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 Jim Andrews is a visual poet, essayist, multimedia developer, and mathematician. His work explores the new media possibilities of poetry, and seeks to synthesize the poetical with other arts and media. Jim publishes vispo.com, webartery.com, and moderates the webartery email list, devoted to discussion of poetics of web.art, net.art, and butterflies. |
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KYD CAMPBELL is an independent artist and curator. She develops projects aimed at promoting action through the creation of new forums for discourse and new interactive situations. She works internationally on technology art and public art projects in Canada, Bulgaria, Serbia, Turkey and Germany and with the Upgrade! International. She is the founder of TinyNoise nomadic sound art project. Campbell is the current director of the HTMlles Festival for Media Art and Networked Practices and curator of the EXPORT artists mobility project, initiatives of StudioXX feminist technology art center in Montreal.
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| Ruth Catlow is a net artist, She works with people, digital and network media, sculpture, writing, music and drawing; in the streets & other public spaces and on the Internet. Ruth is also co-founder and co-director of furtherfield.org and is involved in research into net art and cultural context on the Internet and co-curates featured works on Furtherfield. |
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Natasha Chuk is a budding independent curator, media critic, and fiction writer. Her work and interests explore experimental narratives, hybrid forms, and multidisciplinary contexts of media production. She is co-founder of Unnamed Artists, an artists’ cooperative that collaborates on film, video, and audio projects. Born in Monterrey, Mexico, Natasha currently lives and works in New York City. |
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Alison Colman ventured into new media/digital art as an undergraduate at
Carnegie Mellon. She continued on this path as a freelance computer
animator and graduate student in the Advanced Computing Center for Art
and Design at The Ohio State University, where she developed a strong
interest in web design, net art, cyberculture studies, art criticism,
and education. She has published articles on net art in journals such as
Visual Arts Research, Studies in Art Education, and the Journal of
Social Theory in Art Education and has lectured on net art and art
criticism nationally and internationally. Alison currently teaches in
the School of Art at Ohio University, Athens. |
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Cinzia Cremona is an artist born in Italy and living in London. Her practice is well rooted in the moving image and she explores ideas and media as they fall within her horizon. Restless within any kind of boundaries, she is developing a research project to ask questions about spaces, practices and relationships. A lot more about what she thinks and does can be found in this interview: http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?p=54 |
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| Joachim Desarmenien stumbled into net.art during his studies in the fine arts school of Bordeaux (France) which led him to put up fbwn.net in 1998/2000 (archive http://fbwn.free.fr). He is actually involved in « aux bords des protocoles metas protocolesmeta.com, with French artist Jean Paul Thibeau. It's a moving platform, (Blois, Paris, Aix en Provence, Lille...) which re-questions the artistic creation protocols. He also works as a PHP/MYSQL webdeveloper for the FRAC Aquitaine (regional contemporary art fund) where he is in charge of projects from net.art to artists websites, such as radiofrac, and extraballe. |
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Suely Fragoso is a Professor at the PostGraduate Program of Communications at Universidade do Vale do Rio do Sinos, Unisinos, South Brazil. Her titles are Ph.D. in Communications (Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, England, 1998); M.A. in Communications and Semiotics (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil, 1992) and Bachelor in Architecture (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, 1987). Her research interests focus on the representations of space both in digital communications and in visual communications. Author of several articles and book chapters about digital communications and visual communications and a book about visual representation of space.
http://www.midiasdigitais.org |
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palo fabuš is slovak theorist, lecturer, curator, critic, cultural activist and publicist writing about new media and culture per se. Lives and works in Brno, Czech Republic.
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Mathias Fuchs is an artist, musican, media critic. He is currently Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the MSc in Creative Games and the MA in Creative Technology at Salford University. In former years he was active as Visiting Professor for Music and Media at Sibelius Academy Helsinki and as a Lecturer at University of Applied Arts and at Music Academy Vienna.
