Peter Anders
Peter Anders is an architect, educator, and information design theorist. He has published widely on the architecture of cyberspace and is the author of "Envisioning Cyberspace" which presents design principles for online spatial environments.  The book was published by McGraw Hill.

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PhD (UoP)

Roy Ascott
Roy Ascott is founding president of the Planetary Collegium, and Professor of Technoetic Art at the University of Plymouth, and Visiting Professor in Design|Media Arts at UCLA. Formerly: University of Wales Professor, Dean of San Francisco Art Institute; Professor for Communications Theory, University of Applied Arts, Vienna; and President of Ontario College of Art. Ascott has shown at the Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica Linz, Milan Triennale, Biennale do Mercosul, Brazil, European Media Festival, etc, including his seminal work of "distributed authorship", La Plissure du Texte for Electra Paris,1983. Founding editor of Technoetic Arts, he’s also on editorial boards of Leonardo, LEA, and Digital Creativity. He has advised new media organisations in Europe, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Korea and the USA, as well as the CEC and UNESCO. He convenes the annual international Consciousness Reframed conferences. See: Ascott, R. 2003. Telematic Embrace: visionary theories of art, technology and consciousness, edited by Edward A. Shanken, University of California Press.

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P/C President

Elif Ayiter
Elif Ayiter is a graphic designer, artist and design instructor, living and working in Istanbul, Turkey. After graduating from the School of Applied Fine Arts in Istanbul with a BFA she obtained a Special Advanced Diploma in Art and Design from the University of London Goldsmiths College. She went to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship where she got her MFA from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.

Elif worked as a graphic designer both in New York and Istanbul, in both freelance and art directorial capacities. She has exhibited her art work in Turkey with Urart and Nev Galleries from 1989 to 1999. Since 1993 she has worked full-time as a design faculty member at Bilkent University, Ankara (1993-1997), Bilgi University (1998-2001) and Sabanc University (2001- present). She is currently studying for a doctoral degree at the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, UK.

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CAiiA (DC)

Brandon Ballengée
Exploring the boundaries between art, science and technology, Brandon Ballengée creates multidisciplinary works out of information generated from ecological field trips and laboratory research. These projects have appeared on ABC’s World News Tonight, BBC’s Today Show and in LEONARDO Journal, The Journal of Experimental Zoology, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Sculpture Magazine, The Sciences and others. In January of 2002 and 2006, he co-taught an ecology art and neotropical evolution course in Costa Rica for Hartwick College. In addition, he regularly conducts ecology/ field biology public workshops at urban parks, zoos, petstores and fish markets. In 2003 he was an artist in residence at the Natural History Museum in London. He participated in the 2004 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale in Kung Ju, South Korea. In 2005, he participated in the Waterways Project, which was installed at the Venice Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions of his work were held at The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park (NYC), Archibald Arts (NYC), andKunstverein Ingolstadt in Ingolstadt, Germany.

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Z-Node (DC)

Laura Beloff
Born in Finland. Laura Beloff's artistic practice falls under a category of media-art. Her artistic works in recent years could be described as participatory and networked installations or portable, wearable objects. The works are influenced by society becoming increasingly mobile and technologically enhanced. Her works are re-examining private and public relationships to art and individual presence in the globally networked world. Many of these works are collaborations with other artists, musicians and programmers. Beloff has exhibited widely in various exhibitions, museums, galleries and major media-festivals in Europe and worldwide. She has an education in new media and critical studies (MFA 1998; California Institute of The Arts, U.S.) and photography (MFA 1995; University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland).

1999 (-00) She was a visiting guest Professor at the Art University in Linz, Austria. 2002-06 She was a full Professor for Media Arts at the Art Academy in Oslo, Norway. She is awarded a 5-year grant by the Finnish state (Central Art Comission) 2007-2011.

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CAiiA (DC)

Valerie Bugmann
Valerie Bugmann completed her studies in Art and Electronic Media at the University Los Andes in Bogotá Colombia in 2002. From 2002 to 2005 she completed her Masters degree in Science at the University of Chalmers and the IT-University in Gothenburg, Sweden. Currently she lives and works in Zurich.

Z-Node (DC)

Simona Caraceni
Simona Caraceni is concerned with new media communication and multimediality, and since '94 has been involved in new media and new technology applications in communications and art. She taught at the Universities of Macerata and Bologna. Currently she teaches Multimedia Technology and other courses on new media, videogames and multimediality at the University of Bologna. She is also Assistant Professor with Pier Luigi Capucci for the courses Mass Communications and Multimedia Languages, and with Valerio Eletti for Multimedia Production.In 1994 she was one of the founders of the first italian online magazine, NetMagazine, later MagNet, a project on the relationships between arts and technologies which lasted until December 1997. Now she writes in Noema, curating the Bytes section. Her theoretical activity is concerned with man-machine interfaces, multimediality and multimodality, and new media languages of communication. In the field of applied research she works on the opportunities of online communication, multimedia and multimodal interfaces and e-learning with University of Bologna, City Council of Bologna, Regional Council of Emilia Romagna and Cineca.

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M-Node (DC)

Teresa Chen
Teresa Chen was born in USA and has degrees in Computer Science (Brown University) and Photography (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zurich).

