PARTICIPANTS
Roy Ascott (UK), artist and theoretician
Roy Ascott is the founding director of the international transdisciplinary research center, CAiiA-STAR (www.caiia-star.net). He is Research Professor at the University of Wales, and at the University of Plymouth (UK), and is Adjunct Professor in Design|Media Arts at the University of California Los Angeles (www.design.ucla.edu/home.html). A pioneer of cybernetics and telematics in art, he has shown at the Venice Biennale, Electra Paris, Ars Electronica Linz, V2 Holland, Milan Triennale, Biennale do Mercosul, Brazil, European Media Festival, and gr2000az at Graz, Austria. He has been Dean of San Francisco Art Institute, California, Professor for Communications Theory in the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and Principal of Ontario College of Art, Toronto. He is on the editorial boards of Leonardo, Convergence, Digital Creativity, and the Chinese language online journal Tom.Com. He advises new media centres and festivals in North and South America, Europe, Japan, Korea, and lectures widely around the world. His publications are translated into many languages and include the books, Reframing Consciousness (1999), Art Technology Consciousness (2000), Intellect Books, Bristol; and Art & Telematics: toward the Construction of New Aesthetics. (Japanese trans. E. Fujihara), NTT, Tokyo, 1998. In 2002, University of California Press will publish his collected writings, Telematic Embrace, edited by Edward Shanken.
Olivier Auber (France), artist
Olivier Auber develops since the early 80s installations and exhibitions based on various technologies in order to achieve a sort of mirors of behaviours. Among them, the Générateur Poïétique (http://poietic-generator.net ) is a system allowing real time collective interactions that he has experimented in different kinds of networks since 1986. In 1997, he founded together with the architect and urbanist Bernd Hoge the cultural laboratoty A+H (http://km2.net/aplush) that proposes interdisciplinary projects between physical and digital territories. The Nibelungenmuseum, virtual museum dedicated to a myth opened in 2001. Currently, he is working on the projet @RBRE
(http://km2.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=127)
Jean-Pierre Balpe (France), artist
Born in 1942 in Mende (Lozère), Jean-Pierre Balpe is the Director of the Hypermedia Department and of the Paragraphe Laboratory of the University of Paris VIII. He is also General Secretary of the journal Action Poétique. Researcher, theoretician of computer literature, author of various scientific and technological books, writer, he is interested in the possibilities that computer science provided to literature since 1975. In 1981, he co-founded ALAMO (Workshop for Computer and Mathematic Assisted Literature) and as such became advisor to the Pompidou Center for the exhibitions Les Immatériaux and Mémoires du Futur. Since 1989, he creates software for computer literature used mainly during exhibitions or public events among which Un roman inachevé for the booth of the Ministry of Culture (MILIA, Cannes, 1995 and MIM in Montreal) ; ROMANS (Roman) for the exhibition Artifices in 1996 ; Trois mythologies et un poète aveugle for the IRCAM in 1997 ; Barbe Bleue that will be the result of the combination of 3 generators : text, music (Alexandre Raskatov) and staging (Michel Jaffrennou) generators ; TRAJECTOIRES, interactive and generative novel for the Internet (www.trajectoires.com) ; he is involved in various shows among which Encuentras essentiales for the museum MARCO in Monterey (Mexico) together with Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi (music) and Miguel Chevalier (interactive stage design).
Roberto Barbanti (France/Italy), artist and theorician
Studied philosophy, computer music and experimental music at the University and Academy Cherubini of Florence (Italy). Ph.D in "Art and science of art" at the University Paris I. Teacher at the University Paul Valéry, Montpellier III in charge of the Multimedia section of the Performing Arts Department. Founder and Chairman of the Center Pharos, Center for Study and Research in Philosophy, Art and the Science, co-directed together with the philosopher Luciano Boi (www.pharos.centrostudiricerche.org).
He has created several multimedia works : peformances, environmental music, installations and communication events.
Among his last books :
Stéphan Barron (France), artist
Born in 1961 in Caen, Normandy. Grant from Villa Médicis in 1996 for Ozone.