He conceived and presented Sound- and Media-Installations in Vienna, Helsinki, Stockholm, Mexico City, Cairo, Norwich, Tokyo, London and elsewhere. Commissioned work for ISEA94 and ISEA2004, ars electronica, PSi #11, futuresonic2004, EAST, and the Millennium Dome in 2000. In 2005 Mathias Fuchs co-edited a double issue of German Art magazine KUNSTFORUM on the topic of Art and Games.
Currently working on Creative Games for various festivals, a game for a haunted Tudor House in Manchester, for the City Council of Bradford, for Urban Planning, for communities like the Liverpool based Dark Horse Venture and for individual DJs and musicians.
http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk
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| Marc Garrett is an Internet artist, writer, street artist, activist, curator, educationalist and musician. Emerging in the late 80's from the streets exploring creativity via agit-art tactics, Marc declares his own and humanity's seemingly perpetual dysfunction. He is also Co Founder & Codirector of Furtherfield and is one of Furtherfield’s principal researchers into net art and cultural context on the Internet and co-curates featured works. |
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Ryan Griffis: US-based Ryan was the second FurtherCritic in residence (2003-5). He
is a founding member of ArtOfficial Construction Media, a collaborative
effort to screw in a lightbulb. His interests, professional and
personal, include activism, technology, education, skateboarding, art,
loud music and anthropology. |
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| María Victoria Guglietti is an Argentine PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She studied and worked as a journalist in her hometown, Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2002, she moved to Canada where she has been researching New Media Art and cultural differences in the Canadian context, first at the MA program in Communication Studies at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, and, later, at the PhD program in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University. María Victoria’s interests and future areas of specialization are on-line communities and transnationalism. Her current project is a study of Aboriginal network art projects in Canada. |
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Tsila Hassine grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel, where she completed B.Sc's
in Mathematics and Computer Science. She spent 2003 at the New Media
department of the HGK Zurich, and in 2004 she joined the Piet Zwart
Institute in Rotterdam, where she is pursuing an MA in Media Design.
In the last couple of years she's trying to figure out her love/hate
realtionship with technology in general, and internet search engines
in particular.... http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma/student/thassine/ |
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John Hopkins is a networker with more than a decade of remote-streamed visual-sonic performance work, Hopkins has a background in engineering, hard science, and the arts, and practices a nomadic form of performative art and teaching that spans many countries and situations. Recently he has made live network-based streaming visual-sonic performances in Australia, Germany, Canada, Netherlands, France, New York, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, the UK, and, of course, online among other places. He studied film with renown experimental film-maker, Stan Brakhage and video with Janice Tanaka at UC-Boulder. He was recently artist-in-residence at the Sibelius Academy's Center for Music and Technology in Helsinki, Finland, and is a ten-year member of SÍM (Union of Icelandic Artists) and MUU (Finnish Artists Union). http://neoscenes.net |
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| Neil Jenkins is an artist/programmer. He is developing networked technology as a focus point for [live] creative discourse, production and events. Neil is also Furtherfield's Technical Director for Projects and has had ongoing input in the development, design and programming of key Furtherfield projects. http://www.devoid.co.uk |
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David Jennings enjoys no clearly defined role in arts or business. He makes a living by consulting with organisations who are developing e-learning programmes and projects. He has applied his background in psychology and human-computer interaction across many different areas over the last fifteen years. These include several collaborative music and multimedia arts projects, of which reviewing for Furtherfield is among the most recent. Blog site and writings
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| Lewis LaCook is a poet who wandered one day into a gorgeously chaotic, polylogical room. He's been there ever since. Lewis was the first FurtherCritic in residence and continues to select and review works to be featured on Furtherfield. His special interests lie in the murky areas of artists’ programming and networked media, revelling in the ability to promote collaboration between the user and the work. www.lewislacook.com |