She has worked professionally as a software developer and has been active in the conceptualization and organization of various exhibition projects:  KLINIK: Morphing Systems (self-initiated project in Zurich), GameOver (Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich), sWISH* (expo. 02 in Biel). She also serves as president of the board for the Shedhalle, an exhibition and cultural institution in Zurich.

Working mostly in photography, Chen visually explores her own cultural background and body. Although her approach is often autobiographical, she believes that others can see aspects of themselves in her work. She has been the recipient of several grants and residencies from various Swiss cultural institutions and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. 

Teresa Chen lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland, as an independent visual artist (www.teresachen.ch).

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Z-Node (DC)

Isabelle Choinière
Recognized by local and international press as a visionary performer and undisputable pioneer of «cyber modernity», Isabelle Choinière has created and proposed, since 1994, strong works admiringly integrating dance and electronic arts. Choreographer, performer, analyst, and artistic director, Isabelle Choinière explores the physical and psychic limits of the natural and the synthetic body. Her actual choreographic language draws from a multitude of gestual forms; it also contains a strong reflection about time and space from which emerges an enlarged conception of the body.

Having first studied classical dance, Isabelle Choinière was initiated to the concept of «new dance» by Deborah Hay. After collegial studies in sciences, she obtained in 1989 her bachelor's degree in choreography at Concordia University. In spring 2005, Isabelle Choinière began a doctorate under the supervision of Roy Ascott, founder of the Planetary Collegium, at the Center for Advanced Inquiry in the Integrative Arts (CAIIA) affiliated to Plymouth University in England.

By crossbreeding disciplines and by questioning the their mutual writings, the artistic process of Isabelle Choinière aims to reflect on the infiltration of technological thought in actual dance and how it generates new choreographic models as a representation of the actual cosmology. Driven by a syncretistic approach which mixes several cultural elements, her work is based on the strategy of renewing the sensory experience and perception, the twenty-first century technology opening the path to the creation of a perpetual synaesthesia, as much formed by proprioception of the real body and by exterioception of the mediated body.

Her works and research on the integration of electronic arts in dance have earned her many invitations in several international events in Europe, Latin America as well as in Quebec, as an active artist as well as a lecturer on the substance of her creations.

www.corpsindice.com

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CAiiA (DC)

LouisPhilippe Demers
Louis-Philippe Demers' current works and researches revolve around kinetic and interactive media environments for the stage, architecture and public spaces. He worked on the conception and production of several large-scale interactive performances and installations. His works have been presented worldwide and he received several prizes including Ars Electronica 96 and ArtificialLife/Vida 2.0.

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Z-Node (DC)

Margaret Dolinsky
Margaret Dolinsky's research investigates interactive experience over high-speed networks and the CAVE Automated Virtual Environment while using the digital arts for cognitive recognition and perceptual shifts.  Her recent work involves digital painting fused into projections for opera and experimental film.  She is an Assistant Professor and Research Scientist at the H.R. Hope School of Fine Arts Indiana University Bloomington.  Exhibitions include SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, ICC, and the Walker Art Center.  Related works are published in Leonardo, Discover, Computer Graphics World, US News and World Report and ACM's Computer Graphics.   She received an MFA from University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently a researcher with the Planetary Collegium at the University of Plymouth, U.K.

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CAiiA (DC)

Maia Engeli
Maia Engeli teaches at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, BC, Canada.

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CAiiA (DC)

Jurgen Faust
Jurgen Faust is currently working at Monterrey TECH as a faculty for Design and Design Theory. Between January 2006 and December 2006 he worked as the Dean for Academic Affairs at CEDIM, Monterrey. He also taught design  and theory with an emphasis on design processes and the possible transformation into other disciplines. In addition he is a practicing researcher, designer, and artist, who showed in many places, including Museums and Galleries in Europe, Germany, France, England, Italy, Poland and Slovakia as well as the United States.

Jurgen Faust has a University Degree in Chemistry as well as in Fine Arts and was the co-founder of a private University, the University of Applied Sciences, Schwaebisch Hall in the suburb of Stuttgart. Between 1999 and 2006 he was a Professor and Chair at the Cleveland Institute of Art, United States, where he was responsible for the creation of the Technology and Integrated Media Environment including an undergraduate and graduate program. In addition he was the Dean of Integrated Media Environment and responsible for the re-design of curricula in Print Media, Drawing, Illustration, Communication Design as well as Biomedical Communication.

Over the past years he published and contributed to the movement 'Managing as Designing', transferring design methods and processes into the Management field, based on his work about a comprehensive theory to describe design processes.

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Wolfgang Fiel
Born 1973 in Alberschwende/Austria, Fiel studied Architecture at the Vienna University of Technology (MSc) and obtained his Master in Architectural Design at the Bartlett, University College London under the direction of Peter Cook. He is co-founder of tat ort, a Vienna based practice for collaborative work and research on spatial appropriation, collective knowledge and interactivity. Co-founded in 2004 he is Artistic Director of the iCP, Institute for Cultural Policy located in Hamburg. Identified as open platform for prolific exchange between architecture, art, science and industry the iCP organizes exhibitions, lectures and is editing a book series on experimental tendencies in contemporary architecture.

