Thank you Paul and Johannes for the very informed contribution! 

Since there might be a number of new people on the list, I would like to
take the opportunity and share here 
the "LIVERPOOL-Declaration" and would like to encourage those of you who
have not signed so far to do
and share it also among your institutions and national/international
funding sources
- btw Serota and Weibel for example also signed..


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MEDIA ART NEEDS GLOBAL NETWORKED ORGANISATION & SUPPORT – International
Declaration  
State of Affairs
Digital technology has fundamentally changed the way art is made. Over
the last forty years, Media Art has become a significant part of our
networked information society. Although there are well-attended
international festivals, collaborative research projects, exhibitions
and database documentation resources, Media Art research is still
marginal in universities, museums and archives. It remains largely
under-resourced in our core cultural institutions.
As a result of rapid changes in technology, many major works made even
10 years ago can no longer be shown or are disappearing without a trace.
If this situation is not addressed, we face losing an art form that is a
central part of our post-industrial digital culture. To date, systematic
global preservation and documentation campaigns do not exist.
Many important online documentation and research projects are also
disappearing from the web. As they falter, we risk losing their valuable
material forever. Contemporary scientific research relies on access to
shared data. The same is true of the Arts and Humanities, which lack a
concerted international policy for sustainability and support of the
digital heritage, such as exists partly in the natural sciences.
Several science disciplines have developed large collective projects to
address the challenges and opportunities of our time by way of networked
digital environments, based on a sustainable and international support
structure. International Media Art research needs similar global
organisation and collaboration.
Goals
a.) Establish international and sustainable funding structures
Therefore it is essential to establish international and sustainable
funding structures that can guarantee the persistence of these valuable
resources, and to make use of networked collaboration to archive key
data in a cooperative process of knowledge transfer between artists,
institutions and researchers internationally. While many nations are
devoting funds for interdisciplinary e-research, we urgently need global
networked collaboration in Media Art research.
Such an international structure/alliance needs the actively supported
membership of media art organisations, archives and individuals. It
should be supported with adequate funding and expertise from the
existing networks of funding agencies, archives, online initiatives and
research institutions.
b.) Supporting an International Association/Institution for Shared Data
We urgently need global networked collaboration in Media Art research
across the aforementioned networks. We need as many bridges into society
as possible: archives, conferences, text repositories, collective
database documentation, and preservation.
This alliance will promote collaboration and advocate the
sustainability, understanding and appreciation of media art heritage by:
·      Recognizing and building upon existing knowledge and resources
·      Providing and fostering channels of communication
·      Enabling the international research community to
create/upload/access data to be shared.
·      Encouraging peer exchange and addressing the new challenges of
Media Art
·      Developing scientific technologies for documentation and
preservation of Media Art
·      Providing inspiration and resources for curators, artists,
scholars, educators and audiences
·      Supporting the Media Art History network, its conference series,
text repositories and scientific publications
·      Promotion of new ways of understanding media art, science,
technology and its histories
Only when we develop systematic strategies to address these challenges
will we be able to fulfill the task that digital culture and its
research demands of us in the 21st Century.
Signing Instructions
Governments, universities, research institutions, researchers, artists,
academics, funding agencies, foundations, libraries, museums, archives,
learned societies and professional associations who share the vision
expressed in this Declaration are invited to join the signatories that
have already signed the Declaration.
Chair. Prof. Dr. Sean CUBITT, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Chair. Prof. Dr. Oliver GRAU, Image Science, Danube University Krems,
Austria
Chair. Prof. Dr. Ross HARLEY, COFA, University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia
Prof. Dr. Christiane PAUL,The New School, New York, USA
Prof. Dr. Diana DOMINGUES, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
Prof. Lanfranco ACETI, Goldsmiths and Sabanci University, UK / Turkey
Prof. Dr. Frieder NAKE, University of Bremen, Germany
Prof. Dr. h.c. Peter WEIBEL, Chairman and CEO ZKM | Center for Art and
Media Karlsruhe
Prof. Dr. Roy ASCOTT, University of Plymouth, UK
Sir Nicholas SEROTA : Director- Tate, London
Dr. Martin WARNKE, Leuphana University, Germany
Prof. Mike STUBBS, Director of FACT Liverpool, UK
Benjamin WEIL, Artistic Director, LABORAL, Spain
Dr. Andreas BROECKMANN, Director of the Leuphana Arts Program, Germany
Chair. Prof. Jeffrey SHAW, City University Hong Kong School of Creative
Media
Prof. Eduardo KAC, Arts Institute Chicago
Prof. Dr. Christa SOMMERER, Professor for Interface Culture, University
of Art and Design Linz, Austria
Prof. Dr. Laurent MIGNONNEAU, Professor for Interface Culture,
University of Art and Design Linz, Austria
Alex ADRIAANSENS – dir. V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam,
Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Horst BREDEKAMP, Institut fuer Kunst- und Bildgeschichte,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Howard BESSER, Professor / Director, Moving Image Archive and
Preservation Program, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Cinema Studies
Department
Vanina HOFMAN, PhD; Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Founder of
Taxonomedia, Spain / Argentina
Ass. Prof. Ianina PRUDENKO, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University,
Kyiv, Ukraine.
