transmediale Award 2011 Jury member Defne Ayas is a curator and educator specialising in new media and performance and cross-cultural projects. Based in Shanghai since 2006, Ayas works as a director of programmes to Arthub Asia, and as an art history instructor at New York University in Shanghai.

Jordan Crandall is a media artist and theorist based in Los Angeles. He is Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego.

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

Adam Hyde founded FLOSS Manuals and has since been focused on project managing Booki. Douglas Bagnall is a programmer, digital artist and the lead developer for Objavi - the export engine for the Booki system. Aleksandar Erkalovic is renown internationally in the new media arts and activist circles for the software developement.

Born and based in Singapore, Ho Tzu Nyen works primarily in the audio-visual medium, his projects traversing the fields of film, visual arts and the performing arts. His videos, paintings, performance-lectures and theatrical projects have been presented at major art exhibitions and festivals.

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 Jury member Brandon LaBelle is a Berlin based artist and writer. His work aims to draw attention to the dynamics of sound as it is found within spaces and objects, public events and interactions, language and the body. Through a performative interaction with objects, found-sound, and  minimal electronics, the work draws attention to the quality and nature of what is already there through an emphasis on and
displacement of listening and interaction, as a technological and architectural glitch.

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.

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.

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.

Mez Breeze’s unique "mezangelle" code poetry has been equated with the work of Shakespeare, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, and Larry Wall.

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).

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 is an artist and researcher whose work focuses on technology, tools of empowerment, open source and popular culture.

Mark Shepard is an artist, architect and researcher whose post-disciplinary practice addresses new social spaces and signifying structures of contemporary network cultures. His work has been presented internationally at venues including LABoral Center for Art + Industrial Creation; the Barcelona Design Museum; the Netherlands Architecture Institute; ISEA 2010 RUHR; Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea; Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York; The Queens Museum, New York; Storefront for Art and Architecture and Artist Space, New York.

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.