Trained as a theater actor, Austrian artist Oliver Hangl’s works fuses elements of performance and action art. The majority of these are live productions open for audience participation set in public spaces and focuses on the characteristics of the venues. Projects presented by his company Olliwood Production (olliwood.com), such as “Naked Cinema” and “Taipei Guerilla Walks,” are combinations of theater and cinema. Nevertheless, these projects abandon the screen and the stage, integrating their simulated scenarios into the reality in which, the audience simultaneously becomes the both the performer and the viewer.
Hangl has participated in many art festivals including MALTA Festival (Poland, 2009), Wir Sind Wien (Austria, 2011), Linz Ars Electronica (Austria, 2009 ), Quergeblickt: 100 Jahre Technisches Museum Wien (Technisches Museum Wien, Vienna, 2009) and the EXPO 2005 in Aichi, Japan. He is an adjunct lecturer of theater, cinema, and media science at the Vienna University. He is also the founder of project space “K48-offensive for contemporary perception.”

Jun Yang utilizes diverse media including video, installations, publications, discussions, and transformations of public space. His starting point is to raise awareness of critical issues that includes identities, social functions of art institutions, and the social/ political context of public space. Constantly questioning the institutions, the society, and the audience on whether the reality we see and exist in is real, his pieces are alternatives to what the society is lacking, by showing they are possibilities rather than the only reform option.
His artwork has been shown amongst others at the 51st Venice Biennial (Italy), Liverpool Biennial 2006 (UK), Manifest 4 (the European Biennial, Germany), International Documentary Film Festival Marseille (France, 2001) and Taipei Biennial 2008 (Taiwan).
Exhibitions Jun Yang participated include amongst others with the Hayward-Gallery (London), Tokyo Opera City art gallery (Japan), gfzk Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Museum of Modern Art (Austria), P.S.1 (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art Marseille (France). Public art projects include the the Paris Syndrom Café and the gfzk garten (garden), both at the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (Germany, installation at the new governmental building of the city of Innsbruck (Austria).

Led by Matt Adams, Blast Theory was co-founded with Ju Row Farr and Nick Tandavanitj in the U.K. Their virtual reality games are unique in the new media art scene. The games are the “platform” and “motivation” used by the group to attract audiences to participate in completing their artworks. Unlike conventional online games, their pieces connect users in the real world and in the cyberspace. The interaction is likened to psychological warfare, constructing a new reality. In their work, the audience plays multiple roles. On one hand, they are characters in the game and performers in the artwork that they complete and on the other, they remain as themselves in the reality and in the cyberspace.
Blast Theory has won the Prize for Interactive Art at Linz Ars Electronica, the Maverick Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards, etc. Their work has been shown at ICC in Tokyo, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Biennale, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, Hebbel Theater in Berlin, Basel Art Fair, Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Sonar Festival in Barcelona, Palestine International Video Festival and Sundance Film Festival. The group is often invited to disseminate their ideas in seminars and lectures around the globe.

Ryota Kuwakubo calls himself a “device artist.” He is better known for his series of designs and interactive games such as “Bitman” (co-produced with Maywa Denki), “Video Bulb,” “PLX,” “Silifulin” (a machine mimicking an animal’s tail), “Block Jam” (musical building blocks) and interactive installation “Loop Scale.” He explores the boundaries between digital and analog, between humans and machines, between addressers and addressees. He has won Honorable Mentions in Interactive Art at Linz Ars Electronica in 2002 and 2003, the Grand Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2003 and the Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2010.
The exhibition showcases his “The Tenth Sentiment” that creates a semi-immersive viewing experience with shadow play , a purely analog low-tech approach. In the piece, he creates sentimental and poetic narrative images by utilizing insignificant objects in daily life.

Francois Curlet is a contemporary artist based in France and Belgium. His work has been prominently displayed at Tate Modern, Musée des Arts Contemporains, Centre Pompidou, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, MOCA, Miami, and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

Born with the underground artistic scene from the end of the eighties, this graduate from the Ensaama is multi-talented in a variety of artistic mediums. The media she incorporates include illustrations, photos, paintings, and books, resulting in a unique style. Lili Fleury has been extensively collaborate with artists and labels of various domains such as visual artists Pierre Huygue, YI Zhou, the Bronx Agency (music label), Dis Voir publishing house, and fashion designers Giambattista Valli and Fred Sathal.
Lili Fleury is an “explorer” who does not trust anything more than her intuition. Born with the underground artistic scene from the end of the eighties, this graduate from the Ensaama is multi-talented. Thanks to her own creations (illustrations, paintings, photos, books…), to her contributions to contemporary art (Pierre Huygue, YI Zhou), and also to her experience in the world of music (co-founder of the Bronx Agency), publishing (“Dis Voir” publishing house) and fashion (Giambattista Valli, Fred Sathal), Lili Fleury has created a unique style based on fantasy, mystery and poetry.

