La conferencia busca ofrecer una perspectiva sonora para pensar nuestro mundo y sus procesos culturales. Abarca la generación de conocimiento mediante la escucha atenta y la recuperación de información por parte de máquinas y herramientas basadas en IA. Examina las dimensiones antropológicas e históricas de la percepción sonora, por ejemplo, la práctica auditiva de las comunidades indígenas. También explora las interrelaciones auditivas entre fenómenos mundanos como la emergencia, la interferencia, la coincidencia y otros patrones sistémicos. En general, aborda la escucha y la interacción profunda con nuestro entorno sonoro posthumanista.

Wayra Nina is an indigenous artist and activist from Colombia. She co-founded the Yachaikury Educational Institution in the Caquetá province of the Colombian Amazon. She is also known for her involvement in traditional ceremonies and her dedication to preserving indigenous culture. While specific details about her current residence are not publicly available, her work and affiliations suggest she is based in Colombia.

Diana Martinez Muñoz is a Colombian cyborg sound artist, professor, and researcher at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her work focuses on the sonic artistic concepts in films, exploring emotional experiences related to the socio-political, cultural, and geographic sound contexts of the spaces depicted. Specializing in documentary and experimental films with strong political and aesthetic narratives, Diana’s soundscapes have graced renowned film festivals such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sheffield DocFest, Visions du Réel, and Documenta Madrid.Diana’s research is deeply rooted in the exploration of sound perception through technological mediation, using her personal experience with a cochlear implant in her left ear as a focal point. 

Thom Kubli a Swiss-German composer and artist. In his works, he pursues an augmented concept of sonic thinking, embracing AI, digital network strategies, and material and machine science. He is well known for exploring acoustic environments and translating them into visual art, immersive installations, and performance experiences. His works have been presented at sites such as the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC, Ars Electronica in Linz, or the HEK-House of Electronic Arts in Basel. The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Wired, Rhizome, and Contemporary Performance featured his projects. His work comprises collaborations with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the MIT Media Lab.

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Juan Cortés is a Colombian artist and cultural executive at the National Centre for Historical Memory (CNMH), where he spearheads Guardianes de la Memoria, an IPFS‑based, Git‑inspired platform that decentralises and secures victim‑community archives. As co‑founder of Atractor Studio, he fuses ecological data, Indigenous knowledge, and sound art; his installation A Tale of Two Seeds won the Golden Nica for Digital Music & Sound Art at Prix Ars Electronica 2023. A frequent lecturer at Universidad de los Andes, Cortés champions technological stewardship grounded in diversity, solidarity, and open cultural memory.

Soliman López is a Spanish conceptual artist whose work operates at the intersection of art, science, technology, and ecological transition. He is the founder of the Harddiskmuseum, the biotoken OLEA, and the Manifesto Terricola movement—all of which explore the digital, biological, and environmental dimensions of contemporary society. As Director of Innovation at ESAT (Escuela Superior de Arte y Tecnología) in Valencia, Spain, and Artist in Research at Pole Da Vinci in Paris, López continuously pushes the boundaries of new media art and biotechnological art. His recent projects, including the foundational collection Capside for the Pineal Museum (also founded by him), delve into environmental DNA preservation and the fusion of natural and digital worlds.

Roger Frank Malina is a hybrid researcher, educator, former editor, former astrophysicist. Co-founded the ArtSciLab. And Co-Director of the Off Center Center for Emergence Studies at UTDallas. We develop data performance, transdisciplinary, transcultural and transgenerational convergence research . ASL also carries out research in experimental publishing and curating in collaboration with MIT Press and OLATS in France; our current publishing platform is called Creative Disturbance.  Former President of the Observatoire Leonardo des Arts et Technosciences. Former NASA PI University of California Berkeley Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer satellite. Former CNRS Director Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence, Marseille.  Former Executive Editor Leonardo Journal and Book Series, MIT Press. BS Physics MIT 1972, PhD Astronomy UC, Berkeley 1979. Honorary Doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.