Anna Dumitriu is a British artist whose work fuses craft, technology and bioscience to explore our relationship to the microbial world. She is artist in
residence on the Modernizing Medical Microbiology Project at the University of Oxford, and an honorary research fellow at Brighton and Sussex
Medical School. She has an international exhibition profile, having exhibited at venues such as Waag Society, Amsterdam, Art Laboratory Berlin,
V & A Museum, London and The Picasso Museum, Barcelona.

Kathy Rae Huffman is a freelance curator, networker, writer and media art collector. She has held significant curatorial posts at the Long Beach Museum
of Art, The ICA Boston, and the former Cornerhouse, Manchester (UK). She was Professor of Electronic Arts at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
For three decades, she has consulted for, presented special programs, curated, juried, administered and coordinated events for numerous international
media art festivals and arts organizations. Her research topics have focused on artists’ television, video art, and feminist strategies in online
environments. Huffman co-founded FACES: Gender/Technology/Art, an online community for women in 1997. Huffman was awarded an MFA
(summa cum laude) in Exhibition Design and Museum Studies, from the School of Fine Arts, California State University Long Beach. From 1990 – 2013,
Huffman lived and worked in Vienna, Manchester and Berlin,and traveled extensively in Central and Eastern Europe. She currently resides in
Southern California.

Helen-Nicole Kostis is a media artist and science visualizer based at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. After completing a B.S. in Mathematics in Greece,
she ventured to the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and she graduated with an MS in Computer
Science and an MFA in Electronic Visualization. While at EVL she experimented with the design and development of collaborative virtual-reality and
stereoscopic artworks that were exhibited internationally. Upon her graduation from UIC she joined the Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA/GSFC
where she began exploring the field of scientific visualization. She is interested in the development of educational visualization media and platforms
for the public that inspire and promote a greater understanding of our universe. She currently serves the agency as the NASA Visualization Explorer
Project Manager.

John McGhee is a 3D Computer Artist, Senior Lecturer and Director of the 3D Visualisation Research Lab at University of New South Wales
(UNSW Australia). He also holds the position within the faculty of Deputy Director of the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA). John’s
visual practice explores art and design-led modes of visualizing complex scientific and biomedical data using 3D computer arts software, and
most recently using Virtual Reality (VR) techniques. His academic research builds on this theme with collaborative projects across the visual arts
and biomedical sciences. Examples include VR in stroke rehabilitation, clinical MRI visualization, bio-nano cellular visualization, microscopy
data visualization, asthma care and engagement in infection control. All these projects push to improve models of working between artists, designers,
patients, the public and healthcare professionals, connecting to the innovation agenda, and demonstrating how the creative arts, design and media
can mutually benefit the biomedical field of research and clinical care.

Melentie Pandilovski is a media art theorist and historian, curator, and art critic. He is Director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre in Winnipeg, Canada.
He was previously Director of the Visual Cultural Research Centre, Euro-Balkan Institute in Skopje Macedonia (2009-11), Director of the Experimental
Art Foundation in Adelaide, South Australia (2003-2009), and the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts in Skopje, Macedonia (1998-2003). He has
curated more than 150 exhibitions and organized numerous symposia, conferences, and workshops, in Europe, Australia, and Canada, such as: “SEAFair”
(Skopje Electronic Art Fair); “Marshall McLuhan & Vilém Flusser Communication & Aesthetics Theories Revisited”, in Winnipeg; “Biotech Art – Revisited”
in Adelaide, South; “Understanding the Balkans – The Balkans and Globalization” in Skopje, Macedonia. Dr. Pandilovski holds a PhD in Cultural Studies
from the Euro-Balkan Institute in Skopje (original PhD research begun at the University of South Australia’s Art School).

Christian Stolte is an artist, designer, and coder from Germany. In 2007, he was hired by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to design websites
for genomic data and has been hooked on science ever since. In the years following, he learned about bioinformatics and biology in order to design
user interfaces and build tools for biologists. Since 2011, he has been involved as co-organizer for a conference series ìVIZBI – Visualizing
Biological Data (http://vizbi.org). During his time at CSIRO in Sydney, Australia (2012 – 2015), he worked on web-based software for protein
structure exploration (http://aquaria.ws) and a variety of bioinformatics projects which were published in Cell and Nature Methods. He also
art-directed award-winning animations about biology and organized events for the Vivid Sydney festival, bridging art and science. He currently
works as a data visualization specialist at the New York Genome Center.

Naoko Tosa is a pioneer in the area of media art and an internationally renowned media artist. Her artworks became well known worldwide
in the late 1980’s after one of her early artworks was selected at an exhibition called New Video Japan, organized by Barbara London,
a MOMA curator. Her artwork collected at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. After receiving her PhD. for Art and Technology
research from the University of Tokyo, she was a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Visual Studies from 2002 to 2004, at MIT that
was established by Gyorgy Kepes of the Bauhaus.

Ousseynou Wade is a theorist and curator based in Dakar, Senegal, with expertise in contemporary African Art. From 2000 to 2013, he directed the Dakar
Biennale, where he contributed to the development of numerous projects, including the Cultural Initiatives Support Program under financing from the
European Union. A tireless supporter of African artists, he has participated in numerous international conferences on cultural policy, cultural
industries, and the financing of cultural activities, and organized professional meetings on art criticism, cultural journalism and design. He also
served as publications director of the African visual arts quarterly AFRIK’ARTS, to which contributed numerous articles. In 2013 he was appointed
Director of Visual Arts for the Minister of Culture of Senegal, where he continued to develop international contacts for Senegalese and African artists.
Ousseynou Wade is currently an independent consultant with a focus on innovative contemporary African Art.