Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone is Associate Professor and Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) and Convergent Media Program at UT Austin, Senior Artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and a Humanities Research Institute Fellow at UC Irvine. In various incarnations she has been a filmmaker, rock 'n roll music engineer, neurologist, social scientist, cultural theorist, and performer. She is the author of numerous publications including 'The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto' and 'The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age', both available in Swedish, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese translations. She lives in Austin, Texas and Santa Cruz, California.

Bruce Bagemihl is a biologist, linguist, and author. Previously on the faculty of the University of British Columbia and a consultant to Microsoft, Bagemihl is an internationally recognized scholar whose interdisciplinary work explores the frontiers of language, biology, gender, and sexuality. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed book, *Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity*, named one of the best books of the year by (among others) The New York Public Library and *Publishers Weekly*. Bagemihl holds degrees in biology and linguistics/cognitive science, and has published widely on subjects ranging from zoology to cognitive ethnomusicology to queer theory.

Prof. Carl Djerassi, born in Vienna but educated in the US, is a writer and professor of chemistry at Stanford University. Author of over 1200 scientific publications and seven monographs, he is one of the few American scientists to have been awarded both the National Medal of Science (in 1973, for the first synthesis of a steroid oral contraceptive - 'the Pill') and the National Medal of Technology (in 1991, for promoting new approaches to insect control).

Gerfried Stocker was born in 1964, media artist. In 1991, he founded x-space, a team for the realization of interdisciplinary projects. In this framework numerous installations and performance projects have been carried out in the field of interaction, robotics and telecommunications. He was also responsible for the concept of various radio network projects and the organization of the worldwide radio and network project *Horizontal Radio*. Since 1995 he is one of the managing directors of the Ars Electronica Center. Together with Christine Schöpf artistic co-director of Ars Electronica since 1996.

Ionat Zurr Born in England, lived in Israel and Australia. Currently living and working in WA. Studied photography and media studies, specializing in biological and digital imaging.

Jens Reich was born in 1939 and grew up in East Germany; 1956 - 62, studied medicine at Humboldt University in Berlin; 1962-64, practiced as a physician; 1964-68, studied biochemistry at the University of Jena; 1968-90, staff member of the Academy of Sciences, specializing in the use of computers in biomedicine; 1989, co-founder of the NEUES FORUM; 1990, representative in parliament of the NEUES FORUM (Bündnis90/Grüne coalition); since 1992, affiliated with the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine as chief of the bioinformatics working group; since 1998, professor at the Humboldt University School of Medicine in Berlin, and staff physician at the university clinic.

Joanne Finkelstein is a sociologist from the Chicago School. She has a doctorate from the University of Illinois, USA, and teaches social theory and cultural studies at The University of Sydney in Australia. Her research is in consumer trends, fashion, food and mass entertainment. She is the author of *Dining Out: a Sociology of Modern Manners*; *The Fashioned Self*; *Slaves of Chic*, and *After A Fashion*.

Joe Davis was born 1950. Painting, sculpture, and public art projects; computer graphics; laser teleoperator systems; electron beam construction and applications; video telecommunications; small, self-contained space shuttle payload systems; extensive research and practice in molecular biology and bioinformatics for the production of genetic databases and new biological art forms; teaching experience in MIT architecture graduate program and in undergraduate painting and mixed media at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Katie Egan was born 1972. Freelance photography; laboratory assistance in art and molecular biology and microbiology; gallery construction, installation, coordination and management; production assistance, audio-visual support, and technical demonstrations for an international lecture series in art and biology.

Psychiatrist and neurologist affiliated with the psychiatric department of the Board of Health of the City of Düsseldorf, Germany. Fields of specialization: forensic psychiatry and issues of sexual medicine, aggressive behavior, dependency-related illnesses.

Dr. Marie Luise Angerer (A) is media theorist and Professor of media & gender at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. Her main research areas are media and new technology, psychoanalysis, gender and cultural studies. Research and teaching in Australia, USA, Canada, and England. Publications among others: Body options. Körper.Spuren.Medien.Bilder. (1999) Edition of The Body of Gender (1995). Furthermore Marie Luise Angerer is beside Prof. Carl Djerassi member of the Ars Electronica 2000 Advisory Board.Dr. Marie Luise Angerer (A) is media theorist and Professor of media & gender at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. Her main research areas are media and new technology, psychoanalysis, gender and cultural studies. Research and teaching in Australia, USA, Canada, and England. Publications among others: Body options. Körper.Spuren.Medien.Bilder. (1999) Edition of The Body of Gender (1995).

