Anne-Marie Boisvert

Anne-Marie Boisvert completed a Bachelor's degree and pursued graduate studies in French literature (with a concentration in textual theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis) at Université de Montréal. She holds a Master's degree and has pursued doctoral studies in the analytic philosophy of language and exact sciences at Université de Montréal. She worked as a research and teaching assistant in Université de Montréal's philosophy department and has taught philosophy at Collège de Maisonneuve.

Since October 2001, Anne-Marie Boisvert is the Editor in Chief of the CIAC's Electronic Magazine, while also maintaining the organization's Web site. She has published many papers on web art and hypertextuality.

Publications:

• "Create/Destroy", in CIAC's Electronic Magazine, no 10, March 2000.
• "Littérature électronique et hypertexte" ("Electronic Literature and Hypertext"), in Revue des Ressources (France), December 2000, et in CIAC's Electronic Magazine, no 9, December 1999.
• "Cybertext", in CIAC's Electronic Magazine, no 13, July 2001.
• "Giselle Beiguelman. Das Buch nach dem Buch, 1999-2000", in IM BUCHSTABENFELD. die zukunft der literatur, Peter Weibel, ed., neue galerie graz, 2001, pp: p.71-76.
• "CHANCE AND NECESSITY: About Sound-Based Web Works", in CIAC's Electronic Magazine, no 15, Summer 2002.
• "Esquisse d'une poétique de la littérature numérique", in Hypertextes. Espaces virtuels de lecture et d'écriture, sous la direction de Christian Vandendorpe et Denis Bachand, 2002.
  Éditions Nota bene, Collection Littérature(s), 2002, pp: 139-157.
• "On Bricolage. Assembling Culture with Whatever Comes to Hand",
  in HorizonZero 08: Remix: generate / regenerate / transform,
  Banff New Media Institute, April/May 2003.
• "Le poème, de la page à l'écran : interprétation, illustration, adaptation", in Les Navigations technologiques, Richard Barbeau et Ollivier Dyens, eds. VLB (Fall 2004).
• "The Text at Play", in CIAC's Electronic Magazine, no 17, Fall 2003.
• "Webmonsters", in CIAC's Electronic Magazine, no 18, Winter 2004.  

David 'jhave' Johnston

David 'jhave' Johnston is a multimedia-poet currently living in Montreal. Among other artistic activities, he has exhibited site-specific installations with the Symbiosis Collective, written and directed multi-media theatre with the Collective Unconscious Collective, recorded spoken-word electronica for the now-defunct underground ZOI label, contributed to a CD-ROM project entitled Navigations technologiques, modified video for the Transmedia2002 festival, completed a music video for Brian Sanderson, worked as research assistant for Obx Active-Text project, and spoken sporadically at conferences on webart,

He is currently in his final year of a computer science degree at Concordia University.

Before devoting himself completely to digital creation in 1998, jhave finished a six-year exploratory-font project of handwritten mixed-media which was entitled Book. The web project NomadLingo, a year long exploration of digitally-generated mobile-text work, was created from April1/2000 to April 1/2001 and exhibited as monthly installments at www.year01.com.

Recent webworks: Inter-face (september 2003) can be seen at Turbulence;
Video in a cab: teletaxi, 2003;
Flaws, 2003 (see the review by the artist himself in CIAC's Electronic Magazine no 18, Winter 2004 ).

Publications:

• "On the Materiality of Meaning. Mobile Text & the New Paradigms of Virtual Literature", in Year01, 2001.
• "Programming as Poetry. A few brief musings on Antiorp, Kurzweil, and Stallman", in Year01, 2002.

Website: www.glia.ca
Email: jhave@vif.com

Xavier Malbreil

Lives and works in the South of France
Writer and theorician (multimedia)
Contributor to magazines like Archée et La Voix du Regard (literary magazine on visual arts).

Publications :

• "Le Travail de la forme", in Archée, 2002.
• "Éloge des virus informatiques dans un processus d’écriture interactive", in Archée, 2002.
• "Les Malentendus", in Archée, 2002.
• "Lire avec la main", in Archée, 2003.
• Je ne me souviens pas très bien, roman. (to be published)

Websites: www.0m1.com and www.livredesmorts.com

Sylvie Parent

Sylvie Parent is a curator and art critic. She wrote many essays on visual arts, web art and new media projects for electronic or printed publications. She is currently the French editor of HorizonZero, an online magazine published by the Banff New Media Institute. She was editor in chief of the CIAC's Electronic Magazine from 1997 to 2001. She was also responsible for the Web art component of the Biennale de Montréal 2000, also produced with the CIAC. With Valérie Lamontagne, she co-curated Emplacement/Déplacement, an exhibition of Québec artists for the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 2001.

Carlo Zanni

Carlo Zanni is an Italian painter and Web artist. He works between Milan and New York.

He studied at the IED - European Institute of Design and has a degree in Web Master. His work has been shown at the PS1 Museum NY, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago and at the first Tirana Triennial, among other places, as well as at the Biennale de Montréal 2002, in the web art section.

Website: www.zanni.org

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