ISEA Board
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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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