Stephen Kovats, initiator, designer and director of international projects, symposia, exhibitions and academic programs in the fields of media culture and mobility, architecture and urbanism, currently director of Germany's foremost event for art and digital culture - transmediale. Previously active as chief curator and media arts researcher at V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, with projects in Europe and North America as a media arts researcher, curator, spatial designer and artistic project conceptualist at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Germany. As founder of the Electronic Media Interpretation Studio and director of the ”Ostranenie” Electronic Media Forum he was profoundly engaged in examining and actively developing the role played by electronic art and media upon the societal transformation process in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as more recent projects engaging China and regions of structural development.