Natalie Jeremijenko is an inventor and engineer who focuses on the design and analysis of tangible digital media. Her work explores the transformative potential of new information technologies and alternatives to dominant IT design paradigms. Jeremijenko's mission is to reclaim technology from the idealised, abstract concept of 'cyberspace' and apply it to the messy complexities of the real world, often with disquieting results. Her current projects include STump and OneTrees, a collection of one thousand walnut tree(s), clones, micro-propagated in culture.

www.slowlab.net/natalie%20jeremijenko.html

Joline Blais is an assistant professor of New Media at UMaine and co-founder of Still Water, a research lab devoted to studying and nourishing network culture. She previously directed digital media studies at NY Polytechnic University and launched media studies in SCPS at New York University. Blais' research and creative work explores sustainable communities and new narrative forms, and includes the 2006 book At the Edge of Art.

http://newmedia.umaine.edu/stillwater/

Amy Franceschini is a new media artist/designer/educator working with notions of community, sustainable environments and the conflicting rituals of humans and nature. Her work manifests "on" and "offline" in the form of dynamic websites, installations and printed matter. Franceschini sees herself as a farmer and looks to nature as the ultimate laboratory. Her work challenges the physicality of place and media. Currently, she teaches New Media courses at the San Francisco Art Institute and Stanford University. She is the founder of Atlas magazine and Future farmers, as a means to bring together multidisciplinary practitioners to create new work.

www.futurefarmers.com

Colin Ives art practice fuses scholarly research, technical development (such as programming), and hands-on work with materials. Under the conceptual framework of interactivity, his work ranges from sculpture and installation to CD-ROMs and Internet projects. Much of his current work focuses on ecological issues and uses technology to create interactive installations that incorporate viewers into the dynamic interplay between ourselves and our environment. A project Nocturne, about urban wildlife, was shown at the International Symposium for the Electronic Arts 2006. He also recently return from Ssamzie Space's International Residency Program in Seoul, South Korea. Colin is the is the Director of the Digital Arts program at the University of Oregon.

http://www.uoregon.edu/~ives/

Digital media artist, Jane D. Marsching's current project, Arctic Listening Post, explores our past, present and future human impact on the Arctic environment through interdisciplinary and collaborative practices. Her upcoming work brings together scientists, architects, scifi illustrators, and others to imagine what it will be like to live at the North Pole in 100 years. She has presented artists talks and panels around the country, curated exhibitions of contemporary art (including The Blur of the Otherworldly: Technology and the Paranormal at the CVAC at UMBC), and writes essays on art and technology. With Mark Alice Durant, she is guest editor of a fall 2003 issue of the CAA Art Journal. She is currently a professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA.

www.janemarsching.com

Brooke Singer is a digital media artist who lives in New York City. She is interested in emerging technologies not only because they are fun but also because they are contingent and malleable. She has utilized wireless communications (Wi-Fi, mobile phone cameras, RFID) to initiate discussion and positive system failures. Her work seeks to provide public access to important social issues that often are characterized as specialized or opaque. She is currently Assistant Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York, and co-founder of the art, technology and activist group Preemptive Media.

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Alexander R. Galloway is an author and programmer. He is a founding member of the software collective RSG and creator of the data surveillance engine Carnivore. The New York Times recently described his work as "conceptually sharp, visually compelling and completely attuned to the political moment." Galloway is the author of Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (MIT, 2004), Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (Minnesota, 2006), and a new book coauthored with Eugene Thacker called The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Minnesota, 2007). He teaches at New York University.

http://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/

Andrea Polli is a digital media artist living in New York City. She is currently Director of the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program at Hunter College. Polli's projects often bring together artists and scientists from various disciplines. She is interested in global systems, the real time interconnectivity of these systems, and the effect of these systems on individuals. She currently works in collaboration with atmospheric scientists to develop systems for understanding storm and climate information through sound (a process called sonification). Polli has exhibited, performed, and lectured nationally and internationally.

www.andreapolli.com

Tom Sherman is an artist and writer. He works in video, radio and live performance, and writes all manner of texts. His interdisciplinary work has been exhibited internationally, including shows at the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, and more. In 2003 he was awarded the Canada Council’s Bell Canada Award for excellence in video art. He performs and records with Bernhard Loibner (Vienna) in a group called Nerve Theory. His most recent book is Before and After the I-Bomb: An Artist in the Information Environmen. He is a professor in the Department of Transmedia at Syracuse University in New York, but considers the South Shore of Nova Scotia his home.

transmedia.syr.edu

Don Miller (also known as NO CARRIER) is an educator, programmer, and live visualist living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He creates new software for old videogame and computer hardware for use at live music events and installations. He primarily codes for the Nintendo Entertainment System, creating original software that incorporates both new and recycled graphics. He recently performed at Blip Festival 2007, an international gathering of forty musicians and visualists from around the world. In 2007 he designed and programmed the first NES albums ever to be released on cartridges, for chiptune mu sicians Alex Mauer and Phlogiston.

http://www.no-carrier.com/

Nerve Theory is the collective identity of Bernhard Loibner & Tom Sherman. The trans-continental sound/video/voice duo was formed in 1998, and has since collaborated on numerous live performances, video tapes, radio pieces, network appearances, and sound/voice recordings. At Colgate, they will perform "H5N1", a live multimedia performance blending video, music, voice and some very nasty dark humor. This duo (austria, Canada, USA) jumps on the mutating, evolving H5N1 virus, using the very real threat of a global pandemic as alaunching pad for a series of bone-chilling statements about the world we live in.

http://loibner.cc/layout/projects/nerve_theory