• Date
    July 11, 2017

    Teresa Picazo

    Brazil

    Catholic University of São Paulo – PUC. Technology and Digital Media - Art and Technology. Brazil. PIBIC-CNPQ
  • Date
    July 11, 2017

    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.
  • Date
    July 11, 2017

    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.
  • Date
    July 11, 2017

    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.
  • Date
    July 11, 2017

    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.
  • Date
    July 11, 2017

    Roy Ascott

    England

    Artist recognized for his work with cybernetics and telematics, and has been concerned with issues of art, technology, and consciousness since the 1960s. He is President of the Planetary Collegium. He is founding president of the Planetary Collegium, an advanced research center that he opened himself in 2003, at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom (where he is Professor of Technoetic Arts), with offices in Zurich and Milan. During the 1960s he taught in London at: Ealing, Slade School of Art, Central and Saint Martins Schools of Art.
  • Date
    July 11, 2017

    Ken Rinaldo

    USA
    accad.osu.edu/~rinaldo/

    Artist and professor in robotics and multimedia. Art & Technology Department of Art. The Ohio State University. Theorist and author who has created interactive multimedia installations on the fuzzy border between the organic and inorganic. He studied Computer Science at the University of Canada and has a degree in Communications from the University of California. He completed a Master of Information Arts / Conceptual Design at San Francisco State University. Currently, he is director of the Arts and Technology program at The Ohio State University. He carries out interdisciplinary work in his robotic installations that seek the articulation and synthesis of natural and technological culture.
  • Date
    July 11, 2017

    Lev Manovich

    USA

    Associate Professor Department of Visual Arts. University of California. Artist, theoretician and critic specializing in new media. He has published more than thirty articles that have been translated into various languages and published in eighteen countries. In her texts, Manovich situates new media within a broader context of modern visual culture, relating it to the history of art and film. Manovich was born in Moscow, where he studied fine arts and architecture.

 

  • Date
    March 27, 2003

    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).
  • Date
    March 27, 2004

    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.
  • Date
    March 27, 2004

    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.
  • Date
    March 27, 2004

    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.
  • Date
    March 27, 2004

    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."
  • Date
    March 27, 2004

    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.
  • Date
    April 7, 2004

    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
  • Date
    April 7, 2004

    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.
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