Jordan Crandall ist Privatdozent am Institut für Visuelle Künste der Universität Kalifornien; er lebt und arbeitet als Medienkünstler und Theoretiker in Los Angeles.

Timothy Druckrey is a researcher, curator and writer and Director of the Graduate Photographic and Electronic Media programme at the Maryland Institute.

Dank der Software, die der Künstler Aleksandar Erkalovic (Kroatien) entwickelt hat, konnte er sich im Bereich der neuen Medienkunst und in Aktivistenkreisen international einen Namen schaffen. Adam Hyde (Neuseeland) war über viele Jahre hinweg als Künstler digitaler Medien unterwegs und beschäftigte sich hauptsächlich mit digital-analogen, hybriden Rundfunksystemen. Douglas Bagnall ist Programmier und digitaler Künstler aus Wellington, Neuseeland.

Daniel Franke works as artist, designer and music video director. His works challenge the restrictions of conventional spatial frameworks and concepts: digital simulations should no longer be limited to an on-screen-display; instead the digital might be imagined as transferable into real space and thus extend perceptions of “the real”. As a graduand at the University of Arts he is currently preparing his masters degree mentored by Prof. Joachim Sauter and Prof. Alberto de Campo. He is also member of the artist collective We Are ChopChop.

> daniel-franke.com/

Dr. Garnet Hertz - Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Media Design Programm des Art Center College of Design; Researcher am Institut für Softwaretechnologien an der University of California Irvine.

Dr. Jussi Parikka - Lektor in Medientheorie und -geschichte an der Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Direktor am CoDE: The Cultures of the Digital Economy-Institute.

The House Of Natural Fiber (HONF) ist ein Laboratorium für neue Medienkunst, das von einer Künstlergemeinschaft seit 1999 in Yogyakarta betrieben wird. HONF  realisieren Open-Community Ideen, welche sich meistens mit den Bedürfnissen von grenzüberschreitenden Projekten zwischen technologischer Entwicklung und dem praktischen Nutzen in der Alltagswelt befassen.

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).
 

Scott Kildall (*1969) is a cross-disciplinary artist working with video, installation, prints, sculpture and performance. He gathers material from the public realm to form interventions into various concepts of space. He is a graduate of both Brown University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has received fellowships and awards from the Kala Art Institute, The Banff Centre for the Arts and Turbulence.org and is currently a resident artist at the Eyebeam Art & Technology Center. Scott is also a founding member of Second Front — the first performance art group in Second Life.

transmediale Award 2011 Jurymitglieder Brandon LaBelle ist ein in Berlin lebender Künstler und Schriftsteller. In seinen Arbeiten greift er die Dynamik von Sound auf, welche er in Räumen und Objekten, öffentlichen Ereignissen und Zusammenspielen, Sprache und Körper findet. LaBelles Projekte lenken die Aufmerksamkeit auf die
Qualität und Natur des bereits Vorhandenen indem er Objekte, gefundendene Sound- Fragmente und minimalistische Elektronik performativ verarbeitet.

Christin Lahr (*1965, Munich) lives and works as an artist, curator and professor for Media Art in Berlin and Leipzig. She has received several scholarships and awards and exhibited in Germany and abroad. Since 1990 she has been teaching at different universities as well as curating shows for instance at the RealismusStudio of NGBK Berlin. Since 2001 Lahr is a Professor for Media Art at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig.

Les Liens Invisibles is an Italy-based artists duo, their work is an eclectic recombination of pop net culture, reverse engineering techniques, social media subvertising, and media reappropriation.

transmediale Award 2011 Jurymitglieder Marisa Olson ist eine New York basierte, Kuratorin, Dozentin und Herausgeberin. Sie studierte Bildende Kunst an der Goldsmiths University in London, History of Consciousness an der UC Santa Cruz und Rhetorik an der UC Berkeley.

Influenced by philosophy and science, American-born artist and filmmaker Reynold Reynolds works primarily with 16mm and Super 8mm film as an art medium. He has developed a common film grammar based on transformation, consumption and decay. Reynolds' depictions frequent disturbed psychological and physical themes, increasingly provoking the viewer's participation and dismay. He was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2003 and in 2004 he was invited to The American Academy in Berlin. He has received numerous awards, including the Distinction Award at transmediale.09.

Evan Roth ist Künstler und Forscher, der sich in seinen Arbeiten mit Technologien, Werkzeugen der Macht, Open Source und der Pop-Kultur auseinandersetzt.

Mark Shepard ist ein amerikanischer Künstler, Architekt und Forscher, dessen Arbeiten sich mit neuen sozialen Räumen und den Strukturen der zeitgenössischen Netzwerkkultur befassen. 

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

Nathaniel Stern is an experimental installation and video artist, net.artist, printmaker and writer. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from interactive and immersive environments, mixed reality art and multimedia physical theater performances, to digital and traditional printmaking, concrete sculpture and slam poetry. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Telekommunisten is a Berlin-based collective whose work investigates the political economy of communications technology.

Christopher Warnow’s work as artist, designer and programmer deals with the hopes and trust people put in data and digital images. His generative strategies, performances and workshops intend to expose the enthusiastic relationship of humans towards digital technology. Furthermore, in lectures and workshops Warnow addresses programming as medium of expression for a personalised visual language. He is also technical advisor to artists like Angela Bulloch and Sundah Choi and member of the artist collective We Are ChopChop.

> brian-steen.com/blog/