Name: Dr Mari Velonaki
President, dLux media arts

Mari Velonaki is a media artist working in the field of interactive installation. In the last ten years her work has been engaging spectators with digital characters in interplays activated by sensory triggered interfaces (breath activated, electrostatic charge measurements, artificial vision systems and speech recognition). In 2003 she was awarded a PhD in Media Arts at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and is the current recipient of an Australian Research Council Linkage grant 2003-2006 in collaboration with Dr David Rye, Dr Steven Scheding and Dr Stefan Williams at the *Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney.

Velonaki's installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally, exhibitions include: Ars Electronica 2004, BEAP 2004, Converge Where Art and Science Meet, 2002 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Heterosis - Digital Art From Australia, Arco, Madrid, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Start-Up,Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
*The Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR) is a partner in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Autonomous Systems. Dr David Rye, Dr Steve Scheding, Dr Mari Velonaki and Dr Stefan Williams form the core art/science collaboration at this institution. Areas of research include robotics, distributed and decentralised systems and human/machine interaction.

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Name: David Cranswick
Director, dLux media arts

David has been Director of dLux media arts since 2003 during which time he has focused on the development of the organisation in areas of emerging technologies and new media arts practice. In 2004 dlux media arts embarked on a significant new initiative to investigate the creative opportunities mobile technologies provided for both artists and organisations marketing and audience development through FutureScreen Mobile and Mobile Journeys. He has also been responsible for the continuing development of new media programs

in regional centres through the TourdLux program, establishing new partnerships in regional centres in NSW.

David has extensive experience working in Western Sydney and was curator at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre for 5 years prior to which he worked as a consultant to Local Government on public art and environmental projects. He was recently invited to join the working group Urbanity and Locative Media with Art Centre Nabi, Seoul, South Korea and is on the jury of the Interactive City program, ISEA 06, San Jose.

Name: Dr Anna Cicognani

Dr Anna Cicognani received her Laurea in Architecture from the Milan Polytechnic in 1994. She founded and performed with the group ATP in Italy in the early 90s and came to Australia in 1995. She was awarded her PhD in Design Science and Linguistics from the University of Sydney in 1998 and was then awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Sydney, after which she joined OzEmail in a senior management position. She then moved to Telstra Mobiles

as the Director of Pricing and Market Analysis in 2003, and she is now the Director of Operational Capability in Telstra BigPond as part of the Technology and Innovation group. She has published and presented extensively on design, technology, virtual worlds and linguistics applications along with contributing to forming the IEEE standards on virtual reality, and consulted on new technologies to businesses, arts and government organisations.

Name: Dr Norie Neumark
Associate Professor in New Media Arts and Production, University of Technology, Sydney

Norie Neumark is a sound/radio and new media artist. Her radiophonic works have been commissioned and broadcast by the Listening Room, ABC Classic FM, and internationally by New American Radio and the Performing Arts (http://somewhere.org/NAR/index.htm). As part of Out-of-Sync, a new media arts collaboration with Maria Miranda, she has collaborated on CD-ROMs, installations and recently, on internet art works (www.out-of-sync.com). These works have been exhibited in Australia, Germany, Finland and the U.S.A. In 2004 Out-of-Sync was invited to have a studio on Turbulence.org (http://turbulence.org/studios/rumor/).

Norie and Maria have been awarded a number of new media art residencies in Australia and internationally.

Norie coedited and wrote the introduction to At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet (The MIT Press, 2005). She has given papers about sound and new media at numerous international conferences and symposia. Her published works include articles in Essays in Sound, Leonardo and Media Information Australia, and books, such as Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language. In 2004 she was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Paris 8. In 1999/2000 she was a Fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University.

Name: Annmarie Chandler
Course Director in Emerging Field in New Media and Digital Culture, University of Technology Sydney

Annmarie Chandler is currently developing cross-disciplinary programs in the digital arts and sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. Annmarie's research interest is the convergence of new with old media. She is currently researching performative public

events with mobile phones as new forms of cultural production. She is also a researcher on the funded project Outside the Box, investigating future scenarios for Australian television. She has recently co-edited and published the book At A Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet (The MIT Press 2005).

Name: Jennifer Wilson
Head of HWW Mobile

Previously, Jennifer worked with Legion Interactive for three years, where she spearheaded the companies expansion from IVR audio services into SMS and wireless services. During this time she managed relationships with Vodafone, Optus, Telstra, ABC, NSW Board of Studies and Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority (school results), NSW Lotteries, Bureau of Meteorology, EDS, Fairfax Digital and St George Bank.

