Contributors
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Christa Sommerer
AT
Christa Sommerer is an internationally-renowned media artist, researcher and pioneer of interactive art. She studied botany and anthropology before learning to sculpt in Vienna and with media art pioneers Peter Weibel and Roy Ascott. She has been collaborating with media artist and professor Laurent Mignonneau for the past 30 years, setting up the department of…
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Botau Amber Hu
CN
Botao Amber Hu is a researcher, designer and creative technologist. He invented the HoloKit, an open-source Mixed Reality toolkit that turns your iPhone into an affordable optical see-through AR wearable. He founded and leads Reality Design Lab, an interdisciplinary research and design lab that focuses on the intersection of speculative design, spatial computing and programmable…
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Benjamin Kinsinger
US
Benjamin Kinsinger is a Chicago-based musician who explores how narratives emerge from the interplay of improvised sound and movement. Combining jazz methods with film scoring, he collaborates with performance artists from contemporary art and dance to improve theater and magic. He is a resident pianist/organist at the Chicago Magic Lounge, IO and Annoyance Theater.
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Benjamin Glass
US
Benjamin Glass works at the crossroads of biology, technology, the speculative and the spiritual. His work creates modalities of mystic fabulation as a means of challenging the reification of science, and reaffirms its historical origins in the occult. His work often implores humor as a tool for critical and imaginative engagement.
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Baudouin Saintyves
FR/US
Baudouin Saintyves is a physicist, engineer and multimedia artist. He is a staff researcher at the University of Chicago’s James Franck Institute and the director of the live cinema project Shapes of Emergence. His interests include how patterns and behaviors self-organize in nature and how this can lead to artificial life and intelligence in robotic…
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animal-voice-pavilion
AT
Fabian Lanzmaier uses audio synthesis to explore aspects of texture and structure of sound as well as its presence within space. In his recent work he is experimenting with perception and ideas of natural/artificial sounds, fluid and ambiguous environments. Paul Gründorfer develops process-related systems and explores variable or unstable conditions within the occurrence of sound…
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Lara Campos
ES
Material designer, researcher and educator driven by curiosity, processes and exploration. Her practice digs through diverse narratives within materials, technologies and living beings while proposing ontologies based on eco-centric approaches and multispecies ideologies. Campos’ practice nurtures through site-specific material research, material R&D, mentoring and collaborating. Her research focuses on emotional response while proposing the exploration…
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Andreas Ingerl
DE
Andreas Ingerl studied Visual Design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd and Media Studies at the University of Tübingen. During the dot-com bubble, he was art director of an IT company and later a research assistant at the TU Ilmenau in the field of media conception/media psychology. He has been teaching for 25 years…
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Ken Nakagaki
JP/US
Ken Nakagaki is an interaction designer and human-computer interaction researcher from Japan. He is an assistant professor for Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he directs AxLab (Actuated Experience Lab). His lab invents interactive “actuated” devices, systems and installations that engage people to interact actively and speculatively.
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Rainer Stropek
AT
Rainer Stropek is an accomplished IT entrepreneur, passionate coder, and dedicated educator. As the CEO of software architects gmbh, Rainer has been driving innovation and excellence in software development for over three decades. Beyond his role in the corporate world, he serves as a mentor and chairman of CoderDojo Linz, a vibrant, volunteer-driven programming club…
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Wen Ying Chang
TW
Wen Ying Chang is currently a doctoral candidate at the National Taipei University of the Arts. With several years of professional experience in policy research and strategy at the Taiwan National Science and Technology Council and the Taiwan Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute, she is now actively involved in the cultural content sector at TAICCA.…
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Stefanie Lindstaedt
DE, AT
Elected founding president of Austria’s first public university exclusively dedicated to the digital transformation of science, business and society —IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria. Within the last ten years. Stefanie Lindstaedt has developed two institutions in Austria that today bring together over 250 computer and data scientists, AI and ML specialists: Institute for Interactive Systems…