Exquisitors

Brendan Howell was born in Manchester, CT, USA in 1976.  He is a media artist and an engineer. He has created various software works and interactive electronic inventions. Currently, he lives and works in Berlin, Germany and shares a studio with the Weise7 group.  He has done research and led courses at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule, Merz Akademie, Fachhochschule Potsdam and the Kunsthochschule Berlin, Weißensee.

Amrita Kaur is a 24-year-old artist who holds a master's degree in English literature. Amrita was born in Asker, Norway, but lives currently in Bergen.

Mark C. Marino is a writer and scholar of digital literature living in Los Angeles. He is the editor of Bunk Magazine and the Director of Communication of the Electronic Literature Organization. His works include “a show of hands,” “Marginalia in the Library of Babel,” and “The Ballad of Workstudy Seth.” His latest work is an interactive fiction piece entitled "Living Will." He teaches at the University of Southern California where he directs the Humanities and Critical Code Studies (HaCCS Lab). His complete portfolio is here.

Eduardo Navas researches the crossover of art and media in culture. His production includes art & media projects, critical texts, and curatorial projects. He has presented and lectured about his work internationally. Navas researches and teaches principles of cultural analytics and digital humanities in the School of Visual Arts at The Pennsylvania State University, PA. He also lectures in the program of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College, and MA Media Studies at The New School for Public Engagement, NY. Navas is a 2010-12 Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway, and received his Ph.D. from the Department of Art and Media History, Theory, and Criticism at the University of California in San Diego. He is the author of Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling. See also Remix Theory. His website is here.

Margaux Pezier is a student in the Digital Culture program at University of Bergen.

Morten Sorreime is a student in the Digital Culture program at University of Bergen.

Martin Swartling is living in Bergen, Norway, where he is pursuing his Masters degree in Digital culture at the University of Bergen ("hopefully graduated in November"). See some of his work on the project, "Precious and Shimminerg Stones", which presents "the treasure of fairy-tales as a tool for understanding and respecting cultural diversity."

Patricia Tomaszek is recipient of the 2010 University of Bergen PhD-scholarship at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies. She completed her M.A. in Literature, Culture and Media at the University of Siegen in Germany (2008) and participated in a study abroad at Brown University supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (2007). Both a hypertextual lyrical-essay and a generative work of electronic literature emerged from her studies at the Literary Arts department. She assists the Electronic Literature Organization in a project on archiving electronic literature since 2007. From 2006 to 2010, Patricia worked as an academic assistant in the research group "Literature in Nets. Net Literature" at the Cultural Studies Center "Media Upheavals" based at the University of Siegen in Germany. See her full profile.

Rob Wittig is an author, designer, scholar of digital culture. In the early 1980s he co-founded the legendary IN.S.OMNIA electronic bulletin board with the Surrealist-style literary and art group Invisible Seattle. In 1989 he received a Fulbright to study the writing and graphic design of electronic literature with Jacques Derrida, documented in the 1995 book Invisible Rendezvous. Rob has written numerous works of e-literature and netprovs. He teaches in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. See his portfolio here.