The group IOCOSE has been working in Italy and Europe since 2006, organizing actions in order to subvert ideologies, practices and processes of identification and production of meanings.
Craig Saper is the author of Intimate Bureaucracies (2012) and Networked Art (2001). He curated exhibits on TypeBound (2008), and folkvine.org (2003-6).
Thomas Munz is an independent curator and editor living in Berlin. In his curatorial and editorial work he is focusing on contemporary art at the crossroads of technology and society.
Heath Bunting works with technological, cultural, and social systems. He has explored both the dirty and progressive dimensions of the Internet, hacked urban spaces through physical activities, and in recent years been dedicated to an extensive researched aimed at constructing fully valid identities from scratch based on a deep knowledge of how such an identity is officially constructed.
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Wilfried Hou Je Bek (socialfiction.org) started serious exploration of the obscurities of Dutch urban life & the explorations of the outskirts of underground culture, art, history and intellectual life in general in 1991.
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knowbotic research lives in Zurich and works in situ. The art group has been experimenting with urbanity, construction of knowledge and political representations in mediatised public spheres.
Robert Sakrowski is an art historian who headed the project netart-datenbank.org at TU Berlin and has curated several exhibitions in the field of Net-based art including the project CuratingYouTube.
Gabriella Coleman is an anthropologist with an interest in computer hacking. She is Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University.