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Urs Richle
Born in 1965 in Wattwil (Switzerland).
Author of traditional novels, short stories and plays.
Between 2002-2006 he studied Media-Engineering at the University of Applied Science in Lausanne.
Since 2006 he is working as a lecturer at the Swiss Literature Institute of the Bern University of the Arts. He gives workshops in collaborative literary writing with new technologies.
Since 2008 he works as a scientific collaborator on research projects at the University of Geneva in the field of Interactive Fiction.
Urs Richle - 20.06.2012 - 18:57
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Jason Farman
Jason Farman is an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, College Park in the Department of American Studies and a Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the Digital Cultures and Creativity Program. He is author of the book Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media (Routledge, 2012), which focuses on how the worldwide adoption of mobile technologies is causing a reexamination of the core ideas about what it means to live our everyday lives: the practice of embodied space. He has published scholarly articles on such topics as mobile technologies, Google maps, social media, videogames, digital storytelling, digital performance art, and surveillance.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 21.06.2012 - 12:45
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Adrianna De Barros
Born in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, de Barros moved to Toronto at the age of three. As a child she was mainly interested in sports; and only when she was twelve did she realize her interest in drawing. At age fifteen, her family decided to move back to her birthplace, where de Barros faced cultural challenges with her education and In high school, she choose to study art and design, deciding to pursue cinema in college. Upset with the lack of sophistication within the film schools and film industry in Portugal, she believes that Toronto "would have been a better location to pursue cinema than in Portugal." She wishes to one day have the opportunity to study filmmaking in North America. Out of high school, she began working temporarily for her family's clothing business. The experience led to a full time job as a fashion and advertising designer for the company, as well as co-running a copy center with design section.
Stig Andreassen - 24.08.2012 - 10:56
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James W. Johnson
James W. Johnson was born and raised in Upstate NY and moved to Lubbock, Texas in 1978. He received an MFA from Texas Tech University in 1981 and has continued to live in Lubbock as a studio artist. In February, 2011, James was co-winner of the 2011 Willian D Kerns Award for the Visual Arts from the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts.
Johnson has studied and made art for more than 35 years. While being primarily a painter, he has produced a complex body of work in a wide variety of mediums such painting, video, drawing, sculpture, etching, digital, mixed media and furniture. James W. Johnson has participated in over 170 exhibitions worldwide.
Living “outside” of the mainstream art world has allowed James to perfect his craft and independently pursue an impressive flow of ideas and images that defy categorization, yet present his observations about art and life from his unique perspective.
Kjetil Buer - 24.08.2012 - 10:58
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Sep Kamvar
Sep Kamvar, professor at the MIT Media Lab. He was a Consulting Professor of Computational Mathematics at Stanford University. His research focuses on data mining in large-scale networks such as the web, peer-to-peer, and social networks. From 2003-2007, he was the engineering lead of personalization at Google, responsible for Personalized Search and iGoogle. He founded Kaltix, a search engine that was acquired by Google in 2003. His artwork is in the permanent collections of the MoMA and the MFAH.
Patricia Tomaszek - 24.08.2012 - 16:13
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Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau was a French novelist, poet and the co-founder of Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (Oulipo).
Scott Rettberg - 25.08.2012 - 22:09
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Cristobal Mendoza
Cristobal Mendoza is a Venezuelan media artist and programmer whose interests lie in the intersection of technology with the personal. His current research involves databases and data bodies, networks and visualizations of networks. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the areas of Electronic Arts and Graphic Design at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. He obtained an M.F.A. in Digital + Media from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2007, and his B.A. from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in 2003. His work has been shown in various venues in the United States and Europe.
Source: personal website
Patricia Tomaszek - 28.08.2012 - 14:45
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Matthew Fuller
He is the author of ATM; Behind the Blip, essays on the culture of software; Media ecologies, materialist energies in art and technoculture and, Softness: interrogability; general intellect; art methodologies in software. In 2008 he edited "software studies, a lexicon" published by MIT Press.
Source: author interview (framed, with Simon Mills)
Patricia Tomaszek - 03.09.2012 - 17:39
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Jesper Olsson
Research assistant in the project "Literature, Media, and Information Cultures" (IKK, University of Linköping, Sweden). Literary critic at Svenska Dagbladet and editor of the Swedish magazine for poetic production OEI. Source: translated from kunstkritikk.no
Patricia Tomaszek - 05.09.2012 - 19:52
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Magnus Bremmer
Critic for Svenska Dagladet and PhD candidate in aesthetics at the University of Stockholm.
Patricia Tomaszek - 05.09.2012 - 20:02
