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Chain Reaction A series of events, each one causing the next. 11-14 September 2008, Skopje, Macedonia

Venues:

  1. Museum of the City of Skopje
  2. Small Graphic studio – Museum of the city of Skopje
  3. Cultural Center “Tocka”
  4. Macedonian Theatre (summer stage)
  5. Cultural Center "CK"
  6. European University, Skopje


Contents

[edit] Exhibition:

Venue: Museum of the City of Skopje

Chain Reaction is an emergent, Upgrade! International exhibition that invites attendees to participate in its evolution. Reflective of the rapid propagation of Upgrade! – a distributed, world-wide network composed of 27 autonomous “nodes” (cities) – Chain Reaction is the theme of the third gathering of Upgrade! International. Seeded with interactive art works from around the world, the exhibition will expand to include projects developed in local workshops, performances, walks and public interventions. Like online web 2.0 platforms and tools, Chain Reaction aims to assign agency to a usually “passive” audience, encourage artists to collaborate with other artists, and create open works that enable others to participate in the making and presentation of art.


  1. "et dukkehjem"/ rootoftwo - Cezanne Charles + John Marshall (Detroit)
  2. “Locative Painting”/ Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel (São Paulo)
  3. “Object of Desire”/ Yael Kanarek (New York)
  4. “Digital Poetries”/ Silvia Laurentiz (São Paulo)
  5. “Atmospheric Pollution”/ D.A.L. (Tijuana)
  6. “Neurozappingfolks”/ Santiago Ortiz Herrera (Lisabon)
  7. “Turn Me On”/ Sean Arden (Vancouver)
  8. “Lightningstone”/ GRUPO POÉTICAS DIGITAIS (São Paulo)
  9. “Psychic”/ Antoinne Schmitt (Paris)
  10. “Antidatamining”/ RYbN (Paris)
  11. “Second Landscapes”/ Giselle Beiguelman (São Paulo)
  12. “ink”/ Stefan Baumberger and Nicole Heidtke (Scotland)
  13. “≥1”/ Kire Trajkovski (Skopje)
  14. "COINcidence"/ Danilo Mandic (Skopje)
  15. “s.h.e.”/ Natasa Teofilovic (Belgrade)
  16. “Locations of Displacement”/ Tegan Bristow (Johannesburg)
  17. “No parking”/ Erhan Muratoğlu (Istanbul)
  18. “Chain letter of reactionary love”/ Tobias c. van Veen (Montreal)
  19. “TODAY”/ CADA (Lisabon)
  20. “Interception”/ Roch Forowicz (Warsaw)

Exhibtion "Chain Reaction" -- details

[edit] Workshops:

  1. ANTIDATAMINING PROCESS / RYbN [Paris]
  2. KRIEGSPIEL LAN Party: playing Guy Debord's Game Of War / Mushon Zer Aviv [New York]
  3. Urban Programming 101 / Taeyoon Choi [Seoul]
  4. The Mobicases – Live Sampling of the City of Skopje / Public Art Lab [Berlin]
  5. Accustoming Canadians to Sublimation / Imaginary Border Academy (IBA) [Montreal]
  6. Shifting Metropolis, an open artwork / Annemie Maes, Shelbatra Jashari, Junior Vandebroeck [Brussels/Ghent]

workshops details

[edit] Lectures

  1. Tao of P.O.O (Post-optimal Objects) / rooftop : Cezanne Charles + John Marshall [Detroit]
  2. KRIEGSPIEL LAN Party: playing Guy Debord's Game Of War / Mushon Zer Aviv [New York]
  3. Antidatamining / RYbN [Paris]
  4. The Stone that the Builders Rejected: Computer Art and the Edifice of Art History / Paul Hertz [Chicago]
  5. The Presence of Displacement: The Surfacing of the Internet Café in Johannesburg’s Inner City / Tegan Bristow [Johannesburg]
  6. Object of Desire / Yael Kanarek [New York]
  7. Actions with Film as a Tool of Survey and Integration at Local Society / Krzysztof Żwirblis [Warsaw]
  8. Networks and Artistic Spaces of Intervention / Gilbertto Prado [São Paulo]
  9. Voice in Electronic Art - from Whistle to Speech Recognition / Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel [São Paulo]
  10. Digital poetry - A narrow relation between poetic and the codes of the computational logic / Silvia Laurentiz [São Paulo]
  11. Second Landscapes – Or Let’s go non-locative / Giselle Beiguelman [São Paulo]
  12. About Site Specific Art and Its Preservation / Pance Velkov [Skopje]
  13. CCCK "Soros launched a machine, he launched the process – but he didn't get this process integrated." / Ingela Johansson and Inga Zimprich [Sofia]

lectures details

[edit] LIVE A/V Performances:

  1. Precog Music / Antoine Schmitt [paris]
  2. Catatonic State Society / Isjtar (Junior Vandebroeck) [Brussels/Ghent]
  3. Monochrome / RYbN [Paris]
  4. HPNS #001 / Jack : RYbN [Paris]
  5. Debris [Bitola]
  6. every kid on speed [Skopje]
  7. Disko Pigg [Skopje]

details about the performances

[edit] Chain reaction screenings

Venue: Macedonian Theatre (summer stage)

Curator: Basak Senova

First of all, we would like to keep the name as “Chain Reaction” for the screenings as well.