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| Jess Laccetti, born in Italy, educated in Italy, Canada, and England, is a doctoral student at the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University. Her Ph.D. thesis examines web fictions within a narrative and feminist theoretical context. Consequently she calls for a widening" of certain narratological concepts such as "mimesis," "communication," and "temporality." She is also a research assistant for the Narrative Laboratory (http://www.narrativelab.org) project and a lecturer. Her work has been published on and offline and she has presented papers in the U.K., Europe, and Canada. |
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| Nancy Mauro-Flude: Australian citizen/ dancer / writer / media artist / embodiment theorist / hacker of narrative / delinquent stray cat / likes to map opposing militant positions. I am concerned with what transpires when there are interference's, glitches in the flow of human communication when transmitting, receiving and entwining apparently incongruent sensory codes, signs and knowledge’s. http://sistero.sysx.org/ |
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| MEZ [Mary-Anne Breeze] is an international net.wurker and avataristic author of the networked "mezangelle" system. She has exhibited extensively since the early 90s [eg Wollongong World Women Online 1995, CTHEORY's Digital Dirt, ISEA_97 Chicago, ARS Electronica_97, SIGGRAPH_99&00, _Under_Score_ @ The Brooklyn Academy of Music 01, +playengines+ Melbourne 03, Art of the BioTec Era Adelaide 04, p0es1s Berlin 04 + Arte Nuevo InteractivA '05]. Mez is also an online journalist [e.g see Metamute, The Journal of Digital Information, CyberSociology Magazine, and fineArt Forum], co-moderator of the _arc.hive_ experimental mailing list and online curator and lecturer in Net/Codeworking. http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker |
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| Ivan Monroy-López studied Mathematics in Mexico City, where he is close to the local performance and electronic undergrounds. He has edited a number of photocopy zines of no fixed name or theme and tried his hand at promoting the work of other zinesters. He has just started an ezine and is working on a novel. http://textzi.net |
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| Björn Norberg is the curator and producer of NonTVTV real-time live arts Internet TV, a Splintermind project initiated by Swedish art group Beeoff. NonTVTV invites artists to create a piece of real-time art to be distributed live, 24 hours a day, for a period of one month. These works are then broadcast at high bandwidth to a network of new media arts venues around the world. |
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| Yasser Rashid is an interaction designer and interactive media artist working within commercial, artistic and educational contexts. His artistic works explores notions of cultural identity, displacement and exile expressed through the use of interactive technologies. |
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| Wylie Schwartz is an independent theorist and critic based in Ithaca, NY, currently serving a one-year term with the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University. A graduate of journalism from the University of Georgia, Wylie holds an MA in the History of Art from the University of East Anglia in the UK. Her MA thesis was concerned with a re-evaluated status for postminimal sculpture based on a phenomenological theoretical perspective. New form, critical theory, and the possibility of a unifying world art theory are her other aspirations. |
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| Luis Silva studied Social Sciences and is now completing his MA on Communication, Culture and Information Technologies and finishing a research project on net art. He has curated a few new media exhibitions, namely Online - Portuguese Netart 1997-2004, Source Code and Sound Visions. In 2006 he created the Lisbon node of the Upgrade!, an international network of gatherings concerning art, technology and culture. He is now developing and curating lx_2.0, Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea's online program. Silva has written several reviews and texts addressing new media art for various publications, namely Turbulence's networked_performance, Rhizome and newmediafix. |
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| Patrick Simons makes audio/ sound work with Kate Southworth (Glorious Ninth) and on his own. |
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| Aaron Steed …is an artist who likes to work in increasingly foreign media. Recently having learned how to program he has applied himself in Flash and Processing whilst researching artificial intelligence. He is developing artificial intelligence libraries for Processing at his site and hopes one day this work will lead to creations that will follow after projects such as Harold Cohen’s AARON and Keith Tyson’s Artmachine. http://www.robotacid.com |
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| Dyske Suematsu is a writer based in NYC and CEO of dyske.com. He received his undergraduate degree from School of Visuals Arts in Fine Arts and has created AllLookSame.com, URLDJ.com, and PainInTheEnglish.com. His artwork "NETABSTRACTION" was shown at 2001 New York Digital Salon and 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival (Transcodex). |
