Ernest Edmonds is an international expert on human-computer interaction and creativity. He is Research Professor of Computation and Creative Media in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology and Director of the multi-disciplinary practice-based art and technology research group, the Creativity and Cognition Studios. He has a PhD in Logic, has held University positions of Head of Department and Dean and chaired or sat on many funding and award committees. His key contributions in human-computer interaction include the introduction of the concepts of iterative development and user interface architectures. Ernest Edmonds also works as an artist in the constructivist tradition and first used computers in his practice in 1968. He first showed an interactive work with Stroud Cornock in 1970. He first showed a time-based generative work at Exhibiting Space in London in 1985. He has exhibited throughout the world, from Moscow to LA. He has about 200 refereed publications in the fields of human-computer interaction, creativity and art. Artists Bookworks published his book "On New Constructs in Art" in 2005. Ernest Edmonds at CAIA 02: Generative Interactive Systems with Meta-Rules: Learning From Experience

Andrew is a researcher, interaction/software designer and musician living in Sydney. He has qualifications in music performance (B. Arts) and computing (Master of IT), and a PhD combining the two. As a musician he has performed professionally with several Australian symphony orchestras, musicals and a number of other ensembles. His research focuses on the design of systems that support experimental, exploratory approaches to live performance, and the experiences of the artists who use them. In his creative practice he explores interaction techniques which use simulated physical systems as mediators between gesture, acoustic sounds and computer generated sound and visuals. Andrew currently holds the position of Senior Lecturer in the School of Software at the University of Technology, Sydney. He co-director of the Creativity and Cognition Studios.

Currently a PhD student at UTS' Creativity and Cognition Studios, Rodney is also a geek in residenceat Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart. His interest in artificial life, technology and biology, virtual reality and augmented reality,  places him with one foot in both the artistic community and the scientific community.

He was a research fellow at National University of Singapore in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ Communication and New Media Programme. He was also a member of NUS’s Interactive Digital Media Institute both in the Mixed Reality and the Arts and Creativity Labs and, prior to that, a member of Nanyang Technological University’s Interaction and Entertainment Research Centre.  He spent six and a half years in Japan as a research scientist at ATR Media Information Science Laboratories, Kyoto. He was active for more than fourteen years as an artist and composer in Melbourne and in Sydney .

At University of Western Sydney, he taught experimental music composition for two years. He also taught computer-based sound design at KVB Business College in North Sydney.

His work ranges from sculptural musical instruments and sound installations to computer-based interactive artworks. His work has featured in such international events as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (in Sydney and Nagoya), SoundCulture (Tokyo, Sydney), Virtual Worlds (Paris), and several  times at SIGGRAPH (New Orleans, San Antonio, San Diego and Los Angeles). His group’s Music Table system was voted ‘Best Interactive’ at Interaction 2004 in Tokyo.

His recent research seeks to apply augmented reality to the composition and learning of music as well as the creation of interactive art works.  He is developing tools to enable non-programmers to author augmented reality in real-time without writing code. This will open up the field to artists and designers who are currently intimidated by the complexity of the authoring process.

Yi JI is a graphic designer and digital photographer. He currently is a PhD student at Creativity and Cognition Studios in UTS where he focuses on designing meaningful interaction for multiple users. Yi has worked as photographer in Shandong Publishing House for two years in China. Since he moved to Sydney, he has been working in digital media industry as graphic designer, image editor, photographer and project manager for many design and digital media companies. He completed his Bachelor of Visual Communication Design with First Class Honors in Shandong University of Design and Arts; Master of Interactive Multimedia Design in University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).

Mike Leggett has been working across the institutions of art, education, cinema and television with media since the early-70s. He has film and video work in archives and collections in Europe, Australia, North and South America and has practiced professionally as an artist, curator, writer, director, producer, editor, photographer, teacher, manager, administrator and computer consultant. He has curated exhibitions of interactive multimedia for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (Burning the Interface also seen during 1996 in Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne); the Brisbane International Film Festival; the 5th International Documentary Conference, Brisbane; and Videotage Festival of Video Art, Hong Kong. He completed in 2000 an interactive multimedia prototype, (PathScape), on landscape and identity for the Australian Film Commission. He has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales and a PhD from the University of Technology Sydney. Mike Leggett writes and lectures about media art, contributing to journals (Leonardo; Continuum) , magazines (World Art), online ‘zines (FineArt Forum), and is a regular correspondent for the Australian contemporary arts newspaper RealTime. He makes, writes and speaks primarily about productions and exhibitions that extend the potential of the newer media technologies. His research focusses on interactive participation with the projected moving image.

Jen Seevinck is an electronic artist and interaction researcher. Her work investigates Emergence in Interactive Art and, in particular, new and surprising interaction behaviours that occur during people's interaction with systems. Areas of immediate research interest are interactive art, interaction design, emergence, perception and the Gestalt, tangible computing, augmented and virtual reality, interaction styles, and interactive training applications for health. She has developed many interactive training applications, mostly using state-of-the-art interaction technologies and applied to medicine, space, data visualisation etc. Jen has  worked in education at QUT, Deakin University and the Australian National University and as a freelance designer on interactive museum exhibits, web, architecture, theatre and film since 1993. She has 2 patents for interactive training applications and publications in the interactive arts and interaction design field. She has also exhibited her art at conferences and contemporary art galleries in Beijing, Tokyo, Australia and the U.S.A. Most recently she received an Arts Queensland grant for an artist residency to create tangible, interactive artworks with the local community (2011).

Viveka Weiley is an interaction designer with a background in virtual environments. He joined CCS in September 2006 to begin research into tools for geographically distributed collaborative creativity in mixed real/virtual place. Viveka sports a Bachelor of Design from UNSW CoFA, and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Information Technology with First Class Honours and the University Medal from UTS. Viveka has been in professional design practice for fifteen years, working primarily in telepresence and online communities. In 2002 he co-founded Ping, a geospatial virtual reality startup company, which went on to win various awards and government and industry contracts. He is past chair of Sydney ACM SIGGRAPH and ANZGRAPH, and was a member of the formation comittee for the SIGGRAPH in ASIA conference series.