ISEA Board

Julianne Pierce, Chair
Peter Anders, Secretary
Wim van der Plas, Treasurer
Sue Gollifer, Advisor
Nina Czegledy, Advisor

Peter Anders (based in Midland, MI, USA)

Peter Anders is an architect, educator, and information design theorist. He has published widely on the architecture of cyberspace and is the author of "Envisioning Cyberspace" which presents design principles for on-line spatial environments. The book was published by McGraw Hill in 1998.

Anders received his degrees from the University of Michigan (B.S.1976) and Columbia University (M.A.1982). He is currently a fellow of the University of Plymouth CAiiA-STAR Ph.D. program. He was a principle in an architectural firm in New York City until 1994 when he formed MindSpace.net, an architectural practice specializing in media/information environments. He has received numerous design awards for his work and has taught graduate level design studios and computer-aided design at universities including the New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Detroit-Mercy, and the University of Michigan.

His work has been featured in professional journals and he has presented his research on the architecture of cyberspace in several international venues including The New York Architectural League, Xerox PARC, ISEA, CAiiA, Cyberconf, ACADIA, AEC, ACM-Multimedia, InterSymp, SEGD and the World Future Society. Those interested in pursuing these topics may visit his site, http://mindspace.net

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Nina Czegledy (based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Nina Czegledy, an independent media artist, curator and writer, has been involved in collaborative international projects for over a decade. Points of Entry, an electronic arts collaboration between Canada, Australia and New Zealand, conceptualized by Czegledy and curated in collaboration, is currently touring in New Zealand/Australia. Digitized Bodies, Virtual Spectacles, developed by Czegledy, centered on the changing perceptions of the human body and presented a series of on-line and on-site events in Canada (2000), Hungary (2001) and Slovenia (2002).

Czegledy's art&science&technology interest is reflected by projects in progress including Aurora Universalis, The Electromagnetism of Bodies and BodySense. The nomadic Crossing Over (CO) Workshop/Media Residency project co-curated with Iliyana Nedkova since 1996 is aimed at digital film production. In addition, Czegledy has been involved in producing digital works, video art, broadcast documentaties as well as leading and participating in international workshops, forums and festivals. Czegledy curated over twenty international media art/video programs and touring exhibitions presented in over thirty countries. She has published and lectured widely in Europe, Asia, Australia and North and South America.

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Julianne Pierce (based in Adelaide, Australia)

Julianne Pierce is an Australia new media curator, artist and producer. She is a founding member of the influential artists group VNS Matrix, who exhibited widely in Australia and internationally from 1991 - 1997. She has curated several new media events and exhibitions including Biomachines (Telstra Adelaide Festival 2000), Spectrascope (Sydney Biennale satellite exhibition 2000), Code Red (ANAT & Performance Space, 1997), encryption corruption (online exhibition for The Physics Room, NZ, 1997) and Future Languages (Adelaide Festival, 1994). Julianne was Producer of the interactive titles - Bad Code computer game prototype by VNS Matrix (1996) and Uncle Bill (2000) directed by Debra Petrovitch (winner of first prize, New Media, Video Brasil 2001).

In August 2000, Julianne took up the position of Executive Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), Australia's peak network and advocacy body for artists working with science and technology. Julianne was a member of the International Program Committee for ISEA2002 and is currently a Board member of the Australian Dance Theatre and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of LEA (Leonardo Electronic Almanac).

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Wim van der Plas (based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

Wim van der Plas is a sociologist interested in the relationship between science and art, or, on a more practical level, between technology & culture. He teaches at Mediatechnologie, Faculteit Natuur & Techniek, Hogeschool van Utrecht in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. He is one of the founding members of ISEA, and organized the First International Symposium on Electronic Art in Utrecht, NL (FISEA), the Second International Symposium on Electronic Art (SISEA) in Groningen, NL and the Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA96) in Rotterdam, NL.

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