transfiction.net involved an interdisciplinary team of engineers and designers. They were active in Belgium with the TELE Lab at UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve) as well as with the design studio magic square, the later now defunct.

transfiction.net was lead by Alok b. Nandi for the art:design aspects while the sci:tech parts were developed with the TELE lab.



Alok b. Nandi is a new media author/director.
Born in Likasi, Congo (ex-Zaire), December 4, 1964. Belgian of Indian origin.
He is working on cross-media projects, in the context of mixed-realities (virtual, augmented).

He has conceived/directed the installation utHOPEia in Salzburg in May/June 2001. At Porto 2001, European Cultural Capital, he is speaking about cinema and new media. In May 2001, he has presented Transfiction@Beaubourg at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris.
In April 2001, he was speaker at the CODE conference in Cambridge, UK, talking about "Fluxographies: from story-telling to story-sharing".
He is involved as a multimedia author in the "art.live" project, investigating mixed-realities narratives: installations in Bercy Paris in April 2001 and in Arc-et-Senans in November 2001.

He has conceived/edited "Satyajit Ray at 70" and conceived exhibitions and retrospectives around/on the oeuvre of Satyajit Ray at the Cannes Film Festival, the Festival d'Automne in Paris, the Festival of 3 Continents in Nantes, the London Film Festival 1992, ... He has been film festival juror and has co-produced films and concerts, as well as directed videos. He was awarded for www.urbicande.be, an interactive fiction based on the series Obscure Cities, by Schuiten-Peeters: Prix de la Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia 1997, Paris, as well as acclaimed in Liberation, L'Express, a.o. ... and presented off-competition at Prix Mobius 1999. He was commissioned to direct www.casterman.com and launched in 2000 www.asuivre.com, dedicated to graphic novels and design, working with the studio magic square.

He has produced performing arts evenings and concerts as well as co-produced a documentary film awarded and screened in more than 40 festivals and TV channels. His writings appear in several magazines and he has been speaking in conferences in Europe and US (Interactive Frictions Los Angeles, DAC Atlanta, DAC Bergen, ...).

Alok Nandi is a regular contributor to media magazines (Inside Internet, Publish -IDG publication, Répertoires, ...) and is a lecturer in Belgium (Master in Multimedia at ISC St-Louis, EU DG X Media Programme; DES in multimedia, UCL, Louvain la Neuve), France, Spain, Italy, Potugal, covering new media topics and has also spoken at conferences such as Apple Expo, Angoulême Festival, at the European Commission, ...

Engineer by studies (Ecole Polytechnique, ULB, Brussels Free Univ.), Alok b. Nandi completed a Postgraduation in Management (VUB) and a “Licence en Philosophie et Lettres” (cinematographic writing and analysis). He completed EAVE/Europe 94 (intensive training in film production, EU MEDIA I programme) and EAVE/IMM 95 (Interactive Multimedia, with the project 'Interactive Polyphonies') and was selected for the 1997 SAGAs Interactive Fiction Writing Seminar (EU MEDIA II, GEECT, Munchen Film & TV School).