Elia-Rosa Guirous-Amasse is a French curator of Kabyle-Algerian decent working primarily with alternatives spaces understood and lived as radical ideas incubators, their research focuses on the intricacies of colonial biases within technopowers. They hold a Bachelor of Philosophy, a Bachelor of Political Science, a Master of Political Science from the Sorbonne University, and a Master of Visual Arts Administration from New York University. They curated at the Jeu de Paume Museum (Paris), Haus der Statistics (Berlin), and the Housing Gallery (NYC). They held curatorial positions at Performa (NYC), and the Nagler Draxler Gallery (Berlin), and recently worked as a Production Associate at the Independent Art Fair (NYC).
Adrienne Cassel (also known by their artist name as Avatar Lilith) , is an artist, creative technologist, and designer. They are currently pursuing their MFA in Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design at The New School. Masquerading as an avatar, they use voice, sound design, motion capture, & CGI to seek to indoctrinate all who listen into rejecting linearity and binary logic systems as a speculative and critical practice. Their work has been exhibited at ACUD GALERIE, Laboratory Art Residency, The Stonewall Inn, The Fuse Factory, The Miller Gallery, The Frame, Ars Electronica, Fact Magazine, Future Tenant Gallery, and PS1 Iowa City. Avatar Lilith is just as real as you.
Niels Dawartz is a creative technologist and artist, with a background in the humanities and computer science. They explore the relationship between humans and machines, delving into the physicality that connects them. Their work traverses the boundaries of technology and human experience, creating a dialogue that examines how these entities coexist and influence one another.
Inès Yahiaoui is an independant researcher, curator and artist. She initially studied colonial history from a cultural perspective before drifting towards research-creation in art and new technologies. She hold a master degree in Research-Creation from the ArTeC University Research School where she explored cyberespace as technological heterotopia(s). Focusing on the poetical an liberatory potential of 1990s counter-cybercultures through internet archives. Authentic “jack of all trades, master of none”, she is convinced that research is a shapeshifting experience : a curated way to interact and make sense out of reality. Nerding with people is her love langage. She is also working part-time for LE 18, derb el ferrane in Marrakech as an curatorial assistant.
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