People

Steven Devleminck

Arie Altena — 2013-04-29T15:25:00Z

Steven Devleminck (Brussels) is a theorist and practitioner specialized in media/sound art and cartography/artistic mapping. He holds a Master degree in Science (physics, chemistry, bio-engineering) from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a PhD in philosophy from the University of the Arts, London. He is co-founder and director of the Transmedia Programme in Arts, Media and Design of the Leuven University College of the Arts (LUCA), and visiting professor at maHKU, Utrecht. A selection of his output includes the books Cartographic Strategies, Subjective Worldviews with Herman Asselberghs, Shaping Voices with Johan Van Looveren and Inge Gobert, and a series of internationally published articles and conference papers. His practice based work has been shown in Z33, Hasselt, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, Brussels, Happy New Festival van Vlaanderen Kortrijk, Future Places, Porto amongst others. Research interests are (trans)mediated environments, art-science interfaces, complex data-structures and the logics of their interpretation.

Wim van der Plas

admin — 2013-03-14T14:00:00Z

Wim van der Plas is a sociologist interested in the relation between culture and technology and specifically, between art and science.

He was director of the Stichting Creatieve Computer Applicaties (Rotterdam 1983-1988) that initiated the First International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), 1988, Utrecht. Organised the first, second and seventh ISEA. Director, subsequently board member of ISEA International, the coordinator of the continued occurence of the nomadic annual ISEA symposium.

Geert-Jan Hobijn

admin — 2013-02-14T13:37:07Z

Geert-Jan Hobijn is the initiator of Staalplaat Sound-system . He has been the organizer of many sound art and performance events in the past and is the boss of the Staalplaat record Label that hosts the leading cutting edge experimental music acts. Within the current mood of worshipping the latest technology in media art, Staalplaat Soundsystem provides a breath of fresh air, reminding us of the 100-year tradition of noise-making machines, in which “mad” inventors and various kinds of artists operating in the margins of the art world meet. All these installations were made with the same low tech working philosophy, making an installation look so simple that you think 'I can do that'. The works by Staalplaat Soundsystem are usually brilliant in their simplicity, the first impression leaving no room for technological mystification.

Nelly Ben Hayoun

Michelle Kasprzak — 2013-01-03T11:55:00Z

Nelly Ben Hayoun, Director and Experience Designer, has been called the “Willy Wonka of design and science” and she is on a mission to bring chaos, subversion and disorder into the design and the scientific world. An award-winning director, performer, and experience designer from France, she works with leading scientists and engineers to devise subversive events and performances. Her projects include collaborating with cosmonaut Jean Pierre Haignere on the Soyuz Chair, a modified armchair that enables those brave enough to try it to experience the three-stage launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket. For the International Space Orchestra, she assembled and directed the world first orchestra of space scientists from NASA Ames Research Center, Singularity University, International Space University and the SETI Institute. Most recently, in Moondust Remix, she has invited scientists to respond to the challenge of imagining and fabricating the sound of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon. Ben Hayoun is the director of the International Space Orchestra in NASA Ames, visiting professor at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and lectures at Central St Martins, the Royal College of Art, and Goldsmith University in London. www.nellyben.com

Website for the International Space Orchestra: www.groundcontrol-opera.com

Marinka Copier

Laura Pardo — 2012-12-12T13:20:28Z

Marinka Copier studied History and New Media and Digital Culture and worked as a game researcher and lecturer at the University of Maastricht and Utrecht. She obtained her PhD with her ethnographic study on the online game World of Warcraft. She has also been active as a designer of role-playing games and play-based experiences. Marinka is director of the games and interaction design programs and associate professor in Play Design at the Utrecht School of the Arts and is part of the board of the Dutch Games Association (DGA) and the International Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA).

Rop Gonggrijp

Laura Pardo — 2012-12-12T13:19:43Z

Rop Gonggrijp was a teenage hacker before he founded Hack-Tic, an infamous hacker magazine that appeared irregularly between 1989 and 1993. He organized large outdoor hacker events and was co-founder of XS4ALL, one of the first Internet Service Providers in Europe. After his time at XS4ALL he founded a computer security consultancy company and a company that makes voice encrypting mobile telephones. In 2006 he started an organization to lobby against the complete lack of transparency and basic computer security in the Dutch e-Voting system. As a result the Dutch are now back to voting using paper ballots, and the same system has also been banned in Germany. Apart from his ongoing interests in technology and civil rights, Gonggrijp has outspoken views on the state of the economy and some of the huge global challenges of reaching the limits to growth: climate chance and peak oil.

Gonggrijp's blog: http://rop.gonggri.jp/

Lee Felsenstein

Laura Pardo — 2012-12-12T13:18:27Z

Felsenstein has operated his own electronics design company and spent 8 years working for Interval Research Corporation. He is a Laureate of the Tech Museum of Innovation for his work on sustainable information and communication systems for the developing world. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. As a young man, Felsenstein was a New Left radical, participating in the Free Speech Movement and writing for the Berkeley Barb, one of the leading underground newspapers.

Based in Silicon Valley, Felsenstein does electronic product development, due diligence, expert witness assistance as well as speaking engagements and participation in conferences such as the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conferences. He was named the 2007 "Editor's Choice" in the Awards for Creative Excellance made by EE Times magazine and has been awarded the Pioneer of the Electronic Frontier award of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He holds 12 patents to date.

