Aymeric Mansoux (he/him) has been messing around with computers and networks for far too long. He is lector (reader/professor of practice-oriented research) at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Hogeschool Rotterdam.
Contributors
Azahara Cerezo (Girona, 1988) addresses contradictions in the territory’s singularity and in/visibility relations between urban forms, globalizing processes and technical tools. Reappropriation and displacement strategies are used to shape (often online) actions, experimental videos and installations. Her projects are frequently linked to the production in the frame of artistic residencies.
Antonio Roberts is an artist and musician based in Birmingham, UK. For his audiovisual performances he uses software including Pure Data and TidalCycles to explore the creative potential of algorithms, glitches, and feedback loops.
Maria Witek is a Polish-Norwegian music scientist working in Birmingham, UK. She live codes dance music in TidalCycles, partly informed by her academic research, which investigates the relationship between rhythm, body-movement and affect.
Studied philosophy in Vienna and entered the cultural and media sector through radio. Diverse employment in cultural initiatives (Radio FRO (AT), Audio Campus Visuell (BE), ....); Freelance trainer in Open Source Software especially in the sound/radio sector. Workshops all over Central/Eastern Europe. Performer in the area of electronical/computer music. Diverse performances in various locations (Beijing (CN), Bratislava (SK), Berlin (DE)...) Lives in Linz and Bratislava.
Dr. phil. Baruch Gottlieb, trained as a filmmaker at Concordia University Montreal, has a doctorate in digital aesthetics from the University of Arts Berlin. From 2005-2008 he was professor of Media Art at Yonsei University Graduate School for Communication and Arts in Seoul, Korea. He is active member of the Telekommunisten, Arts & Economic Group and laboratoire de déberlinisation artist collectives.
Bastien Kerspern is an interaction designer specialised in public innovation. He believes in innovation by transgression with a huge dose of cultural jamming inherited from digital subcultures. With a strong experience on designing participatory experiences, he pushes experiments in public debates and design for controversies. Interested in mundane frictions and uncanny narratives, his current works explore how digital technologies and related innovations might influence social models.
beepblip is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is a member of DIY sound collective Theremidi Orchestra. With Saša Spačal they create a series of sonoseismic installations. She contributed a sound composition for "2311" album by agapea, published by Kamizdat. With Spačal they are also founders of ČIPke, Initiative for Women with the Sense for Technology, Science, and Art.
Beste is a Senior Interaction Designer at Orange Labs, London who gained her masters degree from Carnegie Mellon University's Interaction Design program in 2008.
Beste has a passion for making meaningful user experiences in both digital and physical interfaces and has had the chance to explore and develop her skills and ideas about interaction design whilst working in her current postion at Orange and in past postions at Yahoo! Research, Trafo Interactive and makefreshmedia.