Gibson completed his Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo, where he studied music composition with Louis Andriessen. He also completed postdoctoral research in media and technology with Arthur Kroker at Concordia University in Montréal. He was formerly Senior Lecturer and Director of the Multimedia Program at Karlstad University in Sweden. He has been curator for the Media Art event Interactive Futures at the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival since 2002. Simultaneously deeply involved with technology and deeply suspicious of it’s effects, Gibson’s musical, multimedia and virtual reality work celebrates both the liberation and paranoia of techno-fetishism.

Influenced by a diverse body of art and popular movements his work fuses electronica, immersive art, montage and post-minimalism. He works in a range of media, from live electronic music to full-scale virtual reality installation. Gibson has presently been programming and developing new applications which allow musicians and audience members to use their bodies or music instruments to play visual environments in real-time, in synch with a musical performance. This experimental work reached practical realization in the pieces Cut to the Chase, Telebody, Virtual DJ, CONTACT and When Ghosts Will Die which have been performed at major festivals throughout Europe and North America.

Steve Gibson’s installations and compositions have been performed in such venues as: Ars Electronica; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the North American New Music Festival; the Banff Centre for the Arts; Festival International Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville; the International Computer Music Conference; the European Media Arts Festival; ISEA; Interface3, Hamburg; Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nürnberg; the San Francisco Art Institute; 4 and 6CyberConf. His work has been published internationally by St. Martin’s Press, MIT Press, New World Perspectives, Turnaround Productions, Future Publications, Urra Apogeo, and Passagen Verlag.

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Andreyev's most recent projects involve multi-media interactive cars. Her work has been shown across Canada, in the US, Europe and Japan. Her work was nominated for a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Interactive Arts Installation Award and received a Project Award from MAD '03NET, Spain. Andreyev has received grants from The Canada Council, BC Arts Council, Foreign Affairs Canada, and from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is also Associate Professor at Emily Carr Institute.

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Adams has worked as an arts journalist and critic. His photography and mixed media work have been exhibited and collected by public galleries, museums, and archives. Over the past 25 years, he has been awarded several grants for both writing and photography. Author of the non-fiction book Eternal Prairie, he has also published poetry and essays in several Canadian magazines. Since 2002 he has served as Associate Editor for the trAce Online Writing Centre, based at the Nottingham Trent University in England. His trAce studio, a six-year adventure in online publishing, was developed from 1999 to 2005 as part of trAce's Writer's Studio program. He has also tutored online courses in creative writing and creative web design.

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