Hans-Michael Herzog

Germany / Switzerland

Presented by Hyphen Hub, NY

Hans-Michael Herzog studied art history, philosophy, and classical archeology at the University of Bonn, earning his doctorate in 1984 with a focus on Venetian proto-Renaissance sculpture. From 1987 to 1989, Hans-Michael Herzog worked for the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, München, Germany. Between 1989 and 1999 he was curator of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany. From 2000 to 2015, Dr. Herzog was Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the Daros Latinamerica Collection based in Zürich, Switzerland. From 2005 to 2009 he was the artistic director of the Daros Collection, also based in Zürich. He was Founding Director of Casa Daros in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a recognized international expert in contemporary art, particularly from Latin America. He has also taught at various German universities. A critical art and architecture writer, Dr. Herzog has been responsible for numerous exhibitions and publications, mainly on international contemporary art.

Jose Alejandro Restrepo

Colombia

Presented by the Bank of the Republic

The artist José Alejandro Restrepo produced one of the most powerful and moving works of Colombian contemporary art: the installation Musa paradisiaca. He has been interested in the way in which historical narratives are constructed: who makes history, whose service is the narrative, how it is told, and with what images reality is constructed. Most of his works are based on extensive and in-depth documentary research, many of them in historical archives, books, documents, drawings, engravings, and photographs.

Donato Piccolo

Italy

Presented by Hyphen Hub, NY

Italy Guest Country

His art investigates various natural and emotional phenomena, often using technology and mechanical tools to create his works. Through an exhaustive study of human cognitive faculties, Piccolo's art analyzes the perceptual aspects of the natural world. His artwork investigates natural, physical, biological and scientific phenomena that are the basis of life, using its emotional aspect as a tool. To induce such a peculiar phenomenon of resonance, most of the artist's works combine two complementary and inseparable aspects: they are at the same time sculptures and machines, shapes and processes. According to Donato Piccolo, this hybrid character constitutes the real nature of "holistic art": an art whose essential function is to explore "the incomprehensible mystery of the visible world."

Patricio Peterlini

Italy
www.fondazionebonotto.org

Italy Guest Country

Graduated in Modern Literature and Clinical Psychology, he teaches Psychology of Art at the Accademia Santa Giulia in Brescia. Since 2013 he is Director of the Bonotto Foundation. During his university studies he began to be interested in contemporary art and after graduating in modern literature he collaborated with various galleries. From 2005 to 2010 he worked at the F. Conz Archive in Veorna for which he edited publications, supervised exhibitions, and archived books and documents. Collaborated on books: Lettrists Pianos (2007), Jacques Spacagna. Le voyage en Italie (2007), Noel Berlin Verona Conz (2008), Winterreise Asolo-New York and vice versa 1974 (2009), Alain Satie. Autour et detours du portrait (2009), Zaj Collection Archivo Conz (2009), Bernard Heidsieck. Ici Verona Radio et autres ecritures / collages dans la collection F. Conz (2010). He has also edited volumes for Archive F. Conz: The Secret Museum, F. Conz Editions and the La Livre project. A tribute to Ezra Pound that more than 60 artists have worked on. Since 2008 he has collaborated with the Fondazione Berardelli in Brescia. Since 2012 he has supervised the archive of the Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry section at the Bonotto Foundation in Molvena. His publications, by topic, are listed on the ART and PSYCHOANALYSIS pages.

Antonio Poce

Italy

Italy Guest Country

Diversity, for the artist, is a positive representation gap and the primary resource of creativity. His work has been concerned with refining new perceptual patterns, tracing new synthesis and new perspectives of unions.

Claudia Rebola

Argentina / USA
University of Cincinnati
www.claudiarebola.com

Presented by Icetex - Fellows Colombia

Coordinator of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Cincinnati. His work brings together design, science and technology to experiment, design and prototype innovative interactive products in the field of health and inclusion. His specific interests lie in application areas designed for aging, with an emphasis on humanizing technology, empowering users, engaging communities, and celebrating the value of simplicity and tangibility in user-product interactions.

Carlos Franzato

Brazil
unisinos university
www.unisinos.academia.edu/CarloFranzato

He is Professor of Design and Dean of the School of Creative Industries at the University of Unisinos (São Leopoldo and Porto Alegre, Brazil). His research focuses on complex collaborative design networks developed by designers and other professionals, companies and other types of organizations, users, and citizens. He developed many research projects for the development of strategies oriented towards design and innovation in collaboration with companies and public administrations, both in Italy and in Brazil. He is a member of the Research Group on Strategic Design for Cultural and Social Innovation, the Network for the Development of Design as a Process, the DESIS Network and the AUSJAL Network of Design Schools. He is editor of the Strategic Design Research Journal.

Roger Frank Malina

United States

‌Art science researcher, educator, publisher, and astrophysicist. He is a co-founder of the UTDallas ArtSciLab, along with design professor Cassini Nazir. We enable close collaboration between scientists and artists, as well as other hybrid projects that require scientific methods of team science.