Ursula Biemann is an artist, theorist and curator working on geopolitical displacement, migrant labour, and extraterritorial zones. Border and mobility are recurring themes in her video essays from Performing the Border (1999) to Contained Mobility (2004).
She initiated the collaborative project B-Zone, Kunstwerke Berlin (2005) which includes her videore search Black Sea Files (2005) on the Caspian oil geography. Her multi-channel video, Sahara Chronicle (2006-2007) tracks the trans-Saharan migration system from Niger to Morocco. She is also curator of the 2003 exhibitions Geography and the Politics of Mobility, Generali Foundation, Vienna, and The Maghreb Connection, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2006). The most recent video essay, XMission, examines the discourses on the Palestinian refugee camps in the Middle East. She has published numerous books and essays including a monograph of her video work Mission Reports (2008) with Cornerhouse Publishers. Biemann is a researcher at the Universities of Art and Design in Zurich and Geneva.
www.geobodies.org

hackitectura.net – Composed of Pablo de Soto, Sergio Moreno and Jose Perez de Lama (aka osfa), hackitectura.net is a group of architects and programmers developing projects and theoretical research in the intersecting fields of space, electronic flows and social networks. hackitectura.net stresses the use of real time communication, free software, collaborative work and the emancipatory use of technologies.
Their work has dealt with the creation of connected, participatory public spaces and infrastructures, including projects such as Indymedia Estrecho (2003-present; in collaboration with a wide network of social movements in Southern Spain and Northern Africa), La Multitud Conectada (Huelva 2003), Fadaiat (a trans-border medialab and event between Tarifa and Tangier, 2004 & 2005), Geografías Emergentes (Extremadura, 2007), Situation Room (Laboral, Gijon, 2008) and GISS (2005-present; a global free software video-streaming server network by Sergio Moreno and GISS team).
In 2006, hackitectura.net developed the concept of WikiPlaza for the Plaza de las Libertades – international competition (with Morales de Giles Arquitectos and Esther Pizarro), to build a 30,000 sqm public space and cultural building incorporating the free software community experiences of the last decades to a civic building in Sevilla, Spain. Two different prototypes of the project are scheduled to be implemented in Paris (Wikiplaza-Paris, May 2009) and at the Sevilla Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo (October 2008).
hackitectura.net's publications include the books “Fadaiat. Libertad de movimiento/ libertad de conocimiento” (2006 – Spanish, English and Arab) and “Devenires cíborg. Arquitectura, urbanismo y redes de comunicación” (by Jose Pérez de Lama, 2006).
http://mcs.hackitectura.net

Judith Augustinovic’s work deals with the territorialisation and narrativization of spatio-bodily entanglements of (s)ex, trans/gender, sexuality and intimacy. Her trans-disciplinary projects and field studies are amongst others carried out in Rio de Janeiro and Vienna. Awards include Experimentelle Tendenzen in der Architektur* (2000), Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky grant (2001), Joseph Binder Award for spatial design* (2003). Artist-in-residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude* (2002-2003) and Capacete, Rio de Janeiro (2004). Exhibitions and performances include Skinship N°0 (2006) in Rio de Janeiro; Skin N°2* (2004) in Stuttgart and Lille; Skin (2003) in Stuttgart; vanilla-space* (2003) in Stuttgart and Berlin; Venice Architecture Biennale* (2002). [* in cooperation with Herbert Stattler until 2004]

Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer collaborate on architecture, art and theory projects on the spatial and cultural effects of geopolitical transformation. Their projects investigate urban network processes, spaces of geocultural crises, and forms of cultural participation and self-determination. In 2005 they have initiated the Networked Cultures project, an international research platform on the potential of translocally networked spatial practices, based at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Peter Mörtenböck is professor of Visual Culture at the Vienna University of Technology and Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths College, London. Helge Mooshammer is director of the research project Relational Architecture’ at the Vienna University of Technology and has been Research Fellow at the International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IFK) Vienna in 2008.
www.networkedcultures.org

