Shingo Inao's sound art and performances are deeply connected to his own body. Not only do the acoustic realities of his physical moves form the basis of his complex audio-experiments. He moreover invents his own sensor-equipped instruments and recording devices hands-on.
Since the Berlin architecture office raumlaborberlin was founded in 1999 its nine members have been dedicating themselves to exploring how public space can be activated experimentally. For transmediale.10 raumlaborberlin have designed and built the structure of the Futures Exchange situated in the foyer of the House of World Cultures: part research-station, part media-lab, part docking-module, this structure also embodies what the collective (whose name translates as spacelab) stands for itself.
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.
Susan Neiman is Director of the Einstein Forum, Potsdam. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Neiman studied philosophy at Harvard and the Freie Universität Berlin, and taught philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv University.
Régine Debatty is a blogger, curator, critic and lecturer whose work focuses on the intersection between art, science and social issues. She runs the blog we-make-money-not-art.com and contributes to European art and culture magazines.
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.
Steve Benford is Professor of Collaborative Computing at Nottingham University’s Mixed Reality Laboratory where he explores novel communication technologies for rich and dynamic social interaction.
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.
Maja Kuzmanovic is founder of FoAM, a transdisciplinary organisation guided by the motto ‘grow your own worlds’. With an academic background in Design Forecasting and Interactive Media, she was named by MIT as one of the world’s top 100 ‘Young Innovators’ in 1999.
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.
Nicola Triscott works in the performing, interdisciplinary and visual arts. In 1993 she founded The Arts Catalyst, a British interdisciplinary arts organisation commissioning artists’ projects that experimentally and critically engage with science.
Richard Barbrook will give his keynote lecture Imaginary Futures just before the Futurity Long Conversation on Friday, 5 February. The following text is an abstract of his 2007-book Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village, and equally serves to frame what he will be speaking about at transmediale.10
Ilze Black is a media artist and producer. She has curated numerous media productions, art events and happenings in and around London during last 10 years. She is one of the co-founders of the networked media arts collective Take2030 and Class Wargames. english only