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Melissa Mongiat’s approach revolves around participation by the public. Her creations have included a series of interactive environments for the Royal Festival Hall in London, for which /Wallpaper*/ magazine selected her as one of the world’s 10 most promising designers. She also stands out for her research projects in participative design. mehr...

Julian ‘Togar’ Abraham (Muhammad Hidayat) is an artist, programmer, scientist-wannabe and social researcher. Since 2006 he has been an active member of HONF. Through his involvement with HONF Abraham gained new ideas and experiences about how art, the environment, science and technology relate to one another – providing new tools to educate and engage both him and the society into a wiser, richer and more independent living being in a world of creation and annihilation. mehr...

Mouna Andraos is an interaction designer in various media including web, mobile, electronics and wearables, while applying ideas of softness, intimacy and uniqueness to the electronic spaces and objects that are increasingly inhabiting our personal environments. Working under the label Electronic Crafts, Mouna has been exploring the intersection of mass-produced electronics and handmade crafts to create playful, sustainable or participatory objects. Considering technology as a vehicle for social change, an important part of Andraos’ work is geared towards demystifying and disseminating technology.

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Marie-Luise Angerer is a Professor in Media- and Cultural Studies at the Kunsthochschule Köln. In her work she focuses on the construction of gender identities by communication and media and its dissolution by new information technologies. Her main research fields are media technology, feminist theory, body theory, the configuration of knowledge and artistic practices as well as questions about life and the human and posthuman vision. mehr...

Inke Arns is the Artistic Director of the Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund, Germany . She is renowned for her work as an independent curator and author focusing on media art, net cultures and Eastern Europe and holds a PhD on the subject.

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Herman Asselberghs is a Belgian artist focusing on the question of border areas between sound and image, world and media, poetry and politics. His video works have been shown among others at Muhka, Antwerpen; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. He is the winner of the transmediale Award 2007, with the video Proof of Life (2006). Herman Asselberghs teaches at the film department of Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel and is a founding member of the Brussels production platform Auguste Orts.

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Philip Auslander's primary research interest is in performance, especially in relation to music, media, and technology. He has written on aesthetic and cultural performances as diverse as theatre, performance art, music, stand-up comedy, robotic performance, and courtroom procedures. He is the author of five books and editor or co-editor of two collections. His most recently published books are Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music (2006) and the second edition of Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture (2008). mehr...

From industrial music in the 1980s to an exploration of electronic and digital cultures in our day, Cécile Babioleʼs artistic trajectory has evolved laterally, cutting across the realms of music and the visual arts. Far from 'de rigueur' interdisciplinarianism, her works move back and forth between one language and another, bleeding each code into the other in an ongoing reinterpretation of the relationship between image and sound. Her installations and performances question our prevailing systems of representation – from an original and ironic angle.

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Magnus Bärtås is an artist, writer and Professor of Fine Arts at the Konstfack in Stockholm, working with text, video, objects and installation. He has recently exhibited at Platform-09 in Seoul and the 4th Bucharest Biennale. His video works have been screened at Centre Pompidou; Gothenburg International Filmfestival; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and The Powerplant Gallery, Toronto; among other venues. His dissertation You Told Me – Work stories and video essays, examining narrative models in contemporary art and the practice of the video essay, was published in May 2010. mehr...

After studying Cultural Sciences and Aesthetics at the Universtity of Hildesheim, Claudia Becker graduated with a diploma thesis about the complex of problems of photographic (re-)presentation (2007). During her research at the ZKM | Institute for Visual Media (2007-2009) she took part in the creative and scientific development of several media projects. Attending the post-graduate program at the University of Arts in Berlin, she is currently doing a Ph.D advancing Flusser´s philosophy of photography. As the Scientific Supervisor of the _Vilém_Flusser_Archiv she is co-editor of the international Flusser lectures. mehr...

Franco 'Bifo' Berardi is a writer, philosopher, media- theorist and activist. He founded the magazine A/traverso (1975–1981) and was a co-founder of Radio Alice, the first free pirate radio station in Italy. He was involved in the political movement of 'Autonomia' in Italy during the 1970s, then fled to Paris where he worked with the French philosopher Felix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. In 2002 he was an integral part of setting up the Telestreet movement in Italy. Berardi is currently a Professor of Social History of Communication at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Milan. mehr...

