Francesco Monico is Director of the Media Design School of the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, where he also holds the position of a 'Professore a Contratto' in Theory and Method of Mass Media, and is the Director of the Planetary Collegium's M-Node. He is a fellow of the University of Toronto's McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology, and currently pursues a Ph.D. research at CAiiA under supervision of Roy Ascott. He was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Leonardo da Vinci Science and Technology Museum in Milan, and is a member of the scientific advisory board of Milano in Digitale. He is the author of Il dramma televisivo, l'autore e l'estetica del mezzo (Meltemi Editore, 2006), and La variazione technoetica (2008). Among his artistic output figures the work 'The Artist Formerly Known as Vanda,' a tech-noetic installation, as well as various works in the media and hybrid genres.
Francesco Monico Italy
Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano - NABA, Italy / Planetary Collegium - M-Node, Italy and CAiiA, UK
James Gimzewski, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, pioneered research on electrical contact with single atoms and molecules, light emission and molecular imaging using STM. Gimzewski received the 1997 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, the 1997 The Discover Award for Emerging Fields, the 1998' Wired 25' Award from Wired magazine and the Institute of Physics "Duddell" 2001 prize and medal for his work in nanoscale science. He holds two IBM "Outstanding Innovation Awards", and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Chartered Physicist. Gimzewski was elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering, and he has joined the scientific boards of Quantum Precion Instruments, The Lifeboat Foundation and Veeco-DI Instruments and is a member of the UCLA California Nanosystems Institute, NASA Cell Mimetic Institute for Space Exploration and UCLA ART|SCI Center. Gimzewski is an Honorary Member of the Planetary Collegium.
Mike Phillips is Reader in Digital Art & Technology, University of Plymouth, School of Computing, Communications & Electronics, Faculty of Technology. Phillips is director of i-DAT and heads the Nascent Art & Technology Research Group. His transdisciplinary R&D orbits digital architectures and transmedia publishing, and is manifest in two key research projects: Arch-OS, an 'Operating System' for contemporary architecture ('software for buildings') and the LiquidPress which explores the evolution and mutation of publishing and broadcasting technologies. These projects and other work can be found on the i-DAT web site. He is the Senior Supervisor (practice) of the Planetary Collegium.
Mike Phillips UK
University of Plymouth, UK / Planetary Collegium
Designing design and designing media
Jürgen Faust is Full Professor for Media Design at the University of Applied Science MFM Munich. He is the Chief Academic Officer of the Group Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, and also holds the position of a Full Professor in Design Theory at Monterrey Tec. MX. Between 1999 and December 2005 he was a Professor for New Media and Dean of Integrated Media at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He has taught art and design and theory with an emphasis on design processes and the possible transformation into other disciplines. Faust is a practicing researcher, designer, and artist, who exhibited in many museums and galleries in Europe and United States. The focus of his recent publications is on transforming design thinking into domains like management. Faust is also a Ph.D. candidate with the Planetary Collegium's M-Node in Milan.
Jürgen Faust DE / IT
MHMK University, Munich, Germany / IED, Milan, Italy / Monterrey Tec, Mexico / Planetary Collegium - M-Node, Italy
FOR A PHILOSOPHY OF MEDIA (-ART)
Artist and researcher. Master class media art (histories) and image science, danube-university krems. Diploma communication-design, university of applied sciences, augsburg. Studied photography and visual communication at the i.s.i.a. urbino, italy. Former lecturer for classical guitar. Art director. Nicolas Romanacci is approaching an »applied cognitive aesthetics«, based on the symbol theory and epistemology of Nelson Goodman. Two major aims of this approach are: to provide analytical tools for a better understanding of the creative process both for the creation and the perception of media, and to provide the arguments for an understanding of the epistemological value of creativity in science and art. These arguments promote the idea of the need for an »educational turn«, aiming at a replacement of the creative process in the center of our educational systems. Published articles at »IMAGE. Journal of Interdisciplinary Image Science«.
Experiencing contemporary ‘nature’:
virtual and physical designed landscapes of the
Blue Mountains, Australia.
MArch, BPD, Grad. Cert. Larch (Melb) Nicole has been lecturing in Landscape Architecture at the University of Canberra, Australia since 2008. She has recently completed her PhD thesis, The promotion and production of contemporary landscape, at The University of Melbourne (currently under examination – due July 2009). Her research interests include landscape design, landscape representation in various media, and the commodification of landscape through place branding.
Nicole Porter Australia
University of Canberra
The Imaginal Bridge:
does computer imagery externalise the visual imagination in virtual space?
Nick Lambert is currently Research Officer at the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck. Nick has been researching computer art since the mid-1990s and completed his DPhil thesis “A Critical Examination of ‘Computer Art’: its History and Application” in 2003. It focuses on artists’ experiences of the computer and covers a wide range of approaches to computers in art. He lectures on BA and MA modules about the development of electronic and digital arts from the 1950s to the present. Nick is also working on a number of multimedia art projects including Oculus
Design Aesthetics of the Radically Enhanced Human
Natasha Vita-More, media artist and university lecturer, is a Ph.D. Candidate, Planetary Collegium. Her research concerns transformative human enhancement and radical life extension, with a focus on nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive sciences. Natasha designed the future human prototype “Primo Posthuman” and the graphical narrative “Morphological Freedom”, a series broadening issues of human rights. She has been featured in twenty-four documentaries, and exhibited at Arts Brooks Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Women In Video, Telluride Film Festival, and United States Film Festival and recently "Evolution Haute Couture 2009: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age". Natasha is a proponent of ethical means of human enhancement technology, and is published in Artifact, Technoetic Arts, Nanotechnology Perceptions, Annual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology, Death And Anti-Death. She has a bi-monthly column in Nanotechnology Now, is a Guest Editor of The Global Spiral academic journal, and on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Green Nanotechnology. Formerly president of Extropy Institute, she currently is an advisor of Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, Adaptive A.I., and LifeBoat Foundation, a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and has been a consultant to IBM on the future of human performance.