Oliver Ressler lives and works in Vienna. He organizes theme-specific exhibitions, projects in the public space and videos on issues such as global capitalism, forms of resistance, social alternatives, racism and genetic engineering.
The ongoing project Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies was shown at 21 different venues, including solo-presentations at Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, 2003; Kunstraum Lueneburg, Germany, 2004; Centro Cultural Conde Duque, MediaLabMadrid, Madrid, 2004; Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, 2005 and the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, 2005. A publication on the project was published by the Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk in 2007.
Many of Ressler’s works have been realized in collaborations: Boom! focuses on the central contradictions of globalized capitalism with David Thorne, European Corrections Corporation on the phenomenon of prison privatization with Martin Krenn, and What Would It Mean To Win? on the protests against the G8-summit in Heiligendamm with Zanny Begg. Together with Dario Azzellini, Ressler produced the films Venezuela from Below, 2004 and 5 Factories–Worker Control in Venezuela, 2006, which was presented as a 6-channel video installation at the Berkeley Art Museum, USA. Ressler has also participated in biennials in Prague, 2005; Seville, 2006; Moscow 2007 and Taipei, 2008.
http://www.ressler.at

Erinç Seymen, born in Istanbul, lives and works in Istanbul. He graduated from Department of Painting at Mimar Sinan University in 2006. The same year he began his MA Programme in the Department of Art & Design at Y¦ld¦z Technical University.
Seymen has produced works in diverse media such as painting, drawing, video, installation, photography, wall-painting, performance, electro-acoustic music, concerning various subjects such as militarism, nationalism, gender politics, popular iconography, power relationships.
He had three solo exhibitions at Galerist, _stanbul and has participated in several group exhibitions in _stanbul, _zmir, Berlin, Athens, Maribor, Vienna, Lisbon as well as art festivals in Basel, Madrid, London and Rotterdam. He opened his most recent solo projects in Finnish Museum of Photoghraphy in Helsinki and in Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven. He also occasionally writes for magazines such as art-ist, Kaos GL and Siyahi, and collabrates with the queer solidarity association Lambdaistanbul.

Moira Zoitl was born in Salzburg, lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the University Mozarteum, Salzburg, and received a master degree from Academy of Applied Arts Vienna, and moved to carry to complete her study at Academy of Fine Arts in Visual Communications, Berlin in 1997.
In her artistic practice Moira Zoitl mainly deals with issues like migration, city development, gender and (auto)biography. Her recent video and installative works focus on questions of re-presentations and self-empowerment of Philippine domestic workers in Hong Kong (Chat(t)er Gardens, Stories by and about Filipina Workers, 2004-2008) and the racial and gendered dimension of migrant labour in the global context (In winter it’s cold outside, 2006).
Furthermore she initiated several collaborative and curatorial projects like: Sexy Myth?, Ideas and Images of Artists, (2006 NGBK, Berlin, Forum Stadtpark Graz and Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. 2007 Overbeck-Gesellschaft Kunstverein Lübeck) and Dreams of Art Spaces Collected, Künstlerbund Berlin (with Dorothee Albrecht, Andreas Schmid, et al. Hosted by the IGBK).
Exhibitions (selection): 2Show Down, Projektraum exex, St. Gallen, Moira Zoitl und Ricarda Denzer, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, As in real life, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, work/labour* Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork Ireland, OBG Ormeau Bath Gallery and Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck, Equal and less Equal, Museum on the Seam, Israel.
http://www.moirazoitl.com

Personal Cinema is an International New Media Collective that calls Cinema calls for the emergence of both representation and distribution systems that are responsive to the local, the individual, and even the unprofitable. The group organizes projects and events that engage the critical mind of the public, suggesting alternatives to the new global homogeneity. It focuses attention on problems that concern the local territories and tries to explore the different cultural characteristics that constitute the social identity of the individual. Moreover, it works to develop public contexts for minority groups to express and represent themselves.
www.personalcinema.org

The erasers are a group whose work is based on the integration of various seemingly diverse elements such as: live cinema/ improvised music/ performance_actions/ the internet/ and installation techniques. The erasers are an open circuit : they are as few or as many as each project demands and they all function within the free association that the erasers are. The erasers search for the possibility of presenting their work to an open and unbiased audience has led them to work under various pseudonyms, some of these being: the instructors and the curators.

