Eugene Thacker

Eugene Thacker is a writer, theorist, artist, who teaches at the School of Literature, Communication & Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

• biotechnology,
• biowarfare

La Ex

Platform for free culture and civil society advocacy organistion for copyleft cultural productionin Barcelona. La-Ex (formerly known as eXgea). La-Ex is also the organiser of the oXcars and the Free Culture Forum.

Ricardo Rosas

Ricardo Rosas is a writer, translator and experimental musician. He was one of the organizers of the Brazilian Tactical Media Lab in Sao Paulo. He has studied Social Communication and German Studies at Universidade de Sao Paulo and is currently senior editor of Rizoma (www.rizoma.net), a web site devoted to activism, tactical media underground culture in general, net critic, conspiracy stuff and occulture. He writes about media activism and (anti) pop culture.

(died April, 11, 2007)

• tactical media,
• Brazil

 Free Culture Forum

The FCForum is an international arena in wich to build and coordinate action around issues related to free/libre culture and access to knowledge.The FCForum brings together key organizations and active voices in the spheres of free/libre culture and knowledge, and provides a meeting point where we can find answers to the pressing questions behind the current paradigm shift.

• free culture

Tatiana Bazzichelli

Tatiana Bazzichelli (it/de) is a researcher, networker and curator, working in the field of hacktivism and net culture.

• network cultures,
• infopolitics,
• info-activism

Bernardo Gutiérrez

Bernardo Gutiérrez (@bernardosampa) is a Spanish-Brazilian journalist and writer who researches networked movements, hacker culture and peer-to-peer politics. He is the founder of the network FuturaMedia.net, lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and participates in the Global Revolution Research Network (GRRN).

• public space,
• public domain,
• occupy,
• tactical research

Natalia Mazotte

Natália Mazotte is a Brazilian journalist from Rio de Janeiro with a background in social and technological issues related to the creation and sharing of knowledge. She writes for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, of Texas University, and works for a Brazilian NGO named Ibase. She is a researcher and fellow in the Graduate Programme of Culture and Communication of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

• grassroot journalism,
• diy media

Paolo Gerbaudo

Paolo Gerbaudo is Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at  the Department of CMCI at King?s College London.

• network cultures,
• participatory media,
• street protest

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

Ryan Griffis

Ryan Griffis makes work in the form of visual art, text, curated exhibits, and performance that usually focuses on relationships between activism, visual culture, and technology.

Mark Dery

Mark Dery is a cultural critic. He writes about media, the visual landscape, fringe trends, and unpopular culture.

Iona Sharp Casas

Iona Sharp Casas is a Catalan/English independent writer, researcher and cultural analyst based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• art,
• archive,
• theory

Elias Muhanna

Elias Muhanna is the writer of Qifa Nabki [?ki-f? ?neb-k?] a blog about Lebanese politics, history, and culture. He is a PhD student in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at Harvard University. He works on classical Arabic literature, Islamic social and intellectual history, and has published on subjects ranging from medieval encyclopaedism to travel literature, to the material culture of the pre-modern Mediterranean world.

• middle east

Amy Sara Carroll

Amy Sara Carroll is Assistant Professor of American Culture / Latino / a Studies and English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  She received a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University (2004), and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Cornell University (1995).

• art,
• migration,
• borders

Konrad Becker

Konrad Becker is a pioneer in media art and electronic music. He is known for initiating seminal and controversial net-culture projects. A thinker and activist, he has curated and organized a large number of international conferences and exhibitions. His recent book, "Strategic Reality Dictionary" published by Autonomedia, addresses issues of cultural agency beyond the tactical. He now runs the World-Information Institute in Vienna, doing critical research into culture and technology.

• tactical reality

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.

Julian Stallabrass

Julian Stallabrass is a lecturer, writer, curator and photographer.

• art,
• theory