Ricardo Dal Farra

Professor of music and media-art in the Department of Music at Concordia University in Canada. Director of the Center for Research and Experimentation in Electronic Arts (CEIArtE) of the National University of Tres de Febrero in Argentina. He directs the Latin American Collection of Electroacoustic Music. Founder and director of the Understanding Visual Music (UVM) and Balance-Unbalance (BunB) international conference series. (Photo taken from http://www.concordia.ca/)

Adriana Amodei

Italy

Italy guest country

Pittrice, scultrice, video artist.
Adriana Amodei, was born in Rome and lives in Europe – in particular in Svizzera, France, Austria, Italy, and now in Latin America. Plastic artist and teacher, he has studied Sociology at the Università La Sapienza di Roma with Professor Franco Ferrarotti and is a diplomat in Scenography at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma with the guidance of the pittore and poet Toti Scialoja.
Without dagli anni Ottanta explores the various articulations of the forms, using differently mixed languages for parrot. Plastiche, ferro, colore, luce elettronica, testi, immagini numerice hanno dato vita a sculture, video, videoinstallazioni, fotografie digitali, allestimenti spaziali. Always pay attention to the relationship between material and immaterial, Ogni suo lavoro expresses trust in art as it safeguards its transcendence. He has esposto le sue opere in numeros show so much personali che collective in vari Paesi sia europei che extraeuropei.

Ricardo Arce

Colombia www.vimeo.com/animarce

Associate Professor at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. Founding member of ASIFA Colombia. Graphic Designer from the National University, Specialist in Television from the Javeriana University and Master in Aesthetics and Art History from the UJTL. Book co-author Animation in Colombia until the end of the 80s.

ASIFA

Colombia www.asifacolombia.org 

Colombian chapter of ASIFA -International Association of Animated Films-. It works for the encouragement, development and promotion of animation. Promotes opportunities for animators and their environment to share information and network globally. It ensures the existence and support of the rights of the animators, and animation as a social, academic and cultural engine.

Carlos Gomez Caballero

Colombia / Spain www.oyentes.net

Professor and founding member of IDATbcn, Institute of Design Art and Technology of Barcelona.

Alejandro Brianza

Argentina www.alejandrobrianza.wordpress.com

Composer, researcher and teacher. Audiovisual graduate, sound and recording technician, flute player. Specialist and master's degree in Scientific Research Methodology, her research topic focuses on studying the expansion of research - creation in Latin America. He is a professor at the Universidad del Salvador and the Universidad Nacional de Lanús, where he is also part of research related to sound technology, electroacoustic music and contemporary languages, of which he has given lectures and workshops at congresses and various meetings of the national and international academic field.

Jaime Pardo Gibson

Colombia

He is Ph.D. in Industrial Design and Multimedia Communication, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; specialized in Quality Control Management and undergraduate degree in Industrial Design. Associate Professor of the Design Department of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia. Professor of the PhD in Design and Creation and the Master's in Design and Interactive Creation at the University of Caldas. Manizales, Colombia. His interests are focused on research and the construction of knowledge in Design.

Scaffold

Mexico www.scaffolding.in

Andamio is an ensemble where different artistic formations meet, with different formations, but where the line that integrates all the collaborations that are carried out is music, understood as experimental, electronic, codified, landscape, due to the fact that it is the rhythm that makes the whole assembly work. The sound image has a rhythm that assembles with the non-narrative of the live or recorded reading, of the live or pre-produced manipulated image, of the textures that are added to each project such as smell, taste, movement, etc

Dr Ezio Manzini

Polytechnic of Milan Italy www.desis-network.org

  Ezio Manzini, a leading thinker on design for sustainability, founded DESIS, an international design network for social innovation and sustainability (http://www.desis-network.org). He is an Honorary Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, a Professor at the University of the Arts London, and is currently a Visiting Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, and Jiangnan University, Wuxi. For more than two decades he has been working in the field of design for sustainability. More recently, his interests have focused on social innovation, considered one of the main drivers of sustainable change. In this perspective DESIS started: an international network of design schools specifically active in the field of design for social innovation and sustainability (http://www.desis-network.org).

Dr. Priscila Lena Farias

University of Sao Paulo Brazil 

  Priscila Farias is a graphic designer, researcher and professor of design. Her main interests, both as a designer and as a researcher, are typography, type design, communication and semiotics. His current research projects focus on graphic memory (first typographers in the city of São Paulo and printing workshops, in Latin America visual and print culture), and typographic landscapes (public letters and architectural epigraphs). She has a BA in Graphic Design (FAAP), an MA and a PhD in Communication and Semiotics (PUC-SP), and was a visiting scholar at Indiana University Bloomington and the University of the Arts London. She is a professor at the University of São Paulo School of Architecture and Urban Studies (FAU USP), where she coordinates the Visual Design Research Laboratory (LabVisual) and supervises undergraduate, master's, and doctoral research students.

Dr Bill Vorn

Concordia University/Hexagram Canada www.billvorn.concordia.ca

Born and based in Montreal (Canada), Bill Vorn has been pursuing research in Robotic Art for almost 25 years. His artistic practice includes installation and performance projects and includes motion control and robotic control, sound, light, video, and cybernetic processes. He has a PhD in Communication Sciences from UQAM (Montreal) for his thesis "Artificial Life as Media" and teaches Electronic Arts at Concordia University. His work has been presented at numerous international events, including Ars Electronica, ISEA, DEAF, Sonar, Art Futura, EMAF and Artec. He has been awarded the Vida 2.0 award (1999, Madrid), the Leprecon Interactivity Award (1998, New York), the Prix Ars Electronica Distinction Award (1996, Linz) and the International Digital Media Award (1996, Toronto). .

robert saucier

University of Quebec in Montreal / Hexagram Canada-Argentina www.hexagram.uqam.ca/content/robert-saucier

Robert Saucier currently lives and works in Montreal, Canada, where he is a professor of sculpture and media art, specializing in interactive robotic art at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). Since beginning his professional practice in 1979, Saucier has produced artwork for many solo shows and has curated group shows in galleries and museums in Canada, the US, and Europe. He is an active member of Hexagram, (International Network for Research-Creation in Audiovisual Arts, Design, Technology and Digital Culture) in Montreal, which funded parts of his research on interactive robotic sound installations. In 2007, the installation of the Hexagram Robotic Lab at UQAM was planned and supervised. He was director of the École des arts et visuels médiatiques at UQAM, from 2006 to 2009. His artistic research themes question the constant omnipresence of technology in our lives and its ability to radically alter our physiology, perceptions, and notions of connectivity with the world. world. Since 2003 Saucier worked very closely with the group of artists called The KIT Collaboration (Great Britain, Canada and Australia). In 2010, a book (152 pages) with DVD has been published in England documenting this collaboration and contextualizing their research on the international scene. In May 2014, Saucier and Heys present Radiabolus, a large interactive robotics and sound installation in Digital Art at the 2nd International Biennale (BIAN) in Montreal, Canada.