Ben Bogart has a Ph.D. in Interactive Arts and Technology from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC. He gives regular presentations on dialogues between public & media art and the potential of electronic media as permanent public art. Bogart’s research interests include artistic research & development in machine creativity and generative systems, as well as responsive, interactive and site-specific installations. mehr...

Martin Brand (*1975, Bochum) studied Art and German Philology in Bochum and Dortmund until 2002. Since then he has been living and working in Cologne as a photographic and video artist. His works have been shown at numerous exhibitions and festivals. In conjunction with a solo exhibition at the Dortmunder Kunstverein the catalogue Martin Brand: Eyes Wide Shut, a comprehensive presentation of his work up to the time, was published in 2008 in cooperation with the Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund. mehr...

Elaine Brodie is an award-winning photographer whose work has been published in numerous magazines and exhibited worldwide. Her photographs are in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, Labatt’s Breweries and many private and corporate collections. She is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art, and completed her Masters of Fine Art in Documentary Media at Ryerson University in 2009. Her thesis focused on the topic of collectors and collecting. mehr...

Heath Bunting is one of the core members of the early nineties net.art movement. He has worked with performance, intervention, pirate radio, fax/mail art and BBS systems before becoming an active participant in the explosion of the Internet. In 1996, Bunting set-up the server www.irational.org, a system for irrational information and products for the roaming and displaced. Recently, he has moved into the field of genetics proclaiming it to be the next 'new media', and is involved in physical network performance.

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Castonguay's practice is based in new media and digital art, and his works exploit both obsolete technology and open source software. He was a founding member of the not-for-profit media lab Artengine. Elements, a recent installation, was shown at the Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal in 2006. His works are included in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.

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Paolo Cirio hacks and orchestrates media through videos, coding, social media, digital prints, public interventions and audience participation in order to create controversial provocations and to tackle social issues. Cirio explores information as a magmatic material that can be shaped. He sculpts information by fabricating stories, processing data and contextualizing contents. He creates sculptural structures of information, in which layers of media are composed in order to reveal unexpected forms. His projects have been sustained by awards, residencies and commissions and featured worldwide. mehr...

Simon A. Cole is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. His most recent book is Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting (University of Chicago Press, 2008). He is a member of the American Judicature Society Commission on Forensic Science & Public Policy. His current interests are the sociology of forensic science and the development of criminal identification databases and biometric technologies. mehr...

Jay Cousins is co-founder of the Open Design City at betahaus Berlin. He is passionate about Open Design, creating new and alternative structures and cultures and interested in social technology, human interaction, technology trends, product hacking, disrupting technologies and systems. The motivation behind his work is to develop technologies that socialise, educate and transform the collective and individual consciousness and empower to change the world – a process he supports as connector, social hacker, catalyst, moderator or redundancy designer.

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Florian Cramer is a reader in communication design, and Director of the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam. He is an academic and non-academic writer on arts and media. mehr...

Dieter Daniels is Professor of Art History and Media Theory at the Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) in Leipzig. In 1984, he co-founded the Videonale Bonn and has contributed to numerous projects, exhibitions, and symposia in the field of media art. He has extensively published on twentieth-century art, a.o. on Marcel Duchamp, Fluxus and media art. Between 2005 - 2009 he was Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. in Linz, Austria, and since 2010 serves as head of transmediale's advisory board. mehr...

Christopher Doering is a product designer, educator and co-founder of the Open Design City. He studied Product Design in Hamburg and Weimar, followed by courses in Applied Ethics and Economic History at the University of Jena. Christopher worked at the environmental design agency EPEA, got involved in social projects in Germany and abroad, was a resident at the Palomar 5 innovation camp and currently runs a design research project on accessible sustainable materials. His passion is to explore and develop collaborative design processes and new ways of interaction between creators, producers and consumers. mehr...

Daphne Dragona is a media arts curator  based in Athens. Her exhibitions and events in the last few years have focused on forms of critique and tactics of resistance expressed through net based and game based art. She has worked with Fournos Center for Digital Culture (Greece) , LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre (Spain), Alta Tegnologia Andina (Peru) and with the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens. She is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Communication & Media Studies of the University of Athens. mehr...

