Asher Remy-Toledo

Asher Remy-Toledo is a Colombian-American cultural producer, instigator of collaborative models that are redefining the boundaries of artistic fields. He is currently the director and co-founder of the Hyphen Hub, a New York-based organization working at the intersection of art and emerging technology. Hyphen Hub produces live performances, large and small scale installations, exhibitions and immersive experiences. It also organizes art salons to debate and present new work and where leading thinkers and professionals in the world of science, art, design and technology meet. Hyphen Hub has built a global community of artists ranging from cyborgs, Fashion Tech designers, bionic men and women, and artists employing robotics, VR, AR, and XR (Experiential Reality).

Stephanie Rothenberg

USA
University of Buffalo
www.pan-o-matic.com

Presented by Hyphen Hub, NY

Stephanie Rothenberg is an artist who uses performance, installation, and networked media to create provocative public interactions. His work moves between real and virtual spaces investigating the power dynamics of techno-utopias, the global economy, and outsourced labor. He has exhibited in the US and internationally at venues such as Eyebeam in New York, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams, MA, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, House of Electronic Arts in Basel, Switzerland, LABoral in Gijón, Spain, Transmediale in Berlin and ZKM Center for Art & Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Jakob Kudsk Steensen

Denmark / USA
www.jakobsteensen.squarespace.com

Presented by Hyphen Hub, NY and the Francisco José de Caldas Science Center

Jakob Kudsk Steensen is a New York-based Danish artist and art director specializing in real-time simulations of ecosystems displayed as video installations and virtual reality. Through his practice, Steensen is concerned with how imagination, technology, and ecology intertwine. He develops futuristic virtual simulations of existing landscapes in the real world with the aim of generating new types of ecological consciousness. To develop his work, Steensen ventures on intense excursions where he collects organic material and photographs plants, rocks and sediments. Inspired by ecology-oriented science fiction and conversations with biologists and ethnographers, he turns source material collected in the field into imaginative virtual worlds that my anthropomorphic creatures inhabit.

Rose Kuo

USA
www.festworks.com

Presented by Hyphen Hub, NY

Rose Kuo's career in film spans more than three decades and includes world-class film festivals, publishing, and cinema. She is the founder of Festworks. Previously, Ms. Kuo was the executive director and artistic director of the Qingdao International Film Festival for the Dalian Wanda Group in Beijing. Ms. Kuo is a former Executive Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and editor of Film Comment Magazine. As Artistic Director of AFI FEST, she was the architect of the American Film Institute's "free film festival" model for film and anthropology. In 2013, Daily Variety Magazine named her one of the Gotham 50. Ms. Kuo began her film career working with renowned directors Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, and Zwick and Michael Mann.

Marc Routh

USA
Broadway Asia
www.broadwayasia.com

Presented by Hyphen Hub, NY

As a co-founder of Broadway Asia, he has created successful Mandarin productions with Chinese pop superstar Jay Chou, THE SECRET, and a giant immersive theater show in China called NEVERLAND, about the history of from Peter Pan. He is a Professor in the Department of Performing Arts at Brooklyn College, NY, where he has been teaching “Business Management for the Performing Arts” for 25 years. ( Performing Arts Administration) He has given various lectureships at Columbia University, Youngstown State University, New York University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the recipient of the Robert Whitehead Award in the Outstanding Commercial Theater Producer category. He has been inducted into the NYU Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame, (New York University Hall of Fame for his dedication to the performing arts and theater for commercial purposes. He served as president of the League of Off-Broadway Theaters and Producers for 8 years. He is the subject of a chapter in the book “The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well.” (Plume, 2013). They do it so well."

Barbara London

USA
Yale School of Art

Barbara London is a curator and writer who founded the exhibition and media and video collection programs at the Museum of Modern Art, where she worked from 1973 to 2013. Exhibitions organized by Ms. London include solo shows with the pioneers of media Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Steina Vasulka, Joan Jonas, Shigeko Kubota, Peter Campus, Gary Hill, and Laurie Anderson. She was the first curator from the United States to show the work of Asian artists Zhang Peili, Song Dong, Teiji Furuhashi, Feng Mengbo, and Yang Fudong. His thematic exhibitions at MoMA have included Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto; New video from China; Anime!; Looking at Music, parts 1-3; Music video: the Industry and its Fringes; and in 2013 Probes: A Contemporary Score. He also organized Media City Seoul in 2000.

Janet Biggs

USA
www.jbiggs.com

Presented by Hyphen Hub, NY

Janet Biggs is primarily known for her work in video, photography, and performance. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Biggs's work focuses on individuals in extreme landscapes or situations and often navigates the territory between art and science. He has captured events like kayakers performing a synchronized ballet in arctic waters and sulfur miners inside an active volcano. His recent projects have explored memory creation and loss from personal, physical, and scientific perspectives. Biggs' work has taken her to conflict areas in the Horn of Africa and to Mars (as a member of Crew 181 at the Mars Desert Research Station). He has collaborated with neuroscientists, Arctic explorers, aerospace engineers, astrophysicists, Yemeni refugees, and a robot.

Photo by Cassandra Klos

Mike Stubbs

England
FACT
fact.co.uk

Presented by Hyphen Hub, NY

Mike Stubbs is the Director of FACT (Foundation for Creative Art and Technology) Liverpool, a place where art, people and creative technology meet and the UK's leading organization for launching and introducing new forms of multimedia art and deep programs of social commitment, talent development linked to the creative industries. Stubbs was jointly appointed to FACT with Liverpool John Moores University in 2007, as Professor of Art, Media and Curating. Previously he was Program Manager at ACMI (Australian Center for the Moving Image), Melbourne and Visual Research Centre, Dundee, Scotland.