Memo Akten ist ein bildender Künstler, Musiker und Techniker, der an der Schnittstelle von Kunst und Wissenschaft arbeitet. Seine Arbeiten sind spartenübergreifend und umfassen Installationen, Performances, Filme, Musikvideos, Online-Produktionen und mobile Applikationen. Er ist im Award Committee von ACM SIGGRAPH, IT-Berater des ArchitecturalAssociations’ Design Research Lab und einer der wichtigsten Unterstützer des openFrameworks-Projekts. Memo Akten ist ein engagierter Verfechter von Open Source und Wissenssharing und hält Vorträge und Workshops auf der ganzen Welt. 2011 war er Mitbegründer des Marshmallow Laser Feast, eines Kollektivs an der Schnittstelle von Kunst, Design und Technologie.
Prix Forum I – Computer Animation, Expanded Animations – Mapping an Unlimited Landscape, Prix Ars Electronica 2013, Deep Space Live
Sirikit Amann ist schon seit 1998, also seit Anfang an, bei u19 dabei. Sie beschäftigt sich seit den 80er Jahren hauptsächlich mit kultureller Bildung im Spannungsfeld von Kultur, Bildung und neuen Medien auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene. Seit 2006 kuratiert Sirikit Amann im Namen der Ars Electronica. zudem die „Young Animations“, ein Sammlung von Animationsfilmen, die von jungen Filmemachern erarbeitet wurden.
Der Österreichische Film – Neue Generation, neue Medien, neue Horizonte
Recently completed his studies in Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca (Spain) Cèsar Escudero Andaluz won a scholarship to study Graphic Art Work in the C.I.E.C. Foundation, (International Centre for Contemporary Engraving). Between 2008 and 2010 made a Master of Architecture and Design in the University of Salamanca. Continuing his studies in 2010 his research was focused in the image in the Master of Visual Arts and Media in the Politechnical University of Valencia. Master that leads to the Kunstuniversität of Linz especially to department of Interface Cultures, where he is researching since October of 2011.
Campus Exhibition: Interface Cultures – Use at your own risk
Alfred Anwander ist Neurowissenschaftler und Konnektomforscher. Nach einem Studium der Elektrotechnik und Bildverarbeitung wechselte er an das Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften in Leipzig und spezialisierte sich auf die Entwicklung von neuen Methoden zur Analyse von Magnetresonanz-Tomographie Bildern des Gehirns. Seit 2004 trägt er maßgeblich zur Erforschung der anatomischen Verknüpfungen im Gehirn bei. Ein besonderer Fokus ist dabei die Erforschung des Sprachnetzwerkes und dessen Entwicklung im Verlauf des Spracherwerbs.
Jon Ardern (UK) und Anab Jain (IN)
Superflux is a London-based design studio founded in 2009 by Anab Jain and Jon Ardern. Through stories, films, products and experiences the studio’s work probes the future implications of new and emerging technologies on people, society, and the environment. Recent projects include designing neural prosthetic experiences for the blind, prototyping artificial pollinators and building devices that combine quantum mechanics with speculative design. The studio’s work has won international critical acclaim and has been exhibited worldwide, from MoMA New York, to the National Museum of China, Science Gallery Dublin and V&A Museum London.
www.superflux.in
Aleida Assmann, Studium der Anglistik und Ägyptologie; seit 1993 Professorin für Anglistik und Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Konstanz. Zahlreiche Fellowships und Gastprofessuren an den Universitäten Rice, Princeton, Yale, Chicago und Wien. Forschungsgebiete: Individuelles und kulturelles Gedächtnis, Trauma und Literatur, Erinnerungskulturen im internationalen Vergleich. Aktuelle Publikationen: Erinnerungsräume (4. Aufl. 2009), Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit (2006), Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaft. Grundbegriffe, Themen, Fragestellungen (2006, 32011).
Sonja Bäumel (AT) und Manuel Selg (AT)
Sonja Bäumel lebt und arbeitet in Wien und Amsterdam. Ihre Arbeiten vermitteln zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft, Mode und Wissenschaft, Design und Wissenschaft, zwischen Kleidung und Körper, zwischen Fiktion und Fakten. Ihre Arbeiten entstehen aus der permanenten Konfrontation mit wissenschaftlichen Daten und Fakten, die sie oft selbst durch Experimente in Forschungslabors sammelt. Sie studierte Modedesign in Wien, hat einen Bachelor von der Kunstuniversität Linz sowie einen Master in „Conceptual Design in Context“ von der Design Academy Eindhoven.
Manuel Selg promovierte im Bereich Molekularbiologie an der Loyola University Chicago. Nach mehrjähriger Forschungstätigkeit an verschiedenen internationalen Universitäten wechselte er 2004 als Professor für Biotechnologie an die FH Oberösterreich und ist seitdem im Studiengang Bio- und Umwelttechnik tätig. Er initiierte und leitete das bisherige Schulworkshop-Programm des Studiengangs Bio- und Umwelttechnik. Im Bereich der Wissenschaftskommunikation war er außerdem maßgeblich am Aufbau des BioLabs im Ars Electronica Center in Linz mitbeteiligt und entwickelte das erfolgreich laufende Workshop-Programm für das BioLab.
Oliver Bau (FR) und Ivan Poupyrev (RU)
Olivier Bau (US/FR) arbeitet als Forscher und Designer bei Walt Disney Imagineering. Zu seinen Arbeitsschwerpunkten gehört die Erweiterung des menschlichen Körpers, um neue Fähigkeiten durch Wearable-Technologie, die Gestaltung von Installationen und Environments, die einzigartige und einnehmende Erlebnisse vermitteln, sowie die Entwicklung von Interfaces, die eine volle Nutzung der Fortschritte der Computertechnik gestatten.
ivan Poupyrev (US/RU) leitet die Interaktionstechnologie-Gruppe von Disney Research Pittsburgh. Ihre Aufgabe ist die Erfindung und Entwicklung künftiger Technologien für Disney-Freizeitparks, Resorts und Kreuzfahrtschiffe.
Schwerpunkt seiner Forschung sind interaktive Technologien für die nahtlose Verbindung von digitalen und physischen Eigenschaften in Geräten, Alltagsgegenständen und Lebensumwelten.
David Benqué is a designer and researcher working in London. He is a research associate and visiting lecturer at the Design Interactions department of the Royal College of Art in London UK.
His work has recently been exhibited in venues such as the National Museum of China in Beijing, Glitch Fiction at Paris Design Week, St. Etienne Design Biennale and Z33 House for Contemporary Art in Hasselt, Belgium. He holds a BA in graphic design from the Royal Academy in the Hague, the Netherlands, and an MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London, United Kingdom.
Nicolas Bernier (CA) ist in den Bereichen Sound-Performance, Installationen, Musique concrète, Live-Elektronik, Post-Rock, Noise, Improv und Videokunst aktiv und arbeitet auch mit Tanz, Theater, Bewegtbild in interdisziplinären Zusammenhängen. Sein künstlerisches Anliegen bleibt in diesem Eklektizismus jedoch konstant: Es geht ihm stets um die Balance zwischen Rationalität und Sinnlichkeit, zwischen organischen Klangquellen und digitaler Bearbeitung. Der Sound von Nicolas Bernier bewegt sich im Spannungsfeld von Alt und Neu. Er macht elektronische Musik mit Gegenständen und Einflüssen der Vergangenheit wie Schreibmaschinen, Klanggabeln, alten Maschinen, klanglichen Erinnerungen und – ja, auch Musikinstrumenten. Bernier studiert derzeit Sonic Arts an der Forschungsstelle für Neue Musik der Universität Huddersfield (UK) unter der Leitung von Dr. Pierre Alexandre Tremblay und Dr. Monty Adkins. Er ist Mitglied von perte de signal, einem Produktionszentrum für Forschung und Entwicklung künstlerischer Projekte in Digitalkunst in Montreal.
CyberArts 2013, Prix Forum V – Digital Musics & Sound Art, Digital Musics in Concert
Leo Bettinelli began his musical studies at the ‚Musical Composition with Electro-acoustic Media‘ course at Quilmes National University. During this time he became involved with audiovisual media mainly through the theatre and then working on different multimedia projects, such as shorts, installations, dance, advertising, etc. In parallel, he developed his activity as a sound technician, whether it be live, in the studio, carrying out jobs involving music production, recording, mixing and sound post production. At present, he is also a performer/improviser/composer in the field of experimental, contemporary and electro-acoustic music, as well as in several popular music projects where he incorporates elements of the aforementioned currents. Besides, since several years he works actively in the difussion of experimental music and free improvisation, organizing different music cicles in Argentina and Europe. Nowadays he directs the european branch of Niños Consentidos.
At the age of 36, Oliver Bimber was appointed as a full university professor (2009) and became Head of the Institute of Computer Graphics at Johannes Kepler University Linz. Bimber’s research interests include visual computing, real-time rendering and visualization, computer vision, image analysis and processing, optics, and human visual perception in the context of next-generation display and imaging technologies.
Benedict Bleimschein (AT) und Martin Kienmeyer (AT)
Benedict Bleimschein and Martin Kienmeyer are students at the university of applied sciences in Hagenberg/upper austria.
Rica Blunck (DE) is a choreographer, singer and author. Her passion for combining various forms of artistic expression led her to found the COAX Dance Company in 1989. COAX has performed in Scotland, Switzerland and at numerous venues throughout Germany. Her travels are not only of a geographic nature; she also undertakes interdisciplinary excursions that allow her to reconnoiter unexplored artistic territory.
(1985) from Italy. Graduated in „Fine Arts, Music and Cinema“ at the University of Padova and in „Multimedia Technologies“ at the University of Udine. He working in the field of experimental video and film, multimodal interfaces and live media. He is a member of the italian rock band Elettrofandango as a live media artist. His works were presented in festivals like Abstracta, FishEye, Rome Film Festival, International S8 Film Festival, Strange Screen, LPM-Live Performers Meeting.
Before moving to Linz he worked in the field of media education. He is an activist of the Nonviolent Radical Party and members of the Italian Radicals movement.
Campus Exhibition: Interface Cultures – Use at your own risk
Sayfan G. Borghini (IT) graduated as a doctor in Physics in Rome in 1997. Her interests in the last ten years have focused on complex systems at the intersection of technological, cultural and artistic forces. She is currently a lecturer in the Master Course in Integrated Design at H.I.T. in Israel, where she is also collaborating on curatorial projects.
Claudius Brodmann (DE) is a director and digital media designer. He was born in Rumania and has lived in Germany since 1983. He studied at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. In 1999, he founded m.a.r.k.13, an animation & post-production studio, which he headed until 2004. Since then, he has worked as a freelance director and specialist in digital & interactive media. He has also taught at Merz Akademie Stuttgart since 1999.
