Yvonne Spielmann is Chair of New Media at the University of the West of Scotland. Previously she was Professor of Visual Media at the Braunschweig School of Art, Germany. She is author of the books Eine Pfütze in bezug aufs Mehr. Avantgarde (1991), Intermedialität. Das System Peter Greenaway (1998), and Video. Das reflexive Medium (2005). The English translation Video. The Reflexive Medium was published by MIT Press in 2008. During the festival she will present her latest book Hybridkultur (2010).