Emanuel Andel interest in visual media started in high school, where he spezialized in Photography and audio-visual Media. He then started his studies at the university of applied arts in Vienna under the supervision of Peter Weibel and Tom Fürstner. During that time he was co-fonder of 5VOLTCORE, sqatted and studied in London for a year and participated in various european Mediaart Festivals.

Christian Gützers' career began in the metalworking industry, where he trained as a machine tool manu- facturer and qualified at the age of 22. After this, he also studied "visual media design" in Peter Weibel's masterclass at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he co-founded 5VOLTCORE.

Peter Linhart is the master of Code & Cables, he wrote the firmware and was technical supervisor of the Knife.Hand.Chop.Bot - and when we are lucky he makes sure the piece actually works.

Valentina Vuksic (CH/NL) studied New Media Art at the Zurich University of the Arts and Information Systems in Germany. She approaches digital technology via magnetic pickup microphones. The uncovered and amplified noise mediates processes enfolding within orchestrated soft- and hardware spaces.

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Martin Matusiak and Bianca Hochenauer on the computers and Ivec Schmid behind the camera are the reason why the Shockbot and the Knife.Hand.Chop.Bot video are as funky as they are - if you're looking for a young and creative videoediting/compositing/3D Team check out dropout.at

Berhard Faiss from provided the 5VOLTCORE logo and typo layout - thank you!