His individual and collective work has been exhibited and published widely. He currently is design tutor at the Institute of Art and Design and has lectured previously at the Institute of Design and Building Construction, both at Vienna University of Technology.

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Z-Node (DC)

Kenneth Fields
Ken Fields is a professor at China's Central Conservatory of Music's Center of Electronic Music (CEMC). Associate Professor in the School of Software, Department of Digital Art and Design, Peking University. Director of the Beijing Node ( B-Node) of the Planetary Collegium (pending). Co-Organiser, annual MusicAcoustica Festival, Beijing China. Co-Organiser, Consciousness Reframed 2004: Qi And Complexity, Beijing. Board Member, Electronic Music Association of China. Review Committee, Leonardo LABS: Ph.D. and Theses Abstracts Service. Regional Editor, Organised Sound. Director, Daohaus: http://daohaus.org.

New compositions played at the China Contemporary Music Festival at China's Central Conservatory of Music (2005). Sound installation at the China Millennium Monument (2004), Sounding Beijing Festival (2003), Academy of Media Arts in Koln (2002). Original music composed for the theatrical production of Animal Farm by George Orwell produced in Beijing in 2003.

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B-Node (ND)

Karmen Franinovic
Karmen is the co-director of Zero-Th, an independent organization developing research and project which aim to explore and influence the evolution of the multidimensional urban fabric, together with the presence and condition of its inhabitants. She has worked as an architect on large public buildings with AltenArchitekten, Studio ArchA, Arata Isozaki and Associates, and Arup. Her work has been exhibited at Ircam/Centre Pompidou, SF Camerawork, The Junction, DAEF,  Fondazione Sandretto, MoMA Ljubljana, Miami Bienal, Fondazione Sandretto and others. Karmen's research is increasingly focused on tangible interaction and interactive sound embedded in artefacts and spaces. With colleagues in Europe, she initiated related research projects: COST Action on Sonic Interaction Design supported by European Science Foundation and a European Commission NEST Project, CLOSED: Closing the Loop of Sound Evaluation, exploring new approaches to interactive sound design that are robustly adapted to human perception and cognition.

Web: www.zero-th.org

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Z-Node (DC)

Carol Gigliotti
Dr. Carol Gigliotti (www.carolgigliotti.net) teaches Media as well as Environmental Ethics at Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She has been presenting and publishing about ethics and technology for the last 15 years. Recent activities include: a presentation entitled "Wildness and Technology" at the 2007 Planetary Collegium in Montreal; speaking at 2006 Kindred Spirits Symposium at Indiana University, an essay in the June2005 issue of Parachute on "Artificial life and the lives of the non-human," guest-editing a special issue on "Genetic Technologies and Animals" for the January06 issue of the journal AI and Society. She is presently working on a book, entitled "Wildness and Technology" and is Co-Chair of the Research B Cluster at University of British Columbia's innovative Centre for Interactive Sustainable Research.

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CAiiA (S)

James Gimzewski
Dr. Gimzewski is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Member of the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI-UCLA) and Co-Director of the Center for Social Interfaces & Networks Advanced Programming Simulations & Environments (SINAPSE), UCLA.

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P/C (HM)

Honor Harger
Honor Harger is an artist and curator. She was born and educated in New Zealand, and has lived in Europe since 1999. She is one of the two artists who run r a d i o q u a l i a, an art group that works in the fields of digital art and radio art, net.radio. ra d i o q u a l i a have exhibited at the NTT ICC in Tokyo, New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; "Gallery 9" at the Walker Art Center, USA; Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris, France; "Sonar", Barcelona, Spain; and "Ars Electronica", Linz, Austria, among other places. Harger is also presently the director of the AV Festival in the North East of England, and in the past has worked for Tate Modern in the UK, ANAT in Adelaide, Australia and Artspace in New Zealand, as well as curating indedepently.

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Z-Node (DC)

Norbert Herber
Norbert Herber is a composer and sound artist. His work is focused on the use of sound in interactive environments, nonlinear and experimental composition, and Emergent Music—a genre rooted in artificial life systems.

His works have been performed/exhibited in Europe, Asia, South America, and in the United States. Current projects can be heard online at www.x-tet.com.

Norbert is appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is a Ph.D. candidate with the Planetary Collegium at the University of Plymouth in England, and co-author of "Flash 8 Savvy," "Flash MX 2004 Savvy," and the critically acclaimed "Flash MX Savvy."

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CAiiA (DC)

Tiffany Holmes
Holmes' installation work explores the potential of technology to promote positive environmental stewardship. She lectures and exhibits worldwide in these venues: J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Digital Salon '99, Viper in Switzerland, Next 1.0 in Sweden, Siggraph 2000, World@rt in Denmark, Interaction '01 in Japan, ISEA Nagoya. A recipient of the Michigan Society of Fellows research fellowship in 1998, Holmes has earned the Illinois Arts Council individual grant and an Artists-in-Labs residency award in Switzerland. Holmes is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Technology at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she teaches courses in environmental art, interactivity and the history and theory of electronic media.

www.tiffanyholmes.com and ecoviz.org

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Z-Node (DC)