Ilias Marmaras (was born in Greece) is a new media artist and the initiator and co-fonder of Personal Cinema group. His work mostly focuses on alternative video games and online 3D virtual environments. He was the initiator of the new media cultural/political project: "the making of Balkan Wars: The game" and its core video game project: ''the Balkan Mall''. He has written and published various papers regarding critics on aesthetics, politics and New Media, in European magazines, newspapers and web sites. His recent work includes educational video-games as "Resist", a game that focuses on drug abuse prevention for adolescents. In the past, he has also exhibited worldwide as a painter and he has also worked as art director or associated producer in numerous documentary films for world wide production companies as PBS, NBC, BBC WORLD, ARTE, and WLIW.

Daphne Dragona (was born in Greece) is a new media arts curator and organiser. She was the General Coordinator of Fournos Center for Digital Culture and the Programme Curator & Coordinator of Medi@terra International Art and Technology Festival, based in Athens from 2001 - 2006. She is member of the Personal Cinema, International New Media Collective, being the spokesperson and PR person for the group. The last years her focus is mostly on gaming as a platform for social change. She was the Associate Curator for the Gameworld Exhibition in Laboral Centro de Arte y Industrial and the Curatorial Supervisor of the Gameworld LABworkshops in 2007. She is also a contributor for New Media in the free press magazine VELVET that circulates in Athens.

Sister0 is a performer working with experimental media and fine art. She manifests in Europe and Australia and sometimes South-America. Her interests include meme-hacking, metaphysical networks; giving homage to the late 19th-early 20th century manifestations of the paranormal, political cabaret and the experiential worlds they carry in their wake.
One of her latest projects "paraphernalia" exemplifies this, Gamepads are transformed into sensitive sonic objects, talisman, that among other thing, control and triggers sound, like a radio transmission coming from elsewhere, perhaps the other side?

Jesse Darlin' is a pirate, rebel, post-postmodernist, post-populist performer and "rent-a-muse." She studied fine art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and modern mime at the Theaterschool of Amsterdam, and has variously worked as a cook, thief, wife, lover, stylist, soda jerker, circus clown, artists' model, body-double and teenage porn star. Darlin' works across the platforms of performance, live music, literature, collage, illustration and "experimental living," moving into and becoming The Spectacle in order to transcend it. Previous collaborations included musician Fyfe Dangerfield, painter Jan Maris, performance artist Sister0, photographer Cereinyn Ord, memecraft engineer/ electronic musician Decoy and fine artist Ossa Kierkegaard among others. She has lived and worked in Paris, Amsterdam, Portland, Seattle and London

XLterrestrials are creatively situated in the vicinity of Craig Baldwin and the "Artist Television Access" project in San Francisco, an important platform for media activism in the United States. They are currently based in Berlin and working on two projects: For one in collaboration with Media Decompression Berlin, they are collecting and archiving political, experimental and underground film and video work from all over the world to be collected and made accessible in a web-based and-organized archive.
Pod p Podinksi is a media activist, art organism, dj, and co-founder of the XL Terrestrials, a praxis group for psychomedia analysis and virtual exorcisms of the Military Entertainment Complex. With a background in communications, film, and theater sound design, he has worked primarily on the Indy frontiers in San Francisco and Berlin, contributing both audio, texts, film work, and tactical media applications to both art + realworld events like Next 5 Minutes, No Border Camps, Ars Electronica, WTO, G8, and a variety of local culture reclamations.

monochrom is an art/technology/philosophy cooperation, founded in 1993 by Johannes Grenzfurthner and Franz Ablinger, headquartered in the Quarter for Digital Culture in Vienna's MuseumsQuartier. Other members include Evelyn Fürlinger, Harald List, Anika Kronberger, Frank Apunkt Schneider, Daniel Fabry and Günther Friesinger, and, since 2005, Roland Grather as PR Content Manager. In 2006, Jacob Appelbaum became the official monochrom Ambassador...