Lee Felsenstein's personal blog: http://www.fonly.typepad.com/

Todd Matsumoto

admin — 2012-12-12T13:15:06Z

Todd Matsumuto's projects are a combination of theory and practice, that use actual events as a base starting point for investigation. These events range from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal to the Crooswijk redevelopment process taking place in Rotterdam. The realization of these projects are developed through using programming languages, such as Perl, MySQL and web browsers, as tools for the analysis of text media collected from printed media about the event. The work indicates the influence that the media has on the public, the event, and its influence on the media apparatus itself, thereby illustrating media as both an instrument of analysis and influence while at the same time shaping our environments.

Bio 2007.

LinkedIn profile: http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/todd-matsumoto/10/450/90b

Anton H. J. Koning

admin — 2012-12-12T13:14:00Z

Anton Koning (born 1968) received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam in 1991, specializing in Robotics and Image Processing. His Ph.D. research on parallel volume visualization algorithms was done at the Computing Vision group of the University Hospital Utrecht. Having received his Ph.D. in 1996, he worked as a software engineer for SPC/Vision and Applicare Medical Imaging. From 1997 to 2003 Anton worked at SARA Computing and Networking Services as a consultant in the areas of high performance computing, visualization and virtual reality. He is a research scientist and head of ICT at the Department of Bioinformatics of the Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam. His research interests include the use of virtual reality techniques for abstract and clinical data visualization, volume rendering and data mining.

http://www.erasmusmc.nl/bioinformatica/?lang=en

Bio 2007.

Sven Travis

admin — 2012-12-12T13:13:01Z

Sven Travis is an artist, a teacher and a skier. He is founder and former chair of the faculty of Parsons Design & Technology Department. He has taught at Parsons and The New School for almost twenty years. Travis spearheads several ongoing research initiatives, including YACHT CLUB (the Parsons/Tsinghua new media collective), SpyLab (illicit international data collection, provision and manifestation), and the Beyond Machinima project (weird devices made from game engines in collaboration with Electronic Arts). He was educated at the Rhode Island School of Design and New York Polytechnic University.

Yan Ting Yuen

admin — 2012-12-12T13:12:08Z

Yan Ting Yuen was born in Hong Kong and emigrated to Holland at the age of five. She graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a masters degree in Communication Sciences. She started her film career assisting in several film- and television productions. Yuen made her director’s debut in 2001 with the short documentary Chin.Ind.: Life behind the serving hatch which was nominated for the National Dutch Film Award. Her second film is the feature length musical documentary Yang Ban Xi, the 8 model works, nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Filmfestival 2005 and was awarded Prix du Meilleur Essai at the Montreal International Festival of films on art 2007. After that she directed Dinner with Murakami, a mid-lengh documentary about the surrealistic world evoked by the books of Japanese best-selling author Haruki Murakami, which won the audience award at the Berlin Asian Hot Shots festival 2008.

Jonas Vorwerk

admin — 2012-12-12T13:08:20Z

Jonas Vorwerk designs innovative concepts that lie between the autonomous and the applied arts. These concepts are expressed in websites, installations and cross-media applications. Jonas Vorwerk's assignments and projects contain different techniques, goals and media types. This can include 3D-artwork manufactured with wood or aluminium, but also internet applications and websites.

After studying mechanical engineering and a three year stint at a webdesign agency, Jonas Vorwerk went on to the Willem De Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam, specializing in interactive art installations. Four years later he graduated with honors and founded his Buro so he could autonomously work on multi-media projects.

Jonas Vorwerk creates new media projects that invite the user to participate, to partake, to experience and to share. Create a multi-user music piece with the Lightbox Sequencer, for example, or experience what it is like to be censured on the internet by visiting greatfirewallofchina.org

http://www.jonasvorwerk.com/

Yvonne Wilhelm

admin — 2012-12-12T13:07:03Z

Yvonne Wilhelm is an artist and researcher. She is a member of the collective Knowbotic Research (KR+cF), together with Christian Huebler and Alexander Tuchacek. They all hold a professorship for Art and Media at the University of the Arts in Zurich.

Anne Laplantine

admin — 2012-12-06T06:46:40Z

Anne Laplantine (aka Angelika Köhlermann aka Michiko Kusaki) developed her own style of electronic pop, using a number of acoustic instruments as sound sources. She plays the keyboard, guitar and sings. Using different aliases, she releases records under different labels: the CDs A Dijon (Alice in Wonder Records) and Nordheim (Gooom Disques) play with the electropop legacy from the 80s.

http://annelaplantine.free.fr/

Miya Masaoka

admin — 2012-12-03T10:11:11Z

Miya Masaoka plays Jazz, classical Western, electronic, traditional Japanese music and free improvisation. Her debut LP "Monk's Japanese Folk Song" (1997) with improvisations and compositions by Masaoka was extremely well received; three pieces even entered the Top Ten of the US charts.

Miya Masaoka plays solo or in collaboration, with artists such as Ornette Coleman, Pharaoh Sanders, the Berkeley Symphonic* Orchestra, or the RIAS Orchestra. She plays at festivals worldwide, and with/for record labels such as Asian Improv Records, Music and Arts, Rastacan Records or BMG. Masaoka founded her own ensemble, the Masaoka-Orchestra.

'Body and music in our society' is the main focus of Masaoka's work.

source: String 'em up, Podewil Katalog, 1998

http://www.miyamasaoka.com