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| Franz Thalmair, _____fratha], is a writer based in Vienna, Austria. In 2006 he co-founded CONT3XT.NET, since then he has been working on the contextualisation of culture, media, information and 'fruits of everyday life'. In his (mostly german) blog [TXTNWS] he is collecting and providing information on netculture, textualisation, e-literature, visualisation strategies, all related to linguistics. He studied linguistics at the university of Salzburg, Paris and Barcelona and is now now working in the cultural field in Vienna. |
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| Helen Varley Jamieson has a background in theatre as a writer, director and producer, and has worked in digital media and the Internet since 1996. Although she encountered chat rooms and MOOs early on, it wasn't until she met up with Desktop Theater in 2000 that she became excited by the potential of the Internet as a venue for performance. She coined the term "cyberformance" to describe live performance using Internet technologies such as chat applications. http://www.creative-catalyst.com/ |
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| Darshana Vora is an artist whose work addresses the dynamics of site and space in relation to physical and emotional states of self. Working across a range of media, her objects and installations create situations that engage one in a playful but contemplative way. Darshana Vora studied at Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai and the University of Hertfordshire, UK. |
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| Dan Waber spends an absurd amount of time trying to get words to do the simple things he asks of them. His past efforts have appeared in print, in performance, and in digital and gallery exhibitions in places like MÖBIUS, The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks, Recursive Angel, Vispo, Riding The Meridian, the 'Future ForWord', 2002 Seattle Poetry Festival and at 'Bumbershoot2003' art and music festivals, the Electronic Poetry Center and more. |
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| Pau Waelder is a graphic designer based in Spain. A Graduate in Art History from the University of Barcelona he is currently preparing a thesis on digital art. Pau is a collaborator on the digital art website Artnodes (Barcelona) and the unexpected winner of the "Banner Strike" contest, organized by the artistic group The Banner Art Collective. Since April 2000 he is the co-founder and editor of the website devoted to art and literature http://www.sicplacitum.com. |
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Liam Wells is a video - sound - network artist concerned with the real-time collaborative possibilities of the internet for the production & dissemination of new art forms. Interests include – Sonic/ Image improvisation, Realtime video performance, distributed performance/ collaboration, sound-image relationships. Currently employed by Norwich School of Art & Design as a lecturer on the school’s MA Digital Practices. Liam is one half of the artist group n0media and has collaborated with artists from around the world, curating & performing online in various exhibitions, networked improvisations & other events.
http://www.n0media.net
http://webjam.nsad.ac.uk/decentred/ |
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| Kristen Palana is a multimedia artist based in the NYC area. She recently completed Yellow Ribbons, a 30-second multimedia political ad for MoveOn.org. This was voted by online viewers into the top 2% of 1500 ads submitted and is currently featured at http://www.bushin30seconds.org/150/. Kirsten is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. She is a regular contributor to NetArtReview |
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Garrett Lynch (IRL) is a net.artist / new media artist, lecturer, curator, critic and theorist of net.art. His work deals with networks (in their most open sense) within an artistic content; the spaces between artworks, artist and audience as a site, means and location for artistic initiation, creation and discourse.
Educated to degree standard in Visual Communication (specialised in Multimedia) in England and masters level in France at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Garrett is currently Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at Canterbury Christ Church University, England and has previously taught on new media courses at both Birmingham Institute of Art and Design and the University of Hertsfordshire.
Work and documentation is available at: http://www.asquare.org/
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| Eduardo Navas is a US based interdiciplinary artist who develops projects in music, performance art and New Media. He is the Founder/Contributing Editor/ Webmaster of NetArtReview and he maintains his own site, navasse.net. Currently Eduardo continues his studies in the Art History, Theory, and Criticism Ph.D. program at University of California in San Diego as a 2003 - 2007 Cota Robles graduate Fellow. |
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