Secondly, we will have several sections: 1. 40-45 mins. compilations from the nodes 2. animation based videos (we plan to gather 2 x 90mins. Compilations and also few separate videos for public screenings) 3. sound-based videos (we plan to gather 2 x 90mins. Compilations and also few separate videos for public screenings) 4. curator’s selections (we plan to invite curators (not more than 4 in number) from the geographies that Upgrade! has not extended yet, so one of them will be Tehran (Iran) --- I think Mushon, Nat, Kate, and me managed to find a perfect contact in Tehran: Negar Tahsili: a young video artist with a very productive, internationally connected local network).

Thirdly, it seems that we will have a theatre hall for the main part of the screenings but also we would like to use some public spaces in the city. And also we would like to agree with some of the small shop owners and restaurants to show some videos on their windows and in their spaces. Another idea is to use the parking lot of the Contemporary Art Center for the drive-in screening. I plan to go to Skopje in May to finalize the arrangement of the venues.

[edit] Public Interventions:

  1. Jingo Karaoke / Petko Dourmana [Sofia]
  2. The Mobicases – Live Sampling of the City of Skopje / Public Art Lab (Ela Kagel, Susa Pop, David Farine) [Berlin]
  3. A DAY IN THE LIFE II: Global Bridges / Curation and Coordination: Horst Konietzny and Tamiko Thiel [Munich]
  4. CHAIN LETTERS OF REACTIONARY LOVE / tobias c. van Veen | quadrantcrossing.org [Montreal]
  5. KAKVU PIJEŠ KAFU? | HOW DO YOU TAKE YOUR COFFEE? / Savić Rašović a.k.a Pirun [Boston] / Public Action / Skopje's Old Bazaar===

more details

[edit] Performances

  1. The Condition of the Working Class in England / Igor Strojmaer [Paris]
  2. Ignotus the Mage : El Mago Ignotus / Paul Hertz [Chicago]
  3. Story of Batya M. / sala – manca group [Tel Aviv/Jerusalem]

details

[edit] Program participants: Contact + biography

  1. Yael Kanarek

Yael Kanarek has developed a unique vocabulary of artistic networked interfaces that combine photography, graphics, hypertext, sculpture, and performance. For the past decade she has integrated a range of media into a visual system titled World of Awe (www.worldofawe.net). Grounded with an original narrative that builds on the ancient genre of a traveler's tale, Kanarek’s World of Awe explores connections between storytelling, travel, memory, and technology. Her most recent body of works in net art (www.donialrahba.ps) and physical installations looks at repetition and difference between English, Arabic and Hebrew, which are three languages that form the semantic landscape of her childhood. Kanarek is represented by bitforms gallery in New York. In 1999, Kanarek emailed a few fellow artists to meet for a drink at an East Village bar in New York City. This casual gesture grew into Upgrade! International.

  1. Petko Dourmana

Petko Dourmana is an artist and organizer working with new media and contemporary art since 1996. His artistic and curatorial projects have been shown at many locations as ZKM Karlsruhe, Chelsea Art Museum and Location One in New York, Transmediale Berlin, ICA London and many others. He has also interest in educational and research projects, production and distribution of experimental art forms, capacity building for the civil society in Bulgaria. He is founder and chairman of InterSpace Association and Cult.bg Foundation based in Sofia, Bulgaria.

  1. Kate Armstrong

Kate Armstrong is an artist and writer with interest in networks, social media, urban space, poetics, and computation. Her work examines tensions between digital and analogue systems, and looks to bring digital structures - both functional and metaphorical - into low-fi models and physical spaces as a way to interrogate contemporary culture. She is engaged with text and experimental narrative, especially open forms that bring poetics and computational function together. In the past this has taken a variety of forms including net art, psychogeography, installation, audio, performance, and robotics. She has recently exhibited at the Prairie Art Gallery and at the Open Space Gallery in Canada, Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts in San Francisco, California, and Akbank Art Centre in Istanbul, Turkey.