" My work is based on a perceptual and imaginary research on distance. In this research, I have realised since 1985 around twenty artworks using telecommunication technology. Ozone in 1995 was one of the first artwork using Internet. I have developped since 1995 the concepts of Technoromanticism and of Earth Art. "
My works and concepts are described at http://www.technoromanticism.com
Online artwork : http://www.com-post.org
Cdrom : Earth Art, Ed. Rien de Special, 2000
Book : Technoromantisme, Ed. L'Harmattan, 2002
Maurice Benayoun (France), artist
Maurice Benayoun has been exploring the potential of 3D computer graphics' animation and Virtual Reality for several years.
Tina Cassani / Bruno Beusch (France), curators
Tina Cassani and Bruno Beusch are the directors of Paris-based new-media label TNC Network. Founded in 1995, TNC Network has produced ground-breaking events, new-style conferences and shows for TV/radio, museums, festivals, and companies in Europe, the US and Asia.
Beusch/Cassani are curators at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, where they are responsible for the Electrolobby - Showroom for Digital Culture & Lifestyle. They are members of the jury of the Prix Ars Electronica. They consult for different international institutions, for telecom and media companies, as well as for European new-media research programs. Curators of two upcoming shows dedicated to mobile/wireless games & lifestyle (autumn 2002, Paris).
Samuel Bianchini (France), artist
Samuel Bianchini studied art through different approaches : Fine Arts, Applied Arts, Arts and Crafts (Arts et Métiers), Decorative Arts (Arts décoratifs) and plastic arts. At the age of 30, he mixed practice (exhibitions), theory (regular publications) and teaching (University of Paris I, Art school of Nancy). Membre of different research laboratories such as CRECA (Center for Research in the Aesthetics of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts, University Paris I) and CEDRIC (Center for Research in Computer Science of the Cnam), he is preparing a Ph.D on the reactualization of the issues of montage raised by interactive media.
Maurizio Bolognini (Italie), artist
Maurizio Bolognini has worked with digital technologies since the late 1980s. His most well-known art works are the 1992 Sealed Computers (over two hundred machines programmed to produce a flow of endlessly different images, and left to work indefinitely) and Museophagia (a 1999 world tour in which he took furniture and objects from several international galleries and put together a travelling collection to be consumed via digitization: <http://www.cavellini.org/performance/emtour.html>). He has also been involved with teledemocracy and on line communication techniques (his so-called Hyperdelphi method <http://www.hyperdelphi.net>) about which he has recently published the book Democrazia elettronica (Carocci, Rome 2001).
Andreas Broeckman (Allemagne), theoretician
Andreas Broeckmann (*1964) lives and works in Berlin. Since the autumn of 2000 he has been the Artistic Director of transmediale - international media art festival berlin. Broeckmann studied art history, sociology and media studies and worked as a project manager at V2_Organisation Rotterdam, Institute for the Unstable Media, from 1995-2000. He is a member of the Berlin-based media association mikro, and of the European Cultural Backbone, a network of media centres. In texts and lectures he deals with post-medial practices and the possibilities for a 'machinic' aesthetics of media art. [http://www.transmediale.de] et [http://www.v2.nl/abroeck]
Annick Bureaud (France), new media art critic, theoretician
Works in the field of art related to technosciences. Director of Leonardo/Olats (http://www.olats.org) ; founder and editor of the International directory of Electronic Arts, IDEA online (http://nunc.com). New media art critic (column in Art Press). Teacher at the art school of Aix-en-Provence, the Ensci, guest teacher at the School of the Art Intitute Chicago (SAIC, 1999) and at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM, 2001). Co-organizer of the Symposium Artmedia VIII. Co-editor with Nathalie Magnan of the reader Connexions : Art, Réseaux, Media published by the Ensba in May 2002.
