Dagmar Kase

Biography: born-1974 in Estonia
BA in scenography in 2001 at Estonian Academy of Arts
MA 1st year student in interactive multimedia
works in 2001-

1.cooperative project(video-text-sound) with A.Rishaug and P.Helguera,festival\"Interstanding\",Tallinn,Estonia
2.audio\"Dagi\",cooperative netproject \"The Portrait\", www.incident.net
3.audio\"out of order\",cooperative exhibition,gallery Zvono,Belgrade,Yugoslavia
4.audio\"Border Report Fun\",Borderhack 2.0,US/Mexico border
5.\"Cyberbird\",vj,multimedia show with I.Kivi and J.Suviste,Elisabeth

e-mail: dagmarkase@yahoo.com
Country: Estonia

Absolute Loneliness
http:\\www.artun.ee/~dagmar/absoluteloneliness

Synopsis: collection of half-fictional,half-biographical stories of people I have never met nor seen.

Dane

Biography: I trained in 16mm animation, which was OK until I discovered the potential of database forms, so I threw away my scissors and started experimenting with simultaneous animated events; of which \'him\' has been the most successful, published in http://www.eastgate.com reading room, shortlisted for the Eliterature 2001 poetry awards and screened at the Boston CyberArts LiteShow.

e-mail: dane@comfylux.net
Country: UK

Them
http://www.comfylux.net/them

Synopsis: "them" is a catalogue of data retrieval objects.

Someone, somewhere maybe watching you but there is also someone somewhere else who is colour coding all the information and ordering the stationery.

The conceptual aims were to create a narrative in database form and experiment with simultaneous events that are autonomous within the overall story.

"them" is an experiment with the potential of interactivity in animation. The viewer clicks the arrow on the extreme of the database interface to load a new animated object into the room. Each of these objects has different levels of interaction for the user to explore. The animations are meant to simulate phyiscal onbjects and the user has to discover how to interact with them.

If you see no object other than number 11 then the time spent clicking the link will have been worthwhile. The table falls onto the floor and turns into a pile of sheets which you can interact with as they fold into paper objects.

Daniel Young

Biography: Artist and inventor, living and working in New York City.

e-mail: young@newzoid.com
Country: U.S.A.

NewZoid
http://www.newzoid.com

Synopsis: NewZoid is a work of generative art. It constantly and automatically collects news headlines on the Internet, breaks them into pieces and reassembles them into false headlines whose content is usually absurd, amusing and thought-provoking. NewZoid is an antidote to the overdose of news and information that threatens to overwhelm natural human perception and communication.
NewZoid is disguised both as a scientific breakthrough in communication with parallel worlds and as an entertainment site. It also allows visitors to write and submit their own headlines to the transformation process and vote for favorite headlines.

Dellbrugge & de Moll

Biography: Christiane Dellbrugge 1961 born in Moline, USA, Ralf de Moll 1961 born in Saarlouis.
Cooperate since 1984. Live in Berlin.

Selected Exhibitions
2001 Plug-In, Westf‰lisches Landesmuseum M¸nster
2000 ein | r‰umen, Hamburger Kunsthalle
cITy, ZKM Karlsruhe
Models of Resistance, Overgaden, Kopenhagen
log.in, Art in Public Space, Nuremberg
1999 Kunst in der Stadt III, Kunsthaus Bregenz
Pilot. The Audience from a Distance, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo
1998-01 Hamburg Ersatz, Art in Public Space, Hamburg/Internet
1998 Medialization, Edsvik kunst och kultur, Sollentuna, Schweden
1998 Modell, Haus am Waldsee Berlin
1997 weitergehen, Projects for Art in Public Space, Kunstverein in Hamburg
1996 Substitute@ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Moskau

Selected Works
http://hamburg-ersatz.trmd.de, 1998-2001
http://copenhagen-substitute.homepage.dk, 2000
http://www.demodell.de, 2000
Ufo Landig Strip, CD-ROM, 2000
Video-Theory 1-4, Remix, Interview, 1993-94

e-mail: modell@demodell.de
Country: Germany

Synopsis: Copenhagen Substitute is an art in public space project and conceived as a tower with seven levels. The first level is dedicated to the house as a cell of human dwelling. In the public park of level 2 you may discover 14 different city-models. Meet the data-bodies of our inhabitants on the agora of level three. The consulting room of level four offers talks with specialists about the functioning of a city, footballstadions, the internet as a club and the ambivalent position of a state-approved curator for art in public space. A substitute also contains the imagination of its original ñ in the auditorium of level five you may create your own sound environment. On level six the path of the philosopher awaits you for a chat. When you have reached the top on level seven, enjoy the view into open cosmic space, the perspective of travels to the moon, colonies in space and the sound of the harmony of spheres.

