Marlon Barrios Solano
is a Venezuelan–US interdisciplinary artist and researcher with a background in dance, cognitive science, and software engineering. His work explores the relationships between generative artificial intelligence, dance improvisation, cognition and mindfulness.
María Luisa Angulo
Franco-Salvadoran artist-researcher and economist, trained in contemporary dance and founder of TRIAS CULTURE (Dakar–Paris), a platform through which she leads numerous digital art projects in various countries across West Africa and Latin America.
Vera Rivas
Mexican interdisciplinary artist and researcher. His practice focuses on the study of images and archival materials, developing hybrid devices that intertwine body, technology, and memory to generate critical imaginaries and problematize cultural and social narratives.
Marcel Gbeffa
Beninese choreographer and dancer. His work is distinguished by its ability to intertwine the ancestral and the contemporary, creating a performance language that engages with his African cultural roots and global aesthetics, critically addressing themes related to identity, spirituality, and collective memory.
Founder and artistic director of the Centre Chorégraphique Multicorps in Cotonou, and of the company Cie Multicorps, Marcel Gbeffa is also founder and artistic director of the Connexion - Benin Festival, platforms from which he promotes new generations of performing artists on the African continent. https://multicorps.org/directeur-artistique/
Oliver Walton
Is a London based interactive artist, experimental performer and live cinema director. Using virtual
embodiment and social play, he creates immersive experiences that foster connection and creative collaboration within the audience. Using technologies such as Unreal Engine, AI, and real time motion capture, he creates spaces for contemporary communion, defying the hyper individualism and isolation of our times to foster an embodied future of connection and collaboration.
Lenara Verle
Lenara is a researcher working on the intersection of technology and art. She is the founder of Coinspiration.org, an online platform that promotes new forms of currencies and value exchange, and co- founder of StatelessDAO, a cooperative NFT minting platform and toolkit. She is a co-creator of the Invisible Economy with DADA.art. Lenara has taught several graduate and undergraduate classes, as well as independent workshops, on the topic of art, technology and collaboration. She has designed the board game Currency Lab and the app Warhols, both as educational materials and experimental art games. She has been involved in blockchain-related art projects since 2018, teaching workshops, onboarding new users, writing articles, and giving art tours in the Metaverse.
Luis Felipe Lomeli
Writer and Associate Director of Academic Programs at the Center for Latin American Studiea, University of Florida. Lomelí’s writings and research focus on the relationships between humans and nature, as well as how our conceptions and representations of love, violence, income, technology, attention, desire, and knowledge reshape these relationships. He is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction, including novels, short story collections, and essays. As an editor, he has published five anthologies of Mexican and Latin American short stories, addressing, among other topics, the violent intersections of neoliberalism, drug trafficking, and environmentalism at the turn of the 21st century. Currently, Lomelí is interested in studying the appearance of plant species in literature and landscapes as living markers—or living memory—of human community migrations and knowledge processes. He is also the author of one of the shortest stories in world literature : The Emigrant (“—Forgetting something? / —If only.”)
