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PEOPLE SimpleTEXT is created by Family Filter, a collaboration between Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Tim Redfern, and Duncan Murphy. It was originally funded by a commission from Low-Fi, a new media arts organization based in the UK. More info on the authors is below. Jonah Brucker-Cohen Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and Ph.D. candidate as an HEA MMRP (Multimedia Research Programme) fellow in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. He is an adjunct assistant professor of communications at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). He worked as an R&D OpenLab Fellow at Eyebeam in NYC from 2006/7. From 2001-4 he was a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe. He received a Masters from ITP in 1999 and was an Interval Research Fellow from 1999-2001. His work and thesis focuses on the theme of "Deconstructing Networks" which includes projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. He is co-founder of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA Group) and a recipient of the ARANEUM Prize sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Science and Technology and Fundacion ARCO. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including WIRED Magazine, Make Magazine, Rhizome.org, and Gizmodo, and his work has been shown at events such as DEAF (03,04), Art Futura (04), SIGGRAPH (00,05), UBICOMP (02,03,04), CHI (04,06) Transmediale (02,04,08), NIME (07), ISEA (02,04,06), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (04), Whitney Museum of American Art's ArtPort (03), Ars Electronica (02,04), Chelsea Art Museum, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art (04-5), and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (NYC). Jonah Personal URL Projects and Work: http://www.coin-operated.com/projects Tim Redfern Tim Redfern is a media Artist, film maker and educator based in Dublin. With a background in design, and an affinity for science, technology, computing, mathematics and all things technological, over the last 10 years Tim has programmed interactive experiences, hacked hardware, created 3D worlds and graphic projections for many theatrical and musical events. Tim's artistic practice embraces minimalist graphic art, computer programming and technological inventiveness. He is also pursuing his PhD at Trinity College Dublin with the Distributed Systems Group of the Department of Computer Science, in audio applications of distributed, especially location-aware computing devices. Tim Personal URL Projects and Work: www.eclectronics.org Duncan Murphy SimpleTEXT features an interactive music composition by Duncan Murphy of Dublin Electronica act 'Ambulance'. Ambulance are Dunk+Trev, a Dublin duo who have been collaborating in electronic music since 1997. With 5 singles and an album released on 'planet-mu', Mike Paradinas' electronica label (often described as 'warps r&d department'), single and compilation releases on Dublin labels 'frontend synthetics', 'lazybird', 'umack', 'synergia' and 'The fear', remixed by decal, max tundra, and spectac as well as live appearances with sigor ros, squarepusher, and the 'Dublin Electronic Arts Festival', Ambulance are an active force in the Dublin electronic music scene.