Aurelio A. Horta Mesa

Cuba

Art and design theorist. Essayist. Doctor of Sciences on Art. Professor / researcher at the Institute of Aesthetic Research of the National University of Colombia. It addresses the research topics on the Fundamentals and Criticism of Culture, Art and Design. He is currently doing research on poetics, democratization and transterritoriality in Colombian design, as well as transtextuality and the meaning of the image in relation to words and writing. His career in Cuban Artistic Education stands out. President-Founder Permanent National Court of Scientific Degrees in Sciences on Art of Cuba (1996-2000). Former Academic Vice Chancellor of the Higher Institute of Art in Havana, Cuba (1993-1999). His teaching management and academic direction in Costa Rica marks the institutionalization and opening of unprecedented academic programs in Central America −Cinema & TV, Digital Animation and the Master's Degree in Design Studies− (2000-2007). He has developed teaching, academic advice, conferences and seminars in Mexico, Venezuela, Bulgaria, Spain, Argentina and Colombia. He has an extensive record of publications and the books Coordenadas Carpenterianas (1990). Sisyphus' vacation. Carpenterian art pre-texts (2001) and Thinking Design, compiler and essayist (2004).

Carlos Fadon

Brazil

Lapis/x Redux is a hypermedia resulting from the updating and expansion of a research and creation work in electronic art. The Lapis/x project is made up of five independent works: Ad finem, LAPIS/X, Lumina, SC, Tharsis, derived from the same conceptual and operational matrix, but in different terms of formulation and design, together forming a complete mesh with about 120 audiovisual structures and 1800 images. The central objective of this initiative is to give continuity to the project to establish a new approach to aesthetic formulation and accessibility.

Laura Baigorri

Spain www.interzona.org/baigorri.htm

Videoarde's works are inserted in the field of mediation and transformation of social space, sometimes showing the peculiar ways of dealing with everyday life and other times reflecting on critical aspects -more autochthonous or more global- that occur in different Latin American countries and Caribbean: issues that have to do with politics, history/memory, identity, the social crisis, violence, machismo, sex, religion, the border and emigration, urban space and art. The sample is made up of 32 videos made by artists from Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Argentina , Paraguay, Uruguay, USA and Spain. All of them engage in a fluid dialogue through three specific programs Men, Wolves and Men, Vital Space and My Way: Local Survival Lessons.

LuKasz Szalankiewicz

Poland

Lukasz Szalankiewicz (aka Zenial) / http://www.zenial.audiotong.net Electronic music historian, sound designer and composer. He is a member of the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music (PSeME). He has presented his work at international festivals in Poland, Austria, Russia, Bulgaria, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine, France, China, Hungary, Belarus, Romania, Lithuania, Israel and Peru. He also has work in the field of audiovisual and interactive installations. He is director of the Audiotong label.

Adina Izarra

Venezuela

Adina Izarra lives in Caracas and teaches at the Simón Bolívar University, where she is currently a Full Professor and Head of the Digital Music Laboratory. He has written for Venezuelan artists such as Rubén Riera, Marisela González, Luis Julio Toro and Elena Riú, and international artists such as Luis Rossi, Manuela Wiesler, the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra, Sweden, 1999; The Neos Ensemble of Mexico, (Cervantino Festival, 1998 and International Forum of Contemporary Music 1997, 1998), and for the Instrumenta Verano Festival, of Mexico, who have included their works in recitals, records and national and international tours. In 2002 Adina was elected a member of the College of Latin American Composers of Art Music. She is an active member of the RedAsla Latin American Sound Art Network.

Marek Choloniewski

Poland

Marek Choloniewski / http://www.studiomch.art.pl He studied organ, music theory and composition at the Cracow Academy of Music. Since 2000 he has been director of the Electroacoustic Music Studio of that institution. In 1977 he founded the Central Society of Musical Art dedicated to the organization of concerts; He is also a member of the Cracovian Group Art Association. Choloniewski has written instrumental, electroacoustic, music for theater, film, and radio. He is also the author of audio and video installations and pieces of net art. He has given concerts, workshops and conferences in different countries in Europe, America and Asia. He is the director of various projects, among which the Audio Art Festival (http://www.audio.art.pl). In 2006 he received awards from the Union of Polish Composers and the Polish Ministry of Culture.

Wolfgang Schaeffner 

Germany

The Design Turn: The project of a laboratory for the interdisciplinary design of knowledge tries to manifest the turn to design that is currently taking place in the natural sciences as a new scientific revolution. With this objective, experiences from the Bauhaus school, the Ulm school and analogue and digital media are also taken up to place design as an integrating force at the center of the different disciplines. In the workshop we try to develop some basic elements for such a laboratory that allow us to transform interdisciplinary design into a field of basic research. In this way, the individual designer will become a laboratory and a network of actors, and the image as a passive surface for the visualization of knowledge will become an active graphic surface that brings together not only electrical circuits, spatial structures, and geometric operations, but also the table as the basic operating unit of the laboratory.