  1. Sean Arden

Sean Arden lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. He has been practicing in various fields of cultural production in Europe and Canada since 1998. He is a graduate of the Emily Carr Institute with a Bachelor of Media Arts and also holds a Diploma in animation from Algonquin College. In 2007 Arden was nominated for a Canadian New Media Award in the category of Emerging Innovator of the Year. His film and new media work has been shown internationally and he is currently developing new works for release in late 2008.

  1. Roch Forowicz

Roch Forowicz was born in 1978 in Warsaw. In 2005, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, the Multimedia workroom, and got the master degree. In 2007 he started working as an assistant professor of Multimedia workroom at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2007 he set up Upgrade!Warsaw.

Selected exhibitions: 2004 e w n s Visual Arts Festival, "Invigilate - video"; 2005 Rhizome, "Invigilate"; 2005 Turbulence, "Invigilate"; 2006 FILE Rio Symposium, "Invigilate"; 2006 Turbulence, "Environment"; 2006 FILE Sao Paulo, "Environment"; 2006 Turbulence, "Looking out of the window"; 2007 Centre for Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, CONCRETE LEGACY FROM CORBUSIER TO BLOKERS, "Invigilate", "Looking out of the window"; 2007 Turbulence, " Interception"; 2007 Rhizome, "Interception"; 2007 neural.it, "Interception"

  1. Ela Kagel

Ela Kagel is a curator and digital media producer from Berlin. She is a member of Public Art Lab and co-initiator of the Mobile Studios project. Online since 1996, Ela has focused her work on the intersection of art and technology - with a special interest on digital culture. On this basis she has created interface structures and concepts for various cultural events: media art exhibitions, networked performances, mobile applications, television formats, ambient computing or multimedia exhibition design- very often in combination. Besides her work with Public Art Lab, Ela is a consultant and researcher in international media arts. Her recent work covers research projects such as City Interface, a mobile prototype for the Museumsquartier Vienna, or the production of IPTV-platforms, like the videoclip channel of Motor Music. Together with New York-based media artist Ursula Endlicher, she regularly publishes texts about the challenges of curating netart on their common blog. Another blog project is the taboo blog, produced by the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich. In September 2006, Ela has initiated Upgrade! Berlin, a series of public field trips to media art places in Berlin along with a growing online resource.

  1. David Farine

David Farine is Public Art Lab's IT specialist. Trained as a chemist, he follows a multidisciplinary approach towards digital media. He has a vast experience in streaming technologies, online information plattforms as well as mobile technologies. As a technical director, David planned and executed the whole tour of the Mobile Studios - including daily challenges such as creating net connectivity in public spaces, setting up streaming environments and handling large numbers of data from contributors in different European countries. For the Mobicase project he created a community website based on the Wordpress software. This was the technical platform for our festival documentation of the HTMlles festival in Montreal / Canada. David is the technical manager of Upgrade! Berlin. Besides his work with Public Art Lab, David is a freelance consultant and technical project manager. He is a technical consultant for the Music TV Channel Motor Music by ID Media, team leader for a project with the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry and initiator of the international Selthin project.

