Stephen Kovats (Germany/Canada) Is artistic director of transmediale festival, Berlin. www.transmediale.de He is a Canadian born architect and media researcher who spent a decade researching German unification, designing and establishing media art and culture related programs at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. His "Studio Electronic Media Interpretation" hosted numerous international projects, symposia and exhibitions. Kovats founded several media culture oriented exchange and network programs including Archi-Tonomy, EMARE, ECX and the Bauhauskolleg. Kovats was also international programs developer at V2_Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam. www.v2.nl