Students

Born in 1976 in Istanbul, and studied Visual Communication Design at Yildiz Technical University.
Bager was an actor and a puppeteer in Dark Theatre, Istanbul, has been worked as a lecturer for 4 years in his field, and eager to live his life between art and science as an experimentalist.
e-mail: bager@siyah.net

Hugo Camargo (born 1982) is a multimedia artist from Brazil. He has studied Graphic Design (Universidade Federal de Goiás) and worked as a package designer in his hometown (Goiânia), but before graduating there he moved to Florence (Italy) and studied at Libera Accademia di Belle Arti, where he got his bachelor's degree in Fine Arts.
Multitasker by nature, his works include landscapes, soundscapes, video collages, real time video performances, net artivism, interactive installations and media archeology. His research focuses on exploring technological media aesthetically, socially and conceptually.
Camargo's work has appeared in some festivals and exhibitions, such the "Athens Video Festival 2007" (Athens - Greece), "Networking Eyes" (Florence/Italy 2007), "NewMediaFest [Slowtime 2007 - Quicktime as an artistic medium]" and "Rassegna Giovani Artisti" (Capraia/Italy 2008).

Ana Čigon (1982) from Slovenia graduated from Painting in 2007 at The
Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. In the same year she
entered into the masters for Video at the same academy. She is actively
exhibiting her works of painting, video and interactive art in solo and
group exhibitions in Slovenia and internationally, she has also
performed in group amateur contemporary dance performances and solo
dance performances. Her works have been recognized in many occasions
especially important is the selection for finalist for Essl awward 2009
(www.sammlung-essl.at) and the wining of the price for OHO award 2009 (
www.yvaa.net). In here work she explores the potentials of provocation, humor and irony and always looks for small but meaningful details to tickle and move peoples trivial perceptions of everyday life.
www.anacigon.si

Born in Chilliwack / Canada in 1984, Valedictorian of his high school class and completed a B.Sc in Interactive Arts at Simon Fraser University, focusing on Interaction Design. A research and teaching assistant during his University time, he also worked in Vancouver as an Interaction Designer at Business Objects (now SAP) before moving to Linz to work at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Interested in the  
intersection between architecture, new urban spaces, and meaningful interactive experiences.
www.jaymecochrane.com

The challenge and the motivation to create interactive art comes from both trying to foresee how the experience of a work might be for a person and how it actually is experienced; it is at once an experiment for the artist and the people who engage with it.  His works include, Two Computers at Leisure Playing Chess in a Park, A Game of Marbles and The Society of The Spectacle. He has completed two undergraduate degrees, one in Music and one in Digital Arts.  Timothy also spent one year as Artist in Residence at Experimedia in Melbourne where he developed the Elicit series. He has been commissioned for interactive installations at the State Library of Victoria and Oxfam.
www.timdevine.net

studied Veterinary Medicine at the VMU Vienna.

Together with her husband she runs a practice for small animals and dairy cattle and hiked 3000km through Europe from her home in Schenkenfelden/OÖ to Santiago de Compostela/Spain. Interface projects: "The Enlighted Collection" consists of interactive illuminated hand-knit garments. "sCANNED OBJECTs" involved visitors to create strange pictures with a scanner and seal their products into tin-boxes. Both shown at Ars Electronica 2006.

Studied Sculpture -Transmedial Space and Music -Media Technology in Linz and Weimar. Since 2008, he is a student with the Interface Cultures M.A program at the Art University Linz. His artistic work connects the fields of art, science and technology, whereby his thematic priorities are perception, documentation, and the manipulation of acoustic space. In 2008 he received a grant from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research for his project “sonic balls”.
Personal website: www.gupfinger.net
e-mail: info@gupfinger.net
Collaborative artworks
midi marching band: www.mmm-k.org
bu’nostik: www.bunostik.org

Born in Hamburg and completed school career with the college for graphic design.
Studied Media and Computing at the University of Applied Science Berlin and graduated with a diplomathesis in image processing.
Moved to Linz for attending the master program in Interface Cultures.

Born in 1982 in Graz, Jona graduated in the Interaction and Mediadesign program at the University of Applied Sciences in 2005. Since 2006 he is following a Masters in Interface Cultures at the Art University Linz.

Jona is working in the field of new media art and design as a programmer, gamedesigner, exhibitiondesigner, perfomanceartist, VJ and  Videoartist. His works have been awarded several times and shown at  international exhibitions including GameArt Völklingen, Medienturm, Diagonale, Sterischer Herbst, Museumsquartier and Ars Electronica Linz.

Stefan has studied communication design in Dornbirn, Manchester and Berlin. After that he moved to Linz to study space&designstrategies and interface cultures. He earns his living with his design studio BEAUTY PARLOUR. Beside that he teaches within the field of art and design. Together with Tim Devine he runs the VJ-Crew NEON GOLDEN and performs internationally on a regular base.
www.beautyparlour.at
lab.neongolden.net

Born in Sofia, graduated  Visual Arts and Communication at the New Bulgarian University. Worked mostly as Graphic and Web Designer. Moved to Linz to study the master program in Interface Cultures. Co-founded the nemertini image worm - an open-ended jam session for illustrators and photographers. Mainly interessted in video, interactive installations and photography.
www.nemertini.com

Born in 1983 and raised in Brighton/ England, I moved to Austria with my family at the age of ten. After completing High School in Salzburg I moved to America for a year where I travelled, worked and took some college courses. The following year I attended a foundation year in art and design studies at Reading College of Art and Design in England.

Since 2003 I have been studying Industrial Design at the Art University in Linz and have since found myself considering the combination of new media technologies with formal product language to communicate information. I'm interest in how traditional industrial manufacturing elements, which through their production numbers are widely spread and commonly known, can be applied to communicate non-commercial information.

Since 2004 I have been taking courses at the newly founded department of Interface Culture where Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau, in cooperation with the Ars Electronica Futurelab and various invited lecturers, are teaching the use of and critical approach towards new media within a very wide spectrum of possibility.

When realizing projects I find myself drawn towards the ways in which objects, whether of material nature or data, convey their content. This close relationship between message and medium always plays an important role in my work and ideas around the environment in which objects are approached occupy my time.

Was born in 1982 in Austria and completed an undergraduate program in art before entering the University of Art and Design Linz.

"Born in Izmir / Turkey, moved to Istanbul and received his BA degree (cum laude) in Visual Communication Design at the Istanbul Bilgi University with full scholarship. Moved to Linz to attend the master program in Interface Cultures. As a freelance designer and founder of design studio B11 he designed several posters, dvd's, album covers and directed music videos which broadcasted internationally and exhibited in many festivals.
bigblackmonkey.com
b-11.org

Born in turkey, moved in the age of seven to Austria. Lives and works in Linz, freelance digital videoeditingb for several art and culture documentations. Since 2004 Student at University of Art, Interface Cultures. Mainly interessted in video and interactive Installations. Recent projects: blow.

He worked as a graphic designer in an advertising agency in Salzburg before he attended the Interface Culture program. Beside media arts and science he is interested in photography. Thomas was part of the "recipeTable" team and currently works on the "Atem-Raum" project. He is assistant for Interface Culture.

studied computer science at the kepler uni linz. from 1990 on he designed and programmed user interfaces for graphical programming languages. since 2000 he runs his own company for edv services and internet providing.

www.yasp.at