Participants

Nadia Palliser, Nanette Hoogslag, Todd Matsumoto, Margit Tamass, Marjolein Vermeulen, Myrthe Veeneman, Marieke Rodenburg, Liesbeth Levy, Dirk Janssen, Tsila Hassine, De Geuzen: a foundation for multi-visual research (Renée Turner, Riek Sijbring and Femke Snelting)

Nadia Palliser
is freelance writer and currently works as theory tutor at the Design Academy Eindhoven. She is also project manager for ISEA - Intersociety for the Electronic Arts where she is responsible for making their archive accessible to the public. Nadia worked for V2, Rotterdam as webeditor and taught New Media theory at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.

Nanette Hoogslag
is educated in illustration (Royal College of Art, Londen; MA) and graphic design (Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam). She taught and teaches at the St. Joost Academy, Breda, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Maastricht and Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Minerva, Groningen. Some of her recent projects: Nieuwsre(d)actie (multimedia platform about online news and image); Volkskrant project (Volkskrant online art multimedia and current affairs); Syllabus and Workshops Illustration and Practice (a students guide to their workfield).

Todd Matsumoto
My current work focusses on gathering large amounts of text (physical or digital) into a database in order to see the make up of events. What is the essence of an event from the point of view of a collection of texts, what emerges as items that have collected significance and can be assumed instrumental to an event.

Margit Tamass
Margit Tamas coordinates the subject 'overdrachtskunde' at the department of Form- and Mediastudies at the Technical University, Delft. She realised several documentaries on architecture and dance. Together with Stefaan Decostere she forms Cargo.

Marjolein Vermeulen
is graphic designer. She recently graduated cum laude with a project on fictional identity (in collaboration with Myrthe Veeneman) plus an investigation into the perception, meaning and influence of media images at the Willem de Kooning academie Rotterdam. She worked as a trainee at Lust, Den Haag and at T(c)HM/Felix Janssens, Rotterdam.

Myrthe Veeneman
is graphic designer. She recently graduated cum laude at the Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam with a project on fictional identity (in collaboration with Marjolein Vermeulen) plus a project looking at the desire for safety in urban environments. She worked as a trainee at Sin conceptual design, Den Haag and with Annelys de Vet, Amsterdam.

Marieke Rodenburg
studied non-western history and journalism at the University Groningen and Zimbabwe. From 2002 - 2003 she worked as producer / programme maker for Oogtv, and volunteered for "Verhalen van ver" (Stories from far away), a project where refugees visited high schools. From 2003 - 2004 she worked with smedia watch through the Ned. Insitituut van Zuidelijk Afrika, Kaapstad, South Africa and as producer / programme maker of "beatit!", an educational tv programme about Hiv and Aids. She also developed "Faces and voices of District Six", a historical exhibition with portraits on canvas and sound narration. Currently she is assistent of the audiovisual centre at the department of communication sciences at the university of gent, and freelance journalist.

Liesbeth Levy
is cultural philosopher. She is working for the Rotterdamse Raad voor Cultuur (formerly: Rotterdamse Kunststichting) where she is responsible for organising, initiating and stimulating cultural debates. She wrote extensively about ethical questions surrounding images, using the philosophy of Ernst Bloch and Emanuel Levinas.

Tsila Hassine
grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel, where she completed B.Sc's in Mathematics and Computer Science. She spent 2003 at the New Media department of the HGK Zuerich, and in 2004 she joined the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, where she is pursuing an MA in Media Design. She is interested in the life cycle and evolution of information on the Internet.

De Geuzen: a foundation for multi-visual research (Riek Sijbring, Femke Snelting and Renee Turner)
Our practice can be best described as hybrid, multi-form and persistent.  We make T-shirts, design stickers, tell stories, create archives, design spaces, give tours, program lectures, conduct educational workshops, write manuals, fill databanks, design dresses, create paper dolls, cook dinners, sew blankets and host weblogs.  We use different visual strategies to engage our audience in issues we are interested in exploring. Some of the thematic threads that have emerged from our research over time are, female identity, tactics for claiming space, archiving as a form of narration, and cartography as a means of relating disparate interests, communities and discourses.

Dirk Janssen