  1. Krzysztof Żwirblis

Born 1953 in Warsaw. Artist, curator, historian and art critic. EDUCATION: 1972 – 1977 ART HISTORY INSTITUTE, WARSAW UNIVERSITY. SINCE 1976 ACTOR AND CO-CREATOR OF ARTISTIC PROGRAM OF EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE AKADEMIA RUCHU (ACADEMY OF MOVEMENT) HTTP://WWW.AKADEMIARUCHU.ART.PL/. 1992 – 1997 CURATOR OF A.R. GALLERY AT THE CINEMA-THEATRE "TĘCZA" IN WARSAW. CURATOR OF SEVERAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS I.E.: "ACTIVITIES WITH NEWSPAPER" (WORKSHOP, EXHIBITION, THEATRE) OLD NORBLIN FACTORY WARSAW 1991; "A.R. GALLERY OF FRIENDS. YEARS 1992 – 1996", MUSEUM OF X. DUNIKOWSKI, BRANCH OF NATIONAL MUSEUM IN WARSAW 1996; "PARTEITAG" 3RD EDITION (ON PROBLEM OF EVIL IN HUMAN BEINGS) CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY BWA, KATOWICE 1999; "POWER OF THE PEOPLE" (ABOUT THEME OF DEMOCRACY) ARSENAL GALLERY, BIAŁYSTOK 2002; „DEMOS KRATOS – POWER OF THE PEOPLE", CANE FACTORY, WARSAW 2006, BIELSKA GALLERY BWA , BWA GALLERY ZIELONA GÓRA 2007. AUTHOR OF ALLDAY PROJECTS (PERFORMANCE, ARTISTIC ACTIONS) ON THEATRE FESTIVALS „ART OF STREET", WARSAW 2001 – 2003. ALSO INVOLVED IN CRITICAL WRITINGS; MAINLY FOR CATALOGUES OF EXHIBITIONS. SINCE DECEMBER 2007 CURATOR OF STUDIO GALLERY IN WARSAW INDIVIDUAL ARTISTIC ACTIVITY. REALISATION OF THEATRE AKADEMIA RUCHU PROGRAMME (OVER 600 PERFORMANCES). INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION: "DUST" (INSTALLATION), WARSAW CENTRE FOR CULTURE 1994. PARTICIPATION IN GROUP EXHIBITIONS I.E.: "POLAND", WARSAW 2003; "BELMONDO" 14. THEATRE FESTIVAL MALTA, POZNAŃ 2004; "INC. ART TOWARDS CORPORATE TAKING OVER PLACES OF PUBLIC EXPRESSION", WARSAW, SZCZECIN 2004, ZIELONA GÓRA, WROCŁAW, BIELSKO-BIAŁA, GDAŃSK 2005; "CONCRETE LEGACY - FROM LE CORBUSIER TO THE HOMEBOYS", CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART UJAZDOWSKI CASTLE, WARSAW 2007. REALISATION OF WEEK LONG SOCIO-ARTISTIC PROJECTS, BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF PUBLIC SHOWING OF FILM MATERIALS AT PLACES WHERE THEY WERE SHOT: "CHEAP TELEVISION", WARSAW 2005, "WIATRACZNA STREET PERSPECTIVE", WARSAW 2007; "HOUSING ESTATE TV", ZIELONA GÓRA 2007; "POETICAL PROBE" WARSZAWA 2007; 3 DAYS ACTION "DISINTERESTED CITY SPACE - WINTER GARDEN" AT WARSZAWA WSCHODNIA RAILWAY STATION, 2007; PRESENTATION AT UPGRADE!WARSAW, 2008

  1. Cezanne Charles and John Marshall

rootoftwo is a hybrid art and design practice founded by Cezanne Charles and John Marshall. Since 1998 rootoftwo has been exploring technology as a driver of disciplinary convergence. rootoftwo produces cultural products, curates exhibitions, and engages in art and design consultancies. Their work questions the binary opposition of artist and viewer and proposes a third way, where the relationship between the artist and the viewer is less hierarchical, resulting in a hybrid producer-user. Their work incorporates aspects of architecture, performance, urban planning, industrial design, computer animation, video production, and sound design. Cezanne is the former Executive Director of New Media Scotland and is currently working as a consultant in the areas of artist development and emergent practice. John is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

  1. Anik Fournier and Sophie Le-Phat Ho

W:http://borderacademy.org/ The Imaginary Border Academy (L’Académie de la frontière imaginaire) was initiated at the Artivistic gathering in Montreal (Canada), 25-27 October, 2007. It is our aim to provide copyleft pedagogical resources for engaging all forms of borders. As was agreed with the clink of two Caribs by an incomplete decision making body, the Academy is within the tradition of Autonomous Education, Free Universities, Community Education and Free Skools. Details of the manifesto and curriculum were developed in the first Zap the Border Workshop, which led to the emergence of the Imaginary Border Academy (IBA) as a loose, autonomous and self-organised collective composed of international members. The Academy strives to cultivate a non-hierarchical pedagogical approach to understanding, subverting and undermining borders. The Academy is furthermore a mobile and tactical space where the latter is undertaken.

  1. Igor Štromajer

Igor Štromajer (Intima Virtual Base – Institute for Contemporary Arts; www.intima.org), born 1967 is an intimate mobile communicator. His oeuvre comprises more than 50 projects presented at 150 exhibitions in 50 countries on all the continents. The three most widely known are Oppera Internettikka, Ballettikka Internettikka (1997–2008) and Problemarket – The Problem Stock Exchange. He has received several awards for his work (in Moscow, Hamburg, Dresden, Belfort, and Madrid), and his projects form part of the permanent collections of the most prestigious art institutions, among them Le Centre national d'art et de Culture Georges Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne in Paris, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Moderna galerija – Slovene Museum of Contemporary Arts in Ljubljana, and the Computerfinearts Gallery - net and media art collection in New York. His multimedia projects research tactical emotional states, intimate political guerrilla, and traumatic low-tech strategies. He lectures as a guest artist at universities and contemporary art institutes in Europe and North America. Štromajer believes in intimacy, individualism, emotions, frustrations, traumas, artificial, communication, impossibility, mobility, montage, radicality, sensibility, silence, strategy, tactics, tears, orgasm, concept, pleasure, fantasies, philosophy, transfer, utopia and angels. He does not believe in media, tourism and the end.