Suzanne Buchan ist Professorin für Animationsästhetik an der Middlesex University London. Sie promovierte an der Universität Zürich und war Gründungsmitglied sowie von 1994 bis 2003 Co-Direktorin des Internationalen Filmfestivals für Animation Fantoche in der Schweiz. Sie lehrt, kuratiert und berät international auf ihrem Forschungsgebiet über ein breit gefasstes Konzept von Geschichte, Theorie und Ästhetik von Animation außerhalb kommerzieller Regeln. Zu ihren Büchern zählen „Pervasive Animation: an AFI Reader“ (erscheint 2013) sowie „The Quay Brothers: Into A Metaphysical Playroom“ (2011). Sie ist Gründerin/Herausgeberin von „animation: an interdisciplinary journal“ (Sage Journals).
Prix Forum I – Computer Animation, Expanded Animations – Mapping an Unlimited Landscape
Michael K. Buckland (UK/US) is Emeritus Professor, University of California, Berkeley, School of Information. Born and educated in England, Prof. Buckland studied History at Oxford and Librarianship at Sheffield. After working as a librarian in England and the USA, he was director of the School of Library and Information Studies at Berkeley. He has written extensively about library services, the organization of knowledge, and the history documentation. http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/
Dr. Gordon Calleja is Associate Professor and the Head of the Institute of Digital Games at the University of Malta and visiting Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen’s Center for Computer Games Research, which he headed for four years before moving to Malta. Gordon has a background in Game Studies, Literary Theory and Media Studies. His current research focuses on digital games and addresses three broad areas: game ontology, narrative in game environments and player experience. The latter is the focus of his recently released book by MIT Press: „In-Game : From Immersion to Incorporation“ which investigates what makes digital games engaging to players and a re-examination of the concept of „immersion“. Supplementing his written work, Gordon also designs boardgames and digital games. The first digital game he published is „Will Love Tear Us Apart“, a game adaptation of Joy Division’s cult track. WLTUA has received international acclaim for its unique game design approach and aesthetics and has been covered extensively by publications such as Rolling Stone Magazine, Spin, Fact, Consequence of Sound, PC Gamer, Polygon, Kotaku and Kill Screen.
El Campo de Cebada besteht aus einer großen Anzahl von Personen und Kollektiven, Bürgern, Experten, Verwaltungsbeamten und Technikern, die im Management und der Entwicklung von El Campo de Cebada involviert sind.
Sie arbeiten freiwillig und unentgeltlich für ihre Nachbarn, sie sind durch ihre Arbeit legitimiert, was das Gefühl verstärkt, zu einem Raum, der ihrer ist, zu gehören, weil sie sich seiner annehmen. Sie sind die Kuratoren einer Stadt, die sie durch ihre eigenen Entscheidungen errichten. In dieser Hinsicht hat jeder und niemand Urheberrechte inne.
Ausgangspunkte für ihre Forschungen sind Sprache, Text sowie die politischen Implikationen des Eigenen, des Begriffs von öffentlich und privat, des Anderen. Ihre Strategie der Übersetzung zwischen Systemen – Sprache, Bild, Klang – und Praktiken schafft Äquivalenzen und Assoziationen, die oft gekennzeichnet sind von einer Sehnsucht nach dem Obsoleten und die Aufmerksamkeit auf die diskursiven Inhalte von Artefakten und früheren Zukunftsprojektionen lenkt. Ihr Interesse an der Entwicklung von Arbeiten zusammen mit den Bewohnern der jeweiligen Schauplätze zielt auf die Erforschung von Sprache als Alltagswissen und die Enthüllung urbaner Rituale durch Konfrontation mit eigens hergestellten Situationen. Tania Candiani war Guggenheim-Stipendiatin im Sektor Kunst und ist seit 2012 Teil des Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.
Mar Canet (ES) und Vavara Guljajeva (EE)
Mar Canet is an interdisciplinary artist from Barcelona. He has two degrees: in art and design from ESDI in Barcelona and in computer game development from University Central Lancashire in UK. In addition to that, Mar is finalizing his master at Interface Cultures in Art and Design University of Linz in Austria. He has worked 2 years as a Creative Engineer in Ars Electronica Futurelab(Linz, Austria). He is a co-founder of art collectives Derivart and Lummo. He has exhibited collaboratively with Derivart, Lummo, as artist-duo with Varvara Guljajeva and independently in many international festivals and museums. Since 2011, it is doing an artist residencies tour together with Varvara as artist-duo in IAMAS Japan, FACT Liverpool, MU Gallery (Eindhoven) and STPLN in Malmö, Verbeken Foundation(Belgium), Marginalia+lab(Belo Horizonte).
Varvara Guljajeva is an artist working in the field of art and technology. Varvara has exhibited her art pieces in a number of international shows and festivals. The artist was selected for the residency at FFKD, IAMAS, EMARE (FACT, Liverpool), Crida, MU Gallery, Verbeke Foundation, Marginalia+Lab, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, and more. Varvara is a PhD candidate at the Estonian Art Academy. She has presented her research work at several conferences, like Amber Conference, Enter5 Symposium, ISEA 2011, Open Knowledge Festival 2012, MutaMorphosis 2012, and more. Varvara is concerned about the new forms of art. Thus, she applies and challenges technology and traditional production methods in order to explore novel concepts in art. Varvara works together with Mar Canet as an artist-duo.
Rejane Cantoni & Leonardi Crescenti (BR)
The two work together in the development of strategies for the experimentation and implementation of audio-tactile-visual interfaces that make it possible for the public to explore and interact naturally with data banks and virtual, remote or hybrid environments. Rejane Cantoni studied Communication, Semiotics, Visualization of Information Systems and Kinematic Interfaces, in São Paulo and in Geneva; since 1987 she has researched and developed immersive installations with devices for the acquisition and manipulation of data in natural and/or sensorized and automated environments. Leonardo Crescenti studied archiutecture at FAU/USP, in São Paulo; since 1978 he has investigated and developed projects in various media and supports. As director, he has realized 13 short films receiving numerous awards and national and international participations.
http://www.cantoni-crescenti.com.br
Chris Carlson (US) entwickelt und designt immersive Software und ausdrucksstarke Benutzeroberflächen. Er schöpft in seiner Arbeit aus Erfahrungen in den Bereichen interaktives Audio, Mobile Music und Physical Computing, wobei es sein primäres Anliegen ist, die Anwender zu inspirieren, selbst kreativ zu werden. Er studierte am Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics an der Stanford University und Physik an der James Madison University.
He began studying B.S. Telematic Engineering because of his interest in telecommunications. In that time, he worked in different types of jobs within the Networking. After a few years, he decided to make a change to explore and discover his creative side. He obtained a degree in Fine Arts, interested in audiovisual and interactive art. He has developed projects in photography, video, video-installations, interactive installations and net.art.
Campus Exhibition: Interface Cultures – Use at your own risk
Die Medienkünstlerin Shu Lea Cheang lädt die Pd~community in Graz und Linz ein, den Saal der Stadtwerkstatt visuell und akustisch in einer 70minütigen Nonstop-Hyper-Jamsession zu bespielen. Das Motto: LIVE CODE LIVE SPAM. Um Mitternacht läuft Cheangs Cyberpunk-Scifi-Porno I.K.U. – This is not love. This is sex.
Alessio Chierico was born in Perugia (Italy) in 1984. His artistic training comes from the academies of Urbino, Carrara and the NABA of Milan. He has studying on the courses relative the new technologies of art production. The focus of Chierico’s research is the deconstruction of media interfaces, to propose a new naturalness formed by the essential properties of the tools of representation. The key point of this process is the function of digital systems, observed as founding process of the structuring of the contemporary culture.
Campus Exhibition: Interface Cultures – Use at your own risk
Lila Chitayat (IL) is an architect, designer, new-media artist and an experimental practitioner of design through computational processes. Lila is a senior lecturer at the Design Faculty of H.I.T (Holon Institute of Technology) teaching in the Masters program and Interior Design departments. Founder of LinC Studio: a trans-disciplinary design environment involving media and technology to produce a wide range of projects in urban installations, space design, exhibit design and digital architecture for virtual environments. Collaborative projects with her brother, Alon, include Taxilink (winner of PRIX Ars Electronica 2010), Ideal Virtual Jerusalem for MIC, the urban installation White Tent City and AR at the Hansen old Hospital. Lila received her M.Arch from Columbia University and B. Arch from Pratt Institute.
Marcelo Coelho (BR), Skylar Tibbits (US), Natan Linder (IL), Yoav Reches (IL)
Marcelo Coelho (BR) ist Designer und Research Affiliate am MIT Media Lab. Er untersucht, wie sich Materialien, die algorithmische Eigenschaften verkörpern, auf unsere Art des Gestaltens, Interagierens und Kommunizierens auswirken. In seiner Doktorarbeit erforschte er, wie Materialien, die ihre Form verändern, dazu herangezogen werden können, transformierbare Flächen zu gestalten und deren Topologie, Textur und Durchlässigkeit algorithmisch zu rekonfigurieren.
Skylar Tibbits (US) ist studierter Architekt und Computerwissenschaftler, der sich vornehmlich mit der Entwicklung selbstassemblierender und programmierbarer Materialtechnologien für die gebaute Umwelt beschäftigt. Skylar ist
Leiter des Self-Assembly Lab am MIT, gibt Design-Studio-Kurse am MIT-Architekturinstitut und unterrichtet im Seminar How to Make (Almost) Anything am MIT Media Lab.
Natan Linder (IL) ist Mitbegründer von Formlabs und Doktorand in der Fluid Interfaces Group am MIT Media Lab. In seiner Arbeit will er durch die Verschmelzung von Design und Technik neue menschliche Erfahrungen vermitteln. Bevor er ans MIT Media Lab ging, war er UI-Designer bei Heartland Robotics.
Yoav Reches (IL) ist ein in London lebender und arbeitender Industriedesigner und verantwortlich für das Design von Form 1. In seiner multidisziplinären Arbeit beschäftigt er sich mit praktischen und konzeptuellen Anwendungen von Produktdesign.
[the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant, Fablab Workshops
Ina Conradi Chavez (US/SG) is an award-winning digital media artist. Her films have been screened internationally at Ars Electronica Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Anima Mundi, Dimension 3 Festival, and Edinburgh International Film Festival. Ina holds MFA from UCLA. She is a Japan Foundation Fellow and a member of the Union of Slovene Fine Art. Currently she is Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University. www.inaconradi.com
Pierre Cordelle (FR), Maëlle Chassard (FR), Guilhem Aulotte (FR), Sandra Rey (FR)
Pierre Cordelle has just turned 22, and he’s about to begin his last year of MSc in engineering at Centrale Paris, he spent the 6 last months at the University of Queensland (Australia). Maëlle Chassard is an interaction designer. He has studied at Strate College, School of Industrial Design, where he specialized in systems and interactive objects. Guilhem Aulotte has just completed his studies at Centrale Paris and is about to start a MSc at Cambridge, Sandra Rey (after studying for five years at Strate College, Industrial Design School in Paris) is an Interaction Designer.
