Adriana de Souza e Silva is a PhD candidate at the School of Communications at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. Since August 2001 she is a visiting scholar at de department of Design | Media Arts at UCLA. Her research, "Hybrid Space Nomads", studies the impact of nomadic technology devices, like cell phones, in the organization of urban space. Consequently, it deals with the hybridization of physical and virtual spaces. Adriana has also interest in studying how different languages and therefore different writings affect the way we think and communicate. She holds a Master Degree in Communication and Image Technology of the School of Communications at UFRJ, Brazil, and a Bachelor in Journalism (Social Communication) of the same School. Adriana has worked as a graphic designer, web designer and has published papers in Brazilian and Ibero-American Congresses of Communication and Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2000, 2001, Compós 2001 and Intercom 2001).

http://users.design.ucla.edu/~silvaad

projects/exhibitions include among others
-"Visual JoxMox", 2001, ZKM Media Museum Karlsruhe, Germany
-"Noze", 2001, Lothringer13, Munich, Germany
-"Virtual Unabomber", Big Torino 2000, Torino, Italy;
-"Robotrace" Cebit99, Hannover, Germany;
-digital documentation of archeological fieldwork, Catal Huyuk, Central Anatolia, Turkey in 1998 in collaboration with UC Berkeley and the University of Cambridge, UK
-participant Interval Research University Workshop, Palo Alto, USA, 1997

Fabian Winkler held lectures at the University of Applied Sciences, Dept. of Architecture, Stuttgart, Germany and University Konstanz, Dept. of Art Studies, Konstanz, Germany.

http://users.design.ucla.edu/~fwinkler