Contributors

James Bridle is a writer, artist, publisher and technologist based in London, UK. His work covers the intersection of literature, culture and the network. He writes for a wide range of media, online and in print, and lectures worldwide.

James writes a regular column in the Observer newspaper (UK) on publishing and technology. As well as his own blog, his writing has appeared in the New Statesman, Frieze, Eye, De Gids, ICON, Domus, Form, Cabinet, TAR, WIRED, the Guardian, the Atlantic and elsewhere.

James Stevens is the founder member of SPC and lives with his family in Deptford
SE London. Whilst directing operations at web boutique Obsolete in 1996
he launched Backspace, the proto cybercafe on Clink Street, London Bridge; a
response to conversations with Heath Bunting on the needs for an
accessible place to explore creative networking and critical media in
public. After fitting it out with artist Tim Cook it was modeled by
digital native Dorian Moore to become a touchstone to a thousand web

Jamie Allen is a Canada-born researcher, artist, designer and teacher, interested in what technologies teach us about who we are as individuals, cultures and societies. He likes to make things with his head and hands, and he lectures, publishes and exhibits worldwide.
He is Senior Researcher with the Critical Media Lab in Basel, Switzerland.

member of goto10

Adriaan van Kampen aus Amsterdam hat autonome Computerkomposition studiert. Er spielt in der Network Band Powerbooks unplugged, ist ein Mitglied des Ensembles für elektro-akustische Musik Schreck und von GOTO10, einem Arthack-Kollektiv, das sich mit FLOSS (Free and Open Source Software) auseinandersetzt.

We are six young FLINTA*s who come from conflict-ridden areas and live as the second generation in the diaspora. We stand for the resistance in our home countries (Afghanistan, Kurdistan and Iran) and work against collective forgetting. We, as Javaneh, are like blossoming flowers that symbolize spring, because “Javaneh” means “bud”. Spring carries the power of change, revolution and a new beginning and our goal is to overcome the long metaphorical winter.

Jens Vetter works in the intersection between sound art, stage performance and interactive sound objects. He is interested in developing new musical devices as well as embedding them on stage. He uses various tools and media to convey his ideas, which at the same time reflects his interest in the tools themselves, as well as their technical or conceptual possibilities or limitations. He exhibited and performed at Ars Electronica, C.Rockefeller Center, Speculum Artium, Ostrale, Festpielhaus Hellerau, Bar 25, DAVE, Kiblix Festival, CRACK Festival, Transnaturale, etc.

joak (Joseph Knierzinger) is an artist working with obsolete media/technologies/trash and anachronistic, fictitious timelines. Humor and irony are an important method in his undertakings. He is currently working on various alogisms and algorithms in the world.

Why FLOSS

Because it this approaches allows to have exchange with others that Non-Floss approaches dont have. It also makes the creating process of a work of art more transparent and not a hidden black box. I dont like "the end justifies the means" approaches.

Joakim Blattmanns work with sound spans from sculptural installations, standalone sound works, to composition and concerts. He works with sound as a physical and moving material. Acoustic ecology, field recordings and objects inherent acoustic properties are recurrent themes. Blattmann holds a Masters degree from the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (NO).

Joana Chicau [PT/NL] is a graphic designer, coder, researcher - with a background in dance.