is an American electronic music and live visual artist, technologist, and journalist, based in Berlin. He is founder and editor of createdigitalmusic.com and createdigitalmotion.com, as well as an author on technology and creation (Macworld, Keyboard, Wax Poetics, Computer Music, Make, DE:BUG, Popular Science). He is also co-producer of the open-source MeeBlip line of hardware synthesizers. He is a frequent speaker on creative technology, both its design and application, for musical and interactive visual media.
Contributors 2012
Reinhard Gupfinger is an artist and researcher working in the field of Sonic Interaction and Street Art based in Linz, Austria.His areas of focus are perception, documentation and the manipulation of acoustic space. Since 2000 he has been primarily developing projects involving interactive sound objects, urban interventions, and sound performances.
Musician born in Ruzomberok, living in Bratislava. He is drummer and bass guitar player coming from band švepes. Now he play in various bands and projects including Sado-Baso, Ham&Drinks, Hallogenerator or Trucki.
Ronen Kadushin is an Israeli designer and design educator living in Berlin since 2005. He taught furniture design and design creativity courses at leading Israeli and European design academies since 1993. In 2004 Kadushin developed the Open Design concept, where the designs of his products can be downloaded, copied, modified and produced, much as in Open Source software.
Servando Barreiro, born in Santiago de compostela in 1979, has been pressenting works in Madrid, Berlin, Galicia, Paris, Rome, Montevideo, Trondheim. Bergen, Oslo among other locations. Sometimes in form of an interactive installation and sometimes as an audiovisual performance or ab workshop about free technologies and open source. the last project I'm working on is minitronics.net dedicated to the exploration of the physical computing with low cost sensors and open hardware/software.
Luka Frelih (1974) is an artist working with computers and networks, a computer programmer, free software hacker and web designer. He's been a core member of Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab since its founding in 1994. He was in many collaborations connecting technology and art. Member of Makrolab, ASCII Art Ensemble and pioneering net.art community projects: 7-11, Refresh, Remote-C. Programmed the instant ascii camera, a net art generator and more than one web map interface for positioned radio-linked roaming agents.
Local hacktivists of different groups share their knowlege during LiWoLi 2012
Three active groups from the region present themselves and their activities:
* VALUG (Voralpen Linux User Group)
* LUGL (Linux User Group Linz)
* Funkfeuer (a group building mesh networks)
Between the experimentation and materialization of concepts as physical objects reacting to its native environment, Mazon´s work explores relations and antagonism through unstable arrangements.