Natasha Vita-More uk
Ph.D. Candidate, CAiiA Node, Planetary Collegium, U of Plymouth
www.natasha.cc PaxMan 2.0 - Localizing Social Space for Constant Travellers in the Airport
Monika Codourey, architect and Ph.D reserch fellow at Zurich Node of the Planetary Collegium (University of Plymouth, Great Britain) and Institute of Cultural Studies (Zurich University of Arts, Switzerland). She has received her degree in Architecture form the University of British Columbia in Canada. She pursued her postgraduate studies in the field of Information Architecture at Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich in Switzerland and participated in VI Bauhaus Kolleg in Dessau in Germany. She has lectured in field of Urban Media and Information Spaces at the Zurich at the Faculty of New Media, University of Arts(1999-2004) and was a guest lecturer at University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, School of Arts and Design in Basel.
Monika Codourey Switzerland
Ph.D. Research Fellow at Z-Node Planetary Collegium,
University of Plymouth, GB and ZHdK, CH
monika.codourey.info Reactive media / MAP – Media Art Platform
Mogens Jacobsen
Independant media artist and commentator. Studied mathematics at Aarhus University, Denmark and later media and cognition at University of Copenhagen. In the 1980ties he published noisy avant-garde music on cassette-tapes. In the 90ties he embraced the internet as a new form of D.I.Y.-media and got involved in net.art. Since 2001 he has mainly been working with networked physical installations. Mogens Jacobsen is also a founding member of the Danish art group Artnode.org. Has contributed to several publications among others Get Real – Art + Real time (New York: George Braziller Publishers, 2005). He co-edited ( with Morten Søndergaard) the book RE_ACTION – The Digital Archive Experience (Aalborg: Aalborg University Press, 2009).
Morten Søndergaard, MA & PhD
Associate Professor in Interactive Digital Media and Art at CIT – Copenhagen Institute of Technology / Aalborg Universit; independent Media Art Curator, critic and author. Between 1999-2008 Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark; Member of the research group “Augmented Reality and Contemporary Art” at McGill University, Canada; Chairman of the advisory committee, Kulturnet Danmark, Copenhagen; Has published in and edited a number of publications in Danish and English among which can be mentioned: Get Real – Art + Real time (New York: George Braziller Publishers, 2005), (with Peter Weibel) MAGNET – The Visual Systems of Thorbjørn Lausten (Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2008), and (with Mogens Jacobsen) RE_ACTION – The Digital Archive Experience (Aalborg: Aalborg University Press, 2009). Upcoming publication (in Danish): Space Punctures – Show-Bix and the Media Conscious Practice of Per Højholt (spring 2010).
Morten Søndergaard Denmark
Copenhagen Institute of Technology & Curator, the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde
Psychic Systems and Metaphysical Machines:
Experiencing Behavioral Prediction with Neural Networks
Max Kazemzadeh is an electronic and emergent media artist and tenure-track Assistant Professorship of Art & Media Technology at
Gallaudet University, the only all deaf university in the world. Kazemzadeh is also a Ph.D. Candidate within the Planetary Collegium. His work over the last ten years focuses on how constructed, semi-conscious interfaces influence human interaction, and is presently investigating gesture prediction as a possible means to more directly magnify human intent within interactive experiences. Kazemzadeh has served on panels, curated exhibitions, organized conferences, given workshops, received grants, written articles, given performances, and exhibited internationally in the area of electronic and emergent media art. Some exhibitions include the
Microwave Festival (Hong Kong), the Boston
CyberArts Festival,
Medialab-Prado's Interactivos 08 (MexicoCity), Dashanzi International Art Festval (Beijing), IDMA IDEA's Exhibition/Symposium (Ohio), Fotofest (Houston), Macedonia Museum of Contemporary Art (Greece), Maker Faire (Austin), LA Center for Digital Art (Los Angeles), The Gerald Peters Gallery (NYC), and the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art (Texas). Kazemzadeh organized the conference Texelectronica '06 (Dallas), served as the chair of the electronic media art session at the College Art Association-CAA '08, served on the Creative Capital Grant Review in '08, served as a juror for SIGGRAPH '07, and has given annual interactive hardware/software workshops at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing since 2004.
Max B. Kazemzadeh USA
Gallaudet University, Washburn Arts Building, Washington, D.C., USA
Mobile Tagging and Mixed Realities
Martha Gabriel is Artist, Engineer, postgraduate in Marketing and Graphic Design, Master’s Degree in Art, pursuing PhD degree at University of Sao Paulo. Curator of Upgrade! São Paulo. Professor of post‐graduate courses at Unicentro Belas Artes de São Paulo and University Anhembi Morumbi. Speaker at conferences in Brazil and abroad, including SIGGRAPH (2005, 2006 & 2009), Consciousness Reframed (2004, 2006 & 2008), FILE (2003 to 2009), CHI, UPA, ISEA (2008 & 2009), HighEdWebDev, among others. Reviewer for LEA, 2005, and Networked Book, Turbulence.org, 2009. Received three times the best presentation award in conferences inUS (2003, 2004 & 2008).
Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel Brazil
University of Sao Paulo / Unicentro Belas Artes de Sao Paulo
www.martha.com.br The Pervasive City
Maria Prieto Spain
School of Architecture
University of Camilo Jose Cela
Mobile devices, designing affective spatialities
Luisa Paraguai studied Civil Engineering and Computing and has a master and doctoral degree at the Department of Multimedia, Institute of Arts, State University of Campinas, Brazil. She has been teaching at Postgraduate Program of Communication and Culture and Undergraduate Course of Design, at University of Sorocaba ‐ UNISO. Currently, she has investigated about the potential of mobile devices as an interface for bodyspace perception and experimentation.
Luisa Paraguai Portugal
The Planetary Collegium – CAiiA hub, Plymouth, UK.
Foundation for Science and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal.
Artshare, Aveiro, Portugal.
University of Sorocaba, UNISO, Brazi.
www.luisaparaguai.art.br Bio-electromagnetism – induction and omnisensory design.