How do you feel?
http://www.howdoyoufeel.de
http://www.demodell.de

Synopsis: Feelings are a pretty complex matter. Itís not always easy to understand what\'s going on inside of you. Feelings are triggered by chemicals, hormones, nutrition and the weather. Anger and fear are as much part of life as joy and bliss. Listen to your heart and let your feelings flow at http://www.howdoyoufeel.de
http://www.howdoyoufeel.de is the barometer of the world wide mood. Each entry is registered. A program checks the amount of positive and negative feelings, generates the dominant mood of the day as well as the emotional curve of the year.
Even if public space would disappear into the Net, the streets would be deserted and we would control our lives from our private cells, we would always stay connected due to our computers.

Diogo Terroso

Biography: Diogo Terroso (Portugal), graduated in Communication Design at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, and then studied at Escola das Artes, Universidade CatÛlica Portuguesa, a Masters Degree in Digital Arts - Multimedia.
He lives currently in London, where he concluded in 2000 an MA Degree in Communication Design - Multimedia at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
His work with digital media involve a range of interrelated interests including science, technology, art and design.

His research has been focus into the overlapping relations of New Science and Web Design, studying aspects of biology, artificial life and chaos theory to create web environments.
Recent Internet project, TRANS-KP | Regenerative Online Interface, is a web-based multi-user interface that produces an evolutionary immersive experience. It has been exhibited at various digital media festivals worldwide.
TRANS-KP v.2 will be developed at V2_MediaLab in Rotterdam, in an artist-in-residence program next year.

At the moment, he prepares a PhD Research on Evolutionary Design for Online Virtual Environments.

e-mail: dterroso@hotmail.com
Country: Portugal

Synopsis: TRANS-KP is an experimental online interface that uses evolutionary and feedback procedures, in order to explore new forms of interaction between users and users, users and data.

It consists of a spatial multi-user environment, deploying three dimensionality as a dynamical system and rejecting its use as a simple mirror of reality. Since time and net data as features of the model, \"form becomes hybrid\".
It produces an immersive experience, where online users are represented as avatars, among other data/objects, and can interact with each other.

The interface has itís own existence and evolution (time based, algorithmic) and is aware of our presence, monitoring our behaviours and being affected by them. The main issue is that the interface self-generates the environment for each user, based on the combination of internal processes, netdata parameters and the users input into the system. Only the local properties of the virtual space need to be pre-designed, never the global, wide ones. \"Order in this sense, is a travelling transient.\"
Ultimately, it self-collapses.

This project follows a research regarding the merging of new science and web design. The aim was to identify within new science (complexity theory, dynamical living systems, cognitive sciences, and computational science) principles that could unfold new conceptual and structural development for online interfaces.

Dora Garcia

Biography: Dora García
born in Valladolid, (E), lives in Brussels and Amsterdam, has been working as a visual artist since 1991, exhibiting in commercial galleries, artists\'spaces and museums in Europe. Since 1999 has produced several net.art works, such as \"Heartbeat\" (http://aleph-arts.org/art/heartbeat), \"The Tunnel People\" (http://aleph-arts.org/art/tunnelpeople), and \"Inserts in Real Time\" (http://aleph-arts.org/inserts)

e-mail: dora.garcia@pophost.eunet.be
Country: Spain

Inserts in Real Time
http://aleph-arts.org/inserts

Synopsis: "Inserts in Real Time" is a project unfolding as a series of "real" interventions in "real" time by means of performances, intertwined with a series of short stories preceding -and stating- the performances and a series of stories in the form of a "Diary" (including texts, pictures ands movies) which follow the performances. "Inserts in Real Time" consists of ten projects or "inserts", four of which are currently taking place. Each project develops simultaneously as an \"event\" and as a "narration". This system creates two different shifts of audience, a real time audience witnessing the performance "Live", and a second audience created by the diaries. The diaries can be visited at the site or directly received in the mail box by means of subscription.This system allows as well the blurring of borders between author, performer and audience.