Christophe Charles (Japan/France), artist
Christophe Charles (born Marseille 1964), currently Associate Professor at Musashino Art University, Tokyo), works with found sounds, and makes compositions using computer programs, insisting on the autonomy of each sound and the absence of hierarchical structure. These compositions have been released on the German label Mille Plateaux / Ritornell ("undirected" series), and on several compilations (Mille Plateaux, Ritornell, SubRosa, Code, Cirque, Cross, X-tract, CCI, ICC, etc.). Group exhibitions: ICC "Sound Art" (Tokyo, 2000), V&A "Radical Fashion" (London, 2001), etc. Permanent sound installations at Osaka Housing Information Center (1999), Tokyo-Narita International Airport Central Atrium (2000). Web site: http://kubric.musabi.ac.jp/~charles
Daniel Charles (France), philosopher
Musician (student of Olivier Messian at the Paris Conservatory : First Price, 1956) and philosopher (agrégation, 1959 ; Ph.D. under the direction of Mikel Dufrenne, 1977), Daniel Charles has founded and directed during 20 years (1969-1989) the Music Department at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes) ; head of the general aesthetics faculty during 10 years (1970-1980) at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne) and during 9 years (1989-1999) at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis. He published numerous articles and books among which 6 have been translated into German and 2 in Japanese. His talks with John Cage (" Pour les Oiseaux ", 1976) have just been republished (Paris, 2002) on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the death of the composer.
Grégory Chatonsky (France), artist
Studied Fine Arts and philosophy, Master degree in Aesthetics at the University of Paris I on the ontology of virtual realities and the deconstruction of narratives in interactive structures. Hypermedia studies at the Fine Art School in Paris.
Co-founder in 1995 of Incident (http://www.incident.net).
Between 1995 and 1998, Chatonsky designed and achieved the cdrom Mémoires de la déportation which received the Mobius Award in 1999, he also designed various cultural sites such as the web sites of the Pompidou Center and of the Villa Medicis.
He created interactives installations and net installations such as : Incident of the Last Century, Disoriented Frontiers, Sous Terre, Revenances, La Vitesse du Silence, Nervures, .IO-N, etc.
In 2002, Chatonsky is artist-in-residence at the Abbaye de Fontevraud (France) for the project "Dislocat.io-n" and at the Inclassables (Canada) for the project "Translat.io-n".
He had works exhibited in many events in France and abroad.
He works on the issues of narratives, cinema, memory and language.
Mario Costa (Italy), philosopher
During the sixties and the seventies, Mario Costa gave a philosophic interpretation of many artistic avant-gardes. Later, about at the end of seventies, he put his attention on the philosophic involvement of new technologies, of which, among other things, he tried to outline the aesthetics.
His ideas are shown in around twenty books and in a great number of essays, partly translated and published in Europe and America.
Mario Costa is professor of Aesthetics at Salerno University and of Criticism's Methodology at Naples University (IUO).
Edmond Couchot (France), theoretician
Edmond Couchot has a Ph.D. and is Emeritus Professor of the French Universities. He chaired the programme Arts and Technologies of Images at the Paris 8 University for 20 years and is still involved in the research programme of the Centre for Digital Images and Virtual Reality. As a theoretician, he is interested in the relations between art and technology. He published on the subject numerous articles and two books : Images. De l'optique au numérique, Hermès, 1988, and La Technologie dans l'art, J. Chambon, 1998.
Originally an artist, he created since the mid-sixties interactive cybernetics systems involving the participation of the spectator. For some years, "real time" technics allowed him to further his researches.
Luc Courchesne (Canada), artist
Luc Courchesne est né à Nicolet (Québec) en 1952. En 1974, il a reçu un baccalauréat en Communication Design du Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax) et en 1984, un Master of Science in Visual Studies, du MIT (Cambridge). En 1984 alors qu'il réalise, avec un collectif du MIT, Elastic Movies, une des premières oeuvres interactive utilisant la vidéo.
Il a créé depuis plusieurs installations dont Encyclopédie clair-obscure (1987), Portrait no.1 (1990), Portrait de famille (1993), Salon des ombres (1996), Paysage no. 1 (1997), Passages (1998), Rendez-vous (avec un collectif de la SAT, 1999) et The Visitor: Living by Number (2001).
Son travail a été présenté dans une douzaine de pays en Amérique du Nord, en Europe, en Asie et en Océanie. Il a notamment fait l'objet d'une exposition personnelle au Museum of Modern Art de New York. Ses installations font partie notamment des collections du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada (Ottawa), du Medienmuseum du ZKM (Karlsruhe, Allemagne), du NTT Intercommunication Center (Tokyo) et du Musée de la communication (Berne).
