ADAMS, Matt
Matt Adams has worked as a professional artist for 13 years making performances, installations, short films and interactive artworks. He co-founded Blast Theory, a group renowned for its multidisciplinary approach pioneering the use of new technologies within performance contexts. Since 1997, the group has collaborated with the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham, creating the technologically groundbreaking interactive installation Desert Rain, followed by Can You See Me Now? and Uncle Roy All Around You. Can You See Me Now? won the GoldenNica for Interactive Art at Prix Ars Electronica 2003.

BENN, Susan
Susan is the founder Director of Performing Arts Labs (PAL), established in the UK in1990. She is a former editor, publisher and photographer. She shapes PAL's research agenda and international programme of interdisciplinary residential 'Labs' which are a crucible for cross-fertilisation of ideas and international talent across the arts, media and technology, and in education and science. Susan appoints Directors for each of the PAL Lab programmes, all of whom are leading practitioners in their respective fields. She supports them in the design, production and publication of pilot Labs, as well established Lab programmes. Susan and her team are currently producing PAL research Labs for a range of academic, charitable, commercial and government clients; establishing a sustainable structure for the application of PAL models and experience in collaboration with commercial and educational partners in the UK and abroad. (www.pallabs.org)

BOUMANS, Jak
Jak Boumans (1945) is principal consultant with Electronic Media Reporting, a private Dutch consultancy specialised in content consultancy. He has a background in publishing (VNU and Kluwer). He has been involved in many new media waves: videotex, CD-ROM/CD-i and electronic book as well as internet. The company executes studies (strategy and future scenario), performs project audits and reviews, organises conferences and workshops and produces publications. The company was part of the research team which surveyed the Dutch multimedia industry twice (1998 and 2001). The company is presently involved in two EU projects: ACTeN (www.acten.net) and X-Melina (www.xmelina.com). Jak Boumans writes for national and international trade magazines. He has been a jury memeber of the EPPY Awards, EUROPRIX, EUROPRIX Top Talent Award and Gouden Z. He is secretary of the European Academy of Digital Media (EADiM), a foundation which amongst others set up the World Summit Award.

CENTURY, Michael
Long associated with The Banff Centre for the Arts, Century founded the Centre's Media Arts Division in 1988. In this position, he was the instigator of The Art and Virtual Environments project (1991-94). This project was the first large-scale and sustained investigation of virtual reality technologies as a new medium for artists; the completed installations have been been displayed in exhibitions and festivals worldwide, and the entire project documented in a book-length collection Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments (MIT Press,1996).From 1993-1996, Century was a program manager at the Canadian Centre for Information Technology Innovation (CITI), a federal research laboratory located in Montreal, with responsibility for new media arts funding. From 1996-98, he served as policy advisor to the federal department of Canadian Heritage. Since September 1997, he has been the principal of Next Century Consultants, focusing on new media and cultural policy for various public and university sector clients. For the Rockefeller Foundation, he researched and wrote a report in 1999 entitled Pathways to Innovation in Digital Culture. He was panelist and co-author for the U.S. National Academy of Science 2003 report on information technologies and creative practices, Beyond Productivity. He was educated in humanities, piano performance, and musicology at the University of Toronto (B.A.) and the University of California, Berkeley (M.A.) and the University of Iowa (M.A). He has recently completed a historical study of the transition from analogue to digital techniques in animation as a doctoral dissertation in science and technology policy studies at the University of Sussex.

DELAHUNTA, Scott
Scott deLahunta began in the arts as a dancer and choreographer. Since 1992, as a partner of Writing Research Associates, he works from his base in Amsterdam as a researcher, writer, consultant and co-organiser on a wide range of projects bringing performing arts into conjunction with other disciplines and practices. Currently, he is an Associate Research Fellow at Dartington College of Arts and an affiliated researcher with Crucible, an interdisciplinary research network within the University of Cambridge. He lectures on a new post-graduate study in Choreography/ New Media at the Amsterdam School for the Arts and serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Performance and Digital Media and Performance Research. http://huizen.dds.nl/~sdela

