Lev Manovich is Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, U.S. where he teaches new media art and theory. His book The Language of New Media has received over 50 reviews in the USA and was translated into Italian, Korean, Polish, Spanish and Chinese. According to the reviewers, this book offers "the first rigorous and far-reaching theorization of the subject" (CAA reviews); "it places new media within the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan" (Telepolis).

Laura U. Marks, a Canadian writer and curator of artists’ media, is the author of The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses (2000) and Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media (2002). She is researching relationships between classical Islamic art and new media art, for a book prospectively titled Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art. Dr. Marks is Dena Wosk University Professor in Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Jamie van Dyke is a highly experienced web developer, consultant and trainer specialising in the Ruby on Rails web framework. He has extensive experience working for major UK companies in both systems management and software development and now leverages this unique point of view to focus on developing websites and infrastructures using the Rails framework. Jamie runs a successful company called Fear of Fish, based in the UK.