Who's at Mute? Mute People

Pauline van Mourik Broekman Co-Director and Publisher, Mute Publishing Ltd

Simon Worthington Co-Director and Publisher, Mute Publishing Ltd

He studied art at the Slade School (London) and CalArts (Valencia, California). Co-founder of the cyberculture magazine Mute. In the area of independent media and innovative web developments he has pioneered projects from social web tools like OpenMute’s FLOSS web tools ‘OmWeb’ to graphic design such as the mapping projects ‘The MetaMap’ (Thanks to Bucky) back in 2001 at the famous hacker festival HAL2001. He is currently (2007) heading OpenMute’s technology design team, leading a variety of cutting edge web projects including; web based Print on Demand and an online/offline alternative media distribution network. See development zone http://3d.openmute.org for updates. As co-director of the Mute organisation he has been involved in a number of projects, including the following: MiniBar – Co-founder of London based Web 2.0 networking event, http://internetpro.meetup.com/10/ . Re:Transmission - Co-coordinator of event, London. http://retransmission.org.uk/ activist and human rights web video infrastructures network. UserLand – curator of ten stop UK tour, advocating FLOSS art practice, http://linkme2.net/9m . OpenMute – http://openmute.org/ founder of project and leader of design team on OMWEB web tools service. DMZ Media Arts London, festival and network group http://dmzlondon.net/ , group member and event steering group member. MuteMap, http://mutemap.openmute.org, project coordinator. Cartographic Congress, London, six week long festival, http://linkme2.net/bg , contributor and co-organiser. University of Openness (UO), London http://twenteenthcentury.com/uo/, self instituted educational group, co-founder and member of the Faculty of Cartography. Magnet http://magnet-ecp.org, world wide electronic cultural magazine publishers network, project member and collaborator. Picopeer, wireless network agreement http://picopeer.net, initial contributor and co-developer of draft agreement. YouAreHere, http://youarehere.3d.openmute.org, co-founded community mapping/wireless project. Xcom2002 event, London http://xcom2002.com, co-organiser in collaboration with NTK. The Metamap, Conceptualisation, research (HAL2001, hacker festival) and artwork http://www.metamute.org/node/5678 with my collaborator R* .

Josephine Berry Slater Editor, Mute
Josephine did her BA and MA in Art History and completed her PhD at the University of Manchester, on The Thematics of Site Specific Art on the Net, in 2002. She writes and lectures on media art, culture and poltics. She has also collaborated on the short-lived print and online publication Crash Media http://www.medialounge.net/lounge/workspace/crashhtml/ with Micz Flor, 1997-98, and is an occasional contributor to Ourganisation http://www.ourganisation.org, a site dedicated to the formulation of a politics and poetics of (self)organisation

Benedict Seymour Deputy Editor, Mute
Ben is deputy editor of Mute. He hopes to write for publication again some day. With The London Particular [www.thelondonparticular.org] he has researched regeneration and gentrification and made 1.5 films on the subject. TLP are currently finishing a series of photoessays on the restructuring of the East End of London, and a self-publishing research database for antagonists of contemporary urbanism.
He is 50% of Petit Mal www.difficultfun.org and even less of Antifamily www.antifamily.org

Anthony Iles Assistant Editor, Mute and OpenMute Tour Co-ordinator. Is a cultural engineer and writer researching and making experiments in the disappearing public sphere. Co-initiator of Broad Cast 107.9FM a one-day broadcast and performance event held at Cubitt Gallery, London http://radioresearch.omweb.org/modules/wakka/broad. He is also a member of gratipalis[t]a sound system, a group of djs playing stolen and borrowed musics http://anomie.omweb.org
 
EDITORIAL BOARD:

Josephine Berry Slater

Matthew Hyland Matthew Hyland is a contributing editor of Mute.

Anthony Iles

Demetra Kotouza

Hari Kunzru  Hari has worked with Mute since 1995. He  is the author of the novels The Impressionist (2002), Transmission (2004) Noise (2005) and My Revolutions (2008). In 2003 Granta named him one of its Best of Young British novelists. He is deputy president of PEN. A selection of his writing and photography is online at http://www.harikunzru.com

Pauline van Mourik Broekman

Benedict Seymour

Stefan Szczelkun Stefan Szczelkun is an artist whose work took an academic turn in the early 1990s. His  Phd at the Royal College of Art had the title 'Exploding Cinema 1991 - 1999, culture and democracy'. He has a long term interest in open artists collectives and the democratisation of culture. Recent projects include the online AgitDisco and an active archive DVD titled 'Creating a Movement: the struggle for inclusive education in the UK 1990 - 2006'.

Melancholic Troglodytes Melancholic Troglodytes (meltrogs1@hotmail.com) is a collective of proletarians from different cultural backgrounds. We are involved in catering, painting and decorating and educational industries. We came to accept our inability to change things a long time ago. Our literature is read by very few and understood by fewer still. Nowadays we perform our ‘revolutionary role' without much conviction. But we do have a bucket-list (a list of things we want to do before we kick the bucket). The bucket-list keeps us going!

Simon Worthington

 

PUBLISHING ADVISORY BOARD

Ceri Hand

Sally Jane Norman

Sukhdev Sandhu

Andy Wilson

 

ADVERTISING AND MARKETING

Lois Olmstead

 

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Howard Slater

 

PROJECT ASSISTANT CO-ORDINATOR

Caroline Heron

 

INTERNS

Paul Graham

CJ Lotz