Valentino Catricalà

Italy

‌Valentino is currently a curator at SODA's MODAL Gallery in Manchester and a teacher. He is responsible for the digital art area of La Quadriennale di Roma and co-curator, together with Barbara London (MoMA), of the D'ORO/D'ART project in collaboration with the D'ORO Collection and Marian Goodman Gallery.

Daniele Puppi

Born in Pordenone in 1970, lives and works in Rome, he is among the most interesting Italian artists of his generation. The technologies normally used (video projectors, synchronizers, amplifiers, subwoofers, loudspeakers, microphones) function as activators and amplifiers of the perceptual abilities of the spectators, mainly visual and auditory. The viewer, as an integral part of the work, is called to enter a new alienating spatial-sensory dimension.

ChDH Collective

The chdh collective studies image/sound relationships by creating visual and audio algorithmic synthesizers. They mainly use these audiovisual instruments in live performances. Using equations that describe natural mechanisms, they generate abstract choreographies of particles whose minimalist matter reveals underlying structures of great complexity, formed by strange organic attractors. In search of a synesthetic radicality, his hypnotic performances work on joint movements between image and sound and belong as much to experimental cinema as to improvised music in the way they are performed.

Lucia Santaella

Brazil

‌She is a 1A researcher at CNPq, a tenured professor at PUC-SP. She has been a visiting researcher at several European and Latin American universities. He has published 55 books and organized 32, in addition to the publication of almost 500 articles in Brazil and abroad. He has received the Jabuti Award (2002, 2009, 2011, 2014), the Sergio Motta Award (2005) and the Luiz Beltrão Award (2010). ‌

Derrick of Kerckhove

Presented by Icetex - Fellows Colombia

He is the Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, author of The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence, and University Professor in the Department of French Language at the University of Toronto. He is currently a professor at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Studies of Naples Federico II.

Diego Pombo

Musician, painter, plastic artist, set designer, cultural manager, theater actor and illustrator. Pombo has not limited himself to his own creation as an artist, because like many who venture into this medium, he has worked in the design and illustration of advertising posters.

Luc Courchesne

Snow and Hollis Frampton, embraced computer technologies. First delving into interactive portraiture, a great artistic tradition re-articulated in a new mold with Portrait One (1990), his work became landscape, another important genre, with Landscape One (1997).

santiago echeverry

Santiago Echeverry has dedicated himself to exploring the possibilities of volumetry in relation to the still image and digital video, in a work strongly connected to the problems of the LGBTQ+ communities. With a guerrilla video aesthetic, thanks to the portability of the Kinect sensor, and its possibilities in non-ideal lighting conditions, Echeverry has captured the spaces and stories of a whole series of characters who struggle to express their identity in complex sociopolitical conditions, due to to the resurgence and strengthening of the extreme right in the world.