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.

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.

Yves Bernard is an artist and curator. He curated and co-curated various exhibitions on the implications of media art in Belgium, Finland and The Netherlands. He is also engaged in the creation his own solo or collaborative works and moreover teaches media arts in Belgian art schools.

The Spanish artist Clara Boj has collaborated with Diego Diaz as Lalalab since the year 2000. Their artworks combine art and technology to create interactive experiences that reformulate the idea of public space.

Sabeth Buchmann is an art historian and art critic. She is a professor for modern and postmodern art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and director of the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies. Edits books on art and has been published in numerous books and magazines herself.

Alexander Burton forms the core of the Canadian digital arts group artificiel together with Julien Roy. In addition to this Burton also makes solo projects and art in other collaborative contexts. His work is regularly presented in international new media and music events.

Under the psudonym Byetone, Olaf Bender creates his music digitally, assembling sine tones to generate complex sound fabrics and using digital clicks and effect plug-ins to create rhythms and an artificial world without any physical effort.

Dewi de Vree is a Dutch artist creating sound installations and performances with electricity. Together with Rachida Ziana she developed Elektrolab, a series of sound installations and performances based on electrochemical principles.

The Spanish artist Diego Diaz has collaborated with Clara Boj as Lalalab since the year 2000. Their artworks combine art and technology to create interactive experiences that reformulate the idea of public space.

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.

Victoria Estok (born 1978) is an artist, living and working in the US.

Having been invited to Documenta in 1997 and 2002, Feng Mengbo is recognised as one of China's leading media artists. As well as expressing socio-political critiques Mengbo's work negotiates intensely personal subject matter. His aesthetics are defined by the style, content and cultural implications of video games.

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.

Adam Hyde was for many years a digital artist exploring digital-analog hybrid broadcast systems. He founded FLOSS Manuals, the Book Sprint method, Booki/Booktype book production platforms and is now mostly engaged with exploring new methodologies for collaborative book production.

New York based visual artist Žilvinas Kempinas creates installations in which invisible forces of gravity and air circulation reshape architectural spaces into totally new environments. In 2009, he represented Lithuania at the 53rd Venice Biennale.

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.

Thomas Köner's is a media artist and musician who focuses on combining visual and auditory experiences. His sound works, released on labels such as Mille Plateaux and Barooni, are densely layered, and subtle, encouraging intensive and physical listening.

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.

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.

Swiss artist Pe Lang uses the kinetics of sound for intricate aural explorations involving different sets of devices and objects as his triggers. His body of work could be experienced as part of numerous international festivals and exhibitions.

The experimental artist and musician Benjamin Laurent Aman is founder of the acclaimed label Razzle Dazzle and belongs to the duo Crystal Plumage. He currently lives and works in Berlin.

Vice President at Creative Commons, where he started as CTO in 2003. Previously he co-founded Bitzi, an early open data/open content/mass collaboration service, and worked as a web developer and software engineer. In 1993 he published one of the first interviews with Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux.

Sascha Lobo is a blogger, writer, journalist and copywriter from Berlin, with a main focus on internet and new technologies and their impact on social development.

Jimmy Loizeau studied Fine Art at Maidstone and Birmingham and Product Design at the Royal College of Art. He has worked at the MIT Media Lab Europe in Dublin in the Human Connectedness group and now teaches at Goldsmiths and the RCA. With James Auger he runs the collective Auger-Loizeau.

Mina Lunzer is an artist and freelance writer for art and film-journals such as Senses of Cinema. Between 2004 and 2009 she studied Film and Video Installation and Cultural Studies at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Sydney and University of the Arts, Berlin.

Emmanuel Madan is a classically trained musician, composer and sound artist with a degree in based electroacoustic composition from the University of Montréal. Since 1998 Madan has been collaborating with Thomas McIntosh as [The User] making work that has been exhibited worldwide.

known for selling all of his possessions online on Shop Mandiberg, making perfect copies of copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, and creating Firefox plugins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy on TheRealCosts.com.

Marcel René Marburger studied Art History, German Literature and Philosophy at the University of Cologne with a PhD on theoretical art relevance in Vilém Flusser’s writings.