R. Luke duBois is a composer, artist and performer who explores the temporal and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in Composition from Columbia University, and teaches at the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center at NYU's Polytechnic Institute. DuBois is the co-author of Jitter, a software for real-time manipulation of matrix data. He currently performs as part of Bioluminescence with vocalist Lesley Flanigan. His artwork is represented by the Bitforms gallery in New York City. mehr...

Electrigger loves and plays electronic music. He founded an independent TV-show for electro and related styles in 1997 in Berlin and later became DJ for a radio-magazine in Leipzig. The Leipzig-based club event Disco Hospital – influenced by a song of the band Coil – was his outbreak as a DJ and host for the experimental and advanced groove. Currently he works as freelance and networking music promoter, video artist and photographer in Berlin.

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Diana Combo is a sound artist from Portugal, working under the name of Eosin, an anagram of noise. With a background in Sound and Image Studies, she developed an experimental approach to sound production and performance and started to work with deformed vinyl records, combining the sounds of the resulting errors on the surface of the record with its existing musical content. At present she is working on gradually growing sound textures made of lock grooves, vinyl noises and other samples, adding field recordings from various sources in a parallel layer. mehr...

Fair Use was founded at the 2006 Bent Festival in New York by musicians Zach Layton and Matthew Ostrowski together with video artist R. Luke DuBois. Basing its work on the use of cinema as raw material for experimental live performances, Fair Use uses real-time audio and video manipulation to re-narrate and re-consider the cultural object through their highly subjective viewpoints. mehr...

transmediale Award 2011 Jurymitglieder Micz Flor arbeitet seit 1995 mit dem Medium Internet. 1997 gewann er mit Florian Clauß den 1. Preis des von der Hamburger Kunsthalle ausgeschriebenen Wettbewerbs für “Kunst im Internet” sowie 1998 mit Josephine Berry den “Multimedia-Preis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart”. Neben Einladungen zur Ars Electronica, ISEA (Chicago 1997, Manchester 1998), der documenta X (1997) und next 5 minutes unterrichtete er an der Salford University in Manchester und an der Universität Weimar. mehr...

At the beginning of her career Franca Formenti was active in trash and fibre art. In the last few years she has been dealing with issues related to human cloning and the relationship between human beings and computers, with particular attention to the web and physical interaction. After creating an installation called Bio Bambino, she created the Bio Doll, a cloned android, at the will of the public's disposal, and actually a sex slave. Bio Doll doesn´t have either a navel or uterus as these are now considered useless. mehr...

Daniel Franke works as artist, designer and music video director. His works challenge the restrictions of conventional spatial frameworks and concepts: digital simulations should no longer be limited to an on-screen-display; instead the digital might be imagined as transferable into real space and thus extend perceptions of “the real”. As a graduand at the University of Arts he is currently preparing his masters degree mentored by Prof. Joachim Sauter and Prof. Alberto de Campo. He is also member of the artist collective We Are ChopChop.

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Mathias Fuchs is an artist, musician and media critic who has pioneered the artistic use of game engines in various game art installations. He started the first European Masters Programme in Creative Games at the School of Art & Design at the University of Salford (Greater Manchester) and is lead developer for a European Joint Masters in Ludic Interfaces. He has developed sound and media installations in Vienna, London, Mexico City, Tokyo, Helsinki, Stockholm, Norwich, London, Cairo, Vancouver, Paris, and Providence/ Rhode Island. mehr...

Mindaugas Gapševičius (*1974) is an artist, facilitator, and curator living and working in London, Berlin and Vilnius. He has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions around Europe and is an active participant in conferences and workshops related to net culture. Gapševičius collaboratively initiated several major international cultural/educational projects including o-o Institutio Media, Migrating Reality, and Migrating Art Academies, co-edited Migrating Reality (2008) and Migrating:Art:Academies: (2010) books.

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Sami Ben Gharbia is Advocacy Director of Global Voices Online, the anti-censorship network dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and free access to information online. He also works on the Threatened Voices collaborative mapping project and is co-founder of nawaat.org (which means the core in Arabic), a Tunisian collective blog about news and politics. Originally from Tunisia, he is now based in The Netherlands.

