Marcos Novak

Architecture, Cyberarchitecture, Algorithmic techniques  in design

His projects, theoretical essays, and interviews have been translated into over twenty languages and have appeared in over 70 countries, and he lectures, teaches, and exhibits worldwide. Drawing upon architecture, music, and computation, and introducing numerous additional influences from art, science, and technology, his work intentionally defies categorization. He is universally recognized as the pioneer of architecture in cyberspace, of the critical consideration of virtual space as architectural and urban place, and of the use of generative computational composition in architecture and design. He originated several widely recognized concepts, such as "transvergence", "transarchitectures", "transmodernity", "liquid architectures", "navigable music", “habitable cinema", "archimusic", "eversion", "allogenesis", and others, anticipating many of the developments in digitally derived art, architecture, and music, and in virtual, augmented, mixed, and alternative reality research. His seminal essay "Liquid Architectures in Cyberspace", already translated into the world''s major languages, is now included in several anthologies of critical documents of the digital era, along writings of key figures such as Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, Marshall McLuhan, and others. His pioneering work "Dancing With The Virtual Dervish: Worlds in Progress", developed at the Banff Center between 1991-1994 as part of the "Art and Virtual Environments Project", included the world''s first 4-dimensional immersive environments, exploring and allowing navigation through spaces using four spatial dimensions, with time being fifth. His current research involves nano~ and bio~ technologies, and explores the hypothesis that we are in a cultural phase characterized by "the Production of the Alien", paralleling the Renaissance "Production of Man". He has participated in many international exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world, including the 9th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Biennale di Venezia in 2004, and the 7th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Biennale di Venezia, in 2000, where he represented Greece. In honor of the pivotal role he has played and is continuing to play in the acceptance, integration, and development of the digital in advanced architecture, and as part of "Digital|Real", a major international architecture exhibition hosted by DAM (Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, Germany), he was invited to write "Liquid, Trans~, Invisible: The Ascent and Speciation of the Digital in Architecture. A Story", a combined history/biographical chronology of the ascent of the digital in architecture and his part in it. He is a Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is affiliated with CNSI (the California NanoSystems Institute), MAT (Media Art and Technology), and Art. He named the UCSB AlloSphere (the three-story high sphere for the creation of immersive virtual environments, the largest such facility in the world originally proposed by Dr. Kuchera-Morin) and created its first project, the AlloBrain using fMRI scans of his own brain. He is the Director of the transLAB at UCSB. In 2004, he was honored to become a Fellow of the World Technology Network.

Peter Schmid

Integral bio-logical architecture World / Peace

Rome, 1935; Univ. Prof. Emeritus, Mag. Arch. (MA = magister architecturae), Ing. (Building Technology), Dr. h. c. (Yoga); Studies with Clemens Holzmeister and Konrad Wachsmann; work in paintings and graphics; Architectural design practice in several countries, freelance and as studio director; realized – after a career as architect for industrialized and industry buildings – already historical examples of healthy and environmentally sound edifices (starting around 1965); Research&Development in Building Technology; Higher vocational education in Austria (from 1965) and university education in the Netherlands (from 1972); Up to now (2010) prof. Schmid was supervisor in nearly 30 PhD research studies; Guidance of (design) teams in all over the world according MHP Method Holistic Participation; Publications in Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, and (keynote) lectures in all continents on theories, models, methods, rules of thumb, best practices and visions concerning sustainable architecture; (Co-)Founder of a number of associations for human-ecological architecture in Austria, Belgium, and The Netherlands, and of ECOHB, the Global Network of Organisations for Environmentally-COnscious and Healthy Building (Desenzano 1992); Prof. Peter Schmid received the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st Class, the designation Distinguished World Citizen by the Institute of Global Education, USA (for his Peace Work), the Royal Distinction of Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau, Honorary Distinction from interCab in Italy, and the Peter Schmid VIBA Award.

Nearly two decades Professor Emeritus Peter Schmid collaborates with his wife, Gabriella Pál Schmid; nowadays they act within the mission Research Education Design (RED) in Sciene Art Technology for Peaceful Sustainable Development. They also organise and execute workshops, based on the above mentioned Method Holistic Participation, and  design international publications and presentations.

