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Dear Nicholas,

please check under: http://www.mediaarthistory.org  (declaration)


Best, Oliver 


>>> Nicholas O'Brien <[log in to unmask]> 30.06.14 21.12 Uhr >>>
Is there a version of this somewhere online that isn't formatted to this
email thread?
Thanks very much for sharing Oliver!
very best


On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Oliver Grau
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wrote:

> 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..
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 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 fost> ·      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 Ca> 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 PAND> 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 Sc> 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
A> 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> 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
>



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Department of Digital Art, Pratt Institute
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