Prof. Dr. Anna Maria GUASCH, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
Sara DIAMOND, President OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
Prof. Dr. Barbara Maria STAFFORD, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, Ga.
Darko FRITZ, freelance curator, researcher and artist, Croatia / NL
Dr. Lisa GYE, Swinburne University, Melbourne, AU
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anna MUNSTER, National Institute for Experimental Arts,
Sydney, AU
Dr. Stephen JONES, Stephen Jones & Associates P/L (Video Conservation),
Sydney, AU
Dr. Andy WILLIAMSON, Digital Strategist and Commentator, UK
Prof. Em.Vera FRENKEL, FRSC, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University
Prof. Dr. Gilbertto PRADO, Visual Arts Departement, ECA/USP – Sao Paulo
University, Brazil.
Winnie FU, Curator and Chairperson of Microwave International New Media
Arts Festival, Hong Kong
Prof. Stephen PARTRIDGE, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and
Design, University of Dundee, UK
Prof. Dr. Paul THOMAS, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia
Adj. Prof. Alessandro LUDOVICO, Academy of Art Carrara, Editor in chief
of Neural magazine, Italy
Dr. Vince DZIEKAN, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Jon IPPOLITO, Associate Professor of New Media, Still Water lab, The
University of Maine
Prof. Dr. Darren TOFTS, Swinburne University, Melbourne Australia
Prof. em. Itsuo SAKANE, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences,
Tokyo, Japan
Mitsuhiro TAKEMURA, Professor, Sapporo City University, Faculty of
Design, Media Design Lab.
Prof. Dr. Lev MANOVICH, University of California, San Diego, USA
Prof. Dr. ZHANG Ga, The New School / Tsinghua University, US and China
Dr. Michele BARKER, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia
Prof. Pier Luigi CAPUCCI, NABA, Milan; NoemaLab, Italy
Prof. Dr. Jin-Woo Lee, Ph.D., Chair Professor, Division of Humanities
and Social Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Assoc. Prof. Nina CZEGLEDY, University of Toronto, Canada
Prof. Paul Alsina GONZÁLEZ, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Prof. Dr. Peter MATUSSEK, Chair for Media Aesthetics, University of
Siegen, Germany
Prof. Mikel ROTAECHE y GONZÁLEZ de Ubieta, Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Dr. Nelson VERGARA, National University of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
Prof. Wolfgang MUENCH, Dean Faculty of Media Arts, LASALLE College of
the Arts, Singapore
Gabriela BALDOMÁ, Directora del Instituto de Investigación, Conservación
y Restauración de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Argentina
Prof. Dr. Ryszard W. KLUSZCZYNSKI, University of Lodz, Poland
Dr. Raivo KELOMEES, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Dr. Mike LEGGETT, Creativity & Cognition Studios, University of
Technology, Sydney
Prof. Dr. Anne-Marie DUGUET, University of Paris 1, France
Paul BROWN, independent artist and writer; visiting professor, Centre
for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex, UK;
Synapse artist-in-residence, Centre for Intelligent Systems Research,
Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
Prof. Dr. Will STRAW, Department of Art History and Communications
Studies, McGill University, Canada.
Steve DIETZ, President and Artistic Director of Northern Lights.mn, USA
Dmitry BULATOV, Curator at the National Center for Contemporary Arts,
Kaliningrad branch, Russia
Prof. Dr. Gunalan NADARAJAN, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA),
Baltimore, USA
Ass. Prof. Maurice BENAYOUN, University Paris 8, France
Prof. Dr. Cleomar ROCHA, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brasil
Lynn HERSHMAN LEESON, Artist;  Professor Emeritus, University of
California, Davis; Chair, Film Department, San Francisco Art Institute
Prof. Dr. Akihiro KUBOTA, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Andres BURBANO, PhD researcher at the University of California, Santa
Barbara, USA
Eric KLUITENBERG, Chief of Tactical Media Files, Chelsea College of Art
and Design, London
Prof. Dr. Edward A. SHANKEN, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Andreia MAGALHAES, PhD researcher at the Fine Arts Faculty, Porto,
Portugal
Prof. Dr. Felipe Cesar LONDOÑO, International Image Festival, University
of Caldas, Colombia.