DIAMOND, Sara
Sara Diamond is currently the Director of Research and Executive Producer, Television and, New Media at The Banff Centre for the Arts. She is an Adjunct Professor in Design/Media at UCLA. She began the Banff New Media Institute in 1995. In recent years Diamond has worked increasingly with research and development projects in authoring tools, education, visualization, collaboration and cross-disciplinary practice, and has created the Banff New Media Institute Summits. Banff's Media Co-Production, Canadian Creative Innovation Initiative, Deep Web, HorizonZero.ca and Human Centered Interface projects have resulted in aesthetic, business and technical innovation at the international level, in television and interactive media. She is Banff Centre's principal researcher on the WestGrid super computing project; Am-I-Able on wearable computing; Mobile Digital Commons on wireless new media, and leads the international Collaboration Studies Network. Diamond programs new media events for the prestigious Banff Television Festival and develops the extensive Banff New Media Institute at the Banff Centre. She is a member of the Cultural Industries SAGIT, an advisor to Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canadian Foundation for Innovation and a consultant for Canadian Heritage in new media and cultural diversity. Her recent artistic practice has included the development of the CodeZebra software and performance environments. Presentations of CodeZebra included Digital Bodies, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Future Physical, UK and at the DEAF Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands and a conference about CodeZebra, role-playing and visualization at University of Turku, Finland. She was honored by a retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada in 1991.

DORUFF, Sher
Sher Doruff is currently creative director and researcher of the Sensing Presence department of the Waag Society/for old and new media in Amsterdam and is a core member of the development team of KeyWorx a distributed, multi-user, multi-channel, performance platform. She is a digital artist working in the performative arts and a doctoral student with the University of the Arts London/Central Saint Martins/SMARTLab researching collaborative performance methods. She also heads the Augmented Performance Practice module of the Dance Unlimited MA program in the Netherlands and is a researcher with the ARTI lectoraat of the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunst. Her articles have appeared in books, journals and electronic journals.

GOODMAN, Lizbeth
Dr Lizbeth Goodman is founder and Director of the SMARTlab Centre, UK. She is also Director of Studies for the Practice-based PhD programme in Site-Specific Art and (New/Unstable) Media. She was previously founder and Director of the Institute for New Media Performance Research (UK) and of the BBC-Open University Multimedia, Shakespeare in Performance and Gender research and production teams. She has published many books with Routledge, Polity, Faber, Intellect et al, and is a long serving member of the editorial board for New Theatre Quarterly (Cambridge University Press). She is a writer of poetry, prose and drama, and a professional performer (on stage and screen). She and her team at SMARTlab specialise in disability arts, embodied media arts for healing, and assistive technologies including connected learning environments and safe spaces for women and children online.

HEMSLEY, James R.
James R Hemsley studied Mathematics at Oxford University and did his doctoral research at Imperial College, London. James began working in the Culture & Technology field in the mid 1980s and led the first EC supported VASARI project on high quality digital imaging direct from paintings with a European museum-industry-university consortium including the National Gallery, London. Subsequently he worked on a number of European R & D projects in the field and also carried out consultancy projects with, for example, the British Museum and the National Museums of Scotland, becoming a staff member of the latter from 2000 to 2003. James is Co-chair of the EVA Conferences which he founded in 1990 and continues to research and consult in the Culture & Technology field.

HOEGH, Thomas
Thomas Hoegh manages a group of companies involved in venture capital and entertainment under the common umbrella of Arts Alliance. As an artist, Thomas has been involved in the direction of over 20 major theatre, television and multimedia performance pieces in his native Norway and the US. He served as Assistant Director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. He directed "Shalom/Salaam", an internationally televised artistic celebration of the Oslo treaty between the Israelis and Palestinians with Shimon Peres and President Yassir Arafat present. He also directed a multimedia version of Ibsen's "Terje Vigen" at the Ibsen Stage Festival and Ibsenania. Thomas is also the author of a two-part radio drama produced by Norwegian State Broadcast Corporation (NRK) called "Telefonterroristen".

KUZMANOVIC, Maja
Maja Kuzmanovic is the founder and director of FoAM, Belgium. She has completed the MA. in Interactive Multimedia (University of Portsmouth) in 1997. After graduation, she collaborated on a range of interdisciplinary projects in research institutes around Europe and the USA (such as CWI, the Netherlands; GMD, Germany; Starlab, Belgium). Her research spanned time based interaction, interactive storytelling, HCI and generative media design for virtual and mixed reality. For these works, Maja was elected one of the Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT 's Technology Review. She founded FoAM as a cultural research department in Starlab in 2000, becoming an independent organisation in 2001, a distributed entity with cells in Brussels and Amsterdam in 2002 and a Mixed Reality laboratory in 2004. Maja's role as FoAM's coordinator and artist-researcher, allow her to spend most of her life in the interstitial spaces between virtual and physical, natural and technological, cultural and scientific.