Mark W. McK. Bannatyne

Computer technology

Dr. Bannatyne is a graduate of the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Utah State University (BS, 1988, MS, 1992), and Purdue University (Ph.D., 1994). Prior to assuming his duties at Purdue University, Dr. Bannatyne was a faculty member in the Industrial Technology Education Dept. at Utah State University, and the Instructional and Curricular Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr. Bannatyne is very active in international work and has spoken extensively throughout the Untied States, Israel and Russia on the subject of technology's impact in society, the historical aspects of social change due to technology, and computer education courses in the republics of the former Soviet Union. Dr. Bannatyne has been appointed as a Fulbright Scholar to Russia on two different occasions, and has been a member and chair of many international programs which have encouraged and sponsored exchanges for professional educators and those active in business and industry. Dr. Bannatyne has published articles on a wide variety of subjects which deal with issues within education and popular culture. Dr. Bannatyne's research agenda includes the problems faced by emerging nations in adapting technological solutions within education and industry.

Josyp Los

Opinion journalism

Prof. Los’ graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv in 1959. He worked as a journalist for various newspapers; he also ran his own TV program at Lviv Television. He was a lecturer (since March of 1971), and later a senior lecturer (since 1974) at the Department of History of Journalism at the University of Lviv. He defended his PHD thesis in 1977, and his habilitation dissertation (the Ukrainian Free University, Germany) in 1995. Since 1982 he worked as a docent, and since 1998 - as a profesor.

In 1991 he was elected to be a Head of the History of Journalism Department, in 1993 - a Head of Department of the Foreign Media and Information at the University of Lviv. Member of the Association of Journalists of Ukraine (1969) and the New York Academy of Sciences (2000). Recognized as a distinguished journalist of Ukraine (1998).

Professor has 39 years’ experience in scientific and educational work at the University of Lviv, where he gives lectures on two fundamental disciplines: "Foreign media: history, theory, functioning and modern practice" and "Contemporary foreign journalism and trends in the world development", he also runs a specialized discipline of "Free Europe Radio". Such a discipline is conducted exclusively at the University of Lviv, what has been recognized and honored by radio station management on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Free Europe Radio. Prof. Los’ was invited to give lectures at the Ukrainian Free University (Munich), Cherkassy National University and other universities.

Brendan Hogan

Philosophy

(The New School for Social Research), is currently Master Teacher, Liberal Studies Program, New York University, and at New York University-Florence 2012-13.   His research focuses on questions of human agency from a pragmatic point of view, with special attention paid to imagination and rationality in social inquiry.  Recent published papers include 'Agency, political economy, and the transnational democratic ideal' in Journal of Global Ethics and Politics,  ‘Toward a truly pragmatic philosophy of social science’ in Human Studies and “The imaginative character of pragmatic inquiry” in Cognitio.  He is currently completing an edited volume of papers in the philosophy of social science focusing on the work of Martin Hollis.  He has presented papers on a variety of aspects of pragmatism, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, and agency in a variety of venues including the American Philosophical Association, the Nordic Pragmatism Network, the Center for John Dewey Studies in Alcala-Henares, Spain, the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, the American Philosophical Association, and the American Political Science Association.

Zdzisław Hippe

Artificial Intelligence

A professor of technical sciences, winner of a national award in the field of science and technology, of eight awards from the Minister of Science and Higher Education and the secretary of the PAN third department. He is currently conducting research in the field of selected methods of artificial intelligence, expert systems technologies and support systems for business, medical and industrial decisions. The information systems created by him (over 50) have been implemented in various institutions and enterprises, both in Poland and abroad, in countries such as Finland, Holland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine and the United States. He studied at the Technical University of Lodz (engineer), Technical University of Gdansk (Master) and the Silesian Technical University (PhD).

