Entering the Social Media era of mankind less books are going to be printed and sooner or later they will disappear. Considering the fact that history is written only in books, are we entering no-history times? Florian Brody has extensive experience in marketing for start-ups and actively promotes the collaboration between Austria and the Silicon Valley, and has initiated an incubator for Austrian companies. He was founding president of ASCINA, the Association of Austrian Scientists in North America. Florian held the chair for Multimedia Studies, University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg and was a member of the Graduate Faculty at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. He ... read morerepresented Austria at TED4 Kobe and is a frequent speaker at events worldwide.

The traditional idea of development aid stopped working a long time ago. Even in case of natural disasters, western societies learned to involve the native population to reach social sustainability instead of complete dependency. But how? Well, you can achieve social and economic stability within a living and engaged community. 2006 TED Prize winner Cameron Sinclair is co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit that seeks architecture solutions to global crises – and acts as a conduit between the design community and the world’s humanitarian needs. A regular contributor to the sustainability blog Worldchanging.com, Sinclair is now working on the Open Architecture Network, ... read moreborn from the wish he made when he accepted the 2006 TED Prize: to build a global, open-source network where architects, governments and NGOs can share and implement design plans to house the world.

The term “context hacking” refers to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication.

Context hacking is a specific style of political action that stems from an awareness of the paradoxes and absurdities of power, and thus creates starting points for subversive interventions. It's a strategy of playing with representations and identities, with alienation and over-identification. But a fundamental question remains: is it still possible to subvert? Or are we all stuck in an endless late-capitalist cycle of revolt and assimilation? Johannes Grenzfurthner will present a context hacking project by monochrom, a worldwide operating collective from Vienna dealing with technology, art, and philosophy.

Andreas Blumauer studied Computer Sciences and Business Administration and started his career as a software developer for financial services.

In 1998 he co-founded punkt.net Services, a specialised software company, which has developed several national and international knowledge platforms. He is a managing partner at the Semantic Web Company and responsible for several consultancy projects. Andreas is lecturer at University of Applied Sciences in Vienna - FHWien and at Danube Univerity Krems in the areas of Knowledge Management Systems and Semantic Technologies.

Western society is provided with the latest mobile devices, apps etc. Social Media, Cloud Computing, Web 3.0 and many more: we are convinced to have the best means to produce and create output. But wait a minute… looking at the telecommunication market what about these fancy app-social-media-marketing campaigns? Aren’t we rushing from one technology to the other and forget about profiting from it?

For those who live with blindness, everything is a challenge, and while most cope remarkably, they must work hard to live without sight.

It is not unusual that some of their difficulties sometimes lie in the lack of vision of all of us that take sight for granted. Blindness is obviously a burden to individuals, but it also comes as a cost to the overall community. People with impaired vision deserve assistance and they need medical care. The National Foundation for the Blind estimates that the lifetime cost to support a blind person is over one million dollars. Prevention is also important : an Australian study found that “for each dollar spent on the prevention of vision loss and eye care, there is a five dollar return to the community”, making vision care one of the most effective healthcare investment. Among the ... read moremost frequent causes of preventable blindness are Cataracts, Glaucoma, Age-related macular degeneration, and Diabetic retinopathy. Some eye disease cannot be prevented. For example, an inherited disease called retinitis pigmentosa, in which abnormalities of the rods and cones of the retina, leads to progressive visual loss that develops to blindness. Many people with this disease will progressively lose their vision to become legally blind in their 40s or 50s. These diseases have no cure today. Four major approaches to the treatment retinitis pigmentosa are developed, and in the next years we will see the beginning of the end of blindness.

Some may know him as a Jack of all trades, but put a pasta strainer on Niko Alm's head and he transforms into the internationally acclaimed passionate Pastafari who is leading the Läicité crusade for the separation of church and state in Austria.

Florian Brody grew up in Vienna where he studied computer linguistics, worked as a fashion photographer and a software engineer at the Austrian National Library

and he built the multimedia market for Apple Austria in the 1980s. In 1991 he co-invented and produced the first electronic books at the Voyager Company in Santa Monica, California and worked on the TED2 Laserdisc project. Florian built a digital media consulting practice in Vienna and went back to the Silicon Valley in 1997 to build an Internet start-up. He has extensive experience in marketing for start-ups and currently serves as head of marketing for Cimbal Inc. a company developing a mobile payment solution. Florian actively promotes to collaboration between Austria and the Silicon Valley and has initiated an incubator for Austrian companies. He was founding president of ASCINA, the ... read moreAssociation of Austrian Scientists in North America. Florian held the chair for Multimedia Studies, University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg and was a member of the Graduate Faculty at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. He represented Austria at TED4 Kobe and is a frequent speaker at events worldwide.

