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Contributors

Eduardo Abrantes graduated in Philosophy and Film Studies at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH UNL), Portugal. In 2003-2004 he curated the Luzboa – International Biennial of Light of Lisbon in collaboration with the Educational Service of the Cultural Centre of Belém, Lisbon. In 2004-2005 he was the Executive Editor of Númeromagazine, also participating in the Número New Media and Film Festival, and the Brazilian Itau Cultural video art showcase.  In 2005 he took up the curatorial research residency at the CIA.IS in Reykjavik, Iceland. He completed the Gulbenkian_Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin directing course in 2007. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. registered jointly at the FCSH UNL and Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (Oslo Academy of Fine Art), Norway, in the fields of Philosophy and Film in the context of artistic practice.

Catherine Baker studied for her undergraduate degree in Fine Art at St. Martins
College of Art & Design and for her MA in Drawing at Wimbledon School of Art.
She is currently registered for a PhD. For ten years she was Course Director for Fine Art at the University of Bedfordshire but in 2005 took up post with Norwich
University College of the Arts as a Senior Lecturer and Research Convener for Fine Art. She has exhibited her work widely in the UK and abroad. Her research interests focus on developing a language for drawing, one that responds to the biological and physical processes involved.

Luciana Bordoni  is  a researcher in computer science and artificial intelligence at ENEA (National Agency for New Technology, Energy and Environment).  Her research involves interdisciplinary collaboration spanning the science and technology. Her present interests, concerning the application of computer technology  in the area of cultural heritage, include 3D digitisation and visualisation techniques, the GIS and GPS.

Attilio Colagrossi acts as responsible for collecting and processing information concerning the water protection at ISPRA, the Italian Institute for Protection and Research for Environment. He has a long work experience in information system development as well as in the application of information science and technology to cultural heritage.

David Crawford studied film, video, and new media at the Massachusetts College of Art and received a BFA in 1997. In 2000, his "Light of Speed" project was a finalist for the SFMOMA Webby Prize for Excellence in Online Art. In 2003, Crawford's "Stop Motion Studies" project received an Artport Gate Page Commission from the Whitney Museum of American Art and an Award of Distinction in the Net Vision category at the Prix Ars Electronica. In 2004, he received an MSc from Chalmers University of Technology and taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Crawford is currently a PhD candidate studying Digital Representation at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at Göteborg University in Sweden. His artwork has been featured by the Guardian and Leonardo. His writing has recently been published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Dirk de Bruyn has made numerous experimental, documentary and animation films and videos and digital interactive work over the last 35 years. He was a founding member and past president of MIMA (Experimenta). He has written about and curated various programmes of film and video art internationally and written extensively about this area of arts practice. His research interests include the articulation of trauma in moving image art, as well as Australian migrant identity in the 1960s. Retrospective programmes of his work have been presented at The Deutsches Film Museum, Frankfurt in 2005, Otherfilm Brisbane in 2007 and Anthology Film Archives in 2008. He is currently teaching Animation and Digital Culture at Deakin University in Melbourne, Victoria.

Stuart. G. English is Principal Lecturer at Northumbria University School of Design specialising in the theory, processes and practice of design innovation. Stuart’s research explores how individuals and organisations can think about problems to unlock their creative potential and reveal value. This approach considers the person who designs as an integral part of the design space and involves the development of awareness through reflective practice.
Trained as an Industrial Designer Stuart has worked in the field of Design Innovation for 22 years. He Co-founded Glenelg Product Design in 1990 and at Northumbria has championed design learning innovation whilst leading BA and MA courses in design for industry and professional design practice. Stuart's research challenges the designer’s capacity to be innovative in terms of both product designs and design processes. His practice has facilitated new product development through an inclusive approach based on design led entrepreneurship. This addresses multi and cross-disciplinary contexts, bounded by clarity of market objectives and has led to numerous filed patents. Stuart is currently supporting the regional development agenda through ‘Ideas-Lab’; a ONE North East funded initiative with IP specialists at the legal firm Ward Hadaway.

James Faure Walker is a painter. He has exhibited widely in Europe and the USA. He has exhibited eight times at Siggraph, USA. In 1998 he won the ‘Golden Plotter’ at Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany. He has eleven pieces in the V&A collections. His ‘Painting the Digital River’ (Prentice Hall, 2006) was awarded a New England Book Show Award. He co-founded Artscribe magazine in 1976, and edited it for eight years. In 2002 he was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the AHRB. He is Reader in Painting with the Computer at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London.

Lorenzo Felli works at ISPRA, the Italian Institute for Protection and Research for Environment. Focusing his work on information technology applied on water problems and their infrastructures, he acquired special experience in web oriented programming languages and integration between information technologies and GIS. Particular interests in recent works deal with interaction between information technologies and cultural heritage.

Monika Fleischmann, media artist and scientist, has been the head of the MARS - Exploratory Media Lab of the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication (IMK) since 1997. The research group designs experimental models of networked information spaces, new forms of communication, of interface design, of access to and transmission of information and of the development and implementation of game and learning objects based on digital media. In cooperation with Wolfgang Strauss, she developed the concept of the internet platform for digital arts and culture “netzspannung.org“. Since 1999, they have been in charge of its development and implementation. Her career comprises various exhibitions, awards, publications, lectures and teaching assignments in Germany and abroad. In 1992, she was awarded the Goldene Nica of the exhibition Ars Electronica for interactive art.

Iain D. Gilchrist studied for his undergraduate degree in Psychology at Durham University and his PhD at Birmingham University.  While at Durham he also completed a Certificate in Visual Arts. Since 1999 he has worked in Bristol University where he is now Professor of Neuropsychology.  His work focuses on the scientific study of the control of movements in response to visual stimuli.  Central to this program of work is the study of visually guided eye movements.

Simone Gristwood is an AHRC funded PhD candidate in the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University.  Her research focuses on parallels between the beginnings of photography and artificial intelligence and how their relationship is strengthened through the visual.  She received her Masters degree in the History of Film and Visual Media from Birkbeck, University of London (2005), and has previously worked on the CACHe (Computer Art, Context, History etc) project as a research assistant.

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