adrian miles | chair::

Adrian Miles is an internationally recognised theorist who works in hypermedia and networked interactive video. His work has been published in numerous peer reviewed publications and he is a regular participant in international conferences and forums.

He is currently on the Literary Advisory Board of the Electronic Literature Organisation, the editorial board of Postmodern Culture, and Text Technology, and has been on the academic boards of the 2002 Association of Computing Humanities annual conference and the Association of Computing Machinery 2002 Hypertext conference. Adrian is regularly invited to present his research, teaching, and creative work internationally.

Current research includes the application of Deleuze's philosophy of cinema to interactive video and hypermedia, video blogging, and the development of new pedagogies for new media teaching.

alessio cavallaro | conference advisor::

Alessio Cavallaro is currently Producer/Curator, New Media Projects, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Federation Square, Melbourne. He has been involved in interdisciplinary arts in Australia for over twenty years, primarily as a curator, producer, consultant, and publications editor in film, video, digital media, radio and sound arts.

From 1997 to 2000, Alessio was Director of dLux media arts, Sydney, where he initiated and established a range of innovative new media programs including the annual international events d>art and futureScreen. Other influential projects include (as co-producer and co-curator) SoundCulture 1991: Impossible Objects. Invisible Cities; Third International Symposium on Electronic Art (TISEA, 1992); Sound in Space: Adventures in Australian Sound Art (1995); and the Australian Film Commission's seminal The Filmmaker and Multimedia conferences/exhibitions (1993 and 1995).

antoanetta ivanova | conference producer::

Antoanetta Ivanova is the executive director of Novamedia, Victoria's only company that provides strategies for business growth and business innovation through new media arts. She also works as a curator and producer, focusing exclusively on projects that incorporate new and emerging media such as games, interactive film, robotics, streaming media and hybrid forms of digital art. She has an extensive experience in the arts and has previously worked as a photojournalist, subvertising artist, festival co-ordinator, marketing manager, administrator and copyright officer.

Antoanetta's projects have been presented to audiences in Australia, UK, USA, Finland, France, Germany, Greece and Bulgaria and have been produced and/or toured with funds from the Australia Council for the Arts (New Media Arts Board); the Australian Network for Art and Technology; Arts Tasmania and the National Association for the Visual Arts. Most recently she produced, in association with the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Wild 2002 new media exhibition focusing on the crossing over between the natural environment and the digital wilderness, and Solar Circuit inter/national new media workshop and wilderness residency, which took place on the remote Island of Maria. www.wild2002.com.au

andrew murphie::

bill seaman::

darren tofts::

darren tofts is a Melbourne writer who has published extensively in areas relating to new media and cyberculture, and their intersection with critical theory and the history of writing. His essays have appeared in internationally recognised journals such as Social Semiotics, UTS Review and Southern Review. He was a regular contributor to 21C and World Art magazines. He is on the editorial board of Continuum, RealTime, Postmodern Culture and The Australian Journal of Media and Culture.

david kolb::

diana slattery::

As Associate Director of the Academy of Electronic Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Diana Reed Slattery researches, designs, and produces highly interactive, game-like multimedia environments for education, entertainment, and the arts. In her ex-life of print fiction and poetry, her short story "Bizarre Births" (Georgia Review, Spring '88) was included in Georgia Review's finalist entry for the National Magazine Award, and received an Honorable Mention, Pushcart Prize, and an Honorable Mention: The Best American Short Stories. The short story collection Bizarre Births was named as a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction. Online publications include Journal of Postmodern Culture ("Alphaweb: A Poetry Hypertext"), Riding the Meridian ("Glide: An Interactive Exploration of Visual Language").

diane gromala::

ingrid richardson::

irina aristarkhova::

irina aristarkhova teaches the pioneering studio-based course, Cyberarts, in the Programme. She was formerly Senior Lecturer at the LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts where she taught courses in Cybertheory, Feminist Theory, Feminist Aesthetics, Technology and Embodiment and Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory. She holds an MA from the University of Warwick, UK, and PhD from the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences.

