Marc Routh

Presented by Hyphen Hub

Broadway Asia

USA

www.broadwayasia.com

Activator

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.

Stephanie Rothenberg

Presented by Hyphen Hub

University of Buffalo

USA

www.pan-o-matic.com

Activator

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.

Donna Verheijden

Artist in residence at Más Arte Más Acción

Netherlands

www.donnaverheijden.nl

Activator

Video artist, tutor in the Graphic Design department of ArtEZ, University of the Arts. Donna Verheijden is a graphic designer and videographer. As a contemporary image maker, Donna sees it as her responsibility to analyze and critique today's apparent or staged realities. His main research focuses on the masses and social networks, their seductions and the underlying power structures. As part of an exchange project between Impakt and Más Arte Más Acción, Donna Verheijden will participate in the Más Arte Más Acción artist-in-residence program during the month of May.

Carlos Franzato

unisinos university

Brazil

www.unisinos.academia.edu/CarloFranzato

Activator

He is Professor of Design and Dean of the School of Creative Industries at the University of Unisinos (São Leopoldo and Porto Alegre, Brazil). His research focuses on complex collaborative design networks developed by designers and other professionals, companies and other types of organizations, users, and citizens. He developed many research projects for the development of strategies oriented towards design and innovation in collaboration with companies and public administrations, both in Italy and in Brazil. He is a member of the Research Group on Strategic Design for Cultural and Social Innovation, the Network for the Development of Design as a Process, the DESIS Network and the AUSJAL Network of Design Schools. He is editor of the Strategic Design Research Journal.

Claudia Oliveira

Presented by Francisco José de Caldas Science Center

Winning project VI Residence Design + Creation

USA

www.claudia-oliveira.net

Activator

She is a designer and new media artist. He has a Master's Degree in Digital Arts from the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and a Bachelor's Degree in Communication Design from the School of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. His work sits at the intersection of design, art, and technology. Working primarily with and outside of digital media, his projects often make use of the limitations of the digital world as an expressive tool, creating work that questions the perception of reality mediated and manipulated by technology.

Alejandro Escobar

Winning Project Exploratory Residence

Colombia

www.alejandroescobar.com

Activator

Plastic artist who began as a painter. My interest in the image as a vehicle for the representation of the visual experience led me to explore photography, sculpture, 3D modeling and virtual reality. Thanks to my master's degree in Digital Fine Arts (London 2015 - 2017), I managed to refine my visual proposal by creating Installations that combine painting and sculpture with photography and virtual reality, they are hybrid Meta-Images that challenge the formal attributes of the image; flatness, frame, stillness and monocular vision and challenge the viewer by proposing an exploration exercise in which the image evolves over time while it is explored both as an object and as a representation space.