Annick Bureaud
Annick Bureaud is a new media art critic and researcher. She works and lives in Paris, France. She is the director of Leonardo/Olats, the French branch of Leonardo/Isast (www.olats.org). As an art critic she contributes to the French contemporary art magazine Art Press. She teaches at the Art School Eesi in Poitiers and has been guest lecturer at the School of the Art Institute Chicago/SAIC in 1999 and at the University of Quebec in
Montreal (UQAM) in 2001. In 2002, she co-edited the book “Connexions : art, réseaux,
media” published by the Press of Ensba ; she co-organized the International Symposium “Artmedia VIII: From the Aesthetics of Communication to Net art”, in Paris and edited
the online proceedings published by Leonardo/Olats. In 2003, she organised the Symposium “Visibility – Legibility of Space Art. Art and Zero G.: the Experience of Parabolic Flight” within the @rts Outsider Festival in Paris (proceedings on the Leonardo/Olats web site). In 2004, she published “Les Basiques : art ‘multimédia'”, an online course on multimedia art on the Leonardo/Olats web site.
She is the co-curator of the 2009 @rt Outsiders Festival: “(Un)Inhabitable? Art and Extreme Environments” (September 9th – October 11th 2009, http://www.art-outsiders.com).
Robin Lasser
Robin Lasser is a Professor of Art at San Jose State University. Lasser produces photographs, video, site-specific installations and public art working with socially and culturally significant imagery and themes. Her most extensive project, Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture, has been published in numerous books, catalogs, newspapers and journals and has been funded by dozens of public organizations in communities across the United States and abroad. Lasser often works in a collaborative mode with other artists, writers, students, public agencies, community organizations, and international coalitions (such as her work in Egypt as a Fulbright Scholar) to produce art and promote public dialogue.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally at museums such as: The Fine Arts Museum in Neuquen, Argentina, Parsons School of Design in New York City, LA County Museum of Art, Triton Museum in Santa Clara, the De Young Museum in San Francisco, the Osaka World Trade Center Museum in Japan, Horace Gallery in Cairo, Egypt, and the Academy of Film in Prague, Czech Republic. Her work has been published in numerous periodicals including: The New York Times, Time Out New York, Los Angeles Times, Afterimage, Artpapers and Artweek. Her work can be viewed at www.robinlasser.com
Hasan Elahi
Hasan Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines issues of surveillance, simulated time, transport systems, borders and frontiers. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions at venues such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Sundance Film Festival, Kassel Kulturbahnhof, The Hermitage, and at the Venice Biennale. Elahi recently was invited to speak about his work at the Tate Modern, Einstein Forum, and at the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. His awards include grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, a Ford Foundation/Phillip Morris National Fellowship, and an artist grant from the Asociacion Artetik Berrikuntzara in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. His work is frequently in the media and has been covered by The New York Times, Forbes, Wired, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR, Al Jazeera, and has appeared on The Colbert Report. He is an assistant professor at San Jose State University. He is also 2009 Resident Faculty and Nancy G. MacGrath Endowed Chair at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.