Puerto Rico born artist and filmmaker Yvette Mattern’s performances, videos, public art works and sculptures explore the concept of ‘liminality’ as a metaphysical and subjective conscious state of being.

Thomas McIntosh studied architecture at Carleton University, Ottawa and at the Technical University in Berlin. He was awarded internationally acclaimed prizes and grants. Since 1998 McIntosh has been collaborating with Emmanuel Madan as [The User] making work that has been exhibited worldwide.

Doreen Mende is a curator, writer and researcher based in Berlin. She has curated a number of exhibitions focussing on sound, and is one of the co-founders of GENERAL PUBLIC in Berlin. She is currently doing a PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge at Goldsmiths College in London.

Karen Mirza first studied painting at the Camberwell College of Art and continued through her MA in film and video at the Royal college of Art. Karen currently explores themes of ‘the imagination and the everyday’, ‘the psychoanalytical and the political’. Together with Brad Butler, Karen is co-founder of the artist platform no.w.here.

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.

The composer and musician Charlemagne Palestine is closely affiliated with the minimalist music scene of the 1960s. And yet, his role is of a particular distinction since he is also one of the world's few trained carillonneurs. His pieces evolve gradually, wrapping up their listeners in hypnotic flows and rhythms.

writes about culture, science and technology for the Spanish media, encompassing newspapers, online journals and printed magazines. She is a long term contributor and founder of the online media arts journal Elástico and is the author of La Petite Claudine, a widely read blog in the Spanish language about art, literature, free culture, pornography (and everything in between).

Daniela Alina Plewe develops media projects, and works as a researcher and independent consultant. In her current research she explores transactional uses of media in art and business. Since 2005 she is a lecturer at the National University of Singapore where she lives.

Jürgen Reble has been making films, installations and performances that engage and address the materiality of film for more than 30 years. His high quality works involving the chemistry and mechanics of cinematography have been exhibited in major art institutions worldwide.

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.

Ken Rinaldo is an artist creating interactive pieces that explore the intersection between natural and technological systems. Autopoiesis, an a-life robotic installation exploring the idea of group consciousness, and Augmented Fish Reality, a series of fish-driven robots are among his best known works.

Alexander Rose is the Executive Director of The Long Now Foundation, an organisation devoted to promoting long-term thinking. He has facilitated projects such as the 10,000 Year Clock with Danny Hillis, The Rosetta Project, and the Long Now’s Seminars About Long Term Thinking.

John Rothenberg has a background in Architecture 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.

Florian Rötzer is a German editor, publisher and curator of art and technology expositions, with a specialisation in philosophy and media theory.

Felix Luque Sánchez is a digital artist who works under the pseudonym Othersound. His audiovisual installation Chapter I - The Discovery questions the limits of our notions of A.I. and of SciFi as well as the viewer’s perception about the truthfulness of the visible.

Gebhard Sengmüller is an artist who is best known for his installations which focus on the history of electronic media, such as Vinyl Video and Very Slow Scan TV having shown work at Ars Electronica and the Venice Biennale among other major venues.

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

Founded in 2003 Sosolimited is an art and design collective specialising in interactive installation and audiovisual performance. Sosolimited create immersive performances often drawing from live media sources to manipulate the material in real time, seamlessly blending it with their own soundtracks.

Bruce Sterling aka Bruno Argento is a renowned science fiction author who helped define the cyberpunk genre. He is commentator for technology and design, and professor at the European Graduate School. His latest research focuses on the notion of atemporality.

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.

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

Julius von Bismarck grew up in Germany and Saudi-Arabia. Considered one of the most innovative young artists in the field he received the 2008 Ars Electronica Golden Nica, for the Image Fulgurator.

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. 

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.

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.

Rachida Ziani is a French artist creating sound installations and performances with electricity. Together with Dewi de Vree she developed Elektrolab, a series of sound installations and performances based on electrochemical principles.

Siegfried Zielinski is a media theorist focusing on art theory, history, media archeology and variantology. Since 2007 he is professor of Media Theory at the Institute for Time Based Media at UdK Berlin, and founder of the _Vilém_Flusser_Archive.

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.