James Jung Hoon Seo

MIT

James Jung-Hoon Seo, from the MIT Media Lab, belongs to the "Aesthetics and Computation Group" led by Jhon Maeda. Aesthetics + Computation Group works on the designs of the future with advanced architectures and implements the processes that allow the creation of unimaginable shapes and spaces, projects such as Physical Language Workshop that propose to recover the fundamental concepts of visual language to digital aesthetics, or processing , conceived as a space for learning systems programming in the context of electronic arts, are examples of SEO developments that are characterized by multidisciplinary approaches, a specific identity of the MIT Media Lab.

Peter Weibel

Germany

President and CEO of the ZKM/Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (Germany) with studies in literature, medicine, logic, philosophy and cinema in Paris and Vienna. Poli + Artist, art and media theorist and exhibition curator. He has held various teaching and research positions in Europe and America. He has been an Austrian commissioner at the Venice Biennale; since 1992 he has been the artistic director of Ars Electrónica in Linz, Austria. in 1999 he was appointed president of the ZKM/ Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (Germany).

Teresa Picazo

Brazil

Catholic University of São Paulo – PUC. Technology and Digital Media - Art and Technology. Brazil. PIBIC-CNPQ

pk langshaw

Canada
pklangshaw.com

Director of the Department of Design Art at Concordia University in Montreal. She is chair and associate professor of the Art Design Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University, Québec. His creative production as a practice of social design began as a hybrid, drawn from concrete poetry, and extended by the quantum relationships between text and image. PK is involved in the production of many events, in multidisciplinary research based on community initiatives.

Oliver Vodeb

Slovenia

Sociologist, creative director and communication and design theorist. In 2006 he co-founded the Poper Studio, a company of creative and tactical interactions. In recent years, his theoretical and practical research has focused primarily on critical and socially responsible communication focused on literacy, tactical education, networked environments, media activism, advertising, and design. Oliver founded Memefest in 2002 and has been a facilitator, curator, editor and main organizer since the project's inception.

Mark Novak

USA
www.centrifuge.org

Intermediate architect, theoretician and artist. Professor of design and media arts at UCLA in Los Angeles (USA). He is a member of the CAIIA_STAR research center, University of Wales, College Newport (GB) and honorary co-president of the Transarchitectures Association of Paris (France). His projects have been exhibited at numerous international exhibitions and congresses, among others at transarchitectures02-03 NAi, Rotterdam;Imagina, Monte Carlo; the Bordeaux Center d'Architecture; the 3rd International Biennial film+arc.graz in Austria; the UCLA Center for Digital Arts; the Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Center for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, Scotland; the Archilab Frac Center, Orléans; the Web-Event Transports (with Kas Oosterhuis and Ole Bouman) NAi, Rotterdam, or at the international architecture biennials of Sao Paulo and Venice, in the year 2000.

Lorenzo Vilches

Spain

He is Professor of Journalism at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and visiting professor at Latin American Universities. International consultant in the field of film and television. He was sailing in the 70s through Paris, Rome (where he did a postgraduate degree in cinema and worked for RAI, Radiotelevisone italiana) and West Berlin (where he began his doctoral thesis) until he dropped anchor in Barcelona forever. Director of the International Master of Writing for Film and Television (UAB) since 1991, he is also editor and director of the digital magazine Guionactualidad. He is the general coordinator of the Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction (Obitel) and director of the Estudios de Televisión collection at Editorial Gedisa and the collection of the same name at the Television Academy. He has written various books on communication, image, journalism and new technologies.

Arlindo Machado

Brazil
www.arteuna.com/CRITICA/Machado.htm