Pamela Jennings
Pamela Jennings is an Assistant Professor of Art and Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. Jennings' digital media art works make visible personal narratives by revealing hidden realities while simultaneously encouraging public discourse. In particular, her research in critical creative technologies is informed by a convergence of critical theories of technology, human centered computing, and contemporary practices in interaction design and digital media art. Resulting in the development of new information technologies and collaborative applications for facilitating face-to-face discourse in public spaces with others in situations where communication may be stifled by societal norms. Shereceived her Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science, University of
Plymouth, United Kingdom. in the Center for Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Arts program; M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts; M.A. from the International Center of Photography and New York University; and B.A. from Oberlin College. 

http://studio416.cfa.cmu.edu

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PhD (UoP)

Kirsten Johannsen
Kirsten Johannsen is a media artist and lives in Berlin | Germany. She has studied Scenografie in Stuttgart | Germany & Florence | Italy and Visual Communication in Berlin | Germany. In her artworks Johannsen explores the shift of perception and reality through technologies. She has exhibited worldwide and some of her works are in the art collections of the ZKM Media Museum Karlsruhe, Museum Ludwig Köln and Neue National Galerie Berlin | Germany. Kirsten Johannsen has lectured at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin and at the Bauhaus University, Weimar | Germany.

www.kirstenjohannsen.de

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Z-Node (DC)

Jennifer Kanary
Jennifer Kanary Nikolov(a) studied fashion from 1994-1998 before graduating with the first roomforthoughts from the fine arts department at the Art Academy of Maastricht in 2000. She continued with a Masters education at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam graduating in 2002. She was then invited to participate in the first experimental curator course initiated by the University of Amsterdam and the Sandberg Institute, along with three other artists and four art historians. Since 2004 she has worked on a project that investigates how to implement thoughts on self-identity within children. Her installations have been internationally exhibited. All installations research the physics of thought.

Her Web site is: www.roomforthoughts.com

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M-Node (DC)

Hung Keung
Hung Keung graduated from the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Department of Fine Arts of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1992 and 95. In 1996, he continued his MA (film & video) study at the Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design in London. He was a Visiting Scholar in ZKM, Germany from 2001-02, awarded by DAAD Scholarship. In 2004, with his ACC Fellowship, as a Research Scholar, Hung Keung has made his first trip to the U.S. for his presentation and research activities. In 2004, HUNG K founded "innov+media lab, hong kong" (imhk lab) mainly focus on new media art research, interactive software development and application.

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Z-Node (DC)

Lali Krotoszynski
Lali Krotoszynski (1961), lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. She is an independent choreographer and media-artist. Since 1981 she has worked in collaboration with photographers, visual artists, musicians and theatre and performance directors in art works that create dynamic interpersonal relationship engaging the body.

She has been involved in telecommunication/technology-based art works since 1986 (e.g taking part in such early slow-scan TV networking events as the Sky Art Conference, set up by the Center For Advanced Visual Studies at MIT), and continuing to be regularly involved in workshops and projects in the South America, the US and Europe.

Her recent projects integrate choreographic thinking, movie basic principles and musical composition in software design, resulting in interfaces that compose audio-visual animated loops in partnership with the user.

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CAiiA (AR/U)

Daniela Kutschat
Daniela Kutschat is an artist and digital systems and media researcher and focuses human-computer interfaces: she develops body-space integrating systems for interactive and VR environments. Lately she has been working with autonomous adaptive little things and behavior controlled systems. Daniela was an Artist in Residence at Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Arts (CAiiA) rewarded with a UNESCO /ASCHBERG bursary in 1998. PhD. She coordinates the Bachelor in  Digital Interface Design at SENAC, São Paulo.

More recently, Kutschat & Cantoni's project OP_ERA (www.op-era.com) was awarded by the Beall Center for Arts and Technology at UC-Irvine and achieved the first prize at Transitio MX Festival, in Mexico (2005). It also obtained the Prize Transmídia, Itaúcultural (2002) and 4th Prize Sergio Motta (2003) in Brazil. At the moment, OP_ERA: Sonic Dimension is being presented at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany.

For further information visit www.op-era.com and www.danielakutschat.com.

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CAiiA (AR/U)

Barbara Layne
Barbara Layne creates intelligent cloth structures for artistic, performative and functional textiles. She is in the Studio Arts faculty at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec and is a founding member of Hexagram: the Institute for Research and Creation in Media Arts and Technologies. Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts du Quebec and she is the Principal Investigator of a major infrastructure grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.

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Pierre Lévy
Pierre Lévy is a philosopher who has devoted his professional life to the understanding of the cultural and cognitive implications of digital technologies, to promote their best social uses and to understand the phenomenon of human collective intelligence. He has written a dozen of books on this subject that have been translated in more than 12 languages. He has taught in various universities in Europe and the Americas. He currently teaches at the communication department of the University of Ottawa (Canada), where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence. 

Website: www.ieml.org

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T/A (HM)

Katia Maciel
Katia Maciel is artist and tutor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She directed short films, videos, interactive CD-ROMs. Actually, her work’s deals with moving image installations. She is the director with André Parente of Image Technology Centre (N-Imagem). She published: Thinking brazilian cinema (2000), Sensorial net (2004) and Transcinemas (2007) and she is editor with André Parente of N-Imagem and N-Ensaios imprints. Katia’s work has been exhibited internationally in galeries and museums.