Prof. em. Frank POPPER, University of Paris VIII,Paris, France
Ass. Prof. Dr. Caitlin FISHER, York University,Toronto, Canada
Prof. Dr. habil Marion G. MÜLLER, Research Center Visual Communication
and Expertise (VisComX), Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Timothy Conway MURRAY, Rose Goldsen Archiveof New Media Art,
Cornell University, New York
Prof. Dr. Douglas KAHN, National Institute for Experimental Arts,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Ass. Prof. Dr. Baruch GOTTLIEB, transmediale, Germany
Prof. Dr. Angel KALENBERG, Instituto Valenciano deArte Moderno (IVAM),
Spain
Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER B.Sc., Independent artist,Mexico, Madrid, Montreal
Predrag RISTIC, Gradina FM, Member (Macedonia, Balkans) – design of
collaborative working practices and implementation of IT systems.
Patrick LICHTY, Critical Artist and Theorist, Columbia College Chicago
Dr. Lewis KAYE, Sound artist; instructor, Dept. of Communication
Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
Maira Monteiro FROES, Prof. /Research Neuroscience, ArtSci Interface
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Ass. Prof. Dejan GRBA, University of the Arts / Faculty of Fine Arts in
Belgrade, Serbia
Ass. Prof. Shane MECKLENBURGER, Art & Technology, The Ohio State
University Dept of Art, Columbus, OH
Dr. Martin E. ROSENBERG, Independent Scholar, Pittsburgh, PA USA
Prof. Mariela CANTU, Researcher, Curator. Founder of Arca Video
Argentino -On line Archive and Database of Argentinian Videoart-.
Universidad de La Plata/Universidad del Cine/Instituto Universitario
Nacional del Arte.
Ass. Dir. Sherry Miller HOCKING, ExperiLaura BERAZADI, Executive Director, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts
Centre, Toronto, Canada
Dr. Mikhail A. STEPANOV, Russian Institute for Cultural Research, St.
Petersburg, Russia
Dir. Helen SLOAN, SCAN, UK
Dr. Jussi PARIKKA, Winchester School of Art/University of Southampton
Jennifer Kanary NIKOLOVA, Artist, Researcher and Tutor Art and Research
Honours Programme Gerrit Rietveld Academie/University of Amsterdam
Po-Wei WANG, Art Critic, Curator, Representative of the Digital Art
Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Dr. Clarissa RIBEIRO, Director of The Double Collective, researcher at
ECA – USP / School of Communications and Arts, University of Sao Paulo,
Brazil
Prof. Dr. Bong Keun Yoo, Institute of Media Art, Seoul, Korea
Dr. Dmitry GALKIN, Institute for Arts and Culture, Tomsk State
University, Russia
Assoc. Prof. Bent FAUSING, Aesthetics and Visual Communications in
Modern Media, University of Copenhagen, Director of the international
research program: Sensoric Image Science, Denmark
Dr. Suzana MILEVSKA, Art historian and Curator, Faculty of Fine Arts,
Skopje
Dr. Melentie PANDILOVSKI, Director, Video Pool Media Arts Centre,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Nina SOSNA, Russian University for Humanities
Dr. Karin WENZ, Director of studies MA Media Culture, Maastricht
University
Dr. Emmanuelle LOUBET, New Media artist, sound creator, programmer and
web developer, researcher, Canada / Japan
Dr. Mathias FUCHS, University Potsdam/ Germany and University of Salford
, UK
Dr. Annette FINNSDOTTIR, Design & E-Concept Developing at Zibat, Campus
Køge bei Køge Business School, Kopenhagen, Denmark
Univ.Prof.Dr.phil.habil. Ramón Reichert, Professor for New Media,
Institute for Theater-, Film- und Media Studies, University of Vienna
Dr. Rudolf FRIELING, Curator of Media Arts, San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art
Dr. Kathy CLELAND, Director of the Digital Cultures Program, the
University of Sydney, Australia
PD Dr. Lutz MUSNER, IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum
Kulturwissenschaften an der Kunstuniversität Linz
Prof. Dr. Bernhard SEREXHE, Chief Curator ZKM | Media Museum, Karlsruhe,
Germany
Lidia STARODUBTSEVA, Director of the Center of Media Communications and
Visual Studies, V.N.Karazin National University, Ukraine
Prof. Dr. Birte KLEINE-BENNE, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich,
Germany
Lynn Hershman LEESON, Artist/Filmmaker Professor Emeritus U.C. David,
Visiting Artist New School for Social Engagement.