Piotr Marecki

Electronic Literature

Piotr Marecki - Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary Culture at the Institute of Culture at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, lecturer at the Polish National Film, Television and Theater School (PWSFTviT) in Łódź. He holds a PhD in cultural studies from The Jagiellonian University. Since 1999 he is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of "Ha!art" magazine, website newspaper and the Publishing House and charmain of the board at Korporacja Ha!art Foundation. His interests include Polish literature after 1989, independent culture, digital literature, and cultural margins. In 2013/2014 he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at MIT in Cambridge, MA. He is affiliated with the Electronic Literature Organization. 

Józef Lubacz

Telecommunication

In the 1970's and 80's Jozef Lubacz was conducting research in the field of telecommunication motion theory, concentration of motion in tele informational networks, and later on, analysis and design of integrated networks, in collaboration with foreign institutions in France (École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and Centre National d'Étu des des Tele communications, 1983-1985) and Sweeden (Lund Institute of Technology, 1988) among others. In the 90's he was mainly working on methodological issues, designing many innovative architectural models for composed telecommunication networks in particular, which have been applied in their analysis and design. In the meantime, during his stay in Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Canada, 1986--1987 as a visiting professor, he also studied the methodology of analysis and design of distributed systems.

Piotr Zawojski

Humanites Knowlegde about Art Cyberculture

Piotr Zawojski, Assistant Professor, Department of Film & Media Studies, The University of Silesia, Katowice. He also work at Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. His research interest focus on the theory of  photography, film and cinema, new media, digital arts and cyberculture. He has published numerous papers in Studia Filmoznawcze, Kwartalnik Filmowy, Sztuka i Filozofia, Postscriptum, Rocznik Historii Sztuki, Format, Kultura Współczesna, Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, camer@obscura  and many collective books. His book’s publications includes Elektroniczne obrazoświaty. Między sztuką a technologią [Electronic Imageworlds. Between Art and Technology]  2000; Wiek ekranów. Przestrzenie kultury widzenia [Age of Screens. Spaces of Vision Culture] 2002, co-edited with Andrzej Gwóźdź,  Vilém Flusser Ku filozofii fotografii [Towards a Philosophy of Photography] 2004, (preface and polish edition); Wielkie filmy przełomu wieków. Subiektywny przewodnik [The Great Movies of  the Turn of the Century. Subjective Guide] 2007; Cyberkultura. Syntopia sztuki, nauki i technologii [Cybecultures. Syntopy of Art, Science and Technology] 2010; Digitalne dotknięcia. Teoria w praktyce/Praktyka w Teorii [Digital Touch. Theory in Practice/Practice in Theory]  and Sztuka obrazu i obrazowania w epoce nowych mediów [The Art of Image and Imaging in the Age of New Media] 2012. He is a chief of Film and Media section at polish cultural quarterly Opcje. He is also an essayist, reviewer, film and art critic publishing many texts in such periodicals as Kino, Ekran, artPAPIER, Biuletyn Fotograficzy Świat Obrazu or Opcje. He is a member of many Polish and Internetional Scientific Society (for example International Association for Aesthetics, Polskie Towarzystwo Kulturoznawcze, Polskie Towarzystwo Estetyczne) and International Association of Art Critics (AICA).

Jan Nuckowski

Visual Communication

Professor, head of the Visual Communication department, in May 2005 elected the dean of the department of Industrial Forms in The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Awarded the Medal of the National Education Commission. Supervisor of over 50 M. A. theses. An author of numerous exhibitions, his works in the field of posters and graphics were shown at over 70 exhibitions in Poland as well as abroad, including Cracow, Warsaw, Katowice, Lahti, Zagreb, Bratislava, Mons, London, Paris, Tokyo and Mexico.

Andrzej Wielgosz

Public Space

Ever since 1978 he has been continually running an artistic project "Dictionary of graphic signs". Author of many publications in the field of public space and visual communication design. Visiting professor at University of Colorado - Boulder, CIA Cleveland, Florida State University, Shanghai Normal University, UDK- Berlin. He is a member of The American Society of Architectural Illustrators - California, USA, and General Board of Science and Higher Education in Warsaw (2010-2013).

