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(*1980, Tehran, Iran). After graduating as a softwareengineer in 2006, he started to work as an independent media artist inTehran. Between 2006 and 2008, he collaborated with Iranian young curatorand media artist Amirali Ghasemi, who is the founder of Parkingallery (http://www.parkingallery.com/?page_id=2). He was involved in two majorprojects with Amirali Ghasemi and other Iranian artists related toParkingallery; "Limited Access" www.parkingallery.com and "Reloading Images: Tehran-Berlin" www.reloadingimages.org.In September 2008, he joined Ars Electronica Futurelab as a creativeengineer and since 2009, he is a master student in Interface Cultures at theUniversity of Arts and Design in Linz, Austria. His works and collaborativeworks have been presented in exhibitions in Linz (Ars Electronica FestivalCampus Exhibition), Tehran, Budapest (Kitchen Budapest www.kitchenbudapest.hu), Turkey (SocialBits exhibition www.socialbits.org), Germany (TypoBerlin 2009), and United States(Digital Ritual). Current focus of his works is on the role of time-basedand live online data and textual information as a base for creating newexperiences using the digital media. www.shervinafshar.name 

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).

born in Bucharest, Romania in 1987, he got he's BA in Photography and Time-based Media from the National University of Art Bucharest and finished with a study scholarship and top marks. In his last BA year, he's been focusing on interactive installation work. He has been managing his own fashion design company for 3 years with a focus on research and innovation in the field, here he established a focus in his design work on interactive and modular clothing. His company is now (2011) preparing on expanding into an educational and promotion platform for young artists and designers from Romania and not only.
His art follows ludic principles while creating a powerful experience for the user. He often combines fear and humor to create elaborate devices that alter or completely modify the perception of the viewer, a usual element until now has been the principle of sensory deprivation in order to get maximum receptiveness of the viewer. In 2010 he moved to Linz, Austria in order to further his studies in the field of interaction at the M.A Program at Interface Cultures Lab, Kunstuniversität Linz.
www.cernei.eu

Ana Čigon (1982) from Slovenia graduated from Painting in 2007 at The Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. Later that year she entered into the masters for Video at the same academy. She is exhibiting her works in solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia and internationally. The ideas she develops in her works have a broad thematic range. They are linked to life situations and existential issues. In her projects she question people’s attitude towards different aspects of life, such as the struggle to achieve
happiness, the attitude towards everyday life, the expectations on sexual behaviour, or the perception and reconsideration of social values in general. Many times she uses humorous, ironic or even sarcastic elements.
www.anacigon.si

I was born in Székesfehérvár, Hungary in 1988. I got my BA in Communication and Media Studies specialized in Visual Communication at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. During my BA i participated in a research at MOKK Centre for Media Research and Education about mobile technologys what few years later ended up as the first hungarian book about interfaces and interactions which i co-authored with András Kangyal, István Szakadát and Laufer László. In 2009 I took my intern at Prezi.com where i was working as an interface and interaction designer. Then in 2010 i started my MA degree in the same area and in the same school also in that year i was asked to create a presentation for each and every presenter of the Mindentudás Egyeteme 2.0 mindentudas.hu. At some point i realized that i want to work in the field of interaction and interface design so i applied to the Interface Culture Master program in 2011. Right now i’m building user interfaces, working as a communication adviser at Kitchen Budapest and trying to figure out how to get better & better in what i do.​
www.twitter.com/eszespeter

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.

from Slovenia graduated in Fine Arts at University of Maribor. She is working  mostly in the field of video installations. She is a founding member of art group V.A.T. (Visual Alternative Trbovlje) and is actively collaborating with Institution for culture Delavski dom Trbovlje in it's project “Trbovlje New Media Setting” with her active participation in the implementation of art projects and events (new media art festival Speculum artium09, Speculum Artium10, Laibach 30th anniversary).

Her latest art works were presented at Athens video festival 2010 (Greece), Orebro international video art festival 2010 (Sweden), new media art festival Speculum Artium 2010 (Slovenia), V.A.T. exhibition Manifestos (Slovenia), Photonic moments 2010 festival: “Zone Trbovlje”  (Slovenia) and at ArtFem.TV (online feminist art  project by Evelin Stermitz).

Lenka Klimešová (1986) is a multimedia and multidisciplinary artist working with the themes of body, gender, feminism and role models. She creates mainly in the medium of video, photography and performance. From 2009 member of Majolenka arts group. Winner of the Prix Ars Electronica 2009, Honorary Mention in category Interactive Art.
www.wix.com/_lenka/klimesova

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.

(*1985, Germany) received his BA in Information Design in 2009 at the University of Applied Sciences Joanneum, Graz, Austria. Firstly building proficiency in Graphical User Interfaces and their usability, he strived to improve his skills for tangible media at the Interface Culture Department since 2009. In 2011, together with his colleagues David Brunnthaler and Shervin Afshar, he recieved the City of Cultures Award by the city of Linz for their public interactive intervention „Der Beweis für Dinge, die nicht gesagt wurden“.
minuteman@mur.at
minuteman.mur.at

Onur Sönmez is a designer, who has a wide range of interest in interaction design research. He exhibited and attended workshops in many places such as Venice Biennale Architecture www.labiennale.org, Ars Electronica (2005,08,09,10), Media Facades Festival Europe 2010, "Wearable Technology - Powered Art and Fashion Design” by the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) in collaboration with 5-DAYS OFF Festival - Amsterdam, Pixelache Festival Istanbul, Medialab Prado - Madrid, Festival Kontact Sonores - France, Ich Machine Festival - Germany, Hyperwerk Basel, IAMAS - Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences Japan. After receiving his BA degree (magna cum laude) in Visual Communication Design at the Istanbul Bilgi University with full scholarship he moved to Linz / Austria & worked for Ars Electronica  Futurelab and currently trying to obtain his Masters degree of  Interface Cultures at the Kunstuniversitat Linz.
onursonmez.com

has finished studies of computer science in media at the University of Applied Science in Wiesbaden and Freiburg. He has worked as a software developer and interface designer in Switzerland and Germany. In 2009 he decided to change the course of his career and entered the University of Arts in Linz to study Interface Culture. In his spare time he is skating, snowboarding, and watching many documentaries.