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Editorial Team

Janet Abrams (jabrams@umn.edu) has been director of the University of Minnesota Design Institute since November 2000. A critic and conference producer for over twenty years, she has written on architecture, design, photography and new media for publications including Blueprint, frieze, The Independent, The New York Times Magazine, Form and Domus. Recent essays appear in Julie Snow Architects (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005) and Profile: Pentagram Design (Phaidon, 2004). She edited If/Then: Play in 1998 while at the Netherlands Design Institute, Amsterdam. From 1993-1997 she was writer-at-large for I.D. Magazine in New York, where she shared a telephone extension with Peter Hall, then editor of its "Practice" section. She received her PhD in architectural history, theory and criticism from Princeton University in 1989.

Peter Hall (petehall@umn.edu) is senior editor and fellow at the University of Minnesota Design Institute. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Peter is a contributing writer for Metropolis magazine and has written widely about design in its various forms for publications such as Print , Eye, I.D. Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times and Adobe's Think Tank. Recent essays appear in Up, Down and Across: Elevators, Escalators and Moving Sidewalks, Analysing Ambasz, and Designed by Peter Saville. He wrote and co-edited the monographs on Tibor Kalman and Stefan Sagmeister and co-authored a book on motion graphics, Pause: 59 Minutes of Motion Graphics. He has taught a seminar class on design theory and writing at Yale University since 2000. This May, he will be moderating the AIGA MOVE3 conference in New York.

Deb Littlejohn (dlittlej@umn.edu) is a design fellow at the University of Minnesota Design Institute where she designs and manages a variety of DI-initiated research and publications projects, including 'Typeface: Twin Cities', which yielded the typeface 'Twin' and the book Metro Letters: A Typeface for the Twin Cities. Presently, she is working on the graphic identity design for the University's new College of Design which will come into existence July 2006, as well as a research project on collaborative learning environments in design education. She is a partner of Two (in Minneapolis), a studio that works with clients in the non-profit/cultural sector, including most recently the catalogue for CalArts' REDCAT gallery exhibition Damian Ortega: The Beetle Trilogy and Other Works. Currently, she and her partner Santiago Piedrafita are the subject of an exhibition at the Knoxville Museum of Art's Design Lab (February 10-May 21). Her work has received awards in the AIGA 365 Annual and 50 Books/50 Covers competitions, the I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review, and AIGA MN Design Show, and can be seen in numerous publications including Domus, Graphis, I.D. Magazine, Metropolis, Print, Communication Arts and Visual Communication.


Contributors

Antenna Design New York (info@antennadesign.com) was co-founded in 1997 by Sigi Moeslinger and Masamichi Udagawa. Antenna’s mission is to make the experience of technological objects and environments more meaningful and exciting through a combination of product, interaction and environmental design. Antenna’s diverse output ranges from public and commercial projects, such as New York City Transit Authority subway cars and ticket vending machines, JetBlue check-in kiosks and Bloomberg Terminals, to interactive environmental installations, such as Power Flower, a window installation at Bloomingdale’s that was activated by passersby. Antenna Design won four awards in the 2005 Business Week/IDEA Awards, including a Gold Award for Civic Exchange, its competition-winning design for an interactive information installation for Lower Manhattan. www.antennadesign.com

Julian Bleecker (julian@techkwondo.com) is director of the Mobile and Pervasive Lab, a near-future R&D think tank run by the School of Cinema-TV and Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California. An assistant professor at USC’s Interactive Media Division, and research faculty at USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy, he held a research fellowship at the Annenberg Center for Communication in 2005–06. Bleecker has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell, an MS in Engineering from the University of Washington, and a PhD from UC Santa Cruz where his dissertation was on the link between technology, entertainment and culture. His art-technology collaboration with Marina Zurkow, Pussy Weevil, was exhibited at Ars Electronica in 2005.