Born in Algeria in 1964, Philippe Parreno now lives and works in France. Language, time and narrative are among the main subject matters in his work that utilizes media of cinema, sound, publication and performance. His work has been exhibited at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Centre Pompidou, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kunstverein Munich and etc. He often collaborates with various artists in projects such as “Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait” (distributed by Universal Studio), “Stories Are Propaganda” (with Rirkrit Tiravanija) and “Briannnnnn & Ferryyyyyy” (with Liam Gillick).

Huyghe’s work focuses on examining the structure of film. He develops half- documentary-half-fiction visual narratives by substituting the person in real life with the fictional character in the film. He was awarded the Guggenheim Museum’s Hugo Boss Prize in 2002. In 2001 with the French Pavilion, he was awarded Special Mention at the Venice Biennale. His work has been shown in Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, Whitney Biennial (2006), Biennale of Sydney (1998 and 2008), Venice Biennale (1997, 2003, and 2007), Documenta 11 (2002), Istanbul Biennial (1999 and 2001), amongst others.

Liam Gillick lives and works in New York and London. In the 1990s, he was categorized as a Young British Artists (YBA) in Britain; the artists and others such as Rirkrit Tiravanija are also regarded as members of relational aesthetics movement. He has had solo exhibitions and works shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Guggenheim Museum, the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, ICA London (2005), and in other major museums throughout Europe and the U.S.. His work has been featured in group exhibitions such as the Tate Triennial (2006), the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), and Documenta X (1997). Liam also represented Germany in the 2009 Venice Biennale.

M/M creative studio was founded by Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag. Their work ranges from contemporary art, movies, music, publications, theater design to fashion. The duo had their retrospective exhibition Vision Tenace at the Centre Pompidou in 2008, showing their poster designs for various art institutions and projects. In 2010, with the Swedish brand Byredo, they developed M/MINK perfume brand. M/M has also worked with fashion brands such as Yohji Yamamoto, Louis Vuitton and Calvin Klein; they also worked with Bjork for one of her music videos. M/M has been sought for visual consulting by Vogue (French edition), Purple Fashion, and Arena Homme+.

Pierre Joseph has shown his impressive bodies of work at the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands, Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Lyon Museum of Modern Art, MOCA, Miami, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, First Athens Biennale (2007) and at the Lyon Biennale (2001).

Born in 1973, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem spent his childhood in Tunis till the age of 13. In 1994, he published Cancer, his first novel, in the Tristram editions.  Followed in 1996 by a novel well received by the critics, Lives and deaths of Irene Lepic, of which meanderings inspired by the theme of the living body describe the immersion of an adolescent in the Gothic universe.   Well received by the critics, and Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, the self taught philosopher appeared more and more frequently in the pages of Libération, the Inrockuptibles and the Nouvel Observateur (French mainstream press).  
In 1997, the publication of his first essay, The Anteforme, rendered him in the field of a radical philosophy. His genius was then confirmed by his following writings, like Esthetics of Chaos or Society. Marked by his rencontre with Alain Badiou, Belhaj Kacem brought up a political vision near to the Maoism.  Essence n of love, published in 2001, was his first best-seller. He was interested thereafter in the virtual communities, which became the main theme  of the periodic founded by him, Evidenz.
In 2011, two years after the publication of Spirit of the nihilism: ontological of History, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem makes himself conspicuous again on the leading scene with After Badiou, essay in which he dismounts with violence the thought, but also the personality of the one who has been a long time his intellectual guide.

Joe Scanlan is a writer, a theater director, a publisher, and a college teacher. His work has been show at the MACBA in Barcelona, Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Art in the U.S., the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Sharjah Biennial (2007), Shanghai Biennial (2006) and at the Sydney Biennial (1998). Dolo exhibitions include K21, Düsseldorf (2007), castillo/corrales, Paris (2007), Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands (2003).

Born in Buenos Aires, the Thai American artist Rirkrit Tiravanija now spends his time between New York and Chiang Mai. His work has been shown at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Walker Art Center, Secession in Vienna, Queens Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Center for Art and Media (ZKM), the Yokohama Triennial (2008), the Sharjah Biennial (2007), the Sao Paulo Biennale (2006), the Whitney Biennale (2006), and the Venice Biennale (2003). Other than participation in international exhibitions, he is also a co-founder of the Land Foundation that carries out architectural and experimental land reform in Chiang Mai’s suburb; the Foundation also welcomes and outreaches out to artists for participation.