Notes on Contributors 
  

Inke Arns is an independent media art curator and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Slavistics at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Her curatorial work includes exhibitions like OSTranenie 93, Bauhaus Dessau 1993; Minima Media. Medienbiennale, Leipzig 1994; discord. sabotage of realities, Kunstverein Hamburg 1996/97; and body of the message, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein 1998. She has published on issues of media, visual art, and Eastern Europe in international magazines and books. Together with Andreas Broeckmann, she recently edited Deep Europe: The 1996-97 edition, a reader containing selected texts from the V2_East / Syndicate mailing list. (e-mail: inke@berlin.snafu.de) 

Anna Bálint is a researcher and archivist at the Artpool Archives, Artpool Art Research Center in Budapest, Hungary. She is a medievalist and translator. (e-mail: abalint@artpool.hu) 

Andreas Broeckmann is a cultural historian and a media theoretician who works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as a project manager with V2_Organisation. His PhD research dealt with nineteenth-century scientific photography and its articulations of subjectivity. He lives in Berlin, Germany. (e-mail: abroeck@v2.nl) 

Marina Grzinic is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her PhD research dealt with Virtual Reality and Changed Aspects of Time and Space. She is currently living and working in Tokyo -1997/98 - for a year on a post-doctoral fellowship for the promotion of science and technology from the Japanese goverment. Grzinic is the author of three books; her most recent book -- which addresses media, video art, art and post-socialism -- was published in 1997 in Ljubljana. She has published extensively on issues of media, society, and visual art in international magazines and books. She also works as a freelance media theorist, art critic and curator. With Aina Smid, an art historian, Grzinic has worked collaboratively in the field of media, videoart and installation for over 17 years. (e-mail: grzinic@img.t-kougei.ac.jp) 

Agnes Gulyás is a postgraduate researcher and part-time lecturer at the Department of Print Media, Publishing and Communication, Napier University, Edinburgh. Her main research areas include the political economy of the transformation of the media in East Central Europe as well as the development of the new media in the region. (e-mail: a.gulyas@napier.ac.uk) 

Kathy Rae Huffman is a freelance curator, writer and networker, based in Austria, since 1991. She is pop~TARTS correspondent to Telepolis online magazine <www.heise.de/tp/>. With Eva Wohlgemuth (Vienna), Huffman realizes Internet communication artworks: SIBERIAN DEAL (1995) <www.t0.or.at/~siberian/vrteil.html>, a location net.sculpture that examines real and virtual trading situations, and FACE SETTINGS (1996-1998) <thing.at/face/>, a feminist work that investigates communication between women, on-line and in real life. (e-mail: kathy@thing.at) 

Eric Kluitenberg is an independent writer, lecturer and organiser in the field of culture and new technology. He taught Media Theory at MEDIA-GN in Groningen, The Netherlands, and currently works with the Society for Old and New Media in Amsterdam, NL, and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany. He is an international advisor for the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn, and the E-Lab artist organisaton in Riga, Latvia. (e-mail: epk@xs4all.nl) 

Laura B Lengel is a lecturer at the Department of Communications, The American International University in London, England. As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr Lengel’s experience has spanned East Central and Western Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central and North America. She researches cultural aspects of new technologies, gender and communication, and international cultural studies. She teaches writing with new technologies, digital video art, intercultural communication, field research methods, and international film. (e-mail: lengell@staff.richmond.ac.uk) 

Geert Lovink studied political science at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is a member of Adilkno, the Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge, a radio producer, and co-founder of The Digital City, the Amsterdam-based Freenet and 'Press Now', the Dutch support campaign for independent media in the former Yugoslavia. Since 1991 he has been lecturing in media theory in Eastern Europe and is a co-founder of the Amsterdam-based Internet content providers 'desk.nl' (culture/arts) and 'contrast.org' (politics). (e-mail: geert@xs4all.nl)  

Lev Manovich is an artist and a theorist working in new media on the faculty at the University of California, San Diego. His book The Engineering of Vision from Constructivism to Virtual Reality is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press. (e-mail: manovich@ucsd.edu) 

Oliver Marchart studied Philosophy at the University of Vienna and is a PhD student in the Ideology and Discourse Analysis programme at Essex University and Junior Fellow at the IFK (International Research Institute for Cultural Studies), Vienna. Publications include: Neoismus. Avantgarde und Selbsthistorisierung, Vienna: edition selene, 1997; Das Undarstellbare der Politik. Zur Hegemonietheorie Ernesto Laclaus (as editor), Vienna: Turia + Kant, 1997; Die Verkabelung von Mitteleuropa. Medienguerilla - Netzkritik - Technopolitik, Vienna: edition selene, 1998. (e-mail: oliver@t0.or.at) 

Igor Markovic is a journalist and a media activist, currently working as an executive editor of Arkzin, Zagreb. He graduated in physics and philosophy at the Zagreb University. After years of activity in the environmental movement in Croatia and Europe, he started to work as a journalist for the cultural & political magazine Arkzin, and various computer magazines, mostly dealing with new media theories. Recent publications include ‘Tactical Media as a Tool for Survival in the War Zone’, in Proceedings from the Globalization from Below conference (forthcoming from Duke University, NC). (e-mail: igor.markovic@zamir-zg.ztn.apc.org) 

Miklós Peternák is the head of the Intermedia Department at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, and since 1997 he is the director of C3 Center for Culture & Communication, Budapest, Hungary. His 1994 PhD degree dealt with Art and Science - New Media. From 1981-87 he was a member of the Balázs Béla Stúdió, Budapest; from 1981-83 he worked at the Hungarian National Gallery, and from 1983-87 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has published widely, e.g. on Gábor Bódy (1987, with L. Beke), on Computer Art in Hungary (1989), on Hungarian Avant- Garde Film (1991), and New Types of Images (1993).  
(e-mail: peternak@c3.hu) 

János Sugár studied sculpting in the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary. During his studies he was actively involved in the activities of Indigo, an interdisciplinary art group. He has participated in national and international exhibitions since 1984 (documenta IX, 1992) and has also created films and performances. Between 1990 and 1995 he was a board member of the Béla Balázs Film Studio, Budapest. He is a founding member of the Media Research Foundation and since 1990 he is a lecturer at the Intermedia Department of the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest. In 1994, 1995, and 1996 he organized the MetaForum Conference Series (with Geert Lovink and Diana McCarty) and is the co-editor of Bulldozer, a book containing a collection of media theory texts in Hungarian translation, as well as the editor of the Hypermedia Reader. (e-mail: sj@thing.net / sj@mrf.hu)