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Roger Malina
A space scientist and astronomer, with a specialty in space instrumentation and optics. PreviouslyDirector of the NASA EUVE Observatory at the University of California, Berkeley and more recently director of the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille CNRS. Currently serve on the Comite National of the French CNRS for astronomy and on the French National Commission on Cosmology. My current research interests are in observational cosmology and am a co-I on the SNAP Consortium project for a space observatory dedicated to elucidating the nature of dark energy and dark matter. I am a co-investigator member of the science teams of the NASA GALEX and FUSE space observatories. Chairman of the Board of Leonardo/International Society for the Arts/Sciences and Technology in San Francisco and President of the sister Association Leonardo in Paris. These organizations are dedicated to creating links between artists, scientists and engineers. I am executive Editor of the Leonardo Publications at MIT Press. An elected member of Section IV the International Academy of Astronautics, currently serve as Chair of Commission VI on Space Activities and Society. 

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P/C (HM)

David McConville
David McConville is a media artist and theorist focused on the development of the most compelling uses of immersive displays. He is co-founder of the Elumenati, an immersive projection design and engineering firm with clients ranging from art festivals to space agencies. He directs contemporary programming for the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and is currently working closely with the Buckminster Fuller Institute to further develop Fuller's concept of the Geoscope. David holds a BS in Music and Audio Engineering from UNC-Asheville, where he researched 3D audio and MIDI systems under Dr. Robert Moog.

http://www.elumenati.com

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CAiiA (DC)

Cristina Miranda de Almeida
Cristina Miranda de Almeida is an artist (UPV-EHU, Basque Country, Spain) and an architect (U.S.U., Rio de Janeiro). She is currently an Advanced Researcher Associate at the Planetary  Collegium, University of Plymouth, U.K. (from October 05 until 06). She has an European PhD in Art (UPV- EHU, 2005), a Master in Industrial Design (DZ- Bilbao) and Specializations in Town and Territorial Planning (Fundicot, Madrid, and IBAM, Rio de Janeiro).

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CAiiA (ARA)

Francesco Monico
Francesco Monico is an analyst of cultural forms and technological mediations. He is the director of Media Design Department at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, a higher-education institution recognized by the Italian Ministry of University Education and Research. Monico also holds a professorship in Theory and Method of Mass Media at the NABA.

He is also a member of the Center for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts at the University of Plymouth (U.K.) and a Fellow at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto.

Monico is pursuing a research doctorate (Ph.D) at the University of Plymouth, studying the interlinkages  between  21st century art, technology, culture and nature.

He is co-director of the Italian Node for tech-noetic research into art, technology and science at the PhD program. Former menber of the scientific committee at the National Museum of Science and Technology 'Leonardo da Vinci' in Milan. Monico has worked as a journalist and in broadcast television and continues to offer consultancy services to media enterprises.

www.m-node.com
www.thelightbrigade.org

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M-Node (ND)
CAiiA (DC)

Juergen Moritz
Juergen Moritz is a Researcher at the Institute for Playstudies, Bangkok and part-time lecturer at different Universities in South-East-Asia. He studied Fine Arts and Visual Communication at the University of Applied Arts Vienna followed by studies of Media Arts and Media Sciences at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. The guiding questions of his research aim at sociable technologies, how they shape our experiences and how we are changing as we forge increasingly intimate relationships with machines or use them as mediators in human-to-human relationships.

www.lab100.net
Blog: www.playstudies.com

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Z-Node (DC)

Joseph Nechvatal
Since 1986 Joseph Nechvatal has worked with ubiquitous electronic visual information, computers and computer-robotics. His computer-robotic assisted paintings and computer software animations are shown regularly in galleries and museums throughout the world. From 1991-1993 he worked as artist-in-resident at the Louis Pasteur Atelier and the Saline Royale / Ledoux Foundation's computer lab in Arbois, France on The Computer Virus Project: an experiment with computer viruses as a creative stratagem. In 2002 he extended that artistic research into the field of viral artificial life through his collaboration with the programmer Stéphane Sikora. Joseph Nechvatal earned his Ph.D. in the philosophy of art and new technology at The Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA) University of Wales College, Newport, UK. Dr. Nechvatal presently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City (SVA) and at Stevens Institute of Technology.

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PhD (UoW)

Carlos Moreira da Nóbrega
Carlos Nobrega is an artist from Brazil currently living in Plymouth where he works as researcher in The Planetary Collegium program at Plymouth University. He received his BA in Engraving from the School of Fine Arts and Master in Communication and Technology of the Image, both from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 1995 he became Assistant Professor at the same University. He holds a researcher membership at N-Imagem – UFRJ and ANPAP - Associação Nacional de Pesquisadores em Artes Plásticas. His currently research is granted by CAPES- Brazil. His work has been exhibited in festivals in Brazil and abroad including Interactiva (México), Digital Art (Cuba), Center of Photography, Woodstock (New York), UoA (Arizona), Barbican Theatre (UK), FILE (Brazil) amongst others.

