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Media artist and Filmmaker -- studied cinematographic techniques (Milano), sociology (Milano), media arts (Cologne); artistic production since 1990 in Video, Film, Photography, Performance and Installation; since 2002 also producing as arte-e-parte; 2004 founded at KHM Academy of Media Arts Cologne re-active platform, a working environment and collaboration formula for mediartists. www.re-activeplatform.de
Techniques&Artefacts -- computer supported installation; experimental video; documentary film; expanded photography; field recording; performance.

I am a multimedia artist exploring the integration and interaction of dance and moving image through performance, screen, installation and online work. I am also photographer, documenter and director. I am currently an Australia Council for the Arts Fellow
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Born in Brussels, I trained in dance, theatre & music (69-76), completed a Masters in Visual Arts at La Cambre, Brussels (79-84), and moved to Australia in 1996. Co-artistic director of Igneous http://www.igneous.org.au, I created the multimedia projections for, and directed, most of its productions. I give lectures and workshops in Australia & Europe integrating video with performing arts & fostering multimedia artistic collaboration.

I am interested in developing the dramatic and narrative capabilities of interactive 3D virtual reality installations as a medium for addressing social and cultural issues. I show my work internationally at conferences such as Siggraph and ISEA, and in venues such as the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and the International Center for Photography in New York. My work has been supported by awards such as the IBM Innovation Award, WIRED Magazine computer art award, a Japan Foundation Fellowship, Hauptstadtkulturfonds of Germany, MIT CAVS fellowship and the IAMAS media art academy in Japan.

Tanja Vujinovic (b.1973) is a media artist and researcher in the fields of art and technology. Tanja uses custom electronics, textiles, and various software applications to create playful experiences through dynamic works employing toy-like objects, touch, sound, and visuals. Her "Discreet Events in Noisy Domains" works deal with the phenomena of chance operations, interfaces, toys, gadgets, noise, and signals.

Art may be using new technologies, new media or new contexts of exhibiting, however this does not essentially create ‘new art’. ‘New art’ asks for a new attitude towards what art actually is and what art actually does. ‘New art’ also asks for preliminary questions: Is there at present an urgency which calls for ‘new art’ and if so, can we determine what that is? My guess would be ‘yes’ to both questions. We are here, now, to find out.

For many years, I have focused on notions of national identity, tourism, borders and identity as themes within my creative practice. Since 1995, I have been working with the www and digital video installation and have participated in: Luminous Green 2008; ANAT Open Source Lab 2007; ISEA2008; AOIR 2006; ISEA2004; Siggraph 2001; N5M4, Amsterdam 2003; N5M3; MAAP’99 and MAAP2000. In 2007, I co-founded the Canberra chapter of dorkbot with Alexandra Gillespie and was a moderator on the internationally renowned new media list –empyre- from 2005-07. My web site http://www.byte-time.net has been online for over 10 years and is part of the Natioanl Library of Australia's Pandora archive.

In my trans-disciplinary Postdoctoral research I am brokering new art/science collaborations whilst continuing my explorations into innovative art/science practices. My artworks are grounded in the interconnectedness between the biomedical sciences and twenty first century perceptions of the “self”. They are structured to facilitate individual viewer immersion and completion through participation - either in real-time or virtually. I re-position installation viewers as active participants rather than passive observers of pre-existing systems. I focus on reinterpreting the research data from my scientific experiments and recontextualising it in interactive artworks, using a range of media.

Carola Unterberger-Probst works as a media artist, philosopher and producer of exhibitions. She occupies herself with the postmodern discourse, deconstruction and questions on media and arts. The basis of her art works are fragments of the "media world".

Us(c)hi Reiter studied graphic and design at the Kunstuniverstät Linz. As artist and web developer with a special interesst in net.activism and audio-visual communication she has been collaborating with different groups and artists since 1998.

She continues to research Free/Libre/Open Source Software in the frame of cultural production and art as well as work on conceptual and performative setups using electronic and analog media.

Since June 2005 Reiter runs the non-profit cultural backbone organisation servus.at/Kunst & Kultur im Netz. (www.servus.at)

I live and work in Berlin. I studied Comparative Literature in Berlin and English language and Creative Writing in the UK. 1996 I started to work with Internationale Stadt Berlin, one of the first net culture projects in Germany. Since then I worked in different art and cultural projects including Old Boys Network and the Media Arts Lab at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. I am a member of mikro e.V.