Dr. Richard Barbrook is the author of Pluto Press's Spring 2007 release Imaginary Futures and has also written a number of highly influential essays on the clash between commerce and cooperation within the Internet, including 'The Hi-Tech Gift Economy', 'Cyber-communism', 'The Regulation of Liberty' and, with Andy Cameron, 'The Californian Ideology: http://www.imaginaryfutures.net

Jaesper Alvaer was born 1973 in Copenhagen, grew up in Oslo, and is now living in Prague. Throughout his career he has exhibited his works in numerous one-man and group exhibitions, including Prague, Bratislava, Oslo, Budapest, Paris, Berlin, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Belfast, Seattle, Los Angeles, Dundee, London, Lisbon, Wroclaw, Hong Kong, Kokura, Beijing, China, Chicago, New York, Delft, Graz and Vienna. He has studied in Oslo - Norway, Kitakyushu - Japan, New York City - U.S.A., Montpellier - France, but this summer he will graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague - Czech Republic.

Société Réaliste is a Paris-based cooperative created by Ferenc Gróf and Jean-Baptiste Naudy in June 2004. This cooperative manages the development of several research and economical structures in fields such as territorial ergonomy, experimental economy, political design or counter-strategy. Société Réaliste's 2008 public presentations include contribution for Utopia Transfer (Kiscelli Muzeum, Budapest), Economie 0 (La Ménagerie de Verre, Paris), Transmediale 08: Conspire (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin), conferences at La Cantine (Paris), Maison Descartes (Amsterdam), Café Pompier (Bordeaux), uqbar (Berlin), Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht) and articles for Journal of Visual Culture (London) and The HTV (Amsterdam).

cuntstunt is a zine, which we like to understand as a feminist "Handapparat", a subjective compilation of texts, drawings and collages, coming from the fields of feminism, anarchism, sexuality, queer theory and music. It arose from the idea to share not only the output or conclusions of our project related researches in an adequate way to ourselves and other people, but also all the other interesting stuff we found somewhere in between.
Its something like a "best of" of collected material: text and image documents from our hard disks, scribbles from our notebooks, old school collages and lyrics referring to our mp3 play lists; stuff which get usually lost. It's all about bringing it back on paper; to kind of rescue nice data from getting lost in the depth of our hard disks and paper piles. The first Issue came out in 2003, the second in 2006, the third is in production. http://cuntstunt.net

The history of Zampa di Leone is short, and their targets are even more limited. They target areas of contemporary art and cultural activism, generally limited to the Balkan region. Activity of Zampa di Leone happened at the right time and at the right place, which makes it truly historic. This work was created at the time of a fictional history (tradition) in order to negate this fabrication in the most brutal fashion. This is the case of Zampa di Leone’s first fanzine, “In the Arse of the Balkans”, which parodies an entire movement of balkanization of art practices. There was a lot of criticism of Balkan Contemporary Art exhibitions that were organized by famous curators Harald Szeemann and Rene Block.

Lukas Pusch was born 1970 in Vienna. Art studies in Vienna, Moscow and Dresden.
Lives and works in Vienna. Last exhibitions 2008 Hommage an Bianca Lehrer. Konzett, Galerie,Wien / A. 2007 Vienna Voodoo. Art is uninteresting complete. As well as Investmentfond Blue Chips. All Konzett, Galerie, Vienna / A. Tiere II. Kuhstall Moosalpe im Allgäu, D. - Presentation in Galerie Konzett. Konzett, Galerie / Kunsthandel, Wien / Österreich - ViennAfair 2007, presentation Buchhandlung Walther König. Art Cologne 2007, Köln / D - Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln / Deutschland. All the animals in the woods. SWINGR, raumaufzeit, Wien / A.. 2006 presentation of Buchhandlung Walther König. Art Cologne 2006, Köln / D. Maslow´s Cream. Anorak, Vienna / A. Strange Cargo. quartier21, Vienna / A. camp.lab 1. In fluc / FQ-Kunsthalle praterstern,. Nairobi Retour. Kunsthalle Wien, project space, Vienna / A as well as Radikal Deko. Blogger Apartment, Berlin / D.

