ANDY DECK:
makes public art for the Internet that resists generic categorization: collaborative drawing spaces, game-like search engines, problematic interfaces, informative art. Deck has made art software since 1990, initially using it to produce short films. Since 1994, he has worked with the Web using the sites artcontext.com and andyland.net. An avid critic of corporate culture and militarism, Deck's hybrid news-art projects have addressed a variety of issues that are regularly misrepresented in the mass media. In the interest of preserving this available alternative media, and sensing the drift of the Internet toward a marketing and entertainment medium, he has allied himself with open source software developers, optimizing his work for use with the Linux operating system, and publishing source code for much of his software. His works have been exhibited at: Art on the Net (Machida City Museum, Tokyo), Net_Condition (ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany), War Bulletin Board (Postmaster's Gallery, NYC), Graffic Jam (Thing.net, NYC) 1998 Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), Mac Classics (Postmaster's Gallery, NYC). Andy studied for a Post-diplôme, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; and received his MFA in Computer Art at School of Visual Arts, NYC. He has taught at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Sarah Lawrence College, and New York University. Currently he teaches at the School of Visual Arts. For more info: <http://www.artcontext.com>

RICARDO DOMINGUEZ:
is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He is Senior Editor of The Thing (bbs.thing.net). A former member of Critical Art Ensemble (1987 to 1994 - developers of the theory of Electronic Civil Disobedience in the late 80's). Currently a Fake_Fakeshop Worker (www.fakeshop.com), a hybrid performance group, presented at the Whitney Biennial 2000. Ricardo has collaborated on a number of international net_art projects: with Francesca da Rimini on Dollspace (www.thing.net/~dollyoko), the Aphanisis Project with Diane Ludin. Artificial_Geographic with Fakeshop at Next5Minutes, and distributedhuman.net a recombinant project with net.artist Zhang Ga. He also presented EDT's SWARM action at Ars Electronica's InfoWar Festival in 1998 (Linz, Austria). His first digital zapatismo project was in 1996 - 97, a three month RealVideo/Audio network project: The Zapatista/Port Action at (MIT). His essays have appeared at Ctheory (www.ctheory.org) and recently an article in "Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas," (Routledge, 2000), edited by Coco Fusco. He Edited EDT's forthcoming book Hacktivism: network_art_activism, (Autonomedia Press, 2001). For more info: www.thing.net/~rdom

JON IPPOLITO:
is part of the artistic team of Blais/Frank/Ippolito (formerly Cohen/Frank/Ippolito), and is Assistant Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. While most other collaborative teams present their work as a "unified front," Joline Blais, Keith Frank, and Jon Ippolito create installations, books, and Web projects that emphasize physical, verbal, or mental struggles among the three participants. They have exhibited their work at galleries such as Sandra Gering and Storefront for Art + Architecture in New York as well as in a variety of online contexts such as the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In 1996 they received a DNP Achievement Award for their work Agree to Disagree Online, developed with the assistance of Joline Blais. 1997 they received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Prize for their body of work. In 1993 Jon curated Virtual Reality: An Emerging Medium. Since then, as Assistant Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim, Ippolito has curated and coordinated exhibitions that explore the intersection of contemporary art and new media. He is the ongoing curator of the CyberAtlas project on the Guggenheim Web site, a compendium of maps of cyberspace developed with outside curators. His writing on the cultural and aesthetic implications of new media has appeared in the Art Journal, art/text, Flash Art, and ArtByte, for which he writes a regular column entitled "Cross Talk." Their latest web-based work “Fair-e-Tales” can be viewed on the Alternative Museum’s Featured Web-based Projects <<http://alternativemuseum.org>>. For more info: www.three.org

BARBARA LONDON:
is a Curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art. She's been there since 1974, when she founded the Museum's ongoing Video Exhibition Program. She built an essential context for the visionary statements being made internationally in video and media art by multi-cultural voices, emerging talents, and more established artists such as Laurie Anderson, Gary Hill, Mako Idemitsu, Joan Jonas, Shigeko Kubota, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola and Zhang Peili. Her objective has been to link the electronic arts with the more traditional art mediums. To document, preserve, and support this vital art field, she the Video Study Center and assembled its unique collection of more than 1,000 independently produced videotapes and related historical and theoretical publications. She is also an Instructor at the School of Visual Arts, 1994-97. To further her professional development, Ms. London took two sabbaticals to investigate new trends in electronic technologies and the effects on the creation and distribution of the arts in Japan. For more info:  <http:www.moma.org/onlineprojects>

JENNY MARKETOU:
is a varied media artist who works with telepresent environments and networking technologies, translocal performance and video and computer installations. Since the mid 90's, she has explored new media and Internet technologies as a new medium of artistic expression. Her works focus on the interstitial space of surveillance, the virtual, networking and speed. Jenny’s works have appeared in exhibitions worldwide, including: “Tenacity”, Swiss Institute, NY; “Net_Condition”, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada; 24th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil; “Manifesta 1”, Rotterdam; The Newhouse Centre for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbour, NY; The Alternative Museum, NY; “Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century”, The Queens Museum of Art, and Carnegie Center For the Arts. Jenny has lectured at “medi@terra 2000”, Fournos, Greece; Invenção “Thinking the Next Millennium (São Paulo, Brazil); <net.net.net>, CalArts, and teaches as an Adjunct Professor, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York and The New School for Social Research in New York. She was also an artist in residence at Art Omi International Arts Center, NY. For more info: <http://smellbytes.banff.org>

SAUL OSTROW:
Critic and Curator, Director, Center for Visual Art and Culture, and Associate Professor of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs & Stamford, former Editor of the book series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture, G+B Arts International, Art Editor,Bomb Magazine, Member of the Editorial Board of the Art Journal, Published by the College Art Association, Member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Contributing editor NYArts Magazine. He writes regularly for Flashart and the International Review of Art. He teaches Critical Theory at NY University and School of Visual Arts. Mr. Ostrow has also been a guest lecturer at: Cranbrook Academy, Mich., St. Marys College, Balt. Maryland, Hunter College, NYC and Seminars in Theoretical Studies, White Columns, NYC. He has organized panel discussions on the education of the artist with Jeremy Gilbert Rolfe, John Torreano, Silvia Kobalski, Gloria Kury (School of Visual Arts) and on painting with Chuck Close, David Diao, Catherine Howe, Anna Bialabroda and Fabian Maccassio (for Triangle Foundation). Saul conducted an interview with the influential American art critic Clement Greenberg, as part of The Greenberg Symposia, a hypertext experiment to create an environment for a multidisciplinary approach to art history, criticism and theory.

CHRISTIANE PAUL:
is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum and the publisher and editor-in-chief of Intelligent Agent, a print and online magazine on the use of interactive media in arts and education. Since the early 90s, she has been working and lecturing in the field of new media. She is the author of the hypertext Unreal City: A Hypertextual Guide to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (published by Eastgate Systems, Watertown, MA, 1995) and has written extensively on new media, net art, hypermedia, and hyperfiction. Her articles have been published in magazines such as Intelligent Agent, Sculpture, and Leonardo, and she edited, among other volumes, the book in vitro landscape (published by Walther König, Cologne, 1999) and the proceedings of the 1998 conference "Virtual Museums on the Internet" (organized by the Arch Foundation, Austria, in collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). She has been working with Margot Lovejoy and Victoria Vesna on a book titled context providers -- context and meaning in digital art, which will be published by the MIT Press. Ms. Paul has participated in numerous panels on new media and presented at conferences worldwide. Her speaking engagements included the annual College Art Association conference (New York), the Dept. of Design | Media at UCLA, Invenção thinking the next millennium (São Paulo, Brazil), consciousness reframed 2 (organized by CAiiA, Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts at the University of Wales, Newport, UK) and the Governor's Conference on the Arts (San Francisco). She has taught at New York University and Fordham University and is currently teaching in the MFA Computer Graphics Dept. at the School of Visual Arts, NY. She received her MA and Ph.D. from the University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

HELEN THORINGTON:
Helen Thorington is a writer, sound composer, and media artist. Her web projects include narrative works, North Country, Part 1(1996) and North Country, Part 2 (1997) and Solitaire (1998) with Marianne Petit and John Neilson(1998); she is the originator of the Adrift project, an ongoing networked performance collaboration with Marek Walzcak and Jesse Gilbert. Thorington has also taken part as a composer in a number of national and transatlantic webcasts. She is the Executive Director of the independent media organization, New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore), the founder and producer of the national weekly radio series, New American Radio (1985-98), and founder and producer of the turbulence and somewhere websites. Turbulence (<http://turbulence.org>) commissions artists to create work that explores the web medium.

MARK TRIBE:
is an artist, entrepreneur, curator and arts administrator whose interests lie at the intersection of emerging technologies and contemporary art. In 1996, he founded Rhizome.org, a nonprofit organization focused on new media art. He then founded StockObjects, a startup company that sold animations and other “digital objects” online. Mark speaks widely on new media art and nonprofit management. He plays an active role as an advocate for net artists on grant panels and in the press. And he serves on the advisory boards of nonprofit arts organizations and new media companies. His most recent artwork, a net art project called StarryNight, is an interface for browsing Rhizome’s text library that represents each article as a star in a night sky. StarryNight can be found online at www.rhizome.org/starrynight. Prior to Rhizome.org and StockObjects, Mark worked as an artist in Berlin, and developed commercial web sites at Pixelpark GmbH, a leading German new media agency. He received a Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego in 1994 and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 1990. For more info: <http://www.rhizome.org>

MACIEJ WISNIEWSKI:
is an artist and programmer whose work focuses on the underlying social implications of technology and the network. His web-based work "netomat" is a meta-browser that engages a different Internet - an Internet that is an intelligent application and not simply a large database of static files. netomat(TM) dialogues with the net to retrieve information as unmediated and independent in form. Our current point-and-click navigation, rigid information distribution, and passive browsing of "authored" information in today's interactivity will be of little use when using netomat(TM). Netomat and his earlier projects ("m e t a V i e w ", "T u r n s t i l e 2", "S c a n l i n k", "J a c k p o t", and "T e l e - T o u c h") have been featured in online and offline exhibitions at Postmasters Gallery, New York; ZKM, Karslruhe Germany; ICA, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Guggenheim, SoHo; Johannesburg Biennial; and Benjamin Weil's ada'web. Wisniewski studied toward a Ph.D. program at the Institute for General Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden. For more info: <http://www.netomat.net>

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FOR MORE INFO CONTACT:

CRISTINE WANG (exhibition curator + panel organiser)
TEL: 917-318-0081 EMAIL: cristinewang@yahoo.com

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