Michael Dessen

USA

www.mdessen.com

He is a composer and trombonist who creates music for improvisers and explores the artistic potential of technologies including live electronics, telepresence, and networked scoring. He is a faculty member at the University of California, Irvine, where he co-founded a new doctoral program in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT). Working with his own trio and many collective projects, Dessen has focused on creating works for improvisers, including networked "Scorescream" that are dynamically displayed on screens for performers to perform. As an improviser, he collaborates with various bands as well as performing solo on digibone, an animistic world of slide trombone and live electronics. Dessen has also participated in numerous telematic concerts that link artists in distant locations through high-definition network technologies. His teachers include Yusef Lateef, George Lewis, and Anthony Davis, and he holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the University of California, San Diego.

Luis Fernando Navarro

Mexico / Canada
McMaster University
www.rggtrn.hithub.io/

PhD student in Communication, New Media and Cultural Studies at McMaster University (Canada). His interests are live coding, Metacreation and software studies.

Bernardo Pinero

IQLab Argentina

Buenos Aires, 1982. Artist, teacher, entrepreneur, researcher in training. Bachelor of Electronic Arts with orientation in Sound and Music from the National University of Tres de Febrero (2006). In 2007 he completed the postgraduate seminar "New technologies applied to the creation of multimedia installations and performances" at the National University Institute of Art in Buenos Aires (IUNA). He has been a DJ between 2002 and 2008. He has a Master's Degree in Technology and Aesthetics of Electronic Arts (2013) from the same university, for which he developed his Thesis "Ojoyector: interpellations of the representations of eyes in electronic arts installations" developed with the support of the “Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program” (ELAP) scholarship in Montreal, Canada, between December 2012 and March 2013). He has studied in various workshops, courses and seminars at the intersection of art and technology, including: at UNTreF, “Musical Language” (2004) and “Electroacoustic Composition and Music Seminar” (2004); at the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires: "Arduino" Workshops (2007), "Creative Strategies for Performances" (2008) and "VJign" (2008). At Fundación Telefónica, the workshops "Telas Digitales" (2007), "Arte Interactivo" (2007) and the Work Clinic "Tec En Arte I" (2008) and "Tec En Arte IV" (2011).

Mario Valencia

Colombia

‌Professor University of Caldas. PhD in Design, Master in Design and Interactive Creation from the University of Caldas, Systems Engineer from the Autonomous University of Manizales and Specialist in University Teaching at the University of Caldas. He worked as a support engineer and researcher at the Jackeline Nova electroacoustic music laboratory, as a teacher he has taught courses in engineering, multimedia, acoustics and design at different universities in Colombia.

Elizabeth Granados

Colombia

Computer engineer and multimedia development expert. Computer engineer and multimedia development expert. In her professional work, she has worked as a producer of virtual media at the University of Caldas de Manizales, has coordinated developed multimedia and educational projects coordinated by the UNDP (United Nations Development Program), winner of the national award from the Ministry of Education on construction of OVAs (Virtual Learning Objects). She has been a professor of Adobe Flash and Adobe Dream Weaver certification courses, I work as a professor in the Department of Visual Design at the University of Caldas and I participate in the investigations Surrounding Audiovisual Spaces and Nam robotic sculpture, she specialized in online technologies off-line, UNESCO - MECAD / ESDI. She is currently a freelance Web and Multimedia consultant and developer.

Emilio Ocelotl Reyes

Mexico
UNAM

Emilio studied Sociology and Music Technology at UNAM (Mexico). He is currently involved in electroacoustic musical composition. His research focuses on the study of the loop between the practice and theory of musical technologies.