Veselina Dashinova is a Royal College of Art graduate, inspired by Art and Animation. Her work is a mixture of 2D animation, still photography and live action footage. Personal history and collective memory is a main theme in her work. She develops fictional stories based on factual events, archive material and traveling journals. She is interested in the traveling as a dwelling mode and its implication on the the self.
Campus Exhibition: Interface Cultures – Use at your own risk
Michel und André Décosterd (CH)
Michel Décosterd (CH), geb. 1969, arbeitete zunächst als Architekt in Berlin und Weimar (1994–96). Seit 1997 ist er im Bereich Bildhauerei und Architektur tätig und entwickelt und konstruiert Klangmaschinen.
André Décosterd (CH), geb. 1967, absolvierte 1984–88 eine Orgelbauerlehre. Seit 1997 arbeitet er als Musiker und Komponist. Er spezialisiert sich auf Programmierung von Musikapplikationen. Auseinandersetzung mit typisch
zeitgenössischen Kompositionssystemen, insbesondere logarithmischer Komposition und Forschungen zur Mensch-Maschinen-Interaktion. Schreibt musikalische Werke für zeitgenössische Ensembles und fürs Theater und lehrt an der Ejma in Lausanne. 1997 gründeten Michel und André die Gruppe Cod.Act, die von Beginn an mit Jacques Décosterd (1936), einem aus der Industrie kommenden Computer- und Automatisierungstechniker, zusammenarbeitet.
Louis-Philippe Demers (CA/SG) macht groß angelegte Installationen und Performances. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Unterhaltungsrobotik und Interaktionsdesign. Im Lauf der letzten 20 Jahre hat er an über 70 Kunst- und
Bühnenwerken mitgewirkt und über 300 Maschinen gebaut. Seine Projekte und Werke sind in Theatern, Opernhäusern, U-Bahnstationen, Kunstmuseen, Technikmuseen, Musikveranstaltungen und Handelsmessen zu finden und waren an führenden Veranstaltungsorten in der ganzen Welt zu sehen. Er war Professor für Digitale Medien und Ausstellungsdesign/Szenografie an der Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. Mittlerweile arbeitet er am Interaction and Entertainment Research Centre und lehrt an der neu gegründeten School of Art, Design and Media an der Nanyang Technological University in Singapur.
Heather Dewey-Hagborg (US) is an information artist who has shown her work internationally at events including the Poland Mediations Bienniale, Jaaga art and technology center in Bangalore, and the Monitor Digital Festival in Guadalajara. She has exhibited nationally at PS1 Moma, the New Museum, Eyebeam, Clocktower Gallery, 92Y Tribeca, Issue Project Room, and Splatterpool in New York City. She has a BA in Information Arts from Bennington College and a Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is currently a PhD student in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jeremiah Diephuis (US/AT) was born in 1976 and grew up in the great arcades of the American Midwest. He currently works as a lecturer in the Media Technology and Design program at the Hagenberg Campus of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.
Teresa Dillion (IE), Naomi Griffin-Murtagh (IE), Claire Dempsey (IE), Aisling McCrudden (IE)
Opimilk was developed by Naomi Griffin-Murtagh, Claire Dempsey & Aisling McCrudden under the supervision of Dr. Teresa Dillon and the Science Gallery team. Naomi Griffin-Murtagh graduated in 2013 from the National College of Art and Design, Ireland (NCAD), in industrial design. Claire Dempsey and Ailsing McCrudden are studying at Trinity College Dubln. Claire is in her fourth year reading Immunology and Aisling is studying Human Health and Disease. Over 12-weeks the team co-developed the prooject as part of the ITL course module.
Opimilk provides a clear illustration of how synthetic biology could be applied to provide a smarter alternative for the treatment of chronic pain. The project explores how we can harness naturally occuring substances in the human body for wider health benefits and addresses our attitudes such treatments, while also highlighting issues around the ethical development of transgenic animals.
Dimension+, Bi-city New Media Arts Team based in Hong Kong and Taipei, founded by Keith Lam (HK) and Escher Tsai (TW) in 2009. By mixing-and-matching they transform the invisible, digital form into tangible physical and visible experience, creating works that combine digital and analog, linking the digital and the physical. Keith Lam received the Young Artist Award from Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2008, the ‘40 under 40’ Global Creative Talent by Perspective Magazine and a PRIX Ars Electronica Honorary Mention in 2008. He has been invited to numerous festivals around the world, lectures at various universities and has a magazine column. http://www.dimensionplus.co
Hans-Ulrich Dodt was born in Freiburg, Germany, where he attended school and started to study medicine. After two years he continued his medical studies in Heidelberg, where he also studied physics in addition, finishing with a diploma thesis in astrophysics. After receiving his MD he started to work at the Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry in Munich in 1987. 1997 he received his Habilitation in Physiology from the Technical University Munich. 2007 he was appointed full professor at the Vienna University of Technology.
Der Klang steht im Mittelpunkt der künstlerischen Arbeit von Wolfgang Dorninger, als Betreiber des experimentellen Musiklabels base, Performer, Komponist von Theater- und Filmmusik, Sounddesigner, Klangkünstler oder Lektor an der Kunstuniversität Linz. Zwei diametral entgegengesetzte Klangwelten dominieren das Werk, das zwischen digitaler Klangerzeugung und konkreten Umweltgeräuschen verortet ist. Die Anordnungen reichen von konzertanten Raum-Klang-Installationen, multimedialen Performances und akustischen Präsentationen bis zu Theatermusik und Techno.
Soundsamples für Theater und Filmmusik, Seminare, Workshops. Schlagzeug-Percussionlehrer. Autor eigener Rhythmusunterlagen. Spielt mit: Shineform, Homme Beige, Tanga, Types, Asi Son, Transformation und anderen Projekten. Studium am Konservatorium Wien sowie am Bruckner Konservatorium Linz, an der Timeline International Music School (Latin Percussion) und an der SRG Offenbach Deutschland. Studienreisen ua. nach Kuba (Bilder).
Konzertfach Schlagzeug sowie Instrumental- und Gesangspädagogik für Schlagzeug Schwerpunkt E-Bass. Unterrichtet Schlagzeug und Percussion am Franz Schubert Konservatorium in Wien und seit vielen Jahren in verschiedenen Musikschulen sowie Vortragender bei Seminaren.
Richard Eigner is a composer, sound artist, producer and drummer residing in Vienna and Linz, Austria. In his music he is crossing the borders of »experimental acoustic music«, »minimalism« and »electronica« with a focus on the symbiotic use of acoustic elements and electronically produced and processed sounds. Strenuous with numerous sonorous projects he is kept busy with his playful musical project Ritornell, the setup of Denoising installations or drumming for the likes of Patrick Wolf, Flying Lotus, Dimlite and Patrick Pulsinger. His compositions were used by Robert Seidel for his projection and paper sculpture »Chiral« at MOCA Taipei or by canadian director Bruce LaBruce for his melancholy zombie movie »Otto; Or, Up With Dead People«.
Electric Indigo, DJ, Komponistin und Musikerin, spielte seit 1989 in 35 Ländern der nördlichen Hemisphäre und ihr Name steht für die intelligente und eigenständige Interpretation elektronischer Musik, die von klarer Vision, großer Vielfalt und Tiefe gekennzeichnet ist. Als Komponistin und Musikerin legt sie besonderen Wert auf die gezielte räumliche und zeitliche Platzierung ausgetüftelter Klänge. Sie erhielt den „outstanding artist award Musik 2012“ in der Sparte elektronische Musik und Computermusik und das Staatsstipendium für Komposition 2013 vom Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur..
Ewald Elmecker (AT) was born in 1972. He’s one of the proprietors of Off-Space, a nomad encampment in Linz, and a visual artist at the interface of architecture, sound and, at times, botany.
Yael Eylat van-Essen, PhD., (IL), is a researcher in the fields of Digital Culture, New-Media Art and Museology. She teaches at Tel Aviv University and in Holon Institute of Technology, where she is the curator of the Research Gallery and she established and directed for many years a pioneering „New-Media“ department in Israel. Until recently, she was the Head of the Art Department in Seminar Kibbutzim College and Academic Director of the International Curatorial program. She edited the first anthology on Digital Culture published in Hebrew.
Joaquin Fargas (AG) is a multidisciplinary artist who combines biological material and technological tools in order to break up limits and generate dialogues so as to draw us nearer to nature and life. He is the academic director of San Isidro Interactive Exploratory Museum and professor of Technological Art at the Miamonides University, where he started and directs the Bioart Argentine Laboratory.
Patrick Feaster (US) is a two-time Grammy nominee, co-founder of FirstSounds.org, and author of Pictures of Sound, Patrick Feaster has participated in locating, contextualizing, and making audible many of the world’s oldest sound recordings. He received his doctorate in folklore and ethnomusicology in 2007 from Indiana University Bloomington, where he is a member of the Media Preservation Initiative and teaches in the Department of Communication and Culture.
Thomas Feuerstein (AT), geb. 1968, studierte von 1987 bis 1995 Kunstgeschichte und Philosophie an der Universität Innsbruck. Von 1992 bis 1994 gab er gemeinsam mit Klaus Strickner die Zeitschrift Medien.Kunst.Passagen heraus. 1992 gründete er das Büro für intermedialen Kommunikationstransfer und den Kunstverein medien.kunst.tirol. Seit 1997 Lehraufträge und Gastprofessuren an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, der Hochschule der Künste Bern, der F+F Schule für Kunst und Mediendesign Zürich, der Fachhochschule Vorarlberg Studiengang Intermedia, dem Mozarteum Salzburg und der Universität Innsbruck.
Occupied in video, installation, photography, performance, drawing and painting, objects, contemporary, martial arts, Bruce Lee and interface culture. Prefer experimental approaches.
She has had solo shows What is Contemporary; Strategy DAY plus NIGHT, Belgrade; Black Rabbit, Belgrade and Ratman, Belgrade and has been included in group exhibitions at Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest, RO; Parallax Art Fair London, UK, Primo Piano LivinGallery, Lecce, Italy; Time Packages, 91mQ Berlin, Germany; New Museum, New York; Frieze Art Fair, London, UK; Depo, Istanbul, Turkey and Rum 46, Aarhus, Denmark.