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CAiiA (DC)

André Parente
André Parente is artist, researcher in audiovisual and new media arts. He conducted his doctoral research on cinema under the direction of Gilles Deleuze, (Filmic Narrativity and Non-Narrativity, published in 2005, in Paris, L'Harmattan) and owned his Ph. D. from Paris VIII University in 1987. Since 1990 he is the director of the research Group Culture and Technology of the Image at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His works are constituted by experimental and conceptual pieces, including a wide variety of formats, such as installations, interactive work, single channel vídeos and short films. His is the author of the following books: Yasujiro Ozu: o extraordinário cineasta do cotidiano (1990); Imagem-máquina. A era das tecnologias do virtual (1993); Sobre o cinema do simulacro (1998), O virtual e o hipertextual (1999); Narrativa e modernidade: os cinemas nao narrativos do pós-guerra experimental (2000); Tramas da Rede (2004), Cinéma et Narrativité (2005).

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P/C (GR)

Kjell Petersen
Kjell Yngve Petersen is a Performer and Stage Director producing opera, dance, performance events and installations. He is artistic director in the institution Boxiganga. He has been trained in the tradition of advanced formal body theatre. He works on creating, researching and writing on augmented and hyper-reality performances and installations, with special interest in real-time generative situations in which the audience takes part in performing the artwork. A selection of his work can bee seen at www.boxiganga.dk.

Currently he is a Ph.D. candidate at the Planetary Collegium, CAiiA, University of Plymouth, and lecturer at School of Arts, Brunel University.

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Z-Node (DC)

Michael Phillips
Mike Phillips is the director of i-DAT [The Institute of Digital Art and Technology] at the University of Plymouth. He heads the Nascent Art & Technology Research Group [www.nascent-research.net], a component of the A∑TEC [Arts Science Technology] Research Consortium, along side Transtechnology Research led by Prof. Michael Punt, the Center for Computer Music Research led by Prof. Eduardo Miranda, and the Planetary Collegium led by Prof. Roy Ascott. Phillips initiated and coordinated the BSc (Hons) MediaLab Arts Programme [1992] at the University of Plymouth, with the support of Macromedia and more recently founded the On-Line MSc Digital Futures programme. He is a Senior Supervisor in the Planetary Collegium.

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P/C (PS)

Andrea Polli
Andrea Polli is a digital media artist living in New York City.  She is currently an Associate Professor of Film and Media and Director of the MFA Program in Integrated Media Art at Hunter College. Her projects often bring together artists and scientists from various disciplines. She works in collaboration with atmospheric scientists to develop systems for understanding storm and climate information through sound (a process called sonification). Recent collaborations include: a spatialized sonification of highly detailed models of storms that devastated the New York area; a series of sonifications of actual and projected climate in Central Park, and a real-time multi-channel sonification and visualization of weather in the Arctic.

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P/C (PS)

Michael Punt
Michael Punt is Professor Art and Technology and director of Transtechnology Research at the University of Plymouth and is also Editor-in-Chief of Leonardo Reviews. He has made 15 films and published over eighty articles on cinema and digital media in the last decade. He gained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam (Early Cinema and the Technological Imaginary, 2000).

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P/C (PS)

Barbara Rauch
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in FADE (Fine Art Digital Environment - Surface, Layering, Memory), a joint research project between Camberwell College of Arts and Chelsea College of Art & Design, ICFAR (International Centre for Fine Art Research), University of the Arts London.

My research focuses on new technologies and how they alter our current understanding of human consciousness. The research provided the basis for my PhD thesis entitled 'Natural and Digital Virtual Realities – a practice-based exploration of dreaming and online virtual environments'. The research work that followed focused on 3D-surface capturing of animated facial expressions in animals and humans, attempting to map virtual emotions (AHRC Small Grant in the Creative and Performing Arts scheme January 2006 – June 2007). Together with P. Coldwell, I have been awarded an AHRC research grant to explore 'The personalised surface within Fine Art Printmaking, a two year project commencing May 2007.

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P/C (V)

Nicolas Reeves
Professor, School of Design, University of Quebec in Montreal. Scientific director, Hexagram Institute for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies. Director, NXI GESTATIO Design lab for Computers, Arts and Architecture. Dual education in Physics and Architecture allowing to join to the practice of arts and design the intensive use of bioclimatic, scientific and computer science data. Research-Creation questioning the basis of the concepts of order, organization, and information, through the exploration of the potential of computers for morphogenetic processes. Many on-going research/creation projects, most of them being based on algorithmic systems that develop different kinds of evolving architectonic or sound structures. Among them, the Cloud Harp, an instrument converting real-time the shape of clouds in music and sounds, has received international media coverage. Exhibitions, installations and lectures in many countries on five continents. Many papers published in arts and critic magazines. Regular jury member for several Canadian art councils.

