of territory and borders and the way they are shaped through politics, culture, globalization and the world wide web.
Mushon is active in the Israeli & international new media scenes, as a contributor to ... Read more...
Nadia Palliser (NL)
Nadia Palliser thinks and writes about electronic art, design and media. She studied art history in Amsterdam, graduating with the thesis 'An Amplification of Aesthetics - an electrified impulse to the romantic observer'. After working for V2_'s archive, she began teaching media theory and design history at the Willem de ... Read more...
Naeem Mohaiemen (BD/USA)
Naeem Mohaiemen is an artist working in Dhaka and New York. His projects include Visible Collective/Disappeared In America (2006 Whitney Biennial: Wrong Gallery), Muslims Or Heretics: My Camera Can Lie (UK House of Lords), Light - Silence/Lonely Death in Penn Station (w/ Gensler+Gutierrez, Exit Art), and System Error: War is ... Read more...
Nat Muller (NL)
Is an independent curator and critic based in Rotterdam. Her main interests include: the intersections of aesthetics, technology and politics; (new) media and art in Middle East. She has published articles in off- and online media, and has given presentations on the subject of media technology and art (inter)nationally. Her ... Read more...
Ned Rossiter (AUS)
Australian media theorist Ned Rossiter works as a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies (Digital Media), Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland and an Adjunct Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New ... Read more...
Neville Mars (NL)
The body of work architect Neville Mars has achieved in the last ten years is both very diverse and highly characteristic. The projects he has initiated range from art, architecture, documentaries, video-installations, urban research and writing. His work is widely published and presented and his art ... Read more...
Noortje Marres (NL/UK)
Noortje Marres works as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths College in London. Her current research focuses on climate change and the role of non-human entities as mediators of civic involvement in this issue. She draws on actor-network theory and American pragmatism to develop an object-oriented ... Read more...
- Events Symposium,
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Oliver Grau (A)
Oliver GRAU is Professor for Image Science and Dean of the Department for Image Science, Danube University Krems www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis/
He is the author of Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (MIT Press, 2003), editor of Mediale Emotionen (2005) and MediaArtHistories (MIT Press 2007) and ... Read more...
Paolo Cirio (I)
Paolo Cirio, a.k.a bidibid and agitprop, (I) organizes illegal events, from net-strikes to happenings on the street and various radical culture jamming actions. He was part of the software-art collective [epidemiC] and collaborated with many other net.art groups. Currently he works freelance as web designer and web developer. ... Read more...
- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition Amazon Noir,
Paul Perry (NL)
Rather than following a course of development, Paul Perry feels hisattention has circumambulated a specific image (or scene) throughout hislife. The fact that this image or scene has inspired a variety of more orless crude articulations in various media (including "traditional"sculpture, law making, genetic engineering, nuclear technology) is forPerry of ... Read more...
Pi Li (CN)
Previously an independent curator of visual arts, Pi Li is currently lecturer of Curatorial Studies in the Art Administration Dept. of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing -- a position he has held since 2001.
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Rens Kortmann (NL)
Rens Kortmann (1975) is a games developer and environment researcher at CE Delft. He received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Universiteit Maastricht in 2003. His work translates the factual science of environmental economy and technology into stimulating, comprehensive policy simulations and Serious Games. Whilst playing games, traditional opponents commonly ... Read more...
- Events Critical Ecosystems,
Rob van Kranenburg (NL)
Bricolabs, Eperience Design HKU, freelance innovation theorist.
BIRob van Kranenburg (1964) works part time at VirtualPlatform, Dutch policy and network organization for e-culture, asco-director. In 2000 he went to Amsterdam to work as programmer onmedia education at the centre for culture and politics de Balie and asteacher-coordinator of the new media ... Read more...
Roman Kirschner (A)
Roman Kirschner (A) lives and works in Cologne and Vienna. He studied at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Keulen, and together with Tilman Reiff en Volker Morawe founded the artist collective //////////fur//// that realized the well-known interactive installation Painstation. His work had been presented on various festivals and has won ... Read more...
- Events Not Everything Is Interaction, Exhibition
- Exhibition Roots,
Ryoji Ikeda (JP)
Japan's leading electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the minutiaeof ultrasonics, frequencies and the essential characteristics of sounditself. His work exploits sound's physical property, its causality withhuman perception and mathematical dianoia as music, time and space.Using computer and digital technology to the utmost limit, Ikeda hasbeen developing particular "microscopic" methods ... Read more...
S.S.S. (JP/F)
S.S.S. is a trio consisting of Atau Tanaka, Cecile Babiole and LaurentDailleau, creating a dynamic sound / image performance. S.S.S (SensorsSonics Sights) performs visual music with sensors and gestures. Theycreate a work of sound and sight, a laptop performance that goes beyondwith the intensity of bodies in movement. Going beyond ... Read more...