Campus Exhibition: Interface Cultures – Use at your own risk
Bill Fontana (born USA 1947) is an American composer and artist who developed an international reputation for his pioneering experiments in sound. SInce the early 70’s Fontana has used sound as a sculptural medium to interact
with and transform our perceptions of visual and architectural spaces. He has realized sound sculptures and radio projects for museums and broadcast organizations around the world. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney
Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Post Museum in Frankfurt, the Art History and Natural History Museums in Vienna, both Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London, the 48th Venice Biennale, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Art Gallery of NSE in Sydney and the new Kolumba Museum in Cologne. He has done major radio sound art projects for the BBC, the European Broadcast Union, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, West German Radio (WDR), Swedish Radio, Radio France and the Austrian State Radio.
PRIX Ars Electronica Collide@CERN Residency Award, Große Konzertnacht
Das Londoner Duo Camila Fuchs verbindet fein gesponnene elektronische Soundtüftelei mit ausgefallenem, aber eingehendem Gesang.
Masaki Fujihata ( JP), geb. 1956, begann in den 1980er Jahren im Bereich Computergrafik und Animation. Mit der rasanten Entwicklung der Digitaltechnik erweiterte er deren Möglichkeiten nach und nach auf die Ebene künstlerischen Ausdrucks und
stieß dabei oft in unerforschtes Gelände vor. Seine mit den neuesten Methoden interaktiver Kunst, virtueller Realität und Netzwerktechnik operierenden Werke beschäftigten sich mit einer Reihe von so noch nie behandelten Themen, die frischen Wind in
die Kunst brachten. Bei all seinen Projekten hielt er jedoch stets daran fest, den innersten Kern der Dinge zu ergründen, geht es ihm doch um fundamentale Fragen wie menschliche Wahrnehmung, Bewusstsein und Kommunikation.
David Gann ist ein Entwickler, Künstler und Wissenschaftler im interdisziplinären Feld von Datenvisualisierung, Mensch-Computer-Interaction, Computergrafik und Sounddesign. Sein vorheriges Studium der Biologie an der Universität Konstanz und das Arbeiten an interaktiven Medien Exponaten zusammen mit Firmen wie Meso und AEC Solutions sind starke Einflüsse für seine audiovisuellen Projekte sowie für Projekte mit Wissenschaftsbezug. 2011 entwickelte David Gann eine Anwendung zur Visualisierung des Menschlichen Genoms in Echtzeit und in 3D. Aus der damaligen Thesis ist ein weiterführendes Projekt geworden mit dem Ziel ein Interface für den Einsatz in Laboratorien im Bereich Molekularbiologie und Genetik zu entwickeln. Neben ernsteren Projekten wie diesem ist er auch in die Ereignisse rund um das AV Label Symbiotic Cube verwickelt.
Campus Exhibition: Interface Cultures – Use at your own risk
Aristides Garcia is a freelance graphic programmer and computer artist based in Berlin.
Matthew Gardiner (AU/AT) is an artist most well known for his work with origami and robotics. He coined the term Oribot 折りボト and then created the field of art/science research called Oribotics. Oribotics is a field of research that thrives on the aesthetic, biomechanic, and morphological connections between nature, origami and robotics.
Projekt Genesis, [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant, Fablab Workshops
Urs Gaudenz (CH) und Denisa Kera (CZ)
Urs Gaudenz is microengineer and worked for Swiss high tech companies in the field of micro sensor technology (sensirion.com) and brushless motor control. With his solid background in electronics, mechanics and software he is working in an concurrent style between the disciplines. After several years of experience as a consultant in innovation management he is now engaged as lecturer for product innovation at the Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts. He built his first diy microscopes based on a webcam and a cheap digital camera during a workshop with Marc in Berlin. His aim is to evolve towards more balanced collaborative entities in social action, business and technology.
Denisa Kera is Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore where she is also a fellow of the Asia Research Institute (STS cluster) and Tembusu college. Her present research brings together history of science, philosophy and design, and combines issues and methodologies from Science Technology Society (STS) studies and interactive media design. She is trying to create design probes and tools for deliberation and public participation in science. She follows and supports science community labs and alternative R&D places (Hackerspaces, FabLabs) across the world with a special focus on DIYbio movements, consumer genomics and various citizen science projects. Research interests in Interactive Media Design, Science and Technology Studies and topics in Digital Culture and Art.
Stephanie Geiger (DE) is an artist and costume designer. She combines modern concepts and approaches with traditional designs. Her work is both timeless and international. Her creations have been in the spotlight at Residenztheater in Munich and on stages in Zurich, Breda, New York and Linz.
John Gerrard (1974) lives and works in Dublin, Ireland and Vienna, Austria. Recent solo presentations of Gerrard’s work include Pulp Press (Kistefos) 2014, a permanent install for Kistefos Museet, Norway and Exercise (Djibouti) 2012, for Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK. Infinite Freedom Exercise, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK (2011) John Gerrard, Ivory Press Madrid, Spain (2011) John Gerrard, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia (2011) Universal, Void Gallery, Derry, N. Ireland (2011) Sow Farm : What You See is Where You’re At. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (2010) Oil Stick Work, Art on the Underground, Canary Wharf Station, London, UK (2009 / 10) Directions : John Gerrard, Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA (2009) and John Gerrard, Animated Scene, 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2009). In 2011 Gerrard was commissioned by the Royal Ballet to create Live Fire Exercise (in collaboration with Wayne McGregor) which premiered at The Royal Opera House, London UK in May 2011 to widespread acclaim.
Andranik Ghalustians (AT) was born in 1972 in Vienna and studied Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Vienna. In addition to various journalistic activities in the field of retro games, he is also the proprietor of one of the largest video game collections worldwide.
Die Ars Electronica würdigt HR Giger (CH), den Außenseiter im System Kunst und legendären Schöpfer der Biomechanik und des oscargekrönten Alien. Diese Verkörperung der Angst vor dem von außen eindringenden Grauen in Ridley Scotts Scifi-Filmklassiker führt seit 1980 ein Eigenleben in der Populärkultur und hat den unverwechselbaren Stil des 1940 in Chur (Schweiz) geborenen Malers, Zeichners und Designers einer breiten Öffentlichkeit bekannt gemacht.
Obzwar Teil der Avantgarde der 1960er-Jahre, ist Giger selbst in der Kunstgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts verwurzelt. In vielem ist er der klassischen Malerei verpflichtet und greift doch lieber zum Airbrush als zum althergebrachten Pinsel. Als Erneuerer der Fantastischen Kunst schöpft Giger aus den Ängsten und Obsessionen seiner Kindheit, vor allem aus der Furcht vor einem globalen Atomkrieg und der Übervorteilung des Menschen durch den technischen Fortschritt. Besessen vom Kreislauf von Geburt, Eros und Tod verschmilzt der Künstler Technik, Mechanik und organischen Lebewesen zu verstörenden „Biomechanoiden“ und wird so zum Visionär des Cyborgs.
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is a designer, artist and writer, exploring the implications of emerging technologies and seeking new roles for design. As Design Fellow on Synthetic Aesthetics (Stanford University/University of Edinburgh), she curated an international project investigating the ‘design of nature’, developing novel modes of collaboration and critical discourse between art, design and synthetic biology (Synthetic Aesthetics, MIT Press 2014). Daisy studied architecture at the University of Cambridge, design at Harvard University and Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art, London. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally, including MoMA New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Israel Museum and the National Museum of China. In 2011, her collaborative work E.chromi was nominated for Designs of The Year and Index Awards, and she won the World Technology Award for Design. Daisy received the first London Design Medal for Emerging Talent in 2012. She is co-curating Grow Your Own, a flagship exhibition on synthetic biology at Science Gallery, Dublin opening in October 2013.
Nick Goldman (UK) works at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Hinxton, UK, researching algorithms to study genome evolution. He holds degrees in mathematics and zoology from the University of Cambridge, and has worked at the Natural History Museum and the National Institute for Medical Research, London, and the Departments of Genetics and Zoology, Cambridge, before joining EBI in 2002. He has published approximately 100 scientific papers. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/goldman
Andy Gracie, London -1967, works across various disciplines including installation, robotics, sound, video and biological practice. This work is situated between the arts and the sciences, creating situations of exchange between natural and artificial systems which allow new emergent behaviours to develop. More recently his work has begun to reflect cultural associations with the science of astrobiology. The underlying focus of his activities has often involved a study of organic intelligence, emergent systems and the placing of technological agents in situations where they are able to share information and behaviours with natural systems and networked ecologies. More recently his work involves studies and reactions to the science of astrobiology; notions of the origins of life coupled with a re-examination of its boundaries. His practice employs scientific theory and practice to question our relationships with environment and the notion of the ‘other’ whilst simultaneously bringing into focus the very relationship between art and science.
Doris Graf (DE) was born in 1968 in Krumbach, Germany. She studied at Villa Arson in Nice, France 1990-95 and 1996-2000 at Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. In 1994, she received a grant to study at Goldsmiths College in London. She has lived in Stuttgart and worked as an artist since 1995. She has exhibited widely in Germany and abroad, and been the recipient of numerous prizes and grants. In 2012, her Eu, Rio project represented the State of Baden-Württemberg at the CRIO Biennale in Rio de Janeiro.
Dr. Frank Hartmann (DE) is full professor at the Faculty of Art & Design, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. He was educated in Austria where he did his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Vienna and received his postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation) in the new interdisciplinary field of Media Philosophy. Work includes graduate teaching at several European Universities, international lectures and guest professorships including the USP – Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. He has published several books on media theory, media archaeology and visual communication. www.medienphilosophie.net
John-Dylan Haynes (DE/UK) is a psychologist, neuroscientist and Professor of Theory and Analysis of Large-Scale Brain Signals at the Bernstein Center of Charité Berlin. Haynes and his team conduct research on the neuronal basis of consciousness, volition, intentions and free will. They have used MRI technology to show that decision-making is initiated by subconscious brain processes.
Ivan Henriques is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher working in multimedia installations examining different perceptions of time, memory and environment. He explores in his works hybrids of nature and (technological) culture creating new forms of communication between humans and other living organisms. He considers nature as inspiration and a necessary factor in the development of the technological world. Ivan launched EME>> (Estúdio Móvel Experimental) – Experimental Mobile Studio – a mobile residency program funded by the Secretaria de Cultura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro in 2008/2009, financed by Conexões Artes Visuais (Funarte) having four more residencies in 2010 and supported by Mondriaan Fonds in 2012. He also has been leading the multi-disciplinary group Hybrid Forms Between Nature and Technology with students from the Technological University in Rio (CEFET/RJ). Lately he exhibited his works internationally, participating in festivals, residencies, talks and exhibitions. In 2013 he was invited from the School of Visual Arts NY for summer residency program, Pixelache Festival in Helsinki (FI) and Ars Electronica Berlin (DE) for the exhibition Wie eine zweite Natur and to showcase his works at the Estate University of Santa Catarina (BR). In 2012 he was nominated for the Genomic Awards 2012 – DA4GA (NL), invited to exhibit at Artbots in Gent (BE), Nature Now at CBK Drenthe (NL), Salone Internazionale de Milano (IT), ISEA RUHR 2010 in Dortmund (DE) and FILE- SP 2010 (BR) amongst other exhibitions and festivals. He participated in talks and residency programs such as V2_ in Rotterdam NL and Verbeke Foundation, BE, 2011/12; Talk at CIGAC 2012 – Paraiba (BR) and Hip3rorgânicos in Rio de Janeiro (BR). Henriques holds an MA in ArtScience Interfaculty at the Royal Academy of Arts and Royal Conservatoire of Music, The Hague /NL (2009-2011), represented by Verbeke Gallery and also member of TRANSNATURAL.
