Annegret Huber (Prof. Dr.) is a professor at the Department of Composition, Electroacoustics, and Tonmeister Education at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria. Her research focuses on epistemological, cultural and historical questions on musical analysis and its methods in interdisciplinary contexts, especially sociology of knowledge, media philosophy, and gender studies.
Doris Ingrisch (Prof. Dr.) is a cultural scientist and a visiting guest professor of gender studies at the Department for Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM) at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since March 2011. Her research focuses on science, art and gender, experimental methods, and arts-based research.
Therese Kaufmann is head of research promotion at mdw - Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. She studied German language and literature, art history and cultural studies in Vienna and London.
Johannes Kretz (Prof.) is a composer, electronics performer, artistic researcher, and head of the Artistic Research Center (ARC) at mdw - University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria.
Gesine Schröder (Prof. emerit. Dr.) is a professor for music theory at the Department of Composition, Electroacoustics, and Tonmeister Education at mdw - University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria, and at the University for Music and Theatre »Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy« Leipzig, Germany.
Tasos Zembylas has been professor for cultural institutions studies at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien since 2003. He is member of the Advisory Board of the Research Network Sociology of Arts (European Sociological Association) and founding member of the Research Network on Implicit Knowledge (Forschungsnetzwerk Implizites Wissen). His research specializations include the sociology of artistic practices, public cultural policies, and the institutional analysis of arts.