Ludo Engels (*1961) Belgium
Ludo Engels work varies from music, through audio-visual and sound installations to photography.
Since the early 80’s he is active as an improvising musician, developing skills that he applied later on to composing and audio-visual creation. He tries to reduce all visual and auditory elements to their essence and thus to obtain a new abstract product. As a technician he worked over the past years with visual artists as Ana Torfs, Joachim Koester, James Coleman, Manon de Boer. He is co-founder of Experimental Intermedia, Gent.
Stevie Wishart (*1951) Australia
Sound artist and performer Stevie Wishart explores contemporary and medieval extremes. Moving between Australia and Europe, her work draws on these contrasting landscapes and histories (bush/urban), and also on contrasting arcane technologies such as the hurdy-gurdy and present-day digital technologies, such as data projection, and interactive digital and analogue sound processing. Improvised, non-linear and multimedia processes are used in many of her projects and are seen as a link between medieval and present-day art forms. Wishart performed and worked with John Butcher, Phil Durrant, Axil Doerner, Dorothea Schurch, Kaffe Matthews, Paul Lovens, Ikue Mori, Fred Frith, David Moss and fluxus artist Ben Patterson, is as well a member of Chris Burn’s ENSEMBLE and LITTLE RED SPIDERS (with Tony Buck, Joe Williamson and Andy x). Over the past decade Wishart has focused performance and research with the Australian sound/text group Machine for Making Sense (Jim Denley, Rik Rue, Amanda Stewart), producing a number of site specific and multistage events.

Annalisa Cattani (*1968) Italy
Annalisa Cattani's work is directed towards questions on perception and psychology. Using different
media and procedures, the artist envelopes individual experiences and insights to the public. Cattani doesn't reduce her ideas to the medialization of her individual experiences, but also tries to communicate the life and emotions of other individuals as well.
On a bookstand she advertises a book by Angiello Di Verona. The putative writer is no one else than the grandfather of the artist and the book that seems to be on sale consists on an intense 3 year long letter communication between the two.
Another video work of Cattani simulates a documentary of the world of a friend that slowly looses his eye - sight. The camera imitates the eye of this person, and follows the different procedures in his every day life. However it also simulates the vanishing of the outside world, from his eyes.
Dario Parisini (*1966) Italy
The italian multi-instrumentalist Dario Parisini has his roots in the Independent Rock and Punk scene of Bologna of the late seventies. After going through many different band projects the nonconformist decided to ignore the burden and expectations of certain styles and redefined his artistic goals: "Disciplinatha" was founded with the intentions to attack the taboos of the audience. Similar to the former Yugoslavian band "Laibach" he created a style, that confronted the audience with the fascist aspects and totalitarian gestures of pop culture as a mass – movement.
After ten years of intense "Disciplinatha" activities Parisini left the band. Currently he is working on solo projects thematizing his individual history of electronic music and interactive art.
Fabrizio Rivola (*1969) Italy
Fabrizio Rivola ironically chooses out the last problem of human mankind as the central theme for his work: The hope for a paradise or eternal youth, the fear for the end of times, and other unmentionable subjects of this kind. Ignoring the seemingly impossible, he turns and twists the theme to a point, that finally allows a relaxed and unproblematic conversation of what was formerly considered to be a taboo. He plasters a city with posters that announce the "millennium sale ", collages real Italian families in idealistic paradise paintings. A 2 meter by 1 meter big bandage covers a galleries wall, hiding an imaginary wound etc.

Yukio Fujimoto (*1950) Japan
Yukio Fujimoto was born in Nagoya, Japan. He studies musicology at the University of Arts, Department of Musicology in Osaka. He is developing performances and installations, using analog and digital electronics since the early seventies. In the eighties he started to create "sound objects" that set the base for different installations and actions, that are dedicated to a side specific transformation of the space through technology. "Ichihara Talking" was commissioned by the Künstlerhaus and MeX and is the first collaboration of the Yukio Fujimoto and Hiroko Ichihara. The duo was curated by the Kyoto based artist and organizer Shinichi Yanai. Together with 2 other artists Mr. Fujimoto is the representative of Japan on this years Venice Biennial.
Hiroko Ichihara (*1968) Japan
Hiroko Ichihara was born in Kyoto in 1968. She graduated 1985 at the Kyoto College of Art, Department of Graphic Design. Her work principally uses typography and written language. With in Japan she is considered a pioneer of this genre.
Her installations, performances and objects focus on the relation between the function and the meaning of words, using the ideas of "loving" and "laughing" as the central theme. Mrs. Ichihara's works are placed in museums as well as on TV-screens and billboards in public space or shopping bags where she secretly infiltrates the world of advertisements with intentional shifts and sublime poetry.

AUVID Ales Killian (*1975)- Ladislav Zelezny (*1979)- Vaclav Ondrousek (*1977) Dusan Urbanec (*1977) Czech Republic
In 1999 Ladislav Zelezny & Ales Killian founded the artist group "AUVID". The name - a fusion of the words audio and video – is the program. However the trio (together with Vaclav Ondrousek) searches for more than just another definition of the ideas of Intermedia Art. The focus is on : Communication and the means of Metaphysics. AUVID sees and expresses the world as a garden of sound. Music is considered to be a tool, that allows to enter and communicate a reality that usually is only accessible by dreaming. The ao4 project of the group introduces a new collaboration with the programmer and DJ Vaclav Ondrousek. The work will confront the esoteric interests and philosophy of AUVID with the pure logistics
of programming and the superficiality of DJ-ism and techno - culture. Field for the excursion is in general the public space, and in particular the public transportation system of Dortmund. It tries to create a city wide audio mapping.

Harald Busch (*1955) Germany
Harald Busch works in video as well as in site-specific installation. He examines the relationship between the surface and the volume, the body and the walls. In this sense he transforms a tradition of art and sculpture into ideas and concepts of the installations, often even in combination with video art. Especially in his videos Harald Busch pushes the borders to a rarely seen extreme. With the methods of montage, recreation and distortion he crosses the borders between analog and digital outputs and creates an artificial world of intense playfulness.
Dirk Wachtelaer (*?) Belgium
Belgian Drummer Dirk Wachtelaer combines musical sensitivity and his highly virtuoso percussive work with sampling, programming and electronics. His main interest lies in the interaction between electronics and acoustics, between improvisation and programming. He did most of the programming for the critically acclaimed Pablo's Eye CDs, recorded a solo CD with drums and electronics but his main outlet has become the band he founded : Vanishing Pictures. Combining all these elements into an organic mix the band brings together musicians with a background as diverse as hip hop and contemporary music.

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