10:30 - 11:00 Christiane Paul
11:00 - 12:00 Amy Alexander, Olga Goriunova, Alex McLean, Alexei Shulgin on Runme.org, a software art repository, and Read_Me, software art festival
12:00 - 12:20 Break
12:20 - 12:50 Christian Hübler
12:50 - 13:20 Andreas Broeckmann
13:20 - 13:30 Dicussion

Amy Alexander (USA) has worked in film, video, music, animation, digital media, and Unix systems administration. She is currently Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Since 1996 she has been working primarily in net art and software art, exploring net and peoplespace culture and politics as well as dynamic processes and structures. Her recent work has been primarily in live performance and software art and includes the projects at plagiarist.org and deprogramming.us. Amy's work has been exhibited on the Internet and at various exhibitions and live venues.

Andreas Broeckmann (*1964) lives and works in Berlin. He studied art history, sociology and media studies and worked as a project manager at V2_Organisation Rotterdam, Institute for the Unstable Media, from 1995-2000. Since the autumn of 2000 he has been the Artistic Director of transmediale - international media art festival berlin. He is a member of the Berlin-based media association mikro, and of the European Cultural Backbone, a network of media centres. In texts and lectures he deals with post-medial practices and the possibilities for a 'machinic' aesthetics of media art.

Olga Goriunova (RU) is a media researcher, organizer, writer, teacher of the new media history and theory. Born in 1977 in Ulan-Ude, USSR. Lives and works in Moscow and Helsinki. Olga co-organizes the international artistic software festival read_me.

Christian Hübler (A). Member of Knowbotic Research. Since 1998, Knowbotic Research has a professorship and carrying out research in the New Media Department at the University of Art and Design (HGKZ), Zurich, Switzerland.

Alex McLean (UK) is CTO of state51, building infrastructure for the independent music industry. He creates and performs music internationally with Adrian Ward as "slub", making live techno using composition and synthesis software written entirely by themselves. Alex has presented and exhibited his work widely including at the touring "generator" exhibition and the Sonar and Transmediale festivals. He is involved with many online projects, including the co-development and coding of "runme.org".

Christiane Paul (USA) is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the director of Intelligent Agent, a service organization and information resource dedicated to digital art. She has written extensively on new media arts and her book "Digital Art" (part of the World of Art Series by Thames & Hudson, UK) was published in May 2003. She teaches in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is responsible for Artport, the Whitney's online portal to Internet art.

Alexei Shulgin (RUS) is a Moscow based artist, musician, curator, activist and professor. In his work he explores the boundaries between art, culture and technology in their relation to 'real life' effects and vice versa. His favorite methods are mixing contexts and questioning the existing states of things. Shulgin has participated in numerous exhibitions and symposiums on photography, contemporary art and new media.

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