Dr Bill Vorn

Concordia University/Hexagram Canada www.billvorn.concordia.ca

Born and based in Montreal (Canada), Bill Vorn has been pursuing research in Robotic Art for almost 25 years. His artistic practice includes installation and performance projects and includes motion control and robotic control, sound, light, video, and cybernetic processes. He has a PhD in Communication Sciences from UQAM (Montreal) for his thesis "Artificial Life as Media" and teaches Electronic Arts at Concordia University. His work has been presented at numerous international events, including Ars Electronica, ISEA, DEAF, Sonar, Art Futura, EMAF and Artec. He has been awarded the Vida 2.0 award (1999, Madrid), the Leprecon Interactivity Award (1998, New York), the Prix Ars Electronica Distinction Award (1996, Linz) and the International Digital Media Award (1996, Toronto). .

robert saucier

University of Quebec in Montreal / Hexagram Canada-Argentina www.hexagram.uqam.ca/content/robert-saucier

Robert Saucier currently lives and works in Montreal, Canada, where he is a professor of sculpture and media art, specializing in interactive robotic art at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). Since beginning his professional practice in 1979, Saucier has produced artwork for many solo shows and has curated group shows in galleries and museums in Canada, the US, and Europe. He is an active member of Hexagram, (International Network for Research-Creation in Audiovisual Arts, Design, Technology and Digital Culture) in Montreal, which funded parts of his research on interactive robotic sound installations. In 2007, the installation of the Hexagram Robotic Lab at UQAM was planned and supervised. He was director of the École des arts et visuels médiatiques at UQAM, from 2006 to 2009. His artistic research themes question the constant omnipresence of technology in our lives and its ability to radically alter our physiology, perceptions, and notions of connectivity with the world. world. Since 2003 Saucier worked very closely with the group of artists called The KIT Collaboration (Great Britain, Canada and Australia). In 2010, a book (152 pages) with DVD has been published in England documenting this collaboration and contextualizing their research on the international scene. In May 2014, Saucier and Heys present Radiabolus, a large interactive robotics and sound installation in Digital Art at the 2nd International Biennale (BIAN) in Montreal, Canada.

Tagny Duff Concordia University/Hexagram

Canada www.fluxnetwork.net

Tagny Duff is an interdisciplinary artist working in bioart, video, performance, net art, and installation art. His recent works, including The Cryobook Archives (2010-ongoing) and the Living Viral Tattoos (2008), have been featured in the following solo and group shows; "Cellular Memorabilia" (FoFA Gallery, Montreal Canada 2011), "Visceral: The Living Art Experiment "(curated by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr at Science Gallery, Dublin Ireland 2011), and "Evolution Haute Couture" (Moscow Biennial (2009) and National Center for Contemporary Art (2008) at Keliningrad, Russia and IX MediaForum and Moscow International Film Festival (2008) as part of a group of exhibitions curated by Dmitry Bulatov). Duff's publications include “Cryobook Archives” in media arts cited by Canadian media magazine, Spring 2012, "Living Viral Tattoos. Crisis Alert!" in Total Art Volume 1. No. 1. 2011, “How To Make Living Viral Tattoos”. Leonardo Magazine of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) 2010 and “Going Viral: Live Performance and Documentation in the Science Laboratory” in Performance2009 magazine, and “Living Viral Tattoos” in EVOLUTION HAUTE COUTURE: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age, edited by Dmitry Bulatov, published by the Kaliningrad Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Art, 2009. Tagny Duff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at Concordia University and founder/director of Fluxmedia Research-Creation Network.

Marie Louise Angerer

KHM Germany

Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. The focus of her research is media technology, affect, and neuroscientific reformulations of desire and sexuality. His most recent publications include Timing of Affect. Epistemologies, Aesthetics, Politics (with Bernd Bösel and Michaela Ott, 2014), Desire After Affect (2014), Choreography, Media, Gender (with Yvonne Hardt and Anna-Carolin Weber, 2013), numerous articles in books and magazines on the subject of affect, art and media theory.

Alain Thibault

Canada www.alainthibault.com

  Composer, sound designer and electronic music artist. His works have been presented in various contexts, contemporary music and digital arts festivals, in Canada, Europe (Chatelet Theater and Radio-France, in Paris, etc.) and Asia (Yamaguchi YCAM Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc. .). With the media artist Yan Breuleux, he formed the duo PurForm. They are currently touring their new AV performance, abcd_light, in Europe and Asia. With the American artist Matthew Biederman, he created the duo RAY_XXXX, whose PULSE performance was presented in Italy, France and Brazil. Thibault is currently the artistic director of Elektra, an international digital arts festival that takes place each year in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Matthew Biedermann

United States www.mbiederman.com

  Matthew Biederman (b.1972) has worked around media and environments, architectures and systems, communities and continents since 1990. His work has been exhibited at the Musee d'art Contemporain de Montreal (CA), BOZAR Center for Fine Arts (BE), Mattress Factory (US), Santa Monica (ES) and Sonic Acts (NL). He continues to develop collaborative audiovisual performances, which have been featured at festivals such as ELEKTRA (CA), FILE (BR), Ars Electronica (AT) and many more. In 2008 he co-founded the Arctic Perspective Initiative, with Marko Peljhan, dedicated to increasing traditional knowledge with new technologies for greater autonomy of the circumpolar region. API's work has been exhibited in venues around the world, including the 11th Lyon Bienniale (FR), Istanbul Design Bienniale, Museum of Contemporary Photography(JP), Laboratoria / 5th Moscow Biennial (RU), and Moderna Gallerija (SI ) among others.

Arturo Higa Taira

Peru http://www.aub.pe www.sputnik.pe

Dr. Dimitri della Faille

Belgium / Canada szkieve.org

  SZKIEVE (Belgium / Canada) is the project of Dr. Dimitri della Faille born in Belgium and now residing in Ottawa, Canada. Since 1997, Szkieve has given performances and workshops in some 20 countries (such as Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Chile, Ecuador, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Myanmar, Peru, Taiwan, Uruguay, Vietnam). It has been featured in a wide variety of alternative cultural venues, art galleries and established festivals. Szkieve has released half a dozen solo CDs, and almost as many collaboration and split versions on CD and vinyl. Dimitri is the founder of the Hushush label.