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PARTICIPANTS / XIAN PROJECT (Partial List)

Hans Bernhard is a Vienna and St. Moritz based artist working in the fields of digital and fine art. Using technology, computers and the internet as a medium since 1994, he exhibited and performed in venues like the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Japan), the Ars Electronica (Austria), the Konsthall Malmoe (Sweden) or the SFMOMA (USA). He is a founding member of the legendary etoy.CORPORATION and of UBERMORGEN.COM. He studied visual communication, digital art, art history and aesthetics in Vienna, San Diego, Pasadena and Wuppertal. Hans is a professional artist and creative thinker, working on art projects, researching digital networks, exhibiting and travelling the world lecturing at conferences and Universities.

Philipp Bönhof was born July 4th 1983 in Aarau (Switzerland). Attended there primary school to high school and received the high school diploma in summer 2003. Since autumn 2003 he is a student of Computer Sciences at ETH Zurich.

David Kim-Boyle is an Australian composer who over the past ten years has developed a distinctive voice in the field of interactive computer music. His work has been heard around the world and he has been a guest artist at some of the leading research facilities for computer music including the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe) and the Sonic Arts Research Centre (Belfast). While most of his recent compositions have explored the intersections between acoustic instruments and electronics, he is currently at work on a series of text-based audio/video pieces which explore the application of literary techniques in the real-time generation of sonic and visual materials. He has studied with Cort Lippe, David Felder, Barry Conyngham and David Worrall and he is presently employed at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Art Clay is an artist and curator who was born in New York and lives in Basel. He is a specialist in the performance of self created works with the use of intermedia and has appeared at international festivals, on radio and television television in Europe, Asia & north America. His recent work focuses on media based works and large performative works and spectacles using mobile device. He has won prizes for performance, theatre, new media art and curation. He has taught media and interactive arts at various Art Schools and Universities in Europe and North America including the University of the Arts in Zurich. He is the initiator and Artistic Director of the 'Digital Art Weeks' in Zurich.

Enrico Costanza is a Research Assistant and PhD student in the Laboratoire de design et media, recently created at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne by Prof Jeffrey Huang. His research lies at the intersection of Urban Studies / Architecture / Design and Interactive Technology, especially mobile devices. Before joining EPFL he received an MS in Media Arts and Sciences at MIT Media Lab, with a thesis on "Subtle, Intimate Interfaces for Mobile Human Computer Interaction". He was part of the Liminal Devices Group at Media Lab Europe, and of the Media Engineering Group at the University of York, where he received an MEng in Electronic and Communication Engineering.

Corebounce is a collective of artists and scientists with the common goal of mediating between arts, science, and technology. We maintain a number of new media projects, where of Scheinwerfer is the most active one. We are organised as a non-profit association and collaborate with a number of partners from education and industry. http://www.corebounce.org

Roland Dahinden studied trombone and composition at Musikhochschule Graz (Erich Kleinschuster, Georg F. Haas), Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (Vinko Globokar), Wesleyan University Connecticut (Anthony Braxton, Alvin Lucier) and Birmingham University England (Vic Hoyland). As a trombonist, he spezializes in the performance of contemporary music and improvisation/jazz world wide. Composers such as Maria de Alvear, Anthony Braxton, John Cage, Joelle Léandre, Alvin Lucier, Chris Newman, , Christian Wolff amongst others wrote especially for him. Since 1987, he works in the duo with Hildegard Kleeb and since 1992 together in the trio with the violonist Dimitrios Polisoidis. As a composer, he collaborated with visual artists Andreas Brandt, Stéphane Brunner, Daniel Buren, Rudolf de Crignis, Sol LeWitt amongst others as well as with the architects Morger & Degelo, and with the author Eugen Gomringer. Exhibitions with sound installations and sculptors in Europe and America. http://www.roland-dahinden.ch

Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, and software programmer. In 1983, he founded the avant-rock septet Doctor Nerve. He presently resides in New York City, where he composes for Doctor Nerve and other ensembles, creates music software, and teaches music composition at NYU. He is the principle author of the computer music language Java Music Specification Language (JMSL).

The Erratum Ensemble is a conceptual construction that makes having an ensemble which expands and folds in on itself to allow for the type of production at hand. It is consists of a bank of about fifty performers who specialize in many different areas of the arts, technology and philosphy etc. Directed by Art Clay it has produced many productions on tour over a period of 15 years. Motto: "Only mistakes matter." http://mypage.bluewin.ch/artclay/

Jason Freeman works break down conventional barriers between composers, performers, and listeners, using cutting-edge technology and unconventional notation to turn audiences and musicians into compositional collaborators. His music has been performed by the American Composers Orchestra, Speculum Musicae, the So Percussion Group, the Nieuw Ensemble, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and Evan Ziporyn, and his interactive installations and software art have been exhibited at the Lincoln Center Festival, the Boston CyberArt Festival, and the Transmediale Festival and featured in the New York Times and on National Public Radio. N.A.G. (Network Auralization for Gnutella), a commission from Turbulence.org, was described by Billboard "as an example of the webs mind-expanding possibilities". http://www.jasonfreeman.net

