Régine Debatty studied Classics in Belgium and England, worked as a teacher of Latin and ancient Greek, then moved to media, working as a documentary director for the Belgian national TV, as a reporter for the radio Onda Cero in Spain then as a consultant for the MEDIA programme of the European Commission in Italy.

She now writes about the intersection between art, design and technology on her blog we-make-money-not-art.com as well as on several European design and art magazines. She curates art shows and speaks at conferences and festivals about the way artists, hackers and interaction designers (mis)use technology.

Selection of lectures: ARCO Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid. OFFF, Lisbon. arte.mov, Sao Paulo & Belo Horizonte. Mobile Music Workshop, Amsterdam. Conflux, New York. Get It Louder, Beijing. Documenta, Kassel. Pixelazo, Medellin. PSFK conference, London. Medialab Prado, Madrid. Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin. Design Academy, Eindhoven. Triggered by RFID workshop at Mediamatic in Amsterdam. O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego. LIFT, Geneva. SONAR, Barcelona. Futuresonic, Manchester. Fabrica, Treviso. ITP, New York University. PicNic, Amsterdam. Bauhaus University, Weimar.

Sascha Pohflepp is currently based in London where he's trying to create some intelligent weirdness as part of his studies in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art. Earlier, he had obtained a degree in Visual Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts' Digital Media Class. His projects have been shown by Ars Electronica Linz, Bauhaus Weimar, Dislocate Tokyo, Flasher.com, I.D. Magazine, OBORO Montréal, SIGGRAPH Boston and Transmediale Berlin. Recent work includes Blinks & Buttons and Export to World. He's optimistic.

Shin'ichi Konomi (JP) writes text that appears under the name Manekineko. He is a nomadic computer scientist with international and interdisciplinary experiences. He lives in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo and works as a research scientist at the University of Tokyo when he is not blogging.

Previously, he worked at Kyushu University and Kyoto University in Japan, Fraunhofer IPSI in Germany, and University of Colorado at Boulder in the US. He's also the editor of RFID in Japan.