Professor in computer sciences at Paris University 11 and researcher at LIMSI-CNRS, Christian Jacquemin (FR) has worked on several Arts/Sciences projects and has led and taken part in several workshops on the topic. He is especially interested in the realization of virtual and augmented reality projects for performing arts, design, and architecture.

He has collaborated notably with Compagnie Incidents Memorables for the the development of scenographic interfaces, and also with sound and video artists such as Bertrand Planes for the "R.A.M. (Mobile Augmented Reality)" project, a prototype for a monumental mobile video projection (on a boat), and for "Organ and Augmented Reality", a concert played between a church organ and its digital double, or Roland Cahen for the collaborative project "Topophonies" on granular audio-graphic environments. He coordinates the research activities in arts and science at LIMSI-CNRS VIDA research theme (Virtuality, Interaction, Design, and Art) http://vida.limsi.fr.

Nick Collins is a composer, performer and researcher in computer music. He lectures at the University of Sussex, running the music informatics degree programmes and research group. He co-edited the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music (Cambridge University Press 2007) and The SuperCollider Book (MIT Press, 2011) and wrote the Introduction to Computer Music (Wiley 2009). iPhone apps include RISCy, Concat, BBCut and PhotoNoise for iPad. Recent concerts include live coding in a vineyard in Corfu, falling off a piano stool in Sydney, singing the 100 metres in Brighton, and playing harpsichord in Wirral. Sometimes, he writes in the third person about himself, but is trying to give it up. Further details, including publications, music, code and more, are available from http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/nc81/

Brock is an Interaction Designer, artist, and specialist in Physical Computing and Information Visualization. He has taught numerous Arduino introduction courses at conferences and in Higher Education. He is a Lecturer in Physical Computing at Goldsmiths College, University of London and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Education, London Knowledge Lab.

Brock holds a PhD in Computer Science at University College London (2007) and earned an MS in Human-Computer Interaction from DePaul University (Chicago) in 2001. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts and Manufactures and has regularly chaired the International Symposium for Design and Aesthetics in Visualization. Brock also creates electronic interactive art, and collaborates with contemporary artists on interactive installations.

Alain is a lecturer in Music and Audio Technology at Bournemouth University, England and holds a PhD from the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His research focuses on the development of networked music performance systems with an emphasis on the creation of strategies to interact over a network musically and the notion of shared networked acoustic spaces. He performs regularly over the network with the NetVs.Net collective and the Jackson4s. Alain held a residency at the Banff Centre for the Art, The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, where he was a visiting scholar in 2007. He is also involved as an advisor in the EU network performance project, CoMeDia.

Besides a practical training in programming and electrical engineering, Dr. Alexander Carôt has actively been playing bass and the NS-Chapman-Stick in several rock, pop and jazz ensembles. In 2004 he received a german engineering diploma within an interdisciplinary study program in order to combine the arts and technology. Motivated by the passion for remote music performances with musicians in different places, he completed his PhD in computer science in 2009 at the University of Lübeck/Germany. In this context he developed the "Soundjack" software (http://www.soundjack.eu), which has been used in numerous network music performances all over the world. In 2010 he has been appointed Full Professor in media computer science at the University of Applied Sciences, Anhalt, Germany. Besides continuously improving “Soundjack” in terms of signal latency, quality and user friendliness he is playing in the avant-garde jazz project "Triologue" (http:/www.triologue.de). In his recent research activities he is focusing on novel multimodal delayoptimized transmission approaches and the application of superluminal signal propagation based on quantum-mechanical effects.

Bruno Herbelin is a researcher in Virtual Reality, currently working in a laboratory of neuroscience. This interdisciplinarity is also applied in his artistic activities which are related but independant from his research work. He has been working with artists since 1997 on various multimedia installations and performances (Icare by Ivan Chabanaud, Techno-wedding by Fred Forest, Flying Cities EU project with Elisa Zurlo, Babilu Volati with Lars Graugaard and Kristoffer Jensen, Versus with Lars Graugaard). Bruno is creator of the realtime graphics mixing software glMixer (http://code.google.com/p/glmixer/)

Johanna stayed abroad in Austria and Israel and lives in Germany now. Beside working as a freelancer where she is dancing for different companies, Johanna creates her own dance pieces and gives workshops/classes for dance, GYROKINESIS® and interactive environments for adults and kids.

Jacob Korn was born in Germany in the early 80’s. His sound is influenced by Kraftwerk and the sound of 90’s techno and house music. After a decade of sowing different musical seeds Jacob Korn is back in the straight 4/4-domain. Given his history in glitch inspired electronica and hiphop, he continually experiments in new recording styles and production techniques, while developing his own music tools for cross media arts and interactive performances.

He played live or as a DJ in clubs and at festivals in Canada (RBMA-Toronto), Spain (Sonár Festival-Barcelona), Netherlands (Picnic at Night-Amsterdam), Sweden, Switzerland (Formbar-Bern), Austria and Germany (Cookies-Berlin).

Valerie Francoise Vogt is currently finishing her design studies at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, Dresden. Her speciality is breaking out of the computer and including the real world into her work, her passion is programming but her love is for everything that happens on the stage. Be it theater, dance or music.

Marko Ritter has been wandering the transdisciplinary path of mixing code, artistic expression and game design for some years now. He is co-founder of the dresden-based interaction studio intolight.

Nora Dibowski and Simon Laburda are working and experimenting in the fields of media art, electronics, prototyping and sustainable innovations in Vienna. In the last two years they focused LED technology and realized several LED driven projects.