Eduardo Sousa

Biography: Not Submitted

e-mail: edsousa@asseptic.org
Country: Portugal

Genera
http://www.asseptic.org/lab/five-k/genera

Synopsis: Trata-se de um pequeno exemplo de "arte generativa", isto é, gerada por computador com resultados aleatórios. … Um projecto minimalista na concepão, tendo sido inicialmente concebido para um concurso de webdesign em cujos projectos estavam limitados a um tamanho màximo de 5120 bytes (5KB). O utilizador pode instruir o computador para \'criar uma obra\' a partir de um entre seis pequenos elementos, linhas, \'tijolos\' ou 'gotas'.

Ehren Fordyce

Biography: I teach directing and contemporary performance at Stanford University

e-mail: ehren_fordyce@hotmail.com
Country: USA

The Stag and the Owl
http://www.stanford.edu/~fordyce/animations/stagandowl.htm

Synopsis: This is a fable in the tradition of Perrault.
The work is designed to be looped.
It is about the links between humanity and nature

Fenollabbate

Biography: Fred Fenollabbate is artist, performer, Web master of Multimedia art center Le Metafort (Aubervilliers, France), he teaches web art on the faculty of The Department of Photographie and MultimÈdia, University Paris XIII (France).

He creates many multimedia works and performances (as IJ†: Internet J) which are visible on its own sites: www.multiface.net and www.neurosex.com, and on other sites: dream-escape.org (music) chairetmetal (Ollivier Dyens), SÈance díecoute, etc, he takes part in many multimedia festival (Sound-Space, Netart00,INFO 2000 Ljubljana, Interferences,SEAFair99 Skopje Electronic arts fair, FILE2001...).

e-mail: fred@multiface.net
Country: France

Neurosex Party1
http://www.neurosex.com/feelit/

Synopsis: NeuroSex works on the old layers of our sub-conscious, and created an envelope propitious for the liberation of what we call archaism, but which founds all relationship , and here the other reveals itself as animal>>human>>computer but not inevitably in this sense.

NeurosexParty 2
http://www.neurosex.com/lesavoir

Synopsis: NeuroSex works on the old layers of our sub-conscious, and created an envelope propitious for the liberation of what we call archaism, but which founds all relationship , and here the other reveals itself as animal>>human>>computer but not inevitably in this sense.

Geoffrey Gatza & Deena Larsen

Biography: An electronic media junkie for over a decade, Deena Larsen has tried everything to relieve the cravings for new forms of literature which let her go out of the lines. She has led treatment programs such as hypertext writing workshops and bimonthlyElectronic Literature chats. Unfortunately, these have only fueled her uncontrollable desires for complex structures of meaning. She sought her vices in the Woodstock of e-poetry conferences, where addictive thoughts about alternative ways to shape words and create new contexts flowed freely. There in the late night coffee dens, she met Geoffrey Gatza and convinced him that this trip would be an easy one. She promised to reform. No complexity, no hidden meanings--just a smooth flashy ride. She lied.

For three years, Geoffrey Gatza strove to resuscitate the dead art of poetry and to maintain ;the sublime; in the old sense. The age demanded an image and Deena Larsen offered him a blazing electronic diadem. A seemingly innocent excursion from the usual drug hazed nights of a jazz lit town. Wrong from the start;but he trusted her dark junky eyes. Her complexes struck power chords within his orthodox non-Euclidean being, within his ideals of free poetry. As they wrote, moments landed on top of other moments, and the whole became itself a moments;on top of still other co-existing as and as-nots;not in a jumble per se, but e:electron;. Geoffrey Gatza is also the author of Cool Whip: a documentary poem of the supermarket. Check out BlazeVOX2k1 at www.vorplesword.com.

e-mail: textra@chisp.net
Country: USA

Synopsis: E: electron is a three-dimensional word poem, based on the structure and conventions of the periodic table of elements. Each part of this complex work embodies aspects of atomic structure as its metaphorical skeleton.

The periodic table of elements The periodic table is used as a structural metaphor to recount a life spent with a lover. As each element has an additional electron, each day in a love affair has an additional memory. An overall view of these stages, the table of elements itself, presents a double acrostic poem. We see the valancees of the orbital shell as analogies to the stages in a love affair;and each phase is represented by a separate picture. Clicking on any element in the table provides a word-poem that corresponds to that atom\'s structure of electrons. A simple atom like hydrogen has only one electron--only one memory attached to the initial orbits or phases. A complex element like radium has 89 electrons in seven orbits or phases; 89 memories just under the surface.

