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Dr Beryl Graham is Professor of New Media Art at the University of Sunderland, and is co-founder of CRUMB resource for curators of new media art. She curated the international exhibition Serious Games for the Laing and Barbican art galleries. Her Ph.D. concerned audience relationships with interactive art in gallery settings, and she has written widely on the subject for periodicals including Leonardo, Journal of Curatorial Studies, and Art Monthly. Beryl Graham books include Digital Media Art (Heinemann 2003), Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media (MIT Press 2010 with Sarah Cook), and New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences (Ashgate 2014 ed.).  She has presented papers at conferences including Navigating Intelligence (Banff), Decoding the Digital (Victoria and Albert Museum), and Cultural Value and the Digital (Tate Modern).

http://www.berylgraham.com

Dr Jussi Parikka is Professor at the Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton) who divides his time between Istanbul and the UK. His work in media theory has received wide international attention; the various books have addressed a wide range of topics relevant to a critical understanding of network culture, aesthetics and media archaeology of the digital. The books include the media ecology-trilogy Digital Contagions (2007), Insect Media (2010) and most recently, A Geology of Media (2015), which addresses the environmental contexts of technical media culture. In addition, Parikka has published such books as What is Media Archaeology (2012) and edited various books, most recently Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History (2015, with Joasia Krysa) on the Finnish media art pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi.

http://jussiparikka.net

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