EUGENI BONET
[Barcelona, Spain 1954]

Eugeni Bonet is active in the areas of film, video and digital media as a writer, curator and artist. His selected videofilmography include Duchamp (retard en vídeo) (1986-87), U-Session (2002) and Throw Your Watch to the Water (2004, 35mm feature film).

Presently in phase of editing, he is working in a medium-length video, eGolem, as the germ of a possible feature film. As a curator, his activities include the circulating programme Calculated Cinema (1999 and 2001) and the film series Coming Soon: Lettrist Cinema, in between of discrepancy and uprising (2005).

http://www.fluxfestival.org

LARRY CUBA
[Atlanta, USA 1950]

Larry Cuba is widely recognized as a pioneer in the use of computers in animation art. His four films First Fig (1974), 3/78 (Objects and Transformations) (1978), Two Space (1979) and Calculated Movements (1985) explore the visual perception of motion and musical structure, and are already classics.
In 1994, he founded the iotaCenter, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to abstract animation and visual music. (www.iotacenter.org)
His ongoing software development project continues his research into the connection between algorithmic and choreographic patterns.


http://www.well.com/user/cuba

LAURA GINÉS & PERE GINARD aka LABORATORIUM
[Girona · Palma de Mallorca, España 1975]

Pere Ginard studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and Laura Ginès, Art and Design at l’Escola Massana (linked to the UB). In 2001 they establish their production micro-company Laboratorium. Since then they have combined the realisation of experimental films with various illustration and graphic design works.
They have participated as curators in Xinacittà, an open-air screening of quality animation in Barcelona.

http://laboratorium.cat

BÄRBEL NEUBAUER
[Klagenfurt, Austria 1950]

She studied film and stage design at the Academy of Arts in Vienna. In 1987 she moved to Munich·Germany where she currently lives and works. Bärbel has been making about 40 animation films and experimental films since 1980 and composing music and film-music since 1991.
She serves as a member of juries for international animation, feature and short-films festivals, teaches workshops and courses in Europe and US, and is currently working in her two new films: Airwaves and Morphs of Pegasus.

www.spiralsmorphs.de

LUKASZ LYSAKOWSKI
[Gdansk, Poland 1974]

As an artist and designer, Lukasz explores the relationship of the human and the computer through the shared interface of the mediated screen. In 2000 he started the video-impro-trio 242.pilots together with Kurt Ralske and HC Gilje.
Utilising custom software that draws upon imagery created by myself and my partner Lael Gerhart, he has developed an extensive body of real-time improvisational and generative audio-visual work which has been exhibited internationally. He currently works as an interactive designer of media rich websites for clients such as Cornell University, the Matrix movie series , CinemaNow and BMW.

http://lukasz.wildlifeanalysis.org

RUBÉN GUZMÁN
[Buenos Aires, Argentina 1959]

BA in Fine Arts specialised in Cinema and Video.
He is a professor, curator, programmer, director of photography and cinema and video artist. His renown work has been exhibited in important festivals and screenings around the world.