Sally Jane Norman (NZ/F/UK)
Sally Jane Norman is a cultural theorist/ practitioner whose research is focused on live art and technology, author of studies for UNESCO, the French Ministry of Culture, and the French National Scientific Research Centre, co-/organiser of workshops, performances, and seminars exploring human interactions in digital environments at institutions including the ... Read more...
- Events Transdiscliplinary Innovation,
Sandra Fauconnier (B/NL)
Sandra Fauconnier is an art historian (MA, Ghent University, 1997) with a background in architecture and a solid interest in information architecture and the social and political aspects of networked media technology.
She has worked as a content and interface designer for Ghent University's teacher training department (1997-2000). At this ... Read more...
Saul Albert (UK)
Is a Londoner who works with other people to make events, software, organisations and things which are not-just-art. He also writes on many mailing lists and wikis, and works with networks and groups such as the The People Speak. The University of Openess, Dorkbot, the Espians, the Open Knowledge Foundation, ... Read more...
Sher Doruff (NL)
Sher Doruff is currently Head of the Research Programme at Waag Society in Amsterdam. She received her PhD from University of the Arts London/Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design/SmartLab in 2006. Her research investigates the role of collaborative interplay and creative processes in networked performance practice. She lectures ... Read more...
Sophie Gosselin (F)
Artist-philosopher. Active member of APO33, artistic, technological andtheoretical laboratory based in Nantes, in which she initiates andcoordinates research projects linking art, science and technology(http://www.apo33.org).
She is part, since 2000 of the CIA (Cellule d'Intervention d'Apo33),artistic group in which she participates to the conception and setting upof the projets (http://www.apo33.org/cia). The specificity ... Read more...
- Events Critical Ecosystems, DIY Networks
Stan Wijnans (NL)
Stan Wijnans is a dutch interactive sonic artist, interactive performance researcher, MAX/MSP programmer and worked as manager of multi media studio S.T.A.N., as a professional sound engineer and bass guitar player. Her work investigates the human-machine relationship in interactive sound performances exploring ( 3D-surround) sound, choreography, visuals, robotics and sensor ... Read more...
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Sven Travis (USA)
Sven Travis is an artist, a teacher and a skier. He is founder, former chair, and on the faculty of Parsons Design & Technology Department. He has taught at Parsons and The New School for almost twenty years. Currently Travis spearheads several ongoing research initiatives, including YACHT CLUB (the Parsons/Tsinghua ... Read more...
Tarek Atoui (LB/F)
Tarek Atoui was born in Lebanon in 1980. He moved to Paris in 1988, started composing music on his computer and studied at the French National Conservatoire. He describes himself as an electro-acoustic musician, although he works primarily digitally, creating a uniquely abstract sound world with his experimental approach. Using ... Read more...
Tatiana Goryucheva (RUS/NL)
Is a theorist, historian and curator in the field of media art and culture; currently working as a project curator at Media Department of De Balie - Center for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam; teaching at Frank Mohr Institute, MFA "Interactive Media and Environments" programme, Groningen. She worked for Moscow organisations ... Read more...
The Yes Men (USA)
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- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition Screening: What Noah Knew: Old Models for New Conditions,
Thecla Schiphorst (CDN)
Thecla Schiphorst (CA) is a media artist, and Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. She is the director of the whisper[s] research group, an acronym for wearable, handheld, intimate, sensory, personal, expectant, responsive systems. Her media art installations have been ... Read more...
- Events FEATURES: Soft(n) / VIDA, ExhibitionHive @ Soft(n)
- Exhibition Soft(n),
Thomas Duc (USA)
Thomas Duc is an artist living in New York. His work focuses on current media and their poetics. He has exhibited in the US, Brazil and France. Looking for the political in the technical, the global in the political, he fosters meaningful spaces of play in reality. Seeing no border ... Read more...
Thomas McIntosh (CDN)
Thomas McIntosh (CDN) is an architect and artist who has committed himself to exploring the aspects of our physical environment that affect our perception. Together with the composer Emanuel Madan he is [The User]. They realized Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers #1 and #2, (1997 - 1999) and the Silophone ... Read more...
- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition Ondulation,
Thomas Mulcaire (ZA)
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Tian Sun (CN)
Editor and cultural theorist, Shanghai. ... Read more...
Tijmen Schep (NL)
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Tim Jones (UK)
Is an independent arts producer. He is active across art forms and contexts, and his most recent work focusses on developing and sustaining effective networks for cultural production – particularly in ‘media art’ (as Project Coordinator of NODE.London) and contemporary music (as production advisor to CDR, an open network for ... Read more...
Todd Matsumoto (NL)
Todd Matsumuto’s projects are a combination of theory and practice, that use actual events as a base starting point for investigation. These events range from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal to the Crooswijk redevelopment process currently taking place in Rotterdam. The realization of these projects are developed through using programming ... Read more...
