e-mail: blank@sero.org

homepage: http:// sero.org

http://www.hgb-leipzig.de/person/blank.htm

name: Joachim Blank
gender: male
nationality: Germany

Joachim Blank,
born 1963 in Aachen (Germany), lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig.

He works together with Karl Heinz Jeron as an artist duo. Since 1991 Blank & Jeron have worked together on different projects, since 1993

Internet projects in the context of art and culture. In 1996 they founded their netart server http:// sero.org and realized several projects on "information.recycling" and "information.smog".

They are currently working on hybrid projects which involve the Internet but extend into real space as hangings, objects, reactive installations and events.

They have shown and presented their work at national and international exhibitions and symposia like documenta x (Germany), netcondition (ZKM, Germany), Ars Electronica (Austria).

Joachim Blank is teaching as an Associate Professor for Media Art at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig.


project : http://sero.org and "heaven 194.94.211.200"(1997)

What is netart ;-)?

http://www2.rcp.net.pe/lagaleria/blank/netart.htm

http://www.irational.org/cern/netart.txt

e-mail: bookchin@calarts.edu

homepage:http://www.calarts.edu/~bookchin

USA

Natalie Bookchin lives in Echo Park in Los Angeles.

She occasionally trys to get around to going to the beach and working in her succulent southern California garden-in-progress. She also drives a lot.

Natalie Bookchin is an artist who works in new and old media. She exhibits her work, lectures and performs frequently in the States, in Europe and in cyberspace. In 1998 and 1999 she exhibited her work in France, Switzerland, England, the United States, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Macedonia, and Canada. She was included in the first exhibition of electronic art organized by New York City's Creative Time Inc. for their annual show at the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage. Her recent works have been reviewed in dozens of national and international journals including The New York Times on-line and off line,Artforum, the Berlin Tax, die tageszeitung , ABC National Radio in Australia and French Canadian television,She studied in the Whitney Independent Studies Program in New York and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Natalie Bookchin is an artist working in new and old media. She is is a member of the faculty at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. She does not have her own domain, but can often be found squatting on others. She exhibits her work and lectures widely in the States, in Europe and on line. Her work has been written about in such places as ArtForum and The New York Times. Her most recent projects include is a computer game based on a short story by Jorge Luis Borges entitled The Intruder http://calarts.edu/~bookchin/intruder an collective/art class called power of the line http://calarts.edu/~line and a series of lectures and workshops in los angeles at http://calarts.edu/~ntntnt

Digtal Revolution?

http://www.calarts.edu/~bookchin/revolution_syllabus.html

http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/beyondinterface/bookchin_fr.html

http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/200003/msg00052.html

e-mail: alexei@easylife.org
e-mail: webmaster@easylife.org

homepage: http://easylife.org/

Russia

Alexei Shulgin was born in 1963 in Moscow .

Alexei Shulgin is a Moscow based artist, musician, curator, activist and professor. In his work he explores the boundaries between art, culture and technology in their relation to "real life" effects and vice versa. His favorite methods are mixing contexts and questioning the existing states of things. Shulgin has participated in numerous exhibitions and symposiums on photography, contemporary art and new media.

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Art, Power, and Communication.

http://lois.kud-fp.si/~vuk/zkp321/art/24.htm

http://sunsite.cs.msu.su/wwwart

http://www.easylife.org/

Introduction to net.art (1994-1999)

http://www.easylife.org/netart/

e-mail: rax@pop.thing.at
homepage: http://www.t0.or.at/~radrian/

Born in Toronto, Canada. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria

Robert Adrian began working with communication technology in 1979 and organised a number of projects involving fax, slow-scan tv, amateur radio, BBSs etc. during the 80s and 90s. In April, 1995 he initiated Kunstradio On Line http://kunstradio.at/, the web-site of the radio art programme Kunstradio and continued as webmaster of KR online untill April 2000. He has also continued to work with different media including installation, model-making, photography, painting, sculpture and computer and his work has been included in many international exhibitions. He writes and publishes about the post-industrial revolution and its effects on art and culture. A major retrospective will take place next year at the Kunsthalle Vienna.

net.art on nettime

http://www.ljudmila.org/nettime/zkp4/37.htm

e-mail:grahamew@sva.edu

e-mail: string@interport.net

homepage: http://www.grahameweinbren.com/

Germany

Grahame Weinbren is a pioneer of interactivity.