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Niklas Goldbach studied Photography at the University of Bielefeld and Experimental Media Arts at the University of the Arts Berlin where he graduated with honours in 2004. From 2007-2008 he was participant of the artist-in-residency program of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and in 2010 he received a grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn. Since 2002 his work has been presented throughout Europe, the United States and Asia in numerous film festivals, group-exhibitions and solo shows. mehr...

Peter Michael Gotthardt is one of the most versatile and successful composers of the present. He has written orchestra music, chamber music, oratorios, collages and audio plays as well as pieces for theatre. Many of his 500 scores for films have been celebrated internationally, amongst others The Legend of Paul and Paula (the most successful DEFA feature film), St Peters Cathedral and The Fiend. Most recently ARTE premiered the film Hitler cantata featuring 70 minutes of music written by Gotthardt. mehr...

Vincent Goudard graduated in Signal and Image Engineering from the National Institute of Applied Sciences, Lyon and holds a master's degree in Science Applied to Music from IRCAM, Paris. He worked with various research institutes and art centers. His own projects include e-sketch, a public installation of 3D drawing; media music room, a public workshop aiming at transforming a room into a musical instrument and f∞.. (vanishing point vanishing), a network interactive installation in which the audience can virtually dig the digital flow.

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Jonathan Gray works at the Open Knowledge Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to improving the way that knowledge is shared. He founded Where Does My Money Go?, a website which allows users to explore and visually represent UK public spending. With his academic hat he is engaged in research in Philosophy and Intellectual History at the University of London.

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Carolyn Guertin is Director of the eCreate Lab and Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Department of English at the University of Texas. She is the curator of the celebrated collection Assemblage: The Online Women's New Media Gallery, and was Senior McLuhan Fellow at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Guertins research focuses on cyberfeminism, hacktivism, emergent media arts and literatures, information aesthetics and the social practices surrounding technology (especially social networking).

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Wolfgang Hagen is head of the department of culture and music at DeutschlandRadio Berlin and lecturer for Media Studies at the University St. Gallen. He published several books as: Gegenwartsvergessenheit. Studien zu Lazarsfeld, Innis und Luhmann, Berlin 2003; Warum haben Sie keinen Fernseher, Herr Luhmann? (editor) Berlin 2005; Das Radio. Zur Geschichte und Theorie des Hörfunks Deutschland/USA, München 2005; Was tun, Herr Luhmann? (edited with H. Münkler, D. Baecker), Berlin 2009. mehr...

Mark Hansen is Associate Professor of Statistics at UCLA with a joint appointment at the Centre for Embedded Networking Sensing and Design- and Media Arts. His work is collaborative and interdisciplinary, finding inspiration in various branches of applied mathematics, information theory, media arts, environmental monitoring and mechanics of information technologies. His current focus lies on so-called participatory sensing, projects that engage the general public in non-professional practices of data collection and analysis. mehr...

Adrian Heathfield writes on, curates and creates performance. He is the editor of Live: Art and Performance (Tate Publishing 2004) and Small Acts: Performance, The Millennium and the Marking of Time (Black Dog Publications 2000). In 2003 he co-curated Live Culture, a performance series and symposium at Tate Modern and the national performance series Small Acts at the Millennium. He has worked with many artists on critical and creative collaborations including video and performance works, talks, written dialogues, creative writing, workshop projects and symposia.

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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. mehr...

Dr. Garnet Hertz - Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Media Design Programm des Art Center College of Design; Researcher am Institut für Softwaretechnologien an der University of California Irvine.

Dr. Jussi Parikka - Lektor in Medientheorie und -geschichte an der Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Direktor am CoDE: The Cultures of the Digital Economy-Institute. mehr...

Born and based in Singapore, Ho Tzu Nyen works primarily in the audio-visual medium, his projects traversing the fields of film, visual arts and the performing arts. His videos, paintings, performance-lectures and theatrical projects have been presented at major art exhibitions and festivals. mehr...

