Biographies of the participants:
Dominic Angerame
Since 1969, Dominic Angerame has made more than 35 16mm films
and and has had major film retrospectives around the world. His most
recent work Anaconda Targets (2004) has been exhibited at the Whitney
Biennial (2006). Angerame has taught filmmaking/cinema
studies/criticism the San Francisco Art Institute as a visiting artist,
as well as teaching film production and cinema studies at numerous
universities across the country. He has been the Executive Director of
Canyon Cinema for the past twenty eight years. His film "In the Course
of Human Events" (1997) was part of a group exhibition held at the
Fondation Cartier in Paris from November 2002 through March 2003
entitled "Ce Qui Arrive" and curated by Paul Virilio.
http://www.cinemod.net/Jordan Crandall
Jordan Crandall is a media artist and
theorist. He is Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at
University of California, San Diego. He is currently at work on a
multi-platform media work entitled SHOWING, which looks at cultures of
self-exposure and display. It includes a video installation entitled
HEAT, which is about the staging of arousal -- as it occurs dynamically
within the realms of extreme intimacy, where techniques of control
(biometrics) combine with techniques of the self (affective
self-staging). His most recent video installation is HOMEFRONT, a
3-channel work that combines live-action video, surveillance footage,
and military tracking software, and which explores the effects of the
new security culture on subjectivity and identity.
http://jordancrandall.com/James Der Derian
James Der Derian is Watson Institute Professor (Research) of
International Studies and founder of the Global Media and
InfoTechWarPeace Projects at Brown University. He has been a visiting
scholar at MIT, Harvard, Oxford, and the Institute for Advanced Study
at Princeton. He has made three documentaries with Amedia Productions,
VY2K, After 9/11, and Culture War (coming out in October 2008), and his
articles on war, technology, and the media have appeared in the New York Times, Nation, Washington Quarterly, and Wired. His most recent book is: Virtuous War: Mapping the Military Industrial Media Entertainment Network.
http://www.watsoninstitute.orgDJ Spooky
Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid
is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician living and working in New
York City. His artwork has appeared in the Whitney Biennial, the Venice
Biennale for Architecture, the Andy Warhol Museum, and many other
venues. His written work has appeared in such publications as the
Village Voice and Artforum. He is an editor of the magazine 21c
(www.21cmagazine.com) and the author of Rhythm Science (MIT Press, 2004) and Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (MIT Press, 2008). For more info visit: http://www.djspooky.com/
http://www.djspooky.com/Ricardo Dominguez
Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He was co-Director of The Thing (www.thing.net) an ISP for artists and activists from 2000 to 2004, as well as Senior Editor from 1996 to 1999. He is a former member of Critical Art Ensemble. Ricardo's performances have been presented in museums, galleries, theater festivals, hacker meetings, tactical media events and as direct actions on the streets and around the world.
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/http://bang.calit2.net
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Lynn Hershman Leeson is Chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis and an A.D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University. Over the last three decades, she has been internationally acclaimed for her pioneering use of new technologies and her investigations of issues that are now recognized as key to the working of our society: identity in a time of consumerism, privacy in a era of surveillance, interfacing of humans and machines, and the relationship between real and virtual worlds. Her work has appeared in galleries and museums around the world including: Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, SF MOMA, the William Lehmbruch Museum, the ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Walker Art Center and the University Art Museum, Berkeley, in addition to the celebrated private collections of Donald Hess and Arturo Schwarz, among many others. Commissions include projects for the Tate Modern, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Charles Schwab.Secret Agents Private I, The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leesonwas published by The University of California Press in 2005 on the occasion of another retrospective at the Henry Gallery in Seattle. Her three feature films- Strange Culture, Teknolust, Conceiving Ada- have been part of the Sundance Film Festival and The Berlin International Film Festival, among others, and have won numerous awards. In 2004 Stanford University Libraries acquired Hershman Leeson’s working archive.
http://www.lynnhershman.com/
Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
Arthur Kroker is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture, and
Theory and Professor of Political Science at the University of
Victoria, Canada. Co-editor of CTheory and Director of the Pacific
Centre for Technology and Culture (www.pactac.net ), he is the author
of numerous books on technology and culture, including The Possessed Individual: Technology and the French Postmodern, Data Trash: The Theory of the Virtual Class (with M. Weinstein), The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Marx, Born Again Ideology (a double-sided book also featuring Left Behind by
Stephen Pfohl) and The Critical Digital Studies Reader (with Marilouise Kroker).
