Albert Barqué-Duran
Artist and a researcher in Creative Technologies and Digital Art, currently based in Barcelona. Albert.DATA is the new artistic identity of Albert Barqué-Duran (1989).
Albert, the human one, earned a PhD and a Postdoc in Cognitive Science from the Centre for Mathematical Neuroscience at City, University of London (UK) and has been a Visiting Postgraduate Researcher at Harvard University (USA) and University of Oxford (UK). Albert’s artistic research focuses on (1) human-algorithm interactions during artistic and creative processes; (2) perception and aesthetics under sensory conflicts; and (3) the transformation of our artistic cognitive practices in virtual contexts, where the process of cognition is mediated by digital artifacts.
They have exhibited and performed at the most significant and international new media art, electronic, experimental festivals, contemporary art museums and biennales such as Sónar+D (Barcelona, Spain), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany), Ming Contemporary Art Museum (Shanghai, China), V_2 Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Daejeon Museum of Art (Daejon, South Korea), ISEA International, Museum Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki, Greece), and many more.
Recently, they have been short-listed for the ‘FUTURES’ category of the LUMEN Prize Award 2023 and received the ‘Re: Humanism’ & ‘Romaeuropa Digitalive’ Prize 2023. Albert was also awarded the Artist Residency at Sonar+D x Factory Berlin in 2020 and received an award from "We Are Europe" (Creative Europe Programme of the European Union), which endowed him as one of the 64 young "Culture Activists" in Europe in 2019
Daniel Sabio
Puerto Rican conceptual new media artist living and working in Barcelona.
Most well-known for their live audiovisual performances, their poetic work ranges from virtual reality modular synth performances and multichannel sound installations to brain/heart-controlled artworks and video game experiences, with the chosen medium being a reflection of the concept at hand.
Since graduating from Georgia Tech in 2011 (BSc Computational Media), the artist’s solo work and collaborations have been consistently welcomed at diverse festivals and events worldwide including Ars Electronica, Venice Biennale, ISEA, SXSW, Bass Coast Festival, VRHAM!, FILE, LEV, and DreamHack, among others.
It has been awarded placement in Art Omi: Music Fellowship, UNCSA METL Immersive Storytelling Residency, Zoo Labs Music Accelerator, and shown in galleries in Shanghai, Tokyo, New York, and Berlin.
Commercially, they have worked both independently and with innovative creative studios (Envoy/Leviathan (US), Cosmic Lab (JP), Ommatidium (CA) to create immersive experiences and installations for numerous high-profile musicians, T-Mobile, Under Armour, and Super Nintendo World.
Elisenda Muns Tubau
Studied Art History at Barcelona’s Universitat Autònoma and completed her studies with a Master in Graphic Design. She soon entered the world of exhibition design and museography, working first at Exit Design and then at Mediapro Exhibitions.
This field fascinated her as it allowed her to explore new ways of communication, working hand in hand with designers and artists in the field of audiovisuals, sound, and virtual and augmented reality.
Afterwards she managed projects at Domestic Data Streamers for more than 4 years and then jumped to the executive direction of Digital Impact, an exhibition of digital arts promoted by OFFF that took place at the Disseny Hub Barcelona in 2023. Interested in the subject, she studied at the same time the Master in Curatorship of Digital Art at ESDI. She has recently founded Gracias Grecia, a creative agency specializing in exhibition projects and installations
Desilence
Tatiana Halbach (Barcelona) and Søren Christensen (Denmark) are the creative force of desilence.
At the core of desilence is the love for painting, for the captivating motion, for the beautiful and well-thought idea. The diligence to go the last mile to find the balance. We are obviously passionate about what we do. When we start a new project it is because we really burn for giving our every 100% of energy to it.
Since 2005 we have been carefully creating by the name ‘Desilence’ - Big stage shows, live visuals, visual scenography, musicals, dance performances, and installations, our portfolio reaches wide. We believe in research and careful crafting.
Anna Carreras
Anna Carreras is a generative artist and creative coder focusing her work on the use of algorithms to create visuals that foster memories or evocate new ones.
She codes her work from scratch to create images that cannot be achieved in any other medium. She is interested in complexity that emerges from small simple behaviors. She wants to foster diversity and explores the balance between order and chaos in which nature and daily life seem to be suspended.
She draws inspiration from her Mediterranean culture and landscape to translate it into abstract visuals. Vivid digital images, static or dynamic, geometric or organic.
