Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube

372 Video Vortex Reader II Moving Images Beyond Youtubeauthor biographies373AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIESPerry Bard is an artist living in New York. She works individually and collaboratively on interdisciplinaryprojects for public space. She has exhibited video and installations internationally,in New York at the Museum of Modern Art PS1 Museum, Sao Paolo Biennial, MontrealBiennial, and Reina Sofia Museum Madrid. Her project Man With A Movie Camera: TheGlobal Remake won Honorary Mention in the Digital Communities category at Ars Electronica2008 , was presented at Transmediale 2009, File 2009, Media Forum at Moscow InternationalFilm Festival 2009, Doclab at IDFA 2009, and has been installed in museums andgalleries and on public screens worldwide. http://www.perrybard.net.Natalie Bookchin is an artist whose video installations explore new forms of documentary,addressing conditions of mass connectivity and isolation, and explore the stories we are tellingabout ourselves and the world. Her work is exhibited widely, including at LACMA, PS1,MASS MoCA, the Generali Foundation, the Walker Art Center, the Pompidou Centre, MOCALA, the Whitney Museum, the Tate, and Creative Time. She has received numerous grants,including those from Creative Capital, California Arts Council, the Guggenheim, the Durfee,the Rockefeller, California Community Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, DanielLanglois, a COLA Artist Fellowship and most recently from the Center for Cultural Innovation.In 1999-2000 Bookchin organized , an eight month series of lecturesand workshops on art, activism and the internet at CalArts, MOCA in LA, and LaboratorioCinematek in Tijuana . She lives in Los Angeles where she is co-Director of the Photography& Media Program in the Art School at CalArts. http://bookchin.net/.Vito Campanelli is an Italian new media theorist who lectures at the Università degli Studi diNapoli ‘L’Orientale’. His essays on media art are regularly published in international journals.He is a freelance curator and promoter of events in the field of digital culture and co-founderof the non-profit association MAO - Media & Arts Office ONLUS (http://www.mediartsoffice.eu). His most recent publication is the book Web Aesthetics: How Digital Media Affect Cultureand Society as part of the book series Studies in Network Cultures (Institute of NetworkCultures, Amsterdam/NAi Publishers Rotterdam, 2010).Andrew Clay is Principal Lecturer in Critical Technical Practices in the Department of MediaTechnology at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, and has published articles on crime andmasculinity in British cinema. He is currently researching and publishing on the theory andpractice of online film with particular reference to YouTube social media sharing practicesand new media developments such as open source cinema and post-television web video.He has adopted a number of social media tools in teaching and explores the pedagogicalpotential for hands-on experience of digital technologies in the study of media technology.Alexandra Crosby researches Indonesian culture. She also writes, curates exhibitions andthinks up exciting collaborative projects. She recently coordinated Camp Sambel for Engage-Media. She is based on NSW’s Central Coast, Australia, with her partner and son where sheis finishing a PhD on cultural participation in Indonesian activist spaces.Constant Dullaart born in 1979 in the Netherlands, is a Berlin-based artist/curator whoworks primarily on and with the world wide web. During his residency at the Rijksakademiein Amsterdam he curated several events in the surrounding city, such as the periodically heldLost and Found evenings (with his final event in the New Museum, NYC), ContemporarySemantics Beta in Arti et Amicitiae, and Versions in NIMk (Netherlands Media Art Institute).His work is shown internationally in places such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Art in Generaland MWNM galleries in New York, the ICA in London, and NIMk, de Appel, W139, theStedelijk Museum, Ellen de Bruijne projects, and Gallery West in the Netherlands. Dullaartlives/works in Berlin and Amsterdam. http://www.constantdullaart.com/.Alejandro Duque spreading his time between Columbia and Switzerland, is an artist and currentPhD candidate at The European Graduate School in Switzerland with research entitled:‘Gifted Malice, Kinship Through the Wires and the Waves’. Alejo dedicates his free/libre timeto experiencing all possible ways for collaborative/participatory arts that celebrate culturalagitation across all possible networks and mostly in a South to East axis. His current interestsdeal with HAM radio, streaming media and satellite spotting. He is also an active member ofnetworks such as Bricolabs and dorkbot, labSurlab and [k.0_lab] and is easy to spot on theIRC freenode network @ dspstv.Sandra Fauconnier is an art historian specialized in (new) media art. She holds an MA in arthistory from Ghent University, Belgium, graduating with a thesis about internet art in 1997.She first worked as an educational technologist at Ghent University. Since 2000, she hasbeen involved in several media art archives and collections. She was archivist for V2_ Institutefor the Unstable Media until 2007, responsible for the development of metadata modelsand terminology resources for V2_’s media art documentation. Sandra currently works forthe collection and mediatheque of the Netherlands Media Art Institute, where she describesNIMk’s distribution collection and works on terminology and dissemination. She also regularlywrites and lectures about media art.@lbert figurt is an Italian video-maker, musician and medialchemist. He holds a BA in cinemaand has worked as a director and screenwriter both for TV programs and independentproductions. Constantly undecided between doing and thinking, he recently developed (andhe’s busy testing) a “creativitheory escamo[n]tage” where performative lectures mingle withaudiovisual essays. http://vimeo.com/albertfigurt.Sam Gregory is the Program Director at WITNESS (http://www.witness.org) leading globalorganization training and supporting people to use video in human rights advocacy, where hesupervises campaigning, training and policy leadership initiatives. He has worked extensivelywith human rights activists, particularly in Latin America and Asia, integrating video intocampaigns on civil, political, social, economic and cultural human rights issues. In 2005,he was lead editor on ‘Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism’ (Pluto Press),and in 2007, developed WITNESS’ Video Advocacy Institute, an intensive two-week trainingprogram. Currently he is leading WITNESS’ ‘Cameras Everywhere’ initiative on ubiquitousvideo. He is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, from wherehe graduated with a Master’s in Public Policy. He was formerly on the Advisory Board of theTactical Technology Collective, and is on the Advisory Board of Games for Change.