Gustavo Costa

Born in Porto, 1976. He studied percussion, music technology, sonology, composition and music theory. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Digital. Media at FEUP, Porto on the subject of expressiveness and interactivity in computer music His work as a musician and composer is based on underground Counterculture, improvised and electroacoustic music. He has been extensively reproduced and recorded in Europe, the United States, Japan, Brazil. and Lebanon with John Zorn Cobra, Mark Stewart, Fritz Hauser, Alfred Harth, Arthur Doyle, Jamie Saft, Damo Suzuki or Steve Mackay, among many others. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Richard Garett

Richard Garet works with visual and sound arts. His materials arise from ontological investigations on background noise and the decay of technological utilities. Garet seeks to reverse the normative function of background noise from the unconscious state to active presence. The images and objects in his work come from processes and experimentations applied to obsolete and current technological means that emulate situations that translate the source material into abstractions.

Adriana Padilla

Director of Creative and Cultural Industries of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá, and leader of the Cluster of Creative and Content Industries initiative, a scenario where business leaders, Government, support entities and academia work collaboratively to increase the productivity and competitiveness of the sector creative. The Cluster is made up of companies related to cinema, advertising, the media, videogames and digital animation.

Carla Gannis

As much as aspects of culture and civilization have changed, mainly due to the technologies we have created to augment the human experience in regards to our feelings and desires, much has stayed the same. Hieronymus Bosch's most famous painting is filled with idiosyncratic iconography that continues to intrigue viewers. Emoji is a contemporary glyph system that offers an emotional shorthand for virtual expression. His main intention in producing "Emoji's Garden of Earthly Delights" was to combine popular contemporary and historical sign systems, as a reflection on human, earthly, and cosmological conditions in the 21st century.

Collective Fractum

Fragments lumen is an interactive visual installation where the reflection of light and movement are instruments to communicate, through images (fragments), the urban experience in the contemporary city, allowing the viewer to bond affectively with the work and from their own experience build your total image of the city. Rectangular mirrors will be attached to a base that supports motors, which, programmed by means of Arduinos, will have pre-defined circular movements. These mirrors will be illuminated by a projector and by means of VideoMapping the exact fragment of the mirror will be selected, allowing parts of the images to be revealed. The images presented will be collected through collective drift, gathering urban fragments that will be analyzed and remixed in the neo-baroque manner, to present a version of the experience in the city of Medellín, but that the observer will be able to freely interpret. Fragmentos Lumen is a work of collaborative creation between Visual Artists, VJs Audiovisual Communicators and Architects

Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk)

Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk, 2010) is one of the largest and most prolific electroacoustic ensembles in the world. With dozens of performances at prestigious festivals and venues, CLOrk has served as a fruitful interdisciplinary research-creation platform to investigate the nature of collective improvisation, mediation, and the creative process and to develop approaches to equitable, collaborative, and neurodiverse co-creation. . CLOrk has collaborated with dancers, soloists, VJ's, audiovisual artists, live programmers, as well as symphony, chamber, jazz and portable orchestras.

Bertrand Legendre

Expert in Digital Culture, literature and Creative Industries, he is a Professor at the University of Paris 13, Faculty of Communication Sciences. He is Director of the laboratory of excellence Labex ICCA (cultural industries and artistic creation) and LabSic and Associate Professor at the University of Sherbrooke (Canada).

Eldad Tsabary

Dr. Eldad Tsabary is the coordinator of electroacoustic studies at Concordia University and the current president of the Electroacoustic Community of Canada. His main areas of expertise are in the field of sound studies, specifically (1) sonic ear training and (2) live electroacoustic performance. Through these areas of research, Tsabary has been developing educational approaches, tools, and strategies to better understand and transform the various internal processes involved in the perception, organization, and creation of sound, both individually and collectively within an ensemble.