Alfonso Borragan (ES)

The art practice of Alfonso Borragán is articulated between research, teaching and production. His work has been described as a vague momentum, the critical moment in which the generation of images is fostered.

As an artist, Borragán reflects through images that are not fixed, graphias and latent traces of an experience. By means of tests of superposition, distortion, concealment or reformulation, his art explores its eventual limits. His processes are generated from the gaps of vision, the measurement of the non-measurable, or the paradoxes that reverse popular and scientific beliefs. His work methodology actives long periods of research related to the context. He gathers teams formed by scientists, anthropologists, geologists and other technicians who expand and elaborate different visions during those processes.

His last projects were exhibited at: No man’s Land: Mneme MUSAC, León, Spain; ærolito DNA, La casa encendida, Madrid, Spain; marentus, La Place & Foodcultura, Barcelona, Spain; Fosfofagia 04, Gilverto Alzate Foundation, Bogotá, Columbia; Fosfofagia 03, Khoj, India.

Contact: alazul@gmail.com
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Semiconductor (UK)

Semiconductor comprises UK artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Through moving image works they explore the material nature of our world and how we experience it through the lens of science and technology, questioning how they mediate our experiences. Their unique approach has won them many awards and prestigious fellowships including: Samsung Art + Prize 2012 for new media, Smithsonian Artists Research Fellowship, Collide@CERN Artists Residency Award and a NASA Space Sciences Fellowship. Exhibitions and screenings include Let There Be Light, House of Electronic Arts, Basel (solo show); Worlds in the Making, FACT, Liverpool (solo show); Da Vinci: Shaping the Future, ArtScience Museum, Singapore; Field Conditions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Earth; Art of a Changing World, Royal Academy of Arts, London; International Film Festival Rotterdam; New York Film Festival; Sundance Film Festival and European Media Art Festival. In 2018 they will be participating in the Sydney Biennale.

Contact: semi@semiconductorfilms.com
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Martina Zelenika MOON (HR)

The interdisciplinary artist MOON, aka Martina Zelenika, uses innovative methods to embody her artistic works. She links analogue media with the most up to date digital technologies and tests out communication areas, and in recent times is most interested in the visualisation of universal sound through the point of departure of analogue drawing. Universality, cosmology, geo-philosophy and being are the main areas of her interest.

Zelenika graduated in 2001 at the Printmaking Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and took a master’s in 2006 in the area of video and new media at the Academy of Visual Art and Design of Ljubljana University. She has had several art residences abroad, and has exhibited, solo or collectively, in Ljubljana, Maribor, Milan, Belgrade, London and Zagreb. She has been awarded several well-regarded grants and scholarships.

Contact: info@martinazelenika.com
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Vanessa Lorenzo (ES/CH)

Vanessa Lorenzo is a designer and artist based in Lausanne, Switzerland. She researches into the potential contribution of living organisms (biomedia) to ordinary objects and mixes electronic media, microbiology and living organisms to create media installations using techniques such as visualization, data mapping and sonification leading to new perceptions of the environment.

Lorenzo holds an engineering degree in industrial design (Mondragón, Spain, 2008 and Barcelona, Spain, 2010) and has an MA in media design (HEAD-Geneva, Switzerland, 2016). Currently, she is an independent researcher and artist in Hybridoa, co-president of Hackuarium (Renens, Switzerland), part of the international network of collaborative art and biohacking Hackteria and collaborates with the Open Science School (CRI, Paris, France).

Contact: vlorenzolana@gmail.com
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Yunchul Kim (KR)

Yunchul Kim is an electroacoustic music composer and an artist based in Berlin and Seoul. His latest works focus on the artistic potential of fluid dynamics, meta-materials (photonic crystals) and especially on the context of magneto-hydrodynamics. For him, exploring nature and the disposition of matter is an important factor, and through the material turn, his works reveal potential dispositions of matter and constantly intra-act with the world. He is the founder of Studio Locus Solus in Seoul.

Contact: yunchul.k@gmail.com
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Martin Howse (UK)

Martin Howse is occupied with an investigation of the links between the Earth (geophysical phenomena), software and the human psyche (psychogeophysics) through the construction of experimental situations (performance, laboratories, walks, and workshops), material art works and texts.

From 1998 to 2005 Howse was director of ap, a software performance group working with electronic waste, pioneering an early approach to digital glitch. From 2007 to 2009 he hosted a regular workshop, micro-residency and salon series in Berlin. Howse has worked and collaborated on acclaimed projects and practices such as The Crystal World, Psychogeophysics, Earthboot, Sketches towards an Earth Computer and Dissolutions. For the last ten years he has initiated numerous open-laboratory style projects and performed, published, lectured and exhibited worldwide. He is equally the creator of the skin-driven audio divination noise module, The Dark Interpreter, and the ERD modular synthesizer series.

contact: m@1010.co.uk, 1010.co.uk/org

Kerstin Ergenzinger (DE)

Kerstin Ergenzinger is an artist working across the fields of sculpture, sound, kinetics, light and drawing. She finds and repurposes experimental and time-based media/materiality together with so-called traditional media/materiality towards farther thinking investigations. Essential part of her practice is cross-disciplinary exchange and she is frequently involved in collaborative research projects. She co-founded the research project Acts of Orientation that addresses the need for alternative means of orientation. One result is the collection of academic and artistic contributions Navigating Noise in the Buchhandlung Walther König bookstore in Berlin. Parallel to her research Rhythmic Textures at the BAS of UdK (Berlin University of the Arts), she worked with the quantum-optical research project nuClock, where they engaged in a dialog around the materiality of time, noise and precision. In 2019 she co-founded the Sono-Choreographic-Collective, a transdisciplinary art and research collective that develops and explores new somatic and musical research instruments together with ways of playing and interdisciplinary choreography.

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kerstin@nodegree.de

Ale de la Puente (MX)

Ale de la Puente’s work deals with notions of time-space and memory through a continuous construction of poetic relations between experiences given by space and time from a technological, scientific, philosophical, to linguistic approach.

De la Puente’s diverse background (studies in industrial design, goldsmithing, and boatbuilding) and interests in concepts of time and space have led her to collaborate with several scientists in different fields from hypnotism, astronomy, nuclear physics to meteorology and mathematics. She has collaborated with institutions such as the National Institute of Astronomy and the National Institute of Nuclear Science UNAM.

She has been awarded with Honorary Mention Collide@CERN 2013, the National Fellowship System of Arts Creators (Sistema Nacional de Creadores, FONCA) and the Young Creators Grant twice, both from the National Council for Arts Funds; and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She has exhibited her work worldwide.

Contact: delapuente.ale@gmail.com
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