Luis Miguel Girao is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher in the application of technology as a tool for artistic expression. He is a PhD Candidate at the Planetary Collegium and Master of Arts in Design and Digital Media. His main research subject matter is the development of new interfaces for audiovisual expression, at the moment focusing on bioelectromagnetics . In 2007, he was awarded the Bolsa Ernesto de Sousa prize that allowed him to do research and present results at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation, in New York City. At Casa da Msica, Porto, Portugal, where he collaborates regularly, he has developed and presented a number of public art installations and educational multidisciplinary shows. He collaborated with several artists and his work has been presented in countries as USA, Canada, Germany, Denmark and China. His close collaboration with Rolf Gehlhaar gave origin to projects like "Multiverse". Along with Gehlhaar and Paulo Maria Rodrigues he formed the UnoDuoTrio ensemble and developed the CyberLieder project. He founded Artshare, an artech research company and collaborates with Companhia de Msica Teatral of Lisbon. Among other works, he coordinated a series of workshops on Digital Art & Design for the Academia das Artes Digitais of the Aveiro Digital Programme, and he was assistant curator and technical director of the Electronics Art Lab at the Bienal Internacional de Cerveira, Portugal.
Luis Miguel Girao Portugal
Virtual sites – performance and materialization
Linda Matthews is embarking on a design-orientated PhD, which aims to develop her undergraduate Dissertation into architecture and urban design methodologies that procedurally utilise the optical logics of digital surveillance systems. The aim of the research is to understand how these systems frame and re-present the city. Linda has recently completed her Bachelor of Architecture Degree at UTS where she was awarded the University Medal. She has won several significant academic awards including the prestigious Design Medal from NSW Chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. She also has a Master's Degree (M.Arch) from the University of NSW.
Keywords: experiential, virtual, webcam, qualitative, materialize.
Linda Matthews Australia
School of Architecture
University of Technology, Sydney
Minoritarian Behavior:
Laurie A. Rodrigues USA
University of Rhode Island, USA
Wearable Artifacts as Research Vehicles
Laura Beloff is an independent researcher / artist, Ph.D. candidate at CAiiA, Planetary Collegium, School of Computing, Communications & Electronics, Faculty of Technology, University of Plymouth, UK. Beloff´s focus in recent years has been on mobile, wearable objects. She exhibits widely in museums, galleries and major media-festivals worldwide, and frequently lectures about her interests and works in universities and conferences. 1999 she was a visiting professor at Linz Art University, Austria, 2002-2006 a professor for Media Arts at the Art Academy in Oslo, Norway. She recently received a 5-year artist grant by the Finnish state, and currently lectures at the University of Art and Design Helsinki.
Immaterial Practices: The Techno-Aesthetic Paradox of Gilbert Simondon’s Objet Technique
Patrick Harrop Canada
Department of Architecture
Architecture II Building
University of Manitoba
Simulation as a global resource
Since the early '80 I have been concerned with the relations among arts, sciences and technologies. My theoretical activity is concerned with the technologies of representation and communication in the communication and art realms, and with the technoscience-based art forms. In the field of applied research I work on the social opportunities raised by online communications and new media. Currently I am a teacher at the Universities of Urbino, at the SUPSI - University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland and at the NABA in Milan. I am the director of Noema, a webmagazine devoted to culture, sciences and technologies’ interrelations.
Pier Luigi Capucci Switzerland
University of Urbino, SUPSI - University of Applied Sciences and Arts of
Southern Switzerland, NABA in Milan
www.noemalab.org/plc/plc.html Eno -Ugh...’and similar remote experiences
Mike Phillips is Reader in Digital Art & Technology, University of Plymouth, School of Computing, Communications & Electronics, Faculty of Technology. Phillips is director of i-DAT and heads the Nascent Art & Technology Research Group. His transdisciplinary R&D orbits digital architectures and transmedia publishing, and is manifest in two key research projects: Arch-OS, an 'Operating System' for contemporary architecture ('software for buildings') and the LiquidPress which explores the evolution and mutation of publishing and broadcasting technologies. These projects and other work can be found on the i-DAT web site. He is the Senior Supervisor (practice) of the Planetary Collegium.
Mike Phillips Director of i-DAT.
School of Art & Media,
Faculty of Arts,
University of Plymouth,
Interactive Environments with
Open-Source Software
3D Walkthroughs and Augmented Reality for Architects
with Blender, DART and ARToolKit
Wolfgang Höhl studied architecture in Vienna, Austria and did his PhD at Hannover University. He worked as an architect at von Gerkan, Marg + Partners Architects in Hamburg and was an assistant lecturer at Munich University of Technology.
Today he works as an architect, as a professor for computer animation and architectural visualization at Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany and Austria. As a specialized journalist he writes for architecture and computer magazines.
Prof. Wolfgang Höhl Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Munich
Technical Individuation, Relational Art and Posthumanist
Valérie Lamontagne is a Montréal-based performance and digital media artist, freelance art critic and independent curator. She has published extensively on new media / performance in periodicals and anthologies as well as internationally curating innovative new media events and exhibitions. She is presently a Ph.D. candidate at Concordia University investigating “Relational and Ubiquitous Performance Art” where she also teaches in the Department of Design and Computation Arts. Present research goals are focused on relational performances within technoartistic frameworks as they relate to humans and nonhumans.
Valérie Lamontagne Canada
Department of Design and Computation Arts
Concordia University
Dialogue–Design
Tine Melzer bases her work on visual and conceptual strategies of language. Her interdisciplinary research, in which she challenges our behaviour with codes in language, takes place on the edge of image and text.
Melzer studied visual arts and philosophy and has been a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. She teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam where she researches at the ‘Lectoraat Art and Public Space’.
Melzer currently reads for a PhD at the Planetary Collegium. Her work was exhibited widely in The Netherlands and Belgium and shown in Austria, France, Germany, Iceland and and North America. Tine Melzer lives and works in Amsterdam and Zürich.
