Panel Statement

GLUE: Case Studies on how Things Stick proposes not so much an academic inquiry in how artists involved in the realm of technology manage to glue together a variety of elements pertaining to their artistic activity. Rather, it is a dip into their everyday reality and practice, which requires one to get one’s fingers sticky…

Panelists:

• Sher Doruff (NL) ) is a digital artist working in the performative arts. Since 1995 she works solely with real time interactive performance technologies in collaboration with electronic composers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists and theatermakers. She is currently co-artistic director of the Sensing Presence department of the Society for Old and New Media in Amsterdam and a core team member and initiator of the KeyStroke Project. waag.org
• Sharon Daniel (USA) is an artist who is developing and exploiting new information and communications technologies for the design of “Collaborative Systems”, systems in which participants are given a framework for building a database based on their own experiences and the tools for structuring and interpreting that data themselves. Daniel’s work has evolved from interactive sculpture and video installation to experimental research that re-casts networked, virtual environments as public, community and collaborative sites. `
  sharondaniel.net
• Sha Xin Wei (USA) was trained in mathematics at Harvard and Stanford Universities, working over a decade in scientific simulation, visualization and experimental multimedia. After obtaining an interdisciplinary Ph.D. at Stanford on differential geometric performance and writing technologies, Sha joined the faculty of the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, USA. Sha established the Topological Media Lab to study gesture and media from phenomenological as well as computational perspectives. He now conducts research on computational media and responsive media spaces, and on how scientists, artists and technologists can collaborate to produce knowledge and cultural artefacts.
• Michelle Teran (CND)  is an artist and workshop facilitator whose practice involves live erformance/ installations using technologies that address issues such as social networks,
  presence and the interplay between (media) spaces. Her work covers live installations, online performances, tele-presence, live art, video, networked collaboration, lab spaces, art and social play. These works have been presented in public spaces, conferences, festivals, galleries, clubs and theatre spaces. Her recent projects include: LiveForm:Telekinetics (InterAccess, Toronto), Hot Wired Live Art: Airwaves, (Banff Centre for the Arts), The Playgirls (Axis, Amsterdam), AFK, Stereotactic (Mercer Union, Toronto) and O+E (NEMO, Amsterdam and AudioRom, London). Currently she is artistin-residence at Waag Society for Old and New Media in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ubermatic.org/misha
• Guy Van Belle (B) has been prominently involved in the use and development of multimedia for artistic purposes since 1990. He is working as an educator and media technologist at the electronic music studios IPEM (Ghent University,B) and at the medialab at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts Antwerp (B). As an independent artdirector he cooperates with De Waag/Keyworx Amsterdam on the development of collaborative creative tools and
  installations. He initiated no-sinc.org, an experimental computer band for youngsters. Since 2000 he has been working under the name of the collective digital band mxHz.org (machine cent’red humanz).
• Christiane Dellbrügge (D) & Ralph de Moll (D) studied both at the Academy for Visual Arts in Karlsruhe (D) and have been collaborating since 1984. Their work focuses on questions of reception, presentation and evaluation of art. It analyses the conditions, which are constitutive for art, including their own role as artists. They respond to challenges searching for the adequate media and methods for each specific situation.
• Amanda Steggell (NO/UK) ) completed her dance education at London College of Dance and Drama, and studied choreography at the Norwegian Ballet Academy, Oslo. Codirector of Motherboard – a cross-disciplinary artist group working with performance and installation – since 1995. She has choreographed several works for the stage and screen, and worked as guest teacher at institutions of visual and performing art. notam02.no/motherboard/1.html
• Per Platou (NO)  studied media theory, criminology, history of ideas and film/drama in Oslo and London. Background in alternative media, mainly F.EKS magazine (90-97) and Radio
  Nova (84-93). He founded DBUT in 1989, an alternative distribution network, record company and production company for sound, film, art and media. In 1995 he started
  NOOD, a project dedicated to sound exchange on the internet, has since then directed and produced a number of sound/art works and workshops. Freelance journalist on digital art and hacktivism, and board member of the Norwegian Short Film Festival and UKS.
  liveart.org   notam02.no/nood
• Maja Kuzmanovic, Belgium, FoAM  fo.am
• \Nat Muller, Netgerlands, FoAM

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