- Nicolas Baginsky - DE Baginsky's machines, the artificiality of laboratories is artistically treated. He takes up a question inherited from the tradition of scientists and mechanical engineers - what distinguishes human beings? - and he responds as an artist. Human beings are not perfectly calculable creatures, and humanity begins at that point where an individual wrestles with this question of what is human. Baginsky does so by giving expression to strange and awkward customs by means of the motions of machines. - Barbed -GB - John Duncan -NL/ITA http://www.xs4all.nl/~jduncan "John Duncan is one of the rare artists whose work always stays on the edge: circulated in rumours, described as brilliant by direct witnesses, as infamous by others, as accurate by Duncan himself. In Tokyo Duncan's live performances, and pirate TV and FM radio broadcasts on the stations he built and operated, have spurred increased legal restrictions on media airspace and directly influenced a new generation of Japanese artists. In Los Angeles, Duncan's work is banned from publication. In Europe, Duncan's performances and installations are decribed as "der Klang wird zur Waffe" (Sound as Weapon)." (From bio 1994) Plans for 1998 include: 8 February - 10 May 1998 "BLIND DATE" photo and "PLEASURE - ESCAPE" cassette-book included in "Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object" Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The complete exhibition will also travel to the Osterreichisches Museum für Augewandte Kunst, Vienna; the Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. 27 March - 8 April 1998 "THE ERROR" included in "arts'_edge" Arts on the Edge Conference 98 Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts. OUT NOW: "JOHN SEE SOUNDTRACKS" CD released on RRR, USA. April 1998 "SEEK" Solo CD released on Staalplaat, The Netherlands. "CRUCIBLE" Solo CD released on Die Stadt, Germany. (June 1998) - Gelatin -A http://www..t0.or.at/~bebe/ Ali Janka, Tobias Urban, Wolfgang Gantner, Florian Reither 1996 event 2 - Suedtirolerplatz prononia in exnerland - Kunsthalle Exnergasse Junge Szene 1996 - Sezzesison coming up - Museum d. 20.Jhdt. u.a. 1997 internationaler Astronautenkongress - Museumsquartier lock sequence activated - Kustbuero 1060 Wien Pinguin fiction - Flex Wien fresh meat - New York u.a. 1998 weekend - Galerie Damtschach vidi wall - Flex Wien - Gordon Monahan - CAN Gordon Monahan's works for piano, loudspeakers video and kinetic sculpture span various genres from avante-garde concert music to multumedia installations and sound art. John Cage once said "At the piano, Gordon Monahan produces sounds we haven't heard before." "Multiple Machine Matrix," a system of computer constrolled kinetic instruments made from electronic surplus and industrial trash. MMM is a network of musical machine performers that are capable of moving complex layers of acoustically produced sound in space. - Prema Murthy -USA http://www.thing.net/~mimic My work examines the shifting boundaries of a gendered / socially constructed body by remapping its surface through various forms of new technologies. I explore these new forms of gender embodiment through performance-based installation, digital prints and sound. I have shown my work and performed in the US at several places including The Clocktower Gallery-NY, The Gertrude Stein Repertory Theater-NY, Sandra Gering Gallery-NY, MIT-Boston, The Alternative Museum-NY and The University of Iowa-IA. In addition to my individual work, I have collaborated with Floating Point Unit, an art group that creates installations designed to be viewed both physically and online using new forms of broadcast technologies. I have recently been awarded a 1997 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in the Computer Arts category. - Muzictoerist - NL Muzictoerist is the tonal leg of activities of the Dutch visual artist GeertenVerheus.It deals with the representation of music and sound. Using any kind ofmusic and sound, respectlessly taking them out of their original context, andputting them together again in different combinations, Muzictoerist providesthe listener with a tonal slideshow of a strange trip in times and places. Itis music to be heard, rather than to listen to, and is at its best in abackground position, from where it occasionally breaks out to remind those atpresent  of times and places where music was to be heard. It is not aboutnostalgia, it is about the suggestive power of sound and music. - Negativland -USA NEGATIVLAND has been releasing unique and hilarious records since 1980, including the notorious U2 release (1991) which got them into a heap of copyright infringement trouble (as documented in their book/CD FAIR USE). As pioneers in the genre of reuse/reinterpretation, their influence is felt far across the media spectrum, from MTV to advertisements by major corporations. - People like Us - GB East Sussex's PEOPLE LIKE US (a.k.a. Vicki Bennett) is a brilliant sound collagist and DJ who has released a host of fine CD's and LP's on Holland's Staalplaat label, including 1997's PEOPLE LIKE US HATE PEOPLE LIKE YOU. She has toured throughout Europe but makes her U.S. debut with a series of performances on the West Coast, including live radio dates (with In Concert performers) on Free Radio Berkeley (104.1 FM, 4/7, 9pm), KFJC Los Altos Hills (89.7 FM, 4/8, 10pm), and the Over The Edge program of 4/9 (midnight on KPFA). Her found-sound technique is laced with absurdist humor and deep love for thrift store-discard vinyl and broadcast oddities. - Marnix de Nijs -NL (Arnhem The Netherlands, 1970). Jul. ‘92 Graduated Academy of Arts, Arnhem The Netherlands. Exhibitions, Jan. ‘98 “Local Penetration” Lokaal01, Breda The Netherlands. Jun. ‘97 Installation Global Attic Festival, Rotterdam The Netherlands. May ‘97 Bookpublication ‘Time to Kill’, Plaatsmaken Publischers, KunstRai The Netherlands. Apr. ‘97 Start of the Travelling Tent exhibition organized by St. Sporades. Leiden, Terscheling, Kassel, Den Bosch, Maastricht, Arnhem. Apr. ‘97 Installation‘Time to Kill’, Plaatsmaken Publishers, Arnhem The Netherlands. Feb. ‘97 CD presentation ‘The Sound of Neighbours’, CBK, Rotterdam The Netherlands. Dec. ‘95 Exhibition ‘Bazaar’, W-139, Amsterdam The Netherlands. May ‘95 Exhibition ‘Trill’, W-139, Amsterdam The Netherlands. May ‘95 KunstRAI ‘95, exhibition ‘Uitgelicht’, Startstipendia ‘93/’94 The Netherlands. May ‘93 Exhibition ‘Deal With It’, St. De Achterstraat, Hoorn The Netherlands. Performances, May ‘97 Performance ‘Trill’, Impakt festival, Utrecht The Netherlands. Apr. ‘96 Performance ‘Trill’, Update festival, Kopenhagen cultural capital 1996, Danmark. May ‘95 Performance ‘Trill’, W-139, Amsterdam The Netherlands. - Nuoc Mam Dirndln -A/Vietnam Andreas, Kasper, Peter Wuerst'lbauten sind mobile inter- +multikulturelle global-universelle Kommunikations- + Konsumationsbauten fuer ein Taschengeld. Wuerst'l - bauten sind traditionell "maennlich" codiert. Meist verkehren dort nur Maennliche Wuerst'l. Wuerst'l werden meist von maennlichen Wuerst'l verzehrt (weibliche Wuerst'l bevorzugen meist Bananen). Wuerst'l - bauten sind meist im maennlich descartesianisch-rationalistischem Style gebaut - wobei die innere Organisation jedoch auf die Erkenntnisse von Margarete Schuette- Lihotzky zurueckgreift ( Frankfuerterkueche). - Leo Schatzl - A Kurzbiographie : geboren 1958 in Obernberg/Inn, Oberösterreich. Gymnasium in Ried/Innkreis; Studium an der Hochschule für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung in Linz/Donau (Meisterklasse für Visuelle Gestaltung, Prof.L.Ortner; Meisterklasse für Metallgestaltung, Prof.H.Gsöllpointner). lebt seit 1987 als freischaffender Künstler in Wien; Zusammenarbeit mit div. Künstlergruppen ( Stadtwerkstatt , Pyramedia, Dead Dog Gallery, Kunstlabor, Lo(o)sgelöst, Contained, ...), seit 1992 Lehrauftrag (Intermediäres Labor) an der Hochschule für künstlerisches & industrielles Gestalten in Linz. Projekte, Ausstellung, Film- und Videovorführungen im In- und Ausland. Diverse Preise und Stipendien. Hauptsächliches Arbeitsgebiet sind interdisziplinäre Rauminstallationen und Objekte, weiters Video- bzw. Computerarbeiten, Objekte, Malerei und Fotografie. Adresse: (Atelier) Gumpendorferstrasse 113/26 A-1060 Vienna, Austria Fon: *43-1 - 596 81 88 Fax: *43-1 - 596 21 60 E-Mail: leo@atnet.co.at www: http://www.austriaculture.net/GBioSchatzl.html http://mak-design.tu-graz.ac.at/German/9/biography.html http://www.aec.at/fest/fest91/leo.html -Rosa van Suess -A     - Staalplaat -NL Staalplaat, founded in 1982, is a concept, store, radio program, label, agent, distributor always in the front line, battling against current trends. presenting and introducing avant-garde artist like Matt Heckert, Laibach, Charlemagne Palestine, The Hafler Trio, and Muslimgauze. Experimenting with sound from piano, ice, synthesizer, a gas explosion organ, radio cut ups, dada poetry, or the awakening of Tangiers we have crossed the frontier and transmogrified from music label to sound label. We have become a platform for metamusical concepts between the accepted sleepy streams, between new, improvised and experimental music, between electronic and entertaining, beyond the European market. To