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Steve Dietz was Director of ISEA2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose International Festival of Art and Technology in 2006, and Curatorial Fellow at the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre, Canada. He is the former Curator of New Media at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, where he founded the New Media Initiatives department in 1996, the online art Gallery 9 and digital art study collection. He also co-founded, with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts the award-winning educational site ArtsConnectEd, and the artist community site mnartists.org with the McKnight Foundation. Dietz has organized and curated new media exhibitions, including Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace (2001–02), a nationally travelling exhibition; Open_Source_Art_Hack (2002, with Jenny Marketou); Translocations (2003, part of How Latitudes Become Forms at the Walker Art Center); State of the Art: Maps, Games, Stories, and Algorithms from Minnesota (2003); Database Imaginary (2004, with Anthony Kiendl and Sarah Cook), and Making Things Public (2005, with Peter Weibel and Bruno Latour).