Evolving Discourses on Design Thinking
Tilmann Lindberg participates as PhD student in the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program and works as research assistant at the chair for organization and human-ressource management at the University of Potsdam. He received degrees in Business Administration (Dipl.-Kfm.) from University of Potsdam (Germany) and Music (MA) from University of Sussex (UK). Currently, he has been conducting an empirical research project on organizational creativity and design thinking in the IT industry.
Christine Noweski has studied political science in Potsdam (Germany) and Bangalore (India) before she took part in the Design Thinking course at HPI school of Design Thinking at Potsdam. Now, she participates in the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program as PhD student. Her research interests are norms and values in work life, especially in teams. Within her research project, she is conducting team experiments in cooperation with Stanford University and Helsinki University of Technology.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel is CEO and President of Hasso Plattner Institute for IT-Systems
Engineering (HPI) and professor for Internet Technologies and Systems. He is also a visiting professor at the School of Computer Science of the Technical University of Beijing and at the Luxembourg Institute of Advanced Studies in Information Technology at the University of Luxembourg. Under his leadership the HPI School of Design Thinking opened in 2007. He is co-author of a book on Design Thinking. A mathematician by training, Christoph Meinel received his graduate degree, doctorate, and post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He is the author or co-author of 8 text books and monographs and has published more than 350 articles in peer-review journals.
Numeric tessituras
Tania Fraga is architect and artist. She holds a PhD. of Communication and Semiotics, from PUC/SP; is the vice-president of the Institute of Mathematics and Art, Sao Paulo, and member of the Zero Gravity Consortium, USA. In 1999, she developed a Post Doctoral research at CAiiA-STAR, UK; from 1987 until 2004, was Professor of the Art Institute, University of Brasilia; in 2003, was a member of the Advisory Research Committee of the Banff New Media Centre; in 1991/92, was Visiting Scholar at The George Washington University; in 1986, was Artist-in-Residence at Bemis, USA, with a grant from the Fulbrigth Commission.
Tania Fraga Brazil
Institute of Mathematics and Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Digital museum as an artwork: issues in virtual museum restoration
Searching for Love Impossible
Semi Ryu is an associate professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University. Ryu is a media artist who specializes in experimental 3D animations and virtual puppetry, based on Korean shamanism and oral tradition of storytelling. Her works have been widely presented in exhibitions and performances in more than 15 countries, and her academic papers, which have focused on the ritualization of interactive media have been published in international journals and conferences. Recently, her virtual puppetry “Parting on Z” was performed at Chelsea Art Museum, NY.
Semi Ryu USA
Associate Professor, Kinetic Imaging
School of the Arts
Virginia Commonwealth University
www.semiryu.net Some Everybodies – design and non-dualist filmic experience
I am a video artist/poet and PhD candidate at Chelsea College of Art and Design studying subjectivity in text-based art. I was included in Consciousness Reframed IX where, influenced by Karen Barad’s theories of agential realism, I introduced the term matternal theory of practice, which seeks to remove the inherited post-Socratic western dualities between text or form and matter.
2009 conferences and exhibitions: Topographies, Sites, Bodies, Technologies, Stanford University; Overload Poetry Festival, Australian Centre for the Moving Image; solo show - Cultural Communication Centre, Klaipeda, Lithuania; The Text Festival, Bury, England; Videoformat - National Centre for Contemporary arts, Moscow.
Sarah Tremlett UK
Chelsea College of Art and Design
Ubiquitous Anthropology: next-step publishing
Salvatore Iaconesi is an independent artist conceptually remixing the domains of art and engineering. He artistically and commercially works on projects ranging from rave cultures to software art and artificial life, focusing on the contemporary mutations of the concept of identity and on the emotional approaches to technology. Contemporary art practices are researched from the perspectives of the processes integrating body and technology, architectures and communication, physical and psychological domains.
Media Behaviour: Toward a Transformation Society
Social networker since 1985
Split life: as artist, as technical communicator in industry
Lighting and sound designer for the theatre
Media and sound artist
Radio journalist and producer for CBC, NPR, WDR (Köln), Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands
International, France Culture…
Former programme manager, WNYC-FM (Public Radio in New York City)
Winner of 3 Armstrong Awards (US)
Frequent speaker for Society for Technical Communications (STC), Rencontres A.M.E. (Architecture,
Musique Ecologie) in Vallais, Switzerland, and other conferences and festivals
Teaching: New York University, New School, Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier III)
Human-Machine Interface designer
Technological romantic
Syncretic Dasein: mutation of the single-self organism.
Roy Ascott is the Founding President of the Planetary Collegium, Full Professor of Technoetic Arts at the University of Plymouth, Visiting Professor in Design|Media Arts at UCLA, and Honorary Professor of Thames Valley University, London. He created the Consciousness Reframed annual conferences in 1997. Formerly: Full Professor (HS. Prof.), Head of the Chair of Communication Theory, University of Applied Arts, Vienna; Vice-President, San Francisco Art Institute, California. His Exhibitions include: Venice Biennale (International Commissioner), Ars Electronica, Biennale de Mercosul, Brazil, European Media Festival. Ascott has advised new media centres in Europe, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Korea and the USA, CEC and UNESCO. His publications are translated in many languages. Ascott is also the editor of Technoetic Arts and member of the advisory board of Leonardo. See: Telematic Embrace: visionary theories of art, technology and consciousness, University of California Press, 2003.
Roy Ascott President, The Planetary Collegium,
Director of CAiiA,
Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts,
School of Art and Media
Faculty of Arts
University of Plymouth
Designing Knowledge and Memory
Rolfe Bart Germany
Universität Rostock
Spatial experience rather than large
screens – designing for mediated
architecture.
Klaus Birk is undertaking a PhD at the University of the Arts London, Research Unit for Information Environments. His research is focusing on design methodologies for visual communication in digitally augmented public space. As an assistant professor he was teaching information design and design theory at Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK). He holds an M.A. from the London College of Communication and received a Postgraduate Diploma in Communication Design/Digital Media from the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel. Currently Klaus Birk is a design director at intuity media lab Stuttgart and an associate lecturer for media design at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW). His work has won several international design awards, including IF-Awards and Red-Dots Best of the Best.
