Martin Gius (aka. polymorphic engine) is a musician and computer-scientist based in Vienna. He currently studies in the Master program of Experimental Game Cultures at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. His main interest lies in the practice of live-coding and using the possibilities live-coding provides to create music collaboratively. At the moment he is also developing a new live-coding language, zwirn.
Contributors
Programmer, theorist and artist, Martin Howse has worked collaboratively under the heading xxxxx, in audio performance and wide ranging production and publication. In the last years, he directed -micro-research, presenting a series of open workshops and working groups centred in Berlin. Current projects include the establishment of an interdisciplinary mobile research laboratory devoted to the use of free software and open hardware within the field of psychogeophysics.
Martin Kaltenbrunner (*1972) is professor for Tangible Interaction Design, head of the Tangible Music Lab and director of the Postdigital Lutherie master program at the Institute of Media Studies at the University of Art and Design in Linz.
Martin Nadal is an artist/creative coder based in Linz and studying the Interface Cultures program. In the past years he has produced a variety of art projects and taught workshops mainly related to money, blockchain and surveillance.
Martin Reiche is a media artist living and working in Berlin, Germany, and is regularly presenting on professional computer science and digital art and gaming conferences. His artistic work has been shown at numerous festivals and museums around the world, including ZKM Museum of Media Art, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens Digital Art Festival, INCUBARTE Art Festival Valencia, ETDM Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design Tallinn
Martina’s passion for cultural diversity of perspectives was rounded off with a semester abroad at the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla/ Mexico. The practical application of her studies helped her succeed in various situations, such as founding a cultural studies magazine, assisting in a digital and socio-cultural festivals like AMRO, and creating a new innovative gastronomy concept for Cup of Soul.
Martino Morandi wrote this bio text on a QWERTY keyboard on a Lenovo laptop on a seat of a Trenord train moving on the italian RFI rails, running on electricity from state-owned hydro-electric power plants on the Alps. He researches the tangle of and our entanglements with these elements and is interested in the politics of our interactions with technology at different scales, from power plants to bio texts.
Maruska takes care that you sleep tight during the AMRO festival, finding the best hosts for the best guests and vice versa. Searching for blankets and pillows and spare beds.
She will probably do other things around AMRO as well, but let's see.
Oh yes, she is also and artist and student of Interface Cultures Master Program in Linz and organiser of Ship Film Boudoir, occasional moderator and helms(wo)men in learning ..and..but that doesn't matter here ;-)