Carlos Cubillos

SIB - Alexander von Humboldt Institute Colombia

Webmaster at SIB Colombia. Master in Visual Arts with graphic emphasis from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. With experience in graphic design, web and flash development, for various agencies. His work focuses mainly on the creation of the project's visual concept, user interface design, and HTML and CSS building. He is a founding partner of Enmicolombia.com and illustrator and designer of www.divinacomedia.com. Cartoonist, geek, practitioner of martial arts and Buddhism.

Alexis Pacheco 

Propaganda Festival Colombia www.festivalpropaganda.org

Designer and cultural manager with a Master in Curating and new media from ESDi Barcelona. He is Co-Founder of Estudio Mapping, a design studio focused on exhibition design and museography, he is also co-founder of Círculo Abierto, a foundation that works on projects based on innovation in culture, and since 2011 he is co-director of the Propaganda Festival, a festival of art and digital culture that takes place in the city of Barranquilla.

Camilo Augusto Pineda 

Propaganda Festival Colombia camiloaugusto.blogspot.com voidkml.blogspot.com

 

1979, Barranquilla, Colombia. Plastic Artist graduated from the University of Cauca (Popayán, Colombia). I have worked in various media such as photography, basic electronics, object-directed programming, drawing, engraving, painting, and ceramics, among others. Dilettante, interested in questions that have to do with identity, language, memory and scientific discourse.

Miguel Angel Lopez Usma

Colombia http://saxolous.wix.com/miguelangellous

According to the experience obtained in the city of Boston, studying at "Berklee College of Music" with a Full Scholarship for 3 years, Miguel Angel Lous had the privilege of attending several Seminars and Workshops held at Harvard University, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), about Neuroscience, Music Therapy, Philosophy, World Music, Composition and Jazz. Now he is able to share this acquired knowledge and concepts about the topics that are proposed to teach, in addition to completing his research on the subject during a trip to Europe representing Berklee as Composer and Performer of the Saxophone and Flute, where he obtained more extensive information and practice of all these studies. He is currently in Colombia performing Folk Music with Jazz Fusion.

Dr. Yovanny Betancur-Santa

Colombia www.yovannybetancur.com

Doctor of music from the University of Montreal specializing in contemporary music under the direction of the Canadian flutist Lise Daoust. Recognized for his showiness and discipline, he has been awarded scholarships for excellence throughout his training, awarded by the Faculty of Music and the Faculty of Higher and Postdoctoral Studies of the University of Montreal. Thanks to his knowledge of the new flute writing techniques of the 20th and 21st centuries and his virtuosity and versatility in interpreting this repertoire, composers of different origins have dedicated their works to him, premiering them in large venues around the world.

Nelson Vergara

National University of Colombia - Bogota Campus Colombia

Media artist. Professor at the National University of Colombia, Bogotá. His creation process focuses on the development of reactive and generative systems for media and interactive objects and spaces, on the creation of space and time documents through different media, and on the creation of installation works where the media vision of space prevails. around. In these works, the question arises about what are the possibilities of representation and appearance in the body-landscape-environment relationship. Nelson Vergara is a professor at the School of Plastic Arts at the National University of Colombia. With studies in Plastic Arts at the National University of Colombia and Media Art at the University of Arts in Berlin and the Higher School of Arts and Media in Cologne where he is also a visiting professor. He has participated in more than 50 video and art exhibitions and festivals in countries such as China, Croatia, Germany, Spain, the United States, Israel, Argentina, Canada and Colombia, among others.

Roberto Garcia Piedrahita

National University of Colombia - Bogota Campus Colombia

Sound artist and composer. Professor at the National University of Colombia, Bogotá. His interest is focused on sound and sound art manifestations. In his work, the synthesis and sound simulation in space, landscape and acoustic phenomena in human and natural environments and the correspondence and exchange through sound and with other forms of representation and expression are constant; especially the boundary between the natural and the artificial.

Andres Useche

United States - Colombia http://www.andresuseche.blogspot.com/

Andrés has dabbled as a writer, director, composer and activist through films, songs, campaigns and videos to support causes such as: immigration reform in the United States, ("Marching into the Light", "Dream to Belong"), the election of President Barack Obama ("Si Se Puede Cambiar", and "With Obama We Can Change"), human rights ("Even Here"), environmental protection ("Oceans: Sylvia Earle's Journey"), and the protection of the fauna (The Cove: My Friend is…). In this work, as a writer and director, Andrés collaborated with Naomi Watts, Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Robin Williams, James Gandolfini and John Leguízamo among others. Andrés has performed his songs throughout the United States including appearances at two Presidential gala parties, at the Organization of American States (OAS/OAS), and at the United States Capitol. Recently, Andrés spoke on behalf of the immigrant cause at the White House.