Luc Courchesne est président de la Société des arts technologiques et, depuis 1989, professeur à l'Ecole de design industriel de l'Université de Montréal.
Vincenzo Cuomo (Italy), theoretician
Vincenzo Cuomo (Torre Annunziata, 1955) is a teacher of philosophy in Italian State Grammar Schools. Since 1986 he has been cooperating with the research laboratory Artmedia, under the direction of Mario Costa of the University of Salerno, and has written numerous articles and essays on philosophy of technics and media aesthetics. In 1998 he published the book "Le parole della voce. Lineamenti di una filosofia della phoné" (published in Salerno by Edisud) and has recently edited a volume of writings by Th.W.Adorno about the connections between the music and media (published in Naples by Tempo Lungo Edizioni, 2002). He is co-editorial director of the magazine "Kainos. Rivista telematica di critica filosofica" (www.kainos.it).
Steve Dietz (USA), curator
Curator of New Media at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, where he founded the New Media Initiatives department in 1996. He is responsible for programming the online Gallery 9, including more than 20 artist commissions and one of the earliest archive-collections of net art, the Walker's Digital Arts Study Collection.
Reynald Drouhin (France), artist
Both net and video artist, Reynald Drouhin has presented his work in Montreal at the Biennale de Montreal and at the festival Champ Libre manifestation internationale vidéo et art électronique in 1999. He has also participated in ISEA 97 Chicago, Imagina à Monaco (1998) and the Web Art Festival " Web bar " (1999) in Paris. Drouhin has received the Grand Prix at the Cyberfestival in Rueil-Malmaison in 1999 and the Multimedia price at DRAC Auvergne/Vidéoformes in Clermont-Ferrand in 1997. Since 1990, Reynald Drouhin works on many Web art sites and digital projects. Artist-teacher in Fine Art at Rennes in France since 2000.
Monika Fleischman et Wolfgang Strauss (Allemagne), artists
* Monika Fleischmann, 51, German research artist. Studied visual arts, theater and computer graphics. Since 1992 artistic director of the institute for media communication; since 1997 head of the MARS exploratory media lab at the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication in Sankt Augustin, outside Bonn.
Her work - always produced with her partner Wolfgang Strauss - was exhibited e.g. at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museum for Design, Zurich, presented at MoMA, New York and Festivals like Siggraph, Imagina, Art Futura, ISEA and Ars Electronica. 1992 "Home of the Brain" was awarded with the Golden Nica for interactive art at Ars Electronica in Linz. "Liquid Views" was part of the opening exhibition of the ZKM Media Museum in Karlsruhe.
Her main research topics are intelligent information interfaces combined with interactive virtual environments on the base of perceptive processes. Knowledge discovery and mixed realities are important issues of her actual work. http://imk.fhg.de/mars
* Wolfgang Strauss, 50, is architect and visiting professor in interactive media. Strauss studied Architecture at the Academie of Fine Arts Berlin and has held teaching positions in Visual Communication at the HDK Berlin, at the KHM Media Art School Cologne, at the School of Fine Arts Saarbrücken and the Kunsthochschule in Kassel. Together with Monika Fleischmann he was a co-founder of Art + Com, Berlin in 1988. His artistic work has been included in exhibitions and festivals of new media art worldwide. As an architect his main interest is to develop methods for intermedia representation in Mixed Realities. Currently he is co-director of the MARS.
