Frank Barknecht http://footils.org
Frank Barknecht is a writer, software developer and sound artist based in Cologne, Germany. Since 2005 he is part of GOTO10, an international collective of media artists, musicians and coders devoted to using and promoting Free Software in their work. He is involved in the "Pd scene" for almost five years now, where he works on supporting new users through the Pd mailing lists and helps maintaining the Sourceforge repostitory.
His Pd project "RRADical" is a collection of graphical modules with a common preset system, that was first presented to the public at the Linux Audio Conference 2004 in Karlsruhe. Since then he was invited to play concerts, do workshops and talks at Waag and Montevideo in Amsterdam, at the Art School Kassel, at the ZKM Karlsruhe, the KHM (Media Art School) in Cologne and at the first pd~convention in Graz 2004.
Lately he participated in and was involved in organizing the "Pure Data Big Band" in Cologne, a multinational free form freak out collective of almost 20 media artists improvising together.
Andy Farnell http://obiwannabe.co.uk
Andy Farnell is a computer scientist with 15 years experience working as a freelance programmer and developer mainly in audio-visual media. He is a veteran open source advocate (proud to have not touched a Windows machine since 1999), a skilled content developer and composer of music for radio, television and film. His main occupation is serverside unix /linux programming and administration on LAMP stack, MySQL, Perl, C etc. Right now he is tinkering with Zope and Smalltalk for no particular reason.
Antonios Galanopoulos
Antonios Galanopoulos Studied Audio engineering at SAE Athens and later acquired a B(sc) in Musical Instruments Technology at London Guildhall University, specializing in software and audio systems. He started investigating GNU/Linux based audio workstations as a final project and never stopped since then.
He Currently takes care of the kernel and core integration in the development of the pure:dyne live GNU/Linux distribution and is an active member in the London Openlab community.
Chun Lee http://sonicvariable.goto10.org
Chun Lee is a musician/composer from Taipei, Taiwan who now lives and works in London. Initially trained as a classical musician, he became increasingly fascinated by the technological and experimental aspect of contemporary music. He now focuses his compositional practice on algorithmic/generative music using software tools such as Pd. In addition to his compositional practice, he is also working towards his doctoral degree in Electronic Arts at Middlesex University. He has presented his works in both the UK and Europe and has also worked in collaboration with other digital arts practitioners from various disciplines.
Aymeric Mansoux http://320x200.goto10.org
Since the mid-nineties, Aymeric Mansoux has taken part in many artistic experiments based on the internet and the emergence of networks. Traceroutes, network packets, digital feedbacks and piped logs become a new clay that can be used to develop autonomous artistic processes. Currently a mphil/PhD student at the creative technologies department of the University of Huddersfield, his most recent artistic projects include a residency at the Mediacentre of Huddersfield, a collaboration with Chun Lee within the live electronic music group 0xA, some bits and bytes of software development and documentation for the GNU/Linux pure:dyne operating system, participation in the mysterious packets project and Metabiosis, a project on pseudo living forms in distributed computing and peer-to-peer networked ecosystems with the Dutch artist Marloes de Valk.
Tom Schouten http://zwizwa.goto10.org
Tom Schouten is an artist and independent software developer. He is the author of PDP, an extension for Pure Data, which adds building blocks for image and video processing, and other media oriented applications, tightly integrated to the computer music system which hosts it. Currently he is developing Packet Forth, a stand-alone application / scripting language for media processing and CAT/purrr, an interactive FORTH compiler for Microchip Picmicro microcontrollers.