Christopher Adams is a publishing professional and free culture advocate based in Beijing. He is a developer at Fabricatorz and works with Neoteny Labs. Freesouls: captured and released by Joi Ito  was his first fully Creative Commons-licensed book project. Christopher is a co-founder of Sharism.org and a member of the Creative Commons network. He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a degree in Cognitive Science.

Jananne Al-Ani (*1966) studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art and graduated with an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 1997. Exhibiting widely, she has had solo shows at Tate Britain and the Imperial War Museum, London. Recent group exhibitions include Closer at the Beirut Art Center and Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking at the MoMA, New York. Al-Ani has also co-curated exhibitions including Veil and Fair Play.
Selected Filmography: A Loving Man (1996-1999), Muse (2004) and Flock and the Guide (2008).

Jan Tobias Anderson (*1971, Gothenburg) is a Swedish artist and filmmaker, working with found footage and animation. He is best known for the short films 879 (1998), My Name Is Grant (1999), 879 Colour (2002) and Prairie Stop, Highway 41 (2004) – all referring to works by Alfred Hitchcock. In his video works, most frequently in the form of animations, Anderson processes renowned film classics, as well as film genres – along with action and thriller sequences of escape and chase.

Angel_F is an acronym which stands for Autonomous Non Generative E-volitive Life_Form. It is a fictional child that has been used in worldwide art performances focused on the issues of digital liberties, intellectual property and on the evolution of language and behavior in information society. The project revolves around the story of the technological 'sensual' relationship between the Biodoll, a digital prostitute, and Professor Derrick de Kerckhove, culminating in the birth of the young artificial intelligence Angel_F.

Ziad Antar (*1978) graduated from the American University of Beirut with a degree in Agricultural Engineering in 2001. Soon after, Antar started working with video and photography. He completed a one-year residency at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2003 and a one-year residency for the post-diploma of the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Antar’s videos testify to a world in conflict, using subtle, playful and short shots charged with subtexts. Among his films are WA (2004), La Marche Turque (2006) and Mdardara (2006).

Inke Arns is the Artistic Director of the Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund and a curator and author on media art and net cultures and Eastern Europe.

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Knut Auferman (*1972, Hagen) studied Chemistry, Audio Engineering and Sonic Arts (MA Middlesex University). From 2002-2005 he was the station manager of Resonance104.4fm in London, now he is active across Europe as a musician, radio artist, organizer, curator, consultant and workshop leader. Together with Sarah Washington he runs the project Mobile Radio investigating alternative means of radio production. Their works have been broadcast in 12 countries on 28 different radio stations. He is a founder member of the international Radia network of independent cultural radio stations.

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