Eva Roth - James Powderli

USA

Founders of the Graffiti Research Lab GRL, an organization founded by Roth and Powder; is an artistic group that uses open source technologies for urban communication. Graffiti Research Lab is particularly known for the invention of LED Throwies, which were likely the inspiration for advertisers distributing mooninities around Boston and Cambridge in the phenomenon known as the 2007 Boston Mooninitie Scare. Roth and Powder are part of the Open Frameworks team and the FAT (Free art technology) collective and in 2006 they won the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz.

Patricio Proverbio

Argentina

DNA LIVE is an Audio Visual performance, where sound and image are generated from DNA, mRNA and Protein sequences. By translating the DNA, mRNA and Protein sequences of different Genes into MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), I create MIDI files that are used to generate the sound and control the image variables in a real time environment. The Genes that I use for the live performance are Genes involved in the production, transport and reception of human neurotransmitters. DNA and mRNA are composed of four acids each, and their sequences are translated into four MIDI notes each, one note for each acid.

Marco Maria Gazzano

Italy

Cinema theorist and audiovisual languages. Professor Rome III University. Essayist and scholar of history, film critic and audiovisual languages. He collaborates with the assistance of mass media and electronic arts in Italian and European newspapers and magazines. Representative of Italy in the MEDIA 1 program for the evaluation of the film Small countries and regions of the European Community, he is the president of Kinema Cultural. He is a critic of Contemporary Art, animator of study initiatives, events and television programs on cinema, electronic arts and neo-television.

david killeen

Ireland

Photographer. He is a Master of Photography from Goldsmiths University of London. His work focuses on landscapes in their physical form and patterns. His recent works focus on the border between the urban and rural landscapes of Broward Country in South Florida. As an urban space, there is a discrete physical appearance at its borders, with the ocean to the east and marshes to the west. His work points to the obvious appearance of these borders, which separates the urban and the rural.

Gonzalo Olmos 

Peru

His photographic work focuses on the masses, people and travel. This has definitely changed the way you see the world and the people around you. Currently, he is embarking on a special photographic project, about the loneliness of people and their strategies to face it or avoid it in their daily life; the loneliness that people experience in large and impersonal cities.

Caroline Knowles

England

Theoretical of the social landscape and globalization. Professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Researcher of topics related to the social landscape, race, ethnic groups, globalization, urban space, the visual and the spatial, among others. Recently published: Landscapes of Belonging. Currently working with Roger Hewitt and colleagues in Hamburg and Bergen on "'The Architecture of Religious Transmission", this project, created by NORFACE, investigates the mechanisms of religious transmission among young people in the Finsbury Park area and similar sites in Hamburg. and Oslo.

Gabrielle Bendiner

USA

Photographer, curator and teacher. She is a PhD in Environmental Psychology from the Graduate Center, CUNY and works at the Goldsmiths Center for Urban and Community Research, University of London. Her work explores the experience of everyday life in public and home spaces through photographic and narrative work. He has worked on projects in London, Buenos Aires, San Francisco and New York. She is co-founder of the Urban Meetings conference on visual urbanism, which is held annually at Tate Britain.

paul halliday

England

  Photographer, filmmaker and sociologist. Director of the Master of Photography and Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Originally trained as a photographer and filmmaker at London College of Printing and Central Saint Martins, he also studied social anthropology and art history at Goldsmiths and Oxford University. He was a local government media consultant and media adviser to the British Refugee Council.

Guillermo Casada

Spain

Proyecciones Adaptables is a project developed in the Hello World! stage creation workshop, in Medialab-Prado (Madrid). It is a software based on free code that allows you to interact with a virtual stage, build it, shape it during the action. The system allows scenes to be projected in such a way that both the projection area and its content adapt to surfaces that can change position and orientation.

oscar martin 

Spain

Oscar Martin. Sound explorer, his work is in the deconstruction of field recordings and in the creative use of the errors of technology. Luthier-digital with the “pure data” programming environment, with which he develops his own tools for algorithmic and generative processing and composition in real time. All his sound work is published under creative commons licenses. He has published on labels such as DroneRecords, TecnoNucleo or Costellam.

Carlos Pineda

Colombia

Photographer and Visual Designer from Design Art University in Montreal. He was born in Manizales and graduated as a Designer from Concordia University in Montreal. He has worked as a contributor to different magazines, including Zazpika from the Basque Country and Die Surche from Australia. He was the exclusive photographer for the book Savoir des libres at the University of Montreal and was part of the photographic team for the book Cafés de Colombia, first place at the Gourmand Cookbook Awards 2009, in Paris. He has participated in individual and collective exhibitions in Montreal, Versailles, New York and Manizales. He is a permanent collaborator of the CIPAV agency in Cali. He is currently a full professor in the Department of Visual Design at the University of Caldas.

Susana Perez Tort

Argentina

In this text I explore the use of strategies to create the illusion of reality and how interaction with technological simulations impacts human consciousness. The studied object is a particular system, described in a novel, which I interpret as a “multimedia”. What is notable is that this construction was conceived in 1940. Adolfo Bioy Casares, author of the novel “La invención de Morel”, describes a system for image and sound projection in multidimensional space. The system aims to give the illusion of reality to what is appearance, a simulation. At the time of its publication, the work was included in the fantastic genre. Today it is a text of scientific anticipation. The system described could be carried out with the use of New Technologies.

lanis levy

US / UK

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she has lived and worked in London for many years. She worked in the field of immigration and prisoners' rights, later graduating as a lawyer, while practicing to maintain her photography skills. His work has been exhibited and published internationally. Having fully resigned from his law practice, he took up photography again. His enduring commitment to social justice issues remains evident in much of his work.      

