Edit Andras studied art history and history at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (1972 -77), and received PhD in art history in 1998. She worked as a curator in the Hungarian National Gallery (1977-79) and as an editor in the Corvina Publishing House (1979-86). Since 1987 she has been working at the Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, recently as a senior research fellow. From 1996-2000 she was the chair of the board of the League of Non-Profit Art Spaces, Budapest. 1989-1992 and 1997-2002 she lived in New York, in the 1997-98 academic years having a Fulbright fellowship hosted by the Department of Fine Arts of New York University at New York. During this period she has contributed to Hungarian monthly art magazines and newspapers as their New York correspondent. (Her volume of collected essays on contemporary American art was published in Hungarian.) Her main interest concerns Eastern, Central European Art, gender issues, socially engaged art, public art, and art theory related to the transition in the post-socialist countries. She has published numerous essays in different languages on issues of contemporary art and theory. Her book entitled Cultural Crossdressing. Art on the Ruins of Socialism is in press. Edit Andras teaches at different Hungarian Universities and regularly gives courses, entitled „Art and Culture in Transition in Eastern and Central European region” at the Education Abroad Program of University of California, Budapest Study Center.
 
Dunja Blažević is an art historian, art critic, curator and produces contemporary art and new media. She is the director of the Sarajevo Centre for Contemporary art and project leader for "De/construction of
Monument" in Bosia-Hercegovina.
 
Boris Buden studied philosophy in Zagreb and cultural studies at HU Berlin. In the 90s he was editor in the magazine Arkzin, Zagreb. His essays and articles cover topics of philosophy, politics, cultural and art criticism. Among his translations into Croatian are two books of Sigmund Freud. Buden is the author of Barikade, Zagreb 1996/1997, Kaptolski Kolodvor, Beograd 2001 and Der Schacht von Babel,
Berlin 2004 (Vavilonska jama, Beograd 2007).

Margarita Dorovska is a curator at InterSpace Association, Sofia. She graduated from University of Sofia in cultural studies. Managing director of Cult.bg Foundation since 2005, where she has been engaged in projects for research and development in cultural policy, advocacy and NGO consolidation. In 2006-2007 she led the fund for support of emerging artists and for the development of the Cult.bg Server for arts and culture (http://cult.bg). For InterSpace Association, she is founder and curator of the residency programme since 2007, and project director of "Transitland. Video art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009". She is currently attending the MA course Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, London.

Gusztáv Hámos was born in 1955 in Budapest (Hungary); 1972-78 first film and photographic works; 1979 emigrated to West-Berlin; 1980-85 studied at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB); from 1980 artistic work with videotapes and installations; numerous television productions; lives and works in Berlin.

Kathy Rae Huffman is a freelance curator, networker and media art collector (USA/UK/DE). She is lead curator for Exchange and Evolution, for the Long Beach Museum of Art (2011/12), an exhibition in two parts supported by The Getty Foundation’s Southern California initiative, Pacific Standard Time. She was the international curator for The Exhibition, ISEA2009, held in Belfast and organised by the University of Ulster, Belfast campus. She is co-curator for prologue_EST, an exhibition at the Kunstihoone,Tallin, Estonia (2011). Huffman has held curatorial posts at the Long Beach Museum of Art, The ICA Boston, and Cornerhouse, Manchester, and was Associate Professor of Electronic Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic University, Troy, NY. She received an MFA in Exhibition Design from California State University Long Beach in 1980, where she also completed the post graduate course in Museum Studies. She has written about, consulted for, and coordinated events for a variety of international festivals and organisations since the early 1980s. She co-founded the international online community for women media artists FACES (with Diana McCarty, Valie Djordjevic and Ushi Reiter). www.faces-l.net
 
Stephen Kovats, a Canadian born architect and media researcher who spent a decade researching German unification, designing and establishing media art and culture related programs at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. His "Studio Electronic Media Interpretation" hosted numerous international projects, symposia and exhibitions. Kovats founded several media culture oriented exchange and network programs including Archi-Tonomy, EMARE, ECX and the Bauhauskolleg. Kovats was also international programs developer at V2_Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam. He is the artistic director of transmediale festival for art and digital culture, Berlin.
 
