Juliana Rotich is a Kenyan blogger, digital activist and environment editor of Global Voices Online, an online media platform that publishes reports in 18 different languages that are normaly not heard in mainstream media. Digital activism, renewable energy, Africa and non-profit work that involves technology, are here special interests.
David Link is an artist, theorist and programmer. He holds the new Chair for “Experimental Technologies in the Art Context” at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. His current research focuses on the development of an archaeology of algorithmic artefacts.
writes about culture, science and technology for the Spanish media, encompassing newspapers, online journals and printed magazines. She is a long term contributor and founder of the online media arts journal Elástico and is the author of La Petite Claudine, a widely read blog in the Spanish language about art, literature, free culture, pornography (and everything in between).
transmediale Award 2011 Jury member Marisa Olson is New York based, artist, curator, and professor. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College-London, History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, and Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Her work combines performance, video, drawing & installation to address the cultural history of technology, the politics of participation in pop culture & the aesthetics of failure.
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.
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.
