ROY ASCOTT - He has pioneered the place of cybernetics, telematics and interactive media in art, He has held many prestigious academic appointments in the US, UK, Canada, and Europe and he advises juries, journals, festivals, media centres and universities throughout the world. He has published over 100 texts, and is widely translated. His books include: Art & Telematics: Toward the Construc-tion of New Aesthetics; Reframing Consciousness: the technoetic paradigm; Is there Love in the Telematic Embrace? Roy Ascott's Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness.

BERYL GRAHAM - Professor of New Media Art at the School of Art, Design and Media, Univer-sity of Sunderland, and co-editor of a web site resource for new media curators www.crumbweb.org. She is a writer, curator and educator with many years of professional experience as a media arts organiser. She curated the international exhibi-tion Serious Games. Her research on audience relation-ships with interactive art in gallery settings is published in books and periodicals including Leonardo, Convergence, and Switch. In 2003 she published the book Digital Media Art.

ERKKI HUHTAMO - Born 1958 in Helsinki, Finland, Erkki is an internationally known media researcher, writer and curator. He works as Associate professor of Media History and Theory at UCLA, Department of Design | Media Arts. He has published extensively on media archaeology and media arts. He has also curated several exhibitions of media art, including the acclaimed Alien Intelligence (Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 2000) and directed television programs about media culture.

JORGE LA FERLA - one of the founders of the video art movement in Argentina, is also a TV and multimedia director whose videos question the genres of cinema and television. He is a Professor in the Audiovisual Techniques Department of the University of Buenos Aires, and at the Fundación Universidad del Cine. He is Director of the Eurolatinoamericano Festival of Video and Digital Art and one of the country?s most important representatives of research into the new media. He has published countless articles on audiovisual media in Argentina, Germany, Brazil, France and Switzerland.

GUNALAN NADARAJAN - is an art theorist / curator. His publications include the book Ambula-tions and many catalogue essays and academic articles. He is corresponding editor/writer to several international journals and curated many international exhibitions, most notably Ambulations, Cyberarts: Intersections of Art and Technology, 180kg, TOYS and INTERFACES and was contributing curator for Documenmenta XI & Mediacity. Gunalan has several ongoing research projects in art and biology, phytodynamics, robotic arts, toys, ambient intelligence, nano-fabrication, smart clothing and gaming.

CHRISTIANE PAUL - She is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the director of Intelligent Agent, a service organization dedicated to digital art. She has written extensively on new media arts and published her book Digital Art in 2003. She teaches in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has lectured inter-nationally on art and technology. She has curated the shows: Data Dynamics, and CODeDOC for the Whitney and The Passage of Mirage, Evident Traces, and eVolution -- the Art of Living Systems.

MARTIN ROTH - born in 1955, he studied emperical cultural studies and sociology in Germany. The Director of the Dresden Hygene Museum in 1991, at the same time the Director of the department for themeparks, worldwide projects and global dialogue for the Expo 2000 in Hannover. He is now the General Director of the State Art Collections in Dresen and a visiting professor at various Univerisities as well as honorary professor in the field Cultural Politics and Cultural Managment for the Dresden Technical University. Matrin Roth is widely published on museum and cultural management.

STEVE WILSON - A San Francisco author, artist and professor who explores the cultural implica-tions of new technologies. His interactive installations have been shown internationally and his computer mediated art works probeb avariety of issues and explore the roles of artist as researcher /inventor and commentator on emerging technologies. He has won several prizes in international interactive art com-petitions. He is Head of the Conceptual/ Information Arts program at San Francisco State University. He has published extensively on topics related to culture & technology, most recently Information Arts.