Bio
Geboren 1961 in Wien, Österreich. Kurator, Autor und Fotograf. 2004-2007 Jurymitglied Prix Ars Electronica. Seit 2008 Kurator am KUNST HAUS WIEN, Retrospektiven von René Burri, Henri Cartier-Bresson und Linda McCartney. Autor von Büchern über Pablo Picasso, Tina Modotti und Friedensreich Hundertwasser. 2010 Konzept des Ars Electronica Symposiums „Open Source Life“. 2011 Kurator der Ausstellung „HR Giger – Träume und Visionen“ im KUNST HAUS WIEN.
Studium der Chemie (Wien) und Biochemie (Tuebingen); PhD 1967, Postdoc in Yale und Stanford (USA) 1967 – 1970.
Studium der Morphogenese des Bakteriophagen Lambda, Biozentrum der Universitaet Basel, 1971-1977, Forschung an Genexpression bei Pflanzen; Gentransfer durch Agrobakterium tumefaciens an Pflanzen; Rekombination bei Pflanzen; Einfluss der Umwelt auf die Stabilitaet vom Pflanzengenom, 1978-2004, Friedrich Miescher Institut, Basel. Arbeit als Emeritus, FMI, Basel, Zahlreiche Preise und Mitgliedschaften
Kurt Hörbst (AT) was born in 1972 in the Mühlviertel region north of Linz. Following training as a telecommunications engineer in Graz, he attended the Prague School of Photography 1992-95. Since 1996, he has taught journalism and the history of photography at that institution, and worked on establishing its Austrian campus. Since 2005, he has taught photography at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. In recent years, he has focused his interest on multimedia projects with video installations and media performances in Austria and abroad. http://www.hoerbst.com/
Brian House (US) is a media artist whose work traverses alternative geographies, experimental music, and a critical data practice. By constructing embodied, participatory systems, he seeks to negotiate between algorithms and the rhythms of everyday life. His work has been shown by MoMA (NYC), MOCA (LA), Eyebeam, and Conflux Festival among others and has been featured in publications including WIRED, TIME, The New York Times, and on Univision Sports. http://brianhouse.net
Hiroto Ikeuchi (JP), born in 1990. He graduated from Tama Art University, Department of Information Design in 2013, where he studied design and Flash content, and spent most of his free time creating plastic models. He conceived the idea of a computer as a secret base, and has created hybrid dioramas combining plastic models and PC equipment.
Hiroshi Ishiguro (JP) received a D. Eng. in Systems Engineering from Osaka University, Japan in 1991. He has been a Professor in the Department of Systems Innovation at the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University since 2009 and Group Leader of the Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute and ATR fellow since 2011. His research interests include sensor networks, interactive robotics, and android science.
Hideo Iwasaki (JP) und Oron Catts (AU)
Hideo Iwasaki is the director of MetaPhorest, and Associate Professor, Lab Molecular Cell Network &Biomedia/Biological Art, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Oron Catts is The Director of SymbioticA – The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology ,The University of Western Australia.
Visualizing Palestine startete, als Ramzi Jaber, ein Palästina aus der Diaspora, 2009 nach Ramallah zurückkehrte, um TEDxRamallah zu kuratieren, das erste Event dieser Art in Palästina. Seit damals entwickelte sich das Projekt von einer Idee zu
einem Kernteam von Designern, Researchern, Technikern, Kommunikationsspezialisten und Strategen. Visualizing Palestine hat 15 Infografiken produziert und erhält Aufträge von der UNO, der Emergency Water Sanitation and Hygiene Coalition sowie des Palestinian Business Committee for Peace and Reform. Unsere Infografiken erschienen in Al Jazeera English, The Daily Beast, Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada und Jadaliyya. Die Visuals wurden in Arabisch, Hebräisch, Französisch, Spanisch, Finnisch, Chinesisch und Koreanisch übersetzt und in Universitäten und Interessenvertretungen auf vier Kontinenten verwendet.
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Joumana is co-founder of Visualizing Palestine, an independent social venture creating community-empowering visual tools that describe a factual, rights-based narrative for social justice. Her work revolves around ’social maturity‘. With a background in architecture and business, she works with multidisciplinary teams on projects aiming to increase social awareness using creative communication, particularly on Palestine. She co-curated TEDxRamallah in Lebanon and is co-founder of Febrik, a Lebanon based non-profit organization concerned with social practices and urban space particularly within the context of Palestinian refugee camps.
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Charlotte Jarvis (UK) is an artist and filmmaker who collaborates with scientists. For the past four years Charlotte has also been collaborating with photographer and writer James Read on a series of pop-up restaurants. Charlotte has just completed a year as artist in residence at the Netherlands Proteomics Centre, during which time she created the project Blighted by Kenning in which the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was encoded into DNA and used to ‘contaminate’ apples – a realization of ‚forbidden fruit‘. The piece was exhibited at The Big Shed in the UK and is due to move to Amsterdam and The Hague in November.
Emanuel Jauk wurde 1986 in Graz geboren, studierte klassische Gitarre und Kontrabass am Landeskonservatorium. Aktiviäten im Feld der elektronischen Medien als Klangkünstler, A/V-Performer und Kulturjournalist. In seinem Projekt 19hertz produziert Jauk elektronische Musik, für die die Verschmelzung mit akustischer Gitarre und das Experimentieren mit neuen Produktions- sowie Interfacetechnologien charakteristisch sind.
Werner Jauk (AT), born 1953. Musicologist/psychologist and scientific media-artist. Professor of Musicology at the University of Graz (KFU), Austria, working on „music + media/art“ with the focus on music as a role model for media arts. Studies in perception, cybernetics and experimental aesthetics led him to try and bridge a gap between science and arts. He has published many scientific papers, exhibited installations as a scientific artist at international festivals such as Ars Electronica, Cynetart, liquid music, Biennale di Venezia.
Große Konzertnacht, Prix Forum V – Digital Musics & Sound Art
Joreg was born in 1978 and is the co-founder of vvvv.org and core developer of the multipurpose toolkit vvvv. In adddition, he teaches, works for money and is primarily concerned with the integration of sound, image and computer code.
Dmitry & Elena Kawarga (RU) sind zwei der wenigen russischen Künstler, die mit avancierter Technologie arbeiten. Ihre bemerkenswertesten neueren Arbeiten sind eine Synthese aus Wissenschaft und Kunst und entstanden in Zusammenarbeit mit WissenschaftlerInnen und TechnikerInnen. Installationen und Objekte arbeiten mit Biofeedback; sie reagieren auf Berührung, auf den Rhythmus des Blutflusses, Atem und die geistige Verfassung des Menschen.
Hernán Kerlleñevich (AR) und Mene Savasta Alsina (AR)
Hernán Kerlleñevich (AR) ist Klangkünstler, elektroakustischer Komponist und Musiker. Sein Werk umfasst elektroakustische Stücke, Installationen und mehrkanalige Klanginterventionen, Audio-Postproduction und Musik für Medien. Er entwirft Interfaces und programmiert Environments zum Musizieren in Echtzeit. Er lehrt Computermusik und Sounddesign an der Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, der Fundación Universidad del Cine und der Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero.
Mene Savasta Alsina (AR) ist Klangkünstlerin, Musikerin und Kunsthistorikerin mit den Forschungs- und Arbeitsschwerpunkten Klangkunst, Live-Musik und Installationen. Als Komponistin und Live-Musikerin ist sie an mehreren Musikprojekten wie z. B. Operadora, El Tronador und Música Destructiva beteiligt. Sie ist Gründungsmitglied des Künstlerkollektivs Marder. Seit 2005 unterrichtet sie Kunstgeschichte an mehreren Universitäten.
Friedrich Kirschner is a filmmaker, visual artist and software developer. He re-purposes computer games and realtime animation technology to create animated narratives and interactive performances. His work has been shown at various international animation festivals and exhibitions, including the Laboral Gameworld exhibit in Gijon, the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York, the Ottawa international Animation festival and the Seoul Media Art Biennale. He is currently Professor for digital media in Puppetry at the University for performing arts „Ernst-Busch“ in Berlin.
Kompromissloser und provokanter Wahnsinn zeichnet Lukas König (der Bass und Schlagzeug gleichzeitig spielt) und den DJ-MC-Klarinettisten-Gitarristen-Sänger-Elektroniker Leo Riegler als Duo Koenigleopold seit 2011 aus. Als einer der kontroversiellsten Acts der gegenwärtigen Musikszene verstehen sie es, ihr Publikum innerhalb von Sekunden zum Lachen und gleich darauf zum Fremdschämen zu bringen.
Andreas Koller is an interaction designer interested in developing content-driven and human-centered design solutions.
Dominik Koller, geb 1995, besucht derzeit die 7. Klasse des BORG in Mittersill, Salzburg. Er hat zwei Auslandssemester in Kanada und Spanien verbracht. Im Winter ist er ein begeisterter Freerider; auch Trampolinspringen und Mountainbiken gehören zu seinen Hobbies. In seiner Freizeit beschäftigt er sich viel mit dem Computer und interessiert sich besonders für Medieninformatik und -design. Seit sieben Jahren spielt er Schlagzeug. Somit stellt das Projekt Visual:Drumset eine Verbindung seiner Interessen dar.
Veronika Krenn is an interaction designer from Austria with a wide range of interest in interaction design, physical computing and handcrafts. Worked mostly as Interaction Designer with qualifications in Interface, Graphic, Application, Motion and Orientation System Design. Graduated in 2006 „die Graphische“ in Vienna for Photography and Video, A-level vocational high school. She was studying Information Design with focus on Media and Interaction Design in 2011 at the University of Applied Science FH JOANNEUM in Graz. Moved to Linz to study in the Interface Cultures master program.
Campus Exhibition: Interface Cultures – Use at your own risk
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Anna Leiser ist als Teil des umtriebigen Wiener Kollektivs Bebop Rodeo für einen eklektischen Future-Sound-Abend gut.