The sense of being moved -On embodied interaction in augmented reality environments
Kathrine Elizabeth Anker is a cultural theorist, and an independent researcher. She is a Master in Modern Culture and Cultural Communication from the University of Copenhagen, and a PhDstudent at the CaiiA-Hub, Planetary Collegium. Her current project is concerned with questions on how artistic augmented reality interfaces can be seen as communicational forms, that appeal to transformed ways of understanding the subject. Her work is transdisciplinary, philosophical and speculative. Kathrine is also educated as a Pedagogue of Music and Movement, with an emphasis on the connection between sensory-motor skill, perception, and intellectual processes.
Kathrine Elizabeth Anker PhD-student at the CaiiA-Hub,
Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, England
Screen As Site of Performance: Body Coded in Motion
Elena Marcevska is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher from Macedonia. She holds a MFA degree in Performance and New Media from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and currently is working towards her Practice-led PhD degree from Northampton University UK. Marcevska was Fellow at MIT Media Lab in 2005 and has performed, exhibited and lectured widely in the USA and Europe. Currently, she lives and works in UK.
Elena Marcevska Researcher, School of Arts, The Centre for Practice-led
Research in the Arts, University of Northampton, UK
screenassite.wordpress.com/ Worldmaking: Recentering on Earth
David McConville is a media artist and researcher based in Asheville, NC. He is cofounder of The Elumenati (http://www.elumenati.com), a full service design and engineering firm specializing in the development of immersive visualization environments. He is founder of the Media Arts Project, on the board of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and an advisory board member of the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, He is currently a PhD candidate in the Planetary Collegium (http://www.planetary-collegium.net).
Design for Mindful Self-Awareness: Meditation, VR and Pain
Diane Gromala holds a Canada Research Chair and faculty position in the School of Interactive Arts & Technology at Simon Fraser University. Gromala's artwork, award-winning design and writing has been exhibited and published worldwide. Her VR work is in use at over 20 hospitals and clinics.
Meehae Song earned her Master of Engineering degree from Nanyang Technological University while working as a Research Engineer at CAMTech specializing in a variety of virtual reality applications. She is currently a PhD student at the School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University.
Dr. Diane Gromala School of Interactive Arts + Technology (SIAT)
Simon Fraser University Surrey
www.siat.sfu.ca A Semiotic Square of Creation
Denis Roio, aka Jaromil, is a nomadic developer and media artist inspired by the Free Software and Free Speech movements. Since the year 2000 he is a public figure among the dyne.org hackers, his creations are recommended by the FSF and redistributed by several GNU/Linux operating systems worldwide. Since 2005 he leads R&D activities for the NIMk in Amsterdam, publishing software for media creativity and contributing to theoretical discourses. In 2009 he has been awarded the Vilem Flusser Theory Award and is now studying for a PhD at the Planetary Collegium (M-Node) of the University of Plymouth, under supervision of professor Antonio Caronia.
A reading on de-territorialization’s works of art for the internet.
I am a Columbian currently developing a research at the Master Degree in Multimedia Arts in the University of São Paulo, Brazil. I was invited by Fabrica the Benetton’s Research Center for a short period in 2007 for the photography department and I have participated in exhibitions in Brazil such as Salao de Abril (2008) and at the Festival of Electronic Art, FILE, (2009) with my work “Living Cemetery”. I have offered lectures at events like ABCiber in Sao Paulo, 2008, and at the Universidad del Valle in Colombia (2009), exposing parts of the research in course at USP.
Complex Installations: Sharing Consciousness in a cybernetic Ballet
Clarissa Ribeiro. Architect, and Digital Artist, she is at present a PhD student at the Department of Visual Arts, School of Arts and Communications, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a visiting postgraduate research member of the CAiiA-Hub of the Planetary Collegium. At ECA/USP, she is a researcher in Digital Poetics group, headed by her tutor Professor Gilbertto Prado. Clarissa holds a Master of Architecture degree from the Department of Architecture at USP Sao Carlos (Brazil) in 2006 and is, since then, a Nomads.USP group partner’s researcher. At present she is interested in studying subject/object/environment trans-actions in mixed realities contexts, developing a methodology based on systemic measures of complexity and organization.
Gilbertto Prado was born in Santos, Brazil and he is a multimedia artist. He studied Engineering and Visual Arts in the Unicamp (State University of Campinas - São Paulo). In 1994 he obtained his doctoral degree in Arts in the University of Paris I – Sorbonne. Invited Professor at University of Paris 8 (03/2004 and 03/2006). Since 2001 is Professor at the Department of Visual Arts at the ECA/USP - School of Arts and Communications, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He started his artistic activities in the end of the 70's, taking part of the Mail Art movement participating in several exhibitions and projects. Complex Installations: Sharing Consciousness in a cybernetic Ballet
Clarissa Ribeiro University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
gogogoch.net Communications Design is for Everyone
Dr. Christof Breidenich studied visual communication at the University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule) in Aachen and communication design at the University of Wuppertal. Since 1992, he has worked as a self-employed media and communication designer predominantly in the areas of culture, gastronomy and art. In 1997, he founded the atelier “Breidenich and Partner - Corporate Communication in the Context of Art”, with which he put on some 250 performances and workshops throughout the world over a ten-year period.
In 1999 he completed his doctorate on the subject of interfaces of analogue and digital media under the supervision of Professor Bazon Brock at the University of Wuppertal.
Breidenich was assistant lecturer for media design and hypermedia at the education faculty of the University of Cologne and the department of design at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. Since 2008, he has been Professor of Media Design at the Macromedia College for Media and Communication, campus Cologne.
