Arie Altena writes about art and new media; he works for V2_ in Rotterdam and co-curates the Sonic Acts Festival.

Henk Blanken is a journalist and writer of books on digital culture and new media.

Andrew Blauvelt is Curator of Architecture and Design at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Erwin Blom is founder of The Crowds, a company specialized in social media.

James Bridle is publisher, writer and editor.

Max Bruinsma is an independent design critic and editor-in-chief of Items, the Dutch review of design.

Anne Burdick is a designer, writer, and curator as well as the Chair of the graduate Media Design Program (MDP).

Vito Campanelli is new media theorist and teaches Theory and Technics of Mass Communication at the Università degli Studi di Napoli 'L'Orientale'.

Joris Maltha and Daniel Gross run the multidisciplinary design studio 'Catalogtree', specialized in making information visualizations.

Florian Cramer is director of the Piet Zwart Institute and head of the research programme Communication in a Digital Age.

Sean Dockray is founder of AAAARG.org, an online archive of texts, as well as founder of the first Public School, a project initiated by Telic Arts Exchange in Los Angeles.

Paulien Dresscher is head of New Media at Cinekid, advisor E-Culture at the Netherlands Film Fund, filmmaker, and researcher.

Dunne & Raby is a design studio run by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby.

Sven Ehmann is Creative Director at Die Gestalten Verlag.

Martin Ferro-Thomsen, M.A. is co-founder of Issuu, a leading digital publishing platform.

Jeff Gomez is author of the book Print is Dead: Books in our Digital Age.

Denise Gonzales Crisp is a designer, writer, and Graphic Design professor at North Carolina State University, College of Design.

Alexander Griekspoor is the co-founder of Mekentosj, an independent software company that writes innovative software for researchers.

Hendrik-Jan Grievink is an editorial designer and co-founder of the Next Nature Institute.

Ger Groot is a writer and teaches Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and Philosophy and Literature at the Radboud University Nijmegen.

Gary Hall is author of Digitize this Book! and Professor of Media and Performing Arts at Coventry University.

John Haltiwanger engages new media in theory and practice. He is a member of the Open Source Publishing collective.

N. Katherine Hayles is a professor in the Literature programme at Duke University, Durham, NC.

Toon Horsten is writer of Het Geluk van de Lezer [ed. Happiness of the Reader] and artistic leader of Strip Turnhout.

Minke Kampman is an editor, teacher, and new media researcher.

Lynn Kaplanian Buller is the director of The American Book Center in Amsterdam.

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick for Wired Magazine.

Joost Kircz is part-time programme manager electronic publishing at the HvA [Hogeschool van Amsterdam] and director of Kircz Research Amsterdam.

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor of English (University of Maryland), Associate Director of the MITH, and Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity.

Tanja Koning is freelance programme maker and project leader of Discovery Festival and O.K. Periodicals.

Steffen Konrath is editor-in-chief of nextlevelofnews.com and blogs about the future of journalism.

Erin La Cour is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) where she researches graphic novels and cultural memory.

Rudi Laermans is professor of theoretical sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Catholic University of Leuven.

Warren Lee is the owner and co-founder of the internationally renowned bookstore Nijhof & Lee in Amsterdam.

Jannah Loontjens is a writer and poet.

Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic, editor-in-chief of Neural magazine, and founder of Mag.net (Electronic Cultural Publishers organization).

Peter Lunenfeld, Professor in the Design Media Arts Department at UCLA. He is the creator and editorial director of the MIT Press Mediawork project.

Ellen Lupton is curator at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in NYC and director of the Graphic Design MFA at MICA, Baltimore.

Anne Mangen is a reading specialist at the National Centre for Reading Research and Education at Stavanger University in Norway.

Lev Manovich is an author of new media books and director of the Software Studies Initiative at CALIT2.

Luna Maurer is a designer under the name Poly-Luna and she is part of the Conditonal Design Collective.

Geert Mul is a media artist and VJ pioneer.

Arjen Mulder is a media theorist, writer, and editor for V2_Publishing and of De Gids.

Caroline Nevejan is a researcher and designer focusing on the implications of technology on society.

David B. Nieborg is researcher and teacher at the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht with a focus on online participation and gaming culture.

Kali Nikitas is the Chair of MFA Graphic Design + Communication Arts of the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

Henk Oosterling is a philosopher, and associate professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

David Ottina is an interaction designer, free culture advocate, and a co-founder of Open Humanities Press.

Peter Pontiac is a comic strip artist.

Ine Poppe is an artist and journalist with a special interest in digital culture, technology, and art.

Emilie Randoe is director of Randoe Verandermanagement and founder of the Institute of Interactive Media at the Hogeschool Amsterdam.

Bernhard Rieder is an assistant professor for New Media at the Media Studies department at the University of Amsterdam.

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Johan Sanctorum is a Flemish columnist, essayist, and philosopher.

Louise Sandhaus is owner of LSD (Louise Sandhaus Design), full-time faculty at CalArts and board member of AIGA.

Niels Schrader is founder of Mind Design in Amsterdam and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

Ray Siemens holds the Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing at the University of Victoria and leads the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory (ETCL).

Karin Spaink is a writer, columnist, and feminist. She is a free speech advocate and social critic.

Erik Spiekermann is typographer and graphic designer. He is co-founder of MetaDesign design consultancy.

Matthew Stadler is a writer and editor living in Portland, Oregon. Together with Patricia No he founded Publication Studio.

F. Starik is a writer, poet, singer, and artist. He is the current city poet laureate of Amsterdam.

Bob Stein is founder and co-director of the Institute for the Future of the Book.

Jan Klerk and Michael Stephens wrote columns together about the future of libraries for the Dutch journal Digitale Bibliotheek.

Carolyn Strauss is founder and director of slowLab (US/NL), a laboratory for Slow design research and creative activism.

Dick Tuinder is a visual artist, illustrator, writer, and producer of (short) movies.

Lian van de Wiel is business consultant with the Dutch educative publisher ThiemeMeulenhoff, and focuses on the influence of digital developments on learning tools.

Bregtje van der Haak is a documentary filmmaker, journalist, and writer on contemporary culture.

Els van der Plas is the director of Premsela, Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion.

Rick van der Ploeg is an economist and politician. From 1998 to 2002 he was Dutch Secretary of State for Culture and Media.

Daniel van der Velden is a designer, writer, and co-founder of the design studio Metahaven.

Adriaan van der Weel is Professor of Modern Dutch Book History at Leiden University, and lecturer in Book and Digital Media Studies.

Erwin van der Zande is the founder and current editor-in-chief of Bright magazine.

René van Engelenburg, designer and initiator of DROPSTUFF.nl; Urban Screen Network for the Digital and Interactive Arts.

Francisco van Jole is an Internet journalist and writer.

Peter van Lindonk is a publisher and writer. He annually organizes a congress called PINC (People, Ideas, Nature, Creativity).

Koert van Mensvoort is founder of Next Nature and assistant professor at the University of Technology, Eindhoven.

Tjebbe van Tijen runs Imaginary Museum Projects and is visiting fellow at the School of Creative Media / City University of Hong Kong.

Dirk van Weelden is a philosopher and author.

Jack van Wijk is Professor Visualization at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).

Astrid Vorstermans is an art historian, and founder, editor and publisher of Valiz.

McKenzie Wark teaches at the New School for Social Research and is the author of Gamer Theory and A Hacker Manifesto.

Simon Worthington is the co-founder and director of digital at Mute Publishing.