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Nina Czegledy
Currently Czegledy works on the Aurora Feast Public Art Project. Resonance, the Electromagnetic Bodies Project, Digitized Bodies Virtual Spectacles and the Aurora Projects reflect her art&science&technology interest. These projects focus on the changing perception of the environment and the human body and are presented via on-line and on-site events in Canada and internationally. In 2005 Czegledy presented at the 2nd New Media Symposium in Beijing, at ARCO2005, Madrid and the Impact of Space on Society Conference in, Budapest. Her presentations in 2004 included Cyber@arts Bilbao; Dakar Biennale, Senegal; ISEA2004, the 7th Workshop on the Space, the Arts, 55th International Astronautical Congress, Vancouver, Newforms Festival, Vancouver and QI and Complexity Conference in Beijing. Czegledy curated over 35 digital art/video programs presented in more than 25 countries and initiated Points of Entry, the first Canadian/ Australian/New Zealand digital arts collaboration. Co-curated with Louise Provencher the Resonance touring project exhibits electronic art installations by 9 Canadian artists and is scheduled to be shown at ZKM, Karlruhe, Conde Duque, Madrid, Tent/V2, Rotterdam, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, and the Outsider Festival, Paris. Czegledy is the curator of Sara Diamond's Code Zebra in Toronto for the Women Arts Resource Center (Nov. 2004) Reconnaissance, a Finnish touring project initiated and courated by Czegledy opens at InterAcces in Toronto in January 2006. Her academic lectures lead to numerous publications in books and journals in Europe, North and South America and Asia. Czegledy is the president of Critical Media, a Canadian based Knowledge Institute, curator and content developer for Circuit4.ca the Canadian digital culture database for the Canadian Heritage Network. She is a member of the LEAuthors as well as the Leonardo SpaceArt Network. She has been appointed by the UNESCO DigiArts Portal as a Key Advisor to the African Network and is member of UNESCO's Arab States DigiArts group as well as the UNESCO/Leonardo' Mediterrian Jasmin group. Nina Czegledy is the current Chair of the Inter Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA). Peter Ride
Peter is also the Artistic Director of DA2, Digital Arts Development Agency, an organisation that develops and produces artists' commissions, residencies and curatorial training schemes. Through commissioning and producing new work, he is addressing the way that artists can use digital technology and develop new forms and systems that enable them to create innovative work. He is also exploring the processes of new media arts production, including how the roles of curators and producers of new media are changing and investigating the ways that digital arts projects are developed out of collaborative research with industry and academic sectors. Current projects include "Cell" an a-life installation exploring a new paradigm of stem-cell activity, a collaboration between artist Jane Prophet, (University of Westminster) and leading international cell biologist Neil Theise (NYU) and 'The Aurora Project' an environment that reflects on our understanding of the auroral phenomena. Previously he was the Arts Programme co-ordinator for Artec, the Arts Technology Centre, London (1995-7), and the Director of Cambridge Darkroom Gallery (1992-5). He was educated at the Australian National University. He is the co-author, with Prof Andrew Dewdney, of The New Media Handbook (Routledge) to be published 2006. Stephen Kovats
Thereafter, based in New York, he developed work and communications based strategies for mobile media and urban reconstruction projects including the initiation of a new urban masterplan for the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Through his telecommunications projects Aurora Universalis and NOM‹adic› he has also been active in investigating the spatial structures of terrestrial electromagnetism, communications mobility and technological isolation systems. Currently Kovats is the international media arts program developer at V2_Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, through which he initiated and co-organised the "Trans-European Picnic: Media and Art of Accession", an event exploring media culture on the edge of the newly expanded European Union, co-curated the DEAF04 event "Affective Turbulence: The Art of Open Systems". His most recent projects include the conceptual co-development of the 'Sarajevo_Picnic_2005' and curating "Splendid Immersion: The Time and Space of Flow", an exhibition and seminar on experimental immersive systems within the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2005. Luke Jerram
In 2004 Luke created 'Virus' a sculpture of HIV which has been acquired for the permanent collection of The Wellcome trust. An edition of this sculpture was also auctioned for the AIDS charity AVERT. In the same year the Arts Catalyst commissioned a site specific work 'Ghost Plane'. Exhibited in Europe's largest Wind tunnel an 8 meter shimmering spitfire was created using light and mercury. In 2002 he was awarded Britain's largest fellowship from NESTA (National Endowment of Science, Technology and the Arts) to explore the properties of space and perception. The 'Sky Orchestra' is a research project that has emerged from this 3 year research period. The project aims to sculpt dreams by playing especially composed music to people as they sleep. The music is delivered to the public at dawn using a series of hot air balloons which fly over the city at dawn. The Sky Orchestra will be performing in Switzerland in May2005. In 2001 Jerram completed the artwork Tide. This is a live kinetic audio installation controlled by the changing gravitational pull of the moon. The work has toured Britain and been shown in major media art festivals of Europe and Canada. In 2000 Jerram taught in war torn Mostar, Bosnia and he continues to teach and lecture both in the UK and abroad. Commissioned by EMAF the European Media Arts Foundation, 'Retinal Memory Volume' physically creates 3 dimensional retinal after-image sculpture inside the mind of the viewer. Shown at ISEA98 and Cyber 98 Lisbon the installation has been shown in 7 different countries touring the media arts festivals of Europe. A version of this work has been commissioned for the new Phaeno Museum, Germany. Luke Jerram lives and works in Bristol, UK with his partner Shelina Nanji. More information can be located at www.lukejerram.com Tom Donaldson
Donaldson has recently been working in the mobile Internet industry. He created a mobile Internet service nominated as the best consumer application in annual industry awards. He has founded an artificial intelligence software company, delivering highly personalized user-experiences in the web and mobile worlds, and is recognized as an industry-leader in personalization. Wherever he works, Donaldson uses advances in technology to explore new avenues in creativity, and use exploratory artworks to shed new light on the direction and purpose of technology. |
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Nina Czegledy, media artist, curator and writer, has collaborated on international projects, produced time based and digital works, and participated in workshops, forums and festivals worldwide. She has exhibited her work as part of the ICOLS group at ISEA2004, and venues in Australia and the US. In the same year exhibited with the Girls&Guns collective's touring exhibition. 
Peter Ride is Senior Research Fellow and Co-director of 
Canadian born architect and media researcher Stephen Kovats spent a decade upon German unification designing and establishing media art and culture related programs at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. His Studio Electronic Media Interpretation hosted numerous international projects, symposia and exhibitions exploring the relationships between media space, political culture and electronic art. In 2000 he published MEDIA - REVOLUTION which wrapped up the "Ostranenie International Electronic Media Forum" series focusing on the role played by media art and culture upon the societal transformation process in Central and Eastern Europe. During this period he founded several media culture oriented exchange and network programs including Archi-Tonomy, EMARE, ECX and the current Bauhauskolleg, a multidisciplinary post graduate program for alternative urban design.
Luke Jerram fuses his sculptural practice with his scientific and perceptual studies. His multidisciplinary practice involves the development of large scale installations, live projects and sculpture.
After graduating from Cambridge University with a Masters of Engineering, specializing in electronics and information theory, Tom Donaldson joined a corporation creating breakthrough new products for major blue chip corporations. After his stint there, Donaldson felt it was time to explore the more experimental realms of technology innovation. He moved to New York as an inventor/artist, where he explored new areas of technology-led storytelling, including a subconsciously interactive film system, an enhanced-reality gaming system, and haptic artworks.