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CAiiA (DC)

Semi Ryu
Since receiving MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, Semi Ryu has been working as assistant professor, Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Cultural Diversity Committee in International Society of Electronic Arts. Her works started from experimental 3D animations, with the subject of interactivity in Korean traditional theatre and oral tradition of storytelling. Her animations have been widely presented in more than 15 countries, winning numerous awards, including "The Best Young Animated Film Award" at 11th International Festival of Animated Film, Stuttgart, Germany". Her interest about interactivity has been continued to her critical view of interactive media and virtual interactive puppet performance, presented internationally in Vancouver, Zurich, Amsterdam, Milan, Beijing and more. Her paper "Ritualizing Interactive Media" was mentioned as exceptional quality in Leonardo review, and published in Journal "Technoetic Arts" Vol 3.2. Currently, she is collaborating with multimedia lab, University of Rome, Italy for her new VR projects.

www.semiryu.com

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Z-Node (DC)

Andreas Schiffler
Andreas Schiffler, born and raised in Germany attained his High-School diploma concurrently with a diploma as Chem-Tech in 1987. He then moved to Canada in 1989 to study at the University of Saskatchewan, where he received his B.Sc. in 1994 and a M.Sc. in Space Physics at ISAS in 1996. Then he worked with media artists Prof. Jill Scott and later the Institute of Visual Media under Dr. Jeffrey Shaw at the ZKM media-art institute in Karlsruhe, Germany. He returned to Canada in 2000 to join the startup company Tek21 Inc, Buffalo, NY only to form his own company Appwares in 2001 developing Internet marketing and communication software and a RSS publishing service. Currently Andreas works as senior developer in the R&D department of IC-Agency, Geneva/Bathurst.

www.ferzkopp.net

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Z-Node (DC)

Jill Scott
Prof. Dr. Jill Scott (Australian) is a Research Professor at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Art, Media and Design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst (HGKZ) in Zurich. Switzerland. Beside media art her current research includes somatic sensory perception, HCI and human cognition and biotechnology.

Her recently published works include: artistsinlabs-Processes of Inquiry: Springer Press, 2006 and Coded Charac-ters, Hatji Cantz 2003. She has written articles for many journals in Art, Science and Technology, and exhibited her performance, video and interactive media art work worldwide.

She is also leader of the AIL-artists-in labs Residency project at the HGKZ and Vice Director of the Z-Node of the Planetary Collegium.

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Z-Node (ND)

Bill Seaman
Seaman received a PH.D. from the Centre for Advanced Inquiry In Interactive Arts, University of Wales, 1999. He holds a MSvisS degree from MIT, 1985.  His work explores an expanded media-oriented poetics through various technological means. Seaman is Department Head and Graduate Program Director of Digital+Media at RISD. His works have been in many international  exhibitons. In particular Seaman contributed a video set for SLEEPERS GUTS by Ballett Frankfurt; collaborated with Regina van Berkel on two major dance/performance/installations;  has been commissioned on a number of occasions; and is currently working on a series of poetic installations and scientific research papers in collaboration with the scientist Otto Rössler, exploring the creation of a model for a neo-sentient computer and robotic system. Seaman is also in a new band with Rafael Attias called ATTSEA. Entry, the band's first release is available on itunes (alternative) with excerpts on myspace.

See also billseaman.com.

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PhD (UoP)

Yacov Sharir
Professor Yacov Sharir graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art in sculpture and ceramics and continued his studies in dance at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance, and the Bat-Sheva Dance Company School. Sharir was the founder of the American Deaf Dance Company, which pioneered the inclusion of deaf artists in professional dance. Sharir is an award winning choreographer and a multiple NEA choreography fellowship recipient. Sharir teaches dance, choreography, computer aided art courses, virtual reality/cyberspace in the arts, and multi-disciplinary graduate courses at the University of Texas at Austin, He is a frequent keynote speaker at arts and technology conferences and symposia in the USA and around the world.

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CAiiA (DC)

Diana Reed Slattery
Diana Slattery is the Director of DomeWorks.  Her current artistic practice, The Glide Project, is informed by her Ph.D. research in visual language and altered states of consciousness. The Glide Project  (http://www.academy.rpi.edu/glide) spirals around a central theme of the mutual evolution of language, game, and consciousness, describing and modeling one possibility for an evolutionary writing system. Glide emerged from Slattery's novel, The Maze Game.  LiveGlide is the three-dimensional form of Glide which is performed as a writing instrument in real-time, on flat-screen or in the Dome.

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CAiiA (DC)

Chris Speed
Chris is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Digital Art & Technology at the University of Plymouth. His research focus is best characterised by his PhD activity which addresses the synthesis and tensions between Social Navigation, Digital Architecture and Human Geography. Speed is interested in how contemporary social technologies have the potential to change the spatial frames that we 'see' ourselves in, and in doing so questions the existing models we have for the world. Many of the projects he is involved in exploit socio-spatial strategies that change the way we think about our place in space, time and social groups. Speed is the programme manager for the BA / BSc Digital Art & Technology degree programme which has an international reputation for developing graduates who work across the arts and sciences. He works have been published in international books and journals, presented at conferences across the world and has had projects commissioned and distributed in a variety of mediums.

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CAiiA-Hub Sprvsr

Neil Spiller
Neil Spiller is Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory and a practising architect. He is the Diploma/MArch (Architecture) Course Director and Vice Dean at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London. He is author of the book 'Digital Dreams- Architecture and the New Alchemic Technologies' (1998). He is co-editor of AD 'Architects in Cyberspace' (1995), guest-editor of AD 'Integrating Architecture' (1996), AD 'Architects in Cyberspace II' (1998) and AD 'Young Blood' (2001) and formerly editor of 'Building Design Interactive' magazine. He is co-editor, with Peter Cook, of 'The Power of Contemporary Architecture (1999) and 'The Paradox of Contemporary Architecture' (2001). His monograph 'Maverick Deviations' was published by Wiley in 2000 and his book 'Lost Architecture' about architectural projects of the last two decades of the twentieth century was published by Wiley in 2001.

