Bettina Schülke is an Austrian Artist, Doctoral Researcher at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design, Mediastudies. Her research theme is “Transaction” (Phenomenology of Space and Time Dimensions). Schülke holds a Masters degree form the University of Fine Arts. She has exhibited widely at international venues like the De Winkelhaak Design Museum, Antwerp, BE; Kemi Art Museum; Lume Mediakeskus, Helsinki, FI; the MAK-nite (Museum of Applied Arts), Vienna, AUT. Her textile works had been presented at the Austrian Pavilion at the 8.th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, IT. She is teaching at the the University of Lapland and the Kemi/Tornio University of Applied Science, FIN.

Haraldur Karlsson is an Icelandic new media artist, supervisor, teacher at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts and member of the Association of Icelandic Visual Art (SIM).He studied 4 years fine arts at the academy in Iceland, then 2 years video art in the Nederlands and 3 years Sonology at the Royal Conservatory den Hague. Haraldur exhibited and performed number of projects in various venues, like the Argos festival in Brussels, Sonic act festival in Amsterdam, NoD Prague, Living art museum Reykjavik, the Reykjavik art museum. The summer 2008 Haraldur was Artist in Residence in Amsterdam at STEIM (Center for research & development of instruments & tools) and deticated his time to work on the Dangerous Beauty project. In Spring 2009 Haraldur Karlsson will be Artist in Residence in Austria, where the site specific video-sound installation project Dangerous Beauty will be further developed.