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. As co-director of the Mute organisation he has been involved in a number of projects, including the following: Mute – The Metamap, Conceptualisation, research (HAL2001) and artwork http://www.metamute.org/en/node/5678. Mute – YouAreHere, http://youarehere.3d.openmute.org, co-founded community mapping/wireless project. Mute – Xcom2002 event, London http://xcom2002.com, co-organiser in collaboration with NTK. Mute – Magnet http://magnet-ecp.org, world wide electronic cultural magazine publishers network, project member and collaborator. Mute – Picopeer, wireless network agreement http://picopeer.net, initial contributor and co-developer of draft agreement. Mute – Cartographic Congress, London, six week long festival, http://twenteenthcentury.com/uo/index.php/CartographicCongress, 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. Mute – MuteMap, http://mutemap.openmute.org, project coordinator. Mute – DMZ Media Arts London, festival and network group http://dmzlondon.net/, group member and event steering group member
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:
Matthew Hyland
J.J. King is a writer, lecturer and information activist living in East London. He is currently writing a weekly column for Channel 4 News www.channel4.com/news, teaching the Masters Programme in Digital Media at Ravensbourne College www.maidm.com, and developing Pretext, a project providing a new approach to publishing literary fiction www.pretext.org
Demetra Kotouza
Hari Kunzru has worked with Mute since 1995. He is the author of the novels The Impressionist (2002), Transmission (2004) and the short story connection Noise (2005). In 2003 Granta named him one of its Best of Young British novelists. He is a member of the Executive Council of PEN. A selection of his writing and photography is online at http://www.harikunzru.com/hari
Pauline van Mourik Broekman
Laura Sullivan
