Introducing the LDR Panelists

Yvonne Spielmann is Professor of Visual Media at the Braunschweig School of Art, Germany, and previously Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany. She has edited Kunst und Politik der Avantgarde (1989); Image—Media—Art, with Gundolf Winter (German and English, 1999); and, with Jürgen Heinrichs, What is Intermedia? a special issue of Convergence (winter 2002). She is the author of Eine Pfütze in bezug aufs Mehr. Avantgarde (1991), and Intermedialität. Das System Peter Greenaway (1998). Forthcoming (in German) is Video, the Reflexive Medium, from Suhrkamp Press. Speilmann has completed residential research fellowships at the Getty Center (1989–1990), the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University (2000–2001), the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study & Conference Center (2002) and the Daniel Langlois Foundation (2003). E-mail: <spiel mann@medien-peb.uni-siegen.de>.

Margaret Dolinsky is an assistant professor and research scientist at Indiana University in Bloomington. Dolinsky researches, designs and creates CAVE and virtual environments using sound-activated graphics. She concentrates on collaborative environments where CAVEs are networked together using high-speed bandwidth networks: Internet2, iGrid and iLight. Her CAVE art is installed at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, and the ICC Museum in Tokyo, Japan. E-mail: < dolinsky@indiana.edu>.

Richard Kade is and has been since 1989 Ubiquitous Iconoclast for Xerox Corporation, serving as cognitive and syllogistic alembic. He has been a panelist on the Leonardo Reviews Panel since 1997. Previously he was an orchestrator and arranger performing at White House functions during the Nixon and Ford administrations. E-mail: <rkade@pahv.xerox.com>.