  1. Maja Kalogera

Maja is an interaction designer, multidisciplinary artist and community catalyst who consistently places herself at the convergence of art and technology. Born in Zagreb, she holds BFA from School of Applied and Visual arts, Zagreb and masters degree from University of Zagreb, Architecture Department. She won Visiting Arts Grant from Henry Moore Foundation in March 2004 with artist Anya Lewin, and since then they have been researching on e-loneliness, exploring the ways in which digital media influences social and spatial relationships. The project has been planned to end at 2014. In her work she is interested in how people participate in physical and virtual spaces. This has led to digital tools and interactive projects as "Ground of My Studio", "Accessible Happiness", "Rothko Generator", "Silence", "Public Bath", ...

  1. RYbN

info at rybn dot org RYbN : A multi-field artistic collective based in Paris (2000) and specialized in realisation of installations, performances and interfaces by refering as well to the codified systems of the artistic representation (painting, architecture, counter-cultures) as to the human and physic phenomenas (geopolitics, socio-economy, sensory perception, cognitive systems). Their axe of research : the construction of a « semantics of the convergence », via the coupling, the diversion and the perversion of writing and formalization tools connected to the technologies of communication, information and sensory – webs, data flows, smell, surveillance, audiovisual, interaction, real time. www.rybn.org

  1. Antoine Schmitt

Antoine Schmitt has developed during the past ten years an original artistic langage through the creation of semi-autonomous, sensitive, interactive or generative shapes placed in a delicate or fragile situation. In minimal or monumental installations, he thus questions contemporary or intemporal themes like the human and its condition of being, reality and its consistency, control and its complexities, forces and their forms. He places programming, a medium that he considers radically new because of its active dimension, at the core of all his artworks. Also, Antoine Schmitt, alone or through collaborations, has undertaken a confrontation of this langage with more established artistic fields like music, dance, architecture, litterature or cinema, of which he thus revisits the codes. His work has been awarded prizes in numerous international festivals. As theorician, speaker member of jury and editor of the gratin.org portal, Antoine Schmitt explores the field of programmed art. He is represented by the numeriscausa gallery. Antoine Schmitt lives and works in Paris (FR). Web site and full biography : www.gratin.org/as/

  1. Marika Dermineur(Paris)

W: http://marika.incident.net Marika Dermineur is involved in installations and netart works. Active member of the experimental web platform Incident.net, founder and responsable of The Upgrade! Paris. Co-founder of SPE collective, co-curator of V.O.S.T. events. Works 02-06: Subbotniki.tk, Keyboard (Turbulence.org), Googlehouse.net, The Inhabitants (Impakt Online), La Chute. Festivals and exhibitions: Rhizome.org, Turbulence.org, “Freewawes”, Hammer Museum, “Translation” at Basekamp Gallery (us), File Festival (br), Videoformes, “Nuit Blanche” (fr, it), Espace d’art Contemporain de Ruart, Vancouver’s New Forms Festival 04 (ca), V2, Impakt Festival(nl), La Chambre Blanche 06, first price for netart in Filmwinter 03 (de), SCAM price 03. Teacher in Université Rennes 2. Graduated at la Sorbonne, Arts Décoratifs and Arts et Métiers (Paris).

  1. tobias c. van Veen

[tobias c. van Veen], b. 1978 under the black flag of the sonic arts. After Montréal, now lives in a small West Coast hamlet. Techno-turntablist, writer & artist. Since 1993 he has instigated conceptual and sound-art events, online interventions and radio broadcasts, working with STEIM, the New Forms Festival, the Banff Centre, Eyebeam, the Video-In, MUTEK, MDCN.ca, the Vancouver New Music Society and Hexagram. His work has appeared in CTheory, EBR, Bad Subjects, Leonardo, Locus Suspectus, FUSE (contributing editor), e/i, the Wire, HorizonZero and through Autonomedia, among others. His writing has been translated into Spanish, Lithuanian and French and his sound & net.art disseminated through Rhizome.org, Javamuseum.org, Kunstradio, BURN.fm, CiTR, Juniradio.net and Alt-X. He has sonic and mix releases on No Type's BricoLodge and the and/OAR labels. From 1993-2000 he was Direktor of the sonic performance <ST> Collective [shrumtribe.com]. Co-founder of technoWest.org with Dave Baphomet, controltochaos.ca with DJ FISHEAD and thisistheonlyart.com with artist ssiess. From 2002-2007 Director of UpgradeMTL [upgrademtl.org] and Concept Engineer at the Society for Arts and Technology [SAT.qc.ca]. Currently doctoral candidate in Philosophy & Communication Studies at McGill University. Writes on the philosophy of technology and AfroFuturism -- though perpetually distracted by renegade soundsystems & turntable piracy. His latest exhibition, 'espaceSONO :: audio.lab', presented 36 global sound-artists in a uniquely constructed listening environment at the SAT[GALERIE] in Fall 2007. He also mixes a mean absynthe martini. [ http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/blog ].

