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Chris O'Shea is an artist and designer, creating interactive work for both public institutions and private companies. He creates experiences that playfully challenges our perception of spaces and objects.
In 2006 he was the guest curator of the Cybersonica exhibition and in 2007 received a commission for Designers in Residence at the London Design Museum.
Clients include AllofUs, ico design, Greyworld, Jason Bruges Studio, Moving Brands, Moritz Waldemeyer and collaborations with rAndom International, Silent Studios and Cinimod Studio. Work has been created for the Leicester Performing Arts Centre, Onedotzero, Royal Opera House, Southbank Centre, Tate Britain, Wellcome Collection and V&A Museum.
He is the author of Pixelsumo and co-founder of the event series This happened.

This event is a joint event between FM4 radio station and Ars Electronica.
Different artist will be joining.

www.aec.at

Collaborators: Paolo Portaluri, Cinthia Mendonça, Raül Leiva and Dagan Wald.

Toxic Lesbian emerges in 2005 as an artistic and lesbian activist. The artistic model of Toxic Lesbian goes from pure artistic language to virtual and live action, creation and investigation processes. An essential concept of their proposals is to generate works that do not have a commercial format but ephemerals and easy to disseminate ones. Performances and video art productions are the link with the visual language that will generate documentaries about collective social interaction and other testimonies related to the project.

Gábor Papp, Ágoston Nagy, Zoltán Csík-Kovács, Dániel Feles, Krisztián Gergely

Kitchen Budapest, opened in June 2007, is a medialab for young researchers who are interested in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space and are passionate about creating experimental projects in cross-disciplinary teams. We are working in groups on cultural projects that based on technology from the software developing through the design prototypes till the interactive installations. Our researchers are coming to KIBU from different background: programers, designers, video artists, architects, engineers, vj-s and dj-s, and social scientist share their ideas with the community and work together. KIBU founded by Hungarian Telekom.

Hanna Haaslahti is a media artist whose artworks challenge expectations of representation and control. Her interactive installations and films have been presented internationally. She has received the AVEK Media art award (2005) and the Honorary Mention at Vida 6.0 Art and Artificial Life awards (2003).
The piece is produced for the Media Facades 2010 festival by Fantomatico and realised in collaboration with software designer Jani Turunen and fashion designer Tuula Pöyhönen.

'The Artvertiser' has been initiated in 2008 by Julian Oliver and is being developed in collaboration with Damian Stewart.

JULIAN OLIVER
New Zealander based in Berlin, Julian has been active in the critical intersection of art and technology since 1998. His projects have been presented at many museums, international electronic-art events and conferences, and received several awards.

Julian has also given numerous workshops and master classes in software art, augmented reality, creative hacking, data forensics, object-oriented programming for artists, virtual architecture, artistic game-development, information visualization, UNIX/Linux and open source development practices worldwide.

In 2008, he initiated 'The Artvertiser' in collaboration with Clara Boj, Diego Diaz and Damian Stewart.

www.julianoliver.com

DAMIAN STEWART
Damian Stewart is an artist working with light, sound, and technology, originally from New Zealand and currently based in Vienna, Austria. Through the construction of specific corporeal and psycho-corporeal experiences his work explores the relationships between audience, artwork and artist, and is based on a solid understanding of the history, material properties, and aesthetic possibilities of the systems with which he works. Recent work includes installations, light performances, and environment sonification pieces.

Damian has a diverse background that includes study in electroacoustic music, interior architecture, and computer science; professional software programming work on interactive museum installations and PlayStation2 games; and various music performances including free-jazz orchestras, solo electroacoustic improvised performances, and an electronica/dub band. He is a member of the New Interfaces for Performance (N.I.P.) collective, has performed internationally alongside artists including Biosphere and Deadbeat, and collaborated on projects in the UK, Netherlands, Austria, Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, and New Zealand. Damian has been artist-in-residence with groups in the Birmingham, UK; Lisbon, Portugal; and Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Participating artists: Ireti Olowe, Peter Snowdon, Philippe Elipeo, Alec De Busschère, Annick Blavier, Melis Tezkan, Khanh Vong, Laura Colmenares Guerra, Vadim Vosters, Stef Meul, Marika Konstantinidou, Olivier Finn, Adelaide Francois, Nicolas Kunysz, Olivia De Grez.

Artist and programming engineer living in Paris, Antoine Schmitt creates installations, situations and objects, minimal and abstract, anchored in time and movement that addresses the modalities of the free being in a system of reality. In relation to the definitive and systemic contemporary world, he places programming at the core of his artworks to question the forces and shapes at stake.

His has received numerous awards and exhibited in many international museums, institutions and festivals such as transmediale (Berlin), Vida 5.0 (Madrid), Ars Electronica (Linz), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) and Sonar (Barcelona).

Mattia Casalegno (It) is a new media artist whose works are driven by constant research on relations and connections linking fields of information (in-forms, to give form), biology (bio-logos, discourse on living) and ecology (in the batesonian term), pointing on the centrality of code as a tool and metaphor of his poetic.

Co-founder of the project Kinotek, a seminal VJing and new media group collective based in Rome, Mattia has taken part in many international festivals. Upon moving to Brussels, he got involved in several productions for Villa Eugenie and Cimatics (BE). He is currently attending the Design | Media Arts graduate program at the University of California, Los Angeles.