New Zealand born artist, inventor and teacher based in Berlin, Germany. He has presented his papers and projects at many museums, international electronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern, Transmediale, Ars Electronica and the Japan Media Arts Festival. His work has received several awards, ranging across technical excellence, artistic invention and interaction design.
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Julian Stadon is an artist, designer, curator, and senior lecturer/researcher at Salzburg University of Applied Science. Stadon is also Director of The Mixed and Augmented Reality Research Organisation, a MASHD Program Chair and Steering Committee member for the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. Previously, Stadon founded Dorkbot Perth (2009-2013) and lectured at Curtin University, Murdoch University and The SAE/Qantm Institute, Perth.
Jutta Kill is a biologist whose action-oriented research supports social movements in analysing and assessing new tendencies in nature conservation and environmental protection and their impact on communities for whom forests provide home and livelihood. Her research has documented the role of voluntary certification schemes, carbon markets and the new economy of nature in maintaining ecologically unequal trade, and the associated violation of human rights and rights to land and use of peoples’ traditional territories.
kamo (he/him) is a digital media artist from Bergamo, Italy. He develops custom pieces of software that address digital complexity, often with a visual and performative output. He likes to work on collaborative projects as a way of facing contemporary issues from multiple perspectives. His research aims to emphasize the borders of the digital landscape, inhabiting its contradictions and possibilities. He has a degree in new technologies from the Brera art academy and a master in experimental publishing at the Piet Zwart Institute.
Karlessi is a member of Ippolita Collective, who recently published the book: In the Facebook aquarium: The resistible rise of anarcho-capitalism (http://www.ippolita.net/en/facebook-aquarium). He is also a great writer and thinker of anarchic and libertarian practices.
Katalin Hausel is an Hungarian artist/designer/educator with an academic background in philosophy and history. In the last 4 years Katalin has been part of the unMonastery group, a small organisation that connects rural areas, depleted villages with urbanites who seek to leave the compromises and the precarity of city life. These co-living and co-working experiments have taken place on the periphery of Europe (South Italy and Greece), with the goal of re-utilising unused buildings and forging new relationships between the city and the countryside.
Kikimora (Russian: кикимора) is a mythological female house spirit in eastern Slavic mythology which is known for producing noises and weird sounds in the middle of the night. Kikimore can seduce you, intrigue you, frighten you or inspire your imagination.
Studied Human Services Management at the University of Applied Sciences here in Linz.