The buzz about sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the role of business in society has been growing consistently over the past decade, and particularly in the last two years.

Yet capital markets seem generally little impressed by this – there, the main success criteria still are profitability and growth. Perhaps because of this, many (both the general public and frequently also employees at companies) view the social engagement of corporations with a “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” suspicion in the back of their minds. This is also partly due to the separation of CSR from “core business” activities at many corporations, sometimes leading to the creation of “parallel worlds”. Yet, if you integrate “good corporate citizenship” deeply and genuinely into your normal way of doing business, you are very likely to find that core business becomes much ... read morestronger. And there is this little creature, with black and yellow stripes, that can show us a number of ways how to do this. So, what's the “honey test” result of your organization?

We all have unlimited creative potential that can reveal hidden and diverse realities. By unlocking creativity we can bring these diversities to the forefront of our lives.

An acceptance of yourself and others is about being comfortable with your complexity. Do you think at that at present society is nurturing humanity`s complexity? By unlocking creativity we are encouraging these multiple perspectives and levels so that there is a re-understanding, re-imagining and re-creating of our social space. We are surrounded by concepts-the way we make sense of the world around us. They are the very fabric that weave us all together, but they are such abstract things-hard to explain and difficult to understand, unless there is some kind of material manifestation. Creativity gives us the opportunity to access each others’ way of making meaning, so that people can ... read morebegin to understand how human concepts can be seen from different perspectives and therefore be diverse, depending upon their varying social contexts.

Improvisation is an exciting way of ‘composing’ and shows the interdependence of each note. A certain typ is Live looping: recording and playback of looped audio samples in real-time, using either hardware or software. Live looping is a process with numerous sonic directions, open to instrument textures, improvisation and composition techniques. Born into a musical family, Christoph’s destiny to become a musician seems almost predetermined. Rather than sticking to just one style, he used his endless obsession with of all types of music from early on, to adapt his influences into his own way of composing and playing. The Vienna based contemporary musician and composer now sees his ... read morerole as a mediator between musical worlds, trying to find new ways to challenge the listening habits of his audience. Never pleased with the results, then handing his written music to other musicians, he is now doing it all himself. His music is hard to define. His instrument is the electric guitar.

Popular culture tells us that the one who dies with the most toys wins. Acquiring things is seen as a sign of success and those with mass possessions are looked at with envy.

But what if this is all backwards? What if the more you own, the more you become trapped by these possessions and the less free you become. What if we are buying and financing our own prisons. A growing number of people are asking these questions and deciding to shed their belongings in favor of a more mobile, more flexible and enjoyable life, and using modern technology and the web to make this possible. These people are the technomads and they are on the rise.

Roman Braun is Master-Coach of the ICF (International Coach Federation) and NLP-Master-Trainer. He received his education in NLP directly from the developers of the psychotherapy approach: Richard Bandler and John Grinder, alongside personalities like Paul Watzlawick, Bert Hellinger and Steve de Shazer. Braun compiled an NLP method of his own, where he incorporates Systems Theory and Ethics, terming it Trinergy. The system is a model for conflict resolution, based on and generated from methods and techniques of intra- and interpersonal communication.

Bridging the gap between the rich and poor people: impossible, you may think. One man came up with a quite simple idea which taught us a lesson: change is possible! Prof. Yunus realized the concept of microcredits and changed the way we think about making money, globalisation and poverty. Prof. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus himself has received several other national and international honors. He is a member of advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science ... read moreand Technology. Previously, he was a professor of economics at Chittagong University where he developed the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. He is the author of Banker to the Poor and two books on Social Business Models, and a founding board member of Grameen America and Grameen Foundation.

Functional aesthetics describes the concept of merging a fashionable technology object deemed aesthetically pleasant with technically enhanced functionalities.

