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Development TeamA development team was formed in October 2004 (after initial discussion at ISEA 2004), to scope the project. Development Team members played no part in the selection of artists. Nina CzegledyNina Czegledy, has exhibited her artwork internationally, curated over 20 digital art/video programs presented in more than 35 countries and initiated Points of Entry, the first Canadian/ Australian/New Zealand digital arts collaboration.Her academic lectures lead to numerous publications in books and journals in Europe, North and South America and Asia. Czegledy is the president of Critical Media, a Canadian based Knowledge Institute, curator of the Canada Digital Culture map, exhibiting member of the Girls and Guns Collective and the ICOLS international artist group as well as an active member of the Leonardo SpaceArt Network. Nina Czegledy is the current Chair of the Inter Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA). Further information is contained in the invited international artist section.
Sean CubittSean 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),Simulation and Social Theory (Theory, Culture and Society/ Sage, 2001), The Cinema Effect (MIT Press, 2004) and EcoMedia (Rodopi, 2005); and coeditor of Aliens R Us: Postcolonial Science Fiction with Ziauddin Sardar (Pluto Press 2002) and The Third Text Reader with Rasheed Araeen and Ziauddin Sardar (Athlone/Continuum, 2002). He is the author of over 300 articles, chapters, papers and catalogue essays on contemporary arts, culture and media. A member of the editorial boards of Screen, Third Text, The International Journal of Cultural Studies, Futures, Time and Society, Journal of Visual Communication, Leonardo Digital Reviews, Iowa Web Review, Cultural Politics, fibreculture journal, International Journal of Cultural Politics, Public and Vectors, 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 Oceania. He has also curated video and new media exhibitions and authored videos, courseware and web poetry. He is currently researching a book on media history and preparing to launch a book list on the history and philosophy of media with Berg and New York University Press.
Gunalan NadarajanGunalan Nadarajan is an art theorist / curator based in Singapore. His publications include a book, Ambulations (2000) and many catalogue essays and academic articles, including most recently a chapter, “Ornamental Biotechnology and Parergonal Aesthetics”, in Biotechnology, Art and Culture by MIT Press (2005). He is also corresponding editor / writer to several international journals including Contemporary (UK) and Flash Art (Europe). He curated several exhibitions including Ambulations (1999), Cyberarts: Intersections of Art and Technology (2001), 180kg (Jogjakarta, 2002), TOYS (2003) and Nesting Spaces (Auckland, NZ, 2004). He was also contributing curator for Documenta XI in Kassel (Germany) in 2002, and mediacity 2002, a biennial new media arts exhibition in Seoul (S. Korea). Gunalan is one of the Board of Directors of the Inter Society for Electronic Arts, an international new media arts organization. Presently, he is involved in several ongoing research projects in art and biology, robotic arts, toys, ambient intelligence, smart clothing and gaming. Gunalan was recently elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK.
Julianne PearceJulianne Pearce was Executive Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology at the time of joining the team. She sits on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Electronic Arts, has been involved with many curated projects throughout Australia and worldwide, and presented numerous papers to conferences themed on contemporary practice.
Ian Clothier, John Fairclough, Kate Roberts of the Govett-Brewster and Simon Rees previously of the Govett-Brewster were also members of the Development Team. Kate Roberts stood in as contact following Simon leaving, until Mercedes Vicente arrived.
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