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).
 

transmediale Award 2011 Jury member Micz Flor has been working as a media developer, writer and project manager with the Internet since 1995. In 1997 he won the Net-Art award of the Hamburger Kunsthalle and in 1998 the “Multimedia-Preis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart”. Besides invitations to Ars Electronica, ISEA (Chicago 1997, Manchester 1998), documenta X (1997) and next 5 minutes, he worked at Salford University in Manchester and the University of Weimar.

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.

José Luis de Vicente is a researcher, curator and writer working around the edges of new media arts and innovation in design and culture. Recent projects include The Atlas of Electromagnetic Space and the Exhibition Machines and Souls at the Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid.

Li Zhenhua is a multi-media artist, curator and producer. He has worked with Chinese as well as international contemporary art and culture since 1996.

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.