Bio:

Björn Eriksson is a musician, composer and sound artist. He studied electronic engineering and music practiced professional sound engineering in Stockholm. He further explored the field of radio art, field recording and electoacoustic music. He teaches the sound and internet media art in Sweden. Björn has been involved in various networked collaborative sound art and music projects and collectives like Tapegerm Collective, Locus Sonus, sobralasolas!, .microsound, Placards, Vickys Mosquitos, nomusic sometimes under the artist names of International Garbageman and Miulew. He is also one of the forming members of MäAM and Avatar Orchestra Metaverse (AOM) where he composed two pieces called respectively Rue Blanche and Fragula. http://ruccas.org/wiki.pl/Miulew

Nathalie Fougeras is a new media artist. She studied the contemporary art and she obtained a post-diploma ARI (interactive research) at the School of Art E.N.S.A.D. in Paris. She began to explore new media with interactive cinema, exhibited her works in several festivals like Jouable Genève-Kyoto-Paris ( www.jouable.net ). In 2004, she began a multi-residencies project with trans_sites ( http://nathaliefougeras.org/Liens2 ). From 2007 she performs in two groups of artists: aether( http://1904.cc/aether/ ) and Avatar Orchestra Metaverse ( www.avatarorchestra.org ). She curated ‘Stream On You’ at
the Centre for the Digital Cultures and Technology in iMAL Bruxelles ( www.imal.org/StreamOnYou/ ). Her last project ‘double_skin’ explores the identity, bodies, and the avatar. www.mutin.org/BI/wakka.php?&wiki=BI3