  1. PRADO, GILBERTTO

Gilbertto Prado, (Santos/Brazil, 1954), multimedia artist, studied Engineering and Visual Arts at the State University of Campinas, São Paulo. In 1994 he obtained his doctoral degree in Arts at the University of Paris I. He has participated in several art exhibitions like: XVI Bienal de São Paulo, sector: Mail Art (1981); Welcomet Mr. Halley , Paço das Artes, São Paulo (1985); City Portraits/Art-Réseaux, Galerie Donguy, Paris (1990); Arte e Tecnologia, MAC-USP, São Paulo (1995), Mediações, Itaú Cultural (1997); City Canibal, Paço das Artes, São Paulo (1998); II Bienal do Mercosul (1999); Medi@terra, Athens (2000); AAA/ISEA, Paris (2000); Link_Age, Gijon, Spain (2001); XXV Bienal de São Paulo (2002); Corpos Virtuais, Espaço Telemar, RJ (2005); Cinético Digital at Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (2005); Interconnect@ between attention and immersion, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (Grupo Poéticas Digitais, 2006) and in the exhibithion Memória do Futuro, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (2007). Currently he is Professor at the Department of Fine Arts at the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo. Published in 2003 at Itaú Cultural, SP, the book: “Arte Telemática: dos intercâmbios pontuais aos ambientes virtuais multiusuário”. http://www.cap.eca.usp.br/gilbertto

  1. Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel

Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel - Artist, engineer, postgraduate in Marketing and Graphic Design. Master’s Degree in Art from University of Sao Paulo. Curator of Upgrade! São Paulo (www.upgradesaopaulo.com.br). Director of technology at NMD, receiving 11 iBest Awards. Professor of the MBA courses, Digital Design and Games courses, and coordinator of the “Widening Borders” e-learning program at University Anhembi Morumbi. Speaker at technology and art conferences in Brazil and abroad, including HighEdWebdev 2004 to 2007, SIGGRAPH 2005 and 2006, Consciousness Reframed 2004, 2006 and 2008, CHI 2007, Interact 2007, ELO 2008, UPA 2008, ISEA 2008, among others. Her artworks have been exhibited in several countries and have received several awards, like FIAT Show Brazil (2006) and Cybernetic Art Trends 2006/2007. Awarded as “Best Presentation of Track”, WebdevShare2003, USA; and “Best Presentation of Conference”, HighEdWevDev2004, USA. Researcher pursuing her PhD at University of Sao Paulo focusing in the field of locative media. Author of the book “Search Engine Marketing” (Ed. Esfera, march/2008). Awarded as student (1985), researcher (2007), professor (2005), presenter (2003-2004), professional (1998-2005) and artist (2005, 2006, 2007). Personal website: www.martha.com.br.

  1. GRUPO POÉTICAS DIGITAIS

Grupo Poéticas Digitais, comprises Gilbertto Prado, Silvia Laurentiz, Fabio Oliveira Nunes, Andrei Thomaz, Luis Bueno Geraldo, Camila Torrano, Clarissa de Almeida, Maurício Taveira, Hélia Vannucchi, Rodolfo Leão, Luciana Kawassaki, Sérgio Bonilha, Soraya Braz, Viviam Schmaichel, Daniel Ferreira, Raul Cecílio. Since2002 the group has been pondering the impact of new technologies on the visual arts. The group’s work of developing experimental projects is a direct consequence of its research activities at the Department of Fine Arts at the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo. http://www.cap.eca.usp.br/poeticasdigitais

  1. Silvia Laurentiz

W: http://www.cap.eca.usp.br/slaurentiz/ Silvia is professor at the department of Fine Arts of the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo. PhD in Communication and Semiotics from PUC/SP (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo), Master's Degree in Multimedia from State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and Bachelor of Arts. Graphics and multimedia designer and art & new technologies researcher, she has developed works in virtual reality, multimedia and web art, participating of several international exhibitions and conferences.

  1. Giselle Beiguelman

W: www.desvirtual.com Giselle Beiguelman is a new media artist and multimedia essayist who teaches Digital Culture at the Graduation Program in Communication and Semiotics of PUC-SP (São Paulo, Brazil). Her work includes the award-winnings "The Book after the Book" "egoscópio" and “Landscape0” (with Marcus Bastos and Rafael Marchetti). She has been developing art projects for mobile phones ("Wop Art", 2001), praised by many media sites and the international press, including The Guardian (UK) and Neural (Italy), and art involving public-access, by the web, SMS and MMS to electronic billboards like "Leste o Leste?" and "egoscópio" (2002), released by The New York Times, "Poétrica" (2003) and "esc for escape" (2004). Beiguelman's work appears in important anthologies and guides devoted to digital arts including Yale University Library Research Guide for Mass Media and has been presented in international venues such as Net_Condition (ZKM, Germany), el final del eclipse (Fundación Telefonica, Madrid), Desk Topping - Computer Disasters (Smart Project Space, Amsterdan) Arte/Cidade (São Paulo), The 25th São Paulo Biennial and Algorithmic Revolution (ZKM). Curator of Sergio Motta art and Technoligy Art Award (2008/09), Nokia Trends (2007) and NOEMA – digital art (2007 – to the present). Web site: www.desvirtual.com

