biographies
Alan Kay
American computer scientist, He is one of the fathers of object-oriented programming and creator of the Dynabook. He is also considered by many as the architect of the “windows” system.
Alberto Tognazzi
Director of the MovilFilm Fest, as well as creator and owner of the VIDAP software
Armin Medosch
Researcher, specialized in software and system development, focusing on the formation of the “hacker spirit”.
Camille Baker
Camille brings versatile skills and recent experience with mobile devices, wearables, video art and performance projects. As of now, Camille Baker is a PHD Candidate with the SMARTlab at the University of East London,
Carmen Maia
She was the interactive education coordinator at Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, where she worked in the development and research of virtual learning environments. She has now started her post-doctoreat at the London Knowledge Lab.
Clóvis Borges
Executive Director of NGO SPVS - Research Society in Wild Life and Environmental Education.
Daniel Araújo
Developed a communication project for the Hartmann Regueira Instititue, organization that conceived and executes, in partnership with Oi Futuro and Okto, the Alô Cidadão! Project.
Daniel Florêncio
Audiovisual Professional, he had a fundamental role in the launch of Current TV in the United Kingdom.
Douglas Nadalini da Silva
Lawyer through PUC/SP, specialized in Environmental Law by USP.
Eliezer Muniz
Philosopher, graduate of Universidade de São Paulo. He Formado em Filosofia pela Universidade de São Paulo. supported motobikers associations in Brazil and created the first Union of Motorbiker Workers of São Paulo (SINDIMOTO).
Eva Weber
Director of ”The intimacy of strangers”, her second documentary after her award winning work of fiction and as a BBC director.
Fabio Fon and Soraya Braz
Soraya Braz is a multimedia artist, and is a multimedia artist and webdesigner. Together, they created works such as Grampo and Roaming.
Gabe Sawhney
A hacker working at the edges of code and culture, he is co-creator of [murmur] , and of Wireless Toronto.
Geandre Tomazoni
Member of the Bijari group, formed in 1996 by architects and artists, Bijari is a center for the creation of visual arts, multimedia and architecture.
Geert Lovink e Mieke Gerritzen
Geert, media theoretic and thinker, one of the co-founders of Nettime and of the tactical media festival Next Five Minutes. Mieke is founder of NL.Design. Together, the created the Mobileminded project.
Giselle Beiguelman
Post-graduate teacher in Communication and Semiotics and of the Technologies and Digital Medias courst at PUC-SP, she is also an author and renowned artist.
Graham Brown-Martin
Founder and general manager of Handheld Learning Ltd., which works with educational technology.
Hernani Dimantas
He coordinates the digital inclusion and community education lab at USP, as well as being a research in the area of social communication and digital media
Howard Rheingold
Internationally renowned, author of the weekly column Tomorrow, author of the best sellers Virtual Reality and The Virtual Community.
Irene Karaguilla Ficheman
A graduate in Mathematics and Computer Science, she currently researches Mobile Learning and manages NATE - Learning, Work and Entertainment Nucleus.
Javier Rodrigo
Art educator and researcher, he works at the Observatori dels Publics, cultural assistance and research applied to art centres and institutions. He participates of the Bordergames network as coordinator of Raval-games at TEB, Barcelona.
Jean-Noël Montagné
Artist, he started to create interactive Works of art in 1992. He founded an NGO about interactive art “Art Sensitif” in 1999 and is also founder of CRAS.
Jonah Brucker
A researcher, artist, and Ph.D. candidate as an HEA MMRP, an adjunct assistant professor of communications at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. His work and thesis focuns on the theme “Deconstructing Networks”.
Karinna Bidermann
Manages the Social-environmental Responsibility Division at Vivo, as well as being director of the Vivo Institute, an OSCIP responsible for social investments and the organization of the network’s volunteer program.
Kate Bauer
Kate Bauer MPS at ITP in New York University, focusing on wearable mobile devices. She is the creater of Ovü.