Ira Hadzic was born in 1979 in Sarajevo (BiH). At the age of eight she became a pioneer and swore an oath to always learn and work diligently. That is why at the heart of her work lies a learning: How to think about how things might be different. As learning is living and vice versa, I.H.s biographical facts have been born out of the attempt to understand the apparently foreign and the apparently familiar and thus to explore beyond the ‘taken-for-granted’. I.H. studied Cultural Anthropology and American Culture and Literature in England and Germany. She graduated (MA) in 2005 and moved to Berlin where she currently lives. Together with another artist she ‘operates’ under the name Meereshund. Their field of work mainly includes film, photography, writing, illustration, exhibition, observation, translation and improvisation.

Stefan Rusu; Based in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, and Bucharest, Romania he focus his practices on strategy of intervention toward unexplored spaces of Far East regions such as Central Asia, Siberia and Mongolia. Dealing with the exploration of cultural and political environments (since 2000) and with appropriation of social and cultural aspects between Far Eastern and East European regions, he follows the strategy of establishing long term collaborations between artists and art initiatives from those regions.
Trained primary as visual artist he extended his interest to curatorial practice, managing and fundraising projects, editing TV programs, producing experimental films, TV reports and documentaries. Since 2005 he was involved in development of TV project run by [KSA:K]-Contemporary Art Center from Chisinau and was appointed as editor-in-chief of AATV program. In 2005/2006 he attended the Curatorial Training Program at Stichting De Appel from Amsterdam where he co-curated Mercury in Retrograde.

Christoph Theiler lives and works as a composer, pianist and artist in Vienna. Since the mid-1980s, he has written works for orchestra, chamber music, and theatre, first of all for meyerhold unltd. Since 1997 he has also worked in radio drama (for ORF, WDR, BR, and others) as well as in experimental radio art. Beginning in 2000, his increasing interest in media art and electronic music, leads to tape compositions and multimedia sound installations. In 2001 he founded initiative zeitgenössische musik with Erik Janson. Art radio broadcasts: Ausmisten (2003), Finalbluten by Peter Pessl (2003)

Kazimir Malevich: Exhibiting since 1985 (Selection )
2005 “The International Exhibition of Modern Art” Kunstverein Aichach 2005 “East Art Museum” Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen 2004 “The International Exhibition of Modern Art” Kunsthaus Dresden 2003 “The International Exhibition of Modern Art” Venice Biennale 2002 “Fiction Reconstructed” M_csarnok, Budapest 2002 Sidney Biennial 2002 “In Search of Balkania” Neue Galerie Graz, 2001 “Fiction Reconstructed” Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade 2000 “Fiction Reconstructed” SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana 1994“Who Chooses Whom” New York, The New Museum of Contemporary Art 1993 “Kontext Kunst” Künstlerhaus Graz 1992 “Tribüne Trigon 1940-90” Stadtmuseum Graz 1987 “Trigon 87” Neue Galerie Graz 1986 “The Last Futurist Exhibition” SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana 1986 “The International Exhibition of Modern Art” Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, 1986 “The Last Futurist Exhibition” SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana 1985 “The Last Futurist Exhibition” Private space, Belgrade kontak-collection.net

Stefan Lutschinger is a proletarian bohemian and a departed on holiday. He works as an artist, curator, performer, blogger and free author on social problems or social conflicts, whose solutions are only conceivable by esthetic means. He works in the fields of digital art, recreational robotics, mass agitation art and anthropology of the posthuman.

