Roy Ascott

England

Artist recognized for his work with cybernetics and telematics, and has been concerned with issues of art, technology, and consciousness since the 1960s. He is President of the Planetary Collegium. He is founding president of the Planetary Collegium, an advanced research center that he opened himself in 2003, at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom (where he is Professor of Technoetic Arts), with offices in Zurich and Milan. During the 1960s he taught in London at: Ealing, Slade School of Art, Central and Saint Martins Schools of Art.

Ken Rinaldo

USA
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Artist and professor in robotics and multimedia. Art & Technology Department of Art. The Ohio State University. Theorist and author who has created interactive multimedia installations on the fuzzy border between the organic and inorganic. He studied Computer Science at the University of Canada and has a degree in Communications from the University of California. He completed a Master of Information Arts / Conceptual Design at San Francisco State University. Currently, he is director of the Arts and Technology program at The Ohio State University. He carries out interdisciplinary work in his robotic installations that seek the articulation and synthesis of natural and technological culture.

Lev Manovich

USA

Associate Professor Department of Visual Arts. University of California. Artist, theoretician and critic specializing in new media. He has published more than thirty articles that have been translated into various languages and published in eighteen countries. In her texts, Manovich situates new media within a broader context of modern visual culture, relating it to the history of art and film. Manovich was born in Moscow, where he studied fine arts and architecture.

Gilbert Prado

Brazil
www.cap.eca.usp.br/gilbertto/english/index.html

Media Artist. He studied Engineering and Visual Arts at Unicamp (State University of Campinas - São Paulo). In 1994 he obtained his Doctorate of Arts at the University of Paris I - Sorbonne. Visiting Professor at the University of Paris. Since 2001 he has been a professor at the Department of Visual Arts at ECA / USP - Faculty of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Francesco Scavetta

Italy - Norway

He was born in Salerno (Italy) on April 19, 1967. Francesco Scavetta has worked with many contemporary dance companies, both in Italy and abroad, having had the opportunity to dance in: Italy, Austria, Belgium, Germany, China, Romania, Ceczh Republic, France, Morocco, Norway, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, Spain, Portugal, England, Croatia, Estonia, Argentina and Switzerland.

paulo hartmann

Brazil

Multimedia artist, independent researcher, designer of Mobilefest, Mobile International Festival of Art and Creativity. Hartman was born in São Paulo, Brazil and works as a multimedia designer on Internet, e-learning, instructional design, sound design and cross-media projects. As a musician, he is interested in the free improvisation and the sonic expansion that the prepared electric guitar can offer. Since 2004 he represents MEMEFEST, Radical Communication Festival, in Brazil.

Shoaib Nabi Ahmad

United Arab Emirates

Associate Professor American University of Sharjah School of Architecture & Design PO Box 26666, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates