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sedemminut/SK

The author of many lighting designs and installations, he went through his journey of light through photography, VJ-ing, concert lighting, theatrical light design and all the way to roxor. He understands light and uses it from the point of view of various professions.

He understands its physicality, its purpose, but also its aesthetic value. For his works, light is a “key material” that can shape and bend the intentions of his statement.

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Rozi Mákó/HU

Structured improvisation, experimental music and the unrepeatable eternity of the present moment. 
In addition to her studies in classical and jazz piano, Rozi Mákó was constantly open to various trends in electronic music, which she later studied in the sonology department of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands. 

Her live performances are slowly unfolding musical experiences that are both gently harmonious and embarrassingly noisy. The sounds appearing in the musical structure created by Mákó invite the listener to travel; meditative immersion in continuous renewal.

In recent years, she has presented her audiovisual performance NEST with great success at several festivals. She is also active in many other music projects, be it an audiovisual dance performance (URFORM), an analogue-industrial techno (Committee, Tsering) or a contemporary theater performance (Self Drive).    

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Nano vjs/SK

Visual media art collective founded in 2010 by Beáta Kolbašovská and Jakub Pišek in Košice. They specialize in video mapping, light installations, live visuals, VJing, interactive installations and multimedia performances in Slovakia and abroad. They cooperate with musicians, bands, DJs, independent theaters, contemporary dancers and performers.

Through creative and experimental artistic production with an interdisciplinary approach, they create site-specific projects, directly tailor-made. Recently, their works, multimedia performances and live visuals could be seen from Ľuboreč to Tokyo, Boston, Rzeszow, Považská Bystrica, and all the way to Košice.

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Pau Saiz Soler/ES

Pau Saiz Soler is an artist and designer born in Barcelona (1990). In 2009, he began his studies in product design at Eina school and later worked as an industrial designer for several years. In 2018, he moved to Geneva to pursue a multidisciplinary practice at HEAD Geneva school and started working on films and space design. Pau’s works can take the form of an object, an installation, or a film that compose a fictional scenario from where the perception of reality can be challenged or simply doubted. 

Pau’s last project investigates how artificial light shapes what we see at night, analyzing the satellite Znamya as a source of public light. Public lighting systems are an example of how power structures can control the perception of urban spaces and manipulate reality. But instead of beginning a crusade to determine what might be real or true, Pau’s projects are an invitation to accept the very limits of our perception and to be ready, when necessary, to abandon pre-established knowledge and to imagine alternative scenarios. 

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Faiza Kracheni/US

Faiza Kracheni is an experimental film artist, musician, and educator from East Austin. She mainly works in non-narrative analog film and experimental media creation; she explores a variety of formats and techniques, including hand-developing her own film, painting directly onto celluloid, fast cutting and in-camera editing. As a self-taught artist, she focuses on accessible pathways into the arts outside of academia. For over ten years, she has been touring as a musician in the USA, Canada, and Mexico with multiple bands. She built a media arts center in East Austin, founded a film festival, and taught hundreds of students experimental and analog media techniques. 

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Ivana Durkáčová/SK

Ivana Durkáčová studied Photography and new media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. During her studies, she completed a foreign internship at the Academy of Arts in Vienna. Her work is characterized by a multi-disciplinary practice, appropriation, and frequent work with moving image. She regularly exhibits here and abroad, and since 2012 she has been part of the artistic group dsk. She is currently working on her dissertation at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland.  

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Junichi Oguro/JP

Junichi Oguro is a Japanese sound artist, born in Sapporo, who widens the realm of music. His focus is on the construction of music with nature and technology. His work includes compositions, live performances, sound programming and sound space design. He has produced Japan’s first commercial 3D sound system. He is the creator of music for Sony and UNIQLO commercials, and field recordings around the world. He manages an independent label called 43d and is an Ableton Certified Trainer for DJs and music producers.