Shazalakazoo – Balkan Breakz - making electronic music since 1998; performing it live since 2000. Shazalakazoo performed in various clubs in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Sremski Karlovci, Stara Pazova (Serbia), Zagreb, Pula (Croatia), Ljubljana, Logatec (Slovenia), Basel (Switzerland), Amsterdam, Nijmegen (Netherlands), Cologne and Dortmund (Germany). Shazalakazoo performed at various festivals: EXIT Festival (Novi Sad, Serbia), Aprilski Susreti Festival (Belgrade, Serbia), SeriousPop Festival (Vienna, Austria), Media Mediterranea Festival (Pula, Croatia), Karantena Festival (Dubrovnik, Croatia), Underwater Overground Festival (Sibenik, Croatia), Urban Fest (Osijek, Croatia), Lift Club Fest (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Terminal00 BalkanArt Festival (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Golden Drum Advertising and Media Meeting (Portoroz, Slovenia). Shazalakazoo tracks were released at various compilations: Belgrade Coffeeshop (B92, Serbia), Mute Magazine (Fallout Records, UK), Bombardiranje New Yorka (Listen Loudest Records, Croatia) and Media Mediterranea (Metamedia, Croatia).
Shazalakazoo are Milan Djuric (in studio: programming, vocals, woodwinds, keyboards, guitars; live: computer, midi-controllers, vocal) and
Uros Petkovic (in studio: programming, scratching, keyboards, guitars, violin; live: computer, turntables).

Tanya Ury 1951* London, studied from 1971 Foundation in Fine Art, Central/St Martins, London (GB) BA HONS in Fine Art, first class, Exeter (GB) Masters in Fine Art, distinction, Reading University (GB) Colin Walker Fellowship in Fine Art (& guest lecturer), Sheffield Hallam University (GB). Solo Exhibitions (selection) 2002 Hochbunker Cologne-Ehrenfeld (D) 2006 Tüzraktér Independent Cultural Centre, Budapest (HU) 2006 Exhibition & workshop with pupils from the Anne-Frank-Realschule. Group Exhibitions (selection) 2007 Urys worked on the online Feminist Art Base, The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, The Brooklyn Museum, New York With Connected, Jewish Cultural Days, Altes Museum im BIS-Zentrum (Old Museum in the BIS Centre), Moenchengladbach D) Tanya Ury’s new work in the collaborative context with Laurel Jay Carpenter during the ”Avant-Garde Dating” week at Art Forum, The New Life Shop Art Gallery (D) as well as Diaspora and Troubles curated by Tanya Ury, Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich (D) and many more.

Vladimir Nikolic (b. in Belgrade, YU, 1974) graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1999. Received MA from the same faculty in 2005. Lives and works in Belgrade. Nikolic works mostly in the media of video and photography. In his works he focuses on the relationship between the tradition and contemporary arts and that between regional and global cultures.
His recent exhibitions include Trafo House of Contemporary Art, Budapest (2007), The Kitchen, New York City, NY (2006) , Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (2006), SPACE Gallery, Bratislava (2006), Artefiera Bologna 2004,Cornerhouse, Manchester (2003).
www.vladimir-nikolic.com



Tamara Moyzes (b. in Slovakia, 1975), is a video artist. She studied at the New Media AVU Prague in the studio of prof. Michal Bielicky where she received a MA in 2005. Furthermore she studied at the Institute of Arts Avni in Tel Aviv, Israel, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (1996-97). In 1999 she was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts Bezalel in Jerusalem in the studio of Free Art. Between 2003-04 she received a scholarship at the Academy Bezalel in Jerusalem where she studied Video and Documentary film in the studio of Prof. Avi Mugrabi and Yair Lev. She was a curator of NOD Gallery in Prague and participated as a curator on a number of exhibitions. She lives and works in Prague. Her work is characterized by the orientation on political issues.
Her recent exhibitions include Entrance, Prague (2007), Gallery C2C, Prague, Medium Gallery, HIT Gallery Bratislava (2007), Amnesty International Exhibition, Bratislava and Prague (2006), WRO - 11. International Festival of New Media in Poland, Media festival EnterMultimediale2, Prague (2005), Wedding gallery, Berlin, Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2004), Festival Womanifesto, Bangkok,Thailand, Gallery Tel Aviv, Israel, Czech Cultural Institute, London (2003) etc.
www.tamaramoyzes.info

