1999 Rockefeller fellow, design engineer and technoartist Jeremijenko was recently named one of the top one hundred young innovators by the MIT Technology Review. Her work includes digital, electromechanical, and interactive systems, in addition to biotechnological work, and has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, and included in the Rotterdam Film Festival (2000), the Guggenheim Museum, NY, (1999), the Whitney Biennial '97, Documenta '97, Ars Electronic prix '96. A large project was commissioned for the opening of new museum MASSMoCA (www.massmoca.org).

Prior to taking her current research position at the Media Research Lab/Center for Advanced Technology in the Computer Science Dept., NYU, Jeremijenko directed the Engineering Design Studio at Yale University. Other research positions include several years at Xerox PARC, and the Advanced Computer Graphics Lab, RMIT. She is known to work for the Bureau of Inverse Technology.

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Paul Miller, aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, is a NYC-based conceptual artist, writer, and musician, whose work as an artist has appeared in a wide variety of contexts including the Whitney Biennial, The Venice Biennial for Architecture, the Ludwig Museum, Germany, Kunsthalle, Vienna and The Andy Warhol Museum, USA. Additionally, Miller is co-Publisher, with poet Steve Canon, of A Gathering of the Tribes; he was the first Editor-At-Large of Artbyte: the Magazine of Digital Culture; and his writings have been published in a host of periodicals; including Village Voice, The Source, Artforum, and Raygun.

Miller is most well known under the moniker of his "constructed persona" as "Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid," a character from his upcoming novel "Flow My Blood the Dj Said" that uses a wide variety of digitally created music as a form of post-modern sculpture. As Dj Spooky, Miller has recorded a huge volume of music and has collaborated with such eminent artists as Iannis Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore, among others. He also created the music score for the Cannes and Sundance award winning film "Slam" starring Saul Williams.

 

Interdisciplinary artist Coco Fusco has lectured, performed, exhibited, and curated programs throughout the world. Fusco's performances include Dolores from 10h to 22h with Ricardo Dominguez (2001), Votos (1999-2000), Stuff with Nao Bustamante (1996-99), and Sudaca Enterprises (1997), and her work has been included in, among others, the Whitney Biennial, the Sydney Biennale, and the London International Theatre Festival. She is the author of English is Broken Here, a collection of essays on art, media and cultural politics; and the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999). Her writings appear in numerous publications, including: the Village Voice, the LA Times, Art in America, and Frieze, and a collection of her essays and performance texts will be published by Routledge in 2001.

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. EDT's SWARM action was presented at Ars Electronica's InfoWar Festival in 1998. A former member of Critical Art Ensemble, Dominguez is currently a Worker with Fake-Fakeshop, a hybrid performance group that was included in the Whitney Biennial, and Senior Editor of The Thing. He is the editor of EDT's book Hacktivism: network-art-activism, (Autonomedia Press, 2001), and his essays have appeared at Ctheory and recently in Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas, edited by Coco Fusco.

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Mexican-Canadian electronic artist, Lozano-Hemmer, works in relational architecture, technological theatre and performance art, and his work has been shown in over a dozen countries, including the ARCO art fair, Bienal de la Habana, Film + Architektur Biennale, European Media Art Festival, Ars Electronica Festival, and SIGGRAPH'93. He is the curator of "Arte Virtual", organizer and moderator of 5CYBERCONF, and his writing has been published extensively in art and media publications, including Kunstforum, Leonardo, Telepolis and Archis.

Lozano-Hemmer's works, including interactive art project vectorial elevation which transformed Mexico City's Zócalo Square with immense light sculptures created by participants on the Internet, have received numerous awards. Among others: "Best Installation" at the Interactive Digital Media Awards in Toronto, a Cyberstar award in Germany, a distinction at the SFMOMA Webby Awards in San Francisco and an Excellence Prize at the CG Arts Media Art Festival in Tokyo. Additionally, his pieces done in collaboration with Will Bauer have received a Golden Nica in 2000 and honorable mentions at the 1995 and 1998 Prix Ars Electronica.