- Events FEATURES: Project Space,
Tsila Hassine (IL)
After completing her MA in the Media Design dept. of the Piet Zwart institute, Tsila joined the Jan Van Eyck Academie's design department. She is currently investigating different approaches to networked information consumption, and is especially interested in inverting web routines. ... Read more...
Valentina Vuksic (D/CH)
Valentina Vuksic (CH) studied economics and computer science. She explores a highly individual articulation of hard and software mediation; the processes in such intermediate space as action thus implying actors rendered audible through novel intrusion. ... Read more...
- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition Harddisko: Noise & Disturbance Amplifier System for Harddisks,
Visible Collective (USA)
Visible is a collective of Muslim and other artist-activists who work to challenge and undermine distorted and limited images that are held up by media outlets and governments. Directed by Naeem Mohaiemen, Visible includes Shahed Amanullah, Vivek Bald, Kristofer Dan-Bergman, Toure Folkes, Donna Golden, Amy Heuer, Aziz Huq, Sarah Husain, ... Read more...
- Events FEATURES: Project Space,
Wei Zhang (CN)
Zhang Wei graduated from MA Creative Curating course at Goldsmith London. She is founding member and director of Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou, China, established in 2002, where she realised a number of long-term research projects and exhibitions in cooperation with Chinese curators like Zheng Guogo, Xu Tan and Chen ... Read more...
Wendy Jo Coones (A)
Wendy Jo COONES, scientific staff at the Department for Image Science, Danube University Krems, holds an M.Ed. in Educational Research and is evolving into an online educational tool developer. She is an internationally active exhibition developer, working in various museums and organizing scientific exhibitions on several continents. She was a ... Read more...
Wolfgang Strauss (D)
Wolfgang Strauss, 1951, architect and media artist, studied Architecture and Visual Communication. He is researcher, lecturer and teacher in Interactive Media Art and Design and has been a visiting professor of media art in Saarbrücken and Kassel, Germany. Working on interfaces connecting the human body and digital media space he ... Read more...
Workspace Unlimited (B) organization, founded by new media artist Thomas Soetens and architect Kora Van den Bulcke, is a mobile laboratory and creation space dedicated to experimental new media production and research, situated at the point where art, architecture and digital technologies converge to create new contexts of hybrid and ... Read more...
- Events Interrupting Realities, Exhibition
- Exhibition COMMON GROUNDS,
Yang Zhenzhong (CN)
Yang Zhenzhong (CN) lives and works in Shanghai. His playful videos, installations and photographs are informed by the desire to challenge normative notions and fixed formats of social behaviour. His work has been shown at major international exhibitions, biennales and triennials in amongst others Rotterdam and London. ... Read more...
- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition Surrounded,
Yao Bin (CN)
Yao Bin, born in Xi'an, China, is founder and curator of 11-ART.COM, Cubic Art Centre, an independent gallery space in Beijing. After graduating from Hiroshima City University, Yao Bin has been working as an independent new media arts curator in Tokyo for several years. In Shanghai (10-2006), Yaobin was in ... Read more...
Übermorgen.com (A/I)
UBERMORGEN.COM (Lizvlx/Hans Bernhard) (A/CH/USA) is an artist duo created in Vienna by Lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, founder of etoy. They combine conceptual art, software art, net.art and digital activism to transform their brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. Their working materials include (international) rights, democracy and global communication. ... Read more...
- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition Amazon Noir,
Zachary Lieberman (USA)
Zachary Lieberman (USA) is an artist, engineer and educator whose work explores the creative and human uses of technology. He produces installations, on-line works and concerts concerned with the themes of kinetic and gestural performance, interactive imaging and speech visualization. He collaborated with Golan Levin on many projects, including Messa ... Read more...
- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition drawn,
Zhang Ga (CN)
Zhang Ga is a media artist, curator and educator. He has exhibited internationally including the Ars Electronica Center (Austria), Adelaide Art Festival (Australia), Dutch Electronic Art Festival (The Netherlands), Artport of Whitney Museum of American Art (US), Singapore Art Museum (Singapore) and Art Center Nabi (South Korea) among others, organized ... Read more...
Zhang Peili (CN)
Zhang Peili (CN) is a media artist who works and lives in Hangzhou. He is one of the pioneers of Chinese video art. ... Read more...
- Events GLOBAL BENDING: Media Art Education in China, Exhibition
- Exhibition Lowest Resolution,
Zhou Hong Xiang (CN)
Zhou Hong Xiang (CN) is media artist. He teaches at the Normal University, Shanghai. His works have been shown on various media- and film festivals, like the World Wide Video Festival, Impakt, and transmediale. ... Read more...
- Events Exhibition,
- Exhibition Chinese Portraiture, Screening: The Red Flag Flies
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