Tagny Duff Concordia University/Hexagram

Canada www.fluxnetwork.net

Tagny Duff is an interdisciplinary artist working in bioart, video, performance, net art, and installation art. His recent works, including The Cryobook Archives (2010-ongoing) and the Living Viral Tattoos (2008), have been featured in the following solo and group shows; "Cellular Memorabilia" (FoFA Gallery, Montreal Canada 2011), "Visceral: The Living Art Experiment "(curated by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr at Science Gallery, Dublin Ireland 2011), and "Evolution Haute Couture" (Moscow Biennial (2009) and National Center for Contemporary Art (2008) at Keliningrad, Russia and IX MediaForum and Moscow International Film Festival (2008) as part of a group of exhibitions curated by Dmitry Bulatov). Duff's publications include “Cryobook Archives” in media arts cited by Canadian media magazine, Spring 2012, "Living Viral Tattoos. Crisis Alert!" in Total Art Volume 1. No. 1. 2011, “How To Make Living Viral Tattoos”. Leonardo Magazine of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) 2010 and “Going Viral: Live Performance and Documentation in the Science Laboratory” in Performance2009 magazine, and “Living Viral Tattoos” in EVOLUTION HAUTE COUTURE: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age, edited by Dmitry Bulatov, published by the Kaliningrad Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Art, 2009. Tagny Duff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at Concordia University and founder/director of Fluxmedia Research-Creation Network.

Marie Louise Angerer

KHM Germany

Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. The focus of her research is media technology, affect, and neuroscientific reformulations of desire and sexuality. His most recent publications include Timing of Affect. Epistemologies, Aesthetics, Politics (with Bernd Bösel and Michaela Ott, 2014), Desire After Affect (2014), Choreography, Media, Gender (with Yvonne Hardt and Anna-Carolin Weber, 2013), numerous articles in books and magazines on the subject of affect, art and media theory.

Alain Thibault

Canada www.alainthibault.com

  Composer, sound designer and electronic music artist. His works have been presented in various contexts, contemporary music and digital arts festivals, in Canada, Europe (Chatelet Theater and Radio-France, in Paris, etc.) and Asia (Yamaguchi YCAM Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc. .). With the media artist Yan Breuleux, he formed the duo PurForm. They are currently touring their new AV performance, abcd_light, in Europe and Asia. With the American artist Matthew Biederman, he created the duo RAY_XXXX, whose PULSE performance was presented in Italy, France and Brazil. Thibault is currently the artistic director of Elektra, an international digital arts festival that takes place each year in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Matthew Biedermann

United States www.mbiederman.com

  Matthew Biederman (b.1972) has worked around media and environments, architectures and systems, communities and continents since 1990. His work has been exhibited at the Musee d'art Contemporain de Montreal (CA), BOZAR Center for Fine Arts (BE), Mattress Factory (US), Santa Monica (ES) and Sonic Acts (NL). He continues to develop collaborative audiovisual performances, which have been featured at festivals such as ELEKTRA (CA), FILE (BR), Ars Electronica (AT) and many more. In 2008 he co-founded the Arctic Perspective Initiative, with Marko Peljhan, dedicated to increasing traditional knowledge with new technologies for greater autonomy of the circumpolar region. API's work has been exhibited in venues around the world, including the 11th Lyon Bienniale (FR), Istanbul Design Bienniale, Museum of Contemporary Photography(JP), Laboratoria / 5th Moscow Biennial (RU), and Moderna Gallerija (SI ) among others.

Arturo Higa Taira

Peru http://www.aub.pe www.sputnik.pe

Dr. Dimitri della Faille

Belgium / Canada szkieve.org

  SZKIEVE (Belgium / Canada) is the project of Dr. Dimitri della Faille born in Belgium and now residing in Ottawa, Canada. Since 1997, Szkieve has given performances and workshops in some 20 countries (such as Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Chile, Ecuador, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Myanmar, Peru, Taiwan, Uruguay, Vietnam). It has been featured in a wide variety of alternative cultural venues, art galleries and established festivals. Szkieve has released half a dozen solo CDs, and almost as many collaboration and split versions on CD and vinyl. Dimitri is the founder of the Hushush label.

ARTECHMEDIA / Montse Arbelo and Joseba Franco

Spain www.montsearbelojosebafranco.net artechmedia.org

Artists, multimedia researchers, curators and entrepreneurs, committed to innovation and 21st century culture, with extensive international experience. Through their numerous trips around the world, they get to know first-hand and transfer social reality to their projects. Directors of international congresses in the Ministry of Culture, Government of Spain. Creators of European Conferences on Digital Space, Innovative Attitude and Creative Ecosystems at the European Commission and European Parliament in Brussels. Members of Innobasque (Basque Innovation Agency) and members of the Committee of Experts "Citizen Agenda for Science and Innovation" FECYT Ministry of Science of the Government of Spain.

Bruno Viana

Brazil www.brunovianna.net

  Bruno Vianna was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1971. He graduated in cinema in Rio in 1996. He has a master's degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NY University, obtained in 1999. Between 1994 and 2003 he directed four short films, all fictional stories that deal with social issues in the streets and favelas of Rio, which won international awards as Geraldo Voador. He directed the feature film Cafuné, which was released in theaters and on the Internet under a Creative Commons license, and encouraged downloaders to modify the edition. In 2008, he released, Ressaca (Hangover), a feature narrative film that is edited live at each screening through the use of a touch screen interface. It has been screened at festivals around the world, including Electrofringe in Australia, Cinelatino in Toulouse and Piksel in Norway. It won 4 awards at the Festival de Cineesquemanovo in Brazil, the only festival where it had the opportunity to take part in the competition.