KOZEL, Susan
Susan Kozel is a dancer, choreographer and writer creating at the interface between live performance and digital technologies. Working in England, Europe and Canada, she collaborates with digital artists, software engineers, architects and composers to create performances and installations. Using a wide range of sensing an interactive technologies (including motion capture, computer vision, wearable computer and telematics) she preserves a uniquely body-centered approach to the use of technologies. She is the director of Mesh Performance Practices (UK); she is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and a research fellow with the SMARTLab Centre. She is widely published and is completing a book called "Closer: performance, technologies, philosophy.

LOVELESS, Richard
After a thirty-five year career as a visual and performing artist/teacher and arts manager, Loveless became founding Director of the "Institute for Studies in the Arts" for the College of Fine Arts at Arizona State University. The ISA is a premiere interdisciplinary arts research institute that funded 250 creative research projects during his nine-year tenure. Collaborations involved faculty/students with regional and international artists conjoined with scholars in Architecture, Engineering, Archeology, Geology, Medicine, Political Science, Social Science, Solid-state Science, Computer Science, Cell Biology and Education. Our mission was to challenge the artist to engage digital media technologies in creative ways to extend qualities of artistic mind into wider spheres of scholarly inquiry. Loveless currently serves as Professor Emeritus at ASU, as Visiting Senior Lecturer/Research Fellow for SmatLabs at the London Institute, and as President of "Global Connections: Art and Technology Consulting Services."

MCLEOD, Miles
Is a media consultant who co-directed the UK strand of the Vnet5 Project for the EC IST Programme, and who contributed to the RADICAL Mediatheque event in that role.

MILTON, Katherine
Katherine Milton lives, works, and studies, in parallel worlds, online and offline, as an educational media scholar and designer, specialising in the documentation and analysis of interaction and behavior in online community settings. Her doctoral research focused on the emergence of peer-leadership in text-based online learning communities, and her extended research examines the evolution of community in online worlds. Katherine's approach to building dialogic communities of learners and practitioners in connected environments has been the subject of a doctoral dissertation, and has been featured in workshops internationally. Her work is rooted in an academic and professional background in the arts, technology, anthropology, and education, and grounded in a social commitment to creating safe spaces that honor intellectual bravery and cross cultural exchange online. Her new research work examines the curriculum nested within massive multi-user online role playing games (MMORPGs), such as EverQuest, revealing what they teach scholars about teaching, and learning.

NAIMARK, Michael
Michael Naimark is an independent media artist and researcher with over two decades of experience investigating "place representation." He was instrumental in the founding of several research labs, including the MIT Media Lab (1980), Atari Research Lab (1982), the Apple Multimedia Lab (1987), Lucasfilm Interactive (now Lucas Learning, 1989), and Interval Research Corporation (1992), where he spent over 8 years. His art projects exhibit internationally and are in the permanent collections of the Exploratorium, the American Museum of the Moving Image, and the Center for Arts and Media (ZKM). Michael serves on the Boards of the ZeroOne Foundation, Media Lab Europe, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, and Presence journal, and he currently holds faculty appointments at NYU and USC. "Artslab.net" was a recent project supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.

NIGTEN, Anne
Anne Nigten is the manager of V2_Lab, the aRt&D department of V2_Organization in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Nigten is a PhD candidate at the University of the Arts London, registered in the practice-based Research Programme of the SMARTlab at Central Saint Martins (UK), where she is researching the area of creative interdisciplinary R&D, from an art and technology perspective. She was for several years content manager of the European Network for Cyber ART (EncART). She is advisor for several media art and science initiatives like UNESCO digi-arts, and board member of ISEA. Over the last years she published papers and essays on art, engineering and (computer) science collaboration and software development for interdisciplinary purposes. Before taking up her current position at V2_ she worked as an independent media artist, and simultaneously fulfilled several management jobs for the media art sector in the Netherlands.

NORMAN, Sally Jane
Sally Jane Norman is a performing arts theorist and practitioner, Docteur d'état (Institute of Theatre Studies, Paris III), author of numerous papers including new media studies commissioned by UNESCO and the French Ministry of Culture, involved since 1996 in EU R&D programmes (esprit and IST), director of experimental platforms testing creative use of digital tools in live performance (International Institute of Puppetry, Charleville-Mézières ; Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam ; Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe ; European Festival of Young Digital Creation, Valenciennes ; Ecole supérieure de l'image, Angoulême). Director General of the Ecole supérieure de l'image, Angoulême/ Poitiers, she directs the " Digital Arts " doctoral programme linking ESI with the Universities of Poitiers and La Rochelle in the Poitou-Charentes region.