Jennifer Kanary NIKOLOVA, Artist, Researcher and Tutor Art and Research
Honours Programme Gerrit Rietveld Academie/University of Amsterdam
Po-Wei WANG, Art Critic, Curator, Representative of the Digital Art
Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Dr. Clarissa RIBEIRO, Director of The Double Collective, researcher at
ECA – USP / School of Communications and Arts, University of Sao Paulo,
Brazil
Dr. Dmitry GALKIN, Institute for Arts and Culture, Tomsk State
University, Russia
Assoc. Prof. Bent FAUSING, Aesthetics and Visual Communications in
Modern Media, University of Copenhagen, Director of the international
research program: Sensoric Image Science, Denmark
Dr. Suzana MILEVSKA, Art historian and Curator, Faculty of Fine Arts,
Skopje
Dr. Melentie PANDILOVSKI, Director, Video Pool Media Arts Centre,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Nina SOSNA, Russian University for Humanities
Dr. Karin WENZ, Director of studies MA Media Culture, Maastricht
University
Dr. Emmanuelle LOUBET, New Media artist, sound creator, programmer and
web developer, researcher, Canada / Japan
Dr. Annette FINNSDOTTIR, Design & E-Concept Developing at Zibat, Campus
Køge bei Køge Business School, Kopenhagen, Denmark
Prof. Raquel HERRERA, freelance new media teacher, researcher and
translator, IDEC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Prof. Mario COSTA, Director, ARTMEDIA c / o University of Salerno-Italy,
Italy
Ed TANNENBAUM, Independent media Arstist, Crockett, US
Karin KAROUSSOS, PhD Researcher and Independent Artist,Athens School of
Fine Arts, Greek
Natale CUCINIELLO, Media Artist – Torre del Greco, 1946, Italy
Dr. Michael HOHL, Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus University Weimar
Dr. Chris MEIGH-ANDREWS, The Electronic & Digital Art Unit (EDAU) ,
School of Art, Design & Performance, University of Central Lancashire,
Preston, UK
Dragana ZAREVSKA, Visual and performing arts practitioner and
researcher, Macedonia
Dr. Vince BRIFFA, Head of Department of Digital Arts, University of
Malta
Gudrun BIELZ, Artist, visiting artist at the Royal Academy of Arts,
London and PhD student at the University of Reading, UK.
Jens H. STRECK, computer scientist, University of Sussex, UK
Marisa OLSON, Artist, State University of New York, Purchase College
Prof. Simone MICHELIN, Coordinator Visual Arts/Sculpture, School of Fine
Arts, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Margit ROSEN, ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Dr. Daniel GIFILLAN, Arizona State University
Simon TAYLOR, independent researcher, SquareWhiteWorld, New Zealand
Dr Daniel PALMER, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash
University
Prof. Thierry BARDINI, Université de Montréal
Stephen KOVATS, Initiator / Director, McLuhan in Europe 2011 Network
Reidar WASENIUS, Personal Brainer at BRIIM Center, Helsinki, Finland
Andreas TRESKE, Lecturer, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir/Turkey
Prof. Dr. Atau Tanaka, Director, Culture Lab Newcastle, Visiting Fellow,
Goldsmiths Digital Studios
Bani BRUSADIN, director of The Influencers festival, collaborator of
Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, professor at Elisava –
Barcelona, Spain
Garrett LYNCH, new media artist, University of Glamorgan, Wales
Prof. Monika FLEISCHMANN, Research Artist & Scientist, Fraunhofer
Research, Germany
Wolfgang STRAUSS, Research Artist & Scientist, Fraunhofer Research,
Germany
Slavko KACUNKO, Professor for Kunsthistorie og Visuel Kultur, Institut
for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab
Virginia PANIAGUA, artist and PhD researcher, Universidad de Castilla La
Mancha, Spain
Jonathan MUNRO, Artist, curator and co-director TINT, MFA student at
Goldsmiths, London
Piotr KRAJEWSKI, President and Chief Curator, WRO Art Center, Poland
Duda VALLE, artist , Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Rika OHARA, Artist/filmmaker, Bluefat Magazine, Los Angeles, USA
Anna MAJ, Ph.D., researcher and curator, University of Silesia,
Katowice, Poland
Michał Derda-NOWAKOWSKI, Ph.D., researcher and curator, University of
Lodz, Poland
Rafael FAJARDO, Associate Professor Emergent Digital Practices
University of Denver
Conrad GLEBER, PhD Professor & Director Digital Arts & Multimedia
Design, La Salle University, Philadelphia
Professor Gail RUBINI, Professor of Art and Design, Director of the BFA
Program in Design, Florida State University, Tallhassee, Florida, USA
Samuel RACINE, artist.