Poly-linear valances is a polyphonic chorus that underlies the work. It is set in seven valances, one for each of the seven orbital energy levels electrons can occupy. The work melds lecture and conjecture to ponder the underlying relationships between humans and atomic structure.

Geza Nyiry

Biography: 1971 Born in Budapest, Hungary
1993 University of Hungarian Fine Arts (Department of Painting)
1998 Postgraduate studies, University of Hungarian Fine Arts
1999 Members of The Studio of Hungarian Young Fine Artists
1999 Scholarship of the “Sommerakademie”, Salzburg
2000 Scholarship of the international artists residence Villa Concordia, Bamberg

e-mail: nyiry@hotmail.com
Country: Hungary

Facefetish
http:// www.c3.hu/~nyiry/facefetish

Synopsis: I have cut off the heads of the female sex photos, that were loaded down from the internet, than cut the heads into halfs and with this process I got 220 half heads. They are mixed and put together randomly.

Gruppo A12, Udo Noll, Peter Scupelli

Biography: Gruppo A12 is a collective of architects, founded in 1993 and active in the fields of architecture, art and new media.
It has displayed its work at MusÈe d·rt Moderne de la ville de Paris; ZKM, Karlsruhe; PS1 New York; Manifesta 3, Ljubljana.
Udo Noll is web-programmer and author of several web-projects (www.humbot.org).

Peter Scupelli is an architect, currently researching at Carnegie Mellon University.

Gruppo A12 won in 2000 the SonderPreis at the MedienKunstPreis at ZKM, Karlsruhe.

e-mail: gruppoa12@iol.it
Country: Germany, Italy

Parole
http://parole.aporee.org

Synopsis: parole is a dynamic dictionary of the contemporary city

Gustavo Romano

Biography: Gustavo Romano is an artist who works in a variety of media including video, installations, multimedia, web projects.
He has solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, the Ruth Benzacar gallery, the ICI of Buenos Aires, the Cultural Center of Spain, Cordoba.
His works has been exhibited also in the New Museum, New York, Casa de AmÈrica and Telefonica Foundation, Madrid, Chopo Museum, Mexico, and included in the VII Havana Biennial, Interferences, Belfort, the Iberoamerican I Biennial of Lima, Peru, the II Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
He is one of the directors of Fin del Mundo (The Edge of the World) a virtual space that brings together art projects developed for Internet by Argentineans artists from different areas such as music, literature and the visual arts. (www.findelmundo.com.ar)

e-mail: gusrom@findelmundo.com.ar
Country: Argentina

Synopsis:

Hyperbody, the ultimate guide to find around all the net anything about the human body..., is an Internet Directory, which offers up to the minute listings of websites whose names (URLs) refer to the different parts of the human body.

Ian David Aronson

Biography:
Ian David Aronson is Assistant Professor
of Digital Media at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
He is also the Director and Producer
of digitaldocumentary.org, a website dedicated to furthering the
artform of online documentary.
His work is also currently featured at Transom.org:
http://www.transom.org/shows/2001/200109.shows.digitaldocumentary.aronson.html

Aronson graduated from
the Stanford University Master\'s program
in Documentary Film and Video in 1997.
His thesis documentary, \"Tell Them You\'re Fine,\"
follows three recently diagnosed cancer patients
and is distributed to hospitals
and medical schools by Fanlight Productions:
(www.fanlight.com/catalog/films/235_ttyf.htm).

Before graduate school,
Aronson worked as a stringer
for the New York Times and as News
and Public Affairs Producer
at NPR member station WBFO in Buffalo, NY.
He currently lives in New York City.

e-mail: ian@digitaldocumentary.org
Country: USA

Brown, an Online Documentary
http://www.digitaldocumentary.org/brown

Synopsis: Brown is an online documentary that uses still photos and audio interviews to profile a young bi-racial couple raising their first child. By combining a series of candid and intimate photos with discussions of race, tolerance, and family Brown examines not only cultural identity but the merging of identities and backgrounds into a multi-cultural family relationship.

This audio based online project introduces us to Sheryl, a bi-racial woman, and her husband Alex who is Italian American. The couple tells us that not only do they work hard to create a supportive environment in which their four-year-old son AJ can form his own identity, but they strive to ensure his self image is not formed in terms of black or white but in terms of brown. Sheryl tells AJ that everyone comes from brown, and that some people are light brown and others are darker. Her own identity is based on a love of both her Irish American father and her African American Mother. \"They both came together and created me," she says, "you don\'t have to be put into some little group."