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
on-line spatial environments. The book was published by McGraw Hill in 1998.
Anders received his degrees from the University of Michigan (B.S.1976) and
Columbia University (M.A.1982). He is currently a fellow of the University
of Plymouth CAiiA-STAR Ph.D. program. He was a principle in an architectural
firm in New York City until 1994 when he formed MindSpace.net, an architectural
practice specializing in media/information environments. He has received
numerous design awards for his work and has taught graduate level design
studios and computer-aided design at universities including the New Jersey
Institute of Technology, University of Detroit-Mercy, and the University
of Michigan.
His work has been featured in professional journals and he has presented
his research on the architecture of cyberspace in keynotes, papers and panels
in several international venues These include: The New York Architectural
League, Xerox PARC, ISEA, CAiiA, Cyberconf, ACADIA, AEC, ACM-Multimedia,
InterSymp, SEGD and the World Future Society. Those interested in pursuing
these topics may visit his site, mindspace.net, or contact him at ptr@mindspace.net.
Contact Information:
URL: mindspace.net
EM: ptr@mindspace.net
Post: 4416 Andre Street, Midland, Michigan 48640 USA
T+F: 517.835.8081
Donna
Cox
Donna J. Cox is a recognized pioneer in computer art and scientific visualization.
Since 1985, she has been a faculty member in the School of Art and Design
as well as a research visualization artist/scientist at the National Centre
for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Cox has been featured in art and
science museums, television, and IMAX theatres around the world. She has
authored many papers on scientific visualization and information design.
Cox received the Leonardo Coler-Maxwell Award in 1987 for her seminal paper
coining the term "Renaissance Teams". In 1997, she was Associate
Producer for Scientific Visualization and Art Director for the PIXAR/NCSA
segment of the Academy Award nominated IMAX movie, "Cosmic Voyage."
Cox, Robert Patterson, NCSA, and Marcus Thiébaux, ISI, recently received
a patent for a virtual reality choreography system. She was elected as a
council member of Internet 2 Commission; serves on the Editorial Board for
Leonardo (International Journal for Art, Technology and Science); and is
an active researcher in CAiiA/STAR Program, University of Wales College,
Newport. Her most recent projects include visualizations for the Hayden
Planetarium in New York City and for the Discovery Channel Program, "Unfolding
Universe."
Peter
d'Agostino and David I. Tafler
Peter d'Agostino is Professor of Film and Media Arts and Director of the
NewTechLab, Temple University, Philadelphia. He is an artist who has been
working in interactive multimedia for over two decades. His recent collaborative
online projects have been suppported by a Fulbright fellowship to Brazil,
a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center residency ,and a Japan Foundation
Summit Grant, 2000. D'Agostino's work has been exhibited internationally
and is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art's Circulating Video
Library, and distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, New York. Major exhibitions
include: The Whitney Museum of American Art (1981 Biennial, and The American
Century-Film and Video in America 1950-2000), the Bienal de Sao Paulo, Bienniale
of the Moving Image, Madrid and the 1995 Kwangju Biennial, Korea. A survey,
Peter d'Agostino: Interactivity and Intervention, 1978-99 was exhibited
at the Lehman College Art Gallery, New York.
Peter d'Agostino and David Tafler are co-editors of TRANSMISSION: Toward
a post-television culture (Sage: 1995)
David I. Tafler is Head of the Communication Department of Muhlenberg College
in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on interactive media
and new technologies. His articles include "Does the outback represent
the centre?" Continuum; "The Techno/Cultural Interface" (co-authored
with Peter d'Agostino) Media Information Australia; "I remember television..."
From Receiver To Remote Control; "Der Blick und der Sprung." ("The
Look and the Leap") Kunstforum; "The Circular Text." Journal
of Film and Video, "Autonomy/Community: Marginality and the New Interactive
Cinema" Cinematograph; "Beyond Narrative: Notes toward a theory
of interactive cinema" Millennium Film Journal.