Seymour presents projects that show the importance of the interdisciplinary synergies that are created with works brushing various disciplines to convey such concept. The projects are based in art, design, or are commercial products and might seem like explorations into wonder worlds . The talk is an attempt to stimulate a critical discourse.

Jörg Hofstätter studied Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Oslo. In 2004 he founded ovos, an Online Studio with a focus...

Jörg Hofstätter studied Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Oslo. In 2004 he founded ovos, an Online Studio with a focus on Branded Entertainment and Serious Games. He considers himself a digital Architect, Edupreneur and Chocolate addict and has a passion for Games with a purpose. He frequently shows up at Games4change, an international movement dedicated to support games for social impact. Jörg has had lectures on various Universities and currently teaches digital strategies at the University of Arts Linz.
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Johannes Grenzfurthner is an artist, writer, curator, and director. He is the founder of monochrom, an internationally acting art and theory group.

Johannes Grenzfurthner is an artist, writer, curator, and director. He is the founder of monochrom, an internationally acting art and theory group. He holds a professorship for art theory and art practice at the University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria. He is head of the "Arse Elektronika" festival in San Francisco, host of "Roboexotica" (Festival for Cocktail-Robotics, Vienna and San Francisco), and co-curates the Paraflows Symposium in Vienna. He gave talks at SXSWi, O'Reilly ETech, FooCamp, Maker Faire, HOPE, Chaos Communication Congress, Google (Tech Talks), ROFLCon, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Influencers or the Neoteny Camp Singapore.?He and his project have been ... read morefeatured in New York Times, Spiegel, San Francisco Chronicle, CNN, Reuters, Slashdot, Boing Boing, LA Times, NPR, ZDF, Gizmodo, Wired, Süddeutsche Zeitung, CNet or the Toronto Star. Recurring topics in Johannes' artistic and textual work are contemporary art, activism, performance, humor, philosophy, postmodernism, media theory, cultural studies, sex tech, popular culture studies, science fiction, and the debate about copyright.
http://www.monochrom.at/
http://www.sierra-zulu.com/

The Table Connect Team / LOA Design Studio
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The Table Connect Team / LOA Design Studio

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Lucas Triebl (LOA Design Studio)
With long term expertise in the areas of strategic branding and design, Lucas Triebl formed LOA Design Studio together with 3D-artist Stefan Fleig and filmmaker Nino Leitner in 2008.
Since then, the team delivers well thought visual brand experiences to their clients. His unique approach to projects - get into the brands groove, connect all logical aspects and finally embracing it to a seamless big picture - is visible throughout his work. ... read more„I just love it when people like quality design, but then are unable to explain why. Our work is all about creating this little magic." Finally for him design must always leave an inexplicable feeling to the audience.

Stefan Fleig (LOA Design Studio, finderly.com)
While studying animation and graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences - Salzburg, Stefan Fleig met his soon-to-be partners: Lucas Triebl and Nino Leitner. Shortly after earning his wings as SpecialFX artist in Los Angeles in 2005, he co-founded LOA Design Studio and is especially responsible for everything animated and 3D. Since 2010, he is also co-founder and creative director of http://www.finderly.com , a promising internet startup based in Vienna.

Nino Leitner (LOA Design Studio)
Nino Leitner is a filmmaker and DP, heading the Motion division of LOA Studio. He studied film production in Austria and the UK, and now specializes mainly in commercials, corporate films and documentaries. His films were featured at film festivals around the globe and won several awards.
Nino is at the forefront of digital cinematography, constantly testing new camera equipment and techniques that can enhance the result. He has gained much acclaim with his popular camera technology blog http://www.ninofilm.net/blog/

Anitra is a digital therapist. Doing is her favorite word. Before her professional independence, she went through everything you can contribute to the internet business, working as a journalist, start-up manager, Creative & Managing Director, Digital Mastermind and CCO. In achieving this she worked almost 15 years around the clock and accumulated a vast experience. Nowadays Anitra dispenses this knowledge as digital therapy in various forms and outlets like her Blog or as a university lecturer. She heals internet disease and initiates value creation from any kind of digital communication. From November 2011 she will share her insights also in the form of books.