Ole Bouman (oleb@xs4all.nl) is editor-in-chief of Volume and of Archis.org. A critic, author, designer and curator, his publications include The Invisible in Architecture (1994), RealSpace in QuickTimes: Architecture and Digitization (NAi, 1996) which accompanied the exhibition he curated for the XIX Triennale di Milano, and The Battle for Time (2003). Earlier exhibitions include Egotecture (Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 1997) and Freeze (Arti e Amicitiae, Amsterdam, 2000). He was co-curator of Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana, 2000. www.archis.org

Bureau d’etudes (bureaudetudes@gmail.com) are artists based in Paris, engaged in the mapping of contemporary power relations at the institutional and international level. In 2002, Bureau d’etudes produced European Norms of World-Production (on the “normalization” activities of European institutions; texts created in collabora-tion with Brian Holmes) at the European Social Forum in Florence. Refuse the Biopolice was distributed at the 2002 no-border camp, set up in Strasbourg in opposition to the Schengen policy. The World Government was published in 2004 by éd. université tangente, and shown in The Use-Value of Art: The future of the reciprocal readymade and other art-related practice, at APEX art, New York, in March-April 2004. Crisis (a map about financial crises since the 1980s) was exhibited at the Ex-Argentina project at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, in spring 2004. The System (comprising two maps, one about world government, the other about the global laboratory) was published by éd.université tangente in 2005. The Ring (about the Bohemian Club) was published in California in 2005. These and other maps are online at www. u-tangente.org

Sulki Choi (me@sulki.com) was born in Seoul, Korea, and is currently living and working in Maastricht, the Netherlands, as a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie, where she participated in Micropolis, a research project dealing with the cultural identity of the City of Leuven, Belgium. She earned her MFA degree at Yale University with a thesis on the diagram and its various pragmatic functions. Her dynamic world-map system, Daily World View, has been exhibited in De Appel, Amsterdam, and her design work has been published in journals and books including IDEA (Japan), Nana 3 (Korea) and Art & Design (China).

Andrea Codrington () is a New York-based writer and editor specializing in design and visual culture. Currently editing architecture and art books at Phaidon Press, she has been a columnist for the New York Times and has written widely for such publications as I.D. Magazine, Metropolis and Cabinet. She is the author of the monograph Kyle Cooper (Yale University Press, 2003), the co-author of Pause: 59 Minutes of Motion Graphics (Laurence King, 2000), and is currently at work on her first novel — a story about art, love and medical imaging.

Denis Cosgrove (cosgrove@geog.ucla.edu) is Alexander von Humboldt professor of geography at UCLA. A contributor for over two decades to thinking and research in cultural geography and landscape studies, his work has evolved from a focus on the meanings of landscape in Human and Cultural Geography, especially as these have evolved in Western Europe since the 15th Century, to a broader concern with the role of spatial images and representations in the making and communicating of knowledge. He is the author of Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, 1998), The Palladian Land-scape: Geographical Change and its Representations in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993), Apollo’s Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) and editor of Mappings (Reaktion Books, 1999).

Layla Curtis (info@laylacurtis.com) was awarded the 2005 Arts Council England and British Antarctic Survey Fellowship and will travel to Antarctica during the Antarctic summer 2005–06, to spend three months as artist-in-residence working alongside scientists at an Antarctic research station. She was artist in residence at Akiyoshidai International Arts Village in Japan in 1998–99 and in 2004 at Ramsgate Maritime Museum in partnership with Turner Contemporary. Her work is included in the Tate Collection, the Government Art Collection and the World Bank Collection. Recent exhibitions include A Bigger Splash: British Art from Tate, 1960–2003 at the Pavilhão Lucas Nogueira Garcez, São Paulo, Brazil, and De leur temps, Collections Privées Françaises, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing, France. Current projects include a new video work commissioned by Vivid and a collaged map Newcastle-Gateshead commissioned by Locus+ which will publish her work in 2006. www.locusplus.org.uk

De Geuzen (info@geuzen.org) is an art and design collective based between Amsterdam, Brussels and Rotterdam. Since 1996 Riek Sijbring, Femke Snelting and Renée Turner have been working together on projects that deploy a variety of strategies—both on and offline— to explore interests in female identity, critical resistance, representation and narrative archiving. They have done educational workshops at the Impakt Festival, the Piet Zwart Institute and Digitalis, and their projects have been featured in Manifesta 3, Kuenstlerhaus Bremen and the Amsterdam Historical Museum. Some of their projects are by commission and many are self-initiated. http://www.geuzen.org/

Steve Dietz (stevedietz@yproductions.com) is Director of the ISEA 2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge taking place in August 2006 in San Jose, California. In 2005 he co-curated Database Imaginary at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada, where he is curatorial fellow. He curated the web projects for the 2005 exhibition Making Things Public at ZKM, Karlsruhe, curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel. With Sarah Cook, he co-curated The Art Formerly Known as New Media, which opened at the Walter Philips Gallery in September 2005. He is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. http://www.yproductions.com

