We have gathered a group of knowledgable technologists, artists, hackers, curators, theorists and writers to help us choose the winning submissions. These are the people who will be exposed to your work and hopefully also vote for it:

• Regine Debatty | We-Make-Money-Not-Art
• Catherine D'Ignazio (Kanarinka) | The Institute for Infinitely Small Things
• Alex Galloway | Radical Software Group
• Jo-Anne Green | Turbulence
• Dan Phiffer | ShiftSpace
• Sala Manca | no-org.net
• Nat Muller | Upgrade Amsterdam
• Clay Shirky | NYU
• Liz Slagus | Eyebeam
• Helen Thorington | Turbulence
• why the lucky stiff | Hoodwink.d
• Mushon Zer-Aviv | ShiftSpace

Régine Debatty (BE/DE) blogs, curates new media art shows and writes about the intersection between art, design and technology on we-make-money-not-art.com as well as on design and art magazines.

kanarinka is a new media artist and educator. She has a BA in International Relations from Tufts University and an MFA in Studio Art from Maine College of Art. Her research interests include the politics of digital information, site-specific and locative media, feminist performance art, participatory culture and the emotional landscape of Homeland Insecurity. She is Co-Director of the non-profit collective iKatun, a founding member of the Institute for Infinitely Small Things, and teaches at RISD’s Digital+Media Graduate Program and School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Her artwork has been exhibited at Eyebeam, ISEA, MASSMoCA, and the Western Front among other locations.

Alexander R. Galloway is an author and programmer. He is a founding member of the software collective RSG and creator of the data surveillance engine Carnivore. The New York Times recently described his work as "conceptually sharp, visually compelling and completely attuned to the political moment." Galloway is the author of Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (MIT, 2004), Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (Minnesota, 2006), and a new book coauthored with Eugene Thacker called The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Minnesota, 2007). He teaches at New York University.

Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. After graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand with a BFA Honors in Printmaking and Art History, she emigrated to the United States in 1983. While studying for her MFA, she volunteered for a Fund for a Free South Africa (FreeSA) from 1985 to 1992 where she co-founded Cultural Resistance to educate the American public about apartheid through the art and culture of South Africa. Green was Fundraiser for Do While Studio: Art and Technology (1992-96), Development Coordinator for the New England School of Art & Design (1994-95), and Visiting Faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (1995). She was instrumental in starting the artist-in-residence program at the University of New Mexico's Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center (1999) which led to the founding of the Art Technology Center (ATC); Green worked for both ATC and the Arts of the Americas Institute until June 2001. Upon returning to Boston, she completed her MS in Art Administration at Lesley University. She has exhibited her paintings, one-of-a-kind artist's books, and installations in South Africa, Boston and New York.

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Dan is a new media hacker from California, interested in exploring the cultural dimension of inexpensive communications networks such as voice telephony and the Internet. Dan is the co-founder of ShiftSpace.

The SALA-MANCA GROUP is a group of independent Jerusalem-based artists that creates in different fields: performance, video, installation & new media since 2000. Sala-manca's works deal with poetics of translation (cultural, mediatic and social), with textual, urban and net contexts and with the tensions between low tech and high tech aesthetics, as well as social and political issues.

The SALA-MANCA GROUP is Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman, artists born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who live and work in Jerusalem.

Nat Muller (NL) Is an independent curator and critic based in Rotterdam. She has held positions as staff curator at V2_, Institute for Unstable Media (Rotterdam) and De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics (Amsterdam). Her main interests include: the intersections of aesthetics, media and politics; (new) media and art in the Middle East. She has published articles in off- and online media; is a regular contributor for Springerin, and has given presentations on the subject of (new) media art (inter)nationally. Her latest projects include The Trans_European Picnic - The Art and Media of Accession (Novi Sad, 2004), DEAF_04: Affective Turbulence: The Art of Open Systems (Rotterdam, 2004); INFRA_ctures (Rotterdam, 2005), Xeno_Sonic: a series of experimental sound performances from the Middle East (Amsterdam, 2005), DEAF07 (Rotterdam, 2007), the workshop "Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Negotiating Artistic Practice, Audiences, Representation and Collaboration within Local and International Frameworks" (Amman, 2007). She has curated video screenings for projects and festivals in a.o. Amsterdam, Rotterdam,Berlin, New York, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Grimstad, and Beirut. She recently co-edited the Mag.net Reader2: Between Paper and Pixel with Alessandro Ludovico (2007), is co-initiator of the Upgrade! Amsterdam, and has taught at the Willem de Kooning Academy (NL) and at the Lebanese American University in Beirut (LB). This year, she serves on the international jury of the Berlin-based Transmediale Festival, with as theme "Conspire".

Clay Shirky works on the intersection of human and technological networks. He teaches at the Interactive Telecommunication Program, an interdisciplinary program at NYU, and writes and consults on the design and implementation of social tools.

Since 1999, Liz Slagus has developed and managed various Eyebeam Education programs, from school, youth, & family-related courses and workshops to broader issues of new and digital literacies, learning, and teaching practices. Since becoming the Director of Education and Public Programming for Eyebeam, Liz has co-curated several large-scale exhibitions for Eyebeam and developed and overseen the coinciding public programs and professional development series offered by the organization. Liz has organized and spoken on several panels regarding art and technology education, including AAM and NYCMER. She has developed programs for national film festivals, and taught new media art courses for the University of Connecticut and the University of Rochester via Eyebeam. Liz continues to consult for many organizations and schools within New York City regarding art and technology education and programming, and is currently producing the youth participation component of the ZERO1 2008 festival in San Jose, CA. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Art History and Anthropology from Bucknell University and a Master's Degree in Visual Arts Administration from New York University.

Helen Thorington is the Co-Director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore), the founder and producer of the national weekly radio series, New American Radio (1987-1998), and the founder and producer of the Turbulence and Somewhere websites. She is a writer, sound composer, and radio producer, whose radio documentary, dramatic work, and sound/music compositions have been aired nationally and internationally for the past twenty-three years. Thorington has created compositions for film and installation that have been premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, and in the Whitney Museum’s annual Performance series. She has produced three narrative works for the web and played a principal artistic role in the cutting-edge performance work, Adrift, presented as a performance and installation at the New Museum in New York City, 2001. Thorington has also composed for dance over a period of 20 years, and performed with the Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow, MA in 2002, and at The Kitchen, New York City in 2003. Her two most recent radio awards are the Honourable Recognition, Prix Bohemia Radio Festival, Czechoslovakia; and Winner, Aether Festival, KUNM-FM, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Thorington has served on numerous juries and lectured internationally. Her most recent articles were published in Contemporary Music Review.

why the lucky stiffis a fledgling freelance professor, one who will die young and make no lasting impression.

Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, a teacher and a media activist from Tel-Aviv interested in challenging the perception of territory and borders and the way they are shaped through politics, culture, globalization and the World Wide Web. His work explores media in public space and public space in media. He is the co-founder of ShiftSpace.org, YouAreNotHere.org, Shual.com and the Tel Aviv node of the Upgrade international network. He lives with his wife and cat in New York.