Marijke Hoogenboom
German-born Marijke Hoogenboom is a dramaturg with a hybrid dramaturgical practice, and works across various aspect of arts production, including policy, research, writing, curating, and experimental forms of education and creating.

Now based in Amsterdam, Marijke was co-founder, dramaturg and member of the Artistic Management of DasArts in Amsterdam. Das Arts (De Amsterdamse School, Advanced Research in Theatre and Dance Studies) is the first and, up to now, only postgraduate program with an interdisciplinary approach to the performing arts in The Netherlands. Marijke was heavily involved in its artistic policy and created together with the director Ritsaert ten Cate (from 2001 on Alida Neslo) 14 different thematic studies programmes of ten weeks each, guiding an international group of 82 students, 51 mentors and more than 200 guest teachers.

Between 1991 and 1993, Marijke was dramaturg and program officer at Felix Meritis (including dance, theatre and international manifestations) in Amsterdam. She was also co-editor of the four-language magazine Theaterschrift. Currently Marijke works as a freelance dramaturg and arts education consultant.

Richard Layzell

Richard Layzell's work encompasses many approaches to art production and audience. In 1989 he adopted the persona of a self-promoting businessman for several weeks, gaining significant media attention. He's been referred to as "one of the best artists working in Britain today" and has worked extensively in galleries, museums, the street, and recently as an artist in industry, in the role of 'visionaire'. His interactive installation Tap Ruffle and Shave (1995-8) was seen by 100,000 people in four major cities.

Based in the UK, Richard is one of six practitioners at Rescen the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts, established in 1999 and based at Middlesex University. ResCen is a multi-disciplinary, artist-driven research centre that seeks to bridge the gap between professional performing arts practitioners and the university sector. As a group, they recently presented Nightwalking (navigating the unknown), a major conference on the creative process at the South Bank Centre in London. His ongoing work Movimento Ordinari (a global project to change the world in small ways) has led to International Cleaning - a series of performance / video works in Venice, San Francisco, Prague, Greece and Los Angeles.
Richard sees his work as occupying a position of 'permission' - to inform, provoke, challenge, enhance, connect and entertain.
Between 1989 to 2000, Richard was Senior Lecturer at Wimbledon School of Art, setting up and leading the Media area within Fine Art. He is also author of Enhanced Performance (1998), Live Art in Schools (1993) and The Artists Directory (with Heather Waddell, 1985).

Margie Medlin

Australian-based media artist Margie Medlin works across film, lighting and projection design. She also develops film and video installations exploring the interrelations of dance and the moving image.

Margie has worked with Danceworks, desoxy theatre, Dance Exchange, Shelley Lasica, Chunky Move, Ros Warby, Company in Space and Lucy Guerin Company receiving a New York Dance and Performance award (Bessie) for her lighting of Guerin’s Two Lies.
Margie has presented a number of film and video installations including Elasticity and Volume and Estate. She is currently working with Company in Space, Ros Warby, One Extra Dance and Dance Works. She recently completed an artist’s residency at the ZKM Institute for Visual Media, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Michelle Teran

Michelle Teran is a Toronto-based artist whose work involves primarily mediated performances that address networking of the digital and the organic. Her practice ranges from theatre and live art projects within Internet spaces, to live, mediated events within local spaces. Technology is used to develop dynamic networking environments in which performance can take place.

Her work has been shown at Banff Centre for the Arts, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Images Film and Video Festival, Axis Bureau voor de Kunsten V/M (Amsterdam), Net Congestion Streaming Media Festival, V2, Waag Society for Old and New Media, Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art and Bergen Centre for Electronic Art.

Since 1997, Michelle has been collaborating with Motherboard, an interdisciplinary performance company based in Oslo. She has also been closely involved with Hot Wired Live Art (HWLA), a worklab model used to devise networked, social and performative environments through the process of collective experimentation. The first HWLA worklab, initiated by Amanda Steggell and Per Platou of Motherboard, took place in Bergen, Norway, in January 2000. In 2001, Michelle coordinated HWLA2 - Airwaves, a 12-day worklab with 11 artists from Toronto, Berlin, Bergen, Amsterdam and Oslo that dealt with multidiscliplinary collaborations within networked social spaces.

The worklab was a co-production with The Banff Centre for the Arts. The HWLA network brings together an international and multidisciplinary group of artists, technologists and researchers whose on-line and off-line art projects make use of digital technologies like streaming media, electronics, live video and audio processing and multi-user environments combined with lo-tech and sometimes no-tech platforms. Michelle is currently exploring the possibly of HWLA3 taking place somewhere outside Barcelona in the last half of 2003.
Michelle has been artist-in-residence at Waag Society for Old and New Media in Amsterdam since June 2002.

Jude Walton

Jude Walton studied Drama and Telecommunications (film, sound, video) in the UK, has a Postgraduate Dip. in Movement and Dance from the University of Melbourne and is currently enrolled in a PhD examining the notion of the book as a performance/performing the book. She was artist-in-residence at the Cite des arts, Paris (1997), the Faculty of the Built Environment, RMIT (2001) and has studied in New York with independent teachers including Andre Bernard, Elaine Summers, Irene Dowd, Daniel Lepkoff, and Eva Karczag, and at the Dans Theatre School, Amsterdam (1989), Le Fresnoy, France (1999) and Goldsmith’s College of the Arts, London (1999). She was a founding member of the journal Writings on Dance and in 1989 co-wrote a BA in Performance Studies at Victoria University where she is currently a senior lecturer involved in teaching theory and practice in composition and performance making, and postgraduate supervision.

Her art practice crosses the discipline boundaries of dance, text/song, and video and slide projection and her performance and installation works have been shown in various galleries and sites across Australia and overseas. Major recent performances include repertoire (2001), the paris syndrome (2000) and seam based on the writings of Stephane Mallarme (1999), and a video installation paralla x which has been exhibited at the Experimental Art Foundation, (2002), Storey Hall Gallery RMIT, (2003) and is currently at the Moving Image Centre, Auckland. Paralla x is a study in motion: of the body and its traces of movement through time and space, of train journeys and the liminal, meditative spaces they induce, and of light and the optical illusion of movement. It combines video, light, sound, and an austere model railway activated by movement sensors triggered by the passage of the viewer.

Jude has been a board member of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) and a peer assessor for Arts Victoria, and the Australia Council. Her next major performance work will be for ACCA as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2004.