She was International Visiting Scholar at the Franke Institute of Humanities, University of Chicago in 2000 where she participated in the Sawyer Seminar series entitled "Computer Science as a Human Science: The Cultural Impact of Computerization". She was invited to lecture on topics in 'Gender and Technology' at the NOISE European Summer School at the University of Pisa, Italy in September 2000.

jill walker::

jill walker is a researcher at the University of Bergen in Norway, where she is currently completing a PhD on digital narratives. She holds a Master's degree in comparative literature from the same university, and has also spent time as a visiting researcher at RMIT University in Melbourne. In addition to her work on digital narrative and hypertext fiction, she has published on the use of weblogs in research, on power and link clusters on the web and on MOOs. Her weblog jill/txt was one of the first researcher's blogs, and is an active participant in discussions on new media arts and communication on the Web.

In 1998 she was the inaugural winner of the Ted Nelson Newcomer Award for the best paper by a newcomer at the ACM Hypertext conferences.

karin wenz::

karin wenz is a media theorist working in the field of digital media and semiotics. Her work has been published in English and German in print and in numerous online journals.

linda marie walker::

linda marie walker is a writer, artist, and curator, with a long-standing interest in spatial-relations, bodies, and movement. She was Director of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (www.cacsa.org.au/cacsa) and editor of its magazine 'Broadsheet' (1998-1999). Her second novella, 'The Woman, Mistaken', was published in 1998.

lisbeth klastrup::

lone malmborg::

lone malmborg has initiated and is heading the Design of Technology Augmented Creative Environments research studio at Arts and Communication, Malmo University. The studio focuses on the interplay between interactive media technologies, space, and activity, and explores how physical space and ubiquitous technologies can be used in new ways for multi-user and multi-site interaction. In the process of understanding and designing technology augmented collaborative environments for creative activities and learning, the studio makes inquiries into artistic performance and gaming.

Before setting up the research studio she has designed and headed an education program at Arts and Communication in the same area.

Since 1998 she has been co-editor of the international journal Digital Creativity. This journal addresses the need for a new discipline that unites the creativity of fine art, design, performing arts and film, with the technical paradigms of computer science, interface design and communications.

She has been actively involved in the Digital Arts and Culture community since 2000 and was on the program committee for the 2000 conference in Bergen.

mitchell whitelaw::

nancy kaplan::

nancy kaplan is a well-known scholar of digital literacy, director of an innovative program in interaction design and information architecture, and an award-winning developer of educational software. She is also Director of the newly formed School of Information Arts and Technologies at the University of Baltimore.

She is currently the Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation grant to work with pre-teens as design partners, developing interfaces for digital library materials and other digital resources of interest to children. In partnership with the Human Computer Interface Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park, she and her colleagues at the University of Baltimore will be working with a team of 10-13 year-olds to explore new interface concepts that better meet the needs of this important population.

ned rossiter::

ned rossiter is Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Co-ordinator in Communications in the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Melbourne. His research interests include globalisation and international relations, Asian popular culture, history and theory of communications media, philosophy and cultural studies, media and cultural policy studies, new media arts, architecture and urban forms, informational economies and network societies.

Ned co-edited Politics of a Digital Present: An Inventory of Australian Net Culture, Criticism and Theory (Melbourne: Fibreculture Publications, 2001) and Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos and Aesthetic Industries (London: RoutledgeCurzon, forthcoming 2003).

noah wardrip-fruin::

noah wardrip-fruin is a new media writer who also writes about new media. He is the lead editor for both - The New Media Reader - (co-editor Nick Montfort) and - First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game - (co-editor Pat Harrigan). These volumes are forthcoming from MIT Press. He's presented at the last few DACs, and was chair of the art selection committee for DAC 2001. He also regularly presents work at conferences (recently, ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 and ACM Hypertext 2002) and art venues (recently, the Segue Reading Series and the Guggenheim Museum in New York). Currently at Brown University, his recent affiliations include the University of Baltimore's School of Information Arts and Technologies and New York University's Center for Advanced Technology.

peter morse::

peter morse has a diverse background in semiotics, fine arts, artistic practice, music and computing. Currently Coordinator of Media and New Media at the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia, Peter has worked variously as a computer animator, database designer and programmer, website designer, multimedia programmer, exhibition curator and so forth. Since the early 1980's he has created computer-controlled audio-visual works combining musical/operatic performance and computer-aided visualisation. His current interests revolve around visualisation for (semi) immersive virtual environments and exploring modes of user interaction towards scientific datasets deployed in artistic contexts. To this end he is currently working upon stereoscopic CG materials composed from scientific (eg. GIS) datasets of the Antarctic, in consort with early twentieth-century stereoscopic photography from various Australian Antarctic expeditions, that can be deployed in a variety of contexts (eg. visualisation centres, museums, planetaria, galleries, on-line). He has an on-going intellectual interest in the relationship between the sciences and arts and the role of semiotic approaches as a methodology for reconciling these diverse disciplines.