Lene DENHART, Art historian, independent researcher, Copenhagen, Denmark
Celka STRAUGHN, PhD, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas,
Sachiko HAYASHI, Independent Artist, Curator, Editor for online journal
Hz‑Journal, Founder of DIAN‑network, Sweden
Dr. Daniela REIMANN, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Peter S BRIGGS, PhD, Graduate Faculty, Center for Advanced Study of
Museum Science and Heritage Management, Museum of Texas Tech University
Cathy BRICKWOOD, Programme Manager, Virtueel Platform, NL
Dr. Gianluca MURA, Politecnico di Milano University,Italy
Rosemary O’NEILL, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Art History, Parsons The
New School for Design
Gabriel VANEGAS, Botaniq.org – Conservation of experiences with media
art. Bogotá-Colombia
Kate Nearpass OGDEN, Associate Professor of Art History, The Richard
Stockton College of New Jersey
Rita SÁ, Artist, PhD student at the Faculty of Engineering of the
University of Oporto (FEUP), Portugal
Jo Ana Morfin GUERRERO (mexico), PhD researcher Bristol University
Michael DIETER, Lecturer Media Studies, The University of Amsterdam
Laura BENECH, artist, Argentina
Jennifer CHAN, Artist/curator/researcher, MFA Syracuse University,
Department of Transmedia, specializing Art Video, USA .
Denisa KERA, Ph.D, Assistant Professor , Communications &Programme, Science Technology Society Research Cluster, National
University in Singapore
Lars GUSTAF, Lund University, Lund Sweden
Gorica ORSHOLITS, European Graduate School
Grégoire ZABÉ, Nobox-lab > Digital media artist, ESAD Strasbourg / Art
and Design
Nathalie MAGNAN, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges, France
Derrick GISCLOUX, independant artist and director at CreArtCom Studio,
Lyon, France
Dr. Ximena ALARCÓ, CRiSAP, University of the Arts London
Michelle MENZIES, University of Chicago
Lello MASUCCI, Direttore Artistico dell’Atelier Multimediale, Project
Leader di OLE Officina di Letteratura Elettronica
Prof Barbara GLOWCZEWSKI, Directrice de recherche (Professorial
researcher) at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale
(CNRS/EHESS/Collège de France)
Margarita PAKSA, Professor, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
PerMagnus LINDBORG, composer | BA Oslo Cursus Ircam DEA Paris‑4,
assistant professor | School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang
Technological University
Vladimir TODOROVIC (Assistant Professor) | Interactive Media | School of
Art, Design & Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Fabián RIOS, media artist – multimedia developer.
Judith NOTHNAGEL, Independent artist and Founder Globalscreen.org
Ricard GRAS, Digital Media Producer
Rejane CANTONI, Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
Leonardo CRESCENTI, independent artist, São Paulo, Brazil
Marco DONNARUMMA, Researcher at SLE, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Alejandro TAMAYO, Interdisciplinary artist and researcher. Bogotá,
Colombia
Suzette WORDEN, Independent Researcher and Historian, Perth, Western
Australia
Dr. Wolfgang SCHNEIDER, Gesellschaft für Elektronische Kunst
Gladbeck/Köln, Germany
Ass. Prof. Dr. Kris PAULSEN, History of Art, The Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH
Kellie MORGAN, Data Coordinator and New Media Specialist, Brooklyn
Museum; and Index Festival Co-organizer
Hanna HÖLLING, researcher and conservator for contemporary art and new
media, University of Amsterdam
Alison FRAUNHAR, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Design,
Saint Xavier University, Chicago
Dr. Stefanie LUCCI, art critic, curator, Duesseldorf, Germany
Dr. Dagmar A. RIEDEL, Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University
Heike HELFERT, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany
Andreas TENPLIN, visual artist, Berlin
Vanessa Ramos-VELASQUEZ, Interdisciplinary Artist, Flusser Award
Distinction (VFTA) at Transmediale.11 | Independent Researcher:
Flusser_Archiv, Universität der Künste, Berlin.
Erwin LIEDKE [boardmember] artLABOR e.v. for communication of
contemporary art, zur kommunikation zeitgenoessischer kunst
Ana CARVALHO, visual artist and independent researcher, Porto, Portugal
Paul FEIGELFELD, MA, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für
Musikwissenschaft und Medienwissenschaft
Gabriel HUBMANN, Cofounder of the project Studierendengespräche and
student of art history, Vienna, Austria
Dubravka Duba SAMBOLEC, Artist & Prof. of Fine Art, Academy of fine Art
in Oslo, Norway
Jasmin FARAND, Consultant/Researcher, Communication-research-creation,
Gatineau, QC.
