Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube

378Video Vortex Reader II Moving Images Beyond Youtubeon subjects ranging from metaphysics to aesthetics. He was a researcher at the TheoryDepartment of the Jan van Eyck Academie in The Netherlands (2004-2006) and is/was avisiting lecturer at the postgraduate institute Transmedia in Brussels, the Higher Institute ofFine Arts (HISK) in Ghent, Sint-Lucas Academy in Ghent, and Brunel University in London.Since 2007 he has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Fine Arts (KASK) at UniversityCollege Ghent. He is currently doing research on video and media art, and the culturalphilosophicalimplications of technological-scientific evolutions.Linda Wallace has worked in many different media, including radio and sound, visual media,text and writing, art and curating. In 1995 she formed the company machinehunger. Sheholds an MFA (1995) from the University of NSW, Sydney, and a PhD (2003), from AustralianNational University, Canberra. Linda Wallace lives in Amsterdam, makes art, writes, andteaches Iyengar Yoga. She is currently working on a book. http://machinehunger.com.au.Brian Willems teaches literature and film theory at the University of Split, Croatia. He is theauthor of Hopkins and Heidegger and Facticity, Poverty and Clones: On Kazuo Ishiguro’sNever Let Me Go. His essays on the cross-sections of literature, philosophy and media haveappeared or are forthcoming in From A to : Keywords in Markup, Battlestar Galacticaand Philosophy, artUS, electronic book review, Poiesis, Symposium and elsewhere. Willemspoetry and prose has appeared, for example, in The Antioch Review, Salzburg Poetry Review,Things Magazine, Identity Theory, Eyeshot.Matthew Williamson is an artist, once described as ‘frustratingly engaging’, who examines thecohesion between the internet and so-called ‘real life’. While working in a broad range of formatsfrom print to video, websites to electronics, his work is focused on the humorous relationshipswe forge with our machines. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design and MFAcandidate at Syracuse University, Matthew has shown work in Italy, the U.S.A, and Canada.Tara Zepel is a researcher, theorist, intermittent artist, and a PhD student in the Art History,Theory & Criticism program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where herwork explores the intersection(s) between aesthetics, community and technology. Her currentfocus is on the networked aesthetics of ubiquitous computing and Augmented Reality.She is particularly interested in relations between art and technology that push conceptionsof what is possible and the cultural/aesthetic implications that ensue. Prior to UCSD, Tarareceived a Bachelor’s degree in Literature from Duke University (2002). She has also actedas a project manager in the art world and worked in production and post-production forindependent films, but has always retained close ties to her passion for learning and sharingknowledge. http://artfuturenow.com.