Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube

376 Video Vortex Reader II Moving Images Beyond Youtubeauthor biographies377Institute (NIMk) in the preservation and collections department, and also as a researcherfor Virtueel Platform’s series ‘Project Observatory’. While at the INC she has worked on boththe Studies in Network Cultures and Network Notebooks series, and is currently focusingher attention on the Video Vortex project.Andrew Gryf Paterson is a Scottish artist-organizer, cultural producer and independentresearcher, currently based in Helsinki, Finland. His work involves variable roles as initiator,participant, author and curator. Andrew works across the fields of media/network/ environmentalactivism, pursuing a participatory arts practice through workshops, performativeevents, and storytelling. Selected curatorial/organizational projects include: ‘Herbologies/Foraging Networks’ program of Pixelache Festival (2010); ‘Alternative Economy Cultures’program of Pixelache Helsinki Festival (2009); ‘Add+PF+?’ in the Pedagogical Factory programat Hyde Park Art Centre, Chicago (2007); ‘Locative Media: On and Off the BeatenTrack’ for Leonardo Electronic Almanac, MIT Press (2006); ‘Locative Media Workshop:Rautatieasema’ for Pixelache Helsinki Festival (2004/2006). He is currently a doctoral candidateat Aalto University School of Art and Design, with the working thesis title of ‘ArtisticPractice as Fieldwork’, and coordinator of Pixelversity education program (Pixelache Helsinki)in 2011. http://agryfp.info/.Denis Roio aka Jaromil is an Amsterdam-based artist, theorist and programmer. Inspiredby Richard Stallman’s ‘Free Software’ liberatory ethics, he seeks to cross borders betweenart and code, social activism, and research and development, focusing on the recycling oftechnology and its accessibility. In the past years his publications have focused on computerviruses, piracy and privacy issues, freedom of speech and independent media practices. Asauthor of the dyne:bolic operating system and several other software projects he has madeimportant contributions to the development of the GNU / Linux platform. For a number ofyears Jaromil has been active in R&D for the Netherlands Media Art Institute and in 2009 wasawarded the Vilém Flusser Theory Award at Transmediale Berlin.Teague Schneiter is a media archivist and researcher whose work bridges online video, humanrights, and moving image archiving. She is currently working as an Outreach/ArchivesConsultant for IsumaTV, an online interactive network for Inuit and Indigenous multimedia.Teague completed her Professional MA in Preservation & Presentation of the Moving Imageat the University of Amsterdam in February 2010, graduating cum laude with a minor thesisexamining the ethics and politics of the presentation of indigenous media online. Before IsumaTV,she worked within the Media Archive and participatory media website (The Hub) forWITNESS, an international human rights video-advocacy organization.Jan Simons is associate professor in New Media at the University of Amsterdam. He haspublished on new media and film culture. He is the author of Playing The Waves: Lars vonTrier’s Cinema Games (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007). Currently, he ispreparing a book on computer games and researching new interfaces.Evelin Stermitz graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Media and New Media Art from theAcademy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and also holds a Master’sin Philosophy from Media Studies. Her works are in the field of media and new media artwith the main emphasis on post-structuralist feminist art practices. Besides her artistic work,Stermitz’s research focuses on women artists in media and new media art. She founded Art-Fem.TV – Art and Feminism ITV (http://www.artfem.tv) – in 2008, receiving a special mentionfor ArtFem.TV at the IX Festival Internacional de la Imagen, University of Caldas, Manizales,Colombia, in 2010. http://www.evelinstermitz.net.Blake Stimson teaches art history and critical theory at the University of California, Davis.His research focuses on the social life of archaic modernist values such as beauty and commitmentfor the world we find ourselves in today. Recent publications include The Pivot ofthe World: Photography and Its Nation (MIT 2006), Collectivism after Modernism: The Art ofSocial Imagination after 1945 (co-edited with Gregory Sholette, Minnesota 2007), The Meaningof Photography (co-edited with Robin Kelsey, Clark/Yale, 2008), and Institutional Critique:An Anthology of Artist’s Writings (co-edited with Alexander Alberro, MIT 2009).David Teh works in the Department of English Language and Literature, National Universityof Singapore. He studied critical theory at the Power Institute, University of Sydney, receivinghis PhD in 2005. Before moving to Singapore, David was an independent critic and curatorbased in Bangkok (2005-2009). His projects there included ‘Platform’, a showcase of Thaiinstallation artists (Queen’s Gallery and The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, 2006); ‘TheMore Things Change’, The 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (2008); and ‘Unreal Asia’,a thematic program for the 55th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany(2009). David has contributed to numerous publications including Art Asia Pacific, Art &Australia and The Bangkok Post. His current research concerns contemporary art, film andnew media in Southeast Asia. David was co-founder of the Fibreculture forum for internetculture. He is a member of Bangkok art collective, As Yet Unnamed, and a director of FuturePerfect, a contemporary art platform based in Singapore.Ferdiansyah Thajib is a researcher at KUNCI Cultural Studies Center in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.His subject interests cover media-technology convergence, anthropology of emotion,and critical sexuality studies. In the recent past he co-organized the local holding of Q! FilmFestival in Yogyakarta, and has also collaborated in various projects such as working withEngageMedia as one of the field researchers for the Videochronic publication.Andreas Treske is an editor, film-maker, and media artist living in Turkey. He graduated fromthe Munich Film Academy, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film. From 1992 to 1998 he wascreative art staff at HFF Munich, with extensive research on applied aesthetics for cinemaand TV. From 1998 to 2010 he taught at the Department of Communication and Design atBilkent University, Ankara, in film and video production and new media theory, acting asdepartment chair from 2005 to 2010. Since the summer of 2010 he is Assistant Professorat Yasar University in Izmir, Turkey. He’s shown his interactive media works and films at variousinternational exhibitions and festivals, and co-directed the feature length documentaryTakim boyle tutulur (Autumn 2005), shown in more than 50 Turkish cinemas. In 2008 hewas picture editor of the feature length documentary “Mustafa”, directed by Can Dündar, andorganizer of the 3 rd Video Vortex conference, in Ankara.Robrecht Vanderbeeken obtained his PhD in Philosophy in 2003 at Ghent University with adissertation that brought forward an analysis of the explanation of action from a philosophy ofscience’s perspective. He has published widely in magazines, academic journals and books