Judith Donath (judith@media.mit.edu) is an Assistant Professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she directs the Sociable Media research group. She focuses on the social side of computing, synthesizing knowledge from graphic design, urban studies and cognitive science to build innovative interfaces for online communities and virtual identities. She recently directed Id/Entity, an exhibit of collaboratively produced installations examining the science and technology transformation of portraiture, and has pioneered several social applications for the web, including The Electric Post-card, Portraits in Cyberspace and A Day in the Life of Cyberspace. She received her doctoral and master’s degrees in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT, and her BA in History from Yale University. http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/Judith

Paul Elliman (paul.elliman@yale.edu) is a London-based designer whose work and writing explores the mutual impact of technology and language. His work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London and is included in collections by the British Council, the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. He has been a faculty member at Yale School of Art since 1997 and is also currently thesis supervisor at Werkplaats Typografie, in Arnhem, the Netherlands.

Yuri Engelhardt (Y.Engelhardt@uva.nl) is interested in principles underlying the visual communication of information, from ancient pictorial inscriptions to interactive data visualizations. In 1995 he founded the InfoDesign and InfoDesign-Cafe mailing lists. Author of “Meaningful Space” in IF/THEN: PLAY (The Netherlands Design Institute/BIS, 1998), he holds a master's degree in medicine and a PhD in computer science, for a dissertation titled “The language of graphics.” Yuri is assistant professor in the Department of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, and lecturer in Information Design at the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design. http://informationdesign.org http://yuriweb.com

Entropy8Zuper! (deux@entropy8zuper.org) Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn started their online lives and web design practices in 1995, the former as Entropy8 in New York City, the latter as Zuper! and Group Z, in Ronse, Belgium. In 1999, they merged their activities as Entropy8Zuper! and moved to Gent, where they still live. In 2002, they started Tale of Tales, for the purposes of developing interactive entertainment. http://entropy8zuper.org/

Michael Frumin (mfrumin@eyebeam.org) is the Technical Director of R&D at Eyebeam, a non- profit media arts and technology research organization in New York City. He began his career in original and creative technology-based research while working on advanced networking protocols as an undergraduate at Stanford University. After school, he was a founding member of a team of hackers using their quantitative skills to find proprietary, novel real-time sources of qualitative information for hedge fund managers. He accepted the prototype Research Fellowship at Eyebeam where he has been the primary developer of fundrace.org, as well as reBlog, an open source software project: reBlog.org, ForwardTrack, Pizza Party, and other works, some still in development. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, very close to where he grew up. www.fundrace.org, www.eyebeam.org

Ben Fry (fry@media.mit.edu) received his doctoral degree at the MIT Media Laboratory in 2004, where his research focused on methods of visualizing large amounts of data from dynamic information sources. His current research involves the visualization of genetic data at the Broad Insitute of MIT and Harvard. His work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial 2002, the Cooper Hewitt 2003 National Design Triennial, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and in the films Minority Report and The Hulk. With Casey Reas of UCLA, he is currently developing Processing, an environment for teaching computational design and sketching interactive media software. http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/

Martí Guixé (info@guixe.com) was born in Barcelona and studied interior design there, and industrial design at Milan Polytechnic. After working as a design consultant in Seoul in the mid-1990s, he began a long collaboration with Camper, the Spanish shoe retailer, designing its London store in 1998, and Camper stores worldwide since then. Guixé divides his time between Barcelona and Berlin, designing products for companies such as Cha Cha, Authentics and H20. H!BYE(prototype pills for nomadic workers) was shown in Workspheres, MoMA, New York, in 2001. His books include Martí Guixé: Libre de Contexte (Birkhäuser, 2003) and The Martí Guixé Cookbook (2004). http://www.guixe.com

Mark Hansen (cocteau@stat.ucla.edu) is an associate professor of statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining UCLA, he served as a member of the Technical Staff in the Statistics and Data Mining Research Department at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. His work involves applications that are rich in complex data. Together with his longtime collaborator, Ben Rubin (EAR Studio), he explores new representations and new mappings of text feeds. Their project Listening Post was installed at the Whitney Museum in 2002–2003, and won the Golden Nica award at Ars Electronica 2004. Hansen and Rubin are winners of a 2005 Media Arts Fellowship. http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~cocteau/

Cathy Lang Ho (cathylangho@nyc.rr.com) is the founding editor of The Architect’s Newspaper, the first and only architecture tabloid in the United States. She was an editor at Architecture magazine, and has written for The New York Times, Metropolis, ID Magazine, Frame, Domus and Dwell. She is the former editor of Design Book Review and co-author of American Contemporary Furniture (Universe, 2000) and House: American Houses for the New Century (Universe, 2001). She is also an avid footie player and fan.

