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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Oliver Grau is an art historian and media theorist. He is professor of image science (Visual Studies) and head of department at the Danube University Krems. Grau initiated the first international Database of Virtual Art in 1998.

Friedrich Kittler ist einer der wichtigsten und einflussreichsten Medientheoretiker Europas. Den Autor unzähliger, in viele Sprachen übersetzter Bücher, fasziniert gegenwärtig v. a. die Verbindung von Mathematik und Musik im Alten Griechenland.
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