Patrick Lichty

Domenico Quaranta

George Slade

Alan Sondheim

Mario Gerosa (1963), journalist and writer, lives and works in Milan. Architecture graduate and chief editor of AD Architectural Digest, he has been working on virtual architecture and the cultures of social networks for some time. In 2006 he launched the convention to safeguard virtual architecture heritage and founded Synthravels (www.synthravels.com), the first travel agency offering tours of virtual worlds.
He has published books: Mondi virtuali (Rome, 2006), Second Life (Rome, 2007), Rinascimento virtuale (Rome, 2008).
Member of the OMNSH (www.omnsh.org), Observatoire des mondes numériques en sciences humaines in Paris, in the past he taught Communicating Landscapes at the Faculty of Architecture of Milan Polytechnic.
http://mariogerosa.blogspot.com

Patrick Lichty is a digital intermedia designer, artist, writer, and independent curator of over 15 years whose work comments upon the impact of technology on society and how it shapes the perception of the world around us. He works in diverse technological media, including printmaking, kinetics, video, generative music, and neon. Venues in which Lichty has been involved with solo and collaborative works include the Whitney and Venice Bienniales as well as the International Symposium on the Electronic Arts (ISEA). He is Editor-in-Chief of Intelligent Agent, an electronic arts/culture journal based in New York City, and featured in the new documentary by the makers of American Movie, called The Yes Men.
With the avatar name of Man Michinaga, he is one of the founding member of the performance art collective Second Front. http://www.voyd.com/voyd/

Is an art critic and curator who lives and works in Brescia, Italy.
With a specific passion and interest in net art and new media, Domenico
regularly writes for Flash Art magazine.
His first book titled, NET ART 1994-1998: La vicenda di Äda’web (NET ART 1994-1998: Äda’web Adventure) was published in 2004; he also co-curated the Connessioni Leggendarie. Net.art 1995-2005 exhibition (Milan, October 2005) and co-edited, with Matteo Bittanti, the book GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames (Milan, October 2006).
He teaches “Net Art” at the Accademia di Brera in Milan.

Is the artistic director of the Minnesota Center for Photography in northeast Minneapolis (www.mncp.org).
He is a photography historian, writer, and curator. He is also a Minnesota native and the father of two girls.

Alan Sondheim (Alan Dojoji on Second Life) an artist/theorist/writer who works with motion capture, scanner, and other technologies, researching the phenomenology
of the ‘true world’ of analog/digital mish-mash.
He’s currently working at the Virtual Environments Laboratory and Center
for Literary Computing at West Virginia University.
His ongoing meditation on being/online/being, the “internet text”
is found among other things at http://www.alansondheim.org/
and the blog http://nikuko.blogspot.com .