DANCE STYLES

____Brasilian
The Black Body in Contemporary Brazilian Dance (BM4)
Wagner Carvalho, director of the festival "move berlim", dancer, actor, project manager [Berlin]

____chromosomes
Dance of the Chromosomes. Short Introduction to Cell Biology (BM4)
Helmut Höge, writer and journalist [Berlin]

____gay-lesbian
The Grotesque Formation of Dance Couples in Competitive Dance or the Dance Sports and Its Effects on Gay-Lesbian Ballroom Dancing (BM4)
Dr. Christoph Neumann, founder of the dance school bebop, philosopher, art historian and dancer [Berlin]

____Hard Core
On Wall of Death, Pogo and Mosh - Hard Core Music and Dance (with Music and Video Examples) (BM4)
Volkan, musician and producer (Hip Hop/Experimental/Hard Core Heavy Metal) [Berlin]

____Hip Hop
Makin' Moves: The Conquering of Space in Hip Hop (BM4)
Jan-Philipp Possmann, theatre scholar, dramaturge, curator Plateaux Festival [Berlin/Frankfurt]

____Revue
Dance as Entertainment. From Classical Ballet to Revue Theatre (BM4)
Roland Gawlik, Ballet Director Friedrichstadtpalast, choreographer, dancer [Berlin]

DIGITAL NETWORKS

Why Free Software? How to Support Free Software Even if You Have No Programming Skills (BM8)
Reni Hofmüller, media artist and activist, operator of ESC (Graz), president of Radio Helsinki (Graz), member of IMA - Institute for Media Archeology (Hainburg, AT), co-organizer of Ecletic Tech Carnival, international feminist tech network [Graz]

Back to Unregularized Networks. A Cartography of the 150 Antennas of Funkfeuer Graz (BM8)
Roland Jankowski, free networks initiator, Funkfeuer Graz, hoarder of precarious employment contracts [Graz]

1. Piracy, Privacy and File Sharing between Reality and Cyberspace
2. Tools and Tips for a Hacker`s GNU Media Kit (BM8)
Jaromil, open source developer of the liveCD dyne:bolic GNU/Linux and software such as MuSE, FreeJ and HasciiCam for running a web radio, veejaying and manipulation of video in realtime, in charge of research and development for the Netherlands Media Art Institute [Amsterdam]

How You Help Make Google Rich (BM8)
Ushi Reiter, artist, web developer, since 2005 director of servus.at/ kunst & kultur im netz, Linz, member of the Institute for Media Archeology (Hainburg), co-organizer of Ecletic Tech Carnival [Linz]

Manipulation of Social Spaces on the Web (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. DI Winfried Ritsch, developer of electronic music instruments, cybernetic models of controlling them and experiments on the interactive creation of computer music, president of the Graz-based NetArt network mur.at, Internet music label tonto.at, lecturer at the Department for Electronic Music and Acoustics at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts [Graz]

DILEMMA

Imagine a person who is shown nothing yet believes to have seen everything -what will she see? (BM2)
Gabriele Leidloff, visual artist, producer, author of the project l o g - in / l o c k e d o u t - A Forum of Art and Neuroscience, www.locked-in.com [Berlin]

1) The story of the 18. Camel
2) The story of the missing square (BM2)
Harald Preissler, future researcher at DaimlerChrysler [Berlin]

The Act of Standing on one Leg in Goat Island Performance: Is it Dance or Is it Work? (BM2)
Litó Walkey, dance performer (performance group Goat Island Chicago) [Berlin]

DIPLOMACY

US-Diplomats in Berlin Since 1797. Who They Were, Where They Came From, Where They Settled Down (BM6)
Michael S. Cullen, Construction Historian and Publicist [New York, Berlin]

Security Issues in U.S. Foreign Policy - Military Versus Political Strategies to Ease Conflicts (BM6)
Karsten D. Voigt, Coordinator for the German-American cooperation at the Auswärtiges Amt, Former Member of Bundestag and long-time Representative of the SPD in Foreign Affairs [Berlin]

DIVERSITY

The thrown-away key from La Cage aux Folles: Travesty as zoo and the drag queen as the problem bear (Licence No.1)
Markus Beisel actor and director at the Oststadt Theatre [Ludwigshafen, Mannheim]

What is “authentic“? On the attempt to get non-professional performers and experts from everyday life on stage (Licence No.1)
Doris Uhlich choreographer, actress at “Theatercombinat”, "remarkable newcomer in the choreography scene " according to "ballettanz - annual 2008" and Andrea Salzmann Dramaturg and photographer in the free dance performance scene [Vienna]

DONATION

Photo Collection of Cheque Presentations Published in the Daily Paper Luxemburger Wort, April - October 1984 and April - October 1985 (BM8)
Luitgard Eisenmeier, artist, working residencies in Luxembourg and Egypt, founding member of Der Blaue Kompressor (since 1981), works on unique copy books and magazines, presents Gustav Deutsch's project "Cheque Presentations" [Vienna]

The Scar: About the Unsightly and Undesirable of the Gift (BM8)
Mag. Dr. Angela Heide, dramaturge and cultural manager, activities in the fields of history and theory of theatre and the city, since 2001 direction of artminutes, since 2002 co-director of WOLKE 7 [Vienna]

DREAM

How to Stay Awake in a Dream, How to Dream in Reality? Practical Advice on Dreaming Techniques (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Zenon Iwanowski, psychologist, psychoanalyst [Warsaw]

Yoga of Dreaming. About Practicing Tibetan Yoga, Which Teaches You How to Achieve Lucid Dreaming (I Know I'm Dreaming) Feeling (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Arkadiusz Tabero, PhD in philosophy, Hatha Yoga teacher at Joga Foksal [Warsaw]

DRUGS

The Mysterious Potion of Dr. Jekyll: How to Transform a Man into a Demon or an Angel. On the Metaphysics of Poison and Drugs (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Dr. Konrad T. Lewandowski, chemist, philosopher, writer [Warsaw]

From Drug Investigation to American Football (BM6)
Rainer Stullich, American Football Referee, Customs Officer [Berlin]

How to Castrate a Redneck. What You Might See at the Local 24/7 Wal Mart at 4:00 in the Morning After Being Wide Awake on Crystal Methamphetamine for Three Days. Why are most Americans Infinite Black Holes of Consumption? (BM6)
Jeremy Wade, dancer, choreographer [New York, Berlin]

DUMPSTER DIVING

Dinner for two. How to cook a nice meal out of Liverpool's dustbins (BM 11)
Mel Evans, artist and activist who participates in processes of taking collective radical action including Climate Camp, part of interdisciplinary environmental-social campaigning organisation PLATFORM [Liverpool]

DYSTOPIA

Tomorrow was Always Worse. Dystopia in Film, Literature and Other Arts (BM10)
Mag. Thomas Ballhausen, author, film and literature scholar, lecturer for comparative literature and film history at the University of Vienna, member of research staff at the Film Archive Austria [Vienna]

"Nothing Better to Come"- Curse and Blessing of the Austrian Fear of the Future (BM10)
Leo Lukas, cabaret artist, composer, author of plays, travel satires and science fiction novels, including the world's largest science fiction series "Perry Rodan", most recently recipient of the Austrian Cabaret Award 2005 [Vienna]