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Refik Anadol/TR

Refik Anadol is a media artist, director and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. His body of work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. By taking the data that flows around us as the primary material and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol paints with a thinking brush, offering us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expanding the possibilities of architecture, narrative, and the body in motion. Anadol’s site-specific AI data sculptures, live audio/visual performances and immersive installations take many forms, while encouraging us to rethink our engagement with the physical world, its temporal and spatial dimensions, and the creative potential of machines. More at refikanadol.com 

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Mišo Hudák/SK

Mišo Hudák is an active citizen and founder of the Východné pobrežie organization. He studied design and architecture, intermedia, fine art and documentary movies. He shoots documentaries and writes books about Košice, where he also lives. His most remarkable achievement was the display of  two of his works as a part of the Czechoslovak national pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2012. In the last ten years, he was selected several times as one of the top social innovators in Slovakia. He is a proud father and a proud citizen of his city, where he has been cycling since he was nine years old. However, his greatest joy is raising his daughter Hana. 

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Lucian Rodriguez Arredondo/MX

Lucian Rodriguez Arredondo is a multidisciplinary artist and an academic from Mexico. His explorations are based on the representation of abstract concepts and theories related to complex systems, cybernetics and chaos. To materialize his ideas, he uses several electronic media and supporting tools. He is a co-founder of Cima studio, a transdisciplinary center that develops experimental and interactive projects. 

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Nikola Ivanov/CZ

Nikola Ivanov is an intermedia artist who deals with issues of time, memory, biopolitics and sleep. He is often inspired by the social sciences. He mainly focuses on photography, video and graphic design. He participated in many solo and group exhibitions abroad, including in the Czech Republic. He is the editor of the anthology Odpočinek v neklidu. As a doctoral student at the University of Applied Arts, he deals with the relationship between modernity and the colonization of nighttime in his research.

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Fero Király/SK

Fero Király is an artist and lecturer. He deals with artistic projects that extend into performance, sound art and sound installations, interpretation of contemporary music, development of his own audio-visual tools, as well as educational projects in the field of music, multimedia and creative coding. In doing so, he creates his own digital tools and likes to collaborate on projects with other artists with a multidisciplinary focus. He is an assistant professor at VŠVU, and together with Eva Vozárová, leads the civic association ooo, which is the main platform for these activities. From 2019 the ooo association organizes the intermedia international event JAMA. More at www.ferokiraly.com.  

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Beáta Kolbašovská/SK

Beáta Kolbašovská is a media artist from Slovakia. Her focus is site specific installation, A/V performance, VJing, video mapping, video installation, live acts and video art. She is the CO-founder of Nano VJs, a visual collective, which creates experimental video/3D mapping, live performances and collaborates with contemporary worldwide dancers, theaters, performers and musicians. In her work, ephemeral moments are used for communication between art work and participants. Audio-visual installations are calibrated for a special space and the atmosphere of a particular place.

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Ezra Šimek/DE

Laureate of the Jindřich Chalupecký prize. He/she graduated from the Department of Photography at FAMU in Prague (Studio of New Aesthetics) and is currently continuing his studies in the master’s program TransArts at the Angewandte in Vienna, in the Digital Media and Moving Image Studio at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, and at the same time is studying the master’s program in the theory of contemporary art at the University of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. In his/her practice, Ezra primarily focuses on queer identity politics and language sensitivity, manifesting in various temporal media (film, performative lecture, computer game) or site-responsive installations, sound works and text. Ezra critically examines gender as a social construct comparable to mythology, with the aim of creating fictional narratives and enhancing the synergy between various areas of today’s fragmented reality and fantasy leading to new, inclusive and speculative realities. 

His/her works were presented in the Czechia, for example, in the Prague exhibition spaces Ankali (2021), City Surfer Office or GAMU (2019, 2020), and abroad, for example, in Haus Wien in Vienna (2021). 

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Katie Ledger/UK

Katie is a highly experienced practitioner, equally comfortable exec coaching, guiding teams or hosting international conferences. Twelve years working as a journalist and TV news presenter for the BBC, ITN, Channel 5 News and TVB in Hong Kong followed by nine years of running her own communications business. She now uses her skills in the business sector. She enables individuals to both increase their capabilities and capacity using practical tools to deliver desired results.

Katie coaches senior leaders in multiple markets and geographies. For the last 14 years, she has worked extensively with leaders and innovators in media and technology sectors.

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Ambra Trotto/SE

Ambra Trotto is the Design and Research Director of the d.centre that catalyzes ecosystems into transforming existing practices into sustainable ones, through design, by initiating and curating multidimensional and transdisciplinary synergies based on beauty, diversity, and meaning to realize sustainable futures. She is also a senior advisor for the Digital Ethics initiative, setting the foundations of how to take ethics into account when designing transformation with technology as a material. She has initiated the long-term goal of promoting the region’s socially and environmentally sustainable development through design research.  

