Michelle Teran (1966) is a media artist, hacker of social code and public space working in a networked live art practice. She became involved in media arts after studying art history, theatre, cultural theory, painting and drawing at Hospicio Cabanas in Guadalajara (1986-87), Instituto de las Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende (1987), and the Ontario College of Art (1988-1993). She uses live media in performances and installations that address issues such as social networks, intimacy over distance, telepresence  and the interplay between (media) spaces. She utilizes video from webcams, streams, wireless networks and cameras, on-line collaborative communication environments, combined with physical objects and gestures, materials used to create performative  interventions. Recent projects include Life: a user's manual, a series of public performances and online mappings that examine the hidden stories captured by private wireless CCTV streams and how they intersect with the visible world around us. With her collaborator Jeff Mann, she is currently working on LiveForm:Telekinetics, developing connected social, participatory environments using streamed media, sensor-based and kinetic objects. LiveForm:Telekinetics is a commission by Waag Society for Old and New Media with BEAP (Perth) and Melkweg (Amsterdam) partners.