  1. Paul Hertz

W: http://ignotus.com/ Paul Hertz works in digital and traditional media. His interactive installations and digital prints, based on algorithmic and intermedia techniques, have been exhibited internationally. In 2003-04 Hertz was Co-Director of the Center for Art and Technology at Northwestern University. As a Visiting Artist in 2001 and 2002, he taught the university's first courses in virtual reality for artists. A grant from Northwestern's Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts helped him develop VR performance art (with composer Stephen Dembski) and audio spatialization software. He currently designs networked collaborative applications for the Collaboratory Project at Northwestern University. Hertz is co-curator of “Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print,” which opened at the Block Museum, Northwestern University, in January 2008. In 1999 he curated “Second Nature,” a group show by Chicago-area new media artists, for the City of Chicago's Project Millennium, at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. In 1996 he curated and produced “The Homestead/La Finca,” an online show on the colonization of cyberspace featuring works by seven artists and critics, and in 1994 helped develop Muntadas's website on cultural censorship, The File Room.

  1. Tegan Bristow

2002 BFA specialising in Painting and African History (Rhodes University, South Africa). 2006 Masters in Interactive Digital Media (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa). Various exhibitions of video art and painted drawings prior to 2004. Since 2005 has been engaged in teaching, making and researching interactive digital media. Recent commissions: the Michelangelo Towers in Sandton Johannesburg; The Department of Science and Technology (new premises). Recent merit prize (2007) Spier Contemporary National Arts Contest for an interactive installation that addresses movement translated as digitally produced ‘chalk drawings’. Recent collaborations: Artist Anthea Moys - interactive public games program for the 2007 Arts Alive Festival; Performer Athena Mazarakis - solo physical theatre production “Coming To” for the 2007 Grahamstown National Arts Festival; Dancer Jeanette Ginslov - interactive installation/performance addressing FGM 2008; Digital artist Marcus Neustetter - digital drawing tool that graphically draws images through manipulation of physical light sources (2008). As lecturer runs the Postgraduate Program in Interactive Digital Media Art which includes physical computing, interactive installation design, interactive object orientated programming, Internet Art and Critical Studies in Digital Arts and Culture. Tegan has been organiser for the Johannesburg, South Africa node of Upgrade International since the beginning of 2008.

  1. Stefan Baumberger and Nicole Heidtke

W: www.in-the-fields.org

  1. Kire Trajkovski

Graduated at the Institute for Computer sciences, Skopje. More than 12 years he works with new media and has been engaged with numerous multimedia or Internet based projects. Now he works as an executive of Semos Multimedia.

  1. Annemie Maes

http://thoughtsandtalks.so-on.be http://okno.be annemie_maes holds a masters degree in fine arts and cultural studies. She is founder of <so-on>, a group of artists working with image, sound and technology. In their artprojects they research the transversal field of installations, performances and audio-visual compositions. Most of the projects are linked to the problematization of new art in the publicspace, from a socio-cultural background. New technology including internet as a medium for performing, is predominantly present. The focus is to identify innovation and change while developing artistic projects, and research new aesthetical presentation techniques. As co-founder of OKNO], Annemie Maes is strongly involved in cultural activism, and is responsible for okno’s day-to-day management.

  1. Albert Vandebroeck (artist name Isjtar)

W: http://isjtar.org Isjtar makes electronic music and new media art. He has a profound fascination for all things that underpin the mind, perception and reality. When not lost in fantasies of the systems that surround us, he translates this obsession into performances, installations and music tracks, with an ever critical reflection and a corresponding aesthetic. He is a core-member of OKNO, Society of Algorithm, Code31 and works with several other artists and collectives such as Jeroen Uyttendaele, Shelbatra Jashari, Masato Tsutsui, Machine Centered Humanz and So-on.

  1. Shelbatra Jashari

Shelbatra Jashari obtained a masters degree in audio-visual arts at the Hogeschool Sint Lukas in Brussels. She creates video for theatre pieces, and from time to time performs/intervenes physically or with other tools (video or audio) in specific structures, spaces, organisations or artists’ work.