Margaret
Dolinsky
Margaret Dolinsky is an Assistant Professor and Research Scientist at Indiana
University in Bloomington. Dolinsky researches, designs and creates CAVE
Automatic Virtual Environments. She investigates visual metaphors for navigation
and the participants' role in completing the virtual environment and guiding
the creation of their art experience. She teaches 3D computer graphics and
VR development at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts.
In the past few years, the artwork concentrates on collaborative CAVE environments
where two or more CAVEs are networked together using the high-speed bandwidth
of the research network, the Internet2. Her CAVE artwork is installed at
the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria and the ICC Museum in Tokyo,
Japan. She has exhibited at Chicago's Alternate Currents, INET2000, SIGGRAPH,
Eurographics, and "Virtual Spaces" in conjunction with ISEA97.
She was an artist in residence at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. She has spoken at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, NeXT
1.0: New Extensions in Technology, Sweden, SIGGRAPH, and for the High Performance
Computational Science Committee on Institutional Cooperation 2000 in Washington,
D.C. Dolinsky's work also appears in numerous publications, including, Discover,
Computer Graphics World, US News & World Report, Yahoo Internet Life,
ACM's Computer Graphics, VR Developer's Journal and Leonardo. She has an
MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization
Laboratory. Further information about her work is available at http://dolinsky.fa.indiana.eduor
dolinsky@indiana.edu
Luisa
Paraguai Donati
Luisa studied Civil Engineering and obtained her master degree in the Department
of Multimedia, Institute of Arts, State University of Campinas, Brazil.
Her master research, which is included in the wAwRwT project
at http://wawrwt.iar.unicamp.br/english/index_en.html,
examined the possibilities of presence through live images on the Web. She
has subsequently presented conference papers, and developed artworks such
as INcorpos, that deal with issues of "being present" on
the Web.
Currently enrolled in her Ph.D. programme, Luisa is at STAR programme, University
of Plymouth, as a Visiting Researcher-in-residence for a year to research
wearable computers and to theorise the implications of this "always
on" interface.
Pia
Ednie-Brown
Pia Ednie-Brown is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Design
at RMIT University where she teaches design and theory. Her PhD research
explores emergent paradigms of experience and perception in the information
age, particularly in relation to representation and abstraction within design
production. Her work exploring these nuances in digitally assisted design
practices has been published in journals such as Daidalos and the Architectural
Design Academy Editions. She has been a jury member for architectural design
reviews at Melbourne University, Deakin University,
Curtin University (WA), the ETH (Zurich) and Columbia University (NY).
Maia
Engeli
Maia Engeli is an information architect, specialized in the design of information
access and exchange. She combines digital networks, computer graphics and
artificial intelligence to create information and communication environments
that supplement human talent and cognitive skills. Her work focuses on dynamic
qualities of online information environments, their structural conception
as well as their visual representation. This has been exemplified in numerous
course environments and research projects. Maia Engeli currently works as
an independent researcher; she was Assistant Professor for Architecture
and CAAD at the ETH Zurich, 1996-2002, and the head of the ETH World Center
that supports the ETH community in the creation of the new virtual/physical
presence of the ETH Zurich, 2001-2002.
Gregory
P Garvey
Gregory P. Garvey teaches in the Department of Computer Science and Interactive
Digital Design at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. His interactive
computer based installations such as the Automatic Confession Machine: A
Catholic Turing Test have been exhibited in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
During 2000-2001 he was an Associate Artist of the Digital Media Center
for the Arts at Yale University. He has graduate degrees from MIT and the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced
Visual Studies at MIT from 1983 to 1985.
Ranulph
Glanville
Ranulph Glanville’s speciality is not having one. He has studied the
horizontal, obsessed about lines and boundaries, found traces of the organisation
of Finnish language in Finnish farmhouses, taken 2 PhD’s, married twice,
divorced once, never voted conservative, developed cybernetic thought systems,
made music, taught architecture, design and cybernetics, and is currently
adjunct professor of odd jobs in the Faculty of the Constructed Environment,
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia, where he
commutes twice yearly. Don’t ask…! Contact him at ranulph@glanville.co.uk
Diane
Gromala
Gromala's work as an artist, designer, theorist, and curator in the field
of Electronic Art focuses on how artistic configurations of technologies
-- from VR to biomedical devices -- can provoke a new awareness and understandings
of our senses. She then puts that experimental research to pragmatic use
in developing new approaches to interface design.
