In congruity with the concept of hEXPO, the profile and the function of tutors is multi-facetted: on the one hand, they are in charge of the daily workshops during the festival. On the other hand, they are the backbone of the festival's evening program, providing the creative output through their projects - concerts, performances, installations, video and film presentations, lectures. This is a collective of people who are consciously cultivating the cross-field approach in their work, defying the borders of specialisation. If there is one common denominator to be found for the tutors, then this would be interdisciplinarity. In a more poetic language, they could be named "one-man-battalion".

During the three weeks of hEXPO, three mobile working groups of tutors and assistants were organized, each changing locations on a weekly basis.


Jacques Bigot (France)
Electronic engineer, sound engineer, computer programmer, networking expert, designer of interactive systems. Works at the Museum of technology in La Villete, Paris.

Franci Blaskovic (Croatia, Istria)
One of the most important figures in contemporary Istrian cultural identity. He acts as singer, actor, musician, composer, poet, painter, and public activist. With his wife Arinka they produce one of the most popular broadcasts in the region of Pula. He is also famous for being president of the Anti - Tourist League and is a connoisseur of funghi.

Pascal Boyer (France)
Known as 'bigfiles', he works as independent Sound- and Media-Artist and performer.

Marko Brecelj (Slovenia)
In his first life he became a legend as one of the most unique provokers on the ex-Yugoslav pop scene and the leader of the controversal band Buldozer. He spent his second life as a one-man-batallion performer and cultural activist. In the third life, he is running a full-time social experiment together with his wife Arijana for the last ten years. They perform daily social, cultural and art engagement leading MKC in Koper as the motor and promotor of self-organized alternative culture in Slovenia. Marko Brecelj still has six lives to go.

Dirk Bruinsma (The Netherlands)
Multi-instrumentalist and polymedia artist, member of the Blast Ensemble. Composer and cultural activist.
http://members.aol.com/Cuneiform3/otolithen.html

Zlatko Buric (Croatia, Denmark)
A Psychology graduate, Zlatko is one of the co-founders of Kugla Glumiste. He gained a status of an idol of non-native citizens of Denmark through specific roles he played in movies and theatre, as well as in music. Relentless intermediator for culture and arts between North - West and South - East Europe.

Gerard Couty (France, Germany)
Was the main force behind Frigo, an independent multimedia production facility in Lyon in parallel to Radio Bellevue. He works as independent electronic graphic designer for Arte channel productions.

David D'Heilly (USA, Japan)
Independent television producer, proficient in digital video, art manager, and tactical media expert. He currently is based in Japan and works on a global scale.

David Dronet (France)
Multimedia and video artist, the main force behind Station Mir in Caen, France (media lab and artist in residency venue).

Ulf Freyhoff (Germany)
http://telenautik.pop.de/Telenaut_e.htm
New-media artist, platform-builder, networker, computer specialist. Teacher for mixed-media at HfBK Hamburg.

Mike A. Hentz (USA,Switzerland, Germany)
http://meta.iflugs.hdk-berlin.de/bips/bips/llm1.htm
Besides running projects like Minus delta T, Van Gogh TV, Odyssee, Roma Machine, and Medusa, he had done countless performances in the field of polymedia, workshops which expaned social sculptures, and connected artists and intellectuals throughout Eastern Europe long before Berlin Wall had fallen.

Jogi Hofmueller (Austria)
http://www.mur.at
Programmer, one of the co-founders of Radio Helsinki in Graz, system operator of mur.at server in Graz, member of 42 platform

Reni Hofmueller (Austria)
http://www.mur.at
musician, sound artist, performer, one of the co-founders of Radio Helsinki in Graz, curator of ESC gallery, member of 42 platform

Stephen Kovats (Canada/USA)
http://www.ostranenie.org
Canadian architect, lived and worked primarily in Dessau, and Berlin, Germany from October 3, 1990 the day of German unification until Y2K. There he established the Studio Electronic Media Interpretation at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation where he initiated and ran numerous international projects in the fields of architecture and electronic media arts. His major projects have included the OSTRANENIE Electronic Media Arts Forum, and the ARCHITONOMY architectural media seminars. He is currently living in New York City, and working on projects in Germany, Russia, Slovenia and Ethiopia.

Bela Marias (Yugoslavia, Hungary)
A Hungarian from Vojvodina, he lives and works in Budapest as a multi-instrumentalist, composer, painter, writer, art critic, and organizer. He has been the leader of the band Tudosok since 1991.

Rastko Mocnik (Slovenia)
Professor of Sociology of Culture at Ljubljana University, Slovenia. Author of numerous books and essays.

Miran Mohar (Slovenia)
Visual artist, cultural innovator and stern proponent of self-promotion. Founding member of Irwin/NSK.

Bob Ostertag (USA)
http://www.detritus.net/ostertag
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, one of the great innovators in the cross- field of computer technology, electronic music and digital sampling. Founder of Say No More band (together with Gerry Hemingway, Phil Minton and Mark Dresser), Ostertag has composed pieces for himself, Say No More and other ensembles including the Kronos Quartet, collaborated with numerous musicians and toured world-wide.

Rotraut Pape (Germany)
http://www.is-kassel.de/dokfest/fest98/details/rotraut.html
Noted video artist, member of the Raskin performance group, producer for Arte, author of multimedia and interactive installations. Leader of video/tv workshops for Goethe Institute in Africa and Asia.

Michel Piet (France)
cook, performer. Is involved in multi-media-art events in international context together with artists from different fields.

Helmut Schaefer (Austria)
Creator of multimedia installations and computer generated music and images, he has made live performances in collaboration with Ars Elelctronica, Touch, Graham Haynes, Zbigniew Karkowski.

Jiri Suruvka (Czech Republic)
Liberal artist and part-time disabled pensioner. Visual and body artist, performer, teacher at the Arts Institute at Ostrava University. Co-founder of the re-invented dada cabaret "The Lozinski Support Band".

Misko Suvakovic (Yugoslavia)
Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Arts in Belgrade, passionate theoretician and precise performer. Probably the key thinker on contemporary art in the present-(dooms)day Yugoslavia . Author of numerous books and essays.

Zoran Todorovic (Yugoslavia)
visual artist, assistant at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade; author of numerous installations and performances that demonstrate radical human, social and political engagement in the face of cultural conventions.

Marek Tuszynski (Poland)
NGO activist, Internet specialist, president of Second Hand Bank, projector and manager of various programs and projects in different fields.... which ones, read on a detailed cv-page, created expecially for hEXPO
http://www.batory.org.pl/~mtusz/hexpo

Chrisitan Vanderborght (France)
http://unitvnetwork.org/
Multimedia artist and producer, director of Universcity TV (the first European interactive -television network), production manager for internet television Canalweb in Paris.

Zelimir Zilnik (Yugoslavia)
http://www.geocities.com/zilnik_zelimir
"enfant terrible" of Yugoslav cinema, banned author of provocative films in the 60's and 70's, brilliant documentarist, creator of original fiction-faction cross-breeds, incessant producer of working situations independent of superstructures. His films were shown on all major festivals worldwide where they received many awards from 1968 on, among which the Grand Prix of Berlin Film Festival.