He has made interactive cinema art-works since the early 1980s. His installations have been exhibited internationally, at museums including the Whitney Museum, the Bonn Kunsthalle, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and the Centre Pompidou; and at festivals including the Kwangju Biennale in Korea and the Berlin International Film Festival.He made films since the early 1970s, and has edited features, documentaries, music videos, and commercials. He has published widely on interactivity and cinema, and has lectured on interactivity and cinema throughout the world since 1982; he has been editor of the Millennium Film Journal, a journal of avant-garde film, video and works in other image technologies, since 1986. He teaches in the graduate Computer Art and Photography programs of the School of Visual Arts, and was a visiting artist at Harvard University in the the Fall of 1997.

Grahame Weinbren has been developing an interactive cinema for 20 years. His installations have been exhibited worldwide, including the Whitney Museum, Centre Pompidou, ICA in London, NTT-ICC in Tokyo, and Bonn Kunsthalle. He publishes and lectures internationally on cinema, interactivity, and new media and he has been an editor of the Millennium Film Journal since 1986. This text was originally delivered as a lecture at the College Art Association conference in Spring 2000.

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The Digital Revolution is a Revolution of Random Access.

http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/film/6113/1.html

http://www.heise.de/tp/english/default.html

http://www.rvi.com/weinbren.html

e-mail farmer@zip.com.au

Interactive creative writing

http://www.austega.com/interactive/hfdefn.htm

e-mail:manovich@ucsd.edu

homepage: http://www.manovich.net/

USA

Associate Professor at the Visual Arts Department,
University of California, San Diego.

Lev Manovich is an artist, a theorist and a critic of new media.He is the author of The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2000), Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University Press, 1993) as well as over fifty articles which have been translated into many languages and published in 20 countries. Currently he is working on a new book provisionally titled Info-aesthetics.

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1996

1999

1997

On Totalitarian Interactivity.

http://www.manovich.net/text/totalitarian.html

Avant-garde as Software

http://www.manovich.net/docs/avantgarde_as_software.doc

Behind the Screen

http://www.manovich.net/text/behind.html

http://www.manovich.net/

http://www.heise.de/tp/english/default.html

e-mail: daniels@hgb-leipzig.de

Germany

Professor für Kunstgeschichte und Medientheorie

FB-Leiter Medienkunst

1957 in Bonn geboren
Studium an der Universität Bonn und der Technischen Hochschule Aachen

seit 1993 Professur für Kunstgeschichte und Medientheorie

Utopia - what for?

http://www.hgb-leipzig.de/theorie/utopiae_daniels.html

http://www.hgb-leipzig.de/person/daniels.htm

http://www.hgb-leipzig.de/theorie/

e-mail: jesis@xs4all.nl

homepage: http://laudanum.net/cgi-bin/media.cgi?action=frontpage

Netherlands

Critic/Theorist, Amsterdam

Lives and works in Amsterdam.

Coming from an art background, made radioprograms for pirate radio (Patapoe) and VPRO about art, new media and mediatheory. Since a year she has published texts and interviews on the net regularly (nettime, Telepolis, Mute). she is especially interested in net.art, net.radio and the development of media theory.

1997

Is it a commercial? Is it spam? It is net.art!

http://www.metamute.com/issue10/bosma.htm

"Recycling the Future",

http://kunstradio.at/FUTURE/RTF/SYMPOSIUM/LECTURES/BOSMA/bosma.html

http://www.metamute.com/issue10/index.htm

http://www.metamute.com/

http://laudanum.net/cgi-bin/media.cgi

e-mail: ekac@artic.edu

homepage: http://www.ekac.org/

USA

Eduardo Kac is an artist and writer who investigates the philosophical and political dimensions of communication processes. Equally concerned with the aesthetic and the social aspects of verbal and non-verbal interaction, in his work Kac examines linguistic systems, dialogic exchanges, and interspecies communication.