Francisco Navarrete Sitja

Chile

Claudia Gonzalez Godoy

Chile claudiagonzalez.cl

  (Santiago, 1983) is a Visual Artist and Art Professor with a degree from the School of Art and Visual Culture of the Arcis University and a Master's Degree in Media Arts from the University of Chile. Since 2006, he has developed a proposal around the notion of materiality in analog and digital technological supports, working on the relationship between high and low technology with artisan procedures derived from loom weaving, organic materials and electronics. Claudia has given workshops and talks about her work at various festivals such as LIWOLI (Austria), SOL (Spain), EEII (Croatia), FILE (Brazil), Sudex (Argentina), Tsonami (Chile) and the BVAM (Chile), Festival of the Image of Manizales (Colombia). Director of the Chimbalab Art and Technology Laboratory Project (2008-2012). She currently works as an independent artist and manager of educational projects in Art and Technology.

Patricia Dominguez

Chile www.patriciadominguez.cl

  (Santiago, Chile 1984) is an artist and naturalist. He studied a Master in Studio Art MFA at Hunter College New York (2013), a Certificate in Botanical Illustration and Natural Sciences at the New York Botanical Garden (2011) and a Bachelor of Art from the Catholic University of Chile (2007). His main projects have been presented at El Museo del Barrio, Museo Bronx, Museo Marte, FLORA ars + natura, YAP MoMA PS1 + Constructo, Galería Gabriela Mistral, The Watermill Center, MAC Quinta Normal, Museo Bellas Artes, among others. He has participated in residencies such as "Matadero, Centro de Creación Contemporánea" Madrid (2015), "AIM Program" Bronx Museum New York (2014), RAT Mexico (2014), Residencia Cancha Santiago Chile (2014), "FLORA ars + natura" Colombia (2013), “Institute of Critical Zoologists” Singapore (2012), Sandbard Residency” India (2012), “The Watermill Center” New York (2012) and “American Museum of Natural History” New York (2012).

Venezuela Telephone Foundation

Venezuela

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Venezuela

Luis German Rodriguez

Venezuela

Bachelor of Computer Science, Central University of Venezuela (UCV). Postgraduate degrees in Computer Science Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) and London School of Economics and Political Science (UK). Professor at the Central University of Venezuela. His area of research and teaching is information and communication technologies for development with an extensive teaching career in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Member of the Management Committee and researcher of the project "Knowledge Management at the UCV". He is currently Director of Research and Strategic Advisor in Education at Fundación Telefónica de Venezuela. Consultant in ICT developments and impact evaluation of the use of these technologies for various organizations. Consultant for the Redes y Desarrollo Foundation (Funredes), a regional non-governmental organization dedicated to ICT projects for development. He was National Coordinator and later President-Founder of the Academic Network of Research Centers and National Universities (REACCIUN), the first Internet service provider in Venezuela. He was Director of the School of Computing of the Faculty of Sciences of the UCV. He was a Consultant for the Technology Transfer Center (CTT), a Latin American company that integrates education services. He has participated in numerous national and international conferences, published articles in magazines and books within his professional field.

Jorge LaFerla

Buenos Aires' University  Germany

Marco Maria Gazzano 

University of Rome III  Italy

Nature in the mirror of Virtuality

Video artistic works of 10+1 Italian audiovisual creation offices 2010-2015 Italy

  Mostra presentata da Adriana Amodei (Rome, Italy) in collaboration with Veronica D'Auria (CARMA-Centro d'Arti e Ricerche Multimediali Applicate -Rome, Italy) The Italian artist, studiosa di arti plastiche, Adriana Amodei proposes a vision of the subject attraverso il molteplice guardo degli 11 videoartisti italiani (or residenti anche in Italia) invited and selected insieme Veronica D'Auria dall'Archivio del CARMA (che dal 2009 raccoglie ed espone opere audiovisive di researcherca di multi Laboratori internazionali, dai maestri storici ad alcuni tra i più rappresentativi autori delle ultime generazioni, in collaboration with critics and curators (not with institutions, festivals and associations).

Alessandro Cipriani

Italy www.edisonstudio.it/en/alessandro-cipriani

  His works have been presented and awarded at festivals: Synthèse Bourges, Festival d'Automne (Paris), International Computer Music Conference, Biennale di Venezia Danza, Inventionen (Berlin), Engine 27 (New York), Festival di Ravenna, Redcat Festival (Los Angeles) etc and published on CD and DVD in Computer Music Journal, ICMC, CNI, etc.

Paz Tornero

Spain 

Patricio Sanchueza Vivianco

Wide Beach University Chile www.upla.cl

Lawyer and State Professor in History and Geography. Rector of the University of Playa Ancha Chile.

Francisca Keller Avila

Wide Beach University Chile www.upla.cl

  An academically trained choreographer and filmmaker, granddaughter of emigrants from Hungarian Transylvania, her childhood was closely linked to the world of marketing and advertising. Director of the Creativity Nucleus of the Playa Ancha University of Educational Sciences, dependent on the Vice-Rector for Postgraduate Research and Innovation, promotes Digital Culture, the Culture of Making (Maker Culture) and Civic Culture in the Valparaíso region, Chili.

Hamilton Mestizo

Colombia  www.librepensante.org/

  His interest is in the borders between art, science and technology, researching in various areas: electronics, computing, biology, ecology, critical design, free culture and sound. He has been a teacher in the area of industrial design and visual arts at the Javeriana University (2008-2012 / 2014) and in the film and television school (hypermedia) of the National University (2007). His work is emphasized both in the development of prototypes and installations, as well as in the experimentation of pedagogical models (workshops, laboratories, chairs, meetings, etc.) based on multidisciplinarity, encouraging the crossing of different topics, techniques and knowledge in a process creative and project development. He has participated in various events and exhibitions in Colombia, South America, Europe and Australia, where he has worked and participated in workshops and laboratories related to (bio)technology, electronic art, citizen science, do-it-yourself culture and networking.