He initially studied Physics at Murdoch University, Western Australia, before switching to practical studies in Fine Arts. He has a B.A. in Fine Arts (Curtin University, W.A.), a first-class Honours degree in Communication Studies (Murdoch) and a Ph.D. in visual semiotics (Murdoch). In 1994 he moved to Melbourne, Australia, where he taught Art History and Cultural Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and curated several New Media exhibitions. He has travelled widely and spent the years between 1996-1999 principally working as a free-lance computer artist in Berlin, Germany.

pia ednie-brown::

pia ednie-brown is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University where she teaches design and theory. Her PhD research explores emergent paradigms of experience and perception in the information age, particularly in relation to representation and abstraction within design production. Her work exploring these nuances in digitally assisted design practices has been published in journals such as Daidalos and the Architectural Design Academy Editions. She has been a jury member for architectural design reviews at Melbourne University, Deakin University, Curtin University (WA), the ETH (Zurich) and Columbia University (NY).

raine koskimaa::

ross gibson::

professor ross gibson is recognized by major scholars in the field as Australia's leading digital media curator and one of Australia's leading digital media researchers. Professor Gibson occupies a unique position in Australia as the foundation Creative Director of Cinemedia's Federation Square complex, Melbourne (Australia's first digital media museum). In this position he has undertaken the commissioning of major international and national media arts projects investigating interactive digital arts. During 1997 and 1998 Gibson was the Australia Council's inaugural Fellow in New Media.

sean cubitt::

sean cubitt is Professor of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Previously Professor of Media Arts at Liverpool John Moores University, he is the author of Timeshift: On Video Culture (Comedia/Routledge, 1991), Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture (Macmillans/St Martins Press, 1993), Digital Aesthetics (Theory, Culture and Society/Sage, 1998) and Simulation and Social Theory (Theory, Culture and Society/ Sage, 2001) as well as nearly 300 articles, chapters, papers and catalogue essays on contemporary arts, culture and media.

He has edited "Third World Wide Web", a special edition of Third Text (n.47, Summer 1999) on new media in non-Western contexts, and co-edited 'FX, CGI and the question of spectacle", a special issue of Screen (v.40 n.2, Summer) with John Caughie, and "Fictions and Futures", a special issue of Futures (v.30 n.10, December) with Ziauddin Sardar. A member of the editorial boards of Screen, Third Text, The International Journal of Cultural Studies, Futures, Time and Society and the Journal of Visual Communication, Leonardo Digital Reviews, the Iowa Web Review, and most recently trAce.

He has lectured and taught on four continents, and his work has been published in Hebrew, Arabic, Korean and Japanese as well as several European languages in publications from Latin and North America, Europe, Asia and Australasia.

stuart moulthrop::

stuart moulthrop is Professor of Information Arts and Technologies at the University of Baltimore, where he directs the Doctorate in Communications Design.

His hypertext fiction Victory Garden (Eastgate Systems, 1991) has earned a place in Robert Coover's "golden age" of electronic writing. His later hypertexts ("Hegirascope," 1995; "The Color of Television," 1996; and "Reagan Library," 1999) are happy to reside in the Age of Brass. Moulthrop has written many essays, including "You Say You Want a Revolution?", which brings up the rear in the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.

susana pajares tosca::

terry harpold::

terry harpold received his A.M. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida. The author of several widely-cited articles on hypertext narrative theory and informational culture, his current article projects include essays on: genetic criticism of hypertext fiction; the mnemonic regimes of hypertext; and the relevance of the writings and methods of Charles Fort, an early 20th-century chronicler of occult phenomena, to analysis of the spatial discourses of digital culture.

He is working on two book projects: Links and Their Vicissitudes, on psychoanalytic theory and new media; and with Kavita Philip, Going Native: Cyberculture and the Millennial Fantasies of Globalization, a jointly-authored collection of essays on informational globalization.

An active member of the DAC community since the first conference in 1998, he served as Conference Co-Chair and was a principal member of the Organizing and Program Committees of DAC '99 (Atlanta, GA, USA); and was a member of the Program Committee of DAC 2001 (Providence, RI, USA).