Steve Gibson is a Canadian media artist, curator and Associate Professor of Digital Media in Visual Arts at University of Victoria. He was formerly Director of the Multimedia Program at Karlstad University in Sweden. He also has been curator for the Media Art event Interactive Futures since 2002. Influenced by a diverse body of art and popular movements his work fuses electronica, immersive art, game art, montage and post-minimalism. His pieces have been performed at major venues including: Ars Electronica; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Banff Centre for the Arts; the European Media Arts Festival. He recently co-edited a volume entitled Transdisciplinary Digital Art which was released by Springer in April 2008. http://www.telebody.ws/

Jürg Gutknecht is professor for computer science and head of the Computer Systems Institute at the ETH Zürich. He has a passion for new hybrid art forms. He has actively participated in culturally-oriented "wearable computing" projects, including "Instant Gain in Grace" (motion tracking of a Butoh dancer), "Going Publik" (distributed orchestra based on mobile electronic scoring), and "On the Sixth Day" (multi-channel video system for interactive storytelling). Together with Sound Artist, Art Clay, he organizes the Digital Art Weeks which offers performances and provides courses in the areas of computer-aided art and music. http://www.jg.inf.ethz.ch/jg

Andrew J. Jones was born in Chicago and raised in New York's Hudson Valley. After attending SUNY Cortland, he moved to New York City to pursue a career in publishing and music. In 1996 he and his wife expatriated to Copenhagen, Demark. He is the author of many poems and one chapbook, Paradise, published in 2004. Since 1998 he has lived in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://www.ajjones.org

Lizvlx is a Vienna and St. Moritz based artist, designer and technologist, producing both artistic and commercial work for companies, collectors and institutions. Using technology and computers as a medium since 1994, she has exhibited her net.art works in venues like the Ars Electronica (Austria), the Konsthall Malmoe (Sweden), the NTT ICC Museum (Japan), ARCO (Spain) or the Lentos Kunstmuseum (Austria). Lizvlx is a founding member of 194.152.164.137 and UBERMORGEN.COM. She studied fine art and economics in Vienna. Lizvlx is a professional artist and creative thinker, focusing on digital art projects, exhibitions and travelling the world lecturing at conferences or Universities.

Jeffrey Huang is the Director of the Media and Design Laboratory and a Full Professor at the Faculty of Computer and Communications Sciences (I&C), and at the Faculty of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC). His research explores the vision of fusing physical and virtual architectures. His current research and teaching projects include the examination of emerging architectural typologies (workspaces, banking, museums, theater), novel, organic approaches to architectural design (parametric design, algorithmic design), data-driven visualizations, the integration of physical computing (sensors, actuators, RFID, LEDs, mobile devices) into architecture and cities, and more generally, design- centered approaches to human-computer interaction (design thinking). See current projects.

Simone Keller is a accomplished pianist who was born and raised in Weinfelden, Switzerland.She studied at the Musikhochschule in Zurich with Hans-Jürg Strub and received a concert diploma. She has received several prizes and awards, including the 1st Landolt prize at the competition for piano, two Hans Ninck prize at the competition for piano and chamber music, and a EMCY-song price from European Classic Festival Ruhr. As well as being a soloist, she peformes chamber music in different formations and styles at home and abroad. She is a founding member and co-artistic director of the ensembleTZARA, as well as a founding member of the trio and the ensemble Tafeal Umi.Her main interest in the ensemble’s lies in contemporary music for which many new pieces have been created and brought to premiere. Simone Keller is initiator and director of the Weinfelder Musikfestivals and is also the artistic director of the Galerie am Hinterberg in Zurich.

Hildegard Kleeb is a well-known pianist who specialises in the performance of New Music and improvisation. After completing her studies in Zurich, she continued with Claude Helffer in Paris and with Jürg Wyttenbach in Basel. In 1990 she was a visiting scholar at the Academy for Visual Art Design in Helsinki and from 1992 to 1995 she was a resident artist at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. She has premiered numerous new works including compositions from Peter Ablinger, Maria de Alvear, Anthony Braxton, John Cage, Roland Dahinden, Hauke Harder, Bernhard Lang, Alvin Lucier, and Christian Wolff. She has recorded for Everest Rec. Berne, hatART Basel, Lovely Music New York, Mode Rec. New York, World Music Cologne and several others. Since 1987, she has been playing in duo formation with Roland Dahinden, since 1992 as a member of the Trio Dahinden-Kleeb- Polisoidis, and as a duo with Pelayo Fernandez Arrizzabalaga. Recently she has been involved with a series of “Social Performance“ projects such as „Zitronenbaum“ and „Kirschblütenzweig und Uristier” that addresss important social and political issues of today.