Lucas Ospina 

University of the Andes Colombia

Bogotá, 1971. Sometimes he draws*, sometimes he writes**. Professor, University of the Andes. * www.jennyvila.com/artistas.html www.vkgaleria.com/artista/lucas-ospina www.tanyaleighton.com/index.php?pageId=141&l=en www.uniandes.academia.edu/LucasOspina ** www.esferapublica.org/nfblog/?author=40 www.lasillavacia.com/blogs/lucas-ospina www.lucasospina.blogspot.com www.uniandes.academia.edu/LucasOspina

Raul Minsburg

National University of Lanús Argentina soundcloud.com/raulminsburg   Composer, researcher and teacher, he has won various prizes such as those of Bourges (France), the Juan C. Paz Prize of Argentina, the Métamorphoses Contest (Belgium) and the Bimesp (Brazil). He has recently been awarded the municipal prize of the City of Buenos Aires. He develops his activity at the National University of Lanús as a Teacher, Researcher and editor responsible for the Magazine "En el límite - Writings on Art and Technology" and at the National University of Tres de Febrero working as a Teacher, Researcher and member of the Experimentation Center and Research in Electronic Arts (CEIArtE).

MEI - Music for flutesArturo Higa Taira 

Patricia Garcia / Juliana Moreno / Leonardo Zimmerman Argentina musicparaflautas.com.ar

  MEI – music for flutes It is made up of flutists Patricia García and Juliana Moreno. Since the beginning of its activity in 2002, MEI has generated a space for the production of unpublished music as a result of a process of compilation, premiere and dissemination of contemporary music for flutes, with special interest in the work of Argentine and Latin American composers. . The repertoire is made up of works from the second half of the 20th and 21st centuries and others composed especially for the duo, the product of collaborative work that MEI permanently establishes with composers. The duo's concerts are conceived in a space where each work inhabits a visual context assembled with various resources: image projection, lighting and stage setting processes that intervene in the space.

Henrique Roscoe

Brazil hol.1mpar.com

  Henrique Roscoe is a digital artist, musician and curator. Works in the audiovisual area since 2004. Is graduated in Social Communication (UFMG) and Electronic Engineering (PUC/MG) and has expertise in Design (FUMEC). Has a conceptual and generative project called 'HOL'. With this project had performed at the main live images festivals in Brazil like Sónar, FILE, ON_OFF, Live Cinema, Multiplicidade, KinoLounge, FAD and also abroad, in England (NIME, Encounters), Germany (Rencontres Internationales), Poland (WRO) , USA (Gameplay), Greece (AVAF), Italy (LPM and roBOt), and Bolivia (Digital Dialects). Participated of video festivals in many countries as Germany, France, Spain, Holland, USA with documentation of the performances.

Rodrigo Garate

Metropolitan Technological University Argentina

  Visual artist, Visual Communication Designer (Metropolitan Technological University) and Master in Media Arts (Universidad de Chile). Teacher in the courses "Design Workshop I, II and III" and "Typography" at the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana and in the courses "Web Design" and "Mobile Design" at INACAP. It has a wide production of works that discuss the relationships between word, image, sound and movement. The guiding axis of all his works and experiments in recent years is the text-image relationship, the alteration of meaning and the possible continuity of the story of both instances as a whole for open reading, articulating a parallel between the text that becomes characteristics of image and the image that is built as one more sentence. He currently participates in the Study Group, FONDECYT Project "Samples and loops in contemporary poetry" in discussion groups, exhibitions, seminars and talks.

carmen gil

Colombia

Artist, teacher and theoretician. Master in Plastic Arts and Master in Literature. She works as an Associate Professor in the area of electronic media and time arts at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the Universidad de los Andes. He has participated as an artist and speaker in events on new technologies, art and science in Latin America, Asia and Europe, such as (Expo Shaghai 2010, Maison des Cultures du Monde, Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Festival del Norte de Norway, Paço das Artes in Sao Paulo).

retroVISOR 

Carmen Gil - Camilo Giraldo - Juan David Castaño - Juan Manuel Toro - Vladimir Giraldo Colombia

This Colombian artistic project not only feeds the ears, retroViSOR makes music visible by synchronizing its mix of rock, electronic, cumbia and Latin American sounds with indigenous chants, old ballroom hits and thumping beats intertwined with live controlled video. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. retroViSOR is a musical-audiovisual project formed in the city of Bogotá in 2004 by Camilo Giraldo and Carmen Gil Vrolijk, currently also accompanied by Juan David Castaño, Juan Manuel Toro and Vladimir Giraldo; the project covers various formats from Dj-Vj sessions and medium-format LiveAct ensembles to video mapping and large-format projections and events. 4Chicha! It is his 3rd record work, in this new work retroViSOR rescues his first searches in sound and image, while integrating his most recent orientations. In chicha! rock and electronics merge with rhythms such as mambo, porro, cumbia and mapalé.

Angel Moreno

Colombia

Social Communicator from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with postgraduate training in political science. He worked in the Culture Department of the Andrés Bello Convention International Organization from 1996 to 2009, being part of the technical team that led projects such as Economy and Culture, Cultural Legislation, We Are Heritage, We Are Young, Urban Cultures, Culture and Development, and Latinities. , among others. He currently works as Advisor to the Office of the Minister of Culture of Colombia, and is responsible for the orientation and implementation of the policy on cultural entrepreneurship and cultural industries in the country.

Octavio Arbelaez

Colombia

Lawyer with postgraduate studies in Philosophy and Cultural Marketing. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Caldas, Director of the Manizales International Theater Festival, Director of Arts of the Colombian Ministry of Culture, and UNDP Consultant in the area of culture and new technologies. He has been manager of the companies Oc Marketing Cultural and Vania Latina Producciones Culturales (Colombia-Spain) and of the management teams of the International Meeting of Arts of Medellín, of "Bogotá Capital Iberoamericana de la Cultura", Director of the Market of the Iberoamerican Festival of Teatro de Bogotá VIA 2012 and 2014, of the "Festival VivAmérica Bogotá" 2008 and 2009, of the Inter-American Forum Culture is Development. Medellín 2009, Executive Director of the Ibero-American Congress of Culture 2010. Director of the Cultural Markets of Medellín and of the Business Roundtables of the Cultural Industries organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá and of the Roundtables of Performing Arts and Speaker in Medellín, among other. In 2014 he was the winner of the ISPA Award for cultural management. Currently, he is president of REDLAT Colombia, directs CIRCULART ‒ Medellín Cultural Market, the Medellín Vive la Música Festival and the Manizales International Theater Festival.

Richard Tamayo Nieto

Colombia

Social communicator and master's degree in philosophy. He has 9 years of professional and teaching experience in the publishing field, particularly in the edition of academic serials and digital publications in magnetic media and the Internet. Undergraduate and graduate professor in the Departments of Communication, Sociology and Political Science at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Advisor, consultant and researcher in communications for various public and private companies.