Sara Nuytemans (b. 1970 in Nieuwpoort, Belgium) studied Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands where she received a MS in Industrial Design Engineering. She consequently studied at IUA (Audiovisual Institute) of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain where she got a MA in Digital Arts. She makes video-installations, sometimes in combination with performances. Her work always presents the tension between what we consider virtual reality and physical reality. Her video-installations always contain kinetic, or interactive, elements.
She has taken part in many residency programmes, e.g. Artist in Residence at Cemeti Arthouse in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2006), artLAB San Servolo artist residency in Venice (2006). In 2005 she received a grant for project “Special Mission to Mongolia”. The output was presented in Stroom, Haag.

Arya Pandjalu (b.1976 in Bandung, Indonesia) is a graphic design student at the Indonesian Art Intitute (ISI) in Yogyakarta. Arya Pandjalu’s work speaks to political and social concerns. Most recently his interests have focused on air pollution in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and the affects that it has on the quality of life in his community.
He had a solo exhibition in Yogyakarta in 2004, and has participated in group exhibitions and public art projects in San Francisco, Tokyo, Darwin, Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta and Palu (Sulawesi) since 1996.
http://www.saranuytemans.net
http://www.michellechin.net/artists/arya.html

Stano Masár (b. in Bratislava in 1971) studied at the Secondary School of Graphics. In 1996 he received a MA from the Faculty of Education, Comenius University where he studied at the Department of Arts. He lives and works in Bratislava. He is a postconceptual arist working in the media of installation, object, light art and video. In his works he often uses and manipulates the most important artworks in the history of art by converting them into easy graphic language of pictograms.
His recent exhibitions include 26cc spce for cont. art, Rome (2007-8),Praguebiennale 3, Prague (2007), GJK - Synagogue, Trnava (2002, 2003), Künstlerhaus, Viena (2003), Norrebro Park, Copenhagen, 2002, Nitra Gallery, Nitra (2001,2002), Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (2000), Space Gallery, Bratislava (2005, 2006, 2007) etc.
He was a finalist of Oskar Cepan Prize for young artists in 2002 and 2006.
www.stanomasar.com

Matús Lányi was born in Levoca in 1981. He studied at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Kosice. In 2007 he graduated from the Technical University, Faculty Of Arts, Department of Visual Art and Intermedia where he studied graphic and experimental art in the studio of Prof. Rudolf Sikora and Zbynek Prokop. He works in the media of painting and video. He lives and works in Spisske Podhradie.
His recent exhibitions include Praguebiennale 3, Prague (2008, )SPACE gallery, Bratislava (2007), IC Culture train, Kosice and Vojtech Loffner Museum, Kosice (2006).
A confrontation of sacral themes is a principal element in many of Lanyi`s videos and paintings as in the recent series of transformed „windows“ by American Microsoft. Artist chose the form of representation that is an attribute of current society – visuality of computer programmes. Furthermore he applied them to the specific stories in the New Testament using their metaphorical resemblance. Everything is rendered in the medium of painting consistently copying graphical visual of computer environment.
http://www.lanyi.euweb.cz/

Brendan Powell Smith (b. in 1973, USA), lives in Mountain View, California. In 1995 he graduated from Boston University with a degree in Philosophy and Religion.
He is an American artist, author an atheist best known as a creator of The Brick Testament in which he illustrates stories from the Bible by photographing dioramas constructed entirely out of LEGO bricks. The Brick Testament was first launched as a website in 2001, then as a published book series in 2003. The Brick Testament is an ongoing one-man project. Smith, who bills himself as “The Reverend Brendan Powell Smith” – but who isn’t really a member of the clergy – works as a freelance web designer and illustrator.
http://www.thereverend.com/
http://www.thebricktestament.com