Jessica J. Behm
"Somatic Ideologies: Articulation of Dance and Technology (3 acts in 13 minutes)
Jessica Jayne Behm graduated from Cornell University with a BFA in Dance and Neo-tropical Biology. She received her Master's from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program and is the director of danceTRACE, a non-profit organization for dance and technology in New York City. She has been an adjunct writing instructor at NYU since 2001.
Email: Jessica_behm@dancetrace.org
Website: www.dancetrace.org

Harmony Bench
"Virtual Embodiment and the Materiality of Images"
Harmony is currently pursuing her PhD in Culture and Performance at UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures. She completed her undergraduate degrees in Ballet and Women's Studies at the University of Utah and received her Master's in Performance Studies at NYU. Her current interests include dance and technology. In her work, she tries to analyze performance not as a reproduction of social realities but as a process of experimenting with physical realities and an embodiment of philosophical propositions.
Email: harmonybench@yahoo.com

Ellen Bromberg
"Frames of Reference: Thoughts on Dance, Technology, and Telematics"
Ellen Bromberg has been creating dances for over 30 years. She has received numerous awards and grants for her work and her video works have been broadcast nationally and screened at national and international Dance Film Festivals. Her current interests lie in performance technology, interactivity, and telematics.
Email: e.bromberg@utah.edu
Website: http://www.dance.utah.edu/people/faculty/Bromberg.html

Carolien Hermans
"Triology"
Hermans is interested in combining dance with technology, especially dance animations, 3D games and interactive installations. At present Carolien is a graduate student in the Dance Unlimited master's program where she specializes in technology and choreography. Hermans (1969) is artistic director of the new dance company Dlab, based in Amsterdam.
Email: carolienhermans@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.du.ahk.nl/mijnsite/trilogy/trilogy.htm

Shirin Kouladjie
"Days of my life"
With a varied portfolio, Shirin has exhibited her art at shows
worldwide, including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Sundance Film Festival,
Austin Museum of Digital art, FILE 2003 in São Paulo-Brazil, ISEA2002 in
Japan, D.artNET online Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney-Australia,
and INVIDEO in Milan-Italy. Her successes continue to grow with each
project she completes.

Since 1998, Shirin has almost wholly embraced interactive/web art. She
has developed various websites including 5hirin.com, n3xt.com,
daysofmylife.org and photomontage.com.
Email: info@photomontage.com
Website: www.photomontage.com

Christopher McGahan
"Re-siting Race in the Technoculture Society: The Natural Selection Search
Engine Project and British Cultural Politics in the Late 1990's"
Christopher McGahan recently completed a dissertation about minoritarian cultural work on the Internet in the Performance Studies Department at New York University. He is currently an adjunct faculty member in the English Department at Yeshiva University. He is at work on an article about whiteness, sampling, and pop idol DJs.
Email: clm7458@hotmail.com

Lisa Naugle and John Crawford
Lisa Naugle is Associate Professor at University of California, Irvine, Department of Dance, and holds a Ph.D and MFA from New York University. She performed with several dance companies in the United States and Canada. Her choreography integrates computer applications such as digital video, motion capture, telematic performance and interactive technology.

John Crawford is a digital media artist, interactive performance director and software designer. He is active in the emerging field of digital videodance and is interested in questions of embodiment. His work combines processed video with computer-generated animation and motion sensing to produce projected imagery that reflects and responds to movement.

Websites: http://dance.arts.uci.edu/lnaugle and http://www.electricfx.com/~john/ascension

Xavier Peheut
"Submeta | Architecture"
Email: submeta@free.fr
Website: http://submeta.free.fr

Tatiana Pentes
"blackBOX"
Tatiana Pentes produced the AIMIA award-winning CD-ROM Strange Cities with radio producer Eurydice Aroney, exploring the émigré experience of her Russian grandparents in Shanghai, China. Later she worked with Professor Andrew Jakubowicz in designing the Menorah of Fang Bang Lu (http://transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au/ShanghaiSite), revealing the intersection of lives in the Jews of China as a haven for refugees. This current work blackBOX is a synthesis of experiences and aims to bring together the complexity and tensions of diasporic experiences through the music of the Rembetika (Greek Blues), Russian Jazz for China, and classical Indian dance/music as a means of articulating difference and identity in the form of digital media.
Email: Tatiana@strangecities.net
Website: http://www.strangecites.net

Reto Schmid and Kadet Kuhne
"Sensorium"
Reto Schmid is a visual artist and designer who explores the myriad ways images can be manipulated to alter the perceptions of space. His work includes interactive 3D installations, visuals for galleries, web applications and 'Lightspeed,' a light installation that exhibited at Lethargy, Zurich.

Kadet Kuhne is a digital media artist specializing in spatialized, ambient compositions and interactive installation. She composes for film, live performance and interdisciplinary projects out of her studio, Tektonic Shift. In her visual work she creates interactive, audiovisual installations that involve sensors, virtual applications and signal processing.
Email: sensorium@testrun.to
Website: http://www.testrun.to/sensorium

Nathaniel stern
"stuttering[odys]"
nathaniel stern (NYC / Johannesburg) is an internationally exhibited artist and performance poet. He lectures part-time for the Wits School of Arts (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design's distance-learning program. More info: http://nathanielstern.com
Email: nathaniel@hektor.net
Website: http://nathanielstern.com