June 8–9, 2011 
 

Stadtkino Vienna, Schwarzenbergplatz

Alisa Andrasek is an experimental practitioner of architecture and computational processes in design based in London. In 2001 she founded biothing, a trans-disciplinary laboratory that focuses on the generative potential of computational systems for design. 

Aranda\Lasch is a New York-based architectural studio dedicated to experimental research and innovative building. Established in 2003 by Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch, the studio designs buildings, installations and objects through a deep investigation of materials and structure. 

Adam Bly is the founder and CEO of Seed Media Group in New York, an integrated media and technology company committed to helping advance science and its potential to improve the state of the world. 

Anna Ceeh is an artist and academic researcher based in Vienna working with photography, video and electronic music. Receipient if a honorary Mention Digital Music & Sound Art, Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project ⁄S⁄O⁄N⁄I⁄C⁄ ⁄Z⁄O⁄N⁄E⁄S⁄ about electronic music scenes in post-Soviet states (with Franz Pomassl). 

Grönlund and Nisunen have worked as an artist duo since 1993 out of Helsinki. Their works are mainly site-specific installations which often use sound, light and kinetic elements. They also run the architectural practice a.men architects, as well as the music label Sähkö (by Grönlund) which released over a hundred records over the years. 

Florian Hecker is an artist, music curator and contributing composer for The Morning Line. He frequently collaborates with academic researchers in auditory perception and computer music, as well as with other artists. 

Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer based in Berlin. His work explores the meeting of the public and the private, sociality and the narratives of everyday life, using sited constructions, sound and performance as creative supplements to existing conditions. 

Robin Mackay is a philosopher, director of UK publisher and arts organisation Urbanomic, and editor of the journal ‘Collapse’. 

Tony Myatt is Director of the Music Research Centre at the University of York, UK, Myatt researches and coordinates research into audio composition, contemporary electronic music and spatial audio. 

Carsten Nicolai is a visual artist, composer and musician who lives and works in Berlin. As a visual artist, Nicolai seeks to overcome the separation of the art forms and genres to sensitize human perception to the interconnection of the different sensory levels. For several years now Nicolai has released albums under the pseudonyms noto and alva noto. 

Zsolt Olejnik is a composer and electronic musician from Budapest, Hungary. He studied architecture and software engineering at university in addition to self-studies in graphic and sound design, sound synthesis and programming. 

Finnbogi Pétursson lives in Reykjavik and is one of Iceland’s most prominent artists. He is known for works that fuse sound, light, sculpture, architecture and drawings. Sound, a crucial element, is typically incorporated into sculptural installations, but he also performs music with Ghostigital members Einar Örn and Curver. 

Franz Pomassl is a sound artist and curator, musician and composer in advanced electronic music based in Vienna. Furthermore, he founded Soundlab, a teaching and research platform at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he is teaching in the field of sound since 2001 and the music label Laton. 

Matthew Ritchie’s installations of painting, wall drawings, light boxes, sculpture, and projections are investigations of the idea of information; explored through science, architecture, history and the dynamics of culture, defined equally by their range and their lyrical visual language. He is based in New York. 

Roland Schöny is a cultural scientist, contemporary art curator, and author. He holds a teaching position with focus on sound in the arts at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Department for Digital Arts. 

Since 2006, Nicolaus Schafhausen is director of Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam and prolific curator in the field of contemporary art. Previous positions at director of Frankfurter Kunstverein, European Kunsthalle in Cologne and curator of German Pavilion of the Venice Biennial in 2007 and 2009. 

Maria Spiropulu is an experimental particle physicist. In 2004 she moved to CERN’s Physics Department to continue her research at the Large Hadron Collider. She led the search and discovery program of the CMS experiment as co-convener of the SUSYBSM physics analysis group. 

Skylar Tibbits is a trained Architect, Designer and Computer Scientist who’s research focuses on developing self-assembly technologies for large-scale structures in our physical environment. 

Yasunao Tone has been active in the Fluxus movement since 1962 and a participant in music and performance groups such as Group Ongaku, Hi-Red Center, Team Random. Primarily a composer, Tone has worked in many media, creating pieces for electronics, computer systems, film, radio and television, and environmental art. 

Rob Young is Editor at Large of The Wire magazine and writes for Uncut, Sight & Sound, The Guardian, The Word and more. His latest book is Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music. 

Zavoloka is a composer, sound artist and graphic designer from Kiev, Ukraine. Her main interest in music is to present Ukrainian ancient culture through contemporary digital art.