Nanna Verhoeff is Professor of Screen Cultures & Society in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. She is program director of the research MA Media, Art & Performance Studies, part of the research initiative Transmission in Motion, and co-initiator of the Creative Humanities Academy – an infrastructure for collaboration between humanities scholars and creative professionals, post-academic teaching, and consultancy on humanities theories, methodologies and pedagogies. She specializes in screen and interface theory and comparative approaches to a wide variety of screen media, ranging from (early) cinema, mobile and location-based media, interactive screen-based interfaces and art installations, to urban screens and media architecture. In her current research projects, she focuses on the situatedness of screen-based interfaces and screening practices in urban, public spaces. She initiated the research platform [urban interfaces] for research on media, art and performance in contemporary, urban spaces. With her colleagues, she has recently edited a special issue on this topic for Leonardo Electronic Almanac:
https://www.leoalmanac.org/urban-interfaces.
The group is also co-organizer of the upcoming Media Architecture Biennale.

Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer is a full professor of sociology of technology and innovation at the Technical University of Berlin. From 2008 to 2015 he worked as full professor of sociological theory at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Bielefeld and received his second dissertation (Habilitation) from the Technical University of Berlin. He is a member of the program committee of the Priority Program 2267 “Digitalisation of Working Worlds”, a principal investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “Science of Intelligence”, and a principal investigator of the Collaborative Research Centre 1265 “Re-figuration of Spaces”, all funded by the German Research Foundation. His recent empirical research in the field of science and technology studies includes the role of future concepts in technology development; coordination in transnational software development; reward-based crowdfunding as gift exchange; locative media and how they change urban spaces. Further information about publications, research projects and other topics is available at:
http://www.ts.tu-berlin.de/v_menue/mitarbeiter/prof_dr_ingo_schulz_schaeffer/

Eric Lettkemann is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology at Technische Universität Berlin. He obtained his doctorate with a thesis on how epistemic practices and social institutions contribute to the success of interdisciplinary research. Eric has been involved in several research projects investigating the role of institutional settings for the diffusion of scientific innovations in different national science systems and in different disciplines. He mainly draws on videographic and interview-based case studies, using comparative and interpretive concepts of the sociology of science and the sociology of knowledge to analyze these cases. Recently, Eric has turned his focus more towards questions of urban and media sociology. He is currently a member of a research project investigating the effects of locative media on urban life. This project compares different cases of smartphone apps in terms of how locative functions might modify or reinforce the perception and appropriation of urban public places. The project is part of the Collaborative Research Centre 1265 “Re-figuration of Spaces” funded by the German Research Found DFG.
Webpage: https://www.tu-berlin.de/?id=169037&L=1

Noboru Yasuda was born in Choshi, Chiba prefecture, Japan in 1956. Shimogakari Hosho-ryu Noh performer. At the age of 27, he introduced himself to the Shimogakari Hosho-ryu School, a school of Noh Waki-kata (supporting role). While playing Waki-kata as a noh performer on the stage both in Japan and abroad, he holds ‘Yugakujuku’, terakoya private school where people can learn Rongo, the Analects of Confucius. He also creates and directs new plays based on Noh’s physical method, creating a place for interaction with artists and cultural figures in various fields. Written by: Ikai o Tabisuru Noh [Noh Traveling Different Worlds] (Chikuma Shobo), Shintai Kankaku de Basho o Yominaosu, [Reread Basho with a Physical Sensation] (Shunjusha), Noh: 650 nen Tsuzuita Shikake toha, [Noh: What is the Mechanism that Noh has Continued for 650 Years?] (Shinchosha) and many others.

Hidenori Tomita is a professor at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan. His presentresearch interests are mobile AR application, mobile media culture and sociology ofmobile media. His publications include The Post-Mobile Society : From theSmart/Mobile to Second Offline (Routledge, 2016), Intimate Stranger: The culturalsociology about anonymity and intimacy (Japanese) (Kansai University Press, 2009),Digital media training (in Japanese)(with Katsuya Minamida and Izumi Tsuji,Yuhikaku, 2007) and ‘Keitai and Intimate Stranger’ in Personal, Portable, Pedestrian:Mobile Phones in Japanese Life (edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and MisaMatsuda, MIT Press, 2005). Translation book is Perpetual Contact: MobileCommunication, Private Talk, Public Performance, (edited by James E. Katz and MarkA. Aakhus, Cambridge Univ Press, 2002): Hidenori Tomita (Translation Supervised),Keiji Tachikawa (Supervised), Taemanaki Koshin no Jidai (in Japanese), NTT Press,2003.