Aurelio A. Horta Mesa

Cuba

Art and design theorist. Essayist. Doctor of Sciences on Art. Professor / researcher at the Institute of Aesthetic Research of the National University of Colombia. It addresses the research topics on the Fundamentals and Criticism of Culture, Art and Design. He is currently doing research on poetics, democratization and transterritoriality in Colombian design, as well as transtextuality and the meaning of the image in relation to words and writing. His career in Cuban Artistic Education stands out. President-Founder Permanent National Court of Scientific Degrees in Sciences on Art of Cuba (1996-2000). Former Academic Vice Chancellor of the Higher Institute of Art in Havana, Cuba (1993-1999). His teaching management and academic direction in Costa Rica marks the institutionalization and opening of unprecedented academic programs in Central America −Cinema & TV, Digital Animation and the Master's Degree in Design Studies− (2000-2007). He has developed teaching, academic advice, conferences and seminars in Mexico, Venezuela, Bulgaria, Spain, Argentina and Colombia. He has an extensive record of publications and the books Coordenadas Carpenterianas (1990). Sisyphus' vacation. Carpenterian art pre-texts (2001) and Thinking Design, compiler and essayist (2004).

Carlos Fadon

Brazil

Lapis/x Redux is a hypermedia resulting from the updating and expansion of a research and creation work in electronic art. The Lapis/x project is made up of five independent works: Ad finem, LAPIS/X, Lumina, SC, Tharsis, derived from the same conceptual and operational matrix, but in different terms of formulation and design, together forming a complete mesh with about 120 audiovisual structures and 1800 images. The central objective of this initiative is to give continuity to the project to establish a new approach to aesthetic formulation and accessibility.

Laura Baigorri

Spain www.interzona.org/baigorri.htm

Videoarde's works are inserted in the field of mediation and transformation of social space, sometimes showing the peculiar ways of dealing with everyday life and other times reflecting on critical aspects -more autochthonous or more global- that occur in different Latin American countries and Caribbean: issues that have to do with politics, history/memory, identity, the social crisis, violence, machismo, sex, religion, the border and emigration, urban space and art. The sample is made up of 32 videos made by artists from Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Argentina , Paraguay, Uruguay, USA and Spain. All of them engage in a fluid dialogue through three specific programs Men, Wolves and Men, Vital Space and My Way: Local Survival Lessons.

LuKasz Szalankiewicz

Poland

Lukasz Szalankiewicz (aka Zenial) / http://www.zenial.audiotong.net Electronic music historian, sound designer and composer. He is a member of the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music (PSeME). He has presented his work at international festivals in Poland, Austria, Russia, Bulgaria, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine, France, China, Hungary, Belarus, Romania, Lithuania, Israel and Peru. He also has work in the field of audiovisual and interactive installations. He is director of the Audiotong label.

Adina Izarra

Venezuela

Adina Izarra lives in Caracas and teaches at the Simón Bolívar University, where she is currently a Full Professor and Head of the Digital Music Laboratory. He has written for Venezuelan artists such as Rubén Riera, Marisela González, Luis Julio Toro and Elena Riú, and international artists such as Luis Rossi, Manuela Wiesler, the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra, Sweden, 1999; The Neos Ensemble of Mexico, (Cervantino Festival, 1998 and International Forum of Contemporary Music 1997, 1998), and for the Instrumenta Verano Festival, of Mexico, who have included their works in recitals, records and national and international tours. In 2002 Adina was elected a member of the College of Latin American Composers of Art Music. She is an active member of the RedAsla Latin American Sound Art Network.

Marek Choloniewski

Poland

Marek Choloniewski / http://www.studiomch.art.pl He studied organ, music theory and composition at the Cracow Academy of Music. Since 2000 he has been director of the Electroacoustic Music Studio of that institution. In 1977 he founded the Central Society of Musical Art dedicated to the organization of concerts; He is also a member of the Cracovian Group Art Association. Choloniewski has written instrumental, electroacoustic, music for theater, film, and radio. He is also the author of audio and video installations and pieces of net art. He has given concerts, workshops and conferences in different countries in Europe, America and Asia. He is the director of various projects, among which the Audio Art Festival (http://www.audio.art.pl). In 2006 he received awards from the Union of Polish Composers and the Polish Ministry of Culture.

Wolfgang Schaeffner 

Germany

The Design Turn: The project of a laboratory for the interdisciplinary design of knowledge tries to manifest the turn to design that is currently taking place in the natural sciences as a new scientific revolution. With this objective, experiences from the Bauhaus school, the Ulm school and analogue and digital media are also taken up to place design as an integrating force at the center of the different disciplines. In the workshop we try to develop some basic elements for such a laboratory that allow us to transform interdisciplinary design into a field of basic research. In this way, the individual designer will become a laboratory and a network of actors, and the image as a passive surface for the visualization of knowledge will become an active graphic surface that brings together not only electrical circuits, spatial structures, and geometric operations, but also the table as the basic operating unit of the laboratory.

Eva Roth - James Powderli

USA

Founders of the Graffiti Research Lab GRL, an organization founded by Roth and Powder; is an artistic group that uses open source technologies for urban communication. Graffiti Research Lab is particularly known for the invention of LED Throwies, which were likely the inspiration for advertisers distributing mooninities around Boston and Cambridge in the phenomenon known as the 2007 Boston Mooninitie Scare. Roth and Powder are part of the Open Frameworks team and the FAT (Free art technology) collective and in 2006 they won the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz.