Biographies




Art Technology Group was founded in 1991 by two MIT graduates, Joseph Chung and Jeet Singh, with the mission of designing and developing revolutionary content and tachnology for the emerging new media industry. ATG designs entertainment, educational and artistic works and develops the hardware and software systems necessary to implement those designs.

Edouard Bannwart was born in 1943 in Zürich. Studied architecture at the ETH Zürich, Academy of Fine Arts and the TU Berlin (urban planning). He has had his own architecture and urban planning office since 1975 and has also taught at various universities. He is currently the acting Chairman of the board for ART&COM.

Manuel Delanda was born in 1952 in Mexico City and has lived in Manhattan since 1975. He is author of the book "War in the Age of Intelligent Machines" and " Phylum: a Thousand Years of Nonlinear History".

Peter Eisenman studied architecture at Cornell University, Columbia University, the University of Cambridge and the University of Illinois, Chicago. He has designed a wide range of prototypical projects including large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions and a series of inventive private houses. Among his completed projects: the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts and Fine Arts Library at Ohio State University in Columbus, the Nunotani Corporation Building and the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation in Tokyo.

Kay Friedrichs is an architect with his own architecture and consulting agency. He is the assistant for planning theory, EDV and CAD for urban planning and architecture at the department of architecture of the RWTH in Aachen; the acting director of the IFIB (Institue for industrial construction) at the University of Karlsruhe; research assistant and EDV/CAD lecturer at the Department of Architecture of the University of Karlsruhe.

Rich Gold is a composer who co-founded the League of Automatic Music Composers, the first network computer band. As an internationally known artist he invented the field of Algorithmic Symbolism. After working as a consultant in virtual reality he joined Xerox PARC, where he is now a researcher working on ubiquitous computing, an artist in residence program, tiny handheld devices and the philosophy of stuff.

Katharina Gsöllpointner Phd Born in 1959, she has been active in project organisation and public relations for various projects and institutions in the field of art and culture. She has contributed to countless publications on art, architecture and cuiture and is currently responsible for program management and organization for the Ars Electronica in Linz. She lives in Vienna and Linz.

Zaha M. Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad and studied in London. She has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Columbia University, and Princeton. Her most important projects have been the Art and Media center Rheinhafen, Düsseldorf; Vitra Firestation, Weil am Rhein; Spittelau project, Austria; and the Lord Palambo project, London.

Kathy Rae Huffman is a freelance curator and writer on media and contemporary art. Ms. Huffman was Curator/Producer of the Contemporary Art Television Fund. In 1987 she co-curated The Arts for Television. Since 1991 Ms. Huffman has lectured extensively on art videos, interactive TV, and the history of artists and teievision.

Toyo Ito was born in 1941 in Japan and studied architecture at Tokyo University. In 1971 he started his own studio. At present Toyo Ito is working on the Nagaoka Municipal Culture and Art Hall, Nigata and the Tsukuba Shouth Parking BuiIding, Ibaragi. He currently teaches at several universities in Japan and the USA.

Kei’ichie Irie was born in 1950 in Tokyo and studied architecture and fine arts at the university in Tokyo. He has realized several projects in Tokyo and participated in group exhibitions in Japan, Europe and the USA.

Toshio Iwai was born in 1962 in Japan. He graduated from the Plastic Art and Mixed Media Masters Course of the University of Tsukuba, Japan and in 1992 finished the Artist in Residence Program at the Exploratorium, San Francisco. He became a cult figure in Japan with his computer generated virtual sets for the science news show Einstein TV and his interactive childrens show for Fuji TV, Ugo Ugo Lhugo. He has had his own solo exhibitions and also taken part in group exhibitions in Japan, Canada, Australia and Europe.

Carole Ann Klonarides is an artist and the Media Arts Curator at The Long Beach Museum of Art in Long Beach, California. Klonarides has successfully combined her curatorial and artistic skills by curating exhibitions and then producing the exhibition catalog on video at the museum's state-of-the-art broadcast quality production facility.

Knowbotic Research uses information systems, communication networks, stores of knowledge and archives to dissect analyze them before reassembling them again: Sprachprogramm (1991), ping Operation pong with Friedrich KittIer (1992j, Archive (1992), hypervirus (1992).