Gromala's design and artwork has been shown around the world, and has been
featured on the BBC and the Discovery Channel. Along with collaborator Lily
Shirvanee, Gromala was a semi-finalist for Discover magazine's Award for
Technological Innovation in 2001 and nominated for the Frank Annunzio Award
for work which combines biomedical technologies with mixed reality. In 2000,
Gromala was Chair of SIGGRAPH's Art Gallery, and was named chair of the
Research arm of UNESCO's (United Nations' Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization) global Electronic Arts Initiative.
Gromala's theoretical work grows out of a desire to make the meaning of
art and design practice relevant to those outside of her discipline. In
addition to numerous articles, she co-authored, with Jay David Bolter, the
forthcoming book _Windows and Mirrors: Electronic Art, Design, and the Myth
of Transparency,_ which reexamines the issues of human computer interaction
and interface design. She is an elected member of the Editorial Board of
_Postmodern Culture_ and _Visual Communication._
As a teacher, Gromala has co-developed several interdisciplinary new media
curricula and university-wide classes at Georgia Tech, the University of
Texas, the University of Washington, Seattle. This led to New Zealand, where
she helped create a new joint program in Human Computer Interaction Design
at Wanganui Polytechnic and Waikato University as a Senior Fulbright Fellow.
Prof. Diane Gromala teaches in the School of Literature, Communication,
and Culture at Georgia Tech. Her graduate and undergraduate degrees are
from Yale University and the University of Michigan, respectively. Between
degrees, she worked as a designer and art director in the corporate realm,
including Apple Computer, Inc.
Nigel
Helyer
Nigel Helyer (a.k.a. Dr Sonique) is a Sydney based Sculptor and Sound
Artist with an international reputation for his large scale sonic
installations, environmental sculpture works and new media projects.
He has recently developed a ‘Virtual Audio Reality’ system in
collaboration with Lake Technology and is currently engaged with research
projects in Architectural Acoustics at the University of Sydney; Virtual
and Environmental Audio at the School of Computer Science and Engineering
at the University of New South Wales. He is soon to be a Visiting Research
Fellow at the "Symbiotica" lab at the University of Western Australia.
Nigel is a co-founder and commissioner of the "SoundCulture" organisation;
a VACB fellow of the Australia Council and the winner of this year’s
Helen
Lempriere National Sculpture Award.
http://sonicobjects.com
http://magnus-opus.com
Pamela
Jennings
Pamela Jennings is Assistant Professor in the School of Art and the Human
Computer Interaction Institute and research fellow at the Studio for Creative
Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. Her interactive art projects include
the CD ROMs "Solitaire: dream journal" and "Narrative
Structures for New Media," and the ArTronic™ sculpture "the
book of ruins and desire." Her papers and creative work have appeared
in the Leonardo Journal; Convergence: The Journal of Research into New
Media Technologies; the CAA Art Journal and the book Struggles
for Representation: African American Film/Video/New Media Makers. She
is the author of a report commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, "New
Media Arts | New Funding Models," which is available on her web
site.
Pamela is the recipient of several grants from the New York State Council
on the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. She is a MacDowell Artist Colony
Fellow. Her commercial clients have included IBM Almaden Research Center,
NBC Interactive, and SRI International.
She received her M.F.A. in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts,
NYC, M.A. from the NYU/International Center of Photography program, and
B.A. from Oberlin College. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Center
for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA) at the University of
Wales in the United Kingdom.
http://digital-Bauhaus.com
pamelaj@cs.cmu.edu
Stephen
Jones
Stephen Jones is an Australian video artist of long standing. For many years
he was the videomaker for the electronic music band Severed Heads. He has
been involved with the philosophical aspects of the nature of consciousness
for almost longer than his involvement in video. He also builds physical
immersion installations based on the incunabula of computing. He usually
works as an electronic engineer, on equipment ranging from analog video
synthesisers to Motion-JPEG compressors, and projects ranging from digital
television facilities to artists' installations. He has been producing The
Brain Project web site since August 1996 http://www.culture.com.au/brain_proj/.