Diana McCarty, born and raised in New Mexico, she has lived and worked in Europe since 1993 - Budapest in 90's and Berlin in the 2000's. She is a co-founder of the faces mailing list and a collaborator of the Prologue: New Feminism New Europe project. She is actively engaged working on radio projects, mostly in Berlin - at present, backyardradio.de and www.hkw.de/hausradio. In the past, it was Radio 1:1, Reboot.fm and Juniradio. She is also a founding member of the radia.fm network of cultural radios.  McCarty was part of the International Women’s University server development team, and worked with Seda Gürses, Barbara Schelkle, Prof. Heidi Schelhowe, and Heiki Pisch – amoungst others to develop feminist pedagogical approaches to learning technology. In the mid-nineties, she co-founded the Nettime Mailing list, and as part of the Media Research Foundation, co-organised the MetaForum Conference Series in Budapest. Her main interests are exploiting social and technological systems for cultural use; i.e. piracy and open source software development for real life.
 
Doreen Mende was born in 1976 in East Germany. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. PhD-researcher in the programme Curatorial/Knowledge of the Departement Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College London. 2006–09 Co-programmer and lecturer of the 2006 founded programme Exhibition Design and Curatorial Practice at Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. Chief Editor of the programme's publications series Displayer and exhibition cooperations with ZKM Karlsruhe. Co-founder of the project/space General Public in Berlin.
 
Norbert Meissner was born 1954 in Stendal (GDR); studied industrial design and visual communication at the Fachhochschule in Hanover and experimental film and video at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig; from 1990 chairman of «Kanal X» in Leipzig; taught video at the Fachhochschule in Hanover, the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchdruck, Leipzig; work in the field of video and video sculpture since the mid 80s; lives and works in Leipzig.
 
Hajnal Németh was born in 1972, Szony /Hungary. Lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Institute of Photography, Szekesfehervar / H / 1991-93 and at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Intermedia Department, Budapest, 1995-2000. She was membe of FKSE / Studio of Young Artists Association in Budapest since 1996. Németh is a founder of the Lada Project in Berlin.
 
Tanja Ostojic was born in 1972 in Belgrade and focuses on the physical fact of migration through a situationist performance. With long-term projects such as "Looking for a Husband with EU Passport" which involves a real wedding, and - later - a "Divorce Party", or "After Courbet" which provoked a scandal when she reenacted the Courbet painting "L'Origine du monde," wearing blue bikini briefs with a circle of yellow stars as a kind of target, obviously referring both to the European Union's enlargement and to Gustave Courbet's renowned painting – she brings reality into art.
 
Anri Sala, born 1974, is a young artist whose haunting videos, photographs and installations have been applauded by critics and curators the world over. Though his work employs straight documentary practices, it also weaves its formal concerns (light and darkness, monochrome and colour, sound and silence) into a poetic investigation of its medium. Among other distinctions, Sala was awarded the Young Artist Prize at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) and nominated for the Guggenheim's prestigious Hugo Boss Prize (2002). He studied at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing / France, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and the National Academy of Arts, Tirana / Albania.
 
Hito Steyerl works as filmmaker, videoartist and author in the area of essayist documentary film, postcolonial criticism, as producer as well as theorist. The works are located on the interface between film and fine arts. Main topics: cultural globalisation, political theory, global feminism, and migration. Further activities include work as political journalist, film and art critic, catalogue and book author. The films have received international awards and are screened on TV in many countries. Phd in philosophy. Visiting Professor for Experimental Media Creation at Universitaet der Kuenste, Berlin, numerous lecturerships at art and filmschools in Vienna, Munich, Hannover, etc.
 
Sophia Tabatadze was born in 1977 in Tbilisi, Georgia. She lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia and Berlin, Germany. Tabadtadze studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, the School Of Visual Arts, New York, the Tbilisi State Academy of Art, Tiflis and the Nikoladze Art College, Tiflis.
 
Tigrics (aka Robert Bereznyei) is a prolific and highly consistent electronic musician hailing from Budapest, Hungary. Highly regarded as one of the best eastern european producers of experimental music, his music has taken him all over europe, playing at festivals and clubs alongside the likes of Autechre, Kid606, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Leafcutter John and many more. He has released a number of past albums on smaller European labels.
 
Can Togay was born as the son of Turkish parents in Hungary, he spent his childhood in Germany. In 1969, he joined the Péter Halász troupe. He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, as well as the Színház- és Filmmu"vészeti Fo"iskola (Highschool of Theatrical and Video Arts) in Budapest. He works as a film director, screenwriter and actor. His film Anyaraló was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. In 1978, he had poems published in the Mozgó Világ (Moving World). In 2004, his first collection of poems was released by the publisher Aranykor Kiadó (Golden Age Publisher). He conceived the idea of the Holocaust Memorial Cipo"k a Duna-parton (Shoes on the Danube Promenade) in Budapest, and was also a co-maker of it with Gyula Pauer. Since January 2008, he is the head of the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, the Hungarian Institute for Science and Culture in Berlin.