Daniela Salvemini

Raul Marroquin

Raul Marroquin was born in Bogota, Colombia, in 1948 and has lived in the Netherlands since 1971. He has worked with film, video and photography as well as installations. He is considered one of the pioneers of video art in the Netherlands.

Andrew Rowell

Andy Rowell is a freelance writer and investigative journalist. He has over fifteen years experience writing on political, environmental and health issues.

Drazen Pantic

Mathematician and open-source developer Drazen Pantic was deeply involved with Serbian Radio B92 in Pozarevac, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's home town.

Tedjabayu Basuki

Tedjabayu Basuki is an internet specialist at the Jakarta Institute for the Study of the Free Flow of Information.

Carl Guderian

Shuddhabrata Sengupta

Shuddhabrata Sengupta is an artist and member of the Raqs Media Collective, with training in sociology and filmmaking.

• art,
• diy media

Sam de Silva

Sam de Silva is a creative producer and media practitioner. He has a multi-disciplinary background and has an interest in tactical media-arts, surveillance research, and protest and mobilisation strategies.

Menno Grootveld

Menno Grootveld ran a pirate tv-station (Rabotnik TV) in the early eighties, which later became one of the first legal local broadcasters in Amsterdam.

• tactical media,
• grassroot journalism,
• activism,
• independent media

Derrick de Kerckhove

Derrick de Kerckhove is the former director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology.  He received his PhD. in French Language and Literature  from the University of Toronto and a Doctorat du 3e cycle in Sociology of Art from the University of Tours. From 1972 to 1980 he was an associate of the Centre for Culture and Technology and worked with Marshall McLuhan for over ten years as translator, assistant and co-author.

• art,
• media,
• network cultures,
• theory,
• media theory

Micz Flor

Micz Flor is a flexecutive cultural producer and media developer with a special interest in video and streaming media.

• culture,
• radio,
• community media,
• grassroot journalism,
• streaming media

Matthew Reed

Shu Lea Cheang

Shu Lea Cheang (born in Taiwan) is a multi-media artist, working within the fields of net-based installation, social interface and film production.

• art

Nathalie Magnan

Nathalie Magnan is an artist and theoretician. She produced video essays for Paper Tiger TV, Deep Dish TV as well as for Canal+.

• politics,
• art,
• community media,
• grassroot journalism,
• feminism

DeeDee Halleck

DeeDee Halleck is a media activist and co-founder of Paper Tiger Television and the Deep Dish Satellite Network, the first grass roots community television network. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of California at San Diego. Her filmography includes  films like Children Make Movies( 1961),  or Mural on Our Street, which was nominated for Academy Award in 1965. She has led media workshops with elementary school children, reform school youth and migrant farmers.

• tactical media,
• independent media,
• media criticism,
• prison

Alex Galloway

Alexander R. Galloway is an author and programmer. He is a founding member of the software collective RGS and creator of the Carnivore and Kriegspiel projects.

Judith Richter

Judith Richter is a long-time consumer and public health activist, who has written extensively about corporate power. Her most recent book is Holding Corporations Accountable: Corporate Conduct, International Codes and Citizen Action.

Rachel Baker

Rachel Baker is a network artist based in London. Between 1991 and 1996 she attended art colleges including Exeter College Of Art and Design, Newport School of Art and Design, and Goldsmiths College where she completed an MA in Design Futures, studying internet + audio communications and pseudo-interactive marketing.

Kunda Dixit

Kunda Dixit is a Nepali journalist and graduate of Columbia University. He worked as news reporter for the BBC at UN Headquarters in New York from 1985-86, and then as Asia-Pacific director of Inter Press Service from 1987 to 1995.

Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling  is an American science fiction author, speaker, futurist and design instructor.

• environment,
• art