Jennifer currently heads up HWW Mobile,

the specialist mobile publishing division of HWW. HWW Mobile provides mobile content portal facilities to third-party content providers; to carriers to expand their content pools; and to content owners who want to mobilise their content.

With over 20 years experience in the interactive communications industry, Jennifer is highly regarded as a specialist on maximising the use of rich content in mobile and wireless space.

Name: Robert Hutchinson
Head of New Media & Digital Services Interface stream, ABC

As Head of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's New Media & Digital Services Interface stream, Robert is responsible for the visual presentation and ease of use of digital content and services on the website, broadband service and other digital platforms. Robert is also Creative Director of ABC2, the ABC's new digital TV channel.

His current role includes developing broadband and digital television strategies

and initiatives for the corporation. Robert has been working in the multi-media and Internet industries since 1995 in a variety of roles including new media arts practitioner, web designer and business analyst. He has been responsible for establishing Internet ventures for major advertising and media companies including Saatchi & Saatchi (Wellington) and The Radio Network (NZ). Robert also works as an independent film producer and director.

Name: Claudia Sagripanti
Chairperson, AIMIA Mobile Content Industry Group

Claudia Sagripanti is a mobile content and marketing strategist. She has been involved in the mobile sector for the past three years as co-founder and project director of the Mobile Marketing and Advertising Awards. She sits on the Internet Industry Association (IIA) Mobile Content Regulation taskforce, and is the Convenor of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association's (AIMIA) mobile content industry development group.

She is currently working with a mobile messaging company on its communications

strategies, is assisting a start up mobile applications company on its business development and investment strategies and is also working on a research project for the Federal Government on broadband strategy with particular reference to mobile services.

She has worked in early stage venture capital for technology companies in a marketing and communications role at Macquarie Bank. She also founded the Online Advertising Taskforce setting professional standards and conducting research, which is now part of the Internet Industry Association.

Name: Professor Brian Fitzgerald
BA (Griff) LLB (Hons) (QUT) BCL (Oxon.) LLM (Harv.) PhD (Griff)

Head, School of Law at QUT in Brisbane, Australia; Project Leader for Creative Commons in Australia

URL: www.law.qut.edu.au/about...

Brian is a well-known intellectual property and information technology lawyer. He is co-editor of one of Australia's leading texts on E Commerce, Software and the Internet - Going Digital 2000 - and has published articles on Law and the Internet in Australia, the United States, Europe, Nepal, India, Canada and Japan. His latest (co-authored) books are Cyberlaw: Cases and Materials on the Internet, Digital Intellectual Property and E Commerce (2002); Jurisdiction and the Internet (2004); Intellectual Property in Principle (2004). Over the past four years Brian has delivered seminars on information technology and intellectual property law in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA,

Nepal, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Norway and the Netherlands.Through the first half of 2001 Brian was a Visiting Professor at Santa Clara University Law School in Silicon Valley in the USA. In February 2003 Brian was invited as part of a distinguished panel of three to debate the Theoretical Underpinning of Intellectual Property Law at University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. His current projects include work on digital copyright issues across the areas of Open Content Licensing and the Creative Commons, Free and Open Source Software, Fan Based Production of Computer Games, Licensing of Digital Entertainment and Anti-Circumvention Law. Brian is a Project Leader for Creative Commons in Australia. From 1998-2002 Brian was Head of the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University in New South Wales, Australia and in January 2002 was appointed as Head of the School of Law at QUT in Brisbane, Australia.

Name: Carolyn Lidgerwood
Special Counsel at Gilbert + Tobin

Carolyn specialises in broadcasting and content regulation, and also in privacy law. Carolyn advises on all aspects of the regulatory scheme established by the Broadcasting Services Act 1992, and across all sectors of the Australian broadcasting industry. Her key clients include commercial radio broadcasters, commercial television broadcasters and subscription television channel providers. She also acts for the peak bodies of those sectors of the broadcasting industry, and also for the peak body of the mobile telecommunications industry. Carolyn also has a specialist knowledge of the Radiocommunications Act 1992 and has been advising clients in relation to the emerging regulatory regime that applies to the regulation of content on mobile devices. In addition to her broadcasting practice, Carolyn also leads Gilbert + Tobin's privacy law practice, and assists clients in many different industries to comply with privacy laws.

