Philip Auslander is a Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture of the Georgia Institute of Technology where he teaches Performance Studies, Media Studies, and Popular Music. He is a contributing editor to the US-based TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies and the Journal of American Drama and Theater, as well as the UK-based Performance Research and Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. He contributes regularly to these and other journals and has published five books, including Presence and Resistance: Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in Contemporary American Performance (University of Michigan, 1992), From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism (Routledge, 1997), and Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture (Routledge 1999). He received the prestigious Callaway Prize for the Best Book in Theatre or Drama for Liveness. His most recent book is Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music (University of Michigan, 2006). Auslander is the editor of Performance: Critical Concepts, a reference collection in four volumes published by Routledge in 2003 and, with Carrie Sandahl, co-editor of Bodies in Commotion: Performance and Disability (University of Michigan Press, 2005). In addition to his scholarly work on performance, Prof. Auslander writes art criticism for ArtForum and other publications.

Dr Charles Kriel (aka DVJ Kriel) is an artist, producer and DVJ based in London. He is the United Nations World Summit Award National Expert in New Media. His most recent book is How to DVJ – a digital DJ masterclass (2006).
 
Charles was the first (and only) Artist-in-Residence at BBC Radio 1, collaborating with Pete Tong to create the world’s first weekly VJ stream for the web. He went on to pioneer the first live nationally telecast DVJ mix for BBC Three as part of Glastonbury 2004. The NME named him the world’s leading VJ and he has featured in DJ Magazine’s Top 20.
 
Charles has exhibited globally, including the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain, the Royal Festival Hall and the gallery of Tomato Design. His compositions have seen premieres at the Royal Opera House, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Ars Electronica.
 
Charles is also Sr Lecturer in Digital Media, London Metropolitan University, where he is working on a one-man AV show to premiere at the Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles.

Jon Dovey spent the first 15 years of his working life in video production, working through the early years of Channel Four as a researcher, editor and eventually as Producer. He worked principally in documentary and experimental video, co founding original scratch artists Gorilla Tapes in 1984. His video projects gained international distribution and recognition and have now taken their place in the documented histories of UK Video Art. He also maintains a creative practice as research; as Executive Producer on a number of documentary Film & TV projects, in interactive media production and gallery installations. His current production research centres on rePublicof an experiment in digital cabaret working at the intersection of dance music and art practice. His forthcoming publication is titled Game Cultures.