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Franco Berardi Bifo is
a media-theorist and media-activist. He teaches social history of
communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. In the 1970s he
founded the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981) and was part of the staff
of Radio Alice, the first free radio station in Italy. His last book
RUN (2008, coauthored with the Mathematician Alessandro Sarti)
deals with the relationship between Art and Biotechnology He is
currently collaborating with the magazine Derive Approdi.
Reinhold Bertlmann
studied technical physics as well as theoretical physics and
mathematics in Vienna. He worked for at the Joint Institute for Nuclear
Research in Dubna (Russia), at CERN, at the University Paris-Sud, at
the CNRS and further places. Since 1987 he is ao. Professor at Vienna
University. His research interests deal with Bell Inequalities,
entanglement, decoherence and geometry of quantum systems. He
cooperated resp. cooperates among others with John Steward Bell, Walter
Thirring and Anton Zeilinger
Bady Minck works as an
artist and filmmaker in Vienna and Luxembourg, where she explores the
field of tension between film and the fine arts. Her work is presented
in movie theaters, museums, galleries, public spaces and on the world
wide web. Bady Minck is the creator of electro-breakfast, the
constructor of the electro-cells and the inventor of the stomach
literacy actions. Her films have been presented in retrospectives and
invited to more than 300 international film festivals, including Cannes
and Berlin; furthermore her films have been purchased for various
collections, including the Centre Pompidou and the University of
Kentucky, Lexington, USA.
Claudia Mongini first
studied physics at the University of Turin, made research on chaos
theory applied to neuroscience, and then engaged in philosophy and fine
arts in Vienna. Since 2001 she has been dealing with crossover aspects
between arts and science both within artistic practice and theoretical
examinations.
Otto Neumaier studied
philosophy and German literature at Innsbruck University. Since 1980 he
is a member of the Institute of Philosophy, University of Salzburg
(since 2005 ao. Professor). His main research interests lie within
ethics, aesthetics and philosophical anthropology; he is co-editor of
Conceptus, Zeitschrift für Philosophie and Frame. The State of the
Art (until 1999: Noëma. Art Journal).
Patricia Pisters is
Professor of Film Studies in Amsterdam. She has been a contributing
editor to the film magazine Skrien, a collaborator of the International
Film Festival Rotterdam and advisor of the Dutch Fund for Cultural
Broadcast Productions. She is member of the advisory board of Dutch
Directors Guild. Teaching and research interests include
film-philosophical questions on the nature of perception, the ontology
of the image and the idea of the brain as screen. Within Amsterdam
School for Cultural Analysis this is part of the Media and Culture
Programme (project The Rhizotorium).
Tyyne Claudia Pollmann
studied medicine and fine arts 1979-1990 at the Universities of
Düsseldorf and Berlin. She has been Visiting Professor of fine
arts in Braunschweig and Bern. International exhibitions include
Shedhalle Zürich, Kunst Werke Berlin, Expo 2000 Hannover,
Kunsthalle Meran, Biennale Bern. Numerous prizes and distinctions (e.g.
Prize of the Deutsche Künstlerbund).
Maria Reicher is a
philosopher at the University of Graz dealing in particular with
ontology, logics and aesthetics. Between 2001 and 2003 she was holder
of one of the Hertha-Firnberg-Nachwuchsstellen. Between 2004 and 2006
she lead the research project "Works, Texts, and Interpretation"
dealing with the relationship between ontology of literary works,
texts, and meaning and the nature of literary interpretation.
Ignacio Vallines is
research scientist and lecturer at the department of Experimental
Psychology, University of Munich. In 2007 he obtained his Ph.D. in
Psychology at University of Regensburg. His research interests are
focused on neural control of saccadic eye movement, attention
modulation in visual and parietal cortex and functional neuro-imaging.
Recently he is involved in the development of a new research method for
assessing the effect of a given film on viewers.
Gerhard E. Winkler is
a freelance composer in Salzburg. Since 1999 he has developed the
concept of "Realtime-Scores" and interactive Computer-Environments for
musicians, and he extended it also to partition based works. His music
is performed at many European festivals (Wien modern, Opernbiennale
München, IRCAM/Centre Pompidou, Salzburger Festspiele, Steirischer
Herbst etc.). He is currently engaged in collaborations with the Radio
Symphony Orchesters of Vienna and of Bavaria.
Stephen Zepke is a
freelance researcher living in Vienna. He has published numerous essays
exploring the intersection of art, philosophy and politics. He is the
author of Art as Abstract Machine. Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze
and Guattari (Routledge, 2005). He is the editor (with Simon
O’Sullivan) of Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New
(Continuum, forthcoming).
Flavia Zucco is Head
of Research at the Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine at
the (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Rome. Her research interests
cover in-vitro toxicology, in-vitro cellular differentiation and
bioethics. She has been active in the field of Women and Science since
1988. In 1998 she was appointed member of the Commission for Promotion
of Women Scientists by the CNR. She is President of the Association for
Women in Science in Italy.