Brian Holmes (brian.holmes@wanadoo.fr) is an art and culture critic, born in San Francisco, living in Paris. He holds a PhD in Romance Languages from UC Berkeley, devotes most of his time to working with artistic projects in the context of social movements, and is the author of a book of essays entitled Hieroglyphs of the Future: Art and Politics in a Networked Era (Zagreb: WHW, 2002), with another collection coming up, under the title Unleashing the Collective Phantoms. An archive of his work can be found at http://www.u-tangente.org

Robert Horn (hornbob@earthlink.net) is a political scientist with a special interest in policy communication, social learning and knowledge management. Since 1993, he has been a visiting scholar in the Program on People, Computers and Design at Stanford University’s Center for the Study of Language and Information, pursuing research work in knowledge management and information design. Horn’s books include Mapping Hypertext (Lexington Institute, 1989) and Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century. Founder and for 15 years CEO of Information Mapping, Inc., his consulting clients have included Boeing, Lucent Technologies, AT&T, HP, and other Global 1000 companies. http://www.stanford.edu/~rhorn/

Natalie Jeremijenko (njeremijenko@ucsd.edu) is a design engineer and techno-artist working at the intersection of contemporary art, science and engineering. She is currently Assistant Professor at UC San Diego, where she runs the XDesign Lab, the Experimental Product Design Lab. She previously held a research position at the Media Research Lab/Center for Advanced Technology in the Computer Science Dept., New York University, and was the director of the Engineering Design Studio at Yale University. Named one of the top one hundred young innovators by the MIT Technology Review, she was a recipient of a 1999 Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship. http://xdesign.ucsd.edu/

Lisa Jevbratt (jevbratt@jevbratt.com) is a Swedish systems/network artist working primarily with the Internet, who has lived in the U.S. since 1994. Educated in art and computers at Konstfack, Malmo Konstskola Forum, and CADRE (San Jose State University), she is currently an assistant professor at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the Studio Arts Department and the Media Arts Technology program. Her work has been exhibited in venues such as The New Museum, New York, the Walker Art Center, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Berlin, Electrohype 2002 Malmo, the Whitney Biennial 2002, and Ciberart Bilbao 2004, Spain. She is an affiliate of C5, the Silicon Valley collaborative research endeavor. http://jevbratt.com

Nina Katchadourian (Nina@immaterial.net) is a Brooklyn-based conceptual artist who works with a wide variety of media including sculpture, video, photography and sound. Her past projects have involved mending broken spiderwebs with sewing thread, creating a machine that listens to the pattern of popping popcorn and uses Morse Code to translate it into spoken language, and constructing a genealogical chart incorporating all the people who appear on common grocery store products. Katchadourian has taught at Brown University and at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is represented in New York by Sara Meltzer gallery and in San Francisco by Catharine Clark gallery.

J. J. King (jamie@jamie.com) is a London based writer specializing in new media. An editor at Mute magazine, he writes the World According to Blog column for Channel 4 News online, which reviews the week's most popular blogged topics. He is also a lecturer at Ravensbourne College, a member of the music collective Antifamily, and an activist in the area of intellectual property. His work as a 2003 DI Research Fellow formed part of the early research for this book. His doctoral thesis at the University of Southampton examined the history of the Internet as an extension of the American frontier. Jamie is currently working on a new biotechnology murder-mystery novel. www.metamute.com

Valdis Krebs (valdis@orgnet.com) is a management consultant whose firm, orgnet.com, is based in Cleveland, Ohio. The developer of InFlow, a software-based organization network analysis methodology, he has been mapping and measuring human networks within and between organizations since 1988. His clients include IBM, TRW, Raytheon, Booz Allen & Hamilton, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, KPMG, and the Centers for Disease Control. His work has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Release 1.0, First Monday and major newspapers around the world. Valdis holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and computer science, and a graduate degree in Organizational Behavior/Human Resources. www.orgnet.com

