Dr. Lorenz Engell is a professor of media philosophy at the Bauhaus University Weimar and a leading figure in the first 'generation' of academic researchers who recognized media studies as an independent field within the humanities.
Liz Kotz is a Los Angeles-based critic and art historian. She is the author of Words to be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art (MIT Press, 2007), and has published essays in the catalogues The Anarchy of Silence: John Cage and Experimental Art (MACBA, 2009), Christian Marclay: Festival (Whitney Museum, 2010), and Konzept Aktion Sprache/Concept Action Language (Vienna: Museum of Modern Art, 2010), among others.
Lewis Kaye is a sound artist and media sciences researcher. His current work, 'Throughthe Vanishing Point' (2010) in collaboration with David Rokeby, will be adapted to and installed in the Marshall McLuhan Salon of the Embassy of Canada in Berlin during the summer of 2011.
David Rokeby is one of the world's pioneering interactive sound and non-linear installation artist. His current work, 'Through the Vanishing Point' (2010) in collaboration with sound artist and media sciences researcher Lewis Kaye will be adapted to and installed in the Marshall McLuhan Salon of the Embassy of Canada in Berlin during the summer of 2011.
Paul D. Miller, also most famously known as ‘DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid’, which is his stage name and self constructed persona, is an experimental and electronic hip-hop musician, conceptual artist, and writer.
the memelab is a mobile set of experiments, bringing personal, political and aesthetic questions into collective conversation. Together, and with our allies, we strategize new hybrid works with video, sound, performance and the public.
Metanet Software was founded in 2001 by Raigan Burns and Mare Sheppard. Metanet is a indie game development company devoted to creating fun, innovative, unique games. Their first and award-winning game, N, is available for download for free, and can be played on Mac or PC. Their next game, Robotology, is in development. They've released tutorials, including source code, which cover the collision detection and simulation algorithms used in N.
Edwin van der Heide is an artist and researcher in the field of sound, space and interaction. He extends the terms composition and musical language into spatial, interactive and interdisciplinary directions. He is Assistant Professor at Leiden University and heads the Spatial Interaction Lab at the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and Arts Academy in The Hague.
Brett Gaylor is a filmmaker, founder of the Open Source Cinema project and project producer at Mozilla Drumbeat. He works with the changing concept of copyright and collaborates with web developers on new tech tools that shape what cinema will look like on the open web.