PENNY, Simon
Simon Penny is an Australian artist, theorist and teacher in the field of Digital Cultural Practices and Interactive Media Art. He has been making interactive installations, utilising custom sensors and robotic technologies, since the mid 1980s. His more recent works have focused on the development of custom multi-camera machine vision systems for unencumbered embodied interaction. His works have been exhibited in the US, Australia and Europe. His essays on Culture and Technology and Electronic Media Art have been translated into seven languages. He edited the anthology Critical Issues in Electronic Media (SUNY Press 1995). He curated and produced Machine Culture (arguably the first international survey exhibition of interactive art) at SIGGRAPH '93 in Anaheim CA. Penny is Professor of Arts and Engineering at University of California Irvine. He is architect and director of the transdisciplinary graduate program in Arts, Computation and Engineering (ACE). He is Layer Leader for the Arts in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, CAL(IT)2 (UCI division) and is director of the ACTION lab, a research lab which focuses on performative technologies and embodied interaction.

SMITH, Bernard
Bernard Smith is a highly experienced senior researcher and consultant engineer, who is the Head of Unit of the Digicult area (Digital `Heritage And Cultural Content) section of the EC's IST Programme.

STEPHENSON, Geoffrey
Geoff is a stalwart of the IST Programme's work in Art, Media and Communication. He was instrumental to the EPIFOCAL Project, and was a valued contributor to the RADICAL Project.

STIKKER, Marleen
After studying Philosophy she in 1985 founded Alligator, Performance & Art Magazine. She was director of the multimedia art festival Zomerfestijn Amsterdam in 1990 and 1991 and organiser of the Wetware Conference (on hardware, software and physical interaction). In 1993 Marleen Stikker initiated De Digitale Stad/ The Digital City, of which she was director untill 1995 and is currently president of the board. Together with Caroline Nevejan (formerly of Paradiso) in 1994 she founded The Society for Old and New Media. Marleen Stikker is now director of The Waag Society for Old and New Media, which is a cultural research and development organisation for public technology. The Society develops communication and information systems for use in educational, commercial and cultural processes. Central to the Society is the notion that technology that is being developed supports the cultural, social and economic growth of the individual.

THERON, Paul
Paul Théron is a specialist in Project and Risk Management. He has gained a Master of science in Risk Management, a Master in strategy and marketing and a degree in computer science. Former President of Afnor's CN7 committee (software quality and engineering) and former President of the French Association of Software Engineering, he is a Member of the Business Continuity Institute. A Mediator and an independent consultant for the past 20 years, he has run or rescued more than 150 projects up to £30 Millions in Europe, North America and North Africa. A researcher he specialises in the fields of formal methods for systems analysis, risk assessment and experience feedback analysis. An advisor to public Authorities, he has worked for the European Commission-DG XIII, the Canadian Government, the French Prime Minister Services, the French Department of Industry, the French Finance Ministry, the Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur, ... He has published several books and studies on project management and has been a teacher for 4 years on this topic. His areas of work include IT, change management and event management projects, business continuity management, public and transport security.

TOMAINO, Louis
Louis Tomaino is an artist, designer, and educator based in the Northeastern United States. Before his role as Project Director at the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University's Teachers College he has served as educational consultant on projects such as the creation of an arts and technology high school and the design of a new media program college program on Maui. His background also includes software design and programming related to children's literature, the creation design environments for children that combine real and virtual creative formats and tools across the arts, and approximately ten years of teaching experience, five at the college level. He is a graduate of the Media Lab at MIT (Epistemology and Learning) and of the Rhode Island School of Design (Sculpture).

WELDON, Robynn
Robynn Weldon grew up in South Africa and studied English, film theory, classics and theory of literature at the University of Cape Town. After some years working on Johannesburg newspapers, she moved to London, where she has been involved as copy editor in a wide range of projects. She finds it hard to remember life before the internet and the spread of telecommuting.

WILKIE, Fiona
Fiona Wilkie is a lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Surrey Roehampton. Her research focuses on questions of space, site and identity in contemporary culture and performance, and she is currently completing a PhD on the negotiation of space in site-specific performance.