Gabriel Menotti is an independent researcher and curator working in various forms of cinema. He currently works as an associate professor in curatorship and moving image at Queen's University, Ontario. He is the author and organizer of several publications on image and technology in Brazil and abroad. His most recent book is "Practices of Projection: Histories and Technologies" (Oxford University Press, 2020), co-edited with Virginia Crisp. He coordinates the research and festival network Besides the Screen.
Café Internet is an archivall project run by Wilmer Rodriguez (1992,CO), with the purpose of registering context-specific dynamics and phenomena that tie together elements such as the Internet, telecommunications and general technology. It directs itself toward possible futures and the multiple realities found within the digital world and how these corresponding visions affect our daily lives. This project compiles images in a systematic fashion with the aim of referencing events happening around technological progress and indexing projects that, situated in the space of the visual arts, are able to review the function of the digital and the analogue.
Artist, researcher, educator. In his artistic practice, he reflects on the power structures that historically configure collective organizations, as well as their cultural and identity constitutions. He creates hybrid works in which he uses different materials and disciplines to discuss the relations of domination that modulate the processes of subjectivation in society. She is interested in observing the role of the State, its administrative regimes, authorities, and institutions. In this process, he evokes the fields of sociology and geopolitics, often making use of official symbols of the nation to tense their connotations. Besides experimenting with formal synthesis and symbolic revision procedures, he also proposes a debate on the mechanisms of power in art system devices, approaching issues of archive, memory, space, and place. At times, his works emerge from specific community circumstances and approach social processes linked to a particular locality. In this sense, the notions of collaboration and dialog have also been exercised in her production.
Joana Chicau
Porto, Portugal, 1992/ Lives and works in London
Joana Chicau is a graphic designer, coder, researcher – with a background in dance –currently based in London. In her practice, she interweaves web programming languages and environments with choreography. She researches the intersection of the body with the constructed, designed, programmed environment, aiming at widening the ways in which digital sciences are presented and made accessible to the public. She has been actively participating and organizing events with performances involving multi-location collaborative coding, algorithmic improvisation, open discussions on gender equality and activism. joanachicau.com
Renick Bell
Texas, EUA, 1957/ Lives and works in Taiwan
Renick Bell is a computer musician, programmer, and teacher currently based in Taiwan. His research interests are live coding, improvisation, and algorithmic art using open-source software. He is the author of Conductive, a library for live coding in the Haskell programming language. He has released music on labels, including Lee Gamble’s UIQ, Rabit's Halcyon Veil, Seagrave, and Quantum Natives. He graduated from the doctoral program at Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan. renickbell.net
Rafa Diniz is an artist and computer art educator who lives in Crato, northeastern Brazil. Although his formal studies are in music, Diniz is primarily a computational artist both in terms of image and sound. His work focuses on generative, interactive visual, and audiovisual art, produced mainly through programming languages. From 2020 he began a series of remote classes on creative code for the Códigos Fazem Arte platform, with students from all over the world taking part. He has participated in projects, exhibitions, and commercial work in Brazil and worldwide.
