Being Human looks at man's relationship with Technology, and seeks to redefine it. Making our Human needs the focus of how technology is designed, used and implemented.
Gabriella Giannachi is Professor in Performance and New Media, Director of the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter, and an investigator in the RCUK funded Horizon Digital Economy Research Hub.
Writer, art historian and curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is director of the Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Torino, and will be artistic director of Documenta 13, taking place in Kassel in 2012.
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.
Ken Rinaldo is an artist creating interactive pieces that explore the intersection between natural and technological systems. Autopoiesis, an a-life robotic installation exploring the idea of group consciousness, and Augmented Fish Reality, a series of fish-driven robots are among his best known works.