Prof. Dr. Paul Feigelfeld is a cultural and media scholar, design researcher, and curator and holds the professorship for Digital Cultures and Mediation and Mozarteum University Salzburg. He studied Cultural Studies and Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he was assistant to Friedrich Kittler. From 2021 to 2024, he was Professor for Cultures of Knowledge in the Digital Age at HBK Braunschweig and is currently also a lecturer at Angewandte Vienna. 

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Chucky Schuster is a Vienna-based artist who has forged a unique path in contemporary art. Her digital art explores the intersection of technology and human experience.

Using AI and machine learning, she creates immersive narratives that delve into speculative futures, focusing on themes like identity, transformation, and the blending of organic and artificial worlds. Her work is a captivating mix of visual allure and conceptual depth, encouraging audiences to reflect on our evolving relationship with technology.

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Dagmar Schürrer is an Austrian digital artist based in Berlin. She holds a degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London, UK, and works in the field of expanded animation and extended reality (XR) technologies. In her hybrid experiences, she links (Neuro-) sciences, new technologies such as XR and Artificial Intelligence, digital world-building and poetic interpretations of human consciousness and its environmental entanglements, to create intricate animations and spatial multimedia installations.

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Mike Brauner is a Hamburg-based entrepreneur and creative technologist specializing in media, digital innovation, and AI. He co-founded polardots.studio, a creative studio focused on design-driven digital transformation. He is also the co-founder of The AI Art Magazine, an international platform exploring AI-generated art through open calls and curated publications.

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Herwig Dunzendorfer is a gallerist, founder of ARTECONT AI/VR Lab (web-based infrastructure for interactive VR installations), co-founder of IntelliScout, (AI-driven solutions for media and enterprise applications), and co-founder of Heartport Public aimed at democratizing health-related science. Dunzendorfer is interested in the intersection of art, AI, and science. With a specific interest in AI rights, he explores the future of digital creativity, developing innovative platforms that enable a dynamic dialogue between humans and machines pushing forward discussions on ethics and responsibility in AI development.

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Jonathan Leber is co-owner and founder of Intelliscout (AI-driven solutions for media and enterprise applications). Since 2019 he has programmed and developed numerous projects in the field of IT and AI; 2019-2021 Fullstack-Engineer at EBCONT enterprise GmbH. He is responsible for the realisation of several websites; the sole programmer of the web-based and VR-enabled platform ARTECONFT for digital art, IntelliScout and Heartport. His expertise is the integration of AI and VR technologies into web-based applications.

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Esra Özkan is a curator, researcher, and cultural manager who specialises in AI and media art. Ozkan, who lives in Dubai, has more than 12 years of experience curating and managing cultural projects. She has planned and organised various exhibitions, seminars, and panels throughout Europe and Turkey. Since 2015, she has concentrated her curatorial practice on digital arts and has consistently produced shows in this genre. Ozkan’s areas of expertise include Digital Arts, Artificial Intelligence, and Bio-art. 

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Federico Visi (he/they) is a researcher, composer and performer based in Berlin, Germany. He completed his doctoral research on instrumental music and body movement at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR), University of Plymouth, UK. He currently teaches and carries out research on embodiment in network music performance and interactive machine learning at Universität der Künste Berlin, at Luleå University of Technology, where is part of the “GEMM))) Gesture Embodiment and Machines in Music” research cluster, and at the Intelligent Instruments Lab, University of Iceland.

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AΦE is a dance company founded by accomplished dance artists Aoi Nakamura (Japanese) and Esteban Lecoq (French) in 2016. As trailblazers in this area, they were the UK's first dance company to tour Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) productions internationally. They explore and develop unique experiences while incorporating cutting-edge technology into their performances.

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Helena Nikonole is a new media artist, independent curator and educator currently based between Berlin and Istanbul. Her field of interests embraces hybrid art, bio-semiotics and Artificial Intelligence. One part of her work is dedicated to utopian scenarios of a post-human future while another is focused on the dystopian present and a critical approach to technology.

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Clemens Apprich is a professor of media theory and history at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where he leads the Department of Media Theory and the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures. He also serves as Vice President for Research and Digitality. His research explores digital media, computational cultures, and machine learning, with a focus on filter algorithms. He is the author of Technotopia: A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures and co-author of Pattern Discrimination. His forthcoming book, Errant Intelligence, will be published by Amsterdam University Press.

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