The House Of Natural Fiber (HONF) ist ein Laboratorium für neue Medienkunst, das von einer Künstlergemeinschaft seit 1999 in Yogyakarta betrieben wird. HONF  realisieren Open-Community Ideen, welche sich meistens mit den Bedürfnissen von grenzüberschreitenden Projekten zwischen technologischer Entwicklung und dem praktischen Nutzen in der Alltagswelt befassen. mehr...

Brendan Howell is a media artist and an engineer who has created various software works and interactive electronic inventions. He lives and works in Berlin where he teaches at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule and at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee.

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Adam Hyde founded FLOSS Manuals in 2007, the aim being to increase the quantity and quality of free documentation about free software. The project explored methodologies for collective book production (Book Sprints) and lead to the creation of the new collaborative writing platform Booki. As a digital artist Adam Hyde explored digital-analog hybrid broadcast systems as part of Radioqualia. Projects included The Frequency Clock, Polar Radio, Radio-Astronomy, Free Radio Linux, Paper Cup Telephone Network and Silent TV. mehr...

Karl-Heinz Jeron studied Painting at the Art Academy in Munich and creates artistic and cultural internet projects. He was a member of the artist duo Blank & Jeron that is not only engaged with pure internet works but also creates physical items, that materialize as hybrid installations, informed objects and collaborative events. Since 2007 he is regularly holding workshops for children at the Edit-Russ-Haus/Oldenburg, HMKV/Dortmund and the Nürtingen-Grundschule/Berlin. mehr...

Michelle Kasprzak is a Canadian curator and writer based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has appeared in Wired UK, on radio and TV broadcasts by the BBC and CBC, and lectured at PICNIC. She founded one of the world’s leading art curating blogs, Curating.info. She has written critical essays for Rhizome, CV Photo, Mute, and many more. Michelle is currently a Curator at V2_ Institute for Unstable Media, Project Director at McLuhan in Europe 2011, and a member of IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art).
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Simo Kellokumpu works as a freelance-choreographer and dancer since graduating in Choreography and Dance from the Theatre Academy of Finland. Since 2003 his choreographies have been performed at numerous festivals and venues in Europe. In 2006 the piece Raw Dog was chosen and distinguished at the Aerowaves Festival. Recently, he was commissioned by the Finnish National Ballet. Characteristic to his research is an interest in multi-layered kinetic movement texture based on his improvisational process with dancers.

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Scott Kildall (*1969) is a cross-disciplinary artist working with video, installation, prints, sculpture and performance. He gathers material from the public realm to form interventions into various concepts of space. He is a graduate of both Brown University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has received fellowships and awards from the Kala Art Institute, The Banff Centre for the Arts and Turbulence.org and is currently a resident artist at the Eyebeam Art & Technology Center. Scott is also a founding member of Second Front — the first performance art group in Second Life. mehr...

Eric Kluitenberg is a theorist, writer, and organiser of culture, media and technology. He is head of the media program at De Balie – Centre for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam. He lectures and publishes regularly on culture, new media, and cultural politics throughout Europe and beyond, and teaches a course on Culture and New Media at the University of Amsterdam. Since 1988 he has been involved as an organiser in important media culture events such as the Second International Symposium on Electronic Art (SISEA) and recently Tulipomania DotCom – A Critique of the New Economy.

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Founded in 2009 in Berlin, this interdisciplinary collective of 30 international artists and researchers focuses on processes, artistic sharing and new forms and modalities of creation. They build a terrain for interrogation that activates creative 'micro-groups', productions, performances, publications, exhibitions and 'twisted conferences'. With an emphasis on fluid roles of participation and knowledge-exchange, responsibility is shared with audiences where roles of author, contributor, and spectator are constantly exchanged. mehr...

Andree Korpys and Markus Löffler live and work in Berlin and Bremen. Their work encompasses the fields of architecture, installation and video art and has been displayed in many international exhibitions. In their documentary work the artists connect fictional and biographical material and create contradictions that allow new associations and perspectives to be formed. mehr...

Verena Kuni is a scholar in the field of History, Theory of Art and Media Cultures, and a professor for Visual Culture at Goethe University, Frankfurt Main. From 1995 to 1999, she co-curated the video section of the Kasseler Documentary film and Video Festival, where, since 1999, she has been the director of the yearly interfiction summit for art, media, and network cultures. She has written for international publications (print & online), and has published widely on electronic arts. Her research is dedicated to transfers between material and media cultures, media of imagination, technologies of transformation, DIY cultures, and games, play and toys as tools.

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Christin Lahr (*1965, Munich) lives and works as an artist, curator and professor for Media Art in Berlin and Leipzig. She has received several scholarships and awards and exhibited in Germany and abroad. Since 1990 she has been teaching at different universities as well as curating shows for instance at the RealismusStudio of NGBK Berlin. Since 2001 Lahr is a Professor for Media Art at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig.

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Elena Lamberti teaches American & Canadian Literature at the University of Bologna, Italy. She is the author of Marshall McLuhan.Tra letteratura, arti e media, editor of Interpreting/Translating European Modernism and has recently completed a new book on Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic (2011). Her areas of study also include: cultural memory, media studies and interfacing sciences/humanities. She was among the promoters of the European Thematic Networks ACUME and ACUME2 and of the EU/Canada Cooperation Program CEMMENTI. mehr...

Zach Layton is an improviser, composer, curator and new media artist based in Brooklyn with an interest in biofeedback, generative algorithms, and experimental culture.  Zach has performed and exhibited at The Kitchen, Art Forum Berlin, Eyebeam, Millenium Film Workshop, Miguel Abreu gallery, and many other venues. He has collaborated with Vito Acconci, Joshua White, Jonas Mekas, Seth Kirby, Alex Waterman, Angie Eng, Tristan Perich, and many others. Zach is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and the Interactive Telecommunications Program. mehr...

Tobias Leingruber (tbx) is an artist and free communication designer using viral media, popular culture, amateur aesthetics and client-side browser software in his work. As an advocate for openness and freedom online he has worked with many artists and organisations including the F.A.T. Lab, Artzilla.org and Mozilla. Best know for Pirates of the Amazon and China Channel he has exhibited work worldwide and has been featured by the NY Times, LA Times, Wired, Spiegel, 3sat(TV) or Liberation.fr.  

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Simona Levi is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Italy and established in Barcelona since 1990. She is the Director of Conservas, a cultural activity centre. She has directed the arts festival IN MOTION at the Centre of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona since 2000. She is an outstanding activist in European social movements promoting the free circulation of knowledge and the right to housing. She is co-founder of EXGAE, a civil organization that defends from the abuses of the cultural industry trade groups.

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Friedrich Lindenberg is a programmer working on open modes of governance and on government transparency. As an active member of Liquid Democracy e.V., he has contributed to Adhocracy, a collaborative policy making platform. Working with the Open Knowledge Foundation on data projects, he works on the OffenerHaushalt project, a portal on German public spending and on CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network), a community-driven catalogue for data packages.

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Camille Louis (*1984) graduated in Contemporary Philosophy and Theater Studies in Paris and at the same time worked with choreographers as a dramaturge. She is a writer, was editor in chief of the magazine 104, and founded the kom.post collective where she currently works as dramaturge. She travels through Europe with kom.post and with Our Shared Factory, a dispositif to share and exchange knowledge.

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Maha Maamoun was born in California, and grew up, lives, and works in Cairo, Egypt. Working mainly with the mediums of photography and video, Maamoun often starts from generic visual representations of Cairo to explore how these intersect with and are negotiated by personal experiences. Maamoun is one of the founding members of CiC – The Contemporary Image Collective – a space for contemporary art and culture in Cairo. mehr...

Daito Manabe (*1976) graduated in Mathematics from the Tokyo Science University and also completed the Dynamic Sensory Programming (DSP) course at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS). His programming skills and research ability, which both are considered to be of high calibre, and his flexible creative style have enabled him to participate in many arts and research development projects both in Japan and abroad. Daito is a co-founder of 4nchor5 la6 with Motoi Ishibashi, and also serves vice president of Rhizoatiks. mehr...