present its products staalplaat used material like metal, wood, leather, real bullets and soviet army badges to present these artists. Staalplaat wants not only to challenge its audience but its artist too. For this reason they have invited there artist to collaborate, compete and educate, in a series of small festivals throughout Europe, 'Cocktail' in Berlin, 'Masterclass' in den Haag, and now 'The sound of music in Linz. "We will not compromise but boldly go where no man has gone before". - Karthik Swaminathan -USA Bachelors: NYU Film School Masters: Interactive Telecommunications NYU Composed and Produced track Phylyx for Byzar, featured on MTV Composed and Produced soundtracks for the show AMP on MTV Composed music for Mariko Mori featured in the Venice Bieniel. Produces Junk Radio at http://www.junkradio.com Solo show "Oracular Media" at the Here Gallery, Soho, NYC 1994. Had installations in the following galleries: Dietch Projects, Exit Art and Greene Naftali Inc. Performs often at the Cooler, Abstract Wave, Sound Lab, the Knitting Factory, the Kitchen and Orchard Street Bar. Variouse soundtracks for films and dance. Solo 12" "the ghost before breakfast" slated for release March 1998. Member of the following artists collaborative groups: The LaLaLandia Entertainment Research Co. 1991-1994 Staged parties and events in Williamsburg Brooklyn including "Comfort Zones" and "Living Arcades." The Gargoyle Mechanique Laboratory 1989-1992 Headquarters formerly at 28 Ave B NYC Curated and Produced MultiMedia Shows and Events. Stage and Set Design, Sound and Lighting Design, Interaction Design. Byzar Signed to Asphodel Records Collaborations between Karthik and DJ Spooky soon to be released on Asphodel 12" - Triclops International -AUS Formed in 1993 Triclops International is an artistic performance based company that focuses on creating large scale spectacular events. The company strives to present innovative work by re-appropriating the techniques of industry and engineering. Through our investigation into industrial technique and application we create powerfully expressive devices whose behaviour steers away from the practical and borders on the irrational. Triclops International is dedicated to presenting works to non-traditional theatre goers in unusual locations. All self staged works are free to the public and we prefer commissioned works to be the same. Based in a former Tramline Cable Storage Facilty, located in Leichhardt, Sydney, Australia, Triclops International have a well equipped machine shop and research facility. Since its conception the company has become more orientated towards the research and experimentation of various technologies and numerous scientific theories. Company History 1993 - commissioned by National Folk Festival for Fire performance entitled Tsunami, EPIC Canberra. Audience approx 2000. - construction of performance machinery for Debut Disaster. - commissioned by Splinters Inc. for performance entitled Debut Disaster, EPIC Canberra. Audience approx 6000. 1994 - established workshop at Coalcliff, NSW on disused mine property. - research and development work on Molten Godhead project in collaboration with BHP refractories. - sought and found industrial sponsorship of the Molten Godhead project - self staged performance entitled Molten Godhead, Sydney. Audience approx 200+. - commisoned by Streetlevel for performance entitled DNA Demo, Casula Arts Centre for the Survival Research Laboratories Exhibition Opening. Audience approx 300. - construction and development of power hydraulic machines for Unlucky World Project 1995 - commissioned by Big Day Out for two performances entitled Unlucky World, Sydney and Gold Coast. Audience approx 2000+. - creative development grant from The Australia Council For The Arts - relocation of workshops to Sydney. 1996 - research and development work on Molten Godhead project. - self staged performance entitled Molten Godhead 2 held at White Bay, Sydney. Supported by Streetlevel. Audience approx 1000+ - construction and development work on radio controlled robotics and electro-mechanical control systems for Tomb Of Terror project. 1997 - commissioned by Big Day Out for Tomb Of Terror project. Performed in Melbourne and Sydney. Audience approx 6000+. - research and development work on Molten Godhead project. - research and development of flying platforms and drones. - research and development with sound including infrasonics. - Yuri -A http://www.mond.at/yuri Alexander Barth, Harald Mayer and Gerd Trautner, Baujahr 1976, students at the FHS Hagenberg for Medientechnik und Design in Upper Austria.