Uršula BERLOT, Assistant ProfeSsor at the Academy of Fine Arts and
Design, University of Ljubljana
Dr. Bruno LESSARD, Assistant Professor, School of Image Arts, Ryerson
University, Toronto
Jan MARONTATE Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Communication, Simon
Fraser University, Canada
Rachael ARRIGHI, Interdisciplinary Critical Theory (Science, Technology
& The Humanites and Media Studies), Writer
Brigitte NEUFELDT, fine arist, media artist, master of art, curator,
Germany
Enrico TOMASELLI, Magmart Festival Art Director
Mechthild SCHMIDT, faculty Digital Communications and Media (DCoM), New
York University, USA
Prof. Dr. Mónica Benítez DÁVILA, Chief of Art and Humanities Department,
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana- Lerma. México
Paul HERTZ, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Martha ROSLER, Professor II of Art, Mason Gross School of the Arts,
Rutgers University, NJ
Aprille Best GLOVER, visual artist, France
Horea AVRAM, PhD candidate and independent curator, Art History and
Communication Studies, McGill University, Montreal
Eva FORGACS, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
Neil JENKINS. Artist and curator. Sydney, Australia
Mechthild SCHMIDT,Digital Communications and Media (DCoM), New York
University
Prof. Cedomir VASIC, University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Dr. Joseph NECHVATAL, MFACA School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York
M. Gökhan ASLAN, MA, Research Assistant, Dogus University, Editor, KULT
cultural studies journal
Julian STALLABRASS, Professor, Courtauld Institute of Art
Wolf LIESER, director, DAM Projects GmbH, Germany
Madelon HOOYKAAS, media artist, advisor, lectures/workshops on
intermedia arts in Europe and North America, founder of the Salon
InterMission, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Beat SUTER, Lecturer Game Design, University of the Arts Zurich,
Switzerland
Prof. Johannes BIRRINGER, Chair in Drama and Performance Technologies,
Brunel University, London
Lonce WYSE, Associate Professor, Communications and New Media, Director,
IDMI Arts and Creativity Lab, National University of Singapore
Dr. Andréia Machado OLIVEIRA, Prof. Graduate Program of Visual Arts,
Chair of ICT in Education, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria/UFSM –
Brasil
Dr. Jie WU, Associate professor and Representative of Digital Media
Design, College of Design & Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai
Grethe MITCHELL, Reader in DIgital and New Media, Lincoln School of
Media, University of Lincoln.
Elke GRUHN, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany
Dr. Katharina GSOELLPOINTNER, Institute of Systemic Media Research,
Vienna, Austria
Ian CLOTHIER, Electronic artist, Executive Director, Intercreate
Research Centre/WITT Aotearoa New Zealand
Morten SØNDERGAARD, AAU cph, Denmark
José‑Carlos MARAIÁTEGUI, MSc.  Director, Alta Tecnología Andina /
Escuelab.org (Lima, Perú) / Researcher, Informations Systems and
Innovation Group, London School of Economics and Political Science,
(London, UK)
Sebastian SPRENGER, M.A., media scientist/art historian, Karlsruhe
University of Arts and Design
Prof. Dr. Charlotte KLOCK, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte,
Institute of Art and Visual History; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Somaya LANGLEY, Digital Preservation Specialist, National Library of
Australia
Reiner STRASSER, Artist, Germany
Dr Brigitta ZICS, Director of Digital Media, Culture Lab, King’s Walk,
Newcastle University, UK
Prof Lorenzo TAITUI, Art & Media Architectural Faculty Rome Italy
Florian WIENCEK, Research Center “Visual Communication and Expertise”,
Jacobs University Bremen
Dr. Dr. Lino García Morales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Jennifer A. GONZALEZ, Associate Professor, University of California,
Santa Cruz
Peter KRAPP, Professor, Film & Media/Visual Studies, English,
Informatics, University of California, Irvine
Prof. dr. Janez STREHOVIEC, Elmcip Principal Investigator, Uni. of
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Theresa SCHUBERT-MINSKI, PhD researcher / Ars Electronica Archive, Linz,
Austria
Ekmel ERTAN, Artistic Director of amberPlatform / BIS
Prof. Dr. Christopher SALTER, Director Hexagram Concordia/Design
+Computation Arts, Concordia University, Montreal
Peter RICHARDSON Director Visual effects Research Lab Duncan of
Jordanstone College Of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Scotland
Helen GRACE; National Central University. Jhongli, Taiwan; Founding
Director, MA Programme in Visual Culture Studies, Chinese University of