The World as Wide Web: following codes to access knowledge-lands
Matteo Ciastellardi, Ph.D. in Industrial Design and Multimedia Communication (Politechnic University in Milano). Bachelor in theoretical Philosophy (Thesis “The liquid architectures: the thought online and the net of the thought” (University of Studies of Milan, 2005). Tutor of Media Theory and Criticism (Master Methodology for Information and Communication in Humanistic Science, University of the Studies of Milano, 2003-2005). Assistant professor at the University of Studies of Milano for the Hermes_Net Laboratory (telematic course for theoretical writing). He is currently developing the projects WiredBook & Electronic Margin and The Era of Tag among other projects.
Andrea Cruciani, Master in Interactive Digital Television (IDTV). Project “Multi-platform Promotional Communication for Distribution Industry”. Project University WebTV. Bachelor in Digital Communication (Thesis “Graphic Chemistry. The Three-D representation of Mendeleev’s periodic table”, University of Studies of Milano, 2006); McLuhan Fellow at the McLuhan Programe of Culture and Technology. Developing the projects WiredBook & Electronic Margin and The Era of Tag.
Derrick de Kerckhove, former Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology; Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto, Canada and Professor in the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Naples Federico II; Visiting Researcher at the UOC Barcelona. Ph.D in French Language and Literature (University of Toronto, 1975); Doctorat du 3e cycle in Sociology of Art (University of Tours, France, 1979). He worked with Marshall McLuhan for over ten years as translator, assistant and coauthor. Order of "Les Palmes Académiques", member of the Club of Rome and Papamarkou Chair in Technology and Education (Library of Congress, Washington DC). Developing the projects WiredBook & Electronic Margin, Point of Being I and II, The Era of Tag, among others.
Cristina Miranda de Almeida, Artist. Architect and Urbanist, European PhD in Arts (UPV-EHU); a Postdoctorate Degree (Advanced Research Associate at the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, U.K); Master in Industrial Design (DZ-BAI Berrikuntza Agentzia - Agencia de Innovación); specialized in Territorial Planning and in Town Planning. Teacher (Technological Image, University of the Basque Country). As an artist she has had different individual and collective art exhibitions either in Spain, Brazil, Belgium, Thailand or Germany. She is interested in the intersection of art, technology and science especially in hybrid realities and locative medias. She is currently developing the projects WiredBook & Electronic Margin, Point of Being I and Off-Line Connectivity.
Cristina MIRANDA de ALMEIDA Perfectly Designed – A Gift from the Absent Author
Claudia Westermann is a licensed architect and Assistant Professor (Univ. Ass.) at the Chair of Building Theory and Design, Vienna University of Technology, Austria. She holds postgraduate degrees in Architecture from the University of Technology Karlsruhe, and in Media Fine Arts from the University for Art and Design at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. Since 2003, Claudia Westermann has been a Ph.D. candidate with the CAiiA-Hub of the Planetary Collegium. Her works have been exhibited and presented internationally including at the Venice Biennale for Architecture, the Moscow International Film Festival, ISEA Symposium for the Electronic Arts in Japan, the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, and the International Festival of Cinema and Technology in New York, USA.
Claudia Westermann Dipl. Ing. Arch., Univ. Ass. TU Wien, Austria
The Symbiogenic Art Experience
Carlos Castellanos is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. His research and art practice focus on networks, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction and cultural theory. He was a National Science Foundation IGERT fellow in Interactive Digital Multimedia and a California State University Sally Casanova Pre-doctoral Scholar. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the School of Interactive and Technology, Simon Fraser University, where he is exploring the aesthetics of information technologies and their effects on lived embodied human experience. Castellanos splits his time between Vancouver and San Francisco.
Carlos Castellanos School of Interactive Arts and Technology
Simon Fraser University
ccastellanos.com Collapsing environmental systems – the role of science, art and technology in
finding solution options
My research expertise is in the field of Agroecology and Biodiversity. Since 1994, my research focuses on biosafety issues of GMOs and concepts for environmental risk assessment. Through numerous research and capacity building projects I am engaged in many developing countries in. My work also contributes to the implementation and shaping of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (UN CBD). I was a member of the scientific panel for the European Communities in the World Trade Organization Dispute over ‘Measures Affecting the Approval and Marketing of Biotech Products’ and, most recently, appointed lead author of Global Chapter 3 and Synthesis Report on Biotechnology of the IAASTD – the world agriculture report of the UN released in April 2008 and considered a sister report to the IPCC.
Angelika Hilbeck ETH Zurich, Institute of Integrative Biology,
Physical Entropy for and from Games
Andreas Schiffler, obtained his vocational training as Chem‐Tech and his High School diploma from OSO, a private school in Germany in 1987. He received a B. Sc.Hon. From the Univ. of Sask., Canada and continued his education in Space Physics to complete a M. Sc. at ISAS, Canada in 1996 analyzing data from the the SuperDARN radar. In a career move, he worked for Prof. Jill Scott and Dr. Jeffrey Shaw at the ZKM, Germany in many media arts projects. After a ZKM stipend in 1999, he was involved in several startup companies in the US and Canada as senior software architect and VP of technology. During this time he started as PhD candidate with Z_node, Switzerland. In 2008 he joined Microsoft Corp., USA as SDET while continuing his research into the physics of video games.
Embodied in a Metaverse: “Anatomia” and “body parts”
Elif Ayiter is Associate Professor at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey. She is an artist, designer and design instructor, with a special interest in collaborative environments between art/design and computer sciences. She has published and presented her research and creative output at international conferences including Siggraph, Creativity and Cognition, Computational Aesthetics, Consciousness Reframed, Edutainment and ICAT, and currently pursues a Ph.D. research at the CAiiA-Hub of the Planetary Collegium.
