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Md Faisal Mustapha is a media artist / designer currently working in the Mixed Reality Lab in Singapore. He has been with the lab since November 2005. He supports the lab by designing brochures, posters, logos, booklets, namecards, project tshirts, covers of conference proceedings, editing powerpoint presentations, composing original music, shooting and editing project videos plus creating and maintaining our official website. He is also currently involved in research works including Metazoa Ludens where along with the hardware team, helped construct the hardware structure from scratch. Recently he has created and maintained websites such as Interactive Digital Media(IDM) Network, NUS Hollywood Lab , Mobile HCI 2007 and IMMERSCOM 2007. His works also include a video showreel for MICA which he also compose two soundtracks for MICA to showcase Singapore in the Global Leadership Forum on Economic and Cultural Development held in San Jose, USA, August 2006. He is on the organizing committee of MobileHCI 2007 as the webmaster. Recently he created the IDMI logo for the Interactive Digital Media Institute (NUS) that was launched in October 2007.
He has graduated with a Diploma in Interactive Art from LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts. During his studies there, he has exhibited internally his works such as Biohazardary Works (2006), Postmodern Musical Robot (2005) and Abstract Musical Animation (2004). In his final year studies, he joined MXR lab as a intern for 2 months. After his internship, he later joined part-time and has since committed full-time. His interest lies in abstract art, postmodernism, web applications, design interactivity and media.
 Carlos David Perales was born in Spain, in 1979. Graduated in Piano and Composition at the Conservatoire of Seville with A. Jose Flores, and Pilar Bilbao. Sponsored by the Andalusian Government to study at the "University of Music and Dramatic Art" in Vienna (Austria). Graduated in Composition and Conducting with D. Schermann and Leopold Hager in 2002. As conductor he work with Pro-Arte Symphonische Orchester, Ensemble Artistique in Vienna, and Kammerorchester in Linz, (Austria), as well as diverse ensembles at the University of Music in Vienna, where simultaneously, and as a composer, some of their works are premiered. Guest by the Spanish Embassy in Vienna in concerts organized by the Austrian and Slovenian Embassies. In Spain, from 2002 to 2005 he is Assistant Conductor of the Youth Orchestra of the Generalitat Valenciana. Conducts the Symphonic Wind Orchestra of Utiel (Valencia), Ubetense Wind Orchestra (Jaen), Generalitat Valenciana´s Choir. Artistic direction of Polyphonic Ensemble Choir (Ubeda). Since 2006 he is the Principal Conductor of Schola Cantorum Choir (Castellon). Guested as a composer for the International Festival "2000 Jubilee" in Rome (Italy). His catalogue of works has several pieces for instrumental, vocal and electronic settings. Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Music. First Arts Prize granted by the Andalusia Institute of Youth (2003). In 2006 he is resident Composer at the Mixed Reality Lab at NUS (Singapore). Currently he develops his research as composer at the Fine Arts School at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Electronic Music for the Computer-Human Interaction.  Kelly Andres is a media artist who is engaged in communicative technology (contemporary and archaic), and the senses. Andres recently completed graduate work that sought to synthesize feminist frameworks with new media art to investigate the mediated body in relation to communications technology. Her research is concerned with discussions that imagine or suggest new forms of subjectivity that could be experienced through artistic appropriation of communicative, networked and technological media. These discussions include studio investigations and unfold around the following themes: corporeal feminism, body-based philosophy, a subversion or manipulation of consumer technologies through intervention, appropriation and performance, the politics of space and location through networked interaction, and the mediated body in relation to communication technologies through a valorization of embodiment and the senses.
Her work has been exhibited in New York (USA), Vancouver (CAN), Banff (CAN), Montreal (CAN), Halifax (CAN) and across Europe in the McCleave Gallery of Fine Art’s Touring Suitcase Exhibition. She is currently involved in the e-MobiLArt European Lab for Interactive Artists with workshops and exhibitions in Greece, Finland and Vienna. Since May till August 2008, Andres operates as an artist in residence with ISEA 2008, working with the Mixed Reality Lab to create a new work titled: Finally, We Hear One Another. This work uses mobile communicative technology to create a series of wearable for environmental soundscape that exists between strangers.
 Does it make scents to have fun?
Have you ever used your noses to play games? Does it make any sense?
The aim of this project is to explore the boundaries of olfactory interface through the combination of art, gameplay, and technology. Rather than treating smell as an additional effect, this project uses it as an essential cue for players’ decision making and navigation. Player has to discriminate, identify and recall the scents. Sniffing becomes a radical new interface for play. Players can communicate by triggering different aromas, deciding when and what scents to be emitted during the virtual navigation. Could the sense of smell give us more possibilities and enhance the pleasure in gameplay? Or will it become a disaster? This is an intriguing uncharted territory of interactive media, especially in gameplay, that is going to be explored. Biography :
LAI Mei Kei is currently a lecturer in the School of Arts at Macau Polytechnic Institute. She is involved in teaching multimedia and game design. She received her postgraduate degree in Design for Interactive Media from the Lansdown Centre of Electronic Arts in Middlesex University, London, UK. Coming from technology and design backgrounds, her works include interactive installation, video filming and web application. She is interested in exploring various kinds of non-conventional interface, especially olfactory display. Her current research is focused on multi-player olfactory game. Her experimental olfactory game project, “Smell Me” was presented in HCI 2006: Engage conference in London, UK.  Horia Cosmin Samoila : Founder of the GhostLab since 2003. His artistic purpose was initialy to explore the fields of the electomagnetic landscapes and the cognitive conglomerates.The results of these explorations are combined trough various forms like invisible sculptures (geomagnetic medium) traced by oral tradition, video performance, drawings and instalations, electromagnetic presence mapping (video/instalations), experimental electromagnetic prototypes, brain•machine interface (installations), cybernetics with plants (installation) and cognitive experiments (performance). He works also since several months in colaboration within the Spectral Investigations Collective, participating at many conferencyes, debates around critical views of electromagnetic components in the modern society.  Marie Christine Driesen : She works initialy on performance, video and photography. Her photographic intention was initially to highlight the unrestrained development of technologies within urban space, the automated society and the relative feeling of strangeness in modern spaces without human presence. Inother instalations in natural spaces, she manifest trought electronic and self powered systems, the natural rythms in corelation with sun activity.These instalations represented a kind of paradoxal refuges, where the contact with wild spaces was interfaced with technological remainings. She also take the body like field of artistic experimentation and poetic contextualisation. In other purposes, like minimal video instalations which revealed the internal process of machines and diverting their initial use, she put forward the phenomena of the electromagnetic involved radiations. Together, Marie Christine Driesen and Horia Cosmin Samoila, developed various projects within the GhostLab, concearning the relation of the body and electromagnetic landscapes (antenna-clothes), video-installations where sounds of electromagnetic landscapes came like a paradigmic layers of perception and reveals invisible, and experimental antenna prototypes
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