Victor Fowler Calzada was born in Havana in 1960. In 1987 he graduated in Pedagogy (Spanish Language and Literature specialty) in the Instituto Superior Pedagógico “Enrique José Varona”, Havana. For several years he practised teaching in the secondary level. Between 1989 and 1992 he worked in the Biblioteca Nacional (National Archive) as a specialist for the Programa Nacional de la Lectura (National Program on Reading) where he organized the First National Conference for Promotion of Reading (Primer Encuentro Nacional de Promoción de Lectura). He was professor of the course Promoción de Lectura in the Escuela de Técnicos de Biblioteca. He has participated in several scientific events and international conferences, of which the most relevant are the Encuentro Nacional de Promoción de Lectura (1991, Biblioteca Nacional) and the Encuentros de Investigación José Lezama Lima’s work (1989, 1990, 1991, Biblioteca Nacional, and 1993, Universidad de la Havana), in all of which he took part and organized as well.

The Urban Field Speakers Series centres on the role of art in transforming the experience of the city. Through lectures, screenings and discussions, it explores how creative practices can help improve the quality of urban life and planning in Toronto and around the world. The 2006-2007 series brought together an array of international and local participants, including artists, architects, critical theorists, designers and historians, who are working at the intersections of technology, communications and aesthetics. Reflecting on a broad range of perspectives and practices, the events build upon each other to inspire dialogue on the role of the city in art, and art in the city.

Erkki Soininen works as a visual artist and curator, as well as one of the artistic directors of the ANTI-Contemporary Art Festival. The festival is a yearly international live-art event held in Kuopio, Finland, which utilizes the contemporary cityscape as both the stage and conceptual framework for its performances and installations.

- Robin McCullough

Perttu Rastas is the Senior Curator of media art at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. In addition to his curatorial labour, Rastas works as an art critic, producer, and editor; his co-edited book Get Real: Real-time + Art + Theory + Practice + History was published in 2005 and focuses on the intersection of technological development and artistic practice. In his writing, Rastas has attended to the ways in which artists – particularly those working within a Relational Aesthetic – perform as pioneers and futurists, contributing to a broader critical understanding of the social and cultural relations within information societies. Rastas has held his current position at the Museum since 1996; previous to this he was Director of Operations for the Finnish Media Art Archives from 1989 to 1994. Most recently, Rastas was the international curator at the Sixth Annual Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film in Winnipeg, in August 2007.