Contributors

Nefeli Manoudaki

GR

Nefeli Manoudaki is an Architect-Engineer and a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the Media Arts and Technology (MAT) program. Her bio-design works intersect nature and human senses, utilizing emerging technologies. Her research encompasses XR, AI, and generative architectural forms in both tangible and digital media. Her projects have been featured…
Minne Atairu

NG

Minne Atairu is a researcher and interdisciplinary artist interested in generative artificial intelligence. Utilizing AI-mediated processes, Atairu’s work critically examines and illuminates understudied gaps in Black historical archives. Atairu‘s academic research focuses on Generative AI, Art and Educational policy in urban K-12 Art classrooms. She has exhibited at The Shed, New York, Frieze, London, The…
Mauricio Valdes San Emeterio

MX

Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio is a distinguished composer, curator, and technologist, acclaimed for his work at the intersection of arts and sciences. With a specialized focus on the transdiciplinary applications of Spatial Audio, Mauricio has built a dynamic international career, marked by significant achievements in festival organization and production. Valdés’ involvement in curating began with impactful…
Martin Reiter

AT

Martin Reiter is an engineer and artist in the field of 3D printing, with a technical background and a PhD in Polymer Product Engineering.
Aurelio Mofuga

TZ

Aurelio Mofuga blends art, culture, and storytelling to bring exciting African stories to life, utilizing immersive technologies like AR and VR to convey African narratives in a captivating and interactive manner. This enables both present and future generations to immerse themselves in social and cultural experiences that are on the brink of fading away, with…
Sara Maric

AT

Sara Maric is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Organization Science of Johannes Kepler University in Linz. Her research centers on digital platforms. She is particularly interested in how digital platform organizations reach and organize public and private spheres, transcending their formal organizational boundaries. Her most recent project investigates content moderators.
Pinyao Liu

CN

Pinyao Liu is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Linz, Austria and Vancouver, Canada. He was a research fellow at Harvard University’s Visual Computing Group (VCG). His art practice and research explore generative AI and immersive technology for altered states of consciousness and transformative experiences. His artistic research has been published in the Leonardo…
Maša Jazbec

SI

Maša Jazbec is an intermedia artist and researcher. She holds a PhD in human informatics, attained at the University of Tsukuba. She also has an MA from the Interface Culture program at the University of Arts Linz. Jazbec was a visiting researcher at the Ishiguro Lab. Her artworks stem from artistic and scientific thought and…
Rong Zhu

CN

Rong Zhu is a senior scientist in Peter Hinterdorfer’s Lab (JKU). He is interested in molecular interaction and recognition of biological molecules, drugs, cells, viruses, etc.
Yuri Tanaka

JP

Yuri Tanaka, Ph.D., is a visiting researcher both at Kyoto City University of Arts and at CERN, and an expert at ITACCUS (International Astronautical Federation Technical Committee for the Cultural Utilisation of Space). Aiming to unveil the hidden beauty and aesthetics within the universe, she has been pursuing practice-based research through interdisciplinary collaboration, in particular…
Nathan Cornish

Nathan Cornish is a PhD Student in Environmental History and Digital Humanities at Southampton University. He studies the intersections between data and nature through the information technologies that encode human-nature relationships (both traditional and digital). A student at ITU Linz in 2023/24, his work facilitates interactions between pre-scientific western medical and botanical texts and modern…
Petia Niederländer

AT

Petia Niederländer is Director for Payments of the Austrian National Bank and member of the Digital Euro High-Level Task Force of the Eurosystem. Prior to that she had several management positions in payments and banking. From 2015 to 2020 she served on the board of EBA Clearing.