Ricardo Gomez Garzon

Colombia

General Director of ENVIVO, a consulting company focused on contributing to the development of skills, coaching skills, assertive communication, empowerment and human relationship. He has designed methodologies for the development of accelerated learning through music and theatrical improvisation. Additionally, he is an expert in neuro linguistic programming and coaching. Ricardo is a Business Administrator from the EAN University. Additionally, he has a diploma in Music Project Management from the Sergio Arboleda University and an MBA with an emphasis in Leadership from the Swiss Management Center (SMC) University.

Luciano Rodriguez Alcala

Argentina lucianorodriguezalcalacv.wordpress.com www.creatividadetica.org

  (Argentina) Consultant, Teacher and International Lecturer. Linked for a decade and a half to critical thinking, the application and dissemination of Intellectual Property, Design, Business Models and Creation & Management of intangibles in innovation processes. He has given conferences and classes in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Colombia and Italy. Co-founder of www.creatividadetica.org, a non-profit organization with actions at an international level, aimed at promoting design as a tool for human development, he has concentrated his greatest efforts on building methodologies for the creation and projection of organizations towards the economy of intangibles based on new methodologies for approaching business and organization models. He has developed new curricular contents at the Master's and/or Graduate level for universities in Argentina, Colombia and Italy. He is a Lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Industrial Property as a Strategic Business Management Tool from the Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)-INPI.

Dr. Juan Manuel Salamanca

Colombia www.smartartifact.com

  Interaction designer interested in designing for social interaction in augmented environments. Explore how to design intelligent devices suitable for acting in social environments that facilitate processes of cooperation and coordination between members of a group. At the level of socio-technological systems, his research becomes relevant in the planning and implementation of non-human mediators that facilitate the achievement of the objectives of a human group. He earned his PhD from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, USA and his Master's degree in design direction from the Domus Academy in Milan, Italy.

Charles Edward Smith

Colombia www.hierro.tv

  Film and television director from the National University of Colombia, postgraduate in computer animation from Pompeu Fabra University and Diploma of Advanced Studies in Expressive, Formal and Spatio-Temporal Components of Animation from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He has been professionally dedicated to animation since 1993. In this field he has alternated commissioned production with the independent making of short films and experimental pieces. With extensive experience in teaching. He has been a professor at the National University, the Javeriana University and for eight years he has worked as a professor and academic coordinator of the Master in Animation at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Gerardo Della Vecchia 

IQLab Argentina www.luismejia.net/

Buenos Aires, 1974. Bachelor of Electronic Arts, Technician in Electronics, with training in information systems, Participated in an extensive and interdisciplinary list of seminars, courses and workshops, among which stand out: "Canal aires" audiovisual mobile communication workshop , by Antoni Abad, workshop "Interfaces for the production of Electronic Art" given by David Cuartielles, "Intelligence and artificial life applied to art" given by Emiliano Causa, "Interactive Art Workshop" given by Rodrigo Alonso and Mariano Sardón , "Cinema and painting: dialogues and influences" dictated by Soledad Obeid and Sergio Zadunaisky, "New technologies applied to the creation of installations and multimedia performances", "Programming for interactive environments, (Open Frameworks) ” dictated by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo. He is currently a Full Professor of "Show Technology I and II" and adjunct of "Sonovisual Integration Workshop I and II" of the Bachelor of Electronic Arts at UNTreF. And he teaches different workshops on programming and electronics applied to creative projects for children and adults. I carry out the design of the module "Animation with Scratch" for INTEC.

Fabio Ignacio Munevar Quintero

University of Magdalena Colombia

Professor of plant of the University of Magdalena. PhD candidate for the Rudecolombia PhD in Education Sciences in the area of Educational Thought and Communication at the Technological University of Pereira. profesoredubatica@gmail.com Master in Education with Emphasis in Educational Multimedia from the University of Caldas. Information Systems Administrator of the National University of Colombia. Young Researcher COLCIENCIAS 2007-2008 from the DICOVI group. Former Coordinator of the Semillero Edumática of the University of Caldas. Member of the groups COLCIENCIAS GINFED, Innov-acción Educativa and DICOVI Professor of graduates in multimedia textbooks, digital tools and virtual teaching materials.

Dr. Francisco Cabanzo

University of the Forest Colombia franciscocabanzo.blogspot.com/

Cultural manager and producer / visual artist / collaborative urban planner / project manager / architect. He has worked in the cultural production of networks, events, art shows, stage design, video art and documentaries in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. International expert and consultant in European projects, under construction (TOI-Leonardo - Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Lithuania, Bulgaria); with the OAS in environment (Caribbean), in planning with the Italian Cooperation (Colombia, IUAV- Scuola PVS – Italy/Venezuela) and the Ministry of the Environment of Colombia. International expert (PON Leg(ali) south - Italy) in participatory design.

Eduardo Meneses Olivar Colombia Artistic Director and Lighting Designer. Eduardo Meneses discovered his passion for the Performing Arts from a very early age in his native Colombia, where he began to develop his artistic sensibility studying Architecture at the Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, 1968 – 1971. His beginnings were producing and lighting concerts and fashion shows while experimenting with photography. Upon her arrival in Canada in 1979, she continued to explore her passion for the visual by working in experimental photography, fashion and dance. In 1986 he directed and produced Soledad y Compañía, at the Francophone Center in Vancouver, a multidisciplinary work based on his photography. In 1987 he collaborated in production and design with the Colombian Ballet Company. His participation in the creation and development of the Station Street Arts Center in Vancouver between 1988 – 1994 was of vital importance. In this center for the performing arts Eduardo worked […]

Roberto Cuervo Pontifical

Javeriana University of Bogota Colombia 

He is an industrial designer and a master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning, with an emphasis in Urban Design, from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He is a PhD candidate in Design and Creation from the University of Caldas. Researcher and professor of the design department of the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, where he was director of the industrial design course. His research focuses on the study of urban soundscapes and the design of artifacts to intervene in the acoustic dimension of the city. He is a hobby musician and cook by passion. International speaker and jury on design and creation issues, he was co-founder and president of the RAD Academic Design Network Association.