Laura Kurgan (ljk33@columbia.edu) is director of Visual Studies and director of the Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She is also principal of Laura Kurgan Architecture in New York City. Her work explores the interface between building, electronic media and information technology in both her art and her architecture. Over the last decade she has worked with new spatial information and mapping technologies, especially declassified satellite imagery and GPS technology. She recently completed the new offices for WITNESS, a human rights organization that distributes video technology and training to local activists.www.l00k.org

Brian McGrath (bpm7@columbia.edu) is an architect and co-founder of , which explores the relationship between urban design and multi-media. Creator of Manhattan Timeformations (2000) for the Skyscraper Museum, New York, he is the author of Transparent Cities (SITES Books, 1994) and New Urbanisms/ New Workplace (Columbia Books on Architecture, 2000). McGrath teaches architecture and urban design at Columbia and Parsons in New York, and at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. A Senior Fulbright scholar in Thailand in 1998–99, he is currently a co-investigator on a Long Term Ecological Research team, linking science and design. www.skyscraper.org/timeformations

Julie Mehretu (info@projectilegallery.com) was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and lives and works in New York City where she is represented by The Projectile Gallery. She received an MFA with honors from Rhode Island School of Design in 1997. Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting, a traveling exhibition, originated at the Walker Art Center in 2003. Her work has been shown in international exhibitions including the Carnegie International, São Paulo Biennial and Whitney Biennial (all in 2004) and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Art Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, and the National Gallery, Washington, D.C. She was named a 2005 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. http://www.elproyecto.com/

Paul Mijksenaar (paul@mijksenaar.com) is principal and founder of Bureau Mijksenaar (Amsterdam)/Mijksenaar Arup (New York) and professor at the Department Industrial Design of Delft University (Netherlands). He lives in Amsterdam. His office focuses on visual information design, especially wayfinding, most recently for Schiphol and Dulles Washington airports, the MoMA Store, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam. Paul Mijksenaar is the co-author of Open Here: the Art of Instructional Design and the author of Visual Function. http://www.mijksenaar.com

Andrea Moed (amoeda@gmail.com) is a designer and writer who specializes in developing media and information systems that foster conversations about places. Past projects include New York Snap Exchange, a networked digital photography game, and Annotate Space, a participatory walking tour of a Brooklyn neighborhood. Andrea has published numerous articles on design and technology and her work has been featured in Discover magazine, BBC Online and the Wall Street Journal. She holds a master’s degree from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and has taught at the Parsons School of Design. She entered UC Berkeley’s School for Information Management Systems in Fall 2005. http://www.snapexchange.com

MUST Urbanism (mail@must.nl) is a studio based in Amsterdam led by Robert Broesi (urban designer), Pieter Jannink (urban designer) and Wouter Veldhuis (architect). The studio combines urban design and research and is attracted by regional design survey and urban transformation issues, preferably containing mixed-use programs. Projects range from the local to the European scale, and include the Limes Atlas, an atlas of the Roman frontier, the regional study Veenkolonieën, and a redevelopment plan for 7,000 dwellings in Amsterdam’s Garden Cities. MUST has its permanent location in Amsterdam, but its mobile work station criss-crosses Europe. www.must.nl

Josh On (josh@theyrule.net) is a web designer and activist living in San Francisco, where he works with Futurefarmers as well as pursuing solo projects and collaborating with his partner Amy Balkin. Born in New Zealand, he holds a BA in sociology and received his MA in Computer Related Design from the Royal College of Art in London in 2000. As an interaction designer focusing on social software, he makes tools that help people to be smart, as opposed to making tools that try to be smart for people. He helped conceive and program , , texanDrawl and antiwargame. He is currently working on the the next version of They Rule.http://www.theyrule.net

