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Andreas
Angelidakis
Andreas Angelidakis: Born in Athens, Greece in 1968,and lives in New York
City.He holds a masters in Architectural Design from Columbia University, and maintains
an office at www.angelidakis.com
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Kathy
Brew
Kathy Brew's
career epitomizes the notion of BLUR, where her multi-faceted
involvements continue to blur into one another. In the wake
of the September 11th tragedy, Brew recently concluded her
five-year tenure as the first Director of Thundergulch.
She is currently morphing into many art/tech/media activities,
including: Curatorial Committee of Eyebeam; Adjunct faculty
at the School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Arts department
and NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program; Series
Consultant/Curator for upcoming season of Reel NY, WNET/Thirteen's
series for independent film/video makers. She is an award-winning
videomaker, whose experience spans experimental work to
independent documentaries. She has recently sat on media
panels for the Jerome Foundation and the New York State
Council on the Arts, and has also written on media and contemporary
art for publications and catalogs.
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Natalie
Bookchin
Natalie Bookchin is an artist who works with the Internet, computer games
and other popular media. She will be releasing her newest project, "MetaPet"
on May' Day, 2002. "Metapet" is an online computer game about a transgenic
human pet produced with her collective "Action Tank"" and commissioned by
Creative Time, NY and co-produced with Hamaca, Barcelona. Her previous game project, "The
Intruder", can be played at http://calarts.edu/~bookchin/intruder. In
1999-2000 Bookchin organized , an eight month series of
lectures and workshops on art, activism and the Internet at CalArts, MOCA in
LA, and Laboratorio Cinematek in Tijuana. From 1998 to 2000 she was a member
of the collective (r)TMark. She is currently a 2001-2002 Guggenheim Fellow and
a faculty member at CalArts in Los Angeles.
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Maureen Boucher
Principal, Supermanblue, design studio; MFA Design and Technology Candidate,
Parsons School of Design.
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Dawnja Burris
Assistant Chair, The New School Department of Communication, Indpendent Media Producer.
(M.A., New School University) In her professional work, she applies photography, film, and electronic media to marketing, consulting, entertainment, and performance projects.Ý Her research interests are centered around the philosophy of communication, with particular focus on virtual relations and embodied technologies. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in communication at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.
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Ted
Byfield
Ted Byfield
is a faculty member of the Parsons School of Design, co-moderator
of the nettime mailing list, co-editor of ICANN Watch, and
the 2002 Journalism fellow of the Design trust for Public
Space.
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Michael
Century
Michael Century has contributed to the cultural scene in Canada and internationally
as a specialist in art and technology, an educational administrator,
lecturer, writer, musical performer and composer, and software researcher.
Long associated with The Banff Centre for the Arts, Century founded the
Centre's Media Arts Division in 1988.
At the Centre for Information Technology Innovation from 1993-96 in Montreal,
he led an interdisciplinary group researching new online cultural genres.
He has been a consultant on cultural policy relating to new technologies
to the federal government of Canada, and a variety of foundations,
universities and arts councils. A musician by training, he has composed
works for improvising ensembles and interactive electronics. http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~mcentury
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Robert
Chang
Robert Chang
is the President and Founder of F+T, a strategic technology
consulting organization focused on building socially responsible
new ventures and nonprofit organizations. He is also an
adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design. Mr. Chang
has recently worked in senior management for several technology
companies developing visualization, knowledge management,
streaming media, Web services, and multimedia applications.
His most recent position was as Vice President, Strategic
Initiatives for Thinkmap. Mr. Chang currently advises several
nonprofit organizations as a board member including the
Alliance for Nonprofit Governance, New York Chinese Cultural
Center, Shakespeare Project, and Space One Eleven.
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Vuk
Cosic
Retired
net.artist and ascii artist. Born in 1966 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Currently lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Best known as internet
art pioneer and author of numerous net.art projects. Lecturer,
writer and curator,exhibited, published and curated internationally.
creative director Literal Information Technologies, Co founder
of Nettime, Syndicate, 7-11 and Ljubljana Digital Media
Lab. Most notable venues include: Venice Biennale, Walker
Center, Minneapolis; Postmasters, NYC; Kunsthalle, Vienna;
Stedelijk, Amsterdam; LAMoCA, LA; ICA, London; ZKM, Karlsruhe;
Beaubourg, Paris.
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Chris Csiksentmihalyi
Christopher
Paul Csikszentmihalyi (MFA UC San Diego, BFA Art Institute
of Chicago) is Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
at the MIT Media Lab. He has worked in the intersection
of new technologies, media, and the arts for 10 years --
lecturing, showing new media work, and presenting installations
in both Europe and North America.
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Stephanie
Davenport
Stephanie Davenport
is a communications professional with corporate sponsorship
p.r. and management experience from Philip Morris and France
Telecom North America, both in New York. She is currently
working as a consultant to France Telecom on the further
development of the company's sponsorship program that focuses
on art and technology projects, most notably the Internet
art initiatives at the Whitney Museum (net art included
in the 2000 and 2002 Biennial Exhibitions as well as the
museum's first-ever all-Internet exhibition Data Dynamics).
She is also preparing a masters degree in Comparative Media
Studies at MIT.
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Sara
Diamond
Sara Diamond
is an award winning television and new media producer/director,
video artist, curator, critic, researcher, teacher and artistic
director. Born in New York City, Diamond has resided in
Western Canada and has represented Canada at home and internationally
for many years. She is currently the Artistic Director,
Media and Visual Arts and Executive Producer, Television
and New Media at The Banff Centre for the Arts. In recent
years Diamond has worked increasingly with research and
development projects in software, has consulted in developing
interactive media curriculum and events and has created
think tanks that bring together cultural industries, new
media content producers, artists and investors. The Co-Production,
CCII, and Deep Web projects that she has initiated at The
Banff Centre for the Arts have resulted in key international
projects in television and interactive media. Diamond programs
new media events for the prestigious Banff Television Festival
and develops the extensive Banff New Media Institute at
The Banff Centre.
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Ricardo
Dominguez
Ricardo Dominguez
is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT),
the group that developed Virtual-Sit In technologies in
1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas,
Mexico. He is Senior Director of THE THING (bbs.thing.net).
Ricardo, also, edited EDT's forthcoming book "Hacktivism:
network_art_activism", (Autonomedia Press).
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Jane
Farver
Jane Farver, Director, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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Alexander R. Galloway
Alexander R. Galloway is an artist and computer programmer. He is the
creator of Carnivore, a networked surveillance tool that will open at
the New Museum in May. Alex's first book, "PROTOCOL, or, How Control
Exists After Decentralization," will appear next year from The MIT
Press.
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Blake Goble
Blake M. Goble (M.Arch., Columbia University 1993, B.S., Arizona State University 1988)
Is a practicing architect in New York City. His firm, Collaborative Office, concentrates on diverse projects: built work,
competitions and theoretical exercises. Collaborative Office explores space, its representations, its cultural and psychological
subtexts and its power to both physically connect bodies or territories and construct metaphoric relationships. Blake is an instructor
at the New School and is a frequent review jurist at Columbia University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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Kathy
Goncharov
Kathleen Goncharov
is Public Art Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center
where she oversees MIT's Percent-for- Art Program. Current
projects include work by Jenny Holzer, Dan Graham, Jorge
Pardo, Matthew Ritchie, Andea Zittel, and others for buildings
designed by architects Steven Holl, Kevin Roche, Frank Gehry,
and Charles Correa. Goncharov was formerly Curator of the New School University Art Collection where she served for thirteen
years.
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Carl
Goodman
Carl Goodman is Curator of Digital Media and Director of New Media Projects at the American Museum of the Moving Image, where he oversees the Museum's use and study of computer-based media and technology. ÝThe Museum is widely recognized for its inventive computer-based exhibits in Behind the Screen, an 8,000 square-foot exhibition exploring the craft and technology of motion picture and television production. A traveling version of the exhibition, funded by the National Science Foundation, is currently touring throughout the United States. Also at the Museum is "Expanded Entertainment," an exhibition on the history of videogames and computer-based play. ÝProjects initiated by Goodman include eDocent, a portable, wireless information system for use in the Museum's galleries, and The Living Room Candidate, which provides online access to and analysis of the first fifty years of presidential campaign commercials. Launching in mid-2002 will be The Pinewood Dialogues, a searchable online audio and video archive consisting of recorded and indexed presentations by important filmmakers. ÝCarl also conducts a continuing seminar series on the creative aspects of digital media, which plays host to new media professionals, artists, engineers, and scientists. ÝOutside of the Museum, Carl sits on the Board of Directors of the arts organizations Creative Time and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center.
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Amanda
Gould
Amanda Gould, BA Graphic Design, BA Philosophy, North Carolina State
University; MA Media Studies, New School University; principal and
founder of Studio Firefly --a design firm specializing in interactive and
identity design.
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Marc Greene
Seeking Synthesis: graphic designer, painter, musician, contemplative.
Faculty member The New School, Curriculum Coordinator Web Design
Certificate and Acting Program Coordinator for Distributed Learning.
Groups shows at Kentler International Drawing Sapce, Naional Arts Club,
and Bronx River Arts Gallery. Formerly principal Designs for Humanity,
specializing in communication design for non-profit and social action
groups, including YWCA of the USA and Zen Peacemaker Organization.
Graphic artist OfficialRamones.com.
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Nathon
Gunn
Bitcasters' president Nathon Gunn began
his career in new media in 1983 programming computer games and animation in India.
In 1986 he developed innovative new morphing computer animations while living in Malaysia.
At 16, after founding a small profitable video production business and releasing a
shareware computer game. From this early start, Gunn continues to work with broadcast
and entertainment companies to define and launch their interactive and Internet strategies
in Canada and the US. In 2000 Universal Music Group hired Bitcasters to develop the player
interface, branding, and web initiative of BlueMatter -- the first major-label secure digital
music distribution initiative. He is an advisor to the Charles R. Bronfman Foundation/Historica.
Clients have included Walt Disney, Universal, Miramax, Government of Canada, Chum Ltd.
(Citytv/MuchMusic/Bravo!/Space), BMG, Sony Music and many others.
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