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Verina Gfader is postdoctoral researcher whose current interest lies in the criticality of emerging practices and economies of media art. Her work addresses themes such as: non-linearity; modes of resistance; and articulations of present-day tendencies towards the democratic, 'active' work. After studies in Visual Arts and Photography, she completed a practice-based Ph.D. in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins College, London (titled Doubling in a Practice of Animation Doubling in a Practice of Animation). In her media art practice Verina sometimes uses her pseudonym: Sissu Tarka. She works with digital animation/video, interactive installation and drawing, and has exhibited at the ICA digital studio, London, where she also organised a series of talks with Mark Nash, Elena Cologni and Melanie Jackson. Verina's curatorial practice includes her collaboration on exhibition projects with the Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck. There she co-curated shows including Arbeit*/work (which toured to the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, and the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast and included a symposium and publication). Contributors to this project included artists Carey Young, Moira Zoitl, and Adrian Paci, and theoreticians Ljubomir Bratic, Marion von Osten, Saskia Sassen among others. Verina has been invited to present work at conferences (Engaging the im-/possible at Central Saint Martins College, London; Theorising Creativity at Watershed Bristol), and her research on animation will be published in 2008. -- Beryl Graham is Professor of New Media Art at the School of Art, Design and Media, University of Sunderland, and co-editor of CRUMB. She is a writer, curator and educator with many years of professional experience as a media arts organiser, and was head of the photography department at Projects UK, Newcastle, for six years. She curated the international exhibition Serious Games for the Laing and Barbican art galleries, and has also worked with The Exploratorium, San Francisco, and San Francisco Camerawork. Her book Digital Media Art was published by Heinemann in 2003, and she has chapters in the books The Photographic Image In Digital Culture (Routledge) and Fractal Dreams (Lawrence and Wishart). Dr. Graham has presented papers at conferences including Navigating Intelligence (Banff), Museums and the Web (Seattle), and Caught in the Act (Tate Liverpool). Her Ph.D. concerned audience relationships with interactive art in gallery settings, and she has written widely on the subject for books and periodicals including Leonardo, Convergence, and Switch.

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