He is currently researching the history of the computer arts in Australia.
email: sjones@culture.com.au
Hannah
Lewi and Emma Willimanson
Dr Hannah Lewi is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture, School of Architecture,
Construction and Planning, Curtin University of Technology. She is a practicing
architect and her research areas include theories of place-making, heritage
interpretation and the conservation of twentieth century architecture.
lewih@arch.curtin.edu.au
Emma Williamson is a Lecturer in Interior Architecture, School of Architecture,
Construction and Planning, Curtin University of Technology. She is a practicing
architect and her research areas include architectural and furniture history,
and theories of collage.
They were both grant holders and authors of the CD-ROM project.
williame@exchange.curtin.edu.au
Jun
Lim
Academic Record
1989-1992 Awarded Diploma in Applied Arts
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
1994-1995 Awarded Bachelor of Fine Arts
University of Tasmania at Launceston, Australia
1995-1996 Awarded Bachelor of Fine Arts Hon’s (First Class)
University of Tasmania at Launceston, Australia
1998-current Ph.D. Fine Arts candidate
University of Tasmania at Hobart, Australia
Arts
Awards & Exhibitions
1997 Philip Morris Group of Companies Asean Art Awards & Exhibition
Caldwell House Gallery, Chijmes, Singapore
1997 Honours Exhibition
Gallery A, University of Tasmania, Australia
2000 Between Thoughts Exhibition
Fine Arts Gallery, Sandy Bay, Hobart, Australia
2000 The 19th Uob Painting of the Year Awards & Exhibition
Uob Building, Singapore
2000 Singapore Art Awards 2000 & Exhibition
ARTrium@MITA, Singapore
2001 OAME-Self-Spacing and Transforming Exhibition
Oriental City, London, United Kingdom
2001 Insula Exhibition
Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2001 The 20th Uob Painting of the year Awards & Exhibition
Uob Building, Singapore
2002 Academy Alumni Exhibition
Academy Gallery, Launceston, Australia
Kieran
Lyons
Kieran Lyons is a lecturer in Interactive Art and Fine Art, Contemporary
Media at the School of Art Media and Design at the University of Wales Newport,
South Wales. He is currently studying for his Ph.D with CAiiA-STAR. His
subject deals with the 'Jura-Paris Road', an episode in the early career
of Marcel Duchamp which seems to have interesting things to say about early
twentieth century thinking about prosthetic extensions of the body as well
as the relationship of mind to body. Ongoing projects can be seen on http://www.onnos.com/kieran/index.html
k.lyons@1649.ndo.co.uk
Maria
Mencia
Maria Mencia is a London based artist/researcher, of Spanish nationality,
born in Caracas-Venezuela.
She is currently doing a Fine Art Practice based PhD at Chelsea College
of Art & Design-The London Institute -London- UK
Title: From Visual Poetry to Digital Art: An exploration of new communicative
systems formed by text as a visual, semantic and aural element in the production
of meaning using digital technologies.
She was awarded an AHRB (Arts & Humanities Research Board) grant in
Nov.2000 towards her doctorate studies and has received other awards such
as The Year of the Artist Award- by the London Arts Board.
She exhibits and has performed nationally and internationally: Spain, England,
Belgium, Holland, USA, Germany, Norway and Cuba. She has presented and published
some papers and translations.
She works as an Artist Educator and Visiting Art Lecturer in galleries,
art centres, schools, art colleges and media centres, she is co-founder
of IDEA (Innovation and Development in Educational Art). Main activities
involve running workshops and residencies with educational groups and TAL
(Community Arts Organisation established in February 2000, runs and employs
other artist in art education projects.
She is a member of the research project: The Integration of Computers within
Fine Art Practice. Camberwell and Chelsea Colleges of Art- London-UK
http:// www.m.mencia.freeuk.com
m.mencia@freeuk.com
Armando
Montilla
Armando Montilla, Jr. is a Venezuelan architect and theorist with professional
formation and work experience in Canada and the US. He participated in the
last Caiia-Consciousness Reframed 2000 Conference, and since that year has
done post-graduate research work at the Architectural Association in London
and at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (in Dessau, Germany) where he participated
in the Bauhaus Kolleg Research Program in 2001. His paper at the Caiia 2002
Conference is a result of his work there. He has also completed a novel
(IDENTI*-Park, 2002) on corporate trans-nationalism, privatization of city
space and urban entertainment; and is currently finishing his PhD Thesis
at the Human Geography Dept. of the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona,
Spain (UAB), on the creation of extrapolated German suburbs in insular regions
of Spain. He's founder and head of CO-LATERAL (Laboratory for Advanced Experimental
and Radical Theory of Latin America), an urban and social theory research
group out of Caracas, Venezuela. His e-mail is amontilla@co-lateral.org.ve
Gunalan
Nadarajan
Gunalan Nadarajan is an art theorist, curator and writer who has written
and lectured extensively on contemporary art, architecture and cyberculture
both locally and internationally. He published a book, Ambulations,
based on the notion of walking, in 2000 and is contributing a chapter on
‘transgenic ornaments’ for a book on art and biotechnology by
MIT Press (2003). He is also corresponding editor to Contemporary
and contributing writer to Moscow Art Magazine. He has curated several
major exhibitions including Topographies (1998), Ambulations
(1999), Cyberarts: Intersections of Art and Technology (2001) and
180kg (2002). Gunalan is contributing curator for mediacity 2002,
a new media art biennial in Seoul Korea. He serves as Co-Chair of the Electronic
Theatre for GRAPHITE 2003, the SIGGRAPH Regional conference to be held in
Melbourne. He is involved in several ongoing research and curatorial projects
in contemporary painting, curatorial strategies, architecture, art and biology,
robotic arts, net interfaces, and gaming. In addition to being the Dean
of the Faculty of Visual Arts, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore,
Gunalan is also the founding Director of the newly established Intermedia
Lab, an interdisciplinary research lab at the college.
Brigita
Ozolins
Brigita Ozolins is a PhD candidate at the Tasmanian School of Art, University
of Tasmania, where she also teaches art and design theory part-time. She
has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions since the mid 1990's,
focusing on installations that explore the relationships between language
knowledge and identity. Brigita recently returned from an Australia Council
studio residency in London. She lives and works in Hobart. E-mail: bozolins@utas.edu.au.
URL:
www.utas.edu.au/web_pages/research_postgrad/brigita_ozolins.html
Simone
Paterson
Simone Paterson is a multimedia installation and performance artist who
uses the computer as a creative tool. Her objective as an artist is to produce
art for cyberspace, and the real world, that does not reconstitute the dominant
paradigm.
Exhibiting since 1990 her work has been shown across Australia in both city
and regional areas. As the recipient of The NSW Traveling Art prize in 1995
she has exhibited in Italy and more recently in The United States of America.
In 2002 her work has been included in the ‘Fear/Fun’ multimedia
festival at Western Michigan University and featured in ‘(sic) but
true’ a multimedia exhibition at The University of Sydney, Sydney College
of The Arts.
Currently Simone is a PhD candidate at The University of Newcastle, NSW
Australia and teacher of multimedia at The Hunter Institute, TAFE NSW, Australia.
simonep@mail.newcastle.edu.au
www.bimboborg.org
Mike
Phillips
Mike Phillips: is the director of i-DAT [The Institute of Digital Art and
Technology], and deputy director of STAR [Science Technology Arts Research],
one half of the CAiiA-STAR integrated research programme, at the University
of Plymouth. Following a BA (Hons) in Fine Art - 4D, a scholarship to the
University of Massachusetts he completed postgraduate studies in experimental
media at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Operating collaboratively across
the digital domains of pre-WWW global computer-networking and tele/kine/audio-matic
performance/installation/object [such as 'UK EAT88' and Donald Rodney -
ICA/TSWA 4 Cities/'Psalms' Autonomous Wheelchair], Phillips initiated and
coordinated the BSc (Hons) MediaLab Arts Programme [1992] with the support
of Macromedia. More recently he founded the On-Line MSc Digital Futures
programme and is now overseeing the development i-DAT. Private and public
sector grant funded R&D orbits digital architectures, transmedia publishing
and generative media. Recent projects include Autoicon (inIVA), STI Project
(The Search for Terrestrial Intelligence - SciArt), 'Artefact' (V&A)
and the 'Cybrid' architectural operating system [currently being integrated
into the new Peninsula Medical School]. These projects and other work can
be found on the i-DAT web site at: http://www.i-dat.org.
Michael
Punt
Michael Punt is Deputy Director of the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the
Interactive Arts (CAiiA). He is also Editor in Chief of Leonardo Digital
Reviews a member of the Leonardo/ISATS Advisory Board, and the MIT/Leonardo
Book Series Committee. He teaches Film Studies in the School of Art Media
and Design at the University of Wales College, Newport. He has made 15 films
and published over fifty articles on cinema and digital media in the last
decade including "CD Rom: Radical Nostalgia". His recent publications
include a book-length study on early cinema, (Early Cinema and the Technological
Imaginary) and articles on cinema history and digital technology for
The Velvet Light Trap, Leonardo, 'Design Issues' and 'Convergence',
which have been translated into five languages. Between 1996 and 2000 he
was a regular contributor to 'Skrien', a Dutch journal of film and television
criticism, where he wrote a monthly column on cinema, art and the Internet.
His most recent book, in collaboration with Robert Pepperell, The Post-Digital
Membrane: imagination, technology and desire, was published by Intellect
Books in 2000. Its associated webpage is at www.postdigital.org. His essay
'More Sign than Star: Diana, Death and the Internet', is published in Stars
in Our Eyes - the Star Phenomenon in the Contemporary Era, edited by
Angela Ndalianis, (Westport: Praeger, 2002). His most recent article for
Leonardo 35 (2) is an editorial on The Postdigital Analogue and Human Consciousness,
and his ongoing project, the transdisciplinary wunderkammer, is at www.extraordinaryconnections.org
Melinda
Rackham
Melinda Rackham (melinda@subtle.net)
has been working online since the mid 1990’s in her domain http://www.subtle.net
. Her net.art sites and poetical/theoretical texts have investigated online
identity, locality, sexuality and community; viral symbiosis and trans-species
relations; and the nature and construction of Virtual Space. She publishes
online and in print, and shows in major Australian and International Museums
and Festivals. Rackham is currently completing a PhD in Virtual Media at
College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia, and is the
facilitator of -empyre- media arts mailing list.
Paul
Sermon
Research Centre for Art & Design, The University of Salford, Greater
Manchester, UK
Email: p.sermon@salford.ac.uk
URL: http://www.artdes.salford.ac.uk/sermon
Born in Oxford, England, 1966. Studied BA Hon's Fine Art degree under Professor
Roy Ascott at The University of Wales, from September 1985 to June 1988.
Studied a Post-graduate MFA degree at The University of Reading, England,
from October 1989 to June 1991. Awarded the Prix Ars Electronica "Golden
Nica", in the category of interactive art, for the hyper media installation
"Think about the People now", in Linz, Austria, September 1991.
Produced the ISDN videoconference installation "Telematic Vision"
as an Artist in Residence at the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM)
in Karlsruhe, Germany, from February to November 1993. Received the "Sparkey
Award" from the Interactive Media Festival in Los Angeles, for the
telepresent video installation "Telematic Dreaming", June 1994.
From 1993 to 1999 employed as Dozent for Media Art at the HGB Academy of
Visual Arts in Leipzig, Germany. During this time I continued to produced
further interactive telematic installations including "Telamatic Encounter"
in 1996 and "The Tables Turned" in 1997 for the Ars Electronica
Centre in Linz, and the ZKM Media Museum in Karlsruhe. From 1997 to 2001
I was employed as Guest Professor for Performance and Environment at the
University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria. Since June 2000
I have been based at The University of Salford working primarily within
the research field of immersive and expanded telematic environments.
Diana
Slattery
As Associate Director of the Academy of Electronic Media, Diana Slattery
researches, designs, and produces highly interactive,
game-like multimedia environments for education, entertainment, and the
arts. Her Ph.D. research in visual language and interactive narrative
informs the developing Glide project, http://www.academy.rpi.edu/glide,
which has been shown at 7th Biennial Symposium on Art & Technology
at Connecticut College, March, 1999; IEEE Symposium on Visual Language,
Tokyo, 1999; FILE Art festival, Sao Paulo Brazil, 2001; Technopoetry Festival
at Georgia Tech in April, 2002; Electronic Literature Organization Symposium,
Los Angeles, April, 2002; ICM Hypertext 2002, Baltimore, June, 2002. Online
publications include Journal of Postmodern Culture ("Alphaweb: A Poetry
Hypertext"), Riding the Meridian ("Glide: An Interactive Exploration
of Visual Language").
Her short story collection Bizarre Births (Georgia Review, Spring '88) received
the following recognition: included in Georgia Review's finalist entry for
the National Magazine Award, Honorable Mention: Pushcart Prize, Honorable
Mention: The Best American Short Stories, and named as a finalist for the
Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction. The Maze Game, a novel of speculative
fiction in which the Glide language began, is forthcoming from Deep Listening
Publicationsin Fall, 2002.
Chris
Speed
Chris Speed is currently a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Interactive
Media at STAR, at the Institute of Digital Arts and Technology, at the University
of Plymouth, UK. His research manifests itself as conference papers, book
contributions, artworks and industrial commissions. Recent conferences presentations
include ISEA2000, Paris and Habitus: a sense of place, Perth. He won a British
Telecom prize for the development of an interface for the representation
of communities on the internet which was presented at the Community of the
Future conference in Siena in 1999. Book contributions include Temporal
Navigation in Emergent Futures, Art, Interactivity and New Media (Institucio
Alfons al Magnanim, 2000), Looking at the Looking Clock in Problems of Participation
and Connection (University of Amsterdam, 2001). Recent exhibitions include
co-curating and editing V01D: digital architectures exhibition and book,
(Plymouth Arts Centre 2001), a video commission in Summer 2001 for FACT
which has since been shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival and Ars Electronica.
Speed has just completed a solo VRML show at the Variable-D gallery, distributed
in Flux magazine and a new film OSpaceLapse_ has recently been completed
for a US Arts DVD entitled OToc_ and should appear soon. Chris is currently
on an Artists residency programme in Auckland, New Zealand.
Shigeki
Sugiyama
BSc from Kogakuin University in 1977 and Dr. Eng. from Gifu University in
2001. I have had a year stay at Oxford Brookes University and Manchester
University, and a short stay at MIT for studying engineering and math.
Since 1980, I have been working as a researcher for Local Government of
Gifu mainly, and more than 30 papers have been presented at the conferences
of IEEE, SPIE, etc. in the fields of Control, AI, Neural Networks, and consciousness
fields.
Melanie
Swalwell
Melanie Swalwell teaches cultural studies at the University of Technology,
Sydney. She has recently submitted her PhD, which was broadly concerned
with some of the intersections between the senses, technology, and affect.
She can be reached at
melanie.swalwell@uts.edu.au
Grant
Taylor and Nick Lowe
Grant Taylor and Nick Lowe are PhD candidates at the University of Western
Australia. Grant is researching digital art and new media theory at the
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts. Nick’s research
focuses on real-time portal-based rendering and is maintained through the
Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering. Grant currently
directs The Digital Craft, a group formed for both theorising and constructing
interactive digital arts, and Nick is a founding member of 60hz, the real-time
rendering group within his department. Nick and Grant are currently collaborating
on a number of art projects utilising new media theory, computer vision,
image-based rendering, and portal rendering techniques. Grant and Nick can
be reached at gdtaylor@cyllene.uwa.edu.au,
and nickl@cs.uwa.edu.au respectively. The 60Hz website resides at http://60hz.cs.uwa.edu.au
Lenara Verle
Lenara Verle is an artist and researcher in the field of net art and collaborative
art.
Since 1994, she has been a participant in the award-winning group Sito Electronic
Arts (www.sito.org - receiver of the Prix Ars Electronica in 1996 for the
collaborative project HyGrid).
