Ryoji Ikeda is one of the world’s finest and most acclaimed electronic artists and composers, authoring stunning performances, audiovisual installations and seminal music.
New York based visual artist Žilvinas Kempinas creates installations in which invisible forces of gravity and air circulation reshape architectural spaces into totally new environments. In 2009, he represented Lithuania at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Puerto Rico born artist and filmmaker Yvette Mattern’s performances, videos, public art works and sculptures explore the concept of ‘liminality’ as a metaphysical and subjective conscious state of being.
Laboratoire Déberlinisation will present the AFRO – a currency for all of Africa, as well as their latest products, including the AFRO-Express card, which allows you to purchase, spend and exchange your AFROs quickly and easily.
Media critic, writer and organiser Trebor Scholz founded the Institute for Distributed Creativity in 2004. He is presently engaged with The New School University in New York with research focusing on digital labour issues.
Tonia Welter is a product designer with a particular focus on high-tech products. She co-founded betahaus in Berlin-Kreuzberg in early 2009 in order to explore new methods of co-working and shared creativity.
Laboratoire Deberlinisation founded in Berlin in 2001 by Mansour Ciss Kanakassy with Baruch Gottlieb and Christian Hanussek. Laboratoire Deberlinisation has exhibited and presented throughout Europe and 3 times at the Dakar Biennale, the 2008 edition of which Mansour Ciss was awarded first prize.
Gebhard Sengmüller is an artist who is best known for his installations which focus on the history of electronic media, such as Vinyl Video and Very Slow Scan TV having shown work at Ars Electronica and the Venice Biennale among other major venues.