His recent work is about intuitive interface environments related to the human body and digital media space. http://imk.fhg.de/mars
Fred Forest (France), artist and theoretician
Artist, emeritus professor of the University of Nice, co-founder of the Group of Sociological Art (1974), co-founder with Mario Costa of the International Movement of the Aesthetics of Communication (1983), director of the programme in aesthetics of communication at the MAMAC, Communication award at the XII São Paulo Biennale in 1973, participated in the Venise Biennale in 1976, the Documenta 6 in 1977, Award of the City of Locarno, Festival des Arts Electroniques in 1995, founder of the www.webnetmuseum.org. Books : L'art sociologique, 10/18 UGE Paris 1977, "Pour un manifeste de l'esthétique de la communication", + - 0, Bruxelles 1985, Pour un art actuel : l'art à l'heure d'Internet, l'Harmattan, Paris 1998, Fonctionnement et dysfonctionnements de l'art contemporain, l'Harmattan, Paris 2000. Web site : http://www.fredforest.org
Ken Goldberg (USA), artist
Ken Goldberg is an artist and Associate Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley, where he founded the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium. Goldberg led the team that developed the first robot on the Internet in 1994 and his net art installations have appeared in the Interactive Media Festival, Ars Electronica, the Walker Art Center, ICC Biennale in Tokyo, Berkeley Art Museum, and the Whitney Biennial 2000.
Goldberg received his PhD in 1990 from the School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University. Goldberg serves on the Advisory Board of the IEEE Society of Robotics and Automation. He is editor of The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet (MIT Press, 2000). Goldberg was awarded the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994, the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1995, the Joseph Engelberger Robotics Award in 2000, and the IEEE Major Educational Innovation Award in 2001.
For more information: http://www.ken.goldberg.net
Eduardo Kac (Brazil/USA), artist and theoretician
Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and his bio art. A pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-Web '80s, Eduardo Kac (pronounced "Katz") emerged in the early '90s with his radical telepresence and biotelematic works. At the dawn of the twenty-first century Kac shocked the world with his "transgenic art"--first with a groundbreaking net installation entitled Genesis (1999), and then with his fluorescent rabbit called Alba (2000). Eduardo Kac is represented by Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago. His work is documented at <http://www.ekac.org>.
Natan Karczmar (France/Canada/Israel), artist and curator
Born in Paris in 1933. Organized in 1954 a festival of film on Art in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa. Founder and Director from 1957 to 1964 of the theater Centre Canadien d'Essai as well as of the Salon de la Jeune Peinture in Montréal. In 1989, he created "Art Planète", a bi-monthly video magazine presenting museum exhibitions around the world as well as inter-museums communication events in real time named "The Interactive Museum". From 1992 until 1994, he directed the seminar "Art/Communication/Nouvelles Technologies" at the Université Européenne de la Recherche in Paris. In 1996, he founded the Internet art magazine ArtMag (www.artmag.com). Non-objective painter, he has had exhibitions in Europe, Canada, the US, and Israel.
Derrick de Kerckhove (Canada), theoretician
Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto. He co-edited with Charles Lumsden The Alphabet and the Brain (Springer Verlag, 1988), a book which scientifically assesses the impact of the Western alphabet on the physiology and the psychology of human cognition. Brainframes: Technology, Mind and Business (Bosch&Keuning, 1991) addresses the differences between the effects of television, computers and hypermedia on corporate culture, business practices and economic markets. Connected Intelligence (Somerville, 1997) introduced his research on new media and cognition. He has contributed to the architecture of Hypersession, a collaborative software now being developed by Emitting Media. This work inspired his latest book The architecture of intelligence (see http://www.architecture.openflows.org) first issued in Dutch in December 2000. He is presently a member of the Vivendi Institut de prospective where he is in charge of investigating the future technological and business development of the new technologies. He has been a member of the Club of Rome since 1995.
Sophie Lavaud (France), artist
Artist, conceptor of interactive installations. Ph.D student at Paris I University. Lives and works in Paris. Exhibited in France, abroad and in Cyberspace : Art-Jonction (Nice) ; Village ISEA 2000, Paris, " Art génératif ", online at http://www.webnetmuseum.org ; " Festival @rt-Outsiders " : Maison Européenne de la photographie, Paris. " Techno-Mariage " with Fred Forest at Issy-les-Moulineaux : http://www.fredforest.worldnet.net/technomariage, 1998 ; " Art virtuel", curator Franck Popper, Espace Landowski, Boulogne-Billancourt.