Michael Madsen (DK), born 1971, is a film director and conceptual artist. He studied Dramaturgy and Art History at the universities of Aarhus and Copenhagen. Madsen has directed several documentaries including Celestial Night – A Film on Visibility (2003) and the prizewinning work To Damascus – A Film on Interpretation (2005). Into Eternity is a feature documentary film directed by Michael Madsen, released in 2010. It follows the digging and pre-implementation of the Onkalo nuclear waste repository on the island of Olkiluoto, Finland.
Timo Maier (DE) studied German literature, philosophy and history at RWTH Aachen University. He’s interested in combining insights from the field of cultural studies with new forms of communication using digital media, whereby he focuses on the question of how interaction and collective processes will be able to reconfigure art, politics and society in the future.
La Mécanique du Plastique (FR)
La Mécanique du Plastique (FR), ein Kollektiv bestehend aus vier französischen Künstlern produziert kleine ausgefallene Animationsfilme, bei denen verschiedene Techniken kombiniert werden. Seit dem Abschluss unserer Studien in bildender Kunst, Altgriechisch, Informatik und Computergrafik widmen wir uns dem Programmieren, der Malerei, der Musik und digitaler Kunst.
Der Österreichische Film – Neue Generation, neue Medien, neue Horizonte
Christopher und David Mikkelsen (DK)
David and Christopher Mikkelsen founded Refugees United in 2008. The two brothers and social entrepreneurs realized that existing family tracing programs were lacking in the use of collaborative technology and set out to change this state of things in order to help the thousands of separated refugee families around the world.
Dr. Dharmendra Modha is the founder of IBM’s Cognitive Computing group at IBM Research – Almaden and the principal investigator for DARPA SyNAPSE team globally. Dr. Modha leads a global team across neuroscience, nanoscience and supercomputing to build a computing system that emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action, and cognition – all while consuming many orders of magnitudes less power and space than today’s computers.
Andy Müller-Maguhn (DE) has been an active member of the CHAOS Computer Club since 1986. In this capacity, he investigates the interplay among new technologies and their effects on social welfare, culture, the economy and politics. He founded the DATA TRAVEL AGENCY in Berlin, where he conducts research on security issues, surveillance technologies and their psychological implications. Since 2012, he has been director of the Wau Holland Foundation that works on behalf of freedom of information and the right to privacy.
Leila Nachawati (ES) ist eine spanisch-syrische Bloggerin, Kommunikationsstrategin und Menschenrechtsaktivistin. Beim Prix Ars Electronica 2012 war sie Jurorin in der Kategorie Digital Communities.
Maki Namekawa (JP), pianist, is equally at home in the classical and contemporary repertoire. She performs regularly at international venues such as Suntory Hall Tokyo, Ruhr Piano Festival, Musik-Biennale Berlin, Festival Eclat in Stuttgart, ZKM Karlsruhe and Rheingau Music Festival and records frequently for the major German radio networks. Recent engagements include Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orkest Amsterdam, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Dresdener Philharmonie, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and Bruckner Orchester Linz. In 2012 she performed Arvo Pärt’s „Lamentate“ at Carnegie Hall New York and Igor Strawinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Since 2005, Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies have been performing together as a piano duo in Europe and the US.
Ars Electronica Quarter Night, Deep Space Live, The Memory of Le Sacre du Printemps
Reinhard Nestelbacher (AT) is a molecular biologist, science communicator and bioartist. He has produced numerous projects at the nexus of art and science designed to reach general audiences: Spermrace (2000); GFPixel (2001); exhibitions at Ars Electronica, Max Planck Forum, ARCO Madrid, Donumenta and Roche; Hidden Scientific Bodies (2003 & on permanent display); the cabaret Mr. Gene (2004); involved in the setup of the Ars Electronica Center’s Biolab; Cellpainting (2011); Eyecatcher (2013). www.nestelbacher.com
Die Aufwärmrunde der Nightline übernimmt NoisyBoy a.k.a. Selecta Ufuk mit einem seiner erfrischenden Sets, die sich als Crossover-Mixes durch Subgenres wie Moombahton und Trap & Tropical bewegen.
Aakash Odedra (UK) und Lewis Major (AU)
Training initially in the classical Indian dance styles of Kathak and Bharat Natyam in India and the UK, Aakash Odedra (UK) is one of the hottest rising stars of British Dance. Lewis Major (AU) is an Australian dancer, choreographer and teacher currently based somewhere between London, Leicester and Amsterdam.
Emiko Ogawa (JP) is an artist, curator and researcher. She is in charge of creative direction, graphics and interaction design in the media artist group „h.o“, www.howeb.org. Currently she also works at Ars Electronica, and is responsible for Prix Ars Electronica.
Hideaki Ogawa (JP) is an artist, curator and researcher in the field of art, technology and society. He is a representative and artistic director of the media artist group „h.o“ www.howeb.org. Currently he also works in the Ars Electronica Futurelab and has realized many projects for research, festivals and the AEC.
Roberto Paci Dalò (IT), a musician, film & theatre director and visual artist who presents his work worldwide in museums, theatres, radio, and the public space. A pioneer in the use of Internet and telecommunication systems in art, he is the artistic director of the Giardini Pensili group. His work has won him international admiration from, among others, John Cage and Aleksandr Sokurov. robertopacidalo.com
Benjamin Pollach (DE) is an art director based in Berlin. His passion for maps started at an early age. Instead of reading children’s books, he was attracted to world atlases. Years later, while hanging out with friends in a bar, someone asked who’s able to draw the world map from memory. After discovering the maps again a few years later, and still fascinated by the results, Benjamin Pollach decided to create the World Map Archive; he asked friends, and friends of friends, all over the globe to draw a map of the world and contribute to his collection. www.worldmaparchive.com
Paul Prudence is an artist and real-time visual performer using generative and computational methods to create audio responsive visual systems.
Quayola, der vor allem für seine enigmatischen Videoinstallationen bekannt ist, kreiert hybride Räume aus animierten Gemälden und Skulpturen. In seiner künstlerischen Praxis,die audiovisuelle Performance, Zeichnung, Fotografie und Software-Programmierung umfasst, lotet er die schmale Grenze zwischen dem Realen und dem Künstlichen aus. Auftragsarbeiten von Institutionen ermöglichten ihm den nur wenigen Personen vorbehaltenen Zugriff auf Kunst und Architektur von Kirchen, Theatern und Museen in Europa, wie etwa Notre Dame und Vatikan. In seinen Arbeiten werden sowohl Originale von Meisterwerken als auch Sammlungen zu einer Projektionsfläche und von Quayolain einer videobasierten Analyse als Dialog über Archive, Collage, geistiges Eigentum und den Status eines Originals neu interpretiert.
Expanded Animations – Mapping an Unlimited Landscape, Prix Forum I – Computer Animation, Prix Ars Electronica 2013, Deep Space Live
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga (AR) holds a research chair and is the director of the Centre for Systems Neuroscience and the head of the Bioengineering Research Group at the University of Leicester. He graduated in Physics at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and obtained his PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Luebeck, Germany. In 2010, he obtained the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. His main research interest is on the study of the principles of visual perception and memory. He discovered what has been named „Concept cells“ or „Jennifer Aniston neurons“—neurons in the human brain that play a key role in memory formation— a finding that was selected as one of the top 100 scientific stories of 2005 by Discover Magazine. His work has been published in about 100 research articles and has received worldwide media attention, including articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Scientific American, Daily Mail, New Scientist, the Independent, etc. He is the author of the book Borges and memory, linking the thoughts of Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges with memory research in Neuroscience.
Yoav Reches is a graduate of the M.A. Design Products course in the Royal College of Art, London (2010), followed by a residency at the MIT Media Lab as a visiting researcher in the Fluid Interfaces group. He received a B.A in Industrial Design from of the Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2003) and was a member of the performance group Zik since 1995. He also taught at Shenkar College of Design, Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design and the School of Visual Theatre. He also collaborated as a product design consultant with several companies among them Samsung Electronics and IDEO. Yoav’s work has been widely exhibited internationally in venues such as Milan Furniture Fail, London Design Week, Sotheby’s London, Volker Diehl Gallery, Berlin, La Manufacture National de Sèvres Gallery Paris, Third Biennale for Ceramics Tel Aviv and Design Museum Holon.
Daniel Reetz (US) is an artist, a camera hacker, and an engineer. He is best known as the founder of the DIY Book Scanner community, a group of thousands who develop Open Source Hardware and Software, exploiting cheap cameras and modern tools to scan books quickly, especially in places where traditional scanning is unaffordable, impossible, or inappropriate.
Joost Rekveld (1970) has been making abstract films and light installations since 1991, originally starting out from the idea of a visual music for the eye. He has been making most of his animated films with optical and mechanical setups, using the computer as a controller and composition machine in order to orchestrate the precise movements of optical components. His installation making grew out of the tools he developed to make his films, often inspired by the lesser frequented by-ways in the history of science and technology. His work so far has dealt with various forms of scanning, or with concepts related to the early history of optics and perspective. His interest in the spatial aspects of light triggered a shift away from the screen, towards more architectural and theatrical forms of work. At the moment he is becoming increasingly implicated in activities that resemble cybernetics, artificial life and robotic architecture.
His films have been shown worldwide in a broad range of festivals and venues for experimental, animated or otherwise short films. He has collaborated on many theatre projects, often with dance group Emio Greco | PC or music theatre ensemble De Veenfabriek. He has been putting together many programmes about the history of abstract animation and light art, culminating in the 9th edition of Sonic Acts: Sonic Light 2003. In 2004 he curated ‘4D in the Filmmuseum’ a large exhibition, series of screenings and lectures for the Dutch Filmmuseum. Since 2008 he is the head of the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatory and the Royal Academy in The Hague.
Tobias Revell is an artist, designer and educator from London. As an artist, he exhibits worldwide, most recently at Milan Design Salone and Z33 in Belgium. As a designer he’s an associate with design-futures studio Superflux and works with ARUP’s Foresight + Innovation team. He teaches Design for Interaction and Moving Image at University of The Arts London and guests on numerous other programs. His work looks at world building to construct alternate scenarios and amplify weak signals in the systems and ideologies that govern the technological world.
Helga Rohra (DE) was born in 1953. Originally an interpreter specializing in the natural sciences and medicine, she went on to train herself in the field of dementia. In 2007, she was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia. In 2010, she became a member of the board of the Munich Alzheimer Society. Since 2010, she has been the patroness of the Dementia Center of the City of Erlangen. In 2011, Helga Rohra published her bestseller entitled Aus dem Schatten treten. Warum ich mich für unsere Rechte als Demenzbetroffene einsetze (Stepping out of the Shadows. Why I am a lobbyist for the rights of Dementia sufferers). Since 2011, she has also been a member of the scientific advisory committee of Alzheimer Ethik and, since 2012, a member of the board of AE (Alzheimer Europa) /Luxembourg as well as 1st Chairperson of the EU Working Group of People with Dementia.