Waldemar Tłokiński

Neurology

Prof. Dr. Waldemar Tłokiński, a linguist ( full professor) and medical doctor ( in neurology and  medical rehabilitation). The area of scientific studies: psycho- and  neuro-linguistics, cognitive and communication sciences in the social, developmental and clinical approaches.  The author of more than 200 scientific works, the supervisor of 43 doctoral dissertations,  the president of the Ministry of Higher Education’s Social Sciences Expert Team, the expert of The State Accreditation Committee, the president of the  Rectors’ Conference of Institutions in Higher Education, Rector of Ateneum University in Gdansk, awarded, among others, with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

Beata Bigaj

Art

Painter, graphic artist, academic teacher (Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University and Academy Ignatianum in Cracow) Graduated from the Faculty of  Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (diploma in Lithography Workshop in 1997). In 2005 she got a doctoral degree in fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, in 2012 a doctoral degree in fine arts. Doctor is a member of the artistic associations "The Kontrapost" and The Focus-Europa (Germany).  A scholar of "The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation" (1994), winner of the scholarship "The Young Poland" of the Minister of Culture and the National Heritage (2008).



She presents her work at the solo and group exhibitions. The doctors pictures are included to the museum collections (the collection of Haubenstocks  at the National Museum in Cracow, at the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw) and in the private collections.

Dariusz Rott

Humanities

Professor of Humanities, the lecturer of the Institute of Polish Literature at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice and of the Institute of Cultural studies of Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow. The member of Commission on the Evaluation of Textbooks at Polish Academy of Arts and Science, the Department in Katowice. The member of the Polish Communication Associacion and Head ofthe Collegium of The Regional Research Institute of Silesian Library in Katowice). Literary scholar, editor and media expert, the specialist in the field of social and marketing communication and education.

Juri Czabanowski

History of Art and Architecture Sustainable Architecture, COExistentialism (-in-progress)

Ph.D.-thesis Humaan-Ecologisch Georiënteerde Woningbouw, Architectuurhistorisch studie (1945-2000) met Aanbevelingen voor Duurzame Woningbouw: DUWOB+ Model en MEMORIE-Toets (Human-Ecological Minded Housing, Study of History of Architecture (1945-2000) with recommandations for Sustainble Housing: DUWOB+ and MEMORIE-Checklist); Serial of 4 articles on Vision of Vereniging Integral Bio-logische Architectuur (VIBA) in magazine Gezond Bouwen & Wonen; Articles in several architectural magazines about History of Sustainable Architecture; Articles as popular-scientifical contribution on themes related to EcoDesign; Lectures on (inter)national conferences, congresses and symposia; Lectorship (freelance) at Vrije Academie voor kunsthistorisch Onderwijs; Lectorship (freelance) at Open Univerisy of Arnhem and Nijmegen; Secretary of VIBA-Workgroup architecture at VIBA-Center in Den Bosch; Secretary and member of board of EcoDesign, Svedala (Sweden); Copy Editor of Artillery, University Magazine of History of Art, University of Nijmegen; Publication of Image Poems, poems on worldviews in Open Podium of Studium Generale, University of Technology Eindhoven (TU/e); Exhibition Ecobouwpresentatie at Open Huis in Cityhal of Nijmegen, Frysia Hall Leeuwarden and Martini Hal Groningen; Exhibition of Eco-Architecture, Erasmus Building, Radboud University of Nijmegen;

Gabriella Schmid

Education Ecology Multimedia

Originates from Pécs and Budapest (Hungary),  carries a B.Sc. in Biology and a M.Sc. in Technology and in Environmental Education and in Teachers’ Training; Amongst many other educational activities, e.g. as curriculum design, educational material design, she was the project manager of the first Hungarian CD-i (Compact Disc Interactive) adaptation on First Aid;

Together with her husband Professor Emeritus Peter Schmid, they produced commonly an educational CD, the first for the (TU/e) Eindhoven University of Technology on Sustainable Building Technology in 1999. Nowadays they both act within the mission Research Education Design (RED) in Science Art Technology for Peaceful Sustainable Development also for inter-national projects, workshops, and presentations.



