Herbert W. Franke is a scientist and futurologist, considered one of the most important science fiction writers in the German language. He is also a computer arts pioneer and one of the founders of Ars Electronica Linz.
Writer, lecturer, curator and video artist Miklós Peternák is director of C3, Centre for Culture & Communication in Budapest. A Vilém Flusser expert he recently published a DVD-compilation of the numerous interviews he conducted with the Czech media philosopher.
The Long Conversion is a world première especially crafted for transmediale.10 by transmediale Award nominees Sosolimited. The piece exists alongside the extended experimental discussion Futurity Long Conversation happening simultaneously in the HKW Auditorium.
known for selling all of his possessions online on Shop Mandiberg, making perfect copies of copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, and creating Firefox plugins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy on TheRealCosts.com.
Vice President at Creative Commons, where he started as CTO in 2003. Previously he co-founded Bitzi, an early open data/open content/mass collaboration service, and worked as a web developer and software engineer. In 1993 he published one of the first interviews with Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux.
internationally reknown in the new media arts and activist circles for the software he has developed. He used to work in Multimedia institute in Croatia, where he was the lead developer of a popular NGO web publishing system (TamTam), Aleksander has a broad spectrum of programming experience having worked on many projects from multiplayer games, library software, financial applications, artistic projects, web site analysis applications, and building systems for managing domain registration.
Positioning the future as a meme ready for redefinition, the transmediale.10 Salon Talks will bring together artists, theoreticians and specialists in a forum for open dialogue in order to address the implications of FUTURITY NOW! across a multitude of artistic platforms, diverse cultures and societal backgrounds.
The majority of the Salon Workshops take the form of expert-led Free Culture Incubator working groups seeking to define the problematic zone between art and open cultural practice in Germany. They attempt to establish an arts and culture incubator for Berlin that will support and develop new forms of cultural practice beyond the festival's lifespan.
Software developer Claudia Kogler is cofounder and CTO of the online game community Papermint. She is involved in the Vienna-based technology start-up Avaloop.
Media activist Markus Beckedahl is cofounder of newthinking communications GmbH, an agency for Open Source Strategies based in Berlin. Since 2002 he runs the acclaimed blog netzpolitik.org.