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Richard Buchanan

United States design.case.edu/who/

PhD in Design. Professor of design at various universities in the United States. He is editor of the international journal of design history, theory, and criticism, published by MIT Press: Design Issues. His numerous publications include: Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies and Pluralism in Theory and Practice. His work focuses on the rhetorical dimension of design; teaches communication design theory and industrial design, but is also constantly looking for new application areas, such as interactive design and organizational design.

Javier Garavaglia

Argentina / Germany icem.folkwang-hochschule.de/~gara/

Director of BA (Hons) Music Technology (Sound for Media) at London Metropolitan University. He completed postgraduate studies at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen (Germany). His doctoral thesis deals with the impact of musical dramaturgy on his compositions. His works, both instrumental and electroacoustic, are performed frequently throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Some of his electroacoustic works have been published on CD. He also has numerous writings on the dramaturgy of music, music technology and electroacoustic music.

Alejandro Velez A/V

Colombia vimeo.com/8742829

  Under the pseudonym: Vélez A/V, Alejandro Vélez presents his audiovisual projects developed live, inspired by the "mass media", "networking", globalization and the way humans and machines interact today. For this occasion, he presents ASCII, a work based on this legendary American code for the exchange of information. The ASCII language was created in 1963 as a type of "recasting" or evolution of the codes previously used in telegraphy. Since computers only understand numbers, the ASCII code is a numerical representation of a character like "a" or "@."

Evan Roth 

United States www.graffitiresearchlab.com/

Graffiti Research Lab, an organization founded by Roth and Powder; is an artistic group that uses open source technologies for urban communication. Graffiti Research Lab is particularly known for the invention of LED Throwies, which were likely the inspiration for advertisers distributing "mooninities" around Boston and Cambridge in the phenomenon known as the "2007 Boston Mooninitie Scare". Roth and Powder are part of the Open Frameworks team and the FAT (Free art technology) collective and in 2006 they won the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz.

Marjen Lubbers

Germany www.stampfwerk.de

She is a staff writer for Stampfwerk, a television and media production company in Hamburg, Germany. Their area is the afternoon show for Germany's leading channel (RTL), and the format they produce is called Scripted soap. His series "Die Schulermittler" has proven to be very successful, raising the audience from 8% to 20%. Other countries such as Spain, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Ukraine, Finland, Russia and the United Kingdom have acquired their license and it has been awarded as one of the 2 most innovative formats worldwide.

Jaime Ceron

Colombia

He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the National University of Colombia and specialized in sculpture. He is a Master in History and Theory of Art, Architecture and Design from the National University. His work has focused on three fundamental fronts: teaching, curating and theoretical research, and cultural management. Since 1995 and to date, he has worked as a professor in the arts faculties of the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, the Universidad de los Andes, the Superior Academy of Arts of Bogotá, the National University and the Pontifical Javeriana University.

Ivan Cortes

Colombia www.proyectod.com/

Industrial designer. Co-founder and director of the Proyecto Diseño magazine, Bogotá. He has been a finalist for Colombia in the call for Young International Editor of the Year organized by the British Council in 2004 and a Carolina Foundation scholarship holder in 2006 for the VI Ibero-American Editors Course organized by SIALE at the Complutense University of Madrid and Menéndez Pelayo University of Santander, Spain. Through Proyecto Diseño, it has generated spaces for the concrete dissemination of design activity in Colombia with international projection.

Clemencia Echeverri

Colombia www.clemenciaecheverri.com/

Since 1980, he has participated in individual and collective exhibitions both in Colombia and abroad, and has carried out projects of public sculpture, painting, publications, and graphic work. She is Master of Sculpture and Specialist in Theory and History of Contemporary Art from Chelsea College of Arts and Design in London. Given the quality of her work, she has received several scholarships and awards from the National University of Colombia, the Arts Council of London, the Langlois Foundation of Canada and the Delfina Studio Trust of London, among others.

Nelson Vergara

Colombia www.nelsonvergara.com/

He is director of Plastic Arts and professor of the area of Media Arts at the National University of Colombia. Lives and works in Bogotá, Colonia and Berlin. He works as a media designer and as a designer of interactive and media solutions for German Arts and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. He was director of the JuKS Video and Media Workshop, Pankow. He has received important recognitions such as the Honorable Mention, IICA Painting Prize, First Prize, Microsoft-Netd@ys 2001 and First Prize, Internet Project "Symbole in Bewegung", Netd@ys 2004, and he was one of the six artists nominated for the 2009 Luis Caballero award, in Colombia.

Camilo Benavides

Colombia

He studied cello at the National University of Colombia with teacher Fred Hood. He completed his Master's degree at the University of North Texas in the United States. His work has to do with experimentation in extended techniques with the Jordan cello.