Kate Hartman
Kate Hartman is a video and new media artist who lives in New York City. She received a degree in Film and Electronic Arts from Bard College and is currently pursuing her Masters at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Katrin Verclas
Executive director at NTEN and Mobile Active coordinator.
Lisa Roberts
Pocket Films creator, she also developed Bluevend, and is involved with the One Take Competiton in Rotterdam, as well as with other mobile film festivals.
Lucas Longo
Brazilian engineer working for a masters in ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Progam) of NY in programming, design, and physical computing.
Marcelo Tas
Author of Blog do Tas, at UOL ( the largest internet Brazilian portal), development and creation coordinator of Telecurso 2000, by Fundação Roberto Marinho.
Martin Owen
Especialist in education, he ran several learning projects, and constructed a virtual village for teenagers from the United Kingdom and France.
Maurício Hirata
Master in Cinema through the University of São Paulo, he has acted as director and photography director in short movies, documentarys, and vídeo-clips.
Mauro Rubens
VJ and creator of his own softwares, VJ LAB and DVD Mandala.
Max Schleser
Creator of the MobileMentory project, which aims to create and formulate a new visual aesthetic for small screen productions, as well as proliferating na alternatival mean of documentaries.
Mimi Ito
Main investigator of the Digital Youth project, sheleads a research about Japonese technoculture, observing how children in Japan and the United States get involved in the combinations of the post-Pokemon media.
Norene Leddy
Creator of the Aphrodite Project, sandals for sex workers, she now works on the Magic Girdle/Kestos Imas project, geared towards the same public.
Paulo Henrique Ferreira
Journalist, he hás a masters from ECA-USP, specializing in Information Technology. He is also one of the authors of the “Hypertext, Hypermedia” book and a teacher at the Journalism course at PUC-Campinas.
Rachel Jacobs
Jacobs is an artist, consultant, lecturer and co-founder of Active Ingredient. Rachel comes from a background of dance, performance and visual arts, and has a Master in Electronic Arts
Renato Cruz
Writes about technology in for the Economy section of the O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper and has a blog on the Estadao.com.br web portal.
Renato Rollemberg
President-director of the Offix System of Work Environment Management, and of Fast Mail, Renato created the Info-shops processes, nowadays known as “poupa-tempo” while he worked at PRODESP.
Robson Lisboa
Programming Manager for Mobile Solutions, a group from Nokia Technology Institute that works on innovation projects in order to promote the “Mobile Life”.
Rogério da Costa
Brazilian PhD Philosopher and systems engineer, researcher on Web Semantics project, at Ottawa University, directed by Pierre Lèvy, researcher on Collective Intelligence project, at CNPq.
Ronaldo da Costa
Ronaldo Simão da Costa, 34, from São Paulo, motor biker , has participated and coordinated the project canal* MOTOBOY, developed and created by Spanish artist Antoni Abad.
Rosana Herman
Rosana is a Physics graduate from USP, and also Works as a journalist, scriptwriter, author and blogger.
Russ Rive e Liana Brazil
Liana Brazil and Russ Rive work with the convergence between art, technology, and design for multimedia works.
Sérgio Amadeu
Social scientist and Doctor in Political Science through Universidade de São Paulo and Free Software militant.
Shawn Van Every
Media Researcher and Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Victor Rebouças
Entrepeneur and founder of Zen Comunicações, creation director and author, graduate in Environmental Administration and specialized in process developments for socioenvironmental education.
Volker Grassmuck
Grassmuck is a media researcher, having been on projects in Japan and Germany, as well as being a professor for media art at the Universitat Graphik und Buchkunst, in Leipzig.
Wagner Martins
Alson known as MrManson, Wagner Martins created the Cocadaboa website, spreading foolishness through the web, but turned into a good citizen and started working at espalhando besteiras pela web, mas virou um cidadão de bem e passou a trabalhar na “Spread Guerilla Marketing”.
Zico Góes
Programming Director of MTV Brazil
