Anna Barros

Brazil

BIO Anna Barros is a multimedia artist, author of several published books, curator and researcher. Bachelor in Fine Arts at the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, Ca; Master in Arts from the School of Communication and Art - ECA / USP, has Sandwich PhD in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP and the San Francisco Art Institute and a Post Doctoral COS-PUC-SP. She was president of the National Association of Researchers in Plastic Arts-ANPAP. She is a part of the Editorial Board of the online Magazine, Artciência, Portugal. She was nominated for the Sérgio Motta prize in 2001 with the SDVila, Wanderer, and, in 2009, for the course of her career.

Edson Zampronha

Spain/Brazil

BIO He received two awards from the Paulista Association of Art Critics and the 6th Sergio Motta prize by the "Poetic Attractor" fixture held with the SCIArts Group. He has received indent orders for pieces such as the one of the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Germany, and of the designer María Lafuente for the Cibeles Catwalk in 2006 in Spain. His works have been displayed in prominent auditoriums, like the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Spain, and the CBSO Centre in Birmingham, England. He is a Professor at the University of Valladolid, Spain, and Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics from PUC / SP.

Melinda Rackham

Australia

BIO Melinda Rackham‘s extensive knowledge of distributed, emergent and responsive artforms is drawn from 15 years involvement with international Electronic Art exhibitions and festivals either as an artist, theorist, juror, curator or cultural producer.
She enabled wide engagement with mediated artforms through establishing the empire online media art theory forum; as Director of ANAT; and as ACMI’s Curator of Networked Art. Currently Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, Dr. Rackham curates and critiques the art and cultures manifest in emerging media practices and environments.

Pau Waelder Laso

Spain

BIO Graduate in Art History at the University of Barcelona, has a Masters Diploma in Advanced Studies in History Science and Art Theory at the University of the Balearic Islands and is currently writing his PhD thesis in the field of art, science and technology. He has participated in international symposia such as the I International Conference on Arthur Danto and the End of Art, (CENDEAC, Murcia, 2003) and Gaming Realities, (Fournos, Atenas, 2006). He has written chapters for the books Gaming Realities. A challenge for digital culture (Athens: Fournos, 2006) and Extending Experiences. Structure, Analysis and Design of Game Player Experience (Rovaniemi: Lapland University Press, 2008), as well as the text Games of Pain: Pain as Haptic Stimulation in Computer-Game–Based Media Art, published as a note in Leonardo Vol. 40, Issue 3 (MIT Press, 2007).
He has recently curated the exhibitions Metapaisatges (Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca/ Deichtorcenter Hamburg) and FLOW (CCA Andratx), and coordinated the conferences Cultura Digital and En_lloc for the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation. He has also participated as lecturer and tutor in several courses on art and new media at UOC (Open University of Catalonia) and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Spain). Currently he is Consulting Lecturer at UOC in Art Theory and Aesthetics.
He has worked as site editor at Rhizome and Artnodes, and has writen reviews on contemporary and media art for several magazines and online resources such as Furtherfield, Magazine du CIAC, ETC Magazine, ASPECT and a::minima, as well as texts for exhibition catalogues and monograph publications. He has also produced videos for Artnodes and Vernissage TV. Currently he is the editor of the media art section in art.es contemporary art magazine.

Vivian Caccuri

Brazil

BIO She is a plastic artist born in Sao Paulo currently working in Rio de Janeiro. She will master in Musicology / Studies of the Musical Sound by the National Music School (UFRJ), where she is developing the project "The Listening in Brazilian Contemporary Art." Vivian is also a part of the Br.ada (http://br4d4.wordpress.com/), a collective of five girls in various states of Brazil, interested in the discussion of technology, gender and its history.

Wayne Ashley

United States

BIO Wayne Ashley is a program director, producer, and curator with eleven years developing and implementing hybrid projects with nationally and internationally recognized artists and cultural institutions. He has directed and administrated programs at Seattle Art Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and CPR—Center for Performance Research. He has curated and organized conferences, online/offline exhibitions, and symposia, and helped to make artistic, financial, intellectual, and administrative links across disparate institutions and organizations through innovative programming. Currently he is the Founding Artistic Director of a new performance, media, art & technology initiative called FuturePerfect.