Contributors

  • Wen-Chieh Chang

    TW

    Wen-Chieh Chang is a cross-disciplinary artist who integrates video-graphic creativity, interactive technologies and new media arts. His innovative works such as The Universe of Liu Kuo-Sung, Kuo Hsueh-Hu Home Gazing, Childhood Revisited and Wonder of Life reflect deeply on traditional culture and deconstruct it with new media art.

  • Katharina Mayr

    AT

    Katharina Mayr is a teacher of art and design as well as technical and textile design. Her artistic focus lies on the design and creation of sculptures, objects and paintings. Despite the variety of her work, motivated by curiosity and interest in diverse themes and techniques, all of her works follow three central themes: Sustainability,…

  • Vanessa Hannesschläger

    Vanessa Hannesschläger

    Vanessa Hannesschläger is head of European Collaboration at Ars Electronica. She holds a PhD in literature from the University of Vienna and teaches digital humanities in Austria and Sweden.Before joining Ars Electronica, Vanessa worked on developing European digital research infrastructures and numerous projects involving physical and digital archives for cultural heritage and art. In the…

  • Hilary Mason

    Hilary Mason

    US

    Hilary Mason is the co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door. Prior to Hidden Door she was General Manager of the Machine Learning business unit at Cloudera. She previously founded Fast Forward Labs, an Applied Machine Learning research and consulting startup which Cloudera acquired in 2017. Additionally, she was Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners,…

  • George Kounoupias

    GB

    The British tenor George Kounoupias began his artistic career on stages across Great Britain. After moving to Austria, he graduated with honors from the MDW. He has performed solo concerts on multiple continents and collaborated with Markus Hadulla, Roger Vignoles, Sir Simon Rattle, Gerald Finley, Neil Shicoff, and Sonya Yoncheva. Kounoupias has also benefited from…

  • Georg Russegger

    Georg Russegger

    AT

    As a trained media artist and researcher with a PhD in media anthropology, Georg Russegger works and operates at the crossroads of open innovation and human-computer interaction. Research and development, responsible innovation and knowledge valorization for academia, society and the economy are key. My endeavor is to open artistic and creative methods of design for…

  • Bernhard Freudenthaler

    Bernhard Freudenthaler

    AT

    Bernhard Freudenthaler is Chief Sales Officer (CSO) of RISC Software with the goal to bring research results to industry. RISC Software is focused on “Industrial Software Applications”, “Data & Web Applications”, “Medical AI” & “Industrial AI”. His research interests are Cased-Based Reasoning, Predictive Analytics/Maintenance and Circular Economy. Bernhard studied business informatics and did his PhD…

  • Kamya Ramachandran

    Kamya Ramachandran

    IN

    Kamya Ramachandran is the Founder-Director of BeFantastic, an innovative collaboration platform that pioneered Bangalore’s TechArt Festival series, most recently titled FutureFantastic. Kamya orchestrates pioneering experiments in transdisciplinary pedagogy focusing on digital culture. As a trained architect, researcher and design educator, with a career spanning geographies of UK, USA, India and Singapore, she convenes diverse collaborative…

  • Stefan Albl

    Stefan Albl

    AT

    Stefan Albl is curator for the early modern period at the Alte Galerie in Schloss Eggenberg in Graz, part of the Universalmuseum Joanneum. He previously worked at the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.…

  • Hito Steyerl

    Hito Steyerl

    DE

    Hito Steyerl (b. 1 January 1966) is a German filmmaker and writer who lives in Berlin. Steyerl’s prolific filmmaking and writing occupies a highly discursive position between the fields of art, philosophy and politics, constituting a deep exploration of late capitalism’s social, cultural and financial imaginaries. Her films and lectures have increasingly addressed the presentational context…

  • Ted Chang

    Ted Chang

    TW

    Ted Chang has more than 20 years of experience in leading global corporations and has been instrumental in driving corporate technology strategy and global research partnerships. In addition, Dr. Chang is responsible for overseeing the Quanta Research Institute (QRI) for advanced research and BU12, a business unit dedicated to integration of AI, IoT and cloud…

  • Sandra Sonnleitner

    Sandra Sonnleitner

    AT

    Sandra Sonnleitner is Managing Director of the Kaiserschild Foundation, where she is particularly responsible for the art and research agendas. With its new project Kaiserschild Art Defined, the foundation is breaking new ground in art education as well as in making its art collection accessible. The foundation works together with art institutions and museums on…