Joan Leandre, media translator and interpreter, has been a member of the OVNI Archives since 1992. Between the years 1994 and 1996 Leandre worked in the media interruption / continuity Analog Series mAp (Mega Assemble Project), Zero Foundation and Serial Monuments.
The Observatory Archives are structured around particular themes and have a clear purpose: to encourage a critique of contemporary culture and society, using different strategies: video art, independent documentary, and mass media archaeology.
The French media artist and programmer Antoine Schmitt uses computer programming as an essential artistic material for his installations, web projects and performances. His works have been exhibited at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Additionally, they have received several awards in international festivals such as transmediale, Ars Electronica and UNESCO International Festival of Video-Dance. Schmitt is also speaker and editor of the gratin.org portal.
Heath Bunting works with technological, cultural, and social systems. He has explored both the dirty and progressive dimensions of the Internet, hacked urban spaces through physical activities, and in recent years been dedicated to an extensive researched aimed at constructing fully valid identities from scratch based on a deep knowledge of how such an identity is officially constructed.
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Katherine Moriwaki is an artist and researcher investigating wearables, fashion, emerging communication infrastructures, and the experiential resonance of technologically mediated public space.
knowbotic research lives in Zurich and works in situ. The art group has been experimenting with urbanity, construction of knowledge and political representations in mediatised public spheres.
Daniela Comani (Bologna, 1965) lives and works in Berlin. Her multimedia installations engage in a dialog about history, language, identity, alienation and intimacy
1964, born in Kufstein, Austria. 1983, Art Students League, New York City, Prof. Martin Knox. 1984 -1986, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Prof. Wander Bertoni. 1986 -1991, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Prof. Bruno Gironcoli. 1993 -1994, Postgraduate Student at the Institute for New Media in Frankfurt, Prof. Peter Weibel. Lives and works in Vienna.
