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Rachel Dickey is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of North Carolina Charlotte and founder of Studio Dickey, a public art and design practice. Recognizing that current technologies are increasingly affecting the production and experience of space, she explores through her research the use of machines and tools in design not only in terms of material manipulation, but also as instruments that affect people and their environments.

Francesca Franco is an art historian and curator based in Italy and the U.K. She is senior research fellow at the University of Exeter and visiting lecturer at Danube University Krems. In 2017 she curated Algorithmic Signs (Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice), an exhibition that explored the history of generative art. Franco is author of Generative Systems Art: The Work of Ernest Edmonds (Routledge 2018) and The Algorithmic Dimension: Five Artists in Conversation (Springer 2020).

Esteban García Bravo explores computational art as a researcher, a practitioner and an educator. He earned his MFA in 2008 and a PhD in Technology in 2013, and is currently an assistant professor of computer graphics at Purdue University.

Nicolas Henchoz is the director of the EPFL+ECAL Lab, the design research center from the EPFL, one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology. He drives projects focusing emerging technologies on user experience, while understanding human perception. His work promotes disruptive but sustainable innovation. He has curated more than 30 exhibitions and is the author of several publications, including the book Design for Innovative Technology: From Disruption to Acceptance.

Janina Hoth (MA in Theatre, Film and Media Studies—2015, University of Vienna; BA in Art History) is currently researcher and lecturer in the Department for Image Science at Danube University Krems, working on the Archive of Digital Art and developing projects in the field of Digital Art Archiving, Online Exhibitions and Digital Humanities. As a freelancer, she works as translator and author, and is developing her PhD thesis on Collective Aesthetics.

Kathy Rae Huffman is a freelance curator, networker, writer and media art collector and is cofounder of the FACES online community for gender, art and technology. Since the 1980s, she has consulted, curated, juried, administered and coordinated events for numerous international media art festivals and arts organizations. She currently resides in Southern California.

June Kim is a media art practitioner-researcher who currently teaches at UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, Australia. Her current research in virtual reality is to investigate the ways VR can challenge the dichotomous relationship between humans and between humans and non-humans. She was a SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Art Gallery and Art Papers cochair.

Kris Layng is an award-winning set designer, director and XR researcher. He was nominated for an Art Directors Guild Award for MANIAC (Netflix) and cocreated and directed CAVE (SIGGRAPH 2018, Tribeca Film Festival 2019, winner of Best Art Paper Award SIGGRAPH 2019). He is the artist-in-residence at the NYU Future Reality Lab and cofounder of Parallux.

Patrick Pennefather is an assistant professor coappointed in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia and the Master of Digital Media Program in Vancouver. Pennefather is a sound designer, composer, teacher, instructional designer and researcher with a PhD in Educational Technology and Learning Design.

Ken Perlin is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at NYU, where he directs the Future Reality Lab. Research interests include future reality, computer graphics and animation, user interfaces and education. He is chief scientist at Parallux Inc., Tactonic Technologies and Autotoon Inc. Education: PhD in Computer Science from NYU; BA in Theoretical Mathematics from Harvard.

Daria Tsoupikova is a professor in the School of Design and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research and artwork explore the art of virtual reality and networked multiuser exhibitions for VR projection systems—such as CAVE and CAVE2. She designs computer graphics applications for educational multimedia and virtual rehabilitation for stroke survivors.

Anya Yermakova is a doctoral candidate and teaching fellow in the departments of Critical Media Practice and History of Science at Harvard University. Her work takes the formats of performance installation, music composition and movement research, as well as academic and creative writing. She is particularly interested in making interactive scores from unfinished archival snippets as a way of recovering intentions of uncelebrated people throughout history.