Elif Ayiter Sabanci University
Designing the Interstices
Ellen K. Levy, a New York-based artist and teacher, is past president of the College Art Association (2004-2006). Levy has exhibited her work widely, both in the US and abroad in galleries, alternate spaces, and museums of art, science, and technology (e.g., the New York and National Academy of Sciences, and the American Association of Science). In 1985 Levy received an arts commission from NASA. She was a recipient of an AICA award (1995-1996) and was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of Arts and Sciences at Skidmore College in 1999, a position funded by the Luce Foundation. Her work was included in Petroliana at the 2nd Moscow Biennale (cur. E. Sorokina, 2007), Weather Report: Art & Climate Change at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (cur. L Lippard, 2007), and Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics at the Field Museum, Chicago (cur. Albano C, Wallace M, adv Kemp M, 2006). As guest editor of Art Journal’s special issue, “Contemporary Art and the Genetic Code” (1996), she has subsequently particpated in numerous exhibitions and symposia and contributed to publications involved with art and biotechnology. She has taught at Brooklyn College and Cooper Union and is currently a Visiting Scholar at NYU. She is completing a doctorate at Z-Node, affiliated with the University of Plymouth, and she is incoming chair of Leonardo Education Forum.
Re-spatialising information flows
Katharine S. Willis is a researcher, artist and architect whose interests lie in exploring the ways through which we interact with our spatial environment. A key aim of the work is to propose approaches to understanding how we can create legible environments when urban public space is experienced through new media. She is currently a research fellow on the Locating Media Project, University of Siegen and prior to this she was an EU Marie Curie fellow on the MEDIACITY project, Bauhaus University of Weimar where she completed her doctorate in the Department of Media. Katharine has also spent many years working on interactive site-specific art projects and installations in UK and internationally. Katharine’s studied architecture at Manchester and London and is a qualified Architect registered in UK and Germany.
Mandara as Telematic Design
Jung A Huh, professor at the Institute of Media Arts at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. Also Supervising Manager for Humanities Korea Project.
She studied French Literature and received her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Paris 8 for French Contemporary Poetry. Now she is teaching classes and conducting research at the Yonsei University Art Management, Digital Art and Creative Project. In 2004, as the executive producer, she organized an International Media Art Exhibition in Seoul. She was formerly a guest professor at EHESS in Paris and lecturer for Korean Cinema at University of Paris 3. Also, she was a curator in the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, a planning director of the Seoul-Sinchon Art Festival and a consultant for the Asian Culture Hub City Project, which is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. She is currently a supervising manager of the Humanities Korea Project "Imagination and Technology" at Yonsei University and in charge of the Imagination Development Center. She published two books on trans-culture and art management in 2006 and many interdisciplinary articles based on post-structural theory and modern philosophy.
Jung A Huh Korea
Institute of Media Arts, Yonsei University
Juanita Schlaepfer-Miller The Mind Cupola and Enactive Ecology: Designing technologically
mediated experiences for the Aging Mind
Brigitta Zics is an award winning artist, theorist and Visiting Fellow at the Transtechnology Research at the University of Plymouth. She is working on post-doctoral methodologies, supervising research students and developing collaborative projects. She also lectures undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Plymouth and University of Wales Newport. Brigitta focuses on emerging technologies of interaction and their aesthetics capacities through human cognition. Her latest work, the Mind Cupola, applies a modality of passive interaction that is an affective environment in which the user¹s experience initiates a cognitive feedback loop with a potential for spiritual-like states in their consciousness. John Vines is a Product and Interaction Design researcher and PhD candidate at Transtechnology Research, University of Plymouth, in the UK. His research focuses upon exploring the manner in which observations from multiple disciplines on the changing state of the human mind over lifecourse are integrated into design practice and technological applications. John’s thesis, currently in progress, emphasises the role of integrating approaches of understanding consciousness that are not intellectualised and brain or human-centred – but rather dynamic, extended and relational with the world as a living interactive system – into design theory
Dr. Brigitta Zics UK
University of Plymouth,
Neuromedia
Jill Scott was born in 1952, in Melbourne, Australia. Jill Scott has been working and living in Switzerland since 2003. Currently she is Professor for Research in the Institute Cultural Studies in Art, Media and Design at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK) in Zürich and Co-Director of the Artists-in-Labs Program (a collaboration with the Ministry for Culture BAK, Switzerland) which places artists from all disciplines into physics, computer, engineering and life science labs to learn about scientific research and make creative interpretations. She is also Vice Director of the Z-Node PHD program on art and science at the University of Plymouth, UK - a program with 16 international research candidates. Her recent publications include: “Artists-in-labs: Processes of Inquiry” (2006) Springer/Vienna/New York, and “Coded Characters” (2002) Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ed. Marille Hahne. Her education includes: PhD, University of Wales (UK) MA USF, San Francisco, as well as a Degree in Education (Uni Melbourne) and a Degree in Art and Design (Victoria College of the Arts). Since 1975, She has exhibited many video artworks, conceptual performances and interactive environments in USA, Japan, Australia and Europe. Her most recent works involve the construction of interactive media and electronic sculptures also based on studies she has conducted in neuroscience, particularly on the somatic sensory system artificial skin (“e-skin”, 2003-2007), on neuro-retinal behaviour in relation to human eye disease (“The Electric Retina”, 2008) and on the dermatome and skin behaviour in relation to the landscape and the effects of UV radiation (“DermaLand” 2009).
Jill Scott Switzerland
Vice Director: Z-Node. Planetary Collegium
Co-Director: The Artist-in-labs Program
Institute Cultural Studies in Art and Design
Zurich University of the Arts
Labyrinth Psychotica, understanding concepts of time and space in the battle
against psychosis
Jennifer Kanary Nikolov(a) studied fashion design from 1994-1998, and graduated from the Fine Arts department of the Maastricht Art Academy in 2000. She received a Master from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam in 2002, and afterwards participated in the first experimental curating course initiated by the University of Amsterdam and the Sandberg Institute. Kanary has participated in several art and science projects such as Battle of the Universities, Kloone4000 and Discovery07. From Nov 2007 to April 2008 she was artist-in-residence at the Het Dolhuys, National Psychiatry Museum in Haarlem, Netherlands. She is Lecturer in the Art and Research Honours program of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the University of Amsterdam, and also a Ph.D. candidate at M-Node, Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, UK.
