masaki fujihata

Japan

Masaki Fujihata was born in Tokyo in 1956. He is a media artist and professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Fujihata got his start in the 1980s working in the field of computer graphics and animation. Subsequently, along with the dramatic developments achieved in digital technologies, he began to pursue his possibilities in artistic expression, boldly moving into uncharted territory in the art world.

Joanna Zylinska

United Kingdom

www.joannazylinska.net

Joanna Zylinska is a writer, speaker, artist, and curator. She is Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of six books, including Nonhuman Photography (MIT Press, 2017, forthcoming), Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2014, freely available electronic version), and Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process Kember; MIT Press, 2012) - is also a translator of Stanislaw Lem's philosophical treatise, Summa Technologiae (Minnesota UP, 2013).

Annick Bureaud

France

www.annickbureaud.net

Annick Bureaud is an independent art critic, curator and event organizer, researcher and teacher of art and technoscience. She is the director of Leonardo / Olats (www.olats.org), the European sister organization of Leonardo / Isast (www.leonardo.info). She is a co-founding member of the Collectif Nunc. He wrote numerous articles and contributed to the French contemporary art magazine Art Press. She is co-editor of the essay collection Connexions: art, réseaux, media (Ensba Press, 2002) and author of Les Basiques: l'art «multimédia», an introductory book on new media art (Leonardo / Olats, 2004). ).

Sound Nuits: Polar Inertia

France

Guest year Colombia-France 2017

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Polar Inertia is not a musical project like the others. It is a versatile and mysterious group of artists born in the underground techno scene. A polymorphic experience enlivened by different musical artists driven by the evident desire to take risks by going beyond the standards of techno and clubbing.

Mathias Isouard

France

Guest year Colombia-France 2017

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Born in 1987, Mathias Isouard graduated from the Aix-en-Provence Higher School of Art in 2011. He is one of those interdisciplinary artists who experience a sensory approach to material through empirical practices related to his sensations. Mathias Isouard's installations, which combine sculpture, image and sound in their links to space, use the acoustic qualities of a particular place or material. Matias Isouard explores and develops his own creative tools, production instruments, which sometimes become autonomous or interactive. Through "real time" treatment and productions often carried out "in-situ", the transformations of space and situations that the artist implements allow visitors to be spectators, actors, and/or objects of the scene at the same time. experience. In recent years, his work has been presented at contemporary art events such as Le domaine des mumures #2, Futur en Seine, LAB30 Media Art Festival, City Sonic, Reevox, Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs d'Europe et de la Méditerranée, World Event Young Artists, Disorder, Gamerz Festival…