Nina Meilof

Nina Meilof is an multi media advisor and an independent producer TV and internet programmes. Beside other projects, she worked for Amsterdam The Digital City and is an editor of Digital Citizen.

Franny Armstrong

Franny Armstrong is a director of the McLibel documentary and obsessive McSpotlight fan, on new media's battle with the burgers.

• campaign,
• food safety

Felix Stalder

Felix Stalder is a researcher, economist, and media theorist, working in Zürich and Vienna. He is co-founder and co-moderator of the influential nettime mailing list for net criticism.

• media theory

Rick Prelinger

Archivist, teacher, writer, lecturer and filmmaker. President, Prelinger Associates, Inc., commonly known as Prelinger Archives. Co-founder (with Megan Shaw Prelinger) of the Prelinger Library, an appropriation-friendly reference library in San Francisco.
Founded Prelinger Archives (New York and San Francisco), which at its peak held over 48,000 ephemeral (advertising, industrial, educational, documentary and amateur) films and over 30,000 cans of unedited (raw) footage. The core film collection was acquired in August 2002 by the Library of Congress.

• archive,
• public domain

Marko Peljhan

Born 1969 in Nova Gorica, Slovenia, Peljhan in 1992 graduated from the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. Also in 1992 he founded the arts organization 'Projekt Atol' and in 1995 Project Atol`s technological branch 'Pact Systems' (Projekt Atol Communication Technologies) in the frame of which he carries out research in the fields of performance, technology applications, radio, sound, video, film, lectures and situations.

• Signal Intelligence

Agustin G. deQuijano

Reclaim the Streets urban activist.

• urban intervention

Luchezar Boyadjiev

Luchezar Boyadjiev is a Bulgarian artist, working and living in Sofia, Bulgaria. As an Eastern European artist he often found himself in the position of a GastArtBeiter after the fall of Communism in EE.

• post-governmental organisation

Eveline Lubbers

Eveline Lubbers (NL), monitoring police and secret services since the eighties, supporting social activist groups against oppressive surveillance tactics of authorities. Recently she specialized in corporate intelligence and PR-strategies of multinationals against their critics- including net- activists.

• campaign,
• grassroot journalism,
• infopolitics,
• info-activism

N5M3 Editors

Editorial Committee of Next 5 Minutes 3:

• tactical media

Christoph Schlingensief

A biography on Christoph Schlingensief.
By Till Briegleb.

• art,
• campaign,
• identity theft,
• trickster

 Candida TV

Candida TV was born from the melting of different realities: underground cinema, video production, rave parties, street theaters, independent radios, underground bulletin board systems on the net and counterculture pop-magazines in the last seven years in Rome.

• art,
• activism,
• independent media

 RTMark

®TMark is an artist and activist collective, founded in 1991. ®TMark apprpriates the corporate veil by organising itself as a corporation. Through the ®TMark Mutual Fund System the collectiove has executed a series of "corporate subversion projects", suing the legal displacements reserved for corporations for anti-corporate activism.

• art,
• activism,
• net.activism,
• identity theft

Luther Blissett

"Luther Blissett" is a multi-use name, an "open reputation" informally adopted and shared by hundreds of artists and social activists all over Europe since summer 1994.

Krzysztof Wodiczko

Krzysztof Wodiczko is an artist currently living in Boston and teaching at MIT.

• art

Andy Cameron

Co-author with Richard Barbrook of the infamous Californian Ideology essay (1995).

• design,
• interactive media

Shahidul Alam

Shahidul Alam is a photographer, internet pioneer and activist from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is also the founder and director of the Drik picture library and media-centre in Dhaka.

• majority world,
• photography

Adam Hyde

Adam Hyde is a sound and radio artist from New Zealand, and CEO of Floss Manuals - Free Manuals for Free Software.
He is the co-founder with Honro Harger of r a d i o q u a l i a sound and media art collective.

• free software

Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen's research and writing focuses on globalization (including social, economic and political dimensions), immigration, global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. In her research she has focused on the unexpected and the counterintuitive as a way to cut through established 'truths.'

• urban intervention,
• globalisation,
• finance

Institute forApplied Autonomy

The Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA) was founded in 1998 as a technological research and development organization dedicated to the cause of individual and collective self-determination. Our mission is to study the forces and structures which affect self-determination and to provide technologies which extend the autonomy of human activists.

• art,
• contestational robotics,
• tactical gizmology

Oleg Kireev

Oleg Kireev (born 1975) - art- and mediacritic, editor and curator, writer, critic and activist, founder of the Ghetto collective, Moscow. Participated in a number of media-political campaigns ("Against all parties", 1999) and actions ("Barricade at Bolshaya Nikitskaya", May 1998). Author of articles on art and politics in the Russian and international press ("Novaya gazeta", "Nezavasimaya gazeta", "Flash art", "Siksi", "Mute"

• urban intervention,
• criticism