She is a designer of educational programs, independent from subject and age of the learner, based on her experience as teacher at a gymnasium, and curriculum programmer at various institutes in Hungary as well as her master study in the field of education at the University of Twente in The Netherlands.



She practiced this work in making a CD-i (the first one) as project manager in Budapest, and an educational CD-ROM on Sustainable Building for the Faculty Architecture, Building, and Planning at the Eindhoven University of Technology as well as in many MHP teamwork workshops, quite recently.



Assists and coaches workshops based on the Method Holistic Participation (MHP), which method can be applied independent from the objective

Paul Rutkovsky

Mixed Media

Artist & Studio Art Professor, Department of Art, Florida State University

University of Illinois, MFA, 1973; Memphis College of Art, BFA, 1970
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, 1987; Harvard University, Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Avant-Gardes, 1989

Rutkovsky has exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibits at DeMedia, Belgium;  Galeria EL, Poland; the Kitchen Center and Franklin Furnace, N.Y.C.; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); Nexus Gallery, Atlanta; University of Rhode Island; Real Art Ways (RAW), Hartford, CT; Connecticut College; Ohio University; ON Gallery in Poznan, Poland and Profil Gallery in Poznan; and the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, Lithuania.  The TV TOWERS installation has been exhibited at Silliman College, Yale University; Elizabeth Park, Hartford; Atlanta Arts Festival; and Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA.  He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and the Florida Cultural Affairs Department.  Paul has been working with community volunteers, city officials, and students to transform blighted urban alleys, called the Art Alleys, into humane cultural resources.  Rutkovsky has given workshops in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland and was recently invited to the Academy of Fine Arts in Minsk, Belarus.

The latest project, Do A Doodle And Get A Free Organic Fruit Or Vegetable, will be going on tour in 2013.  The Doodle Cart is a portable doodling and produce cart that invites everyone to be creative, to eat healthy food, and to avoid pesticides and genetically modified factory food products.  The Doodle Cart was installed and performed at the Harn Museum in Gainesville, Florida in July, 2012.

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Magdalena Pińczyńska

Design

Doctor of Arts, Graphic Designer. She occupies herself with multidisciplinary art design - starting from the interior design, through scenography, on the commercial art finishing. She joins forms with the most recent and innovative  technologies. In her design style the most important are the cultural, humanistic and technological aspects.

Tomasz Jeleński

Green architecture and design

Director of the International Centre of Education at the Cracow University of Technology (CUT), Head of the INTBAU Poland Chapter, the Sendzimir Foundation expert in Sustainable Spatial Development, Member of the Board for Recruitment and Education of Foreigners in Poland.

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Has a PhD in Architecture and Urban Design from CUT (2005) and MA from ASP Krakow (1997). During 2004-2005 engaged as a visiting tutor at Cardiff University, then a tutor at EASY-ECO European Training Course and lecturer at Sustainable Development Courses oganised by the consortium of Sendzimir Foundation, University of Florida and AGH (2006-today). From 2006 to 2009 he was an Assistant Professor at University of Information Technology & Management in Rzeszow. At present he is an Assistant Professor at Cracow University of Technology and Katowice School of Technology (KST).

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Author of numerous scientific publications and translations. Winner of several design competitions, awarded medal for distinguished MA project by the Rector of ASP Krakow (1997); several rector’s awards from: University of Łódź, KST and CUT (twice). Awarded scholarships from the Ministry of Science (twice: 2007, 2004) and Ministry of Culture (2003).

Fields of interest: Sustainable Urbanism, Public Space, Green Architecture and Design, Drawing techniques.

Grażyna Pietruszewska- Kobiela

Literature

Senior Research & Teaching Fellow at Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa conducting research in the Department of Literature Theory and Centre of Comparative Studies of Culture. Former journalist connected for many years with the University, also as rector (2 terms), and dean (2 terms). Author of works bout 20th century Polish literature and numerous articles about art and literature in 20th and 21st century, researcher of phenomena in new media, chief editor and co-editor of interdisciplinary books devoted to motives in Polish and German literature and children’s world.

Dariusz Grzybowicz

Virtual Reality