Jennifer Kanary Nikolov(a) University of Plymouth, Planetary
Collegium - HUB: M-Node, NABA Milan
Kaleidoscopic narratives through spatiotemporal
montage
Iro Laskari is an artist and a graphic designer. Since 2006 she teaches at the School of Applied Arts of the Greek Open University. She is a graduate of the Department of Graphic Design of the Polytechnic College of Athens (T.E.I.) (2000). Iro was awarded Maîtrise (2001) and DEA (2002) from Université Paris 8, as well as the Post-Diplôme of Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD), in Paris (2002) on the subject of ‘Interactive Research’. She has a PhD on ‘Generative Audiovisual Narratives’ from the Department of Communication and Media Studies of the University of Athens (2008).
Anna Laskari, Architect, is a graduate (2004) of the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Anna also holds a Postgraduate Degree (Distinction, 2006) from the NTUA Postgraduate Programme “Architecture Space Design” and the title of MSc (Distinction, 2007) in “Adaptive Architecture and Computation” from the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, University College London. She has lectured as a Teaching Assistant at NTUA and has worked as a Design Systems Analyst for “Foster and Partners”. Currently she works with “paan architects”, based in Athens.
Dr. Iro Laskari Greece
Faculty of Communication and Media Studies
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Intensifying Space: A Kind of Physiological Architecture
Studium der Architektur an der Technischen Universität Wien. Von 2001 bis 2002 Lehrbeauftragte am Institut für künstlerische Gestaltung der TU Wien. Im Zeitraum 1997-2002 Wettbewerbe, Planungen und Realisationen in den Architekturbüros "the unit" und "ckp", 2002-2007 "limit architects", Wien. Seit 2008 querkraft architekten wien .
Dissertationsprojekt seit 2004: "Design Strategies: Six Projects of Rem Koolhaas/OMA". Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Kari Jormakka, Institut für Architekturtheorie der TU Wien. Seit 2008 wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Institut für Architekturtheorie, Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften der TU Graz.
Ingrid Böck Austria
Institut für Architekturtheorie, Kunst- und
Kulturwissenschaften der TU Graz
Towing the Line, Crossing the Line: Recognition, Innovation, Lineation
H. L. Hix, professor at the University of Wyoming, is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Chromatic, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award, God Bless, a “political/poetic discourse” built around poems composed of quotations from George W. Bush, and Legible Heavens, which Publishers Weekly called “strange and fierce.” In addition, he has collaborated on translations of Estonian and Lithuanian poetry, and written books of criticism including As Easy As Lying: Essays on Poetry and Spirits Hovering Over the Ashes: Legacies of Postmodern Theory.
H. L. Hix USA
University of Wyoming
Experiencing Second Life: Pathology or Transcendence?
Gregory P. Garvey teaches in the Department of Computer Science and Interactive Digital Design at Quinnipiac University. His interactive computer based installations have been exhibited in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Previously at Quinnipiac University he was the Visiting Fellow in the Arts and also was an Associate Artist of the Digital Media Center for the Arts at Yale University. He also was Chair of the Department of Design Art at Concordia University in Montreal. He received a Masters of Science in Visual Studies degree from MIT and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT from 1983-85. He also has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Gregory P. Garvey USA
Department of Computer Science & Interactive Digital Design
Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT USA
gregorypatrickgarvey.com Evolutionary Aesthetics: Rethinking the Role of Function in Art and Design
Dr Graham Coulter-Smith is a research fellow at Southampton Solent University and is involved with the KikiT VisuoSonic research project. He is also a senior lecturer in contemporary art theory at Staffordshire University. He has published several books the most recent being Deconstructing Installation Art / Deconstruyendo las instalaciones. Madrid: Brumaria, 2009; and Art in the Age of Terrorism,London: Paul Holberton publishing, 2005 (co-edited with Maurice Owen). His key interests are contemporary fine art, media art, the philosophy and sociology of visual culture and the relationship between art and science.
Dr. Graham Coulter-Smith UK
Cedric Price’s Generator and the Frazers’ Systems Research (Part 2): Revisiting a behaving
design entity
"Goncalo Furtado is graduated, Master and PhD in Architecture (FAUP, UPC and UCL respectively). He has given lectures in Portugal, UK, USA, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, México, Áustria, Poland, Germany; and he is the author of the books "Notes on the space of digital technique", "Marcos Cruz: Unpredictable flesh", "Off forum: Postglobal city and marginal design discourses"(ed. with Carlos Hernandez), "Architecture: Machine and body" (ed. with Rui Braz), "Generator and Beyond: Encounters of Cedric Price and John Frazer", “Gordon Pask on Science and Ats (ed. with Póvoas and Mueller) etc. He is professor at FAUP and is often invited by other institutions
Gonçalo Miguel Furtado Cardoso Lopes Portugal
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto
Dissolving in Nature: a concept of sustainable art
Enrica Borghi was born in the 1966 in Premosello Chiovenda (Italy). She studied sculpture in the Brera Art Academy in Milan. She lives in Ameno (Italy) and Berlin. She had solo exhibition in the 1999 in Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, in the 2000 in Modern Art Museum in Bologna and in the 2004 in Mamac (Musée d’Art Modern et Contemporain) de Nice. She published the artist book for children “La Regina” (1999), the artist books “Borghi in Fashion” (2001) and “Zapping in Love” (2003), and during the solo exhibition in Mamac the catalogue “EB”.
Enrica Borghi Italy
University of Plymouth; M-Node, NABA, Milan
Airspace [Focus: McMurdo Station, Antarctica]
Andrea Polli www.andreapolli.com is a digital media artist, Associate Professor in Fine Arts and Engineering and Director of the Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program at The University of New Mexico. Polli's work with science, technology and media has been presented widely in venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art Artport and The Field Museum of Natural History. Her work has been reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art News, NY Arts and others. In 2007/2008, she spent seven weeks in Antarctica on a National Science Foundation funded residency.
Andrea Polli Director, Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media (IFDM) and
Mesa Del Sol Chair of Digital Media
IFDM c/o College of Fine Arts
www.andreapolli.com 