W. Bradford Paley (brad@didi.com) is president of Digital Image Design Incorporated, New York, director of Information Esthetics, and an adjunct associate professor of computer science at Columbia University, where he teaches interaction design. A graduate of UC Berkeley in Economics, Brad has been interaction design lead on projects at the New York Stock Exchange, including a handheld for Goldman Sachs trading floor brokers and, currently, the creation of the NYSE Next Generation Specialist Workstation. Brad’s projects include MindSpace, a “near-future knowledge interface” featured in Workspheres at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2002; TextArc, a visual representation of an entire text on a single page, winner of the Grand Prize (non-interactive) at the Japan Media Arts Festival 2002; TraceEncounters, awarded the Staging Prize at Ars Electronica 2005; and a bio- informatics visualization tool developed with New York University’s biology department. http://didi.com/brad

Scott Paterson (aisgp@earthlink.net) is an interaction designer based in New York, where he teaches Interaction Design and Thesis Studio in the MFA in Design and Technology Program at Parsons School of Design. Trained as an architect, he received a BA degree from the University of Minnesota and a Masters from Columbia University. He has received grants from the Walker Art Center, Parsons School of Design and the University of Minnesota Design Institute for the recent projects MobileSCOUT and PDPal. Scott lectures internationally and his work has been exhibited in Amsterdam, Berlin, Florence, Mexico City, at the Banff Centre, Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum. http://www.sgp-7.net

David Pescovitz (david@pesco.net) is writer-in-residence at UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering. He is also a columnist for Small Times and has written about science, technology and art for The New York Times, Scientific American, I.D. Magazine and Wired. In 2002, he won the Foresight Prize in Communication, recognizing excellence in educating the public about emerging technologies. He is a co-editor of the blog www.boingboing.net, “A Directory of Wonderful Things.”

Esther Polak (epolak@dds.nl) is an artist who explores the visual and documentary possibilities of GPS. Her Amsterdam RealTime project was one of the first large-scale art explorations in GPS mapping; initiated by Polak, and developed in cooperation with De Waag and artist Jeroen Kee, it was realized in the Amsterdam Municipal Archives in fall 2002. Since July 2003, she has been participating in MILK, a collaborative artistic mapping project in partnership with Ieva Auzina, which uses GPS to map the European milk economy and frame shifting EU terrain, by tracing the transportation of milk all the way from Latvian cows to Dutch cookies. MILK won a Golden Nica award for Interactive Art at Ars Electronica 2005. http://locative.x-i.net/piens/info.html

Richard Rogers (rogers@uva.nl) is university lecturer in New Media at the University of Amsterdam and director of the Govcom.org Foundation (Amsterdam), which develops info-political tools for the Web, including the Issue Crawler network location software, the Issue Scraper blogs and news analysis machine, and the Issue Ticker. He is author of Technological Landscapes (Royal College of Art, London, 1999), editor of Preferred Placement: Knowledge Politics on the Web (Jan van Eyck Press, 2000), and author of Information Politics on the Web (The MIT Press, 2004). The Issue Crawler and the Issue Ticker were featured in Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, the 2005 exhibition at ZKM|Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. www.govcom.org, www.issuenetwork.org, www.issuecrawler.net www.issuescraper.net

Rebecca Ross (rebeccaross@handlingdistance.org) works at the intersection of design, technology and human geography. From 2002–2004 she was a faculty member at the New York University Gallatin School and a research scientist at the New York University Center for Advanced Technology. In March 2004, she was an Osher fellow at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Ross holds an MFA in graphic design from Yale School of Art and began working toward a PhD in Urban Planning at Harvard University in Fall 2005.http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~rross/

Ben Rubin (benrubin@earstudio.com) is a sound designer and visual artist whose work has been shown in the U.S. and abroad. Listening Post, which he created with statistician Mark Hansen, was installed at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2002–2003, and won the 2004 Golden Nica award from Ars Electronica. Rubin and Hansen are winners of a 2005 Media Arts Fellowship funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Rubin frequently collaborates with other artists, including Laurie Anderson, Ann Hamilton, Diller + Scofidio, and Steve Reich and Beryl Korot. He is the founder and director of EAR Studio, a multimedia design and technology firm in New York City. Rubin teaches at the Yale School of Art. www.earstudio.com

Warren Sack (wsack@media.mit.edu) explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion. His work has been exhibited by the ZKM|Center for Art and Media, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the Walter Phillips Gallery and SF Camerawork. In 2004 he was awarded a Rhizome Net Art Commission by to create Agonistics at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. In 2002 the Walker Art Center and the Jerome Foundation awarded Sack and artist/designer Sawad Brooks an Emerging Artists/Emerging Medium 3: Net-Art Commission. He teaches digital media at the UC Santa Cruz. http://people.ucsc.edu/~wsack

Ben Schouten (B.A.M.Schouten@cwi.nl) graduated from the Rietveld Art Academy in 1983. He received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2001, for his thesis on content-based image retrieval schemes and interfaces, which was awarded a bronze medal for Information Design at the New York Arts Festival. In 1996, he founded Desk.nl, an Application Soft-ware Provider that developed innovative Internet-related solutions for a wide range of clients. He is currently a researcher at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam, where his main research interests are in image and video understanding and data visualization. He teaches Interface & Design at the Utrecht School of Arts and Technology (USAT).

