Marnix de Nijs is a Dutch artist whose work explores the dynamic clash between bodies, machines and other media. Many of his artworks are interactive experience machines that play with the perception of image and sound. Marnix de Nijs worked with Edwin van der Heide, Time’s Up_org, Montevideo, V2_lab, ZKM, TU Darmstadt and, recently, the Tsinghua University.
Tiago Martins graduated in Computer Science at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and is currently a Ph.D candidate at the Interface Culture group of the Universität für Künstlerische und Industrielle Gestaltung Linz, Austria, where he also works as guest teacher for programming and physical computing. Furthermore he co-authors interactive installations and media art projects that reveal and explore possible bonds between the physical, digital and social.
Govcom.org is an Amsterdam-based foundation, active since 1998, which creates and hosts political tools on the web. It is also a conceptual URL that indicates three major actor groups involved in debates on social issues: .gov's, .com's and .org's. The foundation's director is Richard Rogers, who also leads the Digital Methods Initiative, a collaboration of Govcom.org with the new media program, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, dedicated to reworking methods for Internet research.
Julian ‘Togar’ Abraham (Muhammad Hidayat) is an artist, programmer, scientist-wannabe and social researcher. Since 2006 he has been an active member of HONF. Through his involvement with HONF Abraham gained new ideas and experiences about how art, the environment, science and technology relate to one another – providing new tools to educate and engage both him and the society into a wiser, richer and more independent living being in a world of creation and annihilation.
Herwig Weiser is an interdisciplinary artist who makes intriguing machines he calls analog sculptural processes. Having studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam and at KHM Cologne, his works have been shown across Europe, North America and Asia, including the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz; China National Art Museum; Nam June Paik Art Center; Kölnischer Kunstverein; Kunsthaus Graz and Art Basel Miami. He won the transmediale Award (2001), the Nam June Paik Award (2002), and his recent Lucid Phantom Messenger works were created through a Dock e.V. Berlin production residency.
Influenced by philosophy and science, American-born artist and filmmaker Reynold Reynolds works primarily with 16mm and Super 8mm film as an art medium. He has developed a common film grammar based on transformation, consumption and decay. Reynolds' depictions frequent disturbed psychological and physical themes, increasingly provoking the viewer's participation and dismay. He was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2003 and in 2004 he was invited to The American Academy in Berlin. He has received numerous awards, including the Distinction Award at transmediale.09.
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Der Künstler Ken Rinaldo arbeitet an interaktiven Werken, die sich mit der Schnittstelle von natürlichen und technologischen Systemen beschäftigen. Autopoeisis, eine lebende, robotische Installation über Gruppenbewusstseins, und Augmented Fish Reality, eine Reihe fischbetriebener Roboter, zählen zu seinen meistbekannten Werken.
Der Marshall McLuhan Guest Lecturer des Jahres 2010, Graham Smith, ist ein Künstler/Erfinder, der bereits seit den frühen 1980er Jahren die Grenzen von Kunst und Wissenschaft mittels Werken auslotet, die Robotik, virtuelle Räume, Fotografie und Telepräsenz in sich aufnehmen.
