Marco Mezquida shines equally as composer, pianist, improviser, accompanist and bandleader; that he is eclectic and versatile, is to name the obvious. Above all, Marco is a playful and unpredictable artist, who creates a world of his own that is at once inviting and fascinating.
With a multidisciplinary approach, Epicuro Lab is an open platform for collaborations between artists and cultural agents. It works within the field of urban ecology designing social workshops linked to the current biodiversity crisis, creating ephemeral works, and expanding knowledge about biodiversity in urban environments.
Gabino Carballo is a landscape architect and project manager with extensive experience in the promotion of urban biodiversity, the application of nature-based solutions and the design and management of green spaces. He has worked for more than sixteen years as an in-house consultant for Barcelona City Council, where he has led the implementation of naturalisation policies and techniques in the city’s public spaces. Previously, he worked on the design of public, corporate and private gardens and landscapes, both in Spain and internationally. He is a regular guest lecturer at various academic institutions and is the author of several publications, articles and essays.
Urs Bigler is Switzerland-based photographer whose practice explores the bodily and the human and their interactions with nature and architecture.
Katya Cazar is a visual artist from Cuenca, with practical and theoretical training in contemporary art. She has exhibited in solo exhibitions in Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and the United States.
Yoi Kawakubo is a Spanish-born Japanese artist based in London and Tokyo. He turned to artistic practice after receiving a degree in applied neuroscience. He creates photographs, moving images and sound installations intertwined with economic, social and philosophical reflections.
Vid Simoniti is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, MA in Art, Aesthetics and Cultural Institutions. Topics of research include philosophy of art, history of American conceptual art, biotechnological art and, increasingly, visual culture in the digital […]
Philosopher, art theorist, curator, professor at the University Paris 8 and invited professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science in the Department of Philosophy, where he directs MINT Lab (Minimum Intelligence Laboratory, specialized in Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Plant Neurobiology).
Researcher and curator with interdisciplinary experience in social sciences, business administration, cultural sciences, and the arts.
Full professor at the University of Padua, where he teaches Forest Pathology and Tree Health classes.
Nicole L’Huillier (b. 1985, Santiago, Chile) works with sounds, vibrations, resonances, and multiple transductions to explore more-than-human performativity and agency from micro to cosmic scales; to create membranal and resonant (neo)rituals, and to investigate vibrations and sounds as construction materials for spaces and identity while fostering collectivity and stimulating imagination in non-static and embodied ways.
Theresa Schubert is a Berlin-based artist exploring unconventional visions of nature, technology and the self.
“uh513” began working as an artistic duo in 2009. María Castellanos is an artist with a Ph.D. in Fine Arts and Alberto Valverde is an artist and technologist, with extensive experience in system design, creation of interactive environments, multimedia and robotics.
Fernando Martín Velazco is a writer and the captain of Stultifera Navis Institutom, a platform for creative expeditions. He coordinated the multidisciplinary research cycle of gray whales “Los Juegos del Leviatán” (2017-2021), which was awarded with the second prize of the Quo Artis Award 2020 for production in art, science and technology for the project The Maihaiowit ‘s Lullaby.
Mónica Rikić is an electronic artist and creative coder based in Barcelona. She focusses her practice in code, electronics and non-digital objects to create interactive projects often framed as experimental and speculative games.
Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca is a Catalan artist internationally renown for his mechatronic performances and interactive installations.
As individuals and artists, Sandra and Gaspard seek to escape a deterministic life led by technologies; these same technologies which are designed to colonize our daily routines, both in domestic or professional time. For the last few years, they focused on social and environment issues such as energy production, interspecism symbiosis, and cooperation for survival.
Sandra and Gaspard believe in the power of care to foster more empathy and a better understanding of our ecosystems. For that purpose, they include in their researches living organisms as agents for change, involving both a respectful and humble position towards the complicated diversity of life.
They work together since 2004 and have participated in several exhibitions and festivals, among others Piksel (Bergen), Science Gallery (Melbourne), Voltaje Festival (Bogota), Rua Red art center (Dublin), EDF Fundation (Paris), Centraltrack (Dallas), National Dramatic Center (Montpellier), SKOL Art Center and Art Souterrain (Montreal) or Santa Monica art center (Barcelona).
Blanca de la Torre curates, lectures and publishes extensively on the intersections of art, cultural studies, ecology and sustainable practices, and has also acted as a consultant to diverse sustainability and cultural organizations and institutions.
Julius von Bismarck is a multi-media artist using everything from photography and video to installation and performance, in works that confront human perception and experience. For Versuch unter Kreisen (Experiment Among Circles) (2012), conceived while he was a Collide@CERN resident, […]