Hong Kong
Ewa WÓJTOWICZ, PhD, University of Arts in Poznan, Poland
Annie WAN, Ph.D., Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media,
University of Washington, Seattle
Daniel López del RINCÓN, PhD student, University of Barcelona
Caroline YEAGER. Assistant Curator, Motion Picture Department, George
Eastman House
Pavel SEDLAK, CIANT | International Centre for Art  and New
Technologies, Prague, Czech Republic
Andrej BOLESLAVSKY, CIANT | International Centre for Art  and New
Technologies, Prague, Czech Republic
Natalia FONT, PhD candidate University of Exeter/Uruguay
Dušan BAROK, artist/writer, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Maria RISKOVA, researcher, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava
Noam KNOLLER, MA, MFA, Lecturer; PhD candidate, Dept. of Media Studies
and the Interface Studies Group,University of Amsterdam
Professor Don RITTER, Interactive; Multimedia Design, Hanyang
University, Seoul, South Korea
Lic. Diana ZUIK – IUNA – Argentine
Mag.ª Eva FISHER, artistic director /founder, sound:frame / Festival for
audeio:visual expressions
Richard LOWENBERG, Director of RADLab, 1st‑Mile Institute and SARC
(Scientists/Artists Research Collaborations)
Tiffany Elena WASHINGTON, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,
Ohio
Dr. Milena DOBREVA, Senior Lecturer in Library, Information and Archive
Studies, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences, University of Malta
Dr. Birgit LÖFFLER, Director, DASMAXIMUM, KunstGegenwart
Prof. Dr. Hans DICKEL, University of Erlangen‑Nuernberg, Germany
Claudia MATTOS, University of Campinas, Brazil.
Assoc. prof. Marjeta CIGLENECKI, PhD, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Iván RUIZ, Full-time researcher. Programa de Semiótica y Estudios de la
Significación. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México
Christine PREUß, artist, AdBK Nürnberg
Sylvester Okwunodu OGBECHIE, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History,
UCSB
Dr. Victoria H.F. SCOTT, Instructor of Art History, Emory University
Marcia VAITSMAN, artist, Sao Paulo and Atlanta
Stephanie SANTIAGO, student, Puerto Rico
Dr. Arnulf von ULMANN, former Head of the Institute of Art Technology
and Conservation, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg
Prof. Dr. Claire L. KOVACS; Canisius College, Buffalo, NY
Dr. Paz TORNERO, Art, Science and Technology Studies. Complutense
University of Madrid. Spain
SOFIA KATOPI, PhD candidate in History of Art at the University of
Crete, Greece
Gabriela GALATI, PhD Researcher, University of Plymouth‑Planetary
Collegium/M‑Node, Milan, Italy
Prof. Dr. Gustavo D. FISCHER, Unisinos Communications Graduate Program,
Unidade de Graduação
Dr Toni SANT, Director of Research, School of Arts & New Media,
University of Hull – Scarborough Campus, UK
Professor Simon BIGGS, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
Prof. Dr. Gunnar HEYDENREICH, Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences
/ Cologne University of Applied Sciences
Mona JIMENEZ, Associate Arts Professor/Associate Director, Moving Image
Archiving and Preservation Program, New York University
Yves BERNARD, Director, iMAL (Center for Digital Cultures and
Technology), Brussels
Prof. Dr. Jack STENNER,  Art + Technology, School of Art + Art History,
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Dr Conor MCGARRIGLE, Assistant Professor, Emergent Digital Practices,
University of Denver, Colorado, USA
Per PLATOU, Artist/Curator, Director for PNEK, Oslo, Norway
Johannes BIRRINGER; director, Interaktionslabor; Director, Center for
Contemporary and Digital Performance
School of Arts, Brunel University
Dr. Su BALLARD, Senior Lecturer Art History University of Wollongong,
Australia, and Co-Director of the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network, New
Zealand
Pamela Seymour Smith SHARP, Director, Estate of Willoughby Sharp
Profa. Dra. Giselle BEIGUELMAN, Depto. de História da Arquitetura e
Estética do Projeto, Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo,
Universidade de São Paulo
Jane de ALMEIDA, professor –  Graduate Program of Art, Education and
History of Culture at Mackenzie University (SÃO PAulo – Brazil)
Maciej OZOG, Ph.D., sound artist, researcher and curator, University  of
Lodz, Poland
Paul GREEN, Senior Lecturer, Media Communications., CCAD, Cork Institute
of Technology
Brett AGGERSBERG, New Media Lecturer, University of Wales Trinity Saint
David, UK
Yasmeen BAIG-CLIFFORD, Director, Vivid Projects Ltd
Simona LODI, artistic director of Share Festival in Turin
Prof. Dr. Miklós PETERNÁK, Director, C3 Center for Culture and
Communication, Budapest, Hungary
