Chairs and Organizer
Jeroen
Boomgaard
Jeroen Boomgaard is Professor of Art and Public Space at Gerrit Rietveld Academy/University
of Amsterdam. He also teaches at the Faculty of Architecture of Eindhoven
Technical University. In 2004 he published a collection of essays on art and
public space: A year in the Wild. In 2003 he edited in collaboration with
Bart Rutten a book on video art in the Netherlands: The Magnetic Era. Video
art in the Netherlands, 1970-1985.
Esther
Deen
is an art historian, graduated at the University of Amsterdam with a thesis
on the work of Daniel Buren and Ed Ruscha. She works for the Art and Public
Space Department which is part of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the University
of Amsterdam. She currently organizes the symposium ‘Artist strategies
in Public Space’ this Fall in the Stedelijk Museum. She’s also
involved in project ‘Suburban Scenarios’ commissioned by Citythoughts
Architects.
Geert
Lovink
is a Dutch-Australian media theorist and activist. Since 2004 he is associated
/ research professor at the University of Amsterdam and Hogeschool van Amsterdam
and founded the Institute of Network Cultures. He received a PhD at the University
of Melbourne in 2003. He is a co-founder of the Amsterdam-based free community
network 'Digital City' and the support campaign for independent media in South-East
Europe Press Now. Since 2000 he is a consultant/editor to the Waag Society
(Amsterdam) and Sarai New Media Centre (Delhi). He is (co)organizer of conferences,
festivals, (online) publications and the founder of Internet projects such
as Next Five Minutes, Nettime, Tulipomania Dotcom, Discordia, Fibreculture,
Incommunicado and Free Cooperation. He published Dark Fiber (2002), Uncanny
Networks (2002) and My First Recession (2003).
www.networkcultures.org
http://laudanum.net/geert/
Sabine
Niederer
Sabine Niederer is researcher and producer at the Institute of Network Cultures
in Amsterdam. Sabine Niederer graduated in 2003 as an art historian at Utrecht
University, with a thesis on manipulated art photography from Dada –
now. In 2003, she worked as producer of the international games conference
Level Up. From 2001-2004 she worked as curator of Hoogt4, the platform of
film-related arts at Filmtheatre ‘t Hoogt in Utrecht. Until recently
she taught (media) theory at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Sabine
Niederer is one of the editors of the bimonthly film and video program ‘Cinematiek’,
and writes music video reviews for the Dutch broadcasting company NPS at www.cinema.nl.
www.niederer.info
Mirjam
Struppek
works as urbanist researcher and freelance consultant in Berlin. Since 2002
she develops the information-platform interactionfield.de about new interaction
elements for urban public space, which she presented at various events and
conferences. After working a year at PLAY_gallery for still and motion pictures,
Berlin, she founded 2004 Urban||Resesartch,
with a focus on creative urban spaces, public sphere and its transformation
and acquisition through new media. Since 2005 she organises the monthly Urban
Media Salon in Berlin and is in preparation of starting her PHD at Bauhaus
University Weimar. 2002 she
graduated in Urban- and Environmental Planning from University Kaiserslautern,
where she was also research and teaching assistant during her studies. 1999
she gained a DAAD scholarship and spent two research semester at Nagoya University,
Japan.
www.interactionfield.de
Moderator:
Bastiaan Gribling
Citythoughts Architects
From 1989 to 1992 Bastiaan Gribling worked at MBM Architects,
Barcelona, a.o. on the planning of the Olympic Village. Between 1992 and 2000
he was urban planner for the municipality of Amsterdam, working on plans for
the Inner City, Oostelijk Havengebied and IJ-Oevers. 2000 he founded with
Rowin Petersma Citythoughts Architects; a multidisciplinary design office
covering the field of architecture, urban planning and public design. Besides
divers commissions for private and public clients they organise with City
Thoughts Foundation, various activities on metropolitan issues. Current Projects:
Slow Speed City (on new ways of incorporating highways in urban fabric. Suburban
Scenarios (on art in the planning of Dutch Metropolis) and Mediapolis (on
the mass media influencing the public realm of the contemporary city).http:/www.citythoughts.org
Rob van Kranenburg
Rob van Kranenburg (1964) is an innovation consultant involved with negotiability
strategies of new technologies, predominantly ubicomp and rfid (radio frequency
identification), the relationship between the formal and informal in cultural
and economic policy, and the requirements for a sustainable cultural economy.
Currently he is working part time at Virtual Platform, Dutch policy and network
organization for e-culture, as co-director as well as teaching at the Amsterdam
Medialab and the HKU EMMA.
Bill
Morris
Project Director, BBC Live Event
Bill
started working at BBC as a news journalist, moving into radio and TV production
and a number of Corporate and Management roles. As Project Director: Live
Events, he oversees many of BBC's own major events including concerts, festivals,
etc. Recent projects included Live 8, events to mark the anniversary of the
end of the second world war, the London Olympic bid and The Queen's Golden
Jubilee. Bill and Mike Gibbons have pioneered the use of giant video screens
over the last three years extending their use beyond major events into the
Public Space Broadcasting network now being established throughout the UK.
Bill has held a number of Industry roles including Chair of the UK Radio Academy
and serving on a number of committees for the European Broadcasting Union.