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Tom Keene is an artist whose work focuses on the intersection of technology, communication and participation. Since 1998 he has worked as a freelance programmer and designer for web, networks and physical computing platforms. With his multi-diciplinary work ranging from collaborative website design and development, hi-tech sensor driven environments, reactive video and robotic installations to participatory arts projects in community settings.

Anna Dumitriu’s work blurs the boundaries between art and science. Her installations, interventions and performances use a range of digital, biological and traditional media including live bacteria, interactive media and textiles. Her work has a strong international exhibition profile and is held in several major public collections, including the Science Museum in London. She was a member of the e-MobiLArt project (the EU funded European Mobile Lab for Interactive Art) and Artist in Residence at The Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at Sussex University (where she is the artist partner on the project “Supporting Shy Users in Pervasive Technology”). She is known for her work as director of “The Institute of Unnecessary Research”, a group of artists and scientists whose work crosses disciplinary boundaries and critiques contemporary research practice. She is currently working on a Wellcome Trust funded art project entitled “Communicating Bacteria”, collaborating with the Adaptive Systems Research Group at The University of Hertfordshire (focusing on social robotics) and has recently commenced her role as Leverhulme Trust artist in residence on the Modernising Medical Microbiology project at The University of Oxford. www.normalflora.co.uk and www.unnecessaryresearch.org

Alex May is an international artist working with digital projection, 3D video mapping, illumination, and optics to create animated trompe l’oeil effects using scientific theories of perspective and projective geometry. He is a veteran programmer specialising in, but not limited to, high performance, real-time audio/visual processing, creating his own software to facilitate his own art projects as well as releasing open-source tools that are in use by digital artists worldwide. Working with sound designer Martin A. Smith, Alex has created a series of major site-specific installations for clients such as Kensington and Chelsea Council, Universal Music, and Canon Europe.

Caryl Mann is a Classicaly trained harpist, educator, researcher. Caryl Composed the startup music for the Galvanic skin response device.