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.

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/)

marco maria gazzano

University of the Studi Roma Tre

Italy

Italy guest country

A student of Cinema, Electronic Arts and intermediality theories, he is a Ph.D Professor of Cinema, Photography and Television at the University of Roma Tre where, since 2003, he has taught Cinema, “Electronic Arts and theories of intermedialities”, “Analysis and interpretation of the film” and has curated numerous International Conferences. Since 1984 he has taught at numerous Italian and European Universities and has collaborated with Rai (Italian Radio Television) and Tsi (Italian-Swiss Television) Experimental Cultural programs.

Alain Ruche

Belgium

www.kosmosjournal.org/contributor/alain-ruche/

I started my professional career in Peru and Guatemala with the International Labor Office. I went back to university as a research assistant at the Institute for Developing Countries in Leuven-la-Neuve (Belgium). After working with the EC (Rwanda) and the World Bank (Senegal), I was appointed as the EU Representative in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and later I address the EU in various delegations: Morocco, Bangladesh, Argentina and Nicaragua, Trade, economy, information and political affairs.

Raymond Bellour

France

proyectoidis.org/raymond-bellour

Guest year Colombia-France 2017

Critic and theoretician of cinema and literature. He studied letters, founded the magazine Artsept. He published Le Livre des autres, a great book of interviews with Michel Foucault, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Pierre Francastel, etc., making great thinkers of some past generation widely known. He participated in a famous exhibition on images, Passages de l'image, de (1989), at the Center Georges Pompidou, with Christine Van Assche and Catherine David. In 1991, with Serge Daney, he created the magazine Trafic. In his research The body of cinema: hypnosis, emotions, animalities, published in 2009, he fundamentally contributes to the understanding of the functioning of the cinematographic image. Touching the themes: historical conjunction between psychoanalysis and cinema; direct relationship between hypnosis and cinema; and the animal as a symbol in the cinematographic narrative. For many years, one of his main areas of research was what he himself called "L'Entre-Images", a permanent reassessment of mutations and exchanges between different image media, in which he tries each time more focused on installations and different image and sound devices, from the avant-garde of cinema and plastic arts.

masaki fujihata

Japan

Masaki Fujihata was born in Tokyo in 1956. He is a media artist and professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Fujihata got his start in the 1980s working in the field of computer graphics and animation. Subsequently, along with the dramatic developments achieved in digital technologies, he began to pursue his possibilities in artistic expression, boldly moving into uncharted territory in the art world.

Joanna Zylinska

United Kingdom

www.joannazylinska.net

Joanna Zylinska is a writer, speaker, artist, and curator. She is Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of six books, including Nonhuman Photography (MIT Press, 2017, forthcoming), Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2014, freely available electronic version), and Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process Kember; MIT Press, 2012) - is also a translator of Stanislaw Lem's philosophical treatise, Summa Technologiae (Minnesota UP, 2013).

Annick Bureaud

France

www.annickbureaud.net

Annick Bureaud is an independent art critic, curator and event organizer, researcher and teacher of art and technoscience. She is the director of Leonardo / Olats (www.olats.org), the European sister organization of Leonardo / Isast (www.leonardo.info). She is a co-founding member of the Collectif Nunc. He wrote numerous articles and contributed to the French contemporary art magazine Art Press. She is co-editor of the essay collection Connexions: art, réseaux, media (Ensba Press, 2002) and author of Les Basiques: l'art «multimédia», an introductory book on new media art (Leonardo / Olats, 2004). ).