Philip Fischer is a board member of 5uper.net and project coordinator of daal – digital arts and architecture lab. Together with 5uper.net he produced symposia, workshops and exhibitions in Museums Quartier Vienna, Kunsthaus Graz and various Off-Spaces (e.g. Playfulness, Vizinhos – Networked Arts in Brazil, Coded Cultures). Besides organizing, Philip is researching on man-machine-interaction, new architectural interfaces and hybrid media evolutions. He is actively developing prototypes in the areas between arts, architecture and biology.

Michal Wlodkowski is one of the founders of 5uper.net, coordinator of the festival Coded Cultures – Exploring Creative Emergences and independent software designer. Since the founding of 5uper.net he has curated and produced various exhibitions, art-related events and projects, situated at the intersections of design, media, art and technology, among them Coded Cultures – Decoding Digital Culture in 2004. Besides his engagement as a curator and artist, Michal Wlodkowski develops projects and researches in the fields of cybernetics and communication theory.

Erkin Bayirli deals with contemporary trends in art and architecture. He realized several projects of bamboo in tensegrity design in Vienna and Montpellier, France. He organized several symposia and workshops and was the head of the studio community LTEX. Together with Philip Fischer he founded DAAL - Digital Arts & Architecture Lab. Erkin is researching on kinetic architectural structures, biomimetics and sustainability. He currently focuses on the project 'superViVo'.

Lars Graugaard is a composer, musician and researcher with an MA in flute performance and a PhD in the artistic and technological challenges of interactive music and multimedia. He has more than 160 compositions in all genres to his credit, and has participated on numerous CDs for dacapo/Marco Polo, Classico, Centaur, EMI, SONY Classical and CBS ao. as well as various netlabels. He moves freely between sophisticated surroundings and popular culture, and his production comprises digital experiments into the latest trends of interactive music, installations and cross-modal forms, as well as popular projects and compositions in the modernistic European tradition. His research interests include emotion detection and synthesis in music and derived embodied forms of interactive music performance.

Dan Overholt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He received a PhD in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a M.S. from the MIT Media Lab, and studied Electronics Engineering and Music (violin performance) at CSU, Chico. His work has been presented worldwide at academic conferences and new media arts festivals, and his awards include, among others, a Fulbright scholarship and a National Science Foundation fellowship in Interactive Digital Media. As a musician, he composes and performs internationally with experimental human-computer interfaces and musical signal processing algorithms, and he has also worked as a design and engineering consultant in industry for companies such as Eventide, E-mu, and Echo Audio.

The FeM streaming team is a group of enthusiastic students who provide professional live video streaming and archiving services for big venues such as the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. The team is part of the Forschungsgemeinschaft elektronische Medien e.V. (FeM), the largest student society at the Technical University Ilmenau. FeM was founded in 1997 and counts 1800 members today. The motto is: "FeM connects. Young people come together to be active." FeM's mission is making new and professional media technology accessible to students. FeM supports everyone who is interested in new media and gives people the chance to realise ideas and collect experiences in a multitude of fields. Students with a common interest can join one of the existing working groups or start a new group to work and research together and learn how to manage teams and events. Everyone who likes to realise own creative ideas, work on his/her management skills and is looking for self-fullfillment is welcome at FeM. Possibilities to explore are almost unlimited.

Lisa Wymore has a company called Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts that she Co-Directs with Sheldon B. Smith. Their work places the inherent beauty of the body in motion, both choreographed and improvised, in deeply conceptual and human-centered environments that are supported and enhanced by technology. From these investigations Disappearing Acts creates abstract narratives built on a foundation of physical experimentation, improvisation, text, song and digital image. The result is a new aesthetic that is at once oddly familiar, and beautifully odd.

The company's work has been presented by national and international festivals such as: the Dublin Fringe Festival, the Minneapolis Spark Festival, the Earagail Arts Festival in Donegal Ireland, and the [Kon.[Text]] Symposium in Zurich, Switzerland. The company has won numerous awards including Best Interdisciplinary Performance and Best Use of Technology at the Chicago PAC/Edge Festival 2004 and was nominated for two 2006 Isadora Duncan awards for Best Choreography and Best Design. Lisa Wymore is the Director of the Dance Program within the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley.

Annika Luschin was born in Graz, Austria. Since she finished her studies at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, School for New Dance Development in 1999 (BA diploma in dance and choreography) Annika Luschin has been working as dancer, choreographer and teacher in dance and yoga mainly in the Netherlands, Austria and Norway. Together with composer Lars Skoglund she founded the performance group WILDLAKS in 2008. Her work has been shown in whole Europe and Indonesia. She is working with preset, choreographed dances as well as instantly composed pieces (improvisation). Annika Luschin likes to collaborate with musicians and other artists of different fields. She has initiated the ongoing event SHARING DANCES where dances written by international dance artists are passed on to other people: from word to movement, for dancers and non-dancers alike. Annika Luschin has been teaching at various schools, universities and studios, like Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (School for New Dance Development), Amsterdamse Theater Akademie, University of Tromsø (Faculty of the Arts) and Rom for dans in Oslo. She also holds teacher’s degrees in Classical Yoga and in Vijnana Yoga. Currently she divides her time between Austria and Norway.

Education from London and Amsterdam with long experience as a dancer from Belgium (Wim Vandekeybus, Pierre Droulers) and Norway (Stellaris DansTeater). Made own performances since 1996 (a.o. LAG ’06, Jesus sa: Gå nå du Maria, jeg orker ikke mer….’08, En Ramme for Nostalgi ’09) often in collaboration with different individual artists, composers, musicians and visual artists. Runs Haugen Produksjoner with her sister AK Haugen, their first performance "Sisters" was bought up by Riksteatret, NO. Was participating in starting Bains::Connective an artistcollective in Brussels, and RadArt a network for independent artists in Tromsø. Teaches improvisation, reasearches on text in relation to dance, is in an ongoing process of deepening the understanding of movement.