Siegfried Zielinski holds the chair for media theory / archaeology and Variantology of the media at Berlin University of the Arts.

Steve Lambert is founder of the Anti-Advertising Agency and a Senior Fellow at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York. He recently made international news with the The New York Times ‘Special Edition’, announcing the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other spectacular good news.

Bengt Sjölén is an independent software and hardware designer/hacker/artist based in Stockholm.

Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, an educator and a media activist based in NY & Tel Aviv. His work involves media in public space and public space in media. He explores the borders of collaborative models as they are redrawn through politics, design and networks. Mushon is an honorary resident at Eyebeam.org and has been teaching at NYU, Parsons and Bezalel. He blogs at Mushon.com.

Tapio Mäkelä is a researcher and media artist based in Manchester, UK and Helsinki, Finland. He is currently an AHRC Research Fellow at the Department of Creative Technology at the University of Salford. He is working on a book about social and cultural uses of location based media. Mäkelä is a co-founder of Marin Association and M.A.R.I.N. (Media Art Research Interdisciplinary Network), an art, science and ecology research residency and network initiative.

Drew Hemment is an artist, curator and researcher. He is director and founder of the FutureEverything Festival in Manchester, and Assistant Director of Imagination Lancaster at Lancaster University.

Denisa Kera is a curator and assistant professor at the National University of Singapore where she researches various technologies from STS and interactive media design perspectives.

Gustaff Harriman Iskandar is an artist, writer and curator from Indonesia. He is co-founder of the Bandung Center for New Media Arts and developed Common Room in 2003, an open platform for art, culture and ICT/Media.

Joy Tang is the Founder of oneVillage Foundation, a global nonprofit using innovative approaches to deliver the power of technology and information to people in the developing countries.

Jan Edler studied architecture at the Technical University Aachen and at the Bartlett School of Architecture London. Together with his brother Tim he is also co-founder of realities:united, a studio for art & architecture.

Writer, art historian and curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is director of the Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Torino, and will be artistic director of Documenta 13, taking place in Kassel in 2012.

Mike Sandbothe was Professor of Media Culture Studies at the Jena University and for Media Philosophy at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin and at the Aalborg University in Denmark. Currently he works as a writer, film producer and media consultant in Germany, Finland and Denmark.

Conrad Wolfram, director of Strategic and International Development at the prominent software company Wolfram Research Inc., advocates innovative computer-based concepts for the transformation of maths and science education.

Richard Barbrook is Senior Lecturer of Politics at the University of Westminster and author of Imaginary Futures (2007). His essays focus on the clash between commerce and cooperation within the Internet.

Tiziana Terranova is currently an Associate Professor in Sociology of Communications at the University of Naples.