CRUMB is happy to announce the appointment on three new team members as part of a new AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) grant for continuing research into curating new media art, with research partners Eyebeam, New York, and the University of Lancaster. VERINA GFADER

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, and modes of resistance; 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 the Practice of Animation Doubling in the 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 curatorlal 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 Brati, 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 2007.
http://www.sissutarka.org

DOMINIC SMITH

Originally studied sculpture and electronic installation, and worked at Tyne and Wear Museums for 5 years in curatorial, outreach, and new media development roles. He is one of the founders of Polytechnic, an artists’ group that re-purposes technology and explores open source methods of project development. His doctoral research examines the relationship between open source production methods, and art/curating methods.
http://ptechnic.org

ADINDA VAN 'T KLOOSTER

Is a UK based artist who has worked with a wide range of media such as video and sound installation, animation, sculpture, and computer generated performance. In her work she creates a multi-sensory experience and explores the areas where art & science overlap. In her doctoral research at the University of Sunderland she will explore the creation of new tactile interfaces using biofeedback.
http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=8405