Contributors 2009

Miha Ciglar (1980) is a composer and audio artist. He is a student of the Academy of Music and of the Technical University in Graz (Austria). Since 2001, he has been presenting himself at art festivals all over the world with original compositions for various acoustic instruments, electro-acoustic and interactive-dance performances, computer music, and audio-visual installations.

In 2002, Nika Autor (1982) inscribes painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. In 2005, she is an exchange student at the Satakunta Polytechnic Fine Art Kankaanpaa in Finland, and for three months in 2006 at the University of Fine Arts Poznan in Poland. In 2005, she receives a commendation of the Academy of Fine Arts for exceptional achievements in pre-grad. She works with photography, graphics, painting, and video. The subject of her interests is the relationship of the artist to their immediate life surroundings.

Pippa Buchanan is community manager for the School of Webcraft, a partnership between the Mozilla Foundation and Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). Recently moved to Linz, she worked in educational software, video games development and as a design educator before becoming involved in non-formal and open educational projects.

http://learninglearning.wordpress.com
http://p2pu.org/webcraft

Ricardo Palmieri (vj palm), 1978, is a video-jockey and an architect, graduated by the Universidade do Grande ABC (1997-2001), Sao Paulo, Brazil. Currently he is a consultant of space’s development, scenery and interactive installations to artistic and commercial projects using free softwares.

He worked for the Brazilian Ministry of Culture government, inside the program Cultura Viva on the Digital Culture as a researcher of free softwares for graphical production between 2005 and 2007.

Rob Canning is a composer and sound artist. His work focuses on finding a dialogue between algorithmic system based composition strategies and intuitive/improvised approaches. He has worked with ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta, The Concorde Ensemble, The National Chamber Choir of Ireland and the Con Tempo String Quartet amongst others. His composed works have been performed and broadcast internationally along side his multichannel electronic and installation works which have been appeared in a number of contexts including exhibitions, dance performances and theater.

Energieelektroniker
ROBOEXOTICA: seit 2000 Mitwirkung bei der Organisation und beim Roboterbau aktiv

In her art projects, Robertina Šebjanič explores and works with various media such as video and spatial/ambiental installations and more broadly conceived cross-media projects. She had previously been featured as an independent author as well as in collaboration at many exhibitions and festivals in Slovenia and abroad. She is currently finishing her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO) and Famul Stuart – Applied Arts School, both in Ljubljana.

Born in 1978 in Warsaw. In 2005, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, the Multimedia workroom, and received his masters degree. In 2007, he started working as an assistant professor of the Multimedia workroom at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2007 he set up Upgrade!Warsaw.

SASCHA NEUDECK lives and works in Vienna and Styria.
"After spending many years behind the laptop, my desire to make sound without computer grew increasingly. Actually I play live without laptop, solely with my selfsoldered devices, a delay, a reverb going to a little mixer. The haptic enjoyment of working this way, and the spectacular look of my set, does more than compensate the lack of the endless possibilities with computers.
Several months ago I decided to share my knowhow of building/designing weird sonic devices under the moniker -SubtleNoiseMaker- in