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CAiiA (S)

René Stettler
René Stettler is Director, New Gallery Lucerne, and The Swiss Biennial on Science, Technics + Aesthetics (since 1987 resp. 1995). He is also lecturer at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Lucerne / Switzerland and an Independent Scholar.

Stettler is a cultural researcher with many years of national and international experience. In 2003 he won an award for his intercultural projects from the City and the Canton of Lucerne and he was also awarded the Swiss Art Award 2003. Stettler is the founder and director of the New Gallery Lucerne, and the Swiss Biennial on Science, Technics + Aesthetics, Lucerne. The New Gallery Lucerne is an institution which is supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture and local cultural institutions of the Canton and the City of Lucerne.

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CAiiA (DC)

Nicholas Tresilian
Nicholas Tresilian M.A., F.R.S.A., is an art historian, broadcaster and a former founding director of media PLCs in the UK and Europe, including Classic fm for which he also broadcast for 10 years. Author of the Pivate Landscapes series of films for BBC-2 (Blake, Inshaw, Smith, Tilson) he lectured on 20th century art, media and science at the Central School in London, at Maidstone and Cardiff Colleges of Art, and at the Architectural Association.  He was for many years a director of Artist Placement Group and its successor Organisation and Imagination Ltd. – pioneers in the placement of artists within government organisations. He is currently Vice-President of the US-based International Society for the Study of Time. He lectures and writes on the relationship between art-history and cultural evolution. He lives in Bath in the UK and near Cordoba in Spain.

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P/C (GR)

Lenara Verle
Lenara Verle is an artist and researcher in the field of new media and collaborative art.  She has a Master of Arts in New Media Studies at the New School University.Verle teaches at Unisinos University in Porto Alegre, Brazil since 2004 for the Digital Communications, the Audiovisual Media and the Game Development Programs. Since 1994 she has participated in the award-winning group Sito Electronic Arts. Verle is a UNESCO-ASCHBERG resident artist at the Planetary Collegium in Plymouth, UK (Summer 2000). She is a resident artist at the ZKM Center for New Media Art (2005-2006) and works on the Mind VJ project in collaboration with Marlon Barrios Solano.
Verle is a winner of the VAD Net Art First Prize (Girona, Spain 2003) and the ZKM Media Art Award (Karlsruhe, Germany 2005).

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CAiiA (AR/U)

Victoria Vesna
Victoria Vesna is a media artist, professor and chair of the department of Design | Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts. She is also director of the recently established UCLA Art|Sci center and the UC Digital Arts Research Network. Her work can be defined as experimental creative research that resides between disciplines and technologies. She explores how communication technologies affect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation. Her most recent works are focused on environmental issues showing the relationship of water pollution and collective consciousness. Victoria has exhibited her work in 19 solo exhibitions, over 80 group shows, published 20+ papers and gave a 100+ invited talks in the last decade. She is author of an edited volume, Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow, published by Minnesota Press, due out in August, 2007.

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PhD (UoW)

Natasha Vita-More
Natasha Vita-More, BFA, MS, MPhil-PhD Candidate (Planetary Collegium). Natasha's research concerns visionary yet critical issues of emergent sciences and technologies and the future of humanity. As an advocate of extreme life extension, Natasha's BioTech practice is leaning toward transBioArt. Her current lab work is cryogenics of C. elegans, reanimation, and memory. Natasha received international recognition for a visual conceptual design of human 2.0 "Primo Posthuman," and has been featured in Wired, Harper's Bazaar, New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Net Business, Teleopolis, Village Voice. She has appeared in more than a dozen televised documentaries such as PBS, BBC, TLC and Discovery on the aesthetics of the human machine interface. Natasha's visual and media works have been exhibited at Brooks Memorial Museum, London Contemporary Museum, Women In Video, Telluride Film Festival, and United States Film Festival. After serving as President of futurist think-tank Extropy Institute, she is advisor to non-profit organizations.

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CAiiA (DC)

Claudia Westermann
Claudia Westermann: born 1971 in Heidelberg, Germany. Studies in Architecture at the University of Karlsruhe/Germany, and the University of Tampere/Finland. Addi-tional postgraduate studies in the field of Media Fine Arts at the University of Art and Design (HfG) at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. Claudia Westermann has been a PhD candidate with the Planetary Colle-gium since 2003. She holds a professional license as an architect and currently is a faculty member (Univ. Ass.) at the Archi-tecture Department of the Vienna Univer-sity of Technology (TU) in Austria.

Claudia Westermann's works have been widely presented in the frame of international festivals and exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale for Architecture in Italy, the Moscow International Film Festi-val in Russia, ISEA Symposium for the Electronic Arts 2002 in Nagoya/Japan, the ZKM in Karlsruhe/Germany, and the IFCT International Festival of Cinema and Technology 2003 in New York/USA. She regularly contributes to conferences and has been published internationally.

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CAiiA (DC)