Olga Lucia Hurtado

Colombia

Chemical Engineer from the National University of Colombia, Manizales campus, Master in Design and Interactive Creation from the University of Caldas and postgraduate in media art. His work has focused on the relationship between science, art and the environment through painting, photography and video, accompanied by pedagogical exercises that involve actions with the community. He has participated in collective works with other artists and also individual projects and exhibitions whose central theme has been landscape.

Glob-All Mix 

International Show www.globallmix.com

30 posters for the Environment and Development, from 30 designers from around the world, make up this exhibition, organized by the Brazilian Felipe Taborda in 1992. Ten years later, Rio de Janeiro hosted the 2012 United Nations Conference on Development Sustainable, where this proposal was made for the second time: "Glob-All-Mix - 30 posters for a Sustainable World", and were later exhibited in several other countries, reminding the world that humanity can be viable.

David Velez

Colombia davidvelezr.tumblr.com

Social communicator and audiovisual producer by profession. His professional experience has been focused on the development of new narratives and transmedia products, as their creator, director, advisor and speaker. In addition to this, he has years of experience in the design of communication strategies and in the creation of content and experiences designed for the Internet, television and various platforms in both the public and private sectors. As director of the 4 Ríos project, he has been the winner of different scholarships such as Crea Digital from MINTIC and the Ministry of Culture or first place in the Distrito Cinema call organized together with the Ático Center of the Javeriana University, among others.

Juan Cortes

Colombia www.juan-cortes.net

  The Colombian artist, born in 1989, lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia. My works take multiple forms, such as installation works, recordings, and concert pieces. I am interested in sound and the natural forces that are the basis and foundation of my work. I am also interested in interdisciplinary and research processes.

Jorge Luis Vaca Forero

Colombia

Plastic Artist from the Universidad de los Andes with emphasis in Electronic Media and specialist in History and Theory of Modern and Contemporary Art. He was linked as an associate researcher to the Project "Documents of the 20th Century Latin American and Latino Art", coordinated by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas, an office registered with the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas (United States). His research and creation work focuses on the area of media art and the relationship of technology with respect to the development of different Artistic Practices in Colombia, through media such as electronics, photography, video and installation. He has been a contributor to publications such as Errata, El Astrolabio and La Revista Cronopio and a speaker at events such as the International Image Festival, held by the University of Caldas. In turn, he has been awarded internationally within the framework of the I Call for Electronic Art sponsored by the Outsiders Art Foundation in Madrid, within the framework of the JustMad6 Emerging Art Fair.

abdu eljaiek

Colombia

Abdu Eljaiek has been exhibiting individually and collectively since 1962. His career has developed mainly between the cities of Bogotá and Barranquilla. Internationally, he has had solo shows in Belgium, France, Poland and the former Yugoslavia. Within the national context, he has exhibited at the Modern Art Museum of Cartagena (2013), the ASAB Gallery of the District University (2006), the La Cometa Gallery (2001), the Centro Colombo Americano-Manizales (1997), the Rayo Museum Gallery (1989), The Santa Fe Gallery (1981), The Luis Ángel Arango Library (1978), The Colombian American Center - Bogotá (1975), The French Colombian Alliance - Bogotá (1970), The Callejón Gallery (1963) and The Modern Art Gallery (1962), among many others. He has been deserving of distinctions such as the I Color Prize of the II Art Salon of the Foto Club Bacatá (1967), the I Color Prize of the National Photographic Art Salon of the Foto Club Bacatá (1972), the Artistic Merit Award of the District Institute of Culture and Tourism (1981), the 1st prize of the Sixth Photographic Contest of the Santafé de Medellín Zoo (1992) and the Tribute to Managing Artists (2014) from the District Secretary of Culture and Tourism. He has received multiple scholarships (1984-1997) from the National Federation of Coffee Growers, to carry out artistic works and photographic exhibitions in Europe. Similarly, he was invited by the State Department of the United States of America (1974) to hold a training seminar with the renowned photographer Ansel Adams (San Francisco, 1902 - California, 1984). In a complementary way, it is worth noting that he was invited several times to the National Salon of Artists and has been given different recognitions for his career and professional quality in plastic and visual arts. His work has been reviewed in publications such as The International Encyclopedia of Photographers From 1839 to Our Days (1992), a collection edited by Cámara Oscura Ediciones, in Hermance, Switzerland, and the European House of Photography, in Paris, France.

Luciana Fleischmann

Argentina

Luciana Fleischman has a degree in Social Communication from the National University of Rosario (Argentina), a Master's in Communication, Image and Information from the Fluminense Federal University (Brazil) and a PhD student in Communication and Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). He lives in Rio de Janeiro, where he produces and manages experimental activities in art and free technologies. Member of the organization team of the Tropixel-Art, Science, Technology and Society Festival (Ubatuba, Brazil) http://tropixel.ubalab.org/, the Aprender Brincando project, which develops online learning laboratories in public schools in Rio de Janeiro http://labhipermidia.wordpress.com/, and the Redelabs platform http://redelabs.org/. He is currently in Colombia doing a residency at Platohedro http://platohedro.org/ where he investigates projects and spaces for experimentation in art and technology in Medellín.

Federico Pardo

SIB - Alexander von Humboldt Institute Colombia

Biologist from the Universidad de los Andes and audiovisual producer from the University of Montana in Bozeman. Federico works as an educator, photographer, and documentary producer with an emphasis on social and environmental issues. He has been carrying his cameras on his shoulder for more than ten years, and his sensitivity to the natural world has allowed him to work for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, National Geographic, the Humboldt Institute, and Univision, among others. Thanks to his work, Federico has won awards at various documentary film festivals and has been invited as a presenter at TEDx Bogotá and Creative Mornings. Federico is a co-founder and contributor to the EverydayLatinAmerica and EverydayMacondo Instagram communities. Today he works as an audiovisual media producer for Trópico Media, his company.

Fabian Esteban Alvarez Rojas

Argentina Design Project Colombia

Social communicator from the Central University of Colombia, candidate for Master in History and Criticism of Architecture, Design and Urbanism from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Among his most significant experiences in the field of communication and design is the voluntary coordination of Memefest Colombia (www.memefest.org) for two years, a project from which he would derive after graduating as a journalist at the digital publication www.elniuton.com , a kind of blog specialized in design, art, science and technology, of which he was a part for four years, until he reached proyectodiseño, a Colombian publication specialized in design and architecture, in which he originally fulfilled the role of editor, later that of deputy director of content, and at this moment that of correspondent in Argentina. In his portfolio stands out the production of what was his undergraduate thesis 'Approach to the ethical and aesthetic possibilities of journalistic discourse in postmodernity' and his master's thesis that deals with the impact of the first industrial revolution in Colombia and the articulation of the national values around the artifacts produced either by design, art, science or technology available between 1897 and 1910.

