Organisers and Moderators

Alessandro Ludovico (IT)
Is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine from 1993, (Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2004). He is the author of: 'Virtual Reality Handbook' (1992), 'Internet Underground.Guide' (1995), 'Suoni Futuri Digitali' (Future Digital Sounds, 2000) and co-edited 'Mag.Net Reader' (2006). He's one of the founding contributors of the Nettime community and one of the founders of the 'Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers organization). He is also an advisor for the Documenta 12's Magazine Project. He teaches 'Computer Art' and 'Interface Aesthetics' at the Academy of Art in Carrara. Since 2005 he collaborates with Ubermorgen and P.Cirio on projects such as 'Google Will Eat Itself' (Honorary Mention Prix Ars Electronica 2005, Rhizome Commission 2005, nomination Prix Transmediale 2006) and 'Amazon Noir' (1st prize Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2007, Honorary Mention Share Prize 2007) projects.

http://neural.it
http://magnet-ecp.org

Nat Muller (NL)
Is an independent curator and critic based in Rotterdam. She has held previous positions as project curator at V2_, Institute for Unstable Media (Rotterdam) and De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics (Amsterdam). Her main interests include: the intersections of aesthetics, media and politics; (new) media and art in the Middle East. She has published articles in off- and online media; is a regular contributor for Springerin, and has given presentations on the subject of (new) media art (inter)nationally. Her latest projects include The Trans_European Picnic - The Art and Media of Accession (Novi Sad, 2004), DEAF_04: Affective Turbulence: The Art of Open Systems (Rotterdam, 2004); INFRA_ctures (Rotterdam, 2005), Xeno_Sonic: a series of experimental sound performances from the Middle East (Amsterdam, 2005), DEAF07 (Rotterdam, 2007), and she has curated many video screenings for projects and festivals in a.o. Amsterdam, Berlin, New York, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Grimstad and Beirut. She recently co-edited the Mag.net2 Reader: Between Paper and Pixel with Alessandro Ludovico. She is co-initiator of the Upgrade! Amsterdam, and has taught at the Willem de Kooning Academy (NL) and at the Lebanese American University in Beirut (LB).

Participants

Simon Worthington (UK)
Is co-director and co-founder of the cyberculture magazine Mute and Mute organisation, London, and has been involved in various projects with the latter. In addition he is co-founder of 'Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers organization).
http://www.metamute.org

Régine Debatty (BE/DE)
Writes about the intersection between art, design and technology on her blog we-make-money-not-art.com as well as on design and art magazines. She also curates new media art shows and lectures internationally on the subject of artists, hackers and interaction designers (mis)use of technology.
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/

Miren Eraso (ES)
Is currently head of the Arteleku Publications and Documentation Centre in San Sebastián and the editor in chief of Zehar, a contemporary art magazine that she has been running since 1995. She has published articles in a large number of specialist magazines  n.paradoxa, Papers d’Art, Third Text, etc.art catalogues and other written media. She is founder member of mag.net, Magazine Network of Electronic Cultural Publishers
http://www.arteleku.net/

Christina McPhee (US)
Explores place, environmental disturbance, architecture and traumatic memory in a practice that moves through video, installation, drawing, photography, environmental sound and networked media. La Conchita mon amour, on shrine building in the aftermath of a California mudslide, opened at Sara Tecchia Roma New York in 2006, and continues in 2007 with video installations for Thresholds Art Space, Perth (Scotland) and Break Festival 2.4, Ljubjana. On ‘seismic memory’, her Carrizo Parkfield Diaries, has shown at the American University Museum, InteractivA07 Biennial, Cartes Centre for Art and Technology, Bildmuseet, Itaù Cultural Centers, and the Pacific Film Archive. A new video installation on the sublime and datascape at Bonneville Salt Flats is commissioned for the Split Film Festival, September 2007. Online her work appears with Turbulence, VIROSE, CTheory, Neural, Drunkenboat, Soundtoys and elsewhere. For -empyre- network, Sydney she is a moderator/editor since 2002.
http://www.subtle.net/empyre
http://christinamcphee.net
http://strikeslip.tv

Patricia Canetti (BR)
Multimedia artist, founded Canal Contemporâneo, digital community emerged in 2001 and focuses on contemporary art in Brazil. By setting up this mediatic environment, it disseminates information, knowledge and debate on contemporary art, at the same time that it mobilizes cultural policies. Since 2002, Canal Contemporâneo has been efficient in promoting tactical media strategies involving art professionals, institutions, media, and government in several causes.
http://www.canalcontemporaneo.art.br/

José-Carlos Mariátegui (PE/UK)
Born in Scientist (combined degree of Biology and Mathematics, MSc on Information Systems) and media theorist. Founding member of Alta Tecnología Andina a non-for-profit organization for the development and research of artistic and scientific theories in Latin America. Founder of the VAE Festival in Lima Has taught, researched and published extensively on the themes of art, science, technology and society. Curator of several international exhibitions of media art such as: “Nueva/Vista: Videokunst aus Lateinamerica”; “ViaSatelite”; “Videografias In(visibles)” Acts as a node in the Tester project He is currently a PhD student of Information Systems at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) working on the consequences of information growth and the internet on organizations. Lives in London, UK.
www.ata.org.pe
www.festivalvae.com
www.viasateliteperu.org
www.videografiasinvisibles.org
www.e-tester.net

Jaime Iregui (CO)
Assistant professor at Los Andes University in Bogotá, Magíster in History and Theory of Art and Architecture, National University. He has exhibited his work in Colombia and internationally since 1985. He has founded with other artists independent artistic spaces of exhibition and discussion like Magma (1985-87), Gaula (1990-91), Tandem (1993-98), Void space (1997-2003) and Public Sphere (1997-2006). He won the National Scholarship of Creation of Colcultura 1994. was nominated for the Prize Luis Caballero 2001. Invited to participate in the “First International Encounter of Independent Spaces”, Marseille, France, 2002. The “Trama Encounter” in Buenos Aires, Argentine, 2005, and Documenta 12 Magazine project. Currently he is editor of Esfera Publica and Coordinator of the Cultural Projects Area of the Art Department in Los Andes University.
http://www.esferapublica.org/

Fran Ilich (MX)
Is a writer and media artist. Author of the novels Metro-Pop & Tekno Guerrilla. Has participated in events and venues such as Berlinale Talent Campus, Walker Art Center, ARCO, MEIAC, Big Torino, Berlin Beta, Bananaram, Streaming Cinema festival, Salón Internacional de Arte Digital de La Habana, Antídoto (Seminario Internacional de Açôes Culturais em zonas de Conflito), Interactive Frictions, Pro Helvetia (Fondo de las artes de Suiza), Ars Electronica, Transmediale & World Social Forum Nairobi, among others in America, Asia & Europe. He was editor at large of the magazine Sputnik Cultura Digital, screenwriter for Interacción (Discovery Channel) and researcher for Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes de México. He directed the festivals Cinemátik 1.0 (1st cyberculture festival in latinamerica, & Borderhack. He also was co-organizer of the Make World festival (Munich) with Florian Schneider and others, and curator of the electronic music programme at the 2nd Festival Diego Rivera y Feria de las Disqueras Independientes. He colaborated with Bostich (now part of the Nortec Collective) during the 90s and was a member of Bootlab (Berlin). He's also founder of the Spanish/Portuguese mailing list Nettime-lat. He was also editor of Rhizome for Mexico. He's now a student of Latinamerican studies at Alliant International University, and runs the autonomous cooperative server Possible Worlds which he launched as a project for the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional.
http://possibleworlds.org

Nebojsa Vilic (MK)
Lectures as associate professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia. His professional interest varies from art criticism, through theory of art, to the theoretical interpretations of digital arts and the subaltern position of the cultures of the third world. He has curated over 50 exhibitions in Macedonia and abroad and participated in over 30 international conferences and symposia. He is editor-in-chief of the international journal Concrete Reflection. His current research under the topic Political Art, isrelated to the position of the arts with relation with/within/by/in behalf of societal community.