Kac's pieces, which often link virtual and physical spaces, propose alternative ways of understanding the cultural implications of communication phenomena. Internationally known in the '80s as a pioneer of Holopoetry and Telepresence Art, in the '90s Kac created the new categories of Biotelematics (art in which a biological process is intrinsically connected to digital networks) and Transgenic Art (new art form based on the use of genetic engineering techniques to create unique living beings).

Kac's work has been exhibited in venues such as Exit Art, New York, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, and InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo. Kac's works belong to the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Holography in Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, among others. Kac has received numerous grants and awards for his work. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Leonardo, published by MIT Press.

Two books document Kac's work with critical texts by North American, European, South American, and Japanese scholars: "Teleporting An Unknown State" (1998) and "Eduardo Kac: Telepresence, Biotelematics, Transgenic Art" (2000). Eduardo Kac is a Ph.D. research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Arts (CAiiA) at the University of Wales, Newport, United Kingdom. He is an Assistant Professor of Art and Technology at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Eduardo Kac can be contacted at: ekac@artic.edu. His work can be seen at: http://www.ekac.org.

Interactive ART on the internet

http://www.ekac.org/InteractiveArtontheNet.html

e-mail: geert@xs4all.nl

homepage: http://www.thing.desk.nl/bilwet/

Holland

Selected Biography:

Geert Lovink was born in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands in 1959. After graduating in political science from Amsterdam University he worked as an independent new media-theorist, publisher and radio-maker. He is the founder of numerous Internet initiatives. He is an organizer of conferences, online forums, publications and projects such as community Internet providers, mailinglists and media laboratories. Over the last fifteen years he has lived and worked in Berlin, Budapest and throughout Central and Eastern Europe, teaching media theory and supporting independent media and new media culture. He was an editor of the new media arts magazine Mediamatic (1989-1994) and is a member of Adilkno, from which two books have appeared in English translation: Cracking the Movement (1994) and The Media Archive (1998). In 1995, he co-founded the international mailinglist Nettime, from which material was brought together in the "README!" anthology (1999). He is now based in Canberra.

Extended Biography:
Geert Lovink (1959, Amsterdam), media theorist and Internet critic, based in Canberra. Studied political science on the University of Amsterdam. Member of Adilkno, a free association of media-related intellectuals established in 1983 (Agentur Bilwet auf Deutsch).

From Adilkno the following books appeared: 'Empire of Images' (1985), 'Cracking the Movement' (1990) on the squatter movement and the media, the collected theoretical work 'The Media Archive' (1992-98 - translated into German, English, Croatian and Slovenian), the collection of essays 'The > > Datadandy' (1994 - in German) and the book/CD 'Electronic Solitude' (1997 in German). On his own name a title appeared in German called “Listen or Die (Berlin, 1992). Pluto Press Australia will in March 2001 publish a collection of his interviews with international media theorists, critics and artists.

He is a former editor of the media art magazine Mediamatic (1989-94) and has been working and teaching media theory throughout Central And Eastern Europe (Germany, Romania, Hungary) He is a co-founder of the freenet 'Digital City' (http://www.dds.nl), the support campaign for independent media in South-East Europe "Press Now" http://www.dds.nl/pressnow and co-organizer of conferences such as Next Five Minutes 1-3 (93-96-99) http://www.n5m.org, Metaforum 1-3 (Budapest 94-96) http://www.mrf.hu, Ars Electronica (Linz, 1996/98) http://www.aec.at and Interface 3 (Hamburg, 1995).

In the spring of 1995, together with Pit Schultz, he founded the international 'nettime' circle http://www.nettime.org which is both a mailinglist (in English, Dutch, Romanian, French and Spanish/Portuguese), a series of meetings and publications such as zkp 1-4, Netzkritik (ID-Archiv, 1997) and Readme! (Autonomedia, 1999). Over the years he has been an active coordinator and contributor to the international nettime list community.

From 1996-2000 he was based at Amsterdam new media center De Waag, the Society for Old and New Media (http://www.waag.org) where he was responsible for public research. Since 1996, once a year he has been coordinating a project and teaching at the IMI mediaschool in Osaka/Japan http://www.iminet.ac.jp. A series of temporary media labs was started in 1997 at the art exhibition Documenta X in Kassel/Germany called Hybrid Workspace (for archive see http://www.medialounge.net which continued in Manchester (1998) and Helsinki, in the contemporary arts museum Kiasma http://www.kiasma.fi/temp and is planned to take place in Paris (LaVillette) in March 2001.