Ambra’s fascinations lie in how to empower ethics through design, using digital and non-digital technologies as materials. Strongly believing in the power of Design and Making, Ambra works with makers, builders, craftsmen, dancers and designers to shape societal transformation. Within her design research activity, she produces co-design methods to boost transdisciplinary design conversations. 

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Martin Honzik/AT

Martin Honzik is an artist, CCO and Managing Director of the Ars Electronica Festival, Prix and Exhibitions. After studying visual experimental design at Linz Art University and earning a master’s degree from the University of Linz and ICCM Salzburg, he joined the production team of the OK Offenes Kulturhaus in the OÖ Kulturquartier in Linz.  

From 2001 to 2005 he worked at the Ars Electronica Futurelab where his responsibilities included exhibition design and project management among other things. He has curated several exhibitions including 40 Years of Humanizing Technology, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen (2020), human (un)limited, Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, Seoul, Moscow (2019) and the Ars Electronica Festival theme exhibitions since 2006. He contributes regularly to round tables and publications. 

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Vik Maraj/CA

Vik Maraj has a master’s degree in molecular and cell biology, is trained in high stakes conflict, ontology, group behaviour, neuro-linguistic programming, and the use of language systems in shaping human thinking and behaviour. Vik’s two primary roles in the now 200+ person international education design company he founded are to drive the innovation of programs through learning from other disciplines and to expand its ability to impact people faster and more deeply.  

 Vik Maraj is more than inspirational. His message is transformative. He has broken a deadlocked four-billion dollar international impasse on carbon capture and taught hostage negotiation to the Canadian police force. At the most human level, Vik has permanently and positively transformed the relationships, quality of life and futures of communities, organizations and families.

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Lisa Lang/DE

Lisa Lang is a European entrepreneur, technologist and international keynote speaker. She is the founder of leading agencies in fashion tech, wearable technologies, and smart textiles manufacturing. She believes in the possibilities available when fashion fuses with technology, so she founded the ElektroCouture brand. In response to the growing demands of companies looking for educational workshops, prototypes, and consultations in the field of FashionTech, she founded the agency ThePowerHouse. By founding the OFundamentO agency, Lisa brought together traditional craftsmanship with high-end technology, which creates new smart and electronically improved textiles for B2B customers.

She likes making things glow. She was named Top 50 women in Tech by Forbes. Lisa is also a mentor for fashion and tech-focused programs. As a keynote speaker, she appeared at many leading conferences and summits. She addressed the topics of innovation, future trends, FashionTech, women in technology, motivation, rapid prototyping, mobility and entrepreneurship.

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Maurice Benayoun/FR

Maurice Benayoun is a French pioneer, contemporary new media artist, curator and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong. His work employs various media, including (and often combining) video, computer graphics, immersive virtual reality, the Internet, performance, EEG, 3D Printing, large-scale urban media art installations and interactive exhibitions. Often conceptual, Maurice Benayoun’s work constitutes a critical investigation of the mutations in contemporary society induced by emerging or recently adopted technologies. His work has been a continuous attempt to redefine art practice and the artist’s place in Society. Through VR, AR, AI and urban media art, he explores the limits of the promises of advanced media, unveiling their societal impact beyond their technological and aesthetic potential.

Creating from subtle to large-scale interactive artworks, he has been exhibited in major international museums, biennials and festivals in about 30 countries around the world. Since 2012, Maurice Benayoun has been a Professor of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong.

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Lucia Pašková/SK

Lucia Pašková is an experienced CEO with a 16 year history of work in the oral care industry. She is the CEO of CURADEN Slovakia for more than 14 years, whose CURAPROX products have become synonymous with oral hygiene in Slovakia.  Lucia is serial entrepreneur, skilled in business coaching, advertising, brand building, marketing strategy and sales management. She is a strong business development professional and passionate ambassador of human rights, ecology and education. Devoting a third of her time to NGOs, she understands the importance of values and how they influence the market.

She is a certified designer of permaculture gardens. Lucia is also board member of of the Association Bystriny, The Slovak Debate Association, Nexteria, Bratislava City Foundation and co-founder of projects Kto pomôže Slovensku and Kto pomôže Ukrajine (Who will help Slovakia and Who will help Ukraine).