Jonathan Marks is a near futurist, examining emerging distribution platforms and researching their impact on traditional broadcast storytelling in the next 5 years. He is passionate about the future of radio, but believes broadcasters have to find ways of integrating social media into their daily production and learn how to make programmes "with" audiences rather than just "for" them. Mobile and in-car entertainment is demanding that radio labels its content – or it won't be found.

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Nancy Mauro-Flude is a researcher and performing artist. In a playful and speculative manner her work engages theatre machines, digital materiality, theories of embodiment and points to the current renaissance of computer hacker culture and the automaton in contemporary art. She has conducted extensive funded research into communication technologies, interfaces and surveillance techniques for use in performance. Currently she is a lecturer in E-media and Theory in Experimental Art and New Technology at the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania. mehr...

Rosa Menkman is a Dutch visualist who focuses on visual artifacts created by accidents in digital media. The visuals she makes are the result of glitches, compressions, feedback and other forms of noise. Although many people perceive these accidents as negative experiences, Rosa emphasises their positive consequences. By combining both her practical as well as her academic background, she merges her abstract pieces within a grand theory of artifacts (a glitch study), in which she strives for new forms of conceptual synthesis of the two within her acousmatic videoscapes. mehr...

Die einzigartigen "mezangelle"-code Gedichte von Mez Breeze sind schon mit Werken von Shakespeare, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson und Larry Wall verglichen worden. mehr...

MoHa! play somewhat loud music influenced by incredibly varied sources. Some say the duo deal in sonic splatter. Others say it is reminiscent of the conversation your mate has at you on the weekend in a club when he’s had too much to drink and is telling you how great everything is at 180km/h. Only instead of your mate it is actually R2D2, which leads you to believe maybe that someone did put something in your drink. In any case it is the work of two young men from Norway currently residing in Berlin.
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Julie Morel studied Video in Lyon, Time Based Media in Birmingham and Beaux Arts with C. Boltanski and T. Brown in Paris. This led her to a work with New Media at the 'Arts Décoratifs' in Paris and to a thesis on coding/transcoding/decoding. Her videos and digital works were shown at festivals and galleries worldwide. Her projects question the human involvement and affects in computer and software, mainly through text as an image. Julie Morel currently teaches Beaux Arts in Paris and Multimedia in Lorient.

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Jürgen Neumann is a consultant for ICT strategy and implementation who has worked for major German and international companies and non-profit projects for more than two decades. Recently he is trying to ramp up the Open Source Hardware and Design Aliance ohanda.org and is lobbying for more open licensing models for the radio spectrum at openspectrum.eu. mehr...

Ricardo O’Nascimento is a new media artist, researcher of body-environment-relations and founder of the artistic platform Popkalab in Linz and São Paulo. His projects focus on fashion, design, projection and technology and include interactive video installations, interactive walls, intelligent clothing, game and interface development. He presented his work at several festivals and conferences including the Ars Electronica festival, FILE festival, Social Fabrics, ACE and ARTECH and published broadly.

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transmediale Award 2011 Jurymitglieder Marisa Olson ist eine New York basierte, Kuratorin, Dozentin und Herausgeberin. Sie studierte Bildende Kunst an der Goldsmiths University in London, History of Consciousness an der UC Santa Cruz und Rhetorik an der UC Berkeley. mehr...

Open Design City (ODC), is more than a workshop, it is a collaboration space in which new relationships and projects will be formed between its citizens. Founded in Berlin in 2010 by Jay Cousins, Chris Doering and Philip Steffan, it is a space that encourages the sharing of tools, knowledge, skills and exploration of Open Design principles, while pursuing the quest for finding new methods of monetisation and reward. The guideline for Open Design City is one word: Share. Share your tools, time ideas and yourself.

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Elsa Ossart studied Theatre, Cultural Management and Cultural Projects at Public Space in Paris. In 2005 she coordinated the European project ¡mira! in Seville. She worked as production manager for performing art spaces, and performance and street theatre festivals in Andalusia. Currently living and working in Paris and Berlin, Elsa works with kom.post, where she focuses on contextualisation and mediation in order to explore new relations between art and society.