A recent project is the Tulipomania Dotcom conference, which took place in Amsterdam and Frankfurt, June 2000, focussing on a critique of the New Economy www.balie.nl/tulipomania, of which a reader, edited by Geert Lovink came out in August 2000. He edited the catalogue of the first international streaming media festival, http://net.congestion.org (Amsterdam, October 2000).

From Speculative Media Theory To Net Criticism
Lecture at ICC, Tokyo, 19.12.96

http://www.thing.desk.nl/bilwet/TXT/ICC.txt

e-mail: rpacker@zakros.com

USA

Randall Packer is one of San Francisco's pioneering multimedia artists, composers and producers. Director of Multimedia, San Jose Museum of Art Randall Packer is a composer and media artist, who is director of multimedia at the San Jose Museum of Art and lecturer in digital media in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley. He has just completed an interactive timeline installation for the Museum's recent exhibition, "Alternating Currents: American Art in the Age of Technology", and is currently developing an on-line gallery project focusing on web-specific art.

Founder of Zakros InterArts / New Music Theatre in 1988, he has produced seminal interdisciplinary performance artworks, new music events, and lectures by such 20th century groundbreakers as John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Brian Eno, Laurie Anderson and Morton Subotnick.He has also created original works exploring new forms of interaction between live performance and the electronic media.

Recently he completed two CD-ROMs of computer films and interactive media that were premiered this year at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival. As an educator, Randall Packer was the first instructor and former director of San Francisco State University's acclaimed Multimedia Studies Program, one of the most comprehensive multimedia programs in the nation.

For the past fifteen years, his work as an artist and historian has taken him around the world where he has held residencies at several institutes including Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), IRCAM (Institute for the Research and Coordination of Music) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and CCRMA (Center for the Coordination and Research in Music and Acoustics) at Stanford University. Packer lectures extensively on multimedia theory and aesthetics. He is currently a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Berkeley, where he is teaching interdisciplinary art practices and the history of multimedia.

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Eulogy for the Utopian Dream of the Net

http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/universalpage/universal_eulogy.html

Net Art as Theater of the Senses
A HyperTour of Jodi and Grammatron

http://art.berkeley.edu//dmz/context/randall/randall.html

e-mail: vuk@ljudmila.org

homepage: http://www.vuk.org/

http://www.vukcosic.org/

Slovenia / Yugoslavia

Vuk Cosic is an internet artist. His current "job" is at Ljudmila, the Ljubljana Digital Media Lab, providing Web-Sites for the Slovenian art community. Befor he worked as political activist, studied archaeologist and cultural manager.

A pioneer in the field of net.art, Cosic is one of the earliest participants and/or founders of nettime, syndicate and 7-11 mailing lists. Cosic has a background in political activism and archaeology. In 1997 he shocked the art world by stealing the Documenta X web site right before it was to be taken off line and marketed as a CD-ROM.

Art was only a substitute for the Internet
Interview: Tilman Baumgartel

http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/ku/6158/1.html

e-mail: stevedietz@yproductions.com

USA

Director, New Media Initiatives Walker Art Center

Steve Dietz is the founding Director of New Media Initiatives at the Walker Art Center, where he is also responsible for the programming of the online Gallery 9 and co-initiated the Integrated Arts Information Access project (IAIA).

He was formerly the head of publications and new media initiatives at the National Museum of American Art, where he established one of the earliest and most extensive museum Web sites. He co-produced the CD-ROM "National Museum of American Art," which won the first prize in Arts and Culture at the 1997 international MILIA festival.

He is the principal of YProductions, which works with museums to architect digitally-based cultural programming. He is currently on the board of the Museum Computer Network (MCN) and is a past member of the executive committee of the coalition for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) and project coordinator for NMAA's participation in the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL).

Curating (on) the Web Museums in an Interface Culture.

http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/papers/dietz/

beyondinterface

http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/beyondinterface/

e-mail: ensemble@critical-art.net

homepage: http://www.critical-art.net/

USA

"Utopian Promises, Net Realities"

http://www.critical-art.net/lectures/interface.html

a story of net art 1994-1999