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Alex Adriaansens, V2 (Netherlands)
(14-02-53) Work: Director of the V2_Organisation, Institute for the Unstable Media. V2_Organisation is an artist set up and run centre for art and (Media)technology since 1982. The V2_Organisation is located in the centre of Rotterdam in a former newspaper building. It presents and produces works in the field of art and (Media) technology and releases and distributes information carriers of all sorts that can be seen as background information to the activities. For more information on the V2 centre and its activities, visit our web site: http://www.V2.nl.
Roy Ascott, CAIIA (UK)
A pioneer of cybernetics and telematics in art, Ascott's seminal projects include "Terminal Art", USA/UK, 1980; "La Plissure du Texte, a planetary fairy tale", Electra, Paris 1984; "Aspects of Gaia: digital pathways across the whole earth", Ars Electronica, Linz 1989. Since his first published work "Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision" in 1964, he has published internationally over eighty texts, many translated into Italian, Japanese, French, German, and Spanish. He is a member of the editorial board of Convergence, an advisory editor of Leonardo, and co-edited "Connectivity: art and interactive telecommunications" (1991). He lectures widely in Europe and North America. The CEC Brussels, French Ministry of Culture, UNESCO, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph, Ars Electronica Center Linz, CETEC, Universite Paris-Dauphine, CYPRES Aix-en-Provence, Cardiff Bay Art Trust, the European League of Institutes of the Arts, and Copenhagen 96 are amongst the many organisations which consult him. He was an International Commissioner for the Venice Biennale in 1986 (Tecnologia e Informatica), and is a jury member of Prix Ars Electronica Linz and the Interactive Media Festival San Francisco, and an advisor to the International Symposium on Electronic Art, Montreal 96. Former President of the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Dean of the San Francisco Art Institute, California, and Professor for Communications Theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, he is currently Director of the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, Gwent College of Higher Education, Wales.
Annick Bureaud, Art-El, ASTN (France)
Lives and works in Paris. Specialist of electronic arts. Editor and founder of the IDEA/International Directory of Electronic Arts. Independant curator, art critic. President of ASTN (Art, Science and Technology Network). email:bureaud@altern.com
Andrea Di Castro, CNA (Mexico)
(1953) is an artist that works with new technologies. Since 1970, he has worked independently in photography, film and video and since 1984, has incorporated the computer into his artistic expressions. Some of his work includes: PANTOPONE ROSE, a video based on a text by William S. Burroughs who also participated in the project; the computer animation series CONEJO SOSTIENE AL MUNDO; the interactive system PASOS (film and video). From 1991 to 1995 he worked at the Comision Consultiva del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. He was a jury member for the second Bienal de Video and member of the jury organizing committee for the third Bienal. Was a juror in the video festival of the VII Feria Internacional del Libro in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Has written for different print media and participated in lectures, teleconferences and round tables on videoart, experimental video, electronica graphics, new technologies in the production of images and virtual reality, as well as in shows, exhibitions and events in different parts of the world. Presently he is the founder and director of the Centro Multimedia, Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City where he also gives courses on virtual reality.
Lorne Falk, Independent (USA)
Works in contemporary art as a director, curator, writer and consultant. His most recent essays include "Demo Aesthetics" (co-authored, in the November issue of the journal Convergence), "The Conversion of Pere Version" (co-authored, in The Cyborg Handbook, Routledge Press, 1995), "The Border Prism" in semiotext(e) Canadas (1994), and "Field Notes on Ethics" (an essay motivated by a seminar he co-organized called Naming a Practice: Curatorial Strategies for the Future). Until recently, he conceived and directed a thematic multidisciplinary residency program at The Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. Residencies included the Bioapparatus (1991), Rhetoric, Utopia and Technology (1992), Nomad (1993), and Living at the End of Nation States (1994). He has written and published more than 60 essays, published 19 catalogues and books, and organized more than 150 exhibitions. Lorne lives in Los Angeles where he is working on a project called Finding A Subject: Art and Computer Technology in the Nineties.
Monika Fleischmann, GMD (Germany)
(1950 Karlsruhe/Germany) is not only a research artist but also the Artistic Director of the Institute for Media Communication at GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology in Sankt Augustin near Bonn. Her interdisciplinary working group does basic research in Visualization and Virtual Reality Systems in the combination of art and science. Fleischmann studied fashion design and dance in Zürich, and later art and drama at the Hochschule der Künste and the Institute for Theater and Spielpaedagogik in Berlin. In 1988 she was a co-founder of Art+Com in Berlin. She has held teaching positions at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin and the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne. Monika Fleischmann is Head of Computer Art activities at GMD and responsible for the 'Cyberstar' competition on interactive concepts. This new prize was created in 1995 together with WDR (German TV) and Telekom. Fleischmann has been exhibited widely throughout the world. Her work has been included in festivals and exhibitions of new media art worldwide. Awarded in 1992 at Ars Electronica with the Golden Nica, nominated for the Unesco Award 1993, exhibited at Machine Culture - Siggraph 1993, and the Interactive Media Festival in Los Angeles 1995, to give some examples.
