Agnes Meyer-Brandis (Germany) studied mineralogy for a year, then transfered to the Art Academy in Maastricht, the Düsseldorf Art Academy and the Cologne Media Art Academy. She comes from a background of both sculpture and new media art. Her work, exhibited worldwide, is at the experimental edge of art and science, exploring the zone between fact and fiction, fantasy and technology. Her current focus is on "fantastic" augmented reality and other participatory urban interventions. She has received various grants and awards: Goethe Institute, Porto Alegre, grant,2006/Brazil,  Transmediale06 first price, Japan Media Arts Festival, honourable mention, 2006/Japan, Kunstraum Aarau, Science & Cite Award / 2005/Switzerland, Kunststiftung NRW, grant, Prix Ars Electronica, honorary mention, 2007 & 2003/Austria.  She currently holds a teaching position at the university of applied sciences Düssseldorf/Germany and is frequently lecturing at other universities and conferences. She is the founder of the Forschungsfloss FFUR / Research Raft for Subterranean Reefology, a small institute whose chief aim is to explore and confirm subterranean phenomena and unknown lifeforms. More info: www.ffur