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Mark Amerika who has been named a "Time Magazine 100 Innovator" as part of their continuing series of features on the most influential artists, scientists, entertainers and philosophers into the 21st century, has had four retrospectives of his digital art work. The first-ever net art retrospective was held in the summer of 2001 at the ACA Media Arts Plaza in Tokyo, Japan, and was called "Avant-Pop: The Stories of Mark Amerika [an Internet art retrospective]". Amerika's first European net art retrospective enjoyed two exhibition runs at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London and was entitled "How To Be An Internet Artist". Both shows covered the years 1993-2001. He's the Publisher of Alt-X, which he founded in 1993. Publishers Weekly has called Alt-X "the literary publishing model of the future." The Philadelphia Inquirer has said "the real counterculture is not gone and Mark Amerika is proof of that...his work is not so much a book as it is a Dadaist demonstration, once again honoring the dictum that it's the artist's sacred duty to destroy what commerce has made common." His artist ebooks are available for free download and enjoy a readership in the tens of thousands. In the mid-Nineties, he was a Creative Writing Fellow and Lecturer on Network Publishing and Hypertext at Brown University where he developed the GRAMMATRON project, a multi-media narrative for network-distributed environments. Amerika is a profesor of digital art at the University of Colorado in Boulder where he is developing the TECHNE practice-based research initiative

(art)n Laboratory is a multimedia group founded by Ellen Sandor, an internationally recognized artist and pioneer in digital media. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s , she created mixed media environments and sculptures and received an MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago

Luca Bandirali is a Film critic and journalist; he serves as editor for "Segnocinema"and writes for "Cinema.it, "Expanded Cinemah", "ReVision"

Tatiana Bazzichelli is a Berlin-based independent art curator, communication sociologist and organizer of exhibition/events on hacktivism and net.art, she is the founder of the networking project AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism and owner of the mailing list on artistic activism aha@ecn.org hosted by Isole nella Rete Italian collective. She curated several exhibitions in Italy and was involved in different activist events in Berlin

Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and his bio art. A pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-Web '80s, Eduardo Kac (pronounced "Katz") emerged in the early '90s with his radical telepresence and biotelematic works. His visionary combination of robotics and networking explores the fluidity of subject positions in the post-digital world. Kac’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Exit Art and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo; Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago; Seoul Museum of Art, Korea; and Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro. Kac's work has been showcased in biennials such as Yokohama Triennial, Japan, Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Gwangju Biennale, Korea. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, among others. He's a member of the editorial board of the journal Leonardo, published by MIT Press

Faiyaz Jafri is a New York-based digital artist. Originally from Pakistani descent, he was born and raised in The Netherlands. He specializes in the medium of computer-generated art and design; he worked for Wired, The Face, Rolling Stones

Tina La Porta is a contemporary artist based in New York. She works primarily with photography, new media, video, text, and installations. Her work has been exhibited widely in exhibitions in New York (including White Box, Creative Time, Universal Concepts Unlimited and the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has commissioned her works); Fundacio "la Caixa," Barcelona, Spain; The New Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland; The Museu da Imagem e do Som: São Paulo, Brazil; and The Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey amongst other international venues. in 2003 she organized a panel discussion around the exhibition Total Screen titled, ‘What is Orientalism? A cross-cultural dialogue in times of global conflict’ at Whitebox in Chelsea

Christos Magganas is a Greek-born artist. After the completion of his BA degree in Design Studies in London he started to flirt with computers and decided then to follow a postgraduate degree (MA) in Communication Design in Central Saint Martins College in London. He started working on animation as well which proved to be my other obsession. I got to work with my partner in a film that was shown in various festivals and provided us with a couple of commissions for some more animation projects, one installation for the British Arts Council and a short animation for Channel 4 (British TV). Some of the clients that he has worked for include: New Scientist magazine, National Geographic magazine, BBC magazines, BT (British Telecom) (animation), Channel 4 (animation) Welcome Trust (Glaxo-Welcome-research arm), Macmillan Publications, The Arts Council England (installation/animation), various magazines from England, Europe in general and the United States

Joseph Nechvatal has worked with ubiquitous electronic visual information and computer-robotics since 1986. His computer-robotic assisted paintings and computer animations are shown regularly in galleries and museums throughout the world. From 1991-3 he worked as artist-in-resident at the Louis Pasteur Atelier and the Saline Royale / Ledoux Foundation's computer lab in Arbois, France on 'The Computer Virus Project': an experiment with computer viruses as a creative stratagem. Dr. Nechvatal has exhibited his work widely in Europe and the United States, both in private and public venues. He is collected by the Los Angeles County Museum, the Moderna Musset in Stockholm, Sweden and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Dr. Nechvatal's work was included in Documenta 8

Riccardo Notte is a professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. Numerous collaborations to periodicals as "Mass Media", New York Arts Magazine", "Ideazione", "Il Tempo

Bob Osborn is the website manager for a local gov't authority. The Futursist website <www.futurism.org.uk> began as an example of a framed website for his students of web design but combining his tudies on Futurism

Randall Packer is internationally recognized as a pioneering artist, composer, educator, and scholar in the field of multimedia. His work has been exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the world including Europe, Asia, and North America. He is Assistant Professor of Multimedia at American University in Washington, DC. His book and accompanying Web site, Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality (W.W. Norton 2001 / www.artmuseum.net), has been adopted internationally as one of the leading educational texts in the field. He is concerned with the aesthetic, philosophical, and socio-cultural impact of new media in an increasingly technological society. In 1988, he founded Zakros InterArts and has since produced, directed and created critically acclaimed new media performance, installation, and net-specific works.His sound installation Mori was selected for the 1999 Biennial Exhibition at the InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo and included in the Telematic Connections: A Virtual Embrace exhibition that toured the US (2001-2002). In 2003 Mori received its New York debut at the Kitchen. His net project, the Telematic Manifesto (1999), was included in ZKM's (Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany) Net_Condition exhibition and has been featured on the Website of the Walker Art Center

Melinda Rackham is an artist, writer, curator and media consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Her practice has investigated the aesthetic, technological and philosophical aspects of online identity, locality, sexuality and community, as well as viral symbiosis and trans species relations. Her PhD explored the nature and construction of, and avatar relations within multi-user Virtual Reality Networked Spaces. Her writing appears online and in print in arenas like Artlink, Leonardo, Ctheory, Culture Machine, and Mesh, Realtime, and has chapters in recent Routledge and MIT editions. Her residencies include Polar Circuit, Finland and Banff Center, Canada. Her web works have been shown widely, including Beyond Interface, Arco Electronico, Transmediale, File, Art Entertainment Network, The Montreal Biennale, European Media Art Festival, Hybrid Life Forms, MAAP, Perspecta99, Biennial of Buenos Aires, lab3D, ICC Tokyo and ISEA. Rackham won the SoundSpace Award for Virtual Worlds at the 2001 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, the Faulding Award for Multimedia at the 2000 Adelaide Festival, and Gram 1999 Internet Art Prize in Argentina. She was recently Curator of Networked Media at the Australian Center for Moving Image in Melbourne, and is the producer of -empyre- online media forum

Katarina Soukup is a Montreal-based media artist and phonography afficiando. Her past work has explored underground radio broadcasting during the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and, more recently, numerous collaborations with Inuit artists of the Canadian Arctic. She has presented her media art in Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, and the Czech Republic. She is currently in the midst of a project exploring creative field recording techniques for conjuring the curious and astonishing sounds of the Arctic environment

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