Elisa Rose (AT) und Gary Danner (AT)
STATION ROSE (AT) was founded in 1988 by artist Elisa Rose and composer Gary Danner, pioneers of digital culture in Vienna. 1987: diploma from Vienna University of Applied Arts; since 1988: Gunafa Clubbing; 1988-89: Cairo; 1991-2011: STR in Frankfurt; 1995: Prix Ars Electronica; 1996: Sony Music; since 1996: Social Web; since 1999: webcasting; 2002-04: professorship at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences; 2002-06: „Best of Webcasting“ TV, ARD; 2008: 20 Digital Years; performances and exhibitions worldwide; since 2011: back in Vienna & in MQ; 2012: recipient of the Art Recognition Prize of the City of Linz. stationrose.com
Phil Ross (US) ist Künstler, Lehrer und Erfinder, dessen kreative Arbeiten um das Verhältnis zwischen Mensch, Technologie und Lebenswelt kreisen. Von 2001 bis 2008 war er Gastdozent an der Stanford University, an der
UC Berkeley und am San Francisco Art Institute. 2008 wurde er Assistenzprofessor am Institut für Kunst und Architektur der University of San Francisco. Ross hat in den vergangenen zehn Jahren mit zahlreichen Kursen, Workshops und Vorträgen über
DIY-Biologie wesentlich zur aufstrebenden Maker-Kultur einer offenen wissenschaftlichen Praxis und informellen wissenschaftlichen Ausbildung in der Bay Area beigetragen. Er hält einen BFA in Bildhauerei vom San Francisco Art Institute (1991) und einen
MFA von der Stanford Universität (2000).
Daniel Rozin (US) schafft interaktive Installationen und Skulpturen, die auf die Gegenwart des Betrachtenden reagieren und sich mit ihr ver ändern. Seine bekanntesten Arbeiten schaffen in Echtzeit ein Abbild des Betrachtenden und machen damit das Publikum zu einem aktiven und kreativen Teil seiner Kunstprojekte. Mit seinen Konstruktionen untersucht Rozin seit Ende der 1990er Jahre die psychologischen und optischen Grundelemente der Bilderzeugung.
Mariano Sardón (AR) is a professor and chair of the Electronic Art Degree at the Universidad Nacional de 3 de Febrero and the academic advisor of the Interactive Art Program at Espacio Fundación Telefónica Argentina. He studied Physics at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. He was visiting scholar at the University of California Los Angeles. He has had many solo and collective exhibitions. Many of his works belong to museums and private art collections in Argentina and abroad.
Alexander Schellow (DE) interessiert sich für Zusammenhänge von Raum, Wahrnehmung und Handeln im Grenzbereich zwischen künstlerischer und wissenschaftlicher Recherche. Seit 1999 entwickelt er eine kontinuierliche Praxis mit dem Verfahren zeichnerischer Erinnerungsrekonstruktion. Sie bildet die Basis für unterschiedliche Formate, die sich oft über lange Zeiträume und teils ortsbezogen entfalten: Zeichnungsserien, Animationen/Filme, Archive, Installationen, Lectures, Performances oder Texte. Zuletzt arbeitete er so unter anderem an einem Archiv von Praxen des Orientierens im Kontext extrem schnell wachsender neuer Stadtgebiete Tiranas (Albanien) – eine Reflexion lokaler und translokaler raumpolitischer Felder vor Ort. Alexander Schellow ist Professor am Department Cinema d’animation / erg in Brüssel.
Johanna Schmeer is a designer based in London and Berlin, where she works in the fields of speculative design and participatory research related to emerging technologies. She holds a degree in Visual Communication from the University of the Arts Berlin, has worked in design research and interaction design, and is currently completing a Master’s degree in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art. Her practice involves the creation of future narratives about the social, ethical, and cultural impact of new technologies on everyday life, described through designed objects and interactions. Another significant part of her work includes planning and running participatory workshops, as an alternative or complementary way to engage an audience in these future scenarios. She has exhibited and given talks at conferences, museums and academic institutions internationally.
Markus Schmidt (AT) is founder of Biofaction, a research, technology assessment, and science communication company in Vienna, Austria. His scientific work focuses on the societal ramifications of new biotechnologies. He also aims to contribute to a better interaction between science and society through public talks, production of scientific documentary films, Science Film Festivals (Bio:fiction) and art-science exhibitions (synth-ethic). www.markusschmidt.eu
Promotion in Germanistik und Philosophie 1973 an der FU Berlin. 20 Jahre Verlagslektorin und freie Publizistin in Zürich, Köln, Frankfurt a.M., Berlin. 1991-92 Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; seit 1998 Privatdozentin an der Humboldt Universität. Wichtigste Arbeiten: Die Kunst des Gesprächs. Texte zur Geschichte der europäischen Konversationstheorie. München 1986; Hitlers Gesicht. Eine physiognomische Biographie. München 2000. Die Stimme des Bösen. Zur Klanggestalt des 3. Reiches. MERKUR 581 (1997).
www.claudiaschmoelders.de
Stefan Schraml (AT) was born in 1973 in Vienna and has worked as a Game Producer and User Interface Designer. He is the primary founding member of GameStage, a Linz-based gaming community and presentation platform
Theresa Schubert (DE) is a post-media artist and researcher in everything concerning the intersection of art, science, and its social impact. In her artistic practice she treats nature’s phenomena not only as inspiration, but as a material and critical process to better understand the complexity of our lives by combining biological matter with digital art. Currently she is a PhD Candidate in media art at the Bauhaus University Weimar.
Semiconductor is UK artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Through moving image works they explore the material nature of our world and how we experience it, questioning our place in the physical universe. Their unique approach has won them many awards and prestigious fellowships, most recently the ‚Samsung Art + Prize‘ 2012 for new media, the ‚Golden Gate Award for New Visions‘ at San Francisco International Film Festival USA 2012 and the ‚Art and Science Award‘ at Ann Arbor Film Festival USA.
Die Sick Girls versorgen seit 2004 die Clubs der Welt mit ihrer Synthese von britischem Grime, Dubstep und Bass einerseits sowie Gangsta Rap, B-more und Digi-Dancehall andererseits.
Mariano Sigman (AR) obtained a PhD in neuroscience in New York and then moved to Paris. His research is in perception, decision-making and consciousness. In 2006 he founded the Integrative Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Buenos Aires. He has been awarded with the HFSP Career Award, the young investigator prize of the Collège de France, the IBM award and is a scholar of the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
SjQ++ ( JP) ist ein audiovisuelles Projekt, das von Yuta Uozumi (E-Piano / Computer), Tadashi Yonago (Posaune / Computer), Isao Nakagaito (Gitarre), Shuhei Otani (Bass), Wataru Asada (Schlagzeug) und Ryo Kanda (Visuals / Computer) 2012 in Kyoto ins Leben gerufen wurde. 2001 starteten sie das Projekt für Improvisationsmusik SjQ. Im folgenden Jahr brachte das japanische Label Cubic Music ihre erste CD heraus. 2012 schloss sich der bildende Künstler Ryo Kanda alias Kezzardrix der Gruppe an, die sich nunmehr SjQ++ nennt und audiovisuelle Projekte realisiert.
Prix Forum V – Digital Musics & Sound Art, Digital Musics in Concert, CyberArts 2013
Austrian musician Parov Stelar has taken over the global music scene like a phantom in recent years. Through his music the modest but exceptional talent has not only gained an enormous fan base, but has also achieved cult status as a producer. His retro- influenced music is borne out of an aura of elegance, wickedness and pure energy. inspired by styles and samples from themost varying of genres (soul, pop, jazz and swing) and combined with modern beats and grooves he creates an incomparable and peerless sound. For his live shows Parov Stelar takes to the stage with a host of musical magicians. The performances of the Parov Stelar band are one of the most impressive live conversions of electronic music currently to be seen anywhere in the world. Brass and rhythm sections along with singer Cleo Panther reinvent Parov Stelar’s electro beats, emotionally charging the public in a way never thought possible. At the centre of the show is the creator himself, guiding the musical tour de force from the DJ booth. Despite 100’s of live shows and excessive touring the band still continues to push their own creativity and break the boundaries of musical performance. Each show is uniquely different from the previous, inviting the listener to explore new aspects and emotions within Parov Stelar’s music.
Carl Stone (US) & Gil Kuno (JP)
Carl Stone is an American composer, primarily working in the field of live electronic music. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music since 1972. He is a faculty member in the Department of Information Media at Chukyo University in Japan but also lives and works in San Francisco. Gil Kuno is an artist based in Tokyo and Los Angeles.
Born in 1979 in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Graduated from the Department of Design at Tokyo Zokei University in 2001. An image installation called „Perspective of the Globe Jungle“, utilizing a rotating playground equipment known as „globe jungle“, won the annual first prize at the NHK Digital Stadium. Since exhibiting his work at the Ars Electronica Festival – the media art event in Linz, Austria – has been invited to show his works at many exhibitions and art festivals in Japan and abroad. In 2002, received the Grand Prize at the Philip Morris Art Award for „inter-reflection.“ The „Blinking Leaves“ released in 2003 at the Spiral Garden is continuing to be shown at art museums and public spaces. In 2009, was in charge of the art direction of the „Digital Public Art in Haneda Airport – Please watch your step“ project. His work „Constellation of Departure“ received the Good Design Award. A book „Digital Public Art in Haneda Airport“ documenting the art project was published in 2010.(Co-authored and published by Bijutsu Shuppan) The „Zipper Ship“ shown at the Setouchi Triennale 2010 drew strong attention. In 2011, held solo exhibition at the Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art. A zipper-shaped boat, modeled after his „Zipper Ship“ debuted on Lake Hamana, and other projects were also held at the Hamamatsu City Office and in the regional shopping areas. Received the „Artist from Hamamatsu“ Award – an award given by Hamamatsu City to promote education and culture. The book „Mabataki to Habataki (Blinking and Fluttering)“ containing his first portfolio, was published by Seigensha Art Publishing.
Yuri Suzuki (JP/UK), geb. 1980, ist Klangkünstler, Designer und Elektronik-Musiker und setzt sich in exquisit komponierten Stücken mit der Welt der Klänge auseinander. Von 1999 bis 2005 arbeitete er für die japanische Kunstfactory Maywa Denki und entdeckte sein großes Interesse an Musik und Technologie. 2005 ging er nach London, um am Royal College of Art zu studieren. Nach Abschluss seines Studiums im Jahr 2008 eröffnete er sein Studio in London. Suzukis Arbeit hinterfragt die Beziehung zwischen Klang und Mensch und die Auswirkung von Musik und Klängen auf den Menschen.