Active tele-spaces 

A sample of performance arts and telematic concerts Mario Valencia - Professor University of Caldas / Juan Reyes The Telematics exhibition Tele-espacios activos proposes the presentation of different works and projects related to the production of forms of expression that use advanced networks as a means to express ideas. The result of these works is ubiquitous both in space and in time, since these events take place in different geographical locations on the planet, in real time and in different time zones. The delay due to the transport and travel of data also implants a seal that makes these works characteristic.

Juan Reyes

Colombia ccrma.stanford.edu/~juanig

Composer and artist, Juan Reyes is also a founding member of MagInvent.ORG, an effort around the arts, science and technology, promoting dynamics such as Artelab, expyeZp and the Colloquio de Arte Mediatico, which support the development of new music and the evolution of the electronic arts. He has earned degrees in systems, mathematics, and music focused on the study and performance of Computer Music at the University of Tampa and the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University. Across a variety of disciplines, he has studied with John Chowning, Chris Chafe, Julius Smith III, Jonathan Berger, Brian Ferneyhough, Terry Mohn, and Max Mathews. His current interests are oriented around remote interaction, as well as models of gesture and touch applied to both acoustics and musical expression.

Julian Jaramillo

Colombia

(PhD in Sonology from the University of Sao Paulo) works in the field of musical and audiovisual creation with electronic media, with a focus on experimental music, music on the Internet and the design and development of interactive applications and installations. Jaramillo Arango's work articulates science, art, technology, creativity, society and community through works that explore different modalities of interaction with sound. These works have been exhibited in America and Europe in the form of electroacoustic pieces, performances, interventions or installations, among others, and have also been published in the form of specialized academic texts in the area of sound. Jaramillo Arango currently resides in Manizales, where he is conducting research on sound design for urban spaces as part of a postdoctoral stay at the University of Caldas.

Mario Valencia

Colombia

‌Professor University of Caldas. PhD in Design, Master in Design and Interactive Creation from the University of Caldas, Systems Engineer from the Autonomous University of Manizales and Specialist in University Teaching at the University of Caldas. He worked as a support engineer and researcher at the Jackeline Nova electroacoustic music laboratory, as a teacher he has taught courses in engineering, multimedia, acoustics and design at different universities in Colombia.

Hector Fabio Torres

Colombia

Graduated in music from the University of Caldas. He studied classical guitar with the teacher Delio Cardona Usma and has received training in seminars and personal classes on harmony, counterpoint, instrumentation, direction, composition and analysis with the teachers Marco Tulio Arango, Enrique Camacho, Fabio Miguel Fuentes, Guillermo Morales, Antoine Bonnet, and advisors to World Composer among others.

Christian Lizarralde Gomez

Colombia

Artist and research professor at the School of Social Communication at the Universidad del Valle. PhD candidate in Design and Creation, director of the Hypermedia Laboratory, leader of the Digital Aesthetics Research Line. Professor Lizarralde's experience has focused on the investigation of communication and digital aesthetics and the production of hypermedia works, exploring the languages and current means of representation. His work has been exhibited in important events worldwide, critically and aesthetically addressing the interplay between art-technology-society.

Elizabeth Granados

Colombia

Computer engineer and multimedia development expert. Computer engineer and multimedia development expert. In her professional work, she has worked as a producer of virtual media at the University of Caldas de Manizales, has coordinated developed multimedia and educational projects coordinated by the UNDP (United Nations Development Program), winner of the national award from the Ministry of Education on construction of OVAs (Virtual Learning Objects). She has been a professor of Adobe Flash and Adobe Dream Weaver certification courses, I work as a professor in the Department of Visual Design at the University of Caldas and I participate in the investigations Surrounding Audiovisual Spaces and Nam robotic sculpture, she specialized in online technologies off-line, UNESCO - MECAD / ESDI. She is currently a freelance Web and Multimedia consultant and developer.

Michael Dessen

United States mdessen.com/

Michael Dessen is a composer and trombonist who creates music for improvisers, often by exploring the artistic potentials of live electronics, telepresence, and digital networks. His electro-acoustic trio, who have released three albums on Clean Feed Records, combine intricately composed material with wide-open improvisation and live sampling/processing. Dessen also works with compositions "scorestreams," which are dynamically displayed on screens for improvisers to perform, and as an improvisator he collaborates with various bands as well as soloing on digibone, an animistic world of trombone and live electronics. Since 2007, Dessen has actively participated in numerous telematic concerts that feature performers in distant locations connected through high-definition network technologies.

Juan Pablo Caceres

C.hile ccrma.stanford.edu/people/juan-pablo-caceres

Composer, interpreter and engineer born in Santiago, Chile. He is currently a PhD student in computer music at CCRMA, Stanford University (USA). His work includes instrumental and electronic pieces, as well as performances of avant-garde rock music, with records released in Europe and America. Juan-Pablo's interests include Internet music and performance, virtual acoustic spaces, popular experimental music, computer music beyond its limits (in both directions).

celso arrieta

Veracruz University Mexico

Graduated from the Faculty of Plastic Arts of the Universidad Veracruzana. Professor at the Faculty of Plastic Arts and Director of the Artesanos Gráficos Mexicanos Design Studio. More than two decades in the making of posters, his work has touched the Cultural Festivals of his home state of Veracruz. In which there are 7 versions of the Junio Musical International Festival of the Universidad Veracruzana 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2010. I elaborate the image of the International Festival Danza Extrema 2005 and 2006. I make the image of the International Afro-Caribbean Festival 1995 , 1996 and 1997. Selected at the International Poster Biennial in Mexico 1996, 2012 and 2014. Selected at the 17th International Poster Biennale in Warsaw 2000. It has a poster on permanent display at the Museum of Publicity in Paris, France. He has had multiple exhibitions, including 50 posters and 500 nights at the Institute of Plastic Arts of the UV. Exhibition at the UNAM Morelia campus in October 2014 and his most recent exhibition, Gallo 100 retrospective of 20 years of trade with 100 posters at the Ramón Alba Gallery of the Canal de Xalapa in January 2014. He has been invited to participate in different Poster collections , such as the Tribute to Vicente Rojo for his 80 years of work, The Posada 100 Collection, The 400-year exhibition of the relationship between Mexico and Japan. He currently develops author's work, producing graphic images that give outlet to his personal interests transformed into a poster.