Marilouise Kroker is Senior Research Scholar at University of Victoria’s Pacific Centre For Technology And Culture. She is the co-editor of CTheory and the author of Feminism Now: Theory and Practice. She has co-authored with Arthur Kroker: Life in the Wires: The CTheory Reader, Digital Delirium, The Last Sex: Feminism and Outlaw, The Critical Digital Studies Reader (with Arthur Kroker), and many others.
http://www.krokers.net/Marilouise Kroker is Senior Research Scholar at University of Victoria’s Pacific Centre For Technology And Culture. She is the co-editor of CTheory and the author of Feminism Now: Theory and Practice. She has co-authored with Arthur Kroker: Life in the Wires: The CTheory Reader, Digital Delirium, The Last Sex: Feminism and Outlaw, The Critical Digital Studies Reader (with Arthur Kroker), and many others.
http://www.ctheory.net/
http://www.pactac.net/
Sylvère Lotringer
Sylvère Lotringer is professor of French literature and philosophy at
Columbia University and general editor of Semiotext(e). He has
published several books with French theorists Paul Virilio, Jean
Baudrillard, as well as others. He has authored books examining the
lives of Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Simone Weil, L.F. Céline,
Marguerite Duras, and has also published extensively on art and
contributed to exhibition catalogues from the Museum of Modern Art to
the Guggenheim Museum. As General Editor of Semiotext(e) and of the
"Foreign Agents" series, Lotringer was instrumental in introducing
French theory to the United States. His teaching interests include Dada
and surrealism, situationism, Mallarmé, Proust, structuralism and
post-structuralism, as well as anthropology, semiotics, philosophy and
art in relation to 20th-century literature.
http://www.semiotexte.comJohn Arturo Martini
John Arturo Martini is a native San Franciscan and a lifelong researcher into the history of the American West and specializes in historic preservation. He was a national park ranger for more than 25 years and served for many years at the Presidio of San Francisco as curator of military history for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. He is the author of several books and articles on San Francisco military history and is currently working on an exhaustive history of all buildings remaining on Alcatraz. He lives in Fairfax, California, with his wife and a pair of pygmy goats.
http://www.fortressalcatraz.com/
Timothy Murray
Timothy Murray is Director of the Society for the Humanities and Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University. He curates and writes on the theory and philosophy of new media art and digital culture and co-moderates the -empyre- new media listserv. His most recent book, Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds, is forthcoming this fall from University of Minnesota Press.
www.arts.cornell.eduSteve Redhead
Steve Redhead is Professor of Sport and Media Cultures in the Chelsea School at the University of Brighton. He has honours and masters degrees from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D from the University of Warwick. He was formerly Professor of Law and Popular Culture at Manchester Metropolitan University where he created and directed the Unit for Law and Popular Culture and the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture research centres. He is co-editor of Berg’s Subcultural Style book series and has been on many editorial boards of international collaborations including Sage’s Handbook of Ethnography and the online journals IM-Interactive Media and Entertainment and Sports Law. He is a renown lecturer and the author of many books and articles on subculture, popular culture, popular music, sport and media cultures. He recently edited The Jean Baudrillard Reader (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2008) and has produced the following books about Paul Virilio’s work: The Paul Virilio Reader (Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press, New York, 2004), Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture (Edinburgh University Press and University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2004).
www.steveredhead.com
The Art of the Accident (Fast Capitalism)
John Colle Rogers
John Colle Rogers is a sculptor, visual artist, and blacksmith living
in Oakland, CA. He graduated with an MFA from California College of
Arts and Crafts. His work critically examines the military/industrial
complex, real estate development, and the art market. Past shows have
included the Grey Invaders (a series of detailed dioramas), the JohnKo
series (presenting a satirical redevelopment of various art venues and
art schools as live/work or military installations), and numerous
pieces of metal work created with traditional blacksmithing and
firearms. He has presented his art individually and in group shows.
www.blankspacegallery.comwww.johnko.biz
Stelarc
Stelarc is an Australian artist who has performed extensively in Japan,
Europe and the USA- including new music, dance festivals and
experimental theatre. He has used medical instruments, prosthetics,
robotics, Virtual Reality systems and the Internet to explore
alternate, intimate, and involuntary interfaces with the body. He has
performed with a THIRD HAND, a VIRTUAL ARM, a VIRTUAL BODY and a
STOMACH SCULPTURE. He has recieved several fellowships, academic
appointments, and Artist-In-Residencies. His work has received critical
acclaim from around the world.
www.stelarc.va.com