Emma de Swaef (BE) studierte Animation in Brüssel und Gent und produziert seit 2005 Animations- und Dokumentarfilme.
Keiko Takahashi is exploring for combining for analog and digital, her childhood memories inspired to create interactive installations and media arts. She is graduated from Kunsthouchshule für Medien, Köln Germany and Oil painting course, Joshibi University of art and design, Japan. Her works have been exhibited at galleries, festivals, and museums internationally as ISEA2002, the 5th and 10th Japan Media Festival, and Siggraph 2003 and 2007, Ars Electonica Center(2007-2008). Awards include Prix Ars Electronica 2001, Fellowship from the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists, 2007.
Orkan Telhan (TR) und Mahir M. Yavuz (TR)
Orkan Telhan is interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher whose investigations focus on the design of interrogative objects, interfaces, and media, engaging with critical issues in social, cultural, and environmental responsibility.
That Fucking Sara steht seit Anfang der 1990er an den Turntables, kann auf viele Touren und Festivals zurückblicken und serviert über Hip-Hop hinaus manchmal auch Disco, Old School Electro, Soul und Funk.
Rüdiger Trojok studied Synthetic and Systems Biology at the Universities of Potsdam, Freiburg and DTU Copenhagen and is a member of the open biology enthusiasts network Hackteria. He became involved with biohacking and open biology while following discussion on genetic engineering in the media and tinkering at home with molecular biology equipment and protocols. Biological technology is in a process of radical transformation, fuelled by the possibilities provided by latest computer technology and the internet. Extrapolating the development of factual knowledge and technological means into future and fiction, the only limitation to the scope and impact of this seem the availability of information, understanding and imagination. These thoughts lead to fundamental questions: What is life – a molecular machinery, a world of individual organisms, or both? To what extent should humans use and manipulate living world systems – including ourselves? To what aims should we employ the new skills and insights? How can we guarantee a fair and safe use worldwide? If we democratize the technologies and the oversight of their use to a global community of researchers and other members of the publis we can enable more just, productive and open discussion on the issues. Rüdiger engages in open science as a model for citizen engagement in important policy issues connecting science, arts and politics. In short: biohacking.
1960 in Montalbano (Italien) geboren, aufgewachsen in Hessen; 1982 Studium der Literatur an der Universität »La Sapienza« in Rom; 1984-89 Studium der visuellen Kommunikation an der Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg; 1989-98 Gründungsmitglied und Direktor des European Media Art Lab, Mitbegründer von xailabs GmbH in Berlin 2006. Künstler und Softwareunternehmer, viele Jahre hauptamtlicher Professor und Dekan der Merz Akademie Stuttgart, Preisträger des Deutschen Medienkunstpreises und deutscher Internetunternehmer der ersten Stunde.
Dieter Vandoren (°1981, Belgium) is a media artist, performer and developer. His work balances on the edge of creative arts and scientific research & development. Drawing from his diverse backgrounds in music, informatics and interactive architecture, he is currently occupied with the development and performance of spatial, immersive audiovisual instruments with a strong focus on the embodied aspect of performance. He is a guest tutor and researcher at the Hyperbody and StudioLab groups at the Delft University of Technology (faculties of architecture and industrial design, respectively) and directs cultural centre De Fabriek Rotterdam. He previously worked as developer and researcher at design office ONL[Oosterhuis_Lenard] and research group Hyperbody, both led by prof. Kas Oosterhuis. He holds a master degree in ArtScience (Royal Academy of Art The Hague) and bachelor in Digital Communication (University of Applied Sciences Utrecht). His solo works have been featured at TodaysArt, STRP, Glow Eindhoven, STEIM, NIMk and others. Dieter currently resides in Rotterdam, NL.
Koen Vanmechelen (BE), geb. 1965, ist ein international bekannter Konzeptkünstler. Zentrale Themen seines bahnbrechenden Werks sind Diversität und Identität. Seit zehn Jahren arbeitet Vanmechelen dabei mit Wissenschaftlern
aus den verschiedensten Fachbereichen zusammen, was ihm ein Ehrendoktorat der Universität Hasselt eingetragen hat. In seinem Werk, das u.a. das Cosmopolitan Chicken Research Project (CCP), die Holzstatue Cosmogolem und das Fertilitätsprojekt Walking Egg umfasst, benutzt er eine Fülle künstlerischer Techniken von Malerei und Video bis hin zur Installation, Bildhauerei und Glasbearbeitung. Vanmechelens Arbeiten wurden auf fast allen Erdteilen gezeigt und waren auf den Biennalen von Venedig, Moskau, Dakar und Poznan sowie auf der Expo 2010 in Shanghai zu sehen.
Paul Vanouse (US) arbeitet seit 1990 mit neu entstehenden Medien, wobei sein künstlerisches Schaffen von Interdisziplinarität und leidenschaftlichem Dilettantentum gekennzeichnet sind. Sein elektronisches Kino, seine biologischen Experimente und seine interaktiven Installationen sind in über 20 Ländern ausgestellt worden. Im letzten Jahrzehnt hat er hauptsächlich daran gearbeitet, die arkanen Codes wissenschaftlicher Kommunikation in eine allgemein verständliche kulturelle Sprache zu übersetzen. Vanouse ist Professor für Visual Studies an der University at Buffalo, NY. Er studierte Kunst an der University at Buffalo (BFA, 1990) und an der Carnegie Mellon University (MFA, 1996).
Eyal Vexler (IL) is a producer and curator of cultural art events and exhibitions, who initiates, organizes and produces a variety of events such as art exhibitions (institutional and independent), mass cultural events, music shows, video art, movies and fashion line productions.
Arno Villringer studierte Medizin in Freiburg und promovierte zu einem molekularbiologischen Thema im Jahre 1984. Es folgten eine Post-Doc Zeit am Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School sowie die Ausbildung zum Neurologen an der LMU München; 1992 Facharzt für Neurologie; 1994 Habilitation. Von 1992-2003 Oberarzt an der Charité, Seit 1996 Professor für Neurologie an der Charité, Berlin. 2004-2007 Leiter der Neurologischen Klinik am Campus Benjamin Franklin der Charité. Seit 1998 Koordinator des bundesdeutschen Kompetenznetz Schlaganfall. Seit 2007 Direktor am MPI für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften und Direktor der Klinik für Kognitive Neurologie, Universität Leipzig. Seit 2006 Sprecher der ‘Berlin School of Mind and Brain‘ an der HU-Berlin (gegründet durch die Deutsche Exzellenzinitiative).
Wissenschaftlicher Schwerpunkt: Kognition und Plastizität des Gehirns, insbesondere im Kontext von Schlaganfall und Demenz.
Ei Wada (JP), born in 1987, is a musician and an artist. Ei Wada adapts old-fashioned electronic machines, converting them into computer-controlled devices. He puts on performances with these machines, as well as creating musical work and installations for exhibitions. In 2009, he started the group Open Reel Ensemble, which manipulates and plays reel-to-reel tape recorders. The group is involved in a wide range of activities including concert performances, DVD/CD and book publishing, art installations and providing music for movies and catwalk shows. Recently it has begun an ambitious orchestral project using 20 reel-to-reel tape recorders. Wada also works for the Braun Tube Jazz Band project, which plays CRT monitors as instruments and has performed in various locations around the world.
Wanda & Nova deViator entziehen sich mit zeitgenössischer elektronischer Musik in voller klanglicher Vielfalt jeder Genrezuordnung, auch wenn ihre Wurzeln im britischen Sound unüberhörbar sind.
Wheras beats took the centre stage in the past works of Linz resident Washer, his newer stuff is affected by a more abstract mood and field recordings. His music could be described as an arrangement of delicate small gestures creating a big reverberating atmosphere, which opens out into a rewarding and intense listening experience.
Karin Wehn is a media scholar and curator for film studies and digital media. She holds a PhD in media studies. She has worked as a researcher and assistant professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, the University of Leipzig, the University of Fine Arts in Berlin & the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. Her main research areas are animation, digital media and media theory. She is a member of the editorial board of „Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal“, Sage and a board member of the German Institute for Animated Film. She has been a jury member at the Shortfilmfestival Dresden, Vienna Independent Shorts, the Shortfilmfestival Hamburg and the International Animation festival Fantoche, Baden, Switzerland.
Virgil Widrich, geboren 1967 in Salzburg, arbeitet an zahlreichen Film- und Multimediaproduktionen, sowie als Ausstellungsgestalter. Seine Kurzfilme „Copy Shop“ und „Fast Film“ gewannen mehr als 70 internationale Preise darunter eine Oscar-Nominierung. 2001 Mitbegründung der checkpointmedia AG, die bis heute über 400 Projekte in den Bereichen Multimediainszenierung, Museen, Erlebniswelten, Ausstellungen, Websites u.v.m. realisiert hat. Von 2007 bis 2010 Universitätsprofessor für digitale Kunst an der Universität für angewandte Kunst, seit 2009 Leitung des Masters „Art & Science“ ebendort.
Benjamin Wiederkehr ist Interaction Designer mit den Schwerpunkten Datenvisualisierung und Interface Design. Er ist Gründungspartner und Geschäftsführer von Interactive Things, ein auf User Experience Design und Datenvisualisierung spezialisiertes Design und Technologie Studio, das er 2010 zusammen mit Christian Siegrist und Jeremy Stucki gründete. Das in Zürich ansässige Team entwickelt und realisiert interaktive Produkte und Informationsvisualisierungen für nationale und internationale Kunden wie z.B. UNDP, UNESCO, WEF, Mozilla und National Geographic. Benjamin ist zusätzlich Mitglied in der Schweizer Open Government Data Task Force (Opendata.ch) und fördert den offenen Zugang zu staatlichen Datenbeständen für alle. Auf Datavisualization.ch bietet Benjamin Einblicke in seine Forschungs- und Arbeitsprozesse und dokumentiert aktuelle Anwendungsfälle im Bereich der Datenvisualisierung. Seine Arbeits- und Forschungsinteressen sind Persuasive Technology, Informations- und Wissensvisualisierung sowie Kartographie.
Huang Yi (TW) is a choreographer, experimenter, and an inventor. He makes dances through different lens and media, and is actively engaged in video, photography, and installation arts. A two-time winner of the Taipei Digital Art Performance Award, he is known for the mix of rich images and delicate body. Since his 2006 short film Costume, Dance with Visual Effect, Huang Yi ventures into dance videography and continuously quests for new technological expressions for dance.
Andre Zogholy (AT) was born in 1975 and lives in Linz. He is engaged in cultural studies, and is a sound researcher and an artist. He works at Linz Art University, at the University of Linz and with the qujOchÖ art collective