PARTICIPANTS 2018

Santiago Díaz Escamilla
He studied Visual Arts at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2015). Selected exhibitions include:¿Qué piensa de mí aquello que observo?, Galería 12:00, Bogotá, Colombia (2017); Háganlo mientras sean jóvenes, Sección Artecámara, Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogotá, ARTBO, Bogotá, Colombia (2017); Colômbia Afora, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brasil (2017); El fin de la excepción humana, Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia (2016); Resultados Taller Joan Jonas, Villa Iris, Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain (2016); KINO B. Kolumbialaisen Videotaiteen Screening, B-galleria, Turku, Finland (2015); Under a Common Ground withHannes Middelberg, Immigration Office, Bremen, Germany (2014); Avistamientos: Cine y video experimental: Colombia, México, Alemania, Mapa Teatro, Bogotá, Colombia (2013). The artist has been awarded the 2017 CONSCAR Grant at FLORA ars + natura, Bogotá, Colombia (2017) and has also won the Xaverian Academic Order of Merit for Academic Excellence, Facultad de Artes, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia (2016), as well as an Honorable Mention for his thesis project: Sedimento, Advisor: Nicolás Uribe Benninghoff, Facultad de Artes, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia, (2015). In April 2016, Díaz was selected by Joan Jonas to participate in Fundación Botín’s (Santander, Spain) Workshop / Residency which was focused on the local landscape of Nansa Valley.

Raquel Mavecq
Raquel Mavecq is a Brooklyn based experimental dance artist and researcher of thebody from São Paulo, Brazil. Raquel’s work understands the body as a powerfulmedium to dialogue with the always urgent state of the world. She organizes movementby layering, blending and distorting choreography, photography, sound, video, andinstallation. Through the lens of many disciplines like biology, geometry, geology andphilosophy, Raquel is interested in generating compositional scores that evoke freedom,autonomy, vulnerability, micro and macro relations, and other cosmic planes forunderstanding reality.Raquel moved to New York in 2010 after completing her BA in Comunicação e Artes doCorpo from PUC-SP in Brazil. In NY she was in the professional training program at theMerce Cunningham Studio, worked and studied at the Hemispheric Institute ofPerformance and Politics, and in 2012 she became a Certified Movement Analyst fromthe Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York. Raquel has performedand featured work in established places like MoMa, PS1, Judson Church, Dancespaceat St. Marks Church, Merce Cunningham Studio, La MaMa Experimental Theater, andThe Knockdown Center. As well as independent experimental spaces in Brooklyn likethe Certer for Performance Research, Grace Exhibition Space and PanoplyPerformance Laboratory.

Milda Lembertaite
Born in Lithuania and now based in London, I work mainly as part of a collaboration, in the duo: Sisters From Another Mister. I work across different media, but primarily with sculpture, video and performance. I work with materials and artifacts that can be said to drift across and through time; staging material conversations between the ancient and the contemporary as well as the human and non-human; with an attempt to speak of knowledge’s lost and re-found, the migration and displacement of peoples’ and the evolution, assimilation and growth of new forms of life and ways of being. Healing and cleansing are themes that recur again and again in the work. My approach to technology is a bodily and emotional one: the use of video as an extension of the physical self. What are the elements in which we exist, in which we inhabit ourselves, in the reality of everyday life dissolved in a fantasy of another world – not here, not there. Where is the last frontier of the human, a lost frontier, embedded in geological time, artificial authenticity, stretching through eternity? The idea of displacement or fragmentation of bodies: body as human-scape, the body as visual geometry and its surface lies at the centre of their research. The whole body has eyes. How to be physical and not just a surface?

Miki Yui
Born!1971!in!Tokyo,!artist/composer!based!in!Düsseldorf!Germany!since!1994.With!her!background!in!fine!art,!Miki!Yui!explores!the!grey!zones!of!our!perception!andimagination.Picking!up!barely!perceived!faint!sounds!and!noises,!she!creates!in!a!multidisciplinary!fashion,!musical!pieces,!performances,!radio!pieces,!drawings!and!installationswhich!subtly!reference!the!natural!environment.(Dr.Erich!Franz)Ever!since!her!first!album!„small!sounds“!in!1999,!she!has!been!known!for!her!unique!minimalisticand!organic!approach!towards!music.!Environmental!recordings:!from!a!delicate!tiny!hiss!to!a!distant!hum,!electronic!sounds!and!found!objects!are!woven!into!her!abstract!music!with!a!narrative!tension.Six!solo!albums!of!hers!have!been!released!so!far.!Yuiperformsconcerts!in!Europe!and!in!Japan.She!has!received!a!BA!from!Tama!Art!University!in!Tokyo,!and!a!diploma!in!audio!visual!art!at!Academy!of!Media!Art!Cologne!after!studying!video!art!at!the!Academy!of!Fine!Art!Düsseldorf.She!has!had!seven!solo!exhibitions!and!participated!in!many!group!shows!in!Europeand!Asia.!She!was!awarded!the!German!Sound!Art/!WDR!Production!Award!in!2006!

