Roger Malina

United States malina.diatrope.com Roger Malina is a space scientist and astronomer, and an art-science researcher. He is currently Professor of Art and Technology, and Professor of Physics, at UT Dallas. Malina is the founder of the ArtSciLab (artscilab.utdallas.edu ), which hosts collaborative projects between artists and scientists resulting in art works, scientific data exploration tools, and public engagement activities involving the integration of the arts, design, and humanities in science, technology, education, and mathematics (STEAM). Malina is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics and recipient of the "Laser d'or" Prize, from the International Video Art Organization.

Sue Gollifer

United Kingdom

  Sue Gollifer is the Director of the ISEA International Headquarters. She is an artist a curator and Principal Lecturer and the Course Leader for Digital Media Arts MA and a researcher at the University of Brighton, UK. Her work is in both national and international public and private collections and she is on a number of National and International Committees, including (CAS) the Computer Arts Society, (DAM), Digital Art Museum, (DAC) the ACM SIGRAPH Digital Arts Community and Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH 'The Life Time Achievement in Digital Arts Award'. She has been a curator of a number of International Digital Art Exhibitions including the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Exhibition'04: Synaesthesia and the “Intuition and Ingenuity” art exhibition to celebrate the Alan Turing Centenary 2012 and the & the William Latham Exhibition Mutator 1 & 2 (2013) at Phoenix, Brighton. She is on the Editorial Board of Digital Creativity, a referred journal published by Routledge, and is the art editor and curator of the visual section 'Artist Space', which examines the work of artists using digital technology. She is also on the _{Review Panel for the Leonardo Journal.} In 2006 she was awarded an iDMAa Award, The International Digital Media Arts Award for her 'Exceptional Services to the International New Media Community'.

David Rothenberg

United States davidrothenberg.wordpress.com

David Rothenberg (b. 1962) is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, with a special interest in animal sounds as music. He is also a jazz musician whose books and recordings reflect a longtime interest in understanding other species by making music with them.\n\nRothenburg graduated from Harvard and took his PhD from Boston University.

Annette Bhagwati

Germany

Annette Bhagwati studied Social Anthropology and Art History in Freiburg, Berlin and London. After extensive fieldwork in West Africa (Benin) she received an MA in Area Studies Africa (1993) and a Ph.D. (1999) from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. In her thesis she examined local aesthetics and evaluative frameworks in oral culture. After graduating, she worked for Artsworldwide, London, and Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, before she became program coordinator and in-house curator in the department of Exhibitions, Film, New Media at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin (2001-2006) . In this capacity, she coordinated and advised on major international exhibitions, conferences and festival collaborations, with a special focus on African, Asian and Latin American arts and cultures. Exhibitions include "Portrait Afrika. African Portrait Photography", "The Short Century" (Okwui Enwezor), "subTerrain. Contemporary Art from India" (Geeta Kapur), "Politics of Fun. Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia"(Ong Keng Sen/ Gridthiya Gaweewong), "Far Near Distance. Contemporary Positions of Iranian Artists" (Rose Issa), "DisOrientation. Contemporary Art from the Middle East" (Jack Persekian) and "About Beauty" (Wu Hung). Annette Bhagwati has taught courses on African Literatures at SOAS, graduated seminars on Classical and Contemporary African Art at Freie Universität, Berlin, and has co-edited the exhibition catalog "Porträt Afrika" (1999).

David McConville

Canada, United States of America   

Dr. David McConville serves as the board chair for BFI. As a media artist and researcher, he develops tools and techniques for exploring the big picture context of the complex challenges facing humanity. He is currently creative director of the Worldviews Network, a collaboration of artists, scientists, and educators integrating storytelling and scientific visualizations to facilitate dialogues about social-ecological resilience in science centers across the United States. He also co-founded The Elumenati, a full service design and engineering firm specializing in the development of immersive virtual environments. His transdisciplinary doctoral research through the Planetary Collegium at the University of Plymouth examined the historic and contemporary role of visualization practices in shaping views of the world.

Ricardo Dal Farra

Canada / Argentina http://goo.gl/SeuhUx - http://ceiarteuntref.edu.ar

  Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra is a composer, transdisciplinary artist and founding director of the international project Balance-Unbalance. He is also a professor in the Department of Music at Concordia University, Canada and founding director of the Center for Experimentation and Research in Electronic Arts (CEIArtE) at the National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina. He has been director of the Hexagram Center for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies of Canada; coordinator of the Multimedia Communication Area of the Ministry of Education of the Nation in Argentina; associate researcher at the Music Technology and Innovation Research Center at De Montfort University in England; senior consultant at the Amauta Center for Art and New Media in Cusco, Peru; coordinator of the international project DOCAM - Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage; and researcher and consultant for UNESCO, France, on media arts issues.

Ian Danby 

ORk www.i-dat.org

Ian Danby has worked across the creative and cultural sectors in both a commercial and publicly funded capacity for the last 20 years. From managing The Custard Factory in Birmingham, one of the largest Creative Industry Hubs in the UK, programming and curating at The Public to leading up the Visual Arts at Arts Council West Midlands where he developed the artist run gallery Eastside Projects.