Future Physical

Performance media company based in London, UK. Specialized in arts and body-technologies. Current focus on research, consultancy and publishing activities.
Website: www.futurephysical.org

NESTA

The National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts in the UK.
Website: www.nesta.org.uk

Debbi Lander

Debbi is a researcher and producer with 15 years of experience as director of a performance media production unit and a background in marketing and management. Debbi specializes in cultural documentation for the media industry. Her work creating specialist print, online and AV media focus on the creation of information communications for social and educational purposes. Debbi is a Course Tutor at Birbeck University and lectures on cultural management. She is also a director of Future Physical, a media production company based in London. Debbi also works independently and for Future Physical as a consultant in the areas of strategic development and market research.

Andrew Ward

Andrew trained in photojournalism and portraiture before beginning work with shinkansen in 1993 and becoming a co-director of Future Physical Ltd in 2001. With over 10 years of experience with devices, systems and global I.T, Andrew's work with shinkansen and Future Physical centred around technical direction for in-house productions and commissions, including Cellbytes, Tx0om and Coast Digital. His key skills include telematics, IT, networking, webcasting media creation, production and distribution and extensive knowledge of designing and creating digital systems for social and cultural use. An expert on webcasting, he worked for Tate Modern as a freelance webcaster and alongside sponsors Groovy Gecko on all Future Physical live streaming events.

Steve Boxer

Steve Boxer is a writer, researcher and journalist in the field of computer games . He writes regularly for national newspapers including the Guardian and covers most of the major games exhibitons internationally and in the UK. Steve worked with Future Physical on the development of the V-YOU initiative, as a researcher for the Creative User Research project and co-editor on The Creative User Report.

Michael Heap

Michael Heap is one off, the true definition of a renaissance man, after giving up molecular biology to pursue an arts career, specifically in visual arts installation, he has achieved much for his young age, Having his first festival performance before the age of 18, he has a keen interest in non linear narrative story telling, radio art, music concrete & all things that are electronic. This keenly places him for his current lifestyle choice that of a VJ, under paid, over worked, he thoroughly loves it.

With performances with the likes of Neil Speeks (transglobalunderground) Bigchill, and Radio One, as well as festival organization, and lectures given at the CCCB in Barcelona as well as making films on samba bands he likes to keep his finger in every pie. He keeps his head to the ground and doesn't let his head get too big with the two collectives he works closely with VJS.net( www.vjs.net ) and SoxaN( www.soxan.co.uk ).

Dejan Stampar

Born under a lucky star in July 1965 in Maribor (Slovenia), he took a degree at Faculty of Architecture on University of Ljubljana. Accredited member of the Maribor Architect Association and of the Association for culture and education KIBLA. He works independently and in collaboration with Multimedia center Kibla as an architect, graphical and interior designer and conceptual artist. He has implemented many significant projects, mainly in the field of graphical and interior design. Dejan also creates his own multimedia works. Multimedia for Stampar means an occupation of all sense organs, therefore he spreads his activity from audio - video to field of scent and taste perception. In his creations he incorporates enology (as a ensign of Kibla's Committee for Wineservice) and experimental culinary. He fights for objective tasters rights J .