Carolyn is a member of the Law Council's Media and Communications Committee and a board member of the Communications & Media Lawyers Association. She also chairs the Law Council's Working Party on Privacy Law. Prior to joining Gilbert + Tobin in 1997, Carolyn worked with the Australian Broadcasting Authority (now ACMA) and in private practice in Melbourne. Carolyn graduated with honours in law and arts from the University of Melbourne in 1991

Name: Adriaan Stellingwerff
Program Manager, dLux media arts

Adriaan was appointed program manager at dLux media arts in March 2004. Prior to this he was working in the field of new media and screen-based arts in the Netherlands since 1998. In this period he organised and curated 4 major international exhibitions of interactive installation art (www.artinoutput.nl). For one of the exhibitions Adriaan also acted as the co-producer of two new installation works. Since 2002 he was one of the programmers of video art gallery "de Beeldbank" at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

In 2003, Adriaan founded taste-E.org, an online portal to websites in the field of the electronic arts. At present he is the researcher and editor for this increasingly successful and recognised website. Recently Adriaan was awarded a Rhizome commission for his forthcoming web project Eternal Sunset.

Adriaan complements his knowledge and skills in the arts with a broad technical knowledge and aptitude based on a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering.

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Name: Dr. Silvia Pfieffer
Head of Networked Media Systems, CSIRO ICT Centre

Dr Silvia Pfeiffer has published world-leading research on multimedia content analysis and new multimedia applications for nearly 10 years and has been involved in the development of international multimedia standards at ISO/MPEG and IETF. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science on audio content analysis of digital video in March 1999 from the University of Mannheim, Germany. In her PhD, she performed research into novel automatic extraction methods for audio-visual content and novel applications. In May 1999 she joined the CSIRO in Sydney as a research scientist in digital media, working on several projects involving automated content analysis in the compressed domain. In

January 2001 she had the idea of the Continuous Media Web, which extends the World Wide Web's search and surf capabilities to time-continuous data such as audio and video. With her research team, she developed the details of the specifications as open standards and the base technology as open source reference software. The team developed the Aida mobile video browsing technology as a proprietary solution using Annodex for video surfing on the mobile phone.

Since July 2004, Dr Pfeiffer heads the Networked Media Systems research stream at the CSIRO ICT Centre in Marsfield, Sydney.

Name: Dr Melinda Rackham
Web Artist; Director Australian Network for Art and Technology

As an artist, writer and curator Dr Melinda Rackham has worked with Networked Media for the past decade investigating the aesthetic, technological and psychological aspects of distributed identity, locality, sexuality and trans species relations in web, 3d multi-user, game and mobile environments.

Her award winning Internet art sites, multi-user environments and mobile phone videos are widely shown internationally and her writing appears in diverse art and theory publications. Melinda has recently been a board member of dLux media arts and she founded and produced the highly regarded -empyre- global media arts forum.

Name: Mick Stanic
Technology Evangelist; Founder of Principius; Co-Founder of The Podcast Network; Digital Solutions Architect

In the late 80's Mick worked as a lighting designer and production manager in the live entertainment, theatre and dance industry in Australia. Then, during the early to mid 90's he was responsible for producing some of Australia's earliest web sites and some of its best multimedia pieces through his company Splatt Technologies. At that time he was also heavily involved with the Virtual Reality Association of Australia (VRA), and spent time working with the Australian Military producing desktop based training simulators.

From mid 2000 to late 2004 Mick ran the interactive / digital division of one of Australia's largest and most successful advertising and communication companies, Singleton Ogilvy & Mather. During that time he grew his division into not only one of the most successful in the SO&M group but also into a group who were constantly introducing

new technologies (and the real ways to benefit from them) to clients and other Ogilvy offices and staff around the world.

In December of 2004 Mick left Ogilvy and founded Principius (www.principius.com) a consultancy firm that once again specialises in educating companies around the world about the uses and value of emerging technologies. In early 2005 he co-founded The Podcast Network (www.thepodcastnetwork.com) the worlds first network of semi-professional podcasts (audio delivered via subscription over the internet) created under the banner of a single organisation. It is one of the most popular suppliers of podcasts in the world today with over 600,000 shows being downloaded by listeners around the world between February and July of 2005.

Mick has also been writing a popular blog since early 2003 that can be found at www.splatt.com.au/blog.