Louis-Josè Lestocart (France), theoretician
Studied history and archeology. Master in ancien history. Archeologist. DEA in proto-history archeology at the Art and Archeology Institute in Paris. Excavations in France and abroad until 1990. Then literature critic (Europe, Lettres Françaises), art and film critic (Art press, Positif, NRF, Cinémathèque) and exbibition curator for the the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ("Agora", online exhibition about net art).
Pierre Lévy (Canada/France), theoretician
Philosopher of cyberculture and collective intelligence.
Born in 1956 in Tunis. Studies and beginning of his career in France. Lives in Canada. Professor at the University of Ottava. Author of many books about the cultural implications of new technologies and the emerging global civilization. His books have been translated into more than 15 languages and most of them have been republished in pocket book collections. Among his last books : Cyberdémocratie, Odile Jacob, 2002 ; World Philosophie, Odile Jacob, 2000 ; Le Feu libérateur, Arléa, Paris, 1999 ; Cyberculture, Odile Jacob, Paris, 1997 ; Qu'est-ce que le virtuel ?, La Découverte, Paris 1995 ; L'Intelligence collective, La Découverte, Paris, 1994
Jean-Paul Longavesne (France), artist
Jean-Paul Longavesne was born in France and lives in France and Québec. He is currently working as Professor at the University Paris XI and at the National School of Decoratives Art (ENSAD) where he is responsible for the Fashion and Clothing Department, Director of the Painting datas Research Group (GRIP) and Board Member of the International Colour Association (AIC).
As an installation and performance artist, he has pioneered the development and creative use of an artist's personal painting machine on the net and has exhibited artworks at a number of shows in Canada, Europe and USA. His latest electronic publication "The Aesthetics and Rhetoric of the Technological Arts Interface Machines" (see http://crossings.tcd.ie/issues/1.2/Longavesne/ ).
Roger Malina (France/USA), theoretician
Roger Malina is an astronomer and editor. He is the Director of the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille and former Director of the NASA EUVE Observatory. He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics. He is Chairman of the Board of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technolgy and Executive Editor of the peer reviewed scholarly journal Leonardo published with MIT Press.
Yves Michaud (France), philosopher
Currently, professor of philosophy at the University of Paris 1 and programme director of the University of All Knowledge (Université de tous les savoirs).
Has been programme director at the Collège International of Philosophie (1998-2001), director of the Paris Art School, (1989-1995) and editor-in-chief of the Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, centre Georges Pompidou (1986-1990).
Among his books :
- Humain, inhumain, trop humain, réflexions philosophiques sur les biotechnologies, la vie et la conservation de soi à partir de Peter Sloterdijk, Montpellier, éditions Climats, 2002
- Critères esthétiques et jugement de goût, Nîmes, éditions Jacqueline Chambon, coll. Rayon Art, 1999.
- L'art contemporain depuis 1945, La documentation photographique, La Documentation française, 1998.
- La Crise de l'art contemporain : utopie, démocratie et comédie, Paris, PUF, octobre 1997.
Mit Mitropoulos (Greece), artist and theoretician
Researcher in communications with and without technology. His Ph.D. (Edinburgh University, 1974) is on Space Networks--the concept of space as a network,rather than as place.
Has been consultant to organisations and institutions (including UNESCO; EVR of MIT, USA; CIC,Paris; Greek Ministries of Culture, and of Research+Technology) on issues connecting technology to policy and legislation.
As an environmental artist, he has been active with Geopolitical Art projects ,as well as with 2-way interactive video installations.
Enrico Nuzzo (Italy), philosopher
Enrico Nuzzo is Professore Ordinario in History of Philosophy at the University of Salerno. He is mainly interested in philosophical, political, historical modern thought (particularly in the fields of Italian, French, and English cultures). He published many volumes and essays on Vico (he is working at the critical edition of Scienza nuova prima), on the "Southern Italian philosophical tradition", on Cartesianism in Naples in the XVII and XVIII centuries (Leonardo Di Capua, Caloprese, Doria, etc.), on Croce, on French moralists (Saint-Evremond, etc.), on Condillac, on the English Republican Tradition. His other writings concern questions in historiography, methodological and theoretical problems such as Political Aristotelianism, the Reason of State, the foundation of the modern genre of ancient history, the relation between philosophy and literature, the epistemical status of image and the "metaphorology".
Louise Poissant (Canada), theorician
Louise Poissant has a Ph.D in philosophy. She is professor at the School of visual and media arts at the UQAM since 1989. She is the director of the Research Group in Media Arts since 1989 and the interdisciplinary Ph.D programme in Studies and practices of arts since 1997. She has written numerous articles and books in the field of media arts published in various magazines and journals in Canada, France and the United States. She has directed the Dictionnary of Media Arts published in French at the PUQ and online in English by the journal Leonardo. She is the co-writter of a TV serie about media arts produced in collaboration by TV Ontaria and TELUQ. She collaborates with the Contemporary Art Museum in Montreal to a series of video portrait of artists. Her current researches deal with the links between interfaces and sensoriality.
Frank Popper (France), theoretician
Professor emeritus of aesthetics at the University of Paris VIII, he is the author of Naissance de l'art cinétique, 1967 ; Art - Action and Participation, 1975 ; L'artist et la créativité aujourd'hui, 1980 ; Art of the Electronic Age, 1993 ; Réflexions sur l'exil, l'art et l'Europe, 1998 and is at present working on a study of Virtual Art. He was also organizer and author of the catalogue of the exhibitions Kunst-Licht-Kunst, 1966 ; Lumière et mouvement, 1967 ; Electra, 1983, and L'art virtuel, 1998.
Gilbertto Prado (Brésil), artist
Born in Santos/Brazil, 1954, multimedia artist, studied Engineering and Visual Arts at the State University of Campinas, Brazil. In 1994 he obtained his doctoral degree in Arts at the University of Paris I. He has participated in several art exhibitions in his country and abroad. Currently he is Professor at the Department of Visual Arts at the ECA/USP - Communication and Arts School at University of São Paulo. http://wawrwt.iar.unicamp.br/gilbertto/gilbertto.htm
Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarié (France), theoretician
Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarié, theoretician and critic in art and new technologies, studied F. Forest's Aesthetics of Communication (Epiphaneia n°2, 1997). In her synthetic book "La Société des clones à lère de la reproduction multimedia" (Actes Sud, 1999) she analysed the grounds of virtual aesthetics in the light of W. Benjamins insight into the outcome of the artwork in the age of multimedia reproduction ("Web Museum 2000") and from her works about "Computer Assisted Palaces of Memory" (Jasis n° 48, 1990) and about "Artificial Life".
Her current researches deal with aesthetic aspects of autonomous virtual creatures (Festival @rt Outsiders, 2001).
Anolga Rodionoff (France), theoretician
Architect Anolga Rodionoff is an associate professor at the University of Paris with a Ph. D. in Political Science. Her research shows that the upheavel produced by the impact of communication on architecture pre-dates the use of communication techniques particulary this of the web by architects themselves. A University of Paris researcher on communication media and personnel, she is also commentator and curator for the architecture collection at Fred Forest's Web Net Museum. Her latest publications include Architecture : from production to communication, (MEI 14, l'Harmattan, Paris, 2001).
Timothée Rolin (France), artist
In Paris, Timothée Rolin studied at the Superior National School of Decorative Arts (ENSAD) and later he designed the website for the school. Then, with Aliette Guibert, they founded the interdisciplinary magazine www.criticalsecret.com for which he created the five first interfaces. His interest in systems related to databases prompted him to start his own participative site in January 2002, www.adamproject.net. This site records his daily life and that of every one who is willing to participate in the project, in the form of dated and timed photographs, commented on and described by key words, thus creating an original collective memory that is permanently accessible. Some tools, such as a semantic search engine, allow us to reach out to this network of memories."
Karen O'Rourke (France/USA), artist
Karen O'Rourke is an artist who works with databases, networks and storytelling systems. Her work has been presented in Europe, the United States and South America. In 1997 she received the Leonardo Award for Excellence. Recent projects include a CD-Rom Paris Réseau, published by the Editions du CERAP in 2000, and "Archiving as Art", a collective exhibition/website which was part of the interdisciplinary CNRS program "Archives de la Création". She is Maître de conférences in art and communication at the Université de Paris 1.
Eric Sadin (France), theoretician
Eric Sadin is a writer, a multimedia author and a theoretician of the relations between arts, language and new technologies. He is the founder and editor of the journal : éc/art S:. He founded <world.wide.writings.Studio > agence_d'écriture™ éric.sadin & partnerS«
, a new organization dedicated to the production of textual systems based on collaborative work and open to contemporary technologies. In 1997, he published " : ", a text that incorporated different levels of writtings (poetry, theory, fiction) (Pécuchette éditions). He has published theoretical and poetic texts in more than 15 journals. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy. He has been fellow of the Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto, Japan, in 2002.
Bruno Samper (France), artist
Multimedia artist. En 1998 he initiated the online magazine www.panoplie.org which aim is to experiment the langage of the web that is open, not pre-determined, not pre-categorized, a powerful miw of influences in any expressive forms : multimedia magazine, video games, webdesign, interactive series, online utopia, etc.
In 2001, he is the co-founder, with Rouanet, of the studio panoplie.prod (of which he is the artistic director). The studio developps multimedia projects on and offline : interactive fictions, documentaries, games and long term universes projects. The project www.protoform.net is an example.
François Soulages (France), theorician
Professor of University, he is director of the DEA "arts of images and contemporary art" at the University of Paris VIII. He is the director of the section "aesthetics, arts and industries" at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord. He has written several books about image and contemporary art among which "Esthétique de la photographie" (Paris, Nathan, 2002, 4°édition), he is curator of international exhibitions and director of book collections. Currently he is researching on the image from different perspectives : philosophical, aesthetical, psychoanalytic and political. His two recent books "Dialogues sur l'art & la technologie, autour d'Edmond Couchot" (2001) & "La couleur réfléchie" (2002) open to new research fields and perspectives.
Victoria Vesna (USA), artist
Victoria Vesna is an artist, professor and Chair of the Department of Design | Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts. Vesna's work can be defined as experimental research that connects networked environments to physical public spaces. She explores how communication technologies affect collective behavior, and the shifting perceptions of identity in relation to scientific innovation. Most recently she was building a 'community of people with no time' and is exploring the impact of nanotech on culture and society. In 2000 she completed her Ph.D. at CAiiA, University of Wales, entitled "Networked Public Spaces: An Investigation into Virtual Embodiement".
- Francesco d'Assisi e Marcel Duchamp. Rudimenti per un'est-etica / Francis of Assisi and Marcel Duchamp. Rudiments for an aesth-ethic, Danilo Montanari Editore, 2001.
- L'art au XXe siècle et l'utopie, L'Harmattan (collection arts8), 2000 (with Claire Fagnart).
Since 1984, he has been a professor of "Video Art and New Images " at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and has been an invited artist at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts of Paris.
In 1987 he co-founded Z-A Production, now one of the two oldest companies in France in the field of new medias, where he currently works as creation director.
bc@tnc.net
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biank@dispotheque.org
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He has organized and curated new media exhibitions, including "Beyond Interface: net art and Art on the Net" (1988), "Shock of the View: Artists, Audiences, and Museums in the Digital Age" (1999), "Digital Documentary: The Need to Know and the Urge to Show" (1999), "Cybermuseology" for the Museo de Monterrey (1999), "Art Entertainment Network" (2000), "Outsourcing Control? The Audience As Artist," for the Open Source Lounge" at Medi@terra (2000), "Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace" (2001-02), a nationally traveling exhibition, and, with Jenny Marketou, Open_Source_Art_Hack, opening at the New Museum in New York in May 2002. In 2003, "Translocations" will open at the Walker Art Center.
He speaks and writes extensively about new media, and his interviews and writings have appeared in Parkett, Artforum, Flash Art, Design Quarterly, Spectra, Afterimage, Art in America, and Museum News.
http://www.walkerart.org - http://www.artsconnected.org - http://www.mnartists.org
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wolfgang.strauss@imk.fhg.de
grip@cnam.fr
http://perso.ensad.fr/~longa/
http://www.itaucultural.org.br/desertesejo