Götz Großklaus (Prof. em. Dr.), born 1933, is Professor emeritus at the Institute for Neuere Deutsche Philologie at the University (TH) of Karlsruhe (now: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT). He co-founded the Institute for Applied Culture Studies at the University (TH) Karlsruhe and was Associate Professor for Media History at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe as well as Visiting professor at the Cairo University (1974-76), Visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne (1983) and at the Istanbul Universitesi Beyazit (1995). Main Field of Research: Comparative Literature / Culture Studies, Semiotics, Theory of Media.

Jesús Muñoz Morcillo studied classical philology in Salamanca and Würzburg as well as art history and media theory at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG), where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the work of the media art pioneer Stephan von Huene. Since 2009 he has been an associate researcher in the field of artists' archives and a lecturer in art studies at the HfG Karlsruhe and works at the ZAK | Centre for Applied Cultural Studies and Studium Generale at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His main areas of expertise include communication and language theory, the field of art and technology and the digital transmission of media art.