Mike Silver (rndnyc@excite.com) holds a Masters of Building Design from Columbia University. He is a LeFevre ’29 research fellow at the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University and Sanders fellow at the University of Michigan. He was formerly director of Digital Media at the Yale School of Architecture, and a studio instructor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. The author of “Mapping in the Age of Digital Media” (Pamphlet Architecture #19 Reading / Drawing / Building and AD), Silver currently directs The Connexionist Group, a multidisciplinary design laboratory based in New York, New Haven and Ann Arbor, devoted to research in the field of digital mapping, supercomputing and proprietary software development.

Marco Susani (marco@susani.com) is director of the Advanced Concepts Design Group of Motorola Mobile Business, in Cambridge, MA. Among his latest projects is a series of experience scenarios embodying Motorola’s “Seamless Mobility” strategy. Trained as an architect, he started his career with Ettore Sottsass at Olivetti, then became a partner at Sottsass Associati in Milan. He later directed the Domus Academy Research Center, where he pioneered the field of Interaction and Strategic Design. Shown at the Triennale di Milano, Memphis Gallery, Centre Pompidou and Axis Gallery, Tokyo, his work has received awards at IF Hanover 1997, in the 1998 Mitsubishi International Design Competition, and in the I.D. Magazine 2001 Annual Design Review.

Terraswarm (info@terraswarm.com) Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch established Terraswarm, a corporate body loosely dedicated to “hands-on research” into the city, before forming their architectural practice, Aranda/Lasch. The projects undertaken at Terraswarm toy with certain urban and natural phenomena, and feed the partners’ architectural work by forcing them to observe and interact closely with what is already out there, such as birds, cars, billboards and balloons. Terraswarm’s book, Pamphlet Architecture #27: Tooling, is an example of what happens when the observation of natural and mathematical phenomena yield novel design systems. Current Terraswarm projects include exhibitions at Artists Space and Columbia University, as well as an exhibition design for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. www.terraswarm.com

Alex Terzich (terz0003@umn.edu) is an associate with Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis, the New York architecture firm, where he has worked on projects including the installation for Transcending Type at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2004 and Bellow, a transformed voting booth for The Voting Booth Project exhibition at Parsons School of Design. He was previously a research fellow at the Design Institute where he was assistant project manager on the B.U.G. (Big Urban Game) in 2003, and helped develop and teach “MapCity,” an undergraduate Design Minor elective course that surveyed how alternative cartographic practices relate to the ways cities are described and transformed.

Alice Twemlow (alicetwemlow@earthlink.net) is a design writer and curator based in New York. She recently directed the GraficEurope conference in Berlin, which explored the concepts of locality and craft in graphic design. Her recent writings include an article about new directions in sustainable graphic design for Print, a revised edition of Style City: New York, (Thames & Hudson), a piece about decoration in graphic design for Eye magazine and a book titled What is Graphic Design For? for Rotovision. Alice holds an MA in design history from the Royal College of Art. She is a guest critic in graphic design at Yale University and RISD, and a member of AIGA New York’s board of directors. Previously, Alice spent four years as program director at the AIGA.

Tom Vanderbilt (tvanderbilt@nyc.rr.com) is a writer in New York whose subjects range from simulated landscapes to Renaissance robotics to avant-garde utensil design. He is a contributor to many publications, including The New York Times, Wired, London Review of Books, Slate, Gourmet, Smithsonian, Metropolis and Cabinet, a contributing editor to I.D. Magazine and Print, and contributing writer for the Design Observer website. Author of The Sneaker Book: Anatomy of an Industry and an Icon (New Press, 1999) and Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), Tom is now working on a book about traffic.

