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).
 

David Link is an artist, theorist and programmer. He holds the new Chair for “Experimental Technologies in the Art Context” at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. His current research focuses on the development of an archaeology of algorithmic artefacts.

Warren Neidich is an artist, theorist and trained biologist. The exploration of the creative processes that underpin the production of subjectivity and knowledge is central to his interdisciplinary work.

Free Art and Technology Lab was founded in 2007 by Evan Roth and James Powderly. It grew over the last 2 years to 19 members, working on more than 3 continents connected through the internet. With a great amount of humour they collaborate on free software and other projects with open licenses.

James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau run London-based design partnership Auger-Loizeau combining a range of disciplines that include product design, engineering, and fine art. Auger-Loizeau collaborated with the enigneer Alexandar Zivanovic (uk) on the Carnivorous Domestic Entertainment Robots.

James Auger has a BA in Product Design from Glasgow School of Art and an MA in Design Products from the Royal College of Art in London. Currently James is a teacher and a PhD candidate in the Design Interactions department at the RCA. Together with Jimmy Loizeau he runs Auger-Loizeau.

Aaron Koblin is an an artist specialising in data visualisation. His work takes social and infrastructural data and uses it to examine cultural trends and emergent patterns. Aaron’s work has been shown at festivals around the world. Aaron works as Technology Lead of Google’s Creative Lab in San Francisco.

Wang Yuyang (b. 1979) is an accidental new media artist. Interested in obsolete technology, an aesthetics of the broken, and material waste, his practice involves highly conceptual installation, photography and video. Recent works have carried on the tradition of the post-sense sensibility generation, employing humorous and pseudo-spectacular tactics to interrogate the relationship between body, experience, and cognition. His work has been shown in major exhibitions and festivals across China and Europe. 

Eric Gunther has a background in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. With specialisation in interactive media he is a founding member of the art and design collective Sosolimited with is nominated for the transmediale.10 Award and with which he has exhibited and performed internationally.
As Cephalopod he is also a dancer and beatboxer.