Selim Koder studied architecture at Princeton University and at the American University of Beirut. He teaches at several universities, including Princeton University, Sophomore Design Studio and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is also the Director of Computer Graphics for Eisenman Architects and Michael Graves Architect.

Wolf D. Prix was born in 1942 in Vienna. He studied at the Technical University of Vienna, the Southern Californian Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles and the Architectural Association in London. In 1968 he founded, together with Helmut Swiczinsky, Coop Himmelblau in Vienna. Wolf D. Prix is Professor for the Masterclass for Architecture 3 at the University of Applied Art in Vienna, Junior Professor at Sci-Arc in Los Angeles and Visiting Professor at Harvard University in Massachusetts. He is living in Vienna and Los Angeles.

Marc Ries was born in 1956 in Luxembourg. He has done theoretical and conceptual work in the areas of new art/ art/ society. He lives in Vienna.

Howard Rheingold is the nation's leading authority on the fields of virtual reality and virtual communities – rapidly evolving technologies with profound implications for the business community. He is the author of the books "Virtual Reality" (1991) and "ToolIs for Thought" (1984).

Florian Rötzer was born in 1953 in Munich where he lives and works as a freelance writer.

Ken Sakamura is the Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo. Since 1984 he has been the leader of the TRON project and has made efforts to build new computer systems based on the TRON architecture. His design activities include those for electronic appliances, furniture, houses, buildings and urban planning.

Gerhard Schmitt was born 1953 in Mainz. He studied architecture in Munich, UCLA and Berkeley. He has taught at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and is currently Professor of Architecture and CAAD at the Confederated Technical University in Zurich.

Station Rose was founded in 1988 by Elisa Rose and Gary Danner, interface designers and propagandists for a new culture of consciousness who have their roots in the classic fine arts as well as the myths and rituals of pop culture. They have been producing recordings, videos, installations and fashion since 1979, and in 1991 Station Rose moved its base of operations to Frankfurt.

Frank Stepper was born in 1955 in Stuttgart and studied at the Technical University there. He has worked together with Wolf D. Prix and Helmut Swicznsky since 1990. He is currently a studio instructor at Sci-Arc and lives in Los Angeles.

Helmut Swiczinsky was born in 1944 in Posen, Poland and grew up in Vienna. He studied at the Technical University of Vienna and Architectural Association in London. In 1968, together with Wolf D. Prix, he founded the Coop Himmelblau in Vienna. He is a visiting critic at the Architectural Association and lives in Vienna.

Mark C. Taylor is the Preston S. Parish Third Century Professor of Religion at Williams College. He is the author of several books including: A Postmodern A/Theology, Altarity, Tears, Disfiguring: Art, Architecture, Religion and Nots.

Dave Warner studied Physical Science at San Diego State University and Medicine at Loma Linda University. He has been working with several classes of advanced human interface technologies including data gloves, pressure sensors, surface complete EMG, EEG, EOG (direct bioelectric signals), a new form of force transducer and sensory emersion systems for virtual reality.

Peter Weibel was born in 1945 in Odessa. He studied literature, medicine, logic, and philosophy in Paris and Vienna. He has taught at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna; the College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada; the Gesamthochschule Kassel; and the Center for Media Study, University of New York in Buffalo. Since 1989 he has been Director of the Institute for New Media at the Städelschule, Frankfurt. Countless publications.

Manfred Wolff-Plotegg was born in 1946 in Schöder. He studied Architecture at the Technical University in Graz, The Salzburg Summer Academy and the Beaux Art in Paris. Postgraduate management in Vienna. He is currently a freelance architect and teaches in the fields of planning methods and computer conceptions.

Paul Virilio was born in 1932 in Paris and founded the école d'Architecture Spéciale. He lives and works as an architect and writer in Paris.

Keigo Yamamoto In 1958 he graduated from the Fukui University. He had taken part of several international video festivals and exhibitions in Japan, Europe and the USA, e.g. documenta in 1977 and 1992. 1985 he became a professor at the Nagoya Fine Art Junior College, Nagoya.