transmediale Award 2011 Jury member Brandon LaBelle is a Berlin based artist and writer. His work aims to draw attention to the dynamics of sound as it is found within spaces and objects, public events and interactions, language and the body. Through a performative interaction with objects, found-sound, and  minimal electronics, the work draws attention to the quality and nature of what is already there through an emphasis on and
displacement of listening and interaction, as a technological and architectural glitch. more...

transmediale Award 2011 Jury member Defne Ayas is a curator and educator specialising in new media and performance and cross-cultural projects. Based in Shanghai since 2006, Ayas works as a director of programmes to Arthub Asia, and as an art history instructor at New York University in Shanghai. more...

transmediale Award 2011 Jury member Micz Flor has been working as a media developer, writer and project manager with the Internet since 1995. In 1997 he won the Net-Art award of the Hamburger Kunsthalle and in 1998 the “Multimedia-Preis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart”. Besides invitations to Ars Electronica, ISEA (Chicago 1997, Manchester 1998), documenta X (1997) and next 5 minutes, he worked at Salford University in Manchester and the University of Weimar. more...

Oliver Grau is an art historian and media theorist. He is professor of image science (Visual Studies) and head of department at the Danube University Krems. Grau initiated the first international Database of Virtual Art in 1998. more...