Decision making: one of the soft skills every manager needs. But what do you need to be able to make decisions, not only the tough ones? Some theories say you must be completely unemotional to adjudicate on something, although other researchers tell you the complete opposite. So what? Robert Trappl is professor and head of the Institute of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. He is head of the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Vienna, which was founded in 1984. He holds a PhD in psychology (minor: astronomy), a diploma in sociology (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna), and is ... read moreengineer for electrical engineering. Mr. Trappl has published more than 180 articles, he is co-author, editor or co-editor of 34 books and is Editor-in-Chief of “Applied Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal” and “Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal“, both published by Taylor & Francis, USA. He has been giving lectures and courses and working as a consultant for national and international companies and organizations (OECD, UNIDO, WHO).

Following the principals of Social Business is more than a business idea: it demands full commitment and a special kind of entrepreneurial skills. When you are dealing with a social business you have to be aware of one danger: you could get addicted. Fionn Dobbin went from being Company Brand Manager for MOOZ! Advertisement /Riga to Innovation Team Designer for Adam Opel GmbH | GM Global Technology. Besides being now the Co-founder of “Shit Rules“, Mr. Dobbin is also the founder and Creative Director of “Mammu“, a social business fashion company.

Dive into the world of Herbert Nitsch: Experience the "deepest man in the world" 31 world records holder in free diving following the footsteps of his unique achievements.

What physical and psychological conditions are necessary in order to dive on one breath to 214 m depth? What motivated him to do so and what future goals has Herbert Nitsch? Expect interesting answers ...

For over 20 years, Bernhard Drumel has worked in the environmental field. In the last five years, he acted as Global Fundraising and Development Director of Greenpeace, being responsible among others for setting up Greenpeace in Africa. With ‘Supporting Change’ he is currently helping a wide range of Austrian and international social change initiatives and organizations in strategic advice, campaigning and organizational support. He initiated/participated in two bigger referenda in Austria and presently supports the biggest social change initiative in Austria, the referendum for an educational reform planned in November 2011. Furthermore he is part of the Executive Board of the ... read morerecently established Organization to advance the Common Welfare Economy.

The worst word of the year, last years actually, seems to be banking: in times of crisis it is not well seen to work in any financial institution. Isn’t that weird, as if everybody who has ever worked in the financial sector was guilty. Of course there are various approaches to a more social business, but still they are small and unknown. One is the so called ‘Enlightened Capitalism‘. In April 2006, Sava Dalbokov took over the CEO position at Erste Bank Serbia, to lead the transformation and integration process into the Erste Bank Group. He became CEO of good.bee Holding in January 2009, the microfinance and social entrepreneurship initiative of Erste Group and ERSTE Foundation. ... read more2010 Mr. Dalbokov joined the managing board of the Steiermarkische Sparkasse in Graz, Austria in October 2010 to assume the strategic development responsibility for the banks international operations. He is married and has two sons, likes rock & roll and moderately alternative things for a better world.

Daniel is a theoretical physicist doing black hole research since 1999. He spent five years as postdoc at the Leipzig University and at MIT.

In 2008 he returned to Vienna and won one of the Austrian START-prizes, which allowed him to build a research group at the TU Vienna. Besides his collaborations with MIT, ESA, MPI and 20 other research institutions Daniel is dedicated to outreach activities, particularly with the webpage teilchen.at, which became prominent during the Austrian CERN crisis in May 2009. Daniel remains mystified about Austrian science politics and discovered recently a new force at large distances, the Rindler force.

Klaus Stadlmann majored 2008 in industrial engineering at the TU Vienna. His degree thesis: "the development of an orthosis used in...

Klaus Stadlmann majored 2008 in industrial engineering at the TU Vienna. His degree thesis: "the development of an orthosis used in the supporting and measuring of a torque path of the ankle during rehabilitation" received special honors. At the moment he is finishing his pre-doc in technical sciences at Vienna's Technical University's Institute of Material Sciences and Technologies. Under the supervision of Prof. Stampfl he is involved in a working group concerned with the manufacturing of optical fibers.

Corinna Milborn is an Austrian political scientist and journalist. In her early career, she acted as a globalisation expert and spokesperson for the WWF. Former Editor in Chief at the human rights magazine Liga and political editor at the news magazine Format, Mrs. Milborn is since 2010 Deputy Editor in Chief at News and host of the TV-talkshow “Club2” at the Austrian Public Television Network. Dealing for a long period with issues of migration, integration, globalisation and human rights, she received among others the Bruno-Kreisky-Award in 2007 for the political book “Gestürmte Festung Europa” and in 2008 the Concordia-Prize for Human Rights.

Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian is a filmmaker and social activist. She began as a broadcast and print journalist in Los Angeles and Vienna for such companies as Warner Brother/ Tribune Media, the American Radio Network and Diva Magazine. More recently she has been writing and producing documentaries and television programs in South Africa for a variety of global outlets, including a documentary on the evolution and future of democratic governance and an edutainment based television soap opera for Iranian audiences. Her passion is exploring mutualistic paradigms, particularly through art and media, but also in politics and business. She is currently involved in the production of a feature film ... read moretitled ‘Vehicle 19’, starring Paul Walker.

When you see earth from space you start thinking differently, you see the big picture: It truly is an oasis – and we don’t take very good care of it. I think the elevation of that awareness is a real contribution to saving the Earth. (Dave Scott, Apollo 9 & 15) Why don’t we think big in social initiatives? Why not linking them – mobilise the crowd? Ronald John Garan, Jr. (born October 30, 1961) is a NASA astronaut. After graduating from State University of New York College at Oneonta in 1982, he joined the Air Force, becoming a Second Lieutenant in 1984. He became an F-16 pilot, and flew combat missions in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Before becoming an astronaut he was the ... read moreOperations Officer of the 40th Flight Test Squadron (FTS). He first flew in space as a Mission Specialist on the STS-124 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). He returned to ISS on 4 April 2011 for a six-month stay as a member of Expedition 27.

Today, in the Western world, our social status is strongly defined by the (non-) membership to specific online social networks.

But parallel to the opportunity to join hundreds of groups with thousands of members, the individual is getting lost. I strongly believe that every individual is necessary to influence a positive change into this world. An idea is not enough. The action of the single person is needed to change the course of history. The goals are to inspire overcoming personal limits, to empower common visions and to connect action until the dream comes true. In my dream I see 7 billion individuals making a positive difference, 7 billion brains working together towards our better future, and crossing over between the “one” and the “we”.

In August 1997, when Albin Kurti was 22 years old, he joined presidency of the Students Independent Union of the University of Prishtina (SIUUP)...

In August 1997, when Albin Kurti was 22 years old, he joined presidency of
the Students Independent Union of the University of Prishtina (SIUUP), and soon after he became its International Officer. During the historic student demonstration in Prishtina on October 1, 1997, brutally repressed by Milosevic's police, Kurti was one of the protest leaders. During the NATO bombing of Serbia and Kosovo he was engaged in seeking a political solution to Kosovo's crisis and was arrested by Serbian police. After a 15 years sentence in 2000, Kurti was released in 2001 due to international pressure. Albin Kurti is currently an MP, the Chair of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee ... read morein the Republic of Kosovo, as well as the leader of the political movement, Lëvizja VETËVENDOSJE.

Martin Kaltenbrunner is Professor at the Interface Culture Lab at theUniversity of Art and Design in Linz. Before his return to Austria he worked as researcher and lecturer at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, at the MIT Medialab Europe in Dublin, as well as further European universities. As co-founder of Reactable Systems he had been mainly responsible for the interaction design concepts behind the Reactable, which has been successfully introduced by renowned artists such as Björk. The instrument has been shown at several international media art and music festivals, and was awarded with the Golden Nica for Digital Music, two D&AD Yellow Pencils and the Prize of the City of ... read moreBarcelona. Kaltenbrunner publishes in the context of human computer interaction conferences and his influential research on tangible interface tools has been employed for the realization of numerous artistic and scientific projects in that area.

“Surround yourself with positive people” is a well known but crucial piece of advice. In the team of Prof. Yunus it is realized in a unique and funny way. Hans Reitz spent 7 years living a simple life in Southern India and can relate to problems of poverty. In 1992 he joined Natural Shakti, a forest farming company cultivating coffee and spices in Kumily/ Kerala, India, as a partner. 2 years later he founded the event and creative communication agency “circ”. Hans Reitz is also co-founder of the cafe chain Perfect Day since 2004. The foundation of “circ responsibility”, a CR consultancy, followed in 2009.

Architect Tomas Rousek is CEO at architecture and design company A-ETC based in EU and Japan.