She has exhibited at Feral File, Art Blocks Curated and CVerso galleria. She has also developed and exhibited generative art and digital installations in renowned national and international institutions, museums and festivals like MUTEK ES+AR, Sónar Festival, Eufònic Urbà Decentraland, Venice Art Biennale, Medialab Prado Madrid or Abandon Normal Devices Liverpool, among others.
Antonia Folguera
Curates festivals, conferences and podcasts and radio shows. Her work moves across the terrains of digital art and culture, communication and electronic music. She curates Sónar+D, Sónar Festival’s Creative Technologies Conference, and she is part of the curatorial teams of Eufònic Festival (Terres de l’Ebre, Spain) and STRP (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
She is also co-founder of XRCB (Barcelona Community Radio Network) a community based, ethical and techno political podcasting and streaming platform, in which (among other things) they prototype and research the radio of the future. She makes podcasts and live radio in Barcelona, as a side hustle, she speaks, moderates, and hosts all types of cultural and technological events.
Domestic Data Streamers
Domestic Data Streamers is an award-winning studio exploring how to express data through films, design, robotics, web, theater, or architecture in schools, prisons, cinemas, the streets of many cities, and even the United Nations Headquarters.
They work for commercial brands and all kinds of old-school and new-kinky institutions. They genuinely believe data can be an actual trigger of change and build bridges in a polarized society.
Moisés Horta
Is an autodidact sound artist, creative technologist and electronic musician from Tijuana, México, working in the fields of computer music, Artificial Intelligence and the history and politics of emerging digital technologies. He has received the award of A.I. Newcomer 2023 by the Association of Informatics of Germany.
As hexorcismos, his artistic name, he crafts an uncanny link between ancient and l through a critical lens in the context of contemporary electronic music and the sonic arts. His work has been presented in Ars Electronica, NeurIPS Machine Learning for creativity and design workshop, MUTEK México, Transart Festival, MUTEK: AI Art Lab Montréal, Elektron Musik Studion, CTM Festival Berlin, KTH: Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Intelligent Instruments Lab, Reykjavik, among others.
He is currently working as an AI music technologist, developing new instruments utilizing Generative neural networks, and independently organizing workshops around creative AI art practices centered around sound and image synthesis and the demystification of neural networks. He is also developing SEMILLA.AI, an interface for interacting with generative neural sound synthesizers through ancient Mesoamerican divination practices, and OIR, an online channel for semi-autonomous meta-DJ trained on thousands of hours of visuals and music from global electronic club music and techno.
Rania Kim, Portrait XO
Portrait XO (she/they) is an independent researcher and transdisciplinary artist. Recently awarded jazzki award by ELBJAZZ (June 2023), the first German human-AI jazz prize, she’s been recognized over the years for her work in sonic innovation with AI audio pioneers Dadabots. They won ‘Best Experiment’ award at VUT Indie Awards 2021, and Eurovision AI Song Contest Jury Vote for ‘most creative use of AI’ in 2020.
Her development into AI audiovisual art evolved through several artist residencies from NEW NOW FESTIVAL and BBA Gallery in 2021, and Factory Berlin x Sonar+D in 2020.
She researches computational creativity, and human-machine collaboration, and explores new formats & applications for forward-thinking art and sound. She holds a monthly radio residency with her art & activism collective CO:QUO (CO-CREATE STATUS-QUO) on Refuge Worldwide Radio, and a founding member of The IASAS (International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists) and recently launched SOUND OBSESSED - sonic innovation archive celebrating the journey and milestones of new innovation in sound.
She has performed, presented, and exhibited at SXSW, Ars Electronica, MONOM, Reeperbahn Festival, International Music Summit, Amsterdam Dance Event, BBA Gallery, RE:PUBLICA, Sonar+D, Factory Berlin, Tech Open Air, Redbull Music, Future Forum by BMW Welt, KIKK Festival, Github, and more.
Her debut research-based AI audiovisual album 'WIRE' was released on December 9th in 2022 as a first-of-its-kind NFT to Vinyl release on the music NFT polygon marketplace twelve x twelve.
Xavier Maixenchs
Graduated in Industrial Design and Master of AV Innovation.
Designing virtual and physical experiences combined, crafting digital worlds and virtual humans.
Collaborating with Xavi Bové Studio, and LOWKEYMOVES and other creative studios.