Professor Thomas Mical completed his PH.D. on Nietzsche and de Chirico in 1998. He has taught at the University of Florida, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, and the University of Oklahoma. He is currently doing work on the metaphysics of repetition in architecture. 

Robert M. Smith is a recycled teenager who thinks he is an underground cult figure. He writes books about the revolution and Jesus and doesn't know the difference. In fact, he is a middle-class parent who lives in Montreal and works as a translator for the government in.

Ginger Dendy is a (ghost) writer/artist, psychotic in partial remission, Five-Eight fanatic, and resident of Athens, GA, where, along with the other in-town outsiders, she ekes out a living doing an assortment of odd jobs: among them, teaching english as a second language.


Amerigo Marras, architect and curator, born in Italy, 1948.
Disciple of Marshall McLuhan. Worked with Joseph Beuys' Free
International University. He is the founder of ECO-TEC, interdisciplinary international forums on the symbiosis between ecology and technology. Author of anthology "ECO-TEC: architecture of the in-between", published by Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.


Joseph Nechvatal has worked with ubiquitous electronic visual information and computer-robotics since 1986. His computer - robotic assisted paintings and computer animations are shown regularly in galleries and museums throughout the world. He has recently worked as artist in-resident at the Louis Pasteur studio and the Ledoux Foundation's computer lab in Arbois, France on 'The Computer Virus Project': an experiment with computer viruses as a creative stratagem. His www site is at http://www.dom.de/arts/artists/jnech/

Nechvatal earned his Ph.D. in the philosophy of art and new technology as a Ph.D. doctoral on-line fellow researcher with The Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA) under Roy Ascott. He serves as Parisian editor for "Rhizome Internet" (http://www.rhizome.com) and publishes frequently in "Intelligent Agent" (http://www.intelligent-agent.com). He presently teaches theories of Virtual Reality at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

http://www.dom.de/groebel/jnech/
http://www.dom.de/groebel/jnech/ideals.htm http://www.cybertheque.fr/galerie/jnech

Robert Cheatham is currently in the midst of escharotically prefigured eschatological `researches'. When he is not staring at the sun, he is the senior editor of PERFORATIONS and partner in Public Domain, Inc. He practices aeromancy through the saxophone and often uses the word 'uncanny'.