Jurors' Biographies
 

Remo Campopiano is a visual artist, designer, and curator who explores new technologies in the world of science and telecommunications. In the 80's, he created a series of live-art installations and co-founded ARTPAPER—a visual arts newspaper in Minneapolis. In the 90's Remo founded ARTNETWEB in Soho, NYC, which pioneered early net-art and performance art on the Internet. Now, back in the Providence area where he was raised, he's best known for Dance of the WaterSpiders, a robotic-art performance by eight giant robots in the form of water spiders; this project has evolved into Cybernetic WaterBugs which is a project of Remo's Robotics Arts Club. Visit his web site.
     
George Fifield is a media arts curator, writer, teacher and artist. He is the founder and director of Boston Cyberarts Inc., a nonprofit arts organization which produces the Boston Cyberarts Festival. He is Curator of New Media at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA. He was executive co-producer for "The Electronic Canvas" an hour-long documentary on the history of the media arts, presently going to national PBS distribution. Fifield founded VideoSpace, a collective of Boston Area media artists who have organized and presented exhibitions of video art throughout New England. In addition, Fifield writes on a variety of media, technology and art topics for numerous publications.
     

Helen Thorington is the Executive Director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore), and the founder and producer of New American Radio and Turbulence.

Thorington is a writer, sound composer, and radio producer whose documentary, dramatic, and sound/music compositions have been aired nationally and internationally for the past twenty years. In August 2002, she performed an original composition with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at Jacob's Pillow. Thorington has also 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.

Thorington has produced three narrative works for the web including Solitaire, which combines game and storytelling; and she has played a principal artistic role in the cutting edge net work Adrift most recently presented as a performance and installation at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. She is also a seasoned speaker on radio and net art. Visit her web site.
 
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