Christian Marclay is a New York based visual artist and composer whose innovative work explores the juxtaposition between sound recording, photography, video and film. Born in California and raised in Geneva (Switzerland), he studied sculpture at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and at Cooper Union in New York. As performer and sound artist Christian Marclay has been experimenting, composing and performing with phonograph records and turntables since 1979 to create his unique "theater of found sound." Marclay has collaborated with musicians such as , Elliott Sharp, , Zeena Parkins, Shelley Hirsh, Christian Wolff, Butch Morris, Otomo Yoshihide, Arto Lindsay, and Sonic Youth among many others. A dadaist DJ and filmmaker his installations and video / film collages display provocative musical and visual landscapes and have been included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art New York, Venice Biennale, Centre Pompidou Paris, Kunsthaus Zurich, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Stefan Muller Arisona His main interests are at the intersections of art and technology, and his research focuses on novel real-time multimedia systems and on live composition and performance techniques. Stefan received an MSc in Computer Science from Uppsala University (Sweden, 1997) and a MSc in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich (Switzerland, 1998). He was visiting researcher at IRCAM Centre Pompidou (France, 2003) and completed his PhD at the University of Zurich's Multimedia Lab (Switzerland 2004). From 2005 to 2007, Stefan was a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at ETH Zurich's Computer Systems Institute. Stefan has performed internationally and his art works have appeared at renowned venues such as the Ars Electronica Center (Austria, 2006 - 2008). http://www.corebounce.org/sma

Procedural Inc., a spin-off of ETH Zurich founded in October 2007, is specialized in software for the efficient creation of 3D buildings and cities. Procedural Inc. works with a leading edge team of experts in the field of computer graphics, computer vision, and software engineering. This project will be realized in collaboration with Corebounce Association. http://www.procedural.com

Dr. Simon Schubiger-Banz works as a senior engineer at Swisscom Innovations, teaches a mobile systems architecture course at ETH Zurich, and is an associate researcher of the Pervasive and Artificial Intelligence group (PAI) at the University of Fribourg (DIUF). His research interests include multimedia performance systems, knowledge representation, programming languages, user interface design, and mobile computing. He is a co-developer of the Soundium2 multi-media system. Simon Schubiger-Banz received a Ph. D. in computer science from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is a member of the ACM and president of the Corebounce Association.

Scheinwerfer has performed at some of the coolest locations around the globe, supporting world-class DJs and musicians like Steve Gibson, Jeff Mills, Rush, Miss Kittin, Dave Clarke, Josh Wink and many more. Currently, the project focuses on the creation of interactive virtual multimedia environments and their integration in the physical world.http://www.scheinwerfer.li/

UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created in Vienna, Austria, by Lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, a founder of etoy. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of the most unmatchable identities – controversial and iconoclast – of the contemporary European techno- fine-art avant-garde. Their open circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art, pixelpainting, computer installations, net.art, sculpture and digital activism (media hacking) transforms their brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. UBERMORGEN.COM’s work is unique not because of what they do but because how, when, where and why they do it. The computer and the network are (ab)used to create art and combine its multiple forms. The permanent amalgamation of fact and fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept of one’s working materials, that for UBERMORGEN.COM also include (international) rights, democracy and global communication (input-feedback loops). “Ubermorgen” is the German word both for “the day after tomorrow” or “super-tomorrow”. www.ubermorgen.com Muriel Waldvogel is a visual designer and architect, lecturer in the field of Visual and Environmental Studies. BA from Barnard College and master's thesis in architecture, as well as a Doctorate in Visual Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich (CH). As an architect, she deals primarily with perception sensors and multi-sensory experiences, feelings and thoughts, which are triggered by touch in conjunction with images and space.

Yifan Wang was born in China and graduated with his MFA from Visual Arts of University of Victoria in Canada. His digital documentary film on Chinese traditional shadow puppet plays has been shown recently at the Art Gallery of Great Victoria. Yifan is currently doing interdisciplinary doctorial study at University of Victoria. His research is focused specifically on Buddhism and the digital arts. His most recent project is a digital installation based on the study of ‘experience’ acquired from Buddhist meditation and virtual reality.

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Jim Olson (aka. robotoverlord) is a media artist and designer living in Victoria, BC. His interests include video/animation, game art, multimedia performance, open source software, user interface design, and mobile computing. Jim's work explores the central theme of technology as society and is influenced heavily by the work of Cory Doctorow, Jodi, and the Emergency Broadcast Network. http://robotoverlord.mobi

Dennis Majoe has a PhD in Navigation related Electronic systems and has worked extensively in the design of a variety of motion and orientation sensing systems and computer generated environments including 3D audio. He is director of MASC, an innovative electronics and computer design company active in the field of wireless communications having designed GPS and GPRS Bluetooth systems, RISC based wearable computing platforms and large real time motion.

Justin Love is an experienced multimedia programmer, physical interface innovator, live visualist (VJ), and multimedia artist. His performances and installations have been presented at numerous international art events including: Collisions Interarts Symposium (Canada, 2005), Interactive Futures (Canada, 2006), Digital Art Week (ETH, Zurich, 2006), and Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico, 2006). http://roguescience.org

Martina Eberle holds an MA from the Zurich University of the Arts and has a wide professional experience in trade shows, exhibitions and events. After the completion of her MBA at Columbia University and London Business Schools she worked at IBM Research as an analyst for new media. Together with ETH Zurich she developed NOVA as a project for the jubilee of ETH Zurich and is now in charge of business development at the ETH-spin-off- up company horao (www.horao.biz).