Eduardo Kac, U. of Kentucky (Brazil)
Artist who works with telepresence, holography, computers, and telecommunications. Kac's works have been exhibited in North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. Exhibitions include the Museum of Holography (New York), Museum of Modern Art (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Kunstlerhaus (Graz, Austria). Has published articles and essays on electronic art in journals and books in several languages. Books include "Siggraph '92 Visual Proceedings" (USA), "Art-Reseaux" (Paris), "New Media Technologies" (Australia), and "Teleskulptur" (Austria). Journals include: Leonardo, Col¬quio Artes, and New Observations. Public collections include Museum of Holography (Chicago), Museum of Modern Art (Rio de Janeiro), and MIT Museum (Cambridge). He taught history of art and technology, digital imaging, and computer holography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is now Assistant Professor of New Media in the Department of Art, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Eduardo Kac is on the Editorial Board of the journal Leonardo and is Coordinator of the 1993 Siggraph's "Artist/Designer Sketches".
Derrick de Kerckhove, McLuhan Institute (Canada)
Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto in 1975 and a Doctorat du 3e cycle in Sociology of Art from the University of Tours (France) in 1979. He was an associate of the Centre for Culture and Technology from 1972 to 1980 and worked with Marshall McLuhan for over ten years as translator, assistant and co-author. He edited Understanding 1984 (UNESCO, 1984) and co-edited with Amilcare Iannucci, McLuhan e la metamorfosi dell'uomo (Bulzoni, 1984) two collections of essays on McLuhan, culture, technology and biology. He also co-edited the book The Alphabet and the Brain (Springer Verlag, 1988) with Charles Lumsden. Another publication , La civilisation vidéo-chrétienne appeared in France in December, 1990. He consulted on exhibits and wrote the catalogue for Techno Art, Ontario Science Centre, September 1994-January 1995 and co-curated Press Enter, the Power Plant Gallery in Toronto, April 1995. A consultant in media, cultural interests, and related policies, he has participated in the plans for: the Ontario Pavilion at Expo '92 in Seville, the Canada in Space exhibit, and the Toronto Broadcast Centre for the CBC.
Machiko Kusahara, TIP, CGL, NTT (Japan)
Associate Professor of Media Art at the Faculty of Arts, Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics. She has been teaching computer graphics and media since 1986 and is a prolific writer on the subject of new media since 1984. Her writing is published in many Japanese publications, including the widely read Asahi Newspaper, as well as InterCommunication and SuperDesigning magazines. She has published numerous works, among others, "Computer Graphics Anthology" (1989, Bunkensha Publishing Co.) and "Computer Graphics Access" (1992, Bunkensha Publishing Co.). Curated the SIGGRAPH Traveling Art Show in 1985. Since then she has been commissioned for planning and exhibitions of World Design Exposition (1989), Metropolitan Museum of Photography (1988-95), Sony ArtArt Exhibitions (1990-91), NTT InterCommunication Center (1990-), among others. She will curate an exhibition at A-Life V Conference in May 1996. Kusahara studied mathematics and history of science at Tokyo's International Christian University while also studying computer programming. After graduating she worked at IRM Company in Tokyo as a specialist in technology research and marketing. She also studied art history and practice in Paris.
Roger Malina, Leonardo-ISAST (USA)
Space astronomer and Directorof the Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale in Marseille, France and Director of the Center for EUV Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is also the Executive Editor of the international art,science and technology journal Leonardo and Editor of the electronic Journal Leonardo Electronic Almanac- both published by MIT press. For further information see the Leonardo WWW site:http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/Leonardo/home.html
Marcos Novak, U. of Texas (USA)
Architect, artist, composer, and theorist investigating actual, virtual and mutant intelligent environments. He originated the study of liquid architectures in cyberspace, and is founding director of the RealityLab and the Advanced Design Research Program at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.
J. Seijdel, Independent (Netherlands)
Born in 1961, Den Haag, Netherlands. Currently working as a freelance writer/critic in Amsterdam. She writes about art and new media for Mediamatic, Kunst & Museumjournaal, Metropolis M, De Witte Raaf, amongst others, for catalogues, and for the Dutch newspaper het Financieele Dagblad. She also is one of the editors of Mediamatic Magazine. Co-editor within Mediamatic Interactive Design in Amsterdam, of MultiMedia Graphics 1, a book on the visual design of multimedia (1995). In 1994 organised the breakfast sessions of the second Doors of Perception in Amsterdam. In 1993, texts for the upcoming colllection catalogue of MonteVideo/TBA. Lived and worked as a writer in Barcelona, Spain (1990-1993). In 1989 worked for the exhibition of contemporary Latin American Art "U-ABC" in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Worked for the Contemporary Art Television Fund in Boston, USA ( 1988). Internship at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, for the international manifestion The Arts for Television (1987). Studied Art History and Audio Visual Communication in Amsterdam from 1981 to 1988 (specialisations: the meaning of the museum; the cultural implications of new media. Thesis on the 'philosophy of the original and copy in modern art').
