Designer and artist, working with digital technologies, synthetic biology and biohacking. She is a founding member of the Fab Lab at FAU-USP. In her work she explores the relationship between body, space and technology. She has presented projects at MIT (iGEM - 2014/16) and Harvard University (Biomod - 2015). She created technoporn.org, a research platform and proposition aimed at empowerment through expansion of sexuality with the use of digital technology and biotechnology.
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Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (Barcelona, 1975) is an artist and member of computer music group EVOL together with Stephen Sharp. Their work together is about time manipulation, space and some of the standards of the techno culture. It has been released with international labels such as Editions Mego, Diagonal, Entr'acte, Presto!?, or ALKU, the label that he co-directs since 1997.
Artist and researcher in interactive communication. Associated professor and researcher of DigiDoc, in the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). His art work has been featured for its experimental poetry and critical approach to digital technologies. His research work has been published by British Computer Society, Academic Press, Fecyt, MACBA, MIT Press, among many others.
Rosa Llop is a trained designer. Her interests are on the study of visual language, digital culture and design. In 2013 she finished her bachelor in Art and Design focused on the methodologies for design research. Currently she is directing the master programme in Internet Project Design, the postgraduate courses in App Design and Design and Data Intelligence at ELISAVA-UPF. She is also a teacher in the master in Digital Publishing at BAU-UVic and in the Multimedia graduate studies at the UOC.
Ryan Hammond is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher living in Baltimore MD. Their most recent work, “Open Source Gendercodes,” focuses on the intersection of gender variation and technoscience, tracing histories of growth hormones, and performing science within them. By developing novel growth hormone production technologies, OSG attempts to queer current regimes of ownership and bio-power. The project has been presented in a series of public talks and online publications.
Sander Veenhof is a hands-on futurist who creates interactive experiences to explore scenarios for a speculative but highly probable future. By staging events in a parallel reality that can be accessed with AR or VR viewers, his projects reflect on our gradual transformation into cyborgs living in an interconnected world of material, data and last but not least: people.
Simon Penny works in the intersection among Art, Science and Technology since more than 25 years ago. He has worked in computer graphics and has used electronic control process for interactive installations with sensors in the 80’s. He taught Art and Robotic at Carnegie Mellon University in the 90’s, where he built a vision machine and movement control systems. He has designed the interdisciplinary master program Computational Artistic Engineering at California Irvine University.
Dr. Stella Veciana is founder of the Research Arts platform focusing on participatory art-science research for sustainability. She studied experimental arts (University of Arts Berlin), computer arts (School of Visual Arts, New York) and did her Phd on interdisciplinary research between art, science, technology and society (University of Barcelona). Her artistic research work has been shown internationally at museums, galleries, research centres, universities and foundations.
Dr. Swen Seebach is a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral research at UAB (Barcelona Autonomous University). He obtained a Phd (cum laude) working in emotions and social dynamics. His research combines elements from Sociology, Political Sciences, Communication Studies, media and technologies, Anthropology and Philosophy. In the last years his efforts have focused on the study of social relations, the study of emotions and morality, and on the study of new ways of governance around epidemics, terrorism and other fields which trigger emergency policies.
BA in History of Art by the University of Barcelona and MA in Sociology by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Coordinator of the program Disonancias (Platform for driving open and collaborative innovation between artists and companies) in Catalonia. The AAVC commissioned her the direction of the strategic plan for the R + D + i (Research, Development and Innovation) in the field of the Visual Arts in Catalonia. Researcher on cultural policies, art networks, international cultural cooperation and art research and production.