Artist, professor and researcher. MFA in Media Arts from The State University of New York (SUNY NY). Currently, she is associate professor at the University of Monterrey in Mexico (UDEM).
Her visual and theoretical production employs hybrid techniques and methodologies, highlighting aspects of culture embedded in technological devices. Since 2019, she has been exploring the material culture of bioacoustic technologies in humans and animals.
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An artist with a special interest in decaying architectural structures and the reciprocal transformations occurring between these constructions and their surroundings. Her works involve historical and political dimensions, expressed through the mediums of photography and installation art. Photographer and visual artist from the National University of Colombia. She currently lives and works in Virginia.
Photographer and documentary director. Graduated in Social Communication. Specialized in digital television production for education through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA Okinawa). He has 30 years of experience in photography and audiovisual production, including artistic and educational communication projects.
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Multidisciplinary artist and researcher living in São Paulo since 2010. Through photography, his works explore the intersection between visual and performing arts.
He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of São Paulo, and his research is focused on Brazilian art history and anthropology. He holds an MFA in Visual Poetics from the same institution, where he investigated the relationship between literature and photography.
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Journalist, visual artist, editor, and university professor with over 30 years of experience in image-making. He holds a Master’s Degree in Visual Anthropology and a PhD in Media and Technology. He lives and works in Ribeirão Preto.
Visual artist and photographer. He has represented Colombia in residencies, biennials, and creative laboratories in America, Asia, and Europe. In 2011, he obtained a scholarship from the Fund for Cinematographic Development to create the documentary “Photoagüitas”. Currently, he is a faculty member at Javeriana University, and his professional activities also include co-directing the VIDEOGRAMA International Video Art Festival and co-editing at Malevo Editores, where he has published two books. He lives and works in Bogotá.
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Photographer-videographer. She is a highly dynamic artist, widely recognized in the urban cultures of Senegal, participating actively in cultural activities at Africulturban, Guédiawaye Hip-Hop, and the House of Urban Cultures in Dakar. Currently, she is an assistant at the first Urban Doc documentation center located in Africulturban. She took part in an artistic residency in Tambacounda for an archival documentary (2021), and her works were shown in photo exhibitions 'Yen Bu Diss' (2021) and 'Women, beyond Appearances,' organized by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Senegal (2023). She holds a training certificate from the Synaps Center as part of the project 'Natangué Art La' and received academic training in Language and Business Engineering from Dakar Bourguiba University.
Multidisciplinary artist and lecturer. Ph.D. in Visual Poetics from the University of Sao Paulo and Master's Degree in Visual Culture Studies from the University of Barcelona. His research interests encompass Photography, Visual Anthropology, and New Technologies. Currently, he is a faculty member at Curtin University, Malaysia.
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Artist and researcher whose scholarly work engages with the complex relationships between the conditions of social stratification and their sustenance with the formation of aesthetic-literary technologies of modern art in South Asia. He is interested in understanding the role of the institution of modern art in defining the histories and social realities of people, and the social, ethical, and political formation of the citizenry of modernizing nation-states and the moments of resistance dismantling its schematics.
Pinak's artistic practice shares this spirit of emancipatory movements, such as of Ambedkarism and its subaltern counterpublics, challenging the hegemonic presets of power through artistic work in text-image-speech-movement-performance. Pinak sees his artistic work deeply entangled with historical research.
Photographer, videographer, translator, writer, and social activist who advocates for and represents the Rohingya refugee crisis. He has been documenting the lives of refugees, telling individual untold stories to the world, with the aim of bringing justice, peace, and humanitarian assistance through photographs. These images have been published in many media outlets, such as France24, US News, The Guardian, Amnesty International, Aljazeera, Reuters, Dei Zeit, BBC, The Washington Post, Refugees International, Haaretz, ABC, and Arakan Express, among others.
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An essayist who journeys with cameras and diverse devices, discovering or imagining worlds with the aim of creating artworks which fostering exchangeable experiences.
Visual artist, designer and independent researcher. Ph.D. in Visual Arts from Tokyo University of the Arts. M.F.A. in Visual Poetics and B.F.A. in Media Arts from University of Sao Paulo.
yukiehori.com / instagram.com/yukhori