He focuses on terrestrial and space architecture, digital design and internet development. He cooperates with NASA Habitation Team, NASA New Media Innovation Team and Neuroscience laboratory at NASA Johnson Space Center. He is also co-founder of non-profit organization Futura Pragensis and presented his works in 16 galleries in Europe and America. Now he is preparing project Vortex for cleaning the trash island in the middle of Northern Pacific.

Robert Misik is an Austrian journalist and political author, living and working in Vienna. He writes on a regular basis for the German Taz, as well as for the Austrian periodicals Profil and Falter. Furthermore, Mr. Misik runs a Vlog on the website of the Austrian daily “Der Standard” and is a successful non-fiction author, with bestsellers like “Genial dagegen”. His views are trending to the left, towards social democratic theses, and he is often outspoken against neo-liberalism. 2010, Robert Misik was awarded the “Journalist of the Year” prize in the online category, a distinction of the periodical “The Austrian Journalist.

Josef Prusa born and raised in the Czech Republic was never satisfied with things as they are.

Fascinated with the way things work, Josef would find better ways on how he could improve it. In several cases, totally change to a brand new use than what it was originally designed for. At the age of 18 he already published his own chapter in book by Oreilly called iPhone hacks. Since then he makes more and more uses for stuff. In 2010 his main focus of work has shifted to developing Open Source 3D printer project called RepRap (http://reprap.org) and Open Source Hardware generally.

Moritz Helmstaedter is a neuroscientist dedicated to mapping connectomes, the complex networks of nerve cells in the brain. A medical doctor and physicist by training, Moritz completed his doctoral thesis with Nobel laureate Bert Sakmann at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. During his post-doctoral work, together with Winfried Denk and Kevin Briggman, he developed methods to map nerve cell networks using electron microscopes and computer analysis tools. This is making it possible for the first time to decipher large complex networks in the brain at single-cell resolution. He is currently setting up his own laboratory at the Max Planck Institute of ... read moreNeurobiology in Munich, where he aims to understand the computations in sensory cortex, and to unravel what distinguishes a human brain from, say, that of a mouse, at the structural level. Moritz has pioneered crowd sourcing for connectomics, engaging more than a hundred students to work together to analyze the immense amounts of data. Going forward, he aims at motivating thousands of curious minds to collaborate online on the task of reconstructing the powerful and fascinating neuronal networks of the brain.

Watch the beautiful performance of the international and intercultural Jazz-ensemble "Mi Tu Trio & Delphine Mae".

Delphine Hsinl Kini Mei aka Miss American Pie, daisyD, a interdiciplinary artist, actor, performer, vocalist, poet, dramaturg, director, choerographer, facilitator, peace activist, and urban-shamanistic energy healer. From a small tropical Pacific island, Delphine studied dance/theatre in the National Institute of Arts,Asia, Interdisciplinary Arts and Art history critical theory in University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chicago, USA, and MimeCenter Helsinki, Finland. In the USA: Miss Mei was the co-artistic director and performer for the interdiciplinary art performance ensemble HumanSewingMachine, she has performed for SF MOMA Benefit Performance, SF International Film Festival Opening ... read moreGala, Dada Fest amongst many others. During her time in California, Delphine was invited as a guest artist-performer lecturer for Contemporary Performance at the University of California Davis. Miss Mei also starred in SanFrancisco-Beijing Film group's film by Cannes Film director Xiao-Yen Wang's "I am Seductable", SF Fringe Festival's "Neon's Blue", "The 7th Game of World Series", and "Yes, Maybe, No" by Thoughts and Images Productions. Her poetry has been selected and published in "Names In A Jar: A Collection of Poetry by 100 Contemporary American Poets",Hood Press Books. Most recently, Delphine collaborated and performed in the "Taipei Women's Experimental Comedy Club" and "Google0.2" with New York Artist Michael Portnoy, for the Taipei Int'l Biennial 2010, as well as performed in Taiwan performance artist Tang Huang-Chen's work "Diary of The Sojourner (part II )" in the Int'l Forum Biennial of Taiwanese Contemporary Art 2010.

2 days after Muammar al-Gaddafi’s death Karim El-Gawhary had to be present in Tunisia due to the first democratic elections and the dramatic incident in Libya. Nevertheless El-Gawhary gave us a Skype interview about the Arabic Spring, the role of Social Media and ‘I Like’ Generation.