Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube

374 Video Vortex Reader II Moving Images Beyond Youtubeauthor biographies375Cecilia Guida is an independent curator and PhD candidate at IULM, University of Milan,Italy. Currently, she is working on a research thesis on the topic of: the new public space ofthe Net as a political and social space, which connects to participative art practices. Ceciliawas also an intern at the INC in 2010, focusing on the Video Vortex project.Stefan Heidenreich born in 1965 in Biberach/Riss, Germany, lives in Berlin and works aswriter, journalist and theoretician, and teaches at the Architecture Department of the ETHZürich. His books include Was verspricht die Kunst? (The Promises of Art, 1998/2009),Flipflop. Digitale Kultur (Flipflop. On Digital Culture, 2004) and Mehr Geld (More Money,2008). He is currently working on the book Über Universität (On University, 2011). http://www.stefanheidenreich.de.Larissa Hjorth is an artist, digital ethnographer and senior lecturer in the Games Program atRMIT University, Australia. Since 2000, she has been researching gendered customizing ofmobile communication, gaming and virtual communities in the Asia–Pacific — with studiesoutlined in her book, Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific (London/ NY: Routledge). She haspublished widely on the topic nationally and internationally, in journals such as Games andCulture, Convergence, Journal of Intercultural Studies, and Fibreculture to name a few. Sheco-edited two Routledge anthologies, Gaming Cultures and Place in the Asia–Pacific Region(with Dean Chan), and Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunication to Media (with GerardGoggin). In 2010 she released Games & Gaming textbook (London: Berg). Since 2009 Hjorthhas been doing an ARC discovery fellowship with Michael Arnold exploring the role of thelocal and social media in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing cross-culturally on Tokyo, Seoul,Shanghai, Singapore, Manila, and Melbourne.Mél Hogan is currently completing her research creation doctorate in Communication Studiesat Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. Her research documents defunct, stalled,and crashed online video art repositories within a Canadian cultural context. (See onlineresearch curation: http://wayward.ca). She is also the Art Director of online and print ondemand journal Nomorepotlucks.org and part two of two of the BRUCE video art duo. http://www.melhogan.com.Nuraini Juliastuti is a co-founder and director of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center in Yogyakarta,Indonesia, an organization concerned with experimental approaches to cultural issuesand advancing them into a wider critical movement through popular education practices. Shelives and works in Yogyakarta.Sarah Késenne holds a Master’s in Art History and Film Studies at the Universities of Ghentand Antwerp in Belgium, and Bologna, Italy. She‘s currently working at Sint-Lucas Visual ArtsGhent (www.sintlucas.wenk.org), part of the Faculty of Arts and Architecture of KU LeuvenAssociation, as a researcher and research coordinator. She has been involved in a few artsprojects, teaching art theory courses at MAD Hasselt & TU Delft. She has written articles onAfrican cinema, short films, video and music and is currently developing ideas for a PhDproject. She lives in Brussels.Elizabeth Losh is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes, and is theDirector of the Culture, Art, and Technology Program at Sixth College in U.C. San Diego. Shewrites about institutions as digital content-creators, the discourses of the ‘virtual state’, themedia literacy of policy makers and authority figures, and the rhetoric surrounding regulatoryattempts to limit everyday digital practices. She has published articles about videogames forthe military and emergency first-responders, government websites and YouTube channels,state-funded distance learning efforts, national digital libraries, political blogging, and congressionalhearings on the internet.Geert Lovink is a Dutch-Australian media theorist and critic. He is Professor at The EuropeanGraduate School, Research Professor (‘lector’) at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam wherehe is founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures, and Associate Professor in MediaStudies (new media program), University of Amsterdam. Lovink is author of Dark Fiber(2002), My First Recession (2003), and Zero Comments (2007). A fourth book in this serieswill be published 2011 by Polity Press. He recently co-organized events and publications onWikipedia research (Critical Point of View), online video (Video Vortex), organized networks(Winter Camp) and the culture of search (Society of the Query).Andrew Lowenthal has been a media and technology activist since 1998. He has workedwith a range of online activist media projects - he was a long time coordinator and editor atMelbourne Indymedia, participatory media project lead at Tactical Technology Collective, andis co-founder and General Manager of EngageMedia.Rosa Menkman is a Dutch visualist who focuses on visual artifacts created by accidentsin digital media. With the idea that every technology possesses its own inherent accidents,the visuals she makes are the result of glitches, compressions, feedback and other formsof noise. Although many people perceive these accidents as negative experiences, Rosaemphasizes their positive consequences. By combining both her practical as well as her academicbackground, she merges her abstract pieces within a grand theory of artifacts (a glitchstudies) that compromises both static works, texts and video performances. She has shownwork at festivals such as Cimatics (Brussels 2008 and 2009), Blip (Europe and U.S. in 2009),Video Vortex (Amsterdam 2008 and Brussels 2009), ISEA (Dublin 2009), and File (Sao Paolo2010). Menkman was also one of the organizers/curators of the successful GLI.TC/H festivalthat took place in Chicago in 2010. http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com, http://GLI.TC/H.Gabriel Menotti is an independent curator and producer engaged with emerging mediacircuits. He has been involved with pirate movie screenings, remix film festivals, videogamechampionships, porn screenplay workshops, installations with super8 film projectorsand generative art exhibitions. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths (UniversityLondon) and the Catholic University of São Paulo. He also does 2D animation. http://bogotissimo.com/b2kn/.Rachel Somers Miles works on projects and publications for the Institute of Network Cultures.She moved from Toronto to Amsterdam in 2008 to attend the Preservation and Presentationof the Moving Image Master’s program at the University of Amsterdam, solidifyingher interest in the theory and politics of archiving, and continuing to stoke her interest andinvolvement in (new) media arts/digital culture. She also obtained a Master’s degree in MediaStudies from Concordia University, Montréal. Exploring the different media arts and digitalculture hubs of the Amsterdam-area, Rachel has worked at the Netherlands Media Art