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  • Introducing the LDR Panelists

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Andreas Broeckmann lives and works in Berlin. He studied art history, sociology and media studies and worked as a project manager at V2_Organisation Rotterdam, Institute for the Unstable Media, from 1995–2000. Since the autumn of 2000 he has been Artistic Director of “transmediale—international media art festival berlin.” He is a member of the Berlin-based media association “mikro,” and of the European Cultural Backbone, a network of media centers. In texts and lectures he deals with post-medial practices and the possibilities for a “machinic” aesthetics of media art. For more information visit: <www.transmediale.de>, <www.v2.nl/abroeck>, <www.mikro.org>, <www.e-c-b.net>. E-mail: <abroeck@transmediale.de>.

Annick Bureaud, a theoretician and critic of new media art, lives and works in Paris. She is Director of Leonardo’s collaborating society in France, The Leonardo Observatory for the Arts and Techno-Sciences (OLATS) <http://www.olats.org>.Bureaud is also editor of IDEA on-line, the International Directory of Electronic Arts <http://nunc.com>. Her column on electronic arts appears regularly in the French contemporary art magazine ART Press. She teaches at the Art School of Aix-en-Provence and at the Paris Design School ENSCI and is a guest lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Québec in Montréal.

Robert Coburn is a composer and sound artist. His creative work includes concert music, both acoustic and electroacoustic; live, interactive computer music; temporary sound environment installations; and permanent sound-works as public art. His music has been performed throughout North America and Europe. His permanent sound-works Bell Circles II and 39 Bells are installed as public art at the Oregon Convention Center and along the Avenue of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA). [End Page 112] In 1993 he participated in the Tuning of the World Conference (Banff Center for the Arts, Canada), and he has recently given papers at the Pacific Centuries Conference (Melbourne) and at the conference Musical Cognition and Behavior: Relevance for Music Composing (Rome).

He is Associate Professor and Chair of Music Composition and Theory at the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific, where he directs the Conservatory Computer Studio for Music Composition and Ensemble 20/21. E-mail: <rcoburn@jarl.cs.uop.edu>.

Sara Diamond is a television and new media producer/director, artist, curator, critic, teacher and artistic director who has represented Canada at home and internationally for many years. Diamond is responsible for steering the artistic and professional development direction of the Media and Visual Arts Department at the Banff Centre for the Arts and for developing Banff New Media Institute research perspectives, think tanks, co-productions, artists’ residencies and partnerships, and work study opportunities in key areas. She is also responsible for the publishing initiatives of the Media and Visual Arts Department and the Walter Phillips Gallery, as well as collaborations with the Aboriginal Arts program and other departments of the Banff Centre for the Arts. E-mail: <Sara_Diamond@BanffCentre.CA>.

István Hargittai is Professor of Chemistry of the Budapest University of Technology and Research Professor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Eotvos University. He has advanced degrees from Eotvos University, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Moscow University and the University of North Carolina. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea. Hargittai has done research in molecular structures, lectured in 30 countries and authored books in structural chemistry and on symmetry-related topics, including Symmetry through the Eyes of a Chemist and In Our Own Image: Personal Symmetry in Discovery (both with his wife, Magdolna Hargittai), Symmetry: A Unifying Concept, and Candid Science: Conversations with Famous Chemists. His next volume in the Candid Science series is to be Candid Science II: Conversations with Famous Biomedical Scientists. Hargittai is the editor-in-chief of Structural Chemistry. He is also working on a new book, The Road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, Science, and Scientists.

Robert Pepperell is an artist, writer and musician. A former student at University of Wales College, Newport (UWCN), he took a postgraduate course...

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