Contributors
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Agnes Aistleitner Kisuule
AT
Agnes Aistleitner Kisuule is partner and co-founder First Circle Capital, an early-stage fund established in 2021 focusing on fintech in Africa, with a portfolio of twelve companies. She is an experienced operator 10+ years with a background in building businesses in emerging markets, including textile manufacturing ventures in Jordan and Ukraine, and a tech business…
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Mohamed Sleiman Labat
EH
Mohamed Sleiman Labat is a Sahrawi multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, writer and translator. Born and raised in the Sahrawi refugee camps in southwest Algeria, he now runs Motif Art Studio; a small art space built entirely from discarded materials from the destructive floods that hit the Tindouf refugee camps in 2015. His art draws upon the…
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Filharmonie Brno
CZ
The roots of the Filharmonie Brno go back to the 1870s, when the young Leoš Janácek endeavoured to establish a Czech symphony orchestra in Brno. The works of the famous twentieth-century composer constitute thecore of the orchestra’s repertory, and to this day the Filharmonie Brno considers itself to be the authentic performer of his oeuvre.…
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Zainab Aliyu
US
Zainab “Zai” Aliyu is a Nigerian-American artist and cultural worker living in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). Her work contextualizes the cybernetic and temporal entanglement embedded within societal dynamics to understand how all socio-technological systems of control are interconnected, and how we are all materially implicated through time. She draws upon her body as a corporeal archive…
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Yuwen Huang
CN
Born in China, Yuwen Huang is a media artist with an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Huang works with net art, interactive media, installations and creative writing, with a current focus that lies at the intersection of blockchain technology and art. In 2023, Huang’s work was longlisted for the Lumen…
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Yuntao Gao
CN/US
Yuntao Gao is a designer and currently a research assistant in the Jaeger Lab at the University of Chicago. He is interested in combining parametric design with concepts from granular materials and soft matter physics to create reconfigurable and recyclable architecture. He holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Yoojin Oh
KR/AT
Yoojin Oh is a senior scientist at the Institute of Biophysics of Johannes Kepler University, Linz with a focus on nano-scale microscopic imaging. She earned her doctorate in Korea, developing scanning probe microscopy techniques. In 2009, Oh moved to Europe for post-doctoral research, applying these techniques to living organisms and pathogens. She has received prestigious…
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Yinan Liu – arc/sec Lab
NZ
Yinan Liu is a digital artist and programmer. She has completed her Master of Architecture at the University of Auckland. Yinan is a Research Associate at the arc/sec Lab, while also teaching at various institutions, including the University of Auckland, ShanghaiTech University, and the TU Graz. Her research focuses on creative AI and responsive environments,…
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Yesica Duarte
AR
Yesica Duarte is an artist, researcher, developer, and VR Experience Design teacher. She graduated in audiovisual production, specializing in spherical video and VFX. She holds a Master’s degree in Technology and Aesthetics of Electronic Arts and is currently pursuing a Specialization in Design for HCI. She explores the immersive language of XR, using experimental wearable…
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Willa Yang
CN/US
Willa Yang is a PhD student at AxLab, University of Chicago. She explores the intersection of technology and art, imagining a future where passive objects easily transform into interactive entities. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on creating actuators that augment passive environments for a more dynamic relationship with everyday objects.
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Uwe Rieger
DE
Uwe Rieger is an Associate Professor for Design and Design Technology at the University of Auckland, where he has established the arc/sec Lab for Cyber-Physical Architecture and Interactive Systems. His work as an architect and researcher aims to connect the intangible digital world with multi-sensory qualities of physical constructions and spaces.
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Umut Kose
TR
Born in 1974, Umut Kose is an experimental physicist who specializes in neutrino physics and particle detector technologies. Kose has been a senior scientist at ETH Zurich since 2022, conducting his research activities at CERN. He is collaborating on the FASER and Hyper-Kamiokande experiments, both of which are at the forefront of neutrino research. Additionally,…