  1. Tamiko Thiel (Germany)

Tamiko Thiel is a new media artist interested in developing the dramatic and narrative capabilities of interactive 3D virtual reality as a medium for addressing social and cultural issues. She exhibits internationally in venues such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Siggraph, ISEA and the ICA/London. She was creative director and producer of Starbright World, an award-winning 3D online virtual playspace for seriously ill children done in collaboration with film director and Starbright Foundation chairman Steven Spielberg. Her virtual reality installation Beyond Manzanar is in the permanent collection of the San Jose Museum of Art in Silicon Valley, California, USA. The work is discussed in Whitney Museum media art curator Christiane Paul’s reference book Digital Art (Thames and Hudson World of Art series) and in Boston University Professer Matt Smith’s book The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace (Routledge, 2006.) Her newest work The Travels of Mariko Horo, a reverse Marco Polo fantasy about a Japanese woman who constructs the West, will premiere in the “Edge Conditions” exhibit held jointly by ZeroOne and the San Jose Museum of Art as part of the Pacific Rim Theme of the ZeroOne San Jose/ ISEA 2006 Symposium. A work in progress is Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall, a virtual reality installation on the Berlin Wall. She has taught and lectured internationally at institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University, the MIT Media Lab, the Bauhaus-University in Weimar, Germany, University of California/San Diego, the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television and the School of Film and Television in Babelsberg, Germany.

  1. Jo-Anne Green

Jo-Anne Green is Co-Director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. Her contributions to NRPA include general management, research, grant writing, graphic design, and web design and maintenance. She started Upgrade! Boston in January 2005. An artist and arts administrator, she was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. After graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand with a BFA Honors in Printmaking and Art History, she emigrated to the United States in 1983. Green volunteered for a Fund for a Free South Africa (FreeSA) from 1985 to 1992; there, she co-founded Cultural Resistance to educate the American public about apartheid through the art and culture of South Africa. Green lived in New Mexico from 1997 to 2001. She was instrumental in starting an artist-in-residence program at the University of New Mexico's High Performance Computing Education and Research Center; she later worked for the College of Fine Arts' Art Technology Center and Arts of the Americas Institute. Green has a MFA in Painting, and a MS in Art Administration. She has exhibited her paintings, one-of-a-kind artist's books, and installations in South Africa, Boston and New York.

  1. Savić Rašović a.k.a Pirun

Savić Rašović a.k.a Pirun a.ka. Sasha is a new media artist, performer, curator and political activist. During the 1990s an antiwar organizer, journalist and publisher of Montenegro.com and MNNews, first independent portal and news agency from Montenegro. He is the co-founder of an artist-run organization iKatun whose mission is to foster public engagement in the politics of information. iKatun runs experimental curatorial platforms, supports art projects and publishes critical writing. He is a founding member of the Institute for Infinitely Small Things, a performance troup whose creative, participatory research aims to temporarily transform public spaces dominated by corporate and political agendas. Using performance and conversation, the Institute investigates social and political "tiny things". These have included corporate ads, street names, and post-9/11 security terminology. To pay rent, fund art and various other actions he works as a user interface designer and software developer.

  1. Santiago Ortiz

Santiago Ortiz was born in Bogota, Colombia, in 1975. Artist, mathematician and a researcher on art, science and representational spaces, he has been exploring the development of shared spaces for different kinds of knowledge. Ortiz has been using communication, creative, and literary techniques, as well as digital space and architecture ones. He works as a teacher, having lectured all over Spain, Portugal and Latin America. He is one of the co-founders of the Blank magazine and of the Bestiario company-collective. He lives in Lisbon and Barcelona.

  1. CADA

CADA is a Lisbon-based platform for artistic work inspired by technological structures. Active since 2002, it has produced numerous innovative media projects and run successive workshops. They are obsessed with the possibility of unveiling hidden patterns in everyday life. www.cada1.net

  1. Nataša Teofilović

Nataša Teofilović works in diverse media including digital art, experimental video, interactive performance and installation. She employs specific media with a contextual consciousness for the spatial, relational and political nature of the issues she is investigating. Natasa holds a Bachelor's in Architecture from the Belgrade Faculty of Architecture as well as a Masters in Digital Art, 3D animation (Belgrade University of Art). She teaches 3D character animation at Belgrade Faculty of Architecture. Natasa work is in art since 1995. Lives in Pancevo, Vojvodina, Serbia. Her work has been presented in 15 solo shows and a large number of group exhibitions

  1. Maja Ciric
  2. Basak Senova
  3. Kyd Campbell
  4. Mushon Zer Aviv
  5. Cveta Spasova
  6. Elena Veljanovska
  7. Jelena Trajkoska
  8. Antonio Dimitrov
  9. Ivana Dragsic
  10. Tino Sotirovski
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