Lev Manovich
USA
Associate Professor Department of Visual Arts. University of California.
Artist, theoretician and critic specializing in new media. He has published more than thirty articles that have been translated into various languages and published in eighteen countries. In her texts, Manovich situates new media within a broader context of modern visual culture, relating it to the history of art and film. Manovich was born in Moscow, where he studied fine arts and architecture.
He arrived in New York in 1981 and began working in digital animation in 1984 at Digital Effects, one of the first commercial companies dedicated to the production of 3D animation for television and film. Manovich earned an MA in experimental psychology from New York University (1988) and a PhD in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester (1993). He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California at San Diego where he teaches theory and practicals on new media. He is currently working on a book titled The Language of New Media for MIT Press.
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- July 11, 2017
Teresa Picazo
Brazil
Catholic University of São Paulo – PUC. Technology and Digital Media - Art and Technology. Brazil. PIBIC-CNPQ- Date
- July 11, 2017
pk langshaw
Canada
pklangshaw.com
Director of the Department of Design Art at Concordia University in Montreal. She is chair and associate professor of the Art Design Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University, Québec. His creative production as a practice of social design began as a hybrid, drawn from concrete poetry, and extended by the quantum relationships between text and image. PK is involved in the production of many events, in multidisciplinary research based on community initiatives.- Date
- July 11, 2017
Oliver Vodeb
Slovenia
Sociologist, creative director and communication and design theorist. In 2006 he co-founded the Poper Studio, a company of creative and tactical interactions. In recent years, his theoretical and practical research has focused primarily on critical and socially responsible communication focused on literacy, tactical education, networked environments, media activism, advertising, and design. Oliver founded Memefest in 2002 and has been a facilitator, curator, editor and main organizer since the project's inception.- Date
- July 11, 2017
Mark Novak
USA
www.centrifuge.org
Intermediate architect, theoretician and artist. Professor of design and media arts at UCLA in Los Angeles (USA). He is a member of the CAIIA_STAR research center, University of Wales, College Newport (GB) and honorary co-president of the Transarchitectures Association of Paris (France). His projects have been exhibited at numerous international exhibitions and congresses, among others at transarchitectures02-03 NAi, Rotterdam;Imagina, Monte Carlo; the Bordeaux Center d'Architecture; the 3rd International Biennial film+arc.graz in Austria; the UCLA Center for Digital Arts; the Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Center for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, Scotland; the Archilab Frac Center, Orléans; the Web-Event Transports (with Kas Oosterhuis and Ole Bouman) NAi, Rotterdam, or at the international architecture biennials of Sao Paulo and Venice, in the year 2000.- Date
- July 11, 2017
Lorenzo Vilches
Spain
He is Professor of Journalism at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and visiting professor at Latin American Universities. International consultant in the field of film and television. He was sailing in the 70s through Paris, Rome (where he did a postgraduate degree in cinema and worked for RAI, Radiotelevisone italiana) and West Berlin (where he began his doctoral thesis) until he dropped anchor in Barcelona forever. Director of the International Master of Writing for Film and Television (UAB) since 1991, he is also editor and director of the digital magazine Guionactualidad. He is the general coordinator of the Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction (Obitel) and director of the Estudios de Televisión collection at Editorial Gedisa and the collection of the same name at the Television Academy. He has written various books on communication, image, journalism and new technologies.- Date
- July 11, 2017
Roy Ascott
England
Artist recognized for his work with cybernetics and telematics, and has been concerned with issues of art, technology, and consciousness since the 1960s. He is President of the Planetary Collegium. He is founding president of the Planetary Collegium, an advanced research center that he opened himself in 2003, at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom (where he is Professor of Technoetic Arts), with offices in Zurich and Milan. During the 1960s he taught in London at: Ealing, Slade School of Art, Central and Saint Martins Schools of Art.- Date
- July 11, 2017
Ken Rinaldo
USA
accad.osu.edu/~rinaldo/
Artist and professor in robotics and multimedia. Art & Technology Department of Art. The Ohio State University. Theorist and author who has created interactive multimedia installations on the fuzzy border between the organic and inorganic. He studied Computer Science at the University of Canada and has a degree in Communications from the University of California. He completed a Master of Information Arts / Conceptual Design at San Francisco State University. Currently, he is director of the Arts and Technology program at The Ohio State University. He carries out interdisciplinary work in his robotic installations that seek the articulation and synthesis of natural and technological culture.
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