santiago escobar

Colombia
http://www.escobart.com
Conference: Urban Photography – Visual Ethnography

He is an architect from the National University of Colombia, with a Master's Degree in Photography and Urban Cultures from Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has worked as a photographer and artist in various countries in Africa, South America, Europe and the United States. His creative work is divided into documentary and urban photography, and reflects on the individual, space, conflict and memory through aesthetic, conceptual and geometric rigor. His projects have been exhibited in more than 50 exhibitions, in addition, he has received various recognitions and distinctions. He currently works as a photographer for Villegas Editores.

Karla Jasso

Mexico
http://www.artealameda.bellasartes.gob.mx/
Conference: Alameda Art Laboratory, curatorial roles in emerging archives

Art Historian, her work today focuses on the area of Art Theory. His topics of interest revolve around the new narratives unleashed by the artistic practice involved with new technologies. She is the author of the book Art, technology and feminism: new symbolic figurations and curator of the Alameda Art Laboratory, Mexico, DF.

Patxi Araujo

Spain
http://www.patxiaraujo.com
Conference: Alice's Tears

Artist, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU Collaborates with the Own Title of Theater and Performing Arts. Doctor since 2007 with the thesis "The images of Fantastic Architecture". In his recent works he explores the relationships between art, current technology and his poetics.

Sergi Jorda

Spain
http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~sergi/
Conference: The Reactable

Physicist and musician. He began his activities in the field of musical information in 1048. He is co-director of the Master in Digital Arts and Director of the Multimedia Oriented Programming Postgraduate course at the Institut de I'Audiovisual, coordinator of the Interactive Systems area within the Musical Technology Group of the same institute and associate professor at Pompeu Fabra University.

Luciano Perondi

Italy
http://www.molotro.com
Conference: Typography and graphic design (Videoconference)

Graphic designer. He has worked in typography, graphic design and information design since 1998. In 2003 he created Molotro, a studio whose objective is information design and scientific research on design issues. Two of his typographies have been included in the AID Design Index and he has been nominated several times for the Compasso d'Oro Award. AIAP member since 1998 and ATypl member since 2004.

Mariela Yeregui

Argentina
http://www.untref.edu.ar/posgrados/posgrados_23html
Conference: Transdisciplinarity: interstices in the void

Bachelor of Arts (UBA) graduated from the National Institute of Cinematography, Master in Literature (Université Nationale de Côte d'Ivoirw). Electronic artist, creator and director of the Master's Degree in Electronic Arts at the Tres de Febrero National University, Argentina. He has done residencies at the Hypermedia Studio, University of California (Los Angeles), at the Banff Center d'Art i Disseny, Barcelona (Spain) and at the Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen (Germany).

Ricardo Dal Farra

Argentina –Canada
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=1601#esp

The Electroacoustic Music Archive of Latin American Composers

Composer, multimedia artist, educator, researcher, interpreter and curator, he has been developing his professional activity in the area of confluence between the arts, sciences and new technologies for more than 25 years. With a PhD in arts from the UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal), Dal Farra is founder and Director of the Center for Experimentation and Research in Electronic Arts (CEIArtE) of the National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina; Associate Researcher at the Music Technology and Innovation Research Center of De Montfort University, England; Senior Consultant for the Amauta Project, Peru/United States; and Research/Creation Coordinator of the Canadian interuniversity media arts consortium Hexagram.

paul halliday

England
http://www.paulhalliday.org
Conference: Urban Photography – Visual Ethnography

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.