Marta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Lisbon. For some years Marta has been working in the interface between art and biology, also known as *bio-art*. Residency at the Institute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences at the University of Leiden. She is currently completing an M.St. at the University of Oxford on the relationship between art and science. Alongside this theoretical work, Marta de Menezes is developing new artistic projects in *bio-art*.

Monika Treut (D) studied literature and politics at the Marburg Phillips University in Germany. The topic of her doctoral theses was *The Cruel Woman. Female Images in the Writings of Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.* Basel/Frankfurt, 1984. Since 1984 has been running an independent film production company, Hyena Films, and writes, directs and produces award-winning features and documentaries which are distributed internationally. She divides her time travelling the Americas and working from Hyena Films' office in Hamburg, Germany.

born in 1977, grew up in San Francisco; with her first digital camera and no knowledge about photography, she began to discover the thrill of taking sexy pictures; started to publish her digital diaries on the web, meanwhile compiled as a book - 'Digital Shots'.

Nobuya Unno (J) was born in 1956, and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, in 1982. He was trained as an obstetrician/gynecologist, and received a Ph.D. (Dr. of Medical Science) degree in 1993 from the University of Tokyo. The title of his thesis was 'The development of extrauterine fetal incubation systems using umbilical arterio-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation'. The mentor of the study was the late Professor Yoshinori Kuwabara. Dr. Unno is currently Assistant Professor of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, and Chief of Department of Obstetrics, Nagano Children's Hospital. He is a member of the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Japan Society of Neonatology, the Japanese Society of Perinatal Medicine, and the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs.

Oron Catts Born in Finland, lived in Israel and Australia Currently living and working in WA. Coordinator of SymbioticA: The Art & Science Collaborative Studio, Department of Anatomy & Human Biology, the University of Western Australia. Working as a part time lecturer as Curtin University School of Design. Trained in product design, and specialized in the future interaction of design and biological derived technologies.

Randy Thornhill is Regents' Professor and Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico. His research interests include insect, bird and human behavior, characterizing the process of sexual selection, and the study of adaptation and methodology in evolutionary biology in general. Over the last 10 years, he has focused his research on human sexuality, especially sexual coercion and sexual attraction. He is the co-author, with evolutionary anthropologist Craig T. Palmer, of the recent (2000) book *A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion*. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Sergio Messina was born in 1959, started working in radio as soon as the pirate radio movement bloomed in Italy (1975); in 1980 he went to work for Radio Città Futura where, until '93, he worked as a dj, as an engineer and as an artist. In 1985 he made his first broadcast for the national radio of Italy (Rai) and was broadcasted by Audiobox (the station's radioart program). Since 1990 he works exclusively on his projects wich involve music (making and production) and multimedia, as well as radio.

Stahl Stenslie is working on the development of different interface technologies and tools for digital culture within the fields of art, media and network research. He is presently working with extreme cognition and perception manipulative projects. He became one of the Fathers of Cybersex after he built the world´s first full-body, tele-tactile communication system in 1993 (cyberSM). He has co-organized 6cyberconf and together with Knowbotic Research was a founding member of mem_brane - network research laboratory - in Mediapark, Cologne, Germany.

Veena Gowda is a graduate from the National Law School of India University. Presently, she is practising law in Bombay and is also associated with Majlis, a legal and cultural center for women. The focus of her work is to create spaces for women within the legal system and evolve a feminist jurisprudence. Towards this aim she is also engaged in legal research and paralegal training.

Xin Mao started his medical training in West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, China in 1978. His post-doctoral training was at Hokkaido University, Japan, from 1989 to 1990, in the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK, from 1993 to 1996, and in the Institute of Cancer, UK, from 1996 to 1999. Since 1983 he has been actively working in the fields of human genetics, cancer cytogenetics, and genetic ethics. Now he is the director of the Eurasia Millennium Limited, an UK-based company which is involved in the promotion of scientific and cultural exchanges between China and the UK.