Reader. Mr Jon THOMSON (artist: Thomson & Craighead), The Slade School
of Fine Art, University College London
Per PLATOU, Artist/Curator, DirProf. Johannes BIRRINGER, Director, Center for Contemporary and Digital
Performance
School of Arts, Brunel University
Dr. Su BALLARD, Senior Lecturer Art History University of Wollongong,
Australia, and Co-Director of the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network, New
Zealand
Pamela Seymour Smith SHARP, Director, Estate of Willoughby Sharp
Profa. Dra. Giselle BEIGUELMAN, Depto. de História da Arquitetura e
Estética do Projeto, Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo,
Universidade de São Paulo
Prof. Jane de ALMEIDA, Graduate Program of Art, Education and History of
Culture at Mackenzie University, SÃO PAulo, Brazil
Maciej OZOG, Ph.D., sound artist, researcher and curator, University of
Lodz, Poland
Paul GREEN, Senior Lecturer, Media Communications, CCAD, Cork Institute
of Technology, Ireland
Yasmeen BAIG-CLIFFORD, Director, Vivid Projects Ltd
Brett AGGERSBERG, New Media Lecturer, University of Wales Trinity Saint
David, UK
Simona LODI, artistic director of Share Festival in Turin
Prof. Dr. Miklós PETERNÁK, Director, C3 Center for Culture and
Communication, Budapest, Hungary
Tina BASTAJIAN, media-artist, Lecturer Webster University, Leiden – PhD
Researcher University of Amsterdam
Eleanor KENT, visual artist using computers, curating high tech art,
past president of Ylem: Artists Using Science and Technology, leading
forums
Allan SIEGEL, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Intermedia Department
Detlef HASTIK, board member MEGA – Museum of Electronic Games & Art e.V.
Gabriela Previdello ORTH, researcher in Digital Art Documentation,
FILE-Electronic Language International Festival archive coordinator
Canan HASTIK, M.Eng., IKuM, Institut für Kommunikation und Medien,
Hochschule Darmstadt
Yolande KOLSTEE, Head of AR Lab and Researcher Innovative Visualisation
Techniques, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
Winnie SOON, PhD candidate; School of Arts & New Media, University of
Hull, United Kingdom
Ass. Prof. Dr. Laura BELOFF, IT-University Copenhagen, DK.
Erich BERGER, The Finnish Society of Bioart
Perttu RASTAS, Finnish National Gallery
Rajashree BISWAL iswal, Ph.D. Research Scholar (Visual Studies), School
of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi,
India
Dr. Takis ZOURNTOS, Engineer/Artist, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
Dr. James WERNER, Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Arts, Program
Coordinator for New Media Arts , Southern Polytechnic State University
Asoc.prof. Dr Rasa SMITE, RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture, Riga,
and Liepaja’s University Art Research Lab, Liepaja, Latvia
Ass.prof. Raitis SMITS, RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture, Riga,
and PhD candidate at Latvian Academy of Arts, Riga, Latvia
Victoria SZABO, Assistant Research Professor, Visual and Media Studies,
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Ksenia FEDEROVA, University of California Davis, Ural Federal University
(Russia)
Dr. Damien CHARRIERAS, Assistant Professor, School of Creative Media,
City University of Hong Kong
Marc GARRETT, Co-founder and Co-director of Furtherfield.org
Jay NEEDHAM, MFA, Associate Professor-Radio and Audio Production,
Department of Radio,Television and Digital Media, College of Mass
Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University, President
Gívan BELÀ (fka Guy Van Belle), artist, art director okno (be), worker
kravín hranice (cz)
Dragana LUCIK, Independent Art Researcher
Natalia FUCHS, Interdisciplinary Projects Curator, Polytechnic Museum,
Moscow, Russia
Catherine BEAUGRAND, artist, director of DatAData, ENSBA Lyon
Sue GOLLIFER, Director ISEA International Head Quarters, University of
Brighton, UK
Dr.Gianluca MURA, Politecnico di Milano,Italy, Arts&Design Virtual
Worlds, IJACDT Journal, OMA
Prof Paul CATANESE; Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA Program Director,
Columbia College Chicago
Barbara LATTANZI, Associate Professor of Interactive Arts, School of Art
and Design
NYSCC at Alfred University, New York
Eva SJUVE, independent media artist, Sweden
Angela FERRAIOLO, Assistant Professor of PlayaVisual Arts, Sarah Lawrence College
Ashok MISTRY, Artist
Dr Karen GASKILL, Independent Curator, London, UK
Ghislaine BODDINGTON, Creative Director, body>data>space / b>d>s,
Research Associate Artist, ResCen Middlesex University
José R. ALCALÀ, Catedrático de Universidad / New Media Art Professor.
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain