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1	Mary-Anne Breeze http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker/resume2.htm http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker/free.htm MEZ [Mary-Anne Breeze] has been described as one of "the original net. artists" who is "...without doubt one of the most consistent, prolific, innovative artists working in new media today. The impact of her unique net. works [constructed via her pioneering net. language "mezangelle"] has been equated with the work of Shakespeare, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings and Larry Wall. Since 1995, she has exhibited extensively via the internet and in "realtime" [e.g CTHEORY's Digital Dirt, Prague's Goethe Institute, Digitarts '96, Experimenta Media Arts, ISEA_97 Chicago, ARSElectronica_97, trAce, The Metropolitan Museum Tokyo, SIGGRAPH_99&00, d>Art 00&01 She is the 2001 Resident Artist at the WCG, has been awarded the 2001 VIF Prize by the Humboldt-Universitaet in Berlin, was short listed for the prestigious 2001 Electronic Literature Organization·s Fiction Award, and has just been awarded the Java Museums' Artist Of The Year 2001 Award.
2	Golan Levin http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/golan/resume/artcv.html http://www.flong.com/ Golan Levin is an artist and composer interested in developing artifacts and experiences, which explore supple new modes of audiovisual expression. His work has focused on the design of systems for the creation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general examination of communications protocols for individual engagement and social dialogue. Levin is the recipient of an Award of Distinction in the Prix Ars Electronica 2000 for his AVES interactive software and its accompanying audiovisual performance, Scribble. Levin received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the MIT Media Laboratory, where he studied with John Maeda in the Aesthetics and Computation Group. Prior to this, he worked as a research scientist and interaction designer at Interval Research Corporation for four years. He currently resides in New York City. Author of Dialtones concert performed entirely through the ringing of the audience's mobile phones. Premiering 9pm on Sunday, September 2nd at the Brucknerhaus Auditorium in Linz, Austria as a presentation of TAKEOVER: the 2001 Ars Electronica Festival.Dialtones is a large-scale concert performance whose sounds are wholly produced through the carefully choreographed ringing of the audience’s own mobile phones. Because the exact location and tone of each participant’s mobile phone can be known in advance, the Dialtones Telesymphony will be able to present a diverse range of unprecedented sonic phenomena and musically interesting structures. Moreover, by directing our attention to the unexplored musical potential of a ubiquitous modern appliance, Dialtones inverts our understandings of private sound, public space, electromagnetic etiquette, and the fabric of the communications network which connects us.
3	Roy Ascot http://www.caiia-star.net/people/RA.html http://www.caiia-star.net/ Roy Ascott is an artist and theorist whose work has pioneered the creative use of cybernetics, telecommunications and interactive media . He is a leading figure in the development of telematics in art, using global networks since 1980.Trained as a painter, he studied under Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton, exhibiting "change-paintings and analogue structures" extensively in London and Europe throughout the 1960s. His contribution to art education started with the radical Grundcourse at Ealing School of Art, London. During the 1970s he was Minneapolis College of Art and Design; and Dean of the San Francisco Art Institute. From 1986-93 he was Professor for Communications Theory at the Hochschule fuer angewandte Kunst in Vienna.After sucessfully developing the first honors degree in Interactive Art at Newport School of Art, he was appointed as the founding director of CAiiA in the University of Wales College, Newport in 1994. As Professor of Technoetics in the School of Computing, University of Plymouth, he established STAR in 1997. His work is concerned with the development of Technoetics: the practice and theory emerging from the convergence of art, technology and consciousness research. His interest in the relationship between shamanism and cyberspace led him to live with the Kuikuru Indians of the Brazilian Mato Grosso in May 1997.He convenes the annualinternational conference "Consciousness Reframed: art and consciousness in the post-biological era". An influential theorist, he has published more than one hundred texts in books and journals internationally, with translations in French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. A collection of his writings, edited by Edward A Shanken, is to be published by the University of California Press in 1999. He is on the editorial boards of Convergence and Digital Creativity in the UK, Epiphaneia in Italy, and Leonardo Electronic Almanac and Leonardo Journal in the USA (also responsible for the "Art and Consciousness Research" and "Panetary Collegium" sections). He was a concept designer of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, and has advised the CEC Brussels, Copenhagen '96, UNESCO, La Caixa Mediateca, Barcelona, Ministry of Culture, Paris, amongst many international organizations. He has been a Commissioner for the Venice Biennale, jury member of Prix Ars Electronica and the Interactive Media Festival, and is currently on the Board of the NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo. He is a member of the Arts Council of England. Helectures extensively throughout the world.
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5	Paul Sermon http://www.artdes.salford.ac.uk/sermon/cv.html Born in Oxford, England, 1966. Studied BA Hon's Fine Art degree under Professor Roy Ascott at The University of Wales, from September 1985 to June 1988. Post-graduate MFA degree at The University of Reading, England, from Oct 1989 to June 1991. Awarded the Prix Ars Electronica "Golden Nica", in the category of interactive art, for the hyper media installation "Think about the People now", in Linz, Austria, September 1991. Worked as an Artist in Residence and produced the ISDN video conference installation "Telematic Vision" at the Center for Arts and Mediatechnology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, from February to November 1993. Received the "Sparkey Award" from the Interactive Media Festival in Los Angeles, for the telepresent video installation "Telematic Dreaming", In June 1994. Reader in Creative Technology at The University of Salford, Research Centre for Art & Design,Manchester, England, since June 2000.
6	Mauro Annunziato http://www.planetary.org/html/mmp/scien/annum/annum70.htm http://www.plancton.com/entry.htm http://www.plancton.com/ Mauro Annunziato, started the activity of the group PLANCTON in 1994 with a series of artworks and experiments on expressive languages based on the fusion of different media (video, music, painting, installations). Since '98 it was opened an expressive approach based on chaos and artificial life to explore the potentiality of creation on image building and elaboration of "sound architectures". The relation between art and science, mind and society, communication and interaction have been the central topics of the artworks. Since 1999 it started a diffusion of Plancton works taking part of international events and contexts of art-science-technology (Siggraph, Los Angeles 1999 and New Orleans 2000; Imagina, Monaco, 2000; Generative Art, Milan, 1998,99,00,01; Opera Totale, Venice, 1999; Virtuality, Turin, 2000) presenting images, interactive installations, art performances in theatre and papers (last one on Leonardo MIT Journal, April 2002; in 2001 editor of a special issues on "Artificial Societies", on the Art-Science Association YLEM newsletter). For Annunziato , the expressive activity is strongly fused with the scientific topics. In particular Annunziato is director of a research laboratory on artificial intelligence, chaos and artificial life. Piero Pierucci is director of a research lab on sound and voice recognition and 3D synthesis. Both are authors of more than hundred scientific publications. Pierucci has been author of two books on "speaking machines" and "sound architectures" and Annunziato has been mentioned by NASA-JPL in 2000 as one of the top 60 artist-scientist selected for a cultural contribution to the Mars Millennium project (100 humans on Mars in 2030.