Jeffrey Shaw, ZKM (Australia)
Born 1944, Melbourne, Australia. Architecture at the University of Melbourne (1963). Art History at the University of Melbourne (1964). Sculpture at the Brera Academy of Art, Milan (1965). Sculpture at St Martins School of Art, London (1966). Founding member of THE EVENTSTRUCTURE RESEARCH GROUP (1970 - 1980). Since 1991 Director of the INSTITUT FÜR BILDMEDIEN, at the ZKM / ZENTRUM FÜR KUNST UND MEDIENTECHNOLOGIE Karlstruhe. Since 1995 Professor at the HOCHSCHULE FÜR GESTALTUNG Karlsruhe. PRIZES:1990 L'Immagine Elettronica, Ferrara, Italy.1990 Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. SELECTED WORKS 1967-1995: VIEWPOINT '6th Biennale de Paris' Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris (1975). NEON WIND SCULPTURE Koopwaardersplantsoen, Amsterdam (1980). HEAVENS GATE (with H. de Wit), Shaffy Theater, Amsterdam (1987). THE LEGIBLE CITY (with Dirk Groeneveld), Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (1988). REVOLUTION 'Imago', KunstRai, Amsterdam (1990). THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM 'Das Belebte Bild', Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt (1991). EVE 'MultiMediale 3', ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (1994). THE GOLDEN CALF 'Ars Electronica', Linz (1994). PLACE - A USERS MANUAL, Neue Galerie, Graz (1995).
Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica (Austria)
Born in 1964, Möschitzgraben (Styria) Austria. Lived in Graz from 1979 to 1995. Engineer of Communication Technologies. Musician and media artist. In 1991, foundation of x-space, a team of artists and engineers dedicated to realizing interdisciplinary projects. Artistic Director of the "Steirische Kulturinitiative" (Styrian Culture Initiative), Graz, Austria (1992-93). Artistic and Managing Director of Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria (1995). His projects and installations have been shown at: Steir Landesausstellung ('91); Expo Sevilla ('92); Kunsthalle Bonn ('92); Interactive Media Festival (LA '94); SIGGRAPH (Orlando '94); Dutch Electronic Art Festival (Rotterdam '94); Ars Electronica (Linz '95); ISEA (Montreal '95); New York Digital Salon ('95), among others. He is Editor of the following publications: ON LINE, Kunst im Netz (1993); Zero, Knoten im Netz (1993); Cross Compilation (1994). His articles have appeared in Leonardo, Screen Multimedia, Funkschau, On the Air, Kunstforum, Ars Electronica '95, among others.
Allucquère Rosanne Stone, U. of Texas (USA)
Assistant Professor in the department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studies issues related to interface, interaction, and desire. She is director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory. Previously she was a visiting lecturer in the departments of Communication and Sociology at the University of California San Diego. She was a member of the Bell Telephone Laboratories Special Systems Exploratory Development Group; has been a consultant, computer programmer, technical writer and engineering manager in Silicon Valley; and worked with Jimi Hendrix in music recording. She was program chair and organizer for the 1991 Second International Conference on Cyberspace. Her academic publications include "Will The Real Body Please Stand Up?: Boundary Stories About Virtual Cultures", in Michael Benedikt, ed.:"Cyberspace: First Steps" (MIT Press); "Sex, Death, and Architecture", in Architecture- New York (ANY); "Virtual Systems" in "ZONE 6: Incorporations" (MIT); "The Architecture of Elsewhere", in "Semiotext(e) Architecture"; and "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto", in "Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Sexual Ambiguity" (Routledge). Wrote "The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age" (MIT Press, May 1995). Her work has appeared in such publications as Lusitania, ANY (Architecture New York), and Assemblage. She is editing the first academic reader on transgender theory; is completing a science fiction novel; and is working on a study of vampirism and carnival. She is currently touring a one-person "theoryperformance" on cyberspace and the transhuman.
Geert J. Strengholt, Mediamatic (Netherlands)
(1961) was trained in Art History and Psychology, and specialised in Media Arts. For several years he worked as a freelance writer, curator and organiser of Media Art Festivals. He currently works for Mediamatic Magazine, the international quartely about cultural implications of new media. e-mail: geert-jan@mediamatic.nl home: http://www.mediamatic.nl/~Geert-JanStrengholt
Christine Tamblyn, Florida International U. (USA)
Has been making electronic art and writing cultural criticism since 1974. Her critical articles and reviews have been published in many art magazines and academic journals, including Art News, Afterimage, Leonardo and High Performance. Tamblyn is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Florida International University in Miami. She has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Mills College in Oakland, the School of Visual Arts in New York, the University of California at Santa Cruz and San Francisco State University. She was the recipient of the John McCarron Art Writing Award from Artspace in San Francisco in 1987 and 1990. Tamblyn's first CDROM, "She Loves It, She Loves It Not: Women and Technology" was shown in "Seduced and Abandoned: The Body in the Virtual World" at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; at the San Francisco Exploratorium; at SIGGRAPH '94 in Orlando, Florida; at ISEA '94 in Helsinki, Finland; at Centro Cultural Caixavigo in Vigo, Spain; among numerous other venues. Her new CDROM, "Mistaken Identities" premiered in a one person exhibition at the International Center for Photography in New York and was also shown at the First International Video Festival in Buenos Aires (1995).