Thorsten Unger born in 1973, is co-founder of the multiple-prizewinning German serious games pioneer Zone 2Connect and the Wegesrand consultancy network. Speaker for film and audiovisual media in the German Cultural Council. Speaker and consultant. Advisory Council of the Stiftung Digitale Spielkultur and the USK. Author of industry articles and
Tilman Spreckelsen born in 1967 in Kronberg. He studied German language & literature and history in Freiburg. He has been an editor at the newspaper »Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung« since 2003. He also works as a publisher, columnist and author. After he had published Icelandic legends together with illustrator Kat Menschik
Tanja Witting born in 1972 and studied social pedagogy. She has looked into the effects of virtual worlds, both in her 2007 doctorate thesis at the University of Magdeburg and in her research work as a member of the academic staff at Cologne University of the Applied Sciences (1999–2012). Besides
Syksy Räsänen is a cosmologist at the University of Helsinki. He has earlier worked at the University of Oxford and CERN, among other places. He writes a blog, newspaper column and popular articles about science, and often gives public talks. He has co-scripted a circus show about the history of
Sunandini Banerjee studied English literature at the Jadavpur University. She has been working as editor, translator, book designer and illustrator since 2000 for the renowned publisher Seagull Books in Calcutta. Her associative cover designs, which are both typographically and visually thoughtful collages, are much-praised. Banerjee digitally mixes eclectically eclectically compiled
Stefano Ricci, born in 1966 in Bologna, lives and works as an artist and university lecturer in Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Italy. In the middle of the nineties, Ricci set up the comic magazine »Edition Mano« with Giovanna Anceschi and offered his services to the associated gallery. Since 1985, Ricci
Stefan Hertmans was born in Ghent in 1951. As a professor and director of studies at the University College in Ghent, he focused on art criticism, continental philosophy, hermeneutics and agogics (till 2010). In 2013, he was Visiting Professor at the University in Gent. He has given talks and lectures
Sonwabiso Ngcowa was born in 1985 in the village of Mpozisa in the South African province of Eastern Cape, and grew up in the Masiphumelele township near Cape Town. He was one of the few youths there to graduate from high school and after studying business management he worked for
born in San Jose, California in 1982, studied philosophy at the University of California, Davis. In 2007/2008, he received a DAAD research grant for a project on Bertolt Brecht. Anderson has written his own piece for the stage (»Dogs, Wolves, Coyotes«, 2007) and in 2012 he published his first experimental
Shahin Najafi born in 1980 in Bandar Anzali, studied sociology and is a poet and musician. After demands that his work be censored, he emigrated from Iran in 2005. In his work, he denounces the socio-metal problems and taboos and supports initiatives to promote human rights. In 2012, Najafi had
Sarnath Banerjee, born in 1972 in Kolkata, is and Indian comic author, illustrator and publisher. After studying visual communications at Goldsmith College at the University of London, he published his first graphic novel »Corridor« in 2004. Like his later works, this book deals with the fast-changing Indian society and also
