Richard Barbrook is Senior Lecturer of Politics at the University of Westminster and author of Imaginary Futures (2007). His essays focus on the clash between commerce and cooperation within the Internet. more...
Richard Barbrook will give his keynote lecture Imaginary Futures just before the Futurity Long Conversation on Friday, 5 February. The following text is an abstract of his 2007-book Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village, and equally serves to frame what he will be speaking about at transmediale.10 more...
The panel Ideologies and Futures of the Internet taking place on Saturday, 6 February will be start with a keynote lecture by Conrad Wolfram, Director of Strategic and International Development at the well-known software company Wolfram Research Inc. founded by his brother Stephen. At transmediale.10 Conrad Wolfram will talk about the knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha. more...
Joy Tang is the Founder of oneVillage Foundation, a global nonprofit using innovative approaches to deliver the power of technology and information to people in the developing countries. more...
Steve Lambert is founder of the Anti-Advertising Agency and a Senior Fellow at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York. He recently made international news with the The New York Times ‘Special Edition’, announcing the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other spectacular good news. more...
Sascha Lobo is a blogger, writer, journalist and copywriter from Berlin, with a main focus on internet and new technologies and their impact on social development. more...
Bruce Sterling aka Bruno Argento is a renowned science fiction author who helped define the cyberpunk genre. He is commentator for technology and design, and professor at the European Graduate School. His latest research focuses on the notion of atemporality. more...
Alexander Rose is the Executive Director of The Long Now Foundation, an organisation devoted to promoting long-term thinking. He has facilitated projects such as the 10,000 Year Clock with Danny Hillis, The Rosetta Project, and the Long Now’s Seminars About Long Term Thinking. more...
Mike Sandbothe was Professor of Media Culture Studies at the Jena University and for Media Philosophy at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin and at the Aalborg University in Denmark. Currently he works as a writer, film producer and media consultant in Germany, Finland and Denmark. more...
