Contributors

Universal Everything

GB

Universal Everything are a collective of media artists, experience designers, and future makers, founded in 2004. Their positive approach towards the future and focus on the audience bring their artworks, as well as their brand collaborations and prototype designs, to life. The studio creates digital experiences that subvert traditional cinematic practices, giving rise to new…
Gerhard Funk

AT

Gerhard Funk studied mathematics, art education and received his PhD in theoretical computer science. From 2004 until his retirement in 2022, he was a full professor at the University of Arts Linz and head of the Time-Based and Interactive Media Arts department. Since 2014, he has been developing the concept of “Cooperative Aesthetics”, a collection…
Fransisca Tan

AT

Fransisca is a creative producer, food experience designer and science communicator with a background in cognitive sciences, communication, IT. As artistic advisor and community manager at ArtEO, Fransisca applies her second nature as facilitator to foster collaborative artistic endeavors, in order to unite diverse communities.
Eva Petrič

SI

Eva Petrič, multimedia artist, born in Slovenia, based in Vienna and New York City, works in photography, video, performance, installation, sound, scents and writing.
Daniel Rosero

CO

Daniel Rosero is a musician, multimedia engineer and data scientist specializing in various fields, such as machine learning, open-source development, natural user interfaces, digital audio signal processing and synthesis, robotics and virtual/mixed/augmented reality. His passion lies in exploring innovative approaches and creative problem-solving.
Dan Tell

US

Dan Tell is the Manager of Planetarium Engineering at the California Academy of Sciences. His work specializes in visualizing scientific data and working with researchers to explore their data in planetariums and other immersive venues. His passion to bring new experiences to audiences includes trekking through terrain data from other planets, visualizing concepts from the…
Cyntha Wieringa

NL

Cyntha Wieringa is active as a Researcher & Artist at the Ars Electronica Futurelab and is the moderator of the panel discussion ‘Artistic Exploration in Shared Hybrid Spaces: Creative Perspectives on Future XR Embodied Collaboration in SHARESPACE’. She can provide inside knowledge as the project manager of the SHARESPACE project and has additionally closely collaborated…
Azra Aksamija & MIT Future Heritage Lab

US

Azra Aksamija, Ph.D., an Austrian artist from Sarajevo, is a Professor at MIT Architecture and Director of the Art, Culture, and Technology Program. She leads the Future Heritage Lab, developing innovative responses to conflict and crisis through civic-scale projects at the intersection of art, design, preservation and technology. The lab collaborates with diverse partners to…
Anastasiia Mostova

UA

Anastasiia Mostova is a member of the Ethno Contemporary Ballet. She hails from Ukraine and presently resides in Finland. She also serves as an assistant at the ECB, a dance theater delving into a symbol-infused framework interlaced with hints of rituals and traditions that mirror deep cultural insights from diverse backgrounds. Her previous works with…
Vasya Dmytryk

UA

Vasya Dmytryk was born 1991 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine and lives and works in Odesa, Ukraine. His artistic practice has four main directions: kinetic sculpture, found objects, spatial installation, and landscape sculpture. Dmytryk finds connections between different materials and their environment of origin and collects assemblages from them that form new semantic contexts and environmental relations.
Vardit Goldner

IL

Vardit Goldner is a multi-faceted artist specializing in photography and videography. Her artistic pursuits primarily focus on capturing the nuances of the Israeli-Palestinian conﬂict and shedding light on the everyday lives of Palestinians. She delves also into social, environmental, and animal-related concerns through her work. She studied at the Faculty of Arts-Hamidrasha at Beit Berl…
Timothy Thomasson

CA

Timothy Thomasson is a Montréal-based artist. His work interrogates the ways in which moving images are produced and consumed in historical and contemporary contexts, looking particularly at the effects of computer-generated images and emerging technologies on society, culture, aesthetics and perception. His work has been exhibited at galleries and media festivals internationally.