Carlos Cubillos

SIB - Alexander von Humboldt Institute Colombia

Webmaster at SIB Colombia. Master in Visual Arts with graphic emphasis from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. With experience in graphic design, web and flash development, for various agencies. His work focuses mainly on the creation of the project's visual concept, user interface design, and HTML and CSS building. He is a founding partner of Enmicolombia.com and illustrator and designer of www.divinacomedia.com. Cartoonist, geek, practitioner of martial arts and Buddhism.

Alexis Pacheco 

Propaganda Festival Colombia www.festivalpropaganda.org

Designer and cultural manager with a Master in Curating and new media from ESDi Barcelona. He is Co-Founder of Estudio Mapping, a design studio focused on exhibition design and museography, he is also co-founder of Círculo Abierto, a foundation that works on projects based on innovation in culture, and since 2011 he is co-director of the Propaganda Festival, a festival of art and digital culture that takes place in the city of Barranquilla.

Camilo Augusto Pineda 

Propaganda Festival Colombia camiloaugusto.blogspot.com voidkml.blogspot.com

 

1979, Barranquilla, Colombia. Plastic Artist graduated from the University of Cauca (Popayán, Colombia). I have worked in various media such as photography, basic electronics, object-directed programming, drawing, engraving, painting, and ceramics, among others. Dilettante, interested in questions that have to do with identity, language, memory and scientific discourse.

Miguel Angel Lopez Usma

Colombia http://saxolous.wix.com/miguelangellous

According to the experience obtained in the city of Boston, studying at "Berklee College of Music" with a Full Scholarship for 3 years, Miguel Angel Lous had the privilege of attending several Seminars and Workshops held at Harvard University, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), about Neuroscience, Music Therapy, Philosophy, World Music, Composition and Jazz. Now he is able to share this acquired knowledge and concepts about the topics that are proposed to teach, in addition to completing his research on the subject during a trip to Europe representing Berklee as Composer and Performer of the Saxophone and Flute, where he obtained more extensive information and practice of all these studies. He is currently in Colombia performing Folk Music with Jazz Fusion.

Dr. Yovanny Betancur-Santa

Colombia www.yovannybetancur.com

Doctor of music from the University of Montreal specializing in contemporary music under the direction of the Canadian flutist Lise Daoust. Recognized for his showiness and discipline, he has been awarded scholarships for excellence throughout his training, awarded by the Faculty of Music and the Faculty of Higher and Postdoctoral Studies of the University of Montreal. Thanks to his knowledge of the new flute writing techniques of the 20th and 21st centuries and his virtuosity and versatility in interpreting this repertoire, composers of different origins have dedicated their works to him, premiering them in large venues around the world.

Nelson Vergara

National University of Colombia - Bogota Campus Colombia

Media artist. Professor at the National University of Colombia, Bogotá. His creation process focuses on the development of reactive and generative systems for media and interactive objects and spaces, on the creation of space and time documents through different media, and on the creation of installation works where the media vision of space prevails. around. In these works, the question arises about what are the possibilities of representation and appearance in the body-landscape-environment relationship. Nelson Vergara is a professor at the School of Plastic Arts at the National University of Colombia. With studies in Plastic Arts at the National University of Colombia and Media Art at the University of Arts in Berlin and the Higher School of Arts and Media in Cologne where he is also a visiting professor. He has participated in more than 50 video and art exhibitions and festivals in countries such as China, Croatia, Germany, Spain, the United States, Israel, Argentina, Canada and Colombia, among others.

Roberto Garcia Piedrahita

National University of Colombia - Bogota Campus Colombia

Sound artist and composer. Professor at the National University of Colombia, Bogotá. His interest is focused on sound and sound art manifestations. In his work, the synthesis and sound simulation in space, landscape and acoustic phenomena in human and natural environments and the correspondence and exchange through sound and with other forms of representation and expression are constant; especially the boundary between the natural and the artificial.

Andres Useche

United States - Colombia http://www.andresuseche.blogspot.com/

Andrés has dabbled as a writer, director, composer and activist through films, songs, campaigns and videos to support causes such as: immigration reform in the United States, ("Marching into the Light", "Dream to Belong"), the election of President Barack Obama ("Si Se Puede Cambiar", and "With Obama We Can Change"), human rights ("Even Here"), environmental protection ("Oceans: Sylvia Earle's Journey"), and the protection of the fauna (The Cove: My Friend is…). In this work, as a writer and director, Andrés collaborated with Naomi Watts, Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Robin Williams, James Gandolfini and John Leguízamo among others. Andrés has performed his songs throughout the United States including appearances at two Presidential gala parties, at the Organization of American States (OAS/OAS), and at the United States Capitol. Recently, Andrés spoke on behalf of the immigrant cause at the White House.

Collective +1

Colombia

The +1 Collective is made up of Colombian photographers Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo, Federico Ríos and Jorge Panchoaga, who have extensive photographic experience, with publications, exhibitions and awards at a national and international level. His interest in living the photographic experience is situated on several fronts: a. Field production; b. Teaching and learning; c. The publication and exhibition of photography; and d. Mutual collaboration. The spirit of the +1 Collective, as its name indicates, is to work in collaboration with other photographers, institutions, organizations and individuals who can add ideas and products on a specific topic. Their joint work has been presented at Casa Tres Patios and MAMM in Medellín, the National University of Colombia and the First Meeting of Fujifilm Visual Narratives in Bogotá, the International Image Festival in Manizales and in the book Fiestas de San Pacho in Quibdó, among others. . Additionally, they are co-founders and curators of @EverydayMacondo on Instagram.

German Eduardo Gomez Uribe

Colombia

Visual designer, Specialist in Aesthetics and Master in Aesthetics and Art History. He has worked as a creative in the area of promotional graphics, alternating with teaching work at the University of Caldas, the Autonomous University of Manizales and in recent years as a full-time teacher of the Graphic Design program at the University of Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, in which he coordinates the area of promotional graphics and the graphic research hotbed for packaging.