Christine Schörkhuber is living and working as freelance media artist, film maker and musician, mainly interested in intersections of audio and visual arts, political contents and collaborative working experiences. Graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts,Vienna at Video/Videoinstallation class with Dorit Margreiter. Member of the executive committee of the „IG Kultur Österreich“

Participations a. o. at Faktum FLAKturm, AnaDoma Filmfestival Braunschweig, Viertelsfestival NÖ, So Fresh! DVD-Compilation of young video Art (Amici Associacioni Galleria Spazzapan), Jazzwerkstatt Wien, Crossing Europe 2010, SOHO Ottakring 2010, Parque de Sol, (Symposium of interdisciplinary Art, St. Pölten), Radia Radioart network, Klangmanifeste (Echoraum, Wien), Pixxelpoint Nova Gorica, Multiplikator Show Budapest, Festival Les Instants Vidéo et Poetique,(Paris, New Dheli)

Christine will be performing within the evening programme at Raum D

Darija Medić holds an MA in Media design and communication: Networked media from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and a BA in New media from The Academy of Arts, in Novi Sad, Serbia. By designing language, software, video and photography, she reflects upon social constructions of meaning and knowledge distribution through speculative interventions, with practice outside gallery spaces, towards public life. She has collaborated with artist initiatives and projects such as karasssuite.net , OKNO, autonopop.net , De Player and shown work on BJCEM, MEMEFEST (festival of radical communication), Hacker space festival, Viral communications conference (Rotterdam) and other.

Darija Medić will be giving the Left at Albukerky workshop.

Heather Kelley (@PerfectPlum) is a media artist, curator, and game designer.
She was named by Fast Company magazine as one of 2011’s thirty most influential women in technology. Ms. Kelley heads her experience design studio Perfect Plum. Her product the OhMiBod Remote app, an intuitive and beautiful iPhone interface to control a connected vibrator, won two Content Awards from the city of Vienna. Ms. Kelley is co-founder of the experimental game collective Kokoromi, creators of the Gamma curated new arcade event. She holds a Masters degree in Communication from the University of Texas at Austin.

Heather Kelley will be giving the Paper Games workshop

Sabrina Basten and Audrey Samson

is Sabrina Basten and Audrey Samson, two artists working in different artistic fields. Sabrina is mainly working on spatial installations which deal with the behaviour of specific materials and of the visitor in the space. Audrey is interested in the stories of objects and how they can be told. Together they think of how material can tell a story and how it can interact with its surroundings. Sabrina and Audrey get their inspiration from inner parts of discarded objects. They work from the products of planned obsolescence, re-assembling objects with new functionalities in a DIY fashion.

Sabrina and Audrey will be giving the Körperspule workshop

Selena Savić is an artist and architect from Belgrade, currently living and working in Lausanne, Switzerland. Selena graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and from the Media Design department at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Since September 2011 she is working on a doctoral research, at the Federal Technical Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL) and Technical Institute in Lisbon, Portugal (IST). Besides architecture, Selena Savić actively pursues a critical media practice, treating the questions of the city, media and systems in general. She participated numerous exhibitions and festivals such as Cellsbutton (Yogyakarta), Alt_Cph (Copenhagen), Supermarket (Stockholm), Pixelache (Helsinki), Test_Lab (Rotterdam), Space Panic (The Hague), hack.fem.east (Berlin), Kosmopolis (Barcelona), Infaces (solo show), Safe and Sound, April Meetings and Belef (Belgrade), EXIT (Novi Sad) amongst others.

http://kucjica.org

Selena Savić will give the Solar workshop

Ulla Rauter is a media artist, working on the interface of sound art and visual art.

www.ullarauter.com

Ulla will be giving the Pure Data Programming workshop

Stefanie Wuschitz is a lecturer, researcher and media artist from Vienna. She graduated with honors from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and completed her Masters at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. During a Digital Art Fellowship in Sweden she coordinated the Eclectic Tech Carnival 2009 and founded Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory. At the moment she is a doctorate candidate at the University of Technology, Vienna, researching on women and trans artists in Syria, working with interactive technology.

Her art work has been presented among others at the following venues: the Austrian Cultural Forum (NYC), Galeria Hippolyte (Helsinki), Okno (Bruessels), Videonale (Bonn), Goethe Institut (Damascus), Arthall (Budapest), Worm (Rotterdam), Murberget (Härnösand), the Ars Electronica Festival (Linz), Transmediale (Berlin). (www.grenzartikel.com).

Stefanie Wuschitz will be giving the Re-Sista workshop