Ronald Wall (wall@few.eur.nl) is a South African architect/urban planner who is currently completing his PhD in economic geography at the Faculty of Applied Economics, Erasmus University in Rotterdam (mentor: professor G. A. v.d. Knaap). He is a professor at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, the Academy of Architecture and Urban Planning, Amsterdam/ Rotterdam, and the Ashridge Business School, London. His forthcoming book ARCHINOMICS (010 Publishers, 2006) addresses the hybridization between spatial science and spatial design disciplines. His work has recently been published in 306090-08 (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005), Archis/ VOLUME (2004) and Fear and Space (NAi, 2004). In 1998, he received a presidential merit award from president Nelson Mandela, for Housing Generator (NAi Publishers, 1998), which addresses urban development in South Africa.

Peter Walsh (plwalsh@mindspring.com) is an art and architecture critic for WBUR Arts, the online arts pages of Boston NPR station WBUR, an online commentator for National Public Radio, and a contributing writer for Museums magazine and the Art Knowledge Corp., New York. He is the chairman of the Massachusetts Art Commission, and has held senior positions at the Harvard University Art Museums, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College.

Dirk van Weelden (weelden@xs4all.nl) is an author based in Amsterdam. He graduated in philosophy in 1983 from the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, and has since published novels, stories, essays and a play. His writings on contemporary art, cinema, photography and urbanism have appeared in the NRC Handelsblad and Vrij Nederland newspapers, and in catalog essays for Boymans VanBeuningen Museum, Van Abbe Museum and the Centraal Museum. He has been an editor of Mediamatic since 1991, and editor of De Gids literary and cultural magazine since 1999. A collection of Dirk’s essays, Straatsofa (Streetsofa) was published in 2005; his new novel, De Lege Verzameling (The Empty Set) will appear in 2006.

Eyal Weizman (eyal@eruv.net) is currently a professor of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, lectures internationally on politics and territoriality, and edits a section on politics and architecture for Domus. He has contributed essays to many journals and collections, including Content, edited by Rem Koolhaas (Taschen, 2005), and Against the Wall: Israel’s Barrier to Peace, edited by Michael Sorkin (New Press, 2005). He is co-editor, with Rafi Segal, of A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture (Verso, 2003), which has been republished in the U.S., Israel, Britain and France. Designer of the 2002 B’Tselem map of Israel’s West Bank settlements, he is involved in discussions about the re-use of settlement infrastructures by the Palestinian Authority following Israel’s evacuation the Gaza Strip.

Kimberlee Whaley (kwhaley@m-v-a.com) is a photographer living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received a Jerome Foundation Travel Grant in 2004 to travel to New Bedford, Massachusetts to continue work on Fragments, an autobiographical fine arts project. Her recent landscape project, MonoWood, was exhibited in several group shows in 2005. Kimberlee received her BFA in 2003 from Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Jeremy Wood (gpsdrawing@gmail.com) established the GPS Drawing project in 2000 to investigate geodetic mark-making with satellite navigation technology. Based in London, he creates GPS maps of his daily journeys and annual trajectories, and conducts GPS drawing workshops in schools, museums and galleries. His work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 2002, Microwave International Media Art Festival and Sonar 2005, and featured in Artforum and the 2003 “Year in Ideas” issue of the New York Times Magazine. His recent projects include research into geograms as an act of writing on the earth, and Ifmap; a 1:1 scale map of the world composed of GIS and GPS data. http://www.jeremywood.net/

Stephen Zacks (stephenz@metropolismag.com) is a graduate of the Committee on Liberal Studies at the New School’s Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. A regular contributor to Print, he is an associate editor at Metropolis magazine, where he has reported on political architecture and design in Abuja (Nigeria), Belgrade (Serbia), Israel/ Palestine, Panama City (Panama), Vilnius (Lithuania), Kosovo and Bucharest (Romania). He is currently researching stories on the effects of territorial division on architecture and planning in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Marina Zurkow (marina@o-matic.com) is an independent artist, character developer and animator living in New York. Her seven-channel animated installation, Nicking the Never, received its premiere at FACT in the UK in 2004. Together with Julian Bleecker and Scott Paterson, she created PDPal in 2002. Upcoming projects include a public art commission for ISEA 2006/ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, in collaboration with Nancy Nowacek and Katie Salen. A 2003 Rockefeller New Media fellow, she is a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. http://www.o-matic.com