*Hey, I'd go. Fun crowd.
http://www.decoded-conference.com/speaker.php
Prof. Herbert W. Franke
Munich (Germany)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_W._Franke
http://www.biologie.uni-muenchen.de/~franke
Prof. Dr. Herbert W. Franke studied Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Psychology and Philosophy in Vienna, Austria. He is internationally known as pioneer of computational art and contributed to the aesthetics from a perceptional and informational theory perspective. Furthermore he deals with future studies and is one of the most profiled German speaking science fiction authors. With over 40 professional books as well as award winning utopian novels and short stories, Herbert W. Franke became lectureships from the University of Munich and the Academy of Arts and is a co-founder of the Ars Electronica in Linz.
