Klaus Obermaier - concept, direction, choreography 

For almost two decades the media-artist, director and composer Klaus Obermaier creates innovative works in the area of dance, music, theatre and new media, highly acclaimed by critics and audience.

His performances are shown at major festivals and theatres throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America and Australia. He composed for ensembles like Kronos Quartet, German Chamber Philharmonics, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Balanescu Quartet, among others.

His numerous works also include projects like interactive installations, video art, web projects, computer music, radio plays as well as large intermedia outdoor events for ten thousands of people.

Since 2006 he is visiting professor at the University IUAV of Venice teaching 'directing and new media' and gives lectures at international universities and institutions.

Julia Mach - dance 

Julia Mach worked with Elio Gervasi/Catherine Guerin, Pilottanzt, Rose Breuss, Georg Blaschke, Liz King, Chris Haring/Liquid Loft, Sebastian Prantl, Alexandra Maria Marcus/Coda, Darrel Toulon, Allen Yu ...

In 2002 she received the scholarship 'DanceWEB Europe', in 2005/2006 the foreign scholarship of the Office of the Federal Chancellor for Art in Austria.

She studied at the ballet school of the 'Wiener Staatsoper', graduated with the Bachelor of Arts in Dance at the Hogeschool voor Muziek en Dans, Rotterdam/Netherlands. Master studies of 'Movement Studies and Performance' at the Bruckner University Linz/Austria and philosophy at the University Vienna.

Chris Sugrue - interactive design, technical development

Chris Sugrue is an interaction designer, artist, and programmer from the United States. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design in New York.

Her past work in media art has involved research into computer vision, eye-tracking and mobile phone technologies. Currently, she is working as a Researcher of Creative Engineering at the Ars Electronica FutureLab.

Matthias Bauer - interactive design, technical development

Matthias Bauer is a graduate of the University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg where he studied Media Technology and Design. For his diploma thesis he was awarded the 'Wuerdigungspreis des Bundesministeriums fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur'.

His activities in the field of computer graphics programming include numerous projects such as games, media installations and augmented reality research. Recently he has worked at the Wearable Computer Lab at the University of South Australia and at Videoplugger in London, before becoming a member of the Ars Electronica Futurelab team in 2005.

Rainer Eilmsteiner - portfolio manager for music- events and theatre

Rainer Eilmsteiner has been working as the Portfolio Manager for multi-media event and theatre production at the Ars Electronica Futurelab since 2005.
He has a degree in Economics which he received from the Johannes Keppler University, Linz.

Rainer has been in charge of music visualizations, pan-European conferences and has also also served as technical director for the annual Ars Electronica Gala.