Biographies
Biographies
Bruce Sterling (US)
As one of the main voices of the cyberpunk movement in 1980ies, SF writer Bruce Sterling promoted a worldview and aesthetic that strongly influenced the generation that came of age with the computer revolution. In his popular books and articles, Sterling chronicles the social and technological developments of our over mediatised world.
http://www.infinitematrix.net/columns/sterling/
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/
Andrew Keen (UK)
Author of bestseller CULT OF THE AMATEUR: How the Internet is killing our culture (2007). Keen is currently writing a second book entitled DIGITAL VERTIGO: Anxiety, Loneliness and Inequality in the Social Media Age, which will be published by St Martins Press. Keen starred in the Dutch VPRO television documentary, "Wiki the Truth" and was the subject of the November 2008 BBC Radio 4 show.
http://andrewkeen.typepad.com
Rick Poynor (UK)
Design critic and writer, Poynor is the founder Eye, The international Review of Graphic Design. He has written about design, media and visual culture for Blueprint, Icon, Creative Review, Frieze, Domus, I.D., Metropolis, Harvard Design Magazine, Adbusters, The Guardian, Financial Times, and many others. In 2003, he co-founded the weblog Design Observer, which became a leading international forum for design discussion.
http://www.designobserver.com
http://www.eyemagazine.com/critiques.php
Julia Noordegraaf (NL)
Programme Director of the Master Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam (from September 2003) and author of a.o. Strategies of Display: Museum Presentation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Visual Culture (Boijmans van Beuningen / Nai Uitgevers 2004). Noordegraaf is currently doing research for a book entitled Performing the Archive, due to come out in fall 2010. http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/j.j.noordegraaf/
Sarah Cook (UK)
Co-editor of CRUMB (the Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss www.crumbweb.org) and research fellow at the University of Sunderland. Her forthcoming book on curating, co-authored with Beryl Graham, will be published by MIT Press in 2009. Sarah's most recent curatorial project is a series of online commissions about outer space for Xcult.org.
www.beam-me.net
Aram Bartholl (DE)
Aram Bartholl lives and works in Berlin. In his art work he thematizes the relationship of net data space and every day life. In which form does this network-data-world manifest itself in our physical everyday-lifespace? What is being fed back into physical space from the ‘cyberspace' into which data has been fed for so long now? How do these digital innovations influence our actions in everyday life? www.datenform.de
Upload Cinema (NL)
Upload Cinema is a film club that takes the best web films to the big screen. The audience can submit films; an editorial team selects the best and compiles a ninety minutes program, which is screened at movie theatres and special venues.
www.uploadcinema.nl
Mediamatic (NL)
Mediamatic is interested in the cultural developments that go hand in hand with new technologies and in new technologies that cause cultural development. They organize exhibitions, salons, lectures, workshops, screenings in public space and develop software and art projects, and they used to publish the magazine Mediamatic Off-Line.
www.mediamatic.net
Henk Oosterling (NL)
Henk Oosterling is senior lecturer of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He lectures on dialectic methods, French philosophy and differential thinking, inter-cultural philosophy and aesthetics. As director of the Centre for Philosophy and Art he initiated and led the Intermediality research programme.
www.henkoosterling.nl
Metahaven (NL)
Metahaven is a design and research think tank consisting of Daniel van der Velden, Vinca Kruk and Gon Zifroni. Based in Amsterdam and Brussels, Metahaven focusses on design and research in visual identity and architecture.
http://www.metahaven.net
Koert van Mensvoort (NL)
Koert van Mensvoort is an artist / scientist. He holds a PhD in industrial design from Eindhoven University of Technology. His most profound experience in life, so far, has been the discovery of next nature. Which revolves around the idea that our technological world is so complex, that it has become a nature of its own.
www.nextnature.net
Sander van der Pavert (NL)
Sander van de Pavert makes LuckyTV, a concept he created himself. In short films, Lucky reacts in a light-hearted way to current affairs. Generally use is made of existing images that are cut, edited and mutilated in an indecent way. LuckyTV is currently shown every work day at the end of the Dutch television programme De Wereld Draait Door (The World Keeps Turning).
www.luckytv.nl
Sophie Krier (LUX)
With her studio Sophie Krier explores the peripheries of the design field, with a focus on film, writing and temporary, social interventions. She is currently developing scenarios for public space in Houten and Hoeksche Waard, editing a new design journal entitled Field Essays, and doing research for a documentary project. Between 2005 and 2009, Sophie Krier was head of designLAB at Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
www.sophiekrier.com
Mieke Gerritzen (NL)
Mieke Gerritzen is director of the Graphic Design Museum in Breda. Besides she makes films, books and organizes public events. Gerritzen creates networks with many different designers, writers and artists. In 2001 she started the All Media Foundation for the organization and production of movies, publications and events like "The International Browserday" in New York, Berlin and Amsterdam and more recently "The Biggest Visual Power Shows."
