Many human animals have made irreplaceable contributions to the success of this enterprise. First and foremost, we want to express our thanks to the artists, authors and those parties who made works available on loan, especially those unnamed: Ingo Voigt, Vanessa Karré, Ellen Nonnenmacher, Steve Baker and Donna Haraway, Simone Wiechers from the Galerie Deschler as well as Verena Hochleitner.

We would also like to thank all speakers for volunteering their services at the colloquium which took place 9 and 10 May 2009: Fahim Amir, Ramón Reichert, Massimo Perinelli, Jo Longhurst, Kathy High, Catherine Bell, Marc Wilson and Bryndis Snaebjörnsdottir, Vitaly Komar, Varsity of Maneuvers, Reiner Maria Matysik, Anselmo Fox and Mirjam Goller, Bärbel Rothhaar as well as Deborah Sengl.

We also wish to thank all artists who made their video works available on 10 and 14 June 2009: Edwina Ashton, Chloe Brown, Volker Eichelmann, Jeanette Fabis, Hugo Fortes, Hayden Fowler, Anselmo Fox, Lane Hall and Lisa Moline, Kathy High, Nina Kotel, Cyrill Lachauer, Katharina Meldner, Aurelia Mihai, Roz Mortimer, Nobuhira Narumi, Patricia Piccinini, NoËlle Pujol, Nadin Reschke, Bärbel Rothhaar, Anri Sala, Julia Schlosser, Rosemarie Trockel, Katerina Zavodova. Special thanks go out to Oleg Kulik and the XL Gallery, Moscow, as well as Wonderdog Productions U.K. We are grateful to Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art for their cooperation.

A very special thanks goes to the Search and Rescue Dog Team of the German Red Cross, for being available for school visitations.