Steffi Winkler studied communication science and philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. As a Berlin Funding for Graduates Scholar she is currently doing research at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, FU Berlin and the Vilém Flusser Archive, UdK Berlin. Her doctoral thesis aims to explore the processes of transformations of media and communication structures and their connections to world projection and self conception.
Dr. Katja Kwastek is an art historian and served vice-director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. in Linz (Austria), where she directed the research projects on interactive art until 2009. Her research focuses on digital media art, e.g. on changing spatial conceptions due to the rise of (wireless) communication technologies and on the aesthetics of new media art.
Dr. Claus Pias is Professor for Media-History and Media Theory at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM) at the University of Lüneburg. At transmediale.11 he previewed his latest book Was waren Medien? which will be published in conjunction with the McLuhan centennial.
Prof. Richard Cavell is the author of McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography (2002; 2003; UTP “Classic” 2005; digital publication 2007), the first book to articulate the spatial turn in media studies and McLuhan’s foundational role within it.
Dr. Graham Larkin is Curator of European & American Art at the National Gallery of Canada, where he recently reinstalled the collection of non-Canadian, pre-contemporary paintings, sculpture and decorative arts. In the field of information design he is a devotee of Edward Tufte, whom he assisted with various projects including the book Beautiful Evidence (2006).
Professor Janine Marchessault, author of Marshall McLuhan: Cosmic Media (Sage Publications, 2005) and co-editor of Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 2007) is Research Chair in Art, Digital Media, and Globalization, York University, Canada.
