AKA theCastle

MOVING FOREST LONDON 2012 is presented by AKA the Castle:

Shu Lea Cheang

Shu Lea Cheang (born in Taiwan) is a multi-media artist, working within the fields of net-based installation, social interface and film production.

• art

Florian Schneider

Florian Schneider is a filmmaker, writer, and developer in the fields of new media, networking and open source technologies. In his work he focuses on bordercrossings between mainstream and independent media, art and activism, theory and technology.

• migration,
• no border,
• dictionary of war,
• borders

Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink is a media theorist, net critic and activist.

Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling  is an American science fiction author, speaker, futurist and design instructor.

• environment,
• art

Tetsuo Kogawa

Tetsuo Kogawa's interests range over a variety of disciplines and critical approaches.

Nadia Plesner

Nadia Plesner (born 1981) is a Danish artist working and living in the Netherlands.

• art,
• campaign,
• darfurnica

Josephine Bosma

Josephine Bosma lives and works in Amsterdam. From an art background, she is a journalist and author in the fields of art, new media and media theory, focusing on art, sound and performance on the internet, as well as cyberfeminism and media politics.

Ryan Griffis

Ryan Griffis makes work in the form of visual art, text, curated exhibits, and performance that usually focuses on relationships between activism, visual culture, and technology.

Pit Schultz

Media artist, lives and works in Berlin. Co-founder of - a moderated mailing list for net criticism, collaborative text filtering, and cultural politics of the nets (www.nettime.org) Pit Schultz is also the co-founder of the Bootlab abd Klubradio.de, both in Berlin.

Mrityunjay Chatterjee

Mrityunjay Chatterjee is a designer who conceptualizes and coordinates creative (digital and print) productions for both Sarai and Cybermohalla.

We Make Radical Media You Make Adverts 

A corporate media group has trade-marked the phrase "Radical Media" and is trying to ban Peace news, New Internationalist, Red Pepper and others from using it in the title of a conference?

Following a recent Diary item in the Guardian, indymedia is today reporting on the story that a corporate media group has forced us to change the name of our conference. Readers are invited to attend a demonstration outside @Radical Media's London office, Tuesday, 3rd May 2011, 5pm, London W1T 7AA.

• activism,
• diy media,
• independent media,
• media criticism

Nina Czegledy

Moderator of Enduring Post Communism: Networks of Patronage- An independent media artist, curator and writer, Nina Czegledy has been involved in collaborative international projects and cultural exchange focusing on Eastern European initiatives since the mid eighties.

Franco Berardi ('Bifo')

Franco Berardi Bifo is a contemporary writer, media-theorist and media-activist.

• media theory,
• precarity,
• telestreet,
• media criticism