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Dirk Paesmans (*1965, Brussels) studied under Nam June Paik at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf before attending CADRE, the electronic arts laboratory at San Jose State University in California. He started his career as a video artist, and since 1994 has been working together with Joan Heemskerk. Both form the artist collective JODI, known for its pioneering net-based artworks. mehr...

transmediale Award 2011 Jury member Matteo Pasquinelli is an Amsterdam-based writer and researcher at the Queen Mary University of London and has an activist background in Italy. Since 2000, he has been editor of the mailing list Rekombinant.

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Since 1991 Vicki Bennett has been making CDs, radio, and A/V multimedia under the name of People Like Us. Ever since she has been animating and recontextualising found footage collages with an equally witty and dark view of popular culture and with a surrealistic edge, both pre-recorded and in a live setting. Vicki has shown work at, amongst others, Tate Modern, The National Film Theatre, Purcell Room, The ICA, Sydney Opera House, Pompidou Centre, Sonar in Barcelona and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

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Oriana Persico (aka penelope.di.pixel) is a communication scientist focusing on the creation of empathic economies that allow for the establishment of participative, tolerant, creative ecosystems in which people actively and happily coexist. She started pursuing these objectives by getting involved in high-level institutional politics and cutting-edge grassroots projects in Italy and Brazil. But the encounter with Angel_F, an artificial intelligence, opened up for her the scenarios of critical art practices as a tool for the reinvention of reality. mehr...

Claus Pias is Professor of History and Theory of Media at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM) at the Leuphana-University Lüneburg. He held professorships in Bochum, Essen and Vienna and was fellow at the IFK Vienna, the IKKM Weimar, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin. At transmediale.11 he will present his latest book Was waren Medien? (2011). mehr...

Søren Bro Pold is Associate Professor of Digital Aesthetics at the Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, and head of the Interface Aesthetics Research Group. He works with digital and media aesthetics – from the 19th century panorama to the interface, e.g. electronic literature, net art, software art, creative software. mehr...

Susa Pop is curator and cultural manager. 2003 she founded Public Art Lab together with Hans Wiegner, artist and Ela Kagel, curator. Public Art Lab is a platform which conceives and implements cross-national creative projects and communication formats at the interface of urban space and the digital worlds. Together with the urbanist Mirjam Struppek, she initiated the Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008 and Europe 2010. Susa Pop is preparing the innovation forum Urban Screens 2011 together with the Federal Ministry of Education and Science. mehr...

Alison Powell is a LSE Fellow in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, researching digital media policy and advocacy. Her research examines the role of hackers, activists and advocates on the structure, function, and policy environment of the Internet. She has recently given attention to internet governance issues such as net neutrality and the conflict between child safety and freedom of speech, while continuing to critically investigate the role of open source modes of production on the democratization of communication.

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Beatriz Preciado (*1970, Burgos) is a philosopher and gender theorist, influenced by the ideas of Michel Foucault. She won the title of Master in Contemporary Philosophy and Gender Theory at the New School for Social Research in New York. Currently, Beatriz Preciado is a Professor at the Université de Paris VIII, where she teaches Political History of the Body, Gender Theory and History of Performance. She has participated in numerous international forums, seminars and conferences on gender identity and modes of subjectivity and her book Anti-sexual Manifesto has become a queer theory classic. mehr...

Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez is an interdisciplinary artist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who has acquired a diverse background along her various global residencies. mehr...

resom is a DJ moving between electro and minimal, breaks and techno, pop and underground releases, and playing as main and supporting act for different artists, including Prosumer, Mouse on Mars, Cio D'or, ADA, Booka Shade, Dexter, or Hometrainer. But Resom is more than just a DJ  – she is also an underground scene activist, active member of several networks (e.g. giroton, female:pressure), booker and event manager (e.g. fusion, kassem mosse), radio maker (dauerwelle-dj night), and last but not least a workshop organiser and teacher (do it herself).

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Influenced by philosophy and science, American-born artist and filmmaker Reynold Reynolds works primarily with 16mm and Super 8mm film as an art medium. He has developed a common film grammar based on transformation, consumption and decay. Reynolds' depictions frequent disturbed psychological and physical themes, increasingly provoking the viewer's participation and dismay. He was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2003 and in 2004 he was invited to The American Academy in Berlin. He has received numerous awards, including the Distinction Award at transmediale.09. mehr...