She also participated in collaborative art exhibits in Rome, Italy; Porto
Alegre, Brazil; Montreal, Canada; New York and Los Angeles, USA.
During Summer 2000 she was UNESCO-ASCHBERG resident artist at the art and
technology research center CAiiA+STAR, England (www.caiia-star.net)
Lenara is currently studying at the New School, New York, as CAPES/APARTES
Young Artist Grant Lauriat 2001.
www.lenara.com
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My official picture can be found at:
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Victoria
Vesna
Victoria Vesna is an artist, professor and Chair of the Department of Design
| Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts. Her work can be defined as
experimental research that resides in between disciplines and technologies.
She explores how communication technologies effect collective behavior and
how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation.
Currently she is co-director with Katherine Hayles of SINAPSE, a center
that promotes transdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Her most recent
commissioned project, "n0time http://notime.arts.ucla.edu/"
(Building a Community of People with No Time) is part of an ongoing traveling
exhibit, ‘telematic connections: the virtual embrace’. Other recent
works are Bodies INCorporated http://www.bodiesinc.ucla.edu/,
a large networked collaborative project and Datamining Bodies http://notime.arts.ucla.edu/mining.
Victoria has exhibited her work in 16 solo exhibitions, over 70 group shows,
published 20 papers and gave over 100 invited talks in the last ten years.
She is recipient of many grants, commissions and awards, including the Oscar
Signorini award for best net artwork in 1998 and the Cine Golden Eagle for
best scientific documentary in 1986. Vesna's work has received notice in
publications such as Art in America, the Los Angeles Times, as well as Spiegel
(Germany), The Irish Times (Ireland), Tema Celeste (Italy), and Veredas
(Brazil).
Ron
Wakkary
Ron earned graduate and undergraduate degrees from the Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design and from the State University of New York at
Stoney Brook. He is currently an Associate Professor in Information Technology
& Interactive Arts at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Previously,
he was the Academic Dean at the Technical University of British Columbia
where he led the development of the Interactive Arts programs, and the university’s
academic planning of the graduate and undergraduate programs. Before returning
to Canada in 1999, he founded in 1995,the pioneering art web site, Stadium
and, a leading web development company oo-design in New York City. In addition,
he was faculty of the Digital Design Department at Parsons School of Design,
and developed digital arts technology projects for the Museum of Modern
Art, the Dia Center for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Museum. In Canada,
he has lead initiatives for interactive arts research policies and projects.
He is the director of the then/else Interactivity Research Centre. Currently
he is part of an international research project with the Nokia Research
Centre in Tampere, Finland, on gossip and mobile/online games. Ron was recently
appointed to the Canadian Culture Online National Advisory Board, to advise
the Minister of Heritage Canada, and he is the Chair of the Standards Sub-Committee.
Meredith
Walsh
Meredith Walsh is currently artist in residence at the Virtual Environments
Laboratory, Mathematical and Information Sciences, CSIRO in Canberra. She
is also currently doing a PhD on new media with the Humanties Research Centre
at the Australian National University.
Meredith also has a Master of Letters in Gender Studies from the University
of Sydney and Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) from Sydney College of the
Arts.
Malin
Zimm
Malin Zimm is working as a PhD researcher in Architecture since July 2000
at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, where she started her
education in 1991. After interim studies of fine arts and furniture design,
she moved to London in 1997 and completed her diploma in architecture in
1999 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and shortly thereafter
got her architecture exam at the Royal Institute of Technology, presenting
a final project entitled "the Synesthetic Mediator". The project
was awarded a national grant, "Skapande Människa 2000", for
outstanding cross-disciplinary work in the realm of art and science. Zimm
has been working as an architect in Stockholm, as well as production designer
for two long films and co-tutoring diploma units at the Royal Institute
of Technology. Alongside ongoing research, she works as freelance writer
for Swedish architect magazines, and runs her company RAMraid (Radiant Architecture
and Media) for design and media assignments. She has participated in various
art and product design exhibitions since 1994, with work focusing on undermining
familiar concepts of space and products. In her research, she will be looking
further into the field of spatial perception and distortion, and the role
of architecture in parallel realities.
