Steven Devleminck (Brussels) is an engineer and designer and teaches on new media art and information visualization at the Graphic Design Department of the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel. He is co-founder and director of the Transmedia Program in Arts, Media and Design. He acts as a curator, programmer, designer and publicist and contributed to several projects such as the ‘Shapeshifters’ lecture series at the Brussels Beursschouwburg (www.beursschouwburg.be) and the ‘Perfor(m)ations’ symposium on art and architecture at Wiels, Centre for Cotemporary Art. He worked on ‘An Anthropology of World Mapping’ together with Herman Asselberghs and in collaboration with Filip De Boeck and Koen Stroeken of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (University Leuven), a project investigating the contextual relevancy of graphical knowledge maps.

Recent output of this research includes the book ‘Cartographic Strategies: Subjective Worldviews’ (ACCO, 2008 in collaboration with Herman Asselberghs) and a series of maps exhibited at kunstencentrum Z33, Hasselt. Other work includes the books ‘BinnenInside’ and ‘Lichtzinnig’ (2006, 2007 in collaboration with Johan Stuyck), the articles ‘The Chemistry of Meaning, or How to map a Moment of Magic’ (2007 in collaboration with Koen Stroeken), ‘The Real and the Ideal’ (2007) and ‘Affective Cartography’ (2007), a series of installations for the multidisciplinary exhibition ‘WIT’ at the Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg (www.kvs.be).

He is currently preparing a phD at the University of the Arts, London.