Leela Schauble
Leela Schauble is a Melbourne based artist. Born in Melbourne, Leela lived in Shanghai for over seven years during her childhood before returning to Australia. Being half Chinese and Cypriot living in Australia, Leela uses her artistic practice to explore the concept place, the immersive environment and self. Leela received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), majoring in Painting from Monash University in 2011 and a Master of Fine Arts Research at The Victorian College of the Arts in 2017. She is an emerging new media artist, using video to explore the relationship between technology and the natural environment. Leela has exhibited locally and internationally and attended international residencies where she collects most of her material from. In 2015 Leela embarked on an artist residency to the Arctic Circle which informed her Masters research. In 2012 Leela went on the inaugural Artist in Residence program at Chinese/Australian artist, Shen Shaomin’s Studio in Beijing, China. Her selected shows include, Local Futures: The Culture China Young Overseas Chinese, He Xiangning Art Museum China 2013, Channels Festival with Q.U.A.D Projects 2015, Synthetic Species Motion Study No. 7 White Night Melbourne 2015, Signal at Bus Projects 2016, Taken Spacesat Perth Centre of Photography 2016, The Persuaded Landscapeat Watch This Space 2017 andFrames of Seeing Nite Art 2017.

Helen Cawley
Helen Cawley is a multidisciplinary artist practicing the intersection of art and science and actively engaged in pushing the boundaries of disciplinary research. Her practice revolves around a pursuit to understand the fundamental nature of reality, paradoxically trying to reach beyond a subjective experience. She therefore touches upon many areas of science and philosophy, but the main thread in her research is the use of technology in capturing natural phenomena for observation, experimentation, and to physically simulate aspects of sensibility and experience. She is in a long term collaboration with the CLOUD experiment at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research), due to a shared interest in cosmic rays and the feedback between human behaviour and atmospheric science.

Debbie Symons
Dr Debbie Symons is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Melbourne, Australia. She completed her PhD Anthropocentrism, Endangered Species and the Environmental Dilemma at Monash University in 2014 with the support of an Australian Postgraduate Scholarship. Symons collaborates with scientific organisations such as the IUCN Red List to facilitate the statistical data pertaining to her works. Symons' work addresses a range of themes, including humanity's complex relationship with the natural environment, the dynamics of the global political economy and the effects of consumer culture. With a strong research base incontemporary science and species, Symons utilises databases to investigate the links between these themes through the appropriation of mass media communication vehicles. Symons’ works have shown internationally; The International Urban Screen Association, The Streaming Museum, New York and Galerie Prodromus, Paris. Locally, Symons’ has exhibited her works at [MARS] Gallery, Craft Victoria, Linden New Art, RMIT Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery. Her works are held in a number of private collections within Australia. She recently completed the inaugural Carlton Connect residency for the City of Melbourne as part of the CLIMARTE Art+Climate=Change 2015 Festival and exhibited in ARTCOP21, the artistic response to the COP21 talks in Paris, New York and Melbourne

Allison McElroy
Allison McElroy is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Jacksonville State University. Her research of natural materials, such as dirt/soil (collected from the all 50 states in the United States), is not only evident in her own work but introduced to her students through environmental class projects as well as the community through workshops she organizes. McElroy is currently working with entomologist from Auburn University as well as the outreach/education coordinator at Auburn University of Natural History. The subject matter is honey = a combination of sugars and proteins = and the substance is being systematically viewed from the lens of science/microscope. McElroy is taking an abstract approach to document the patterns among the different honeys in a way scientists can not do in the lab. Scientist will utilize pattern recognition software to extract pattern motifs that can be used to match sugar/protein profiles to environmental conditions.McElroy has completed artist residencies at The Vermont Studio Center where she received a Fellowship for Artists and Writers and a Savannah College of Art and Design International Graduate School residency in Lacoste, France where her focus of study was On-Site Installation. In Lacoste she was very fortunate to study under visiting artist Jesuit Friedhelm Mennekes

Alexandra Lerman
Alexandra Lerman is a Russian born New York based artist whose work interweaves documentary and fiction in sculpture, performance, photography, and video to interrogate systems and ideologies governing the post-industrial world of immaterial labor, production, communication and mediation. The themes of her work locate themselves in historical moments in which language, bodily gesture, expressive freedom, and natural ecosystems come into conflict with the abstract forces of private,
institutional and governmental control such as copyright,artistic ownership, and digital licensing and merchandising. Lerman's individual and collaborative projects have been shown at SculptureCenter, Tina Kim gallery, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Anthology Film Archives, Austrian Cultural Forum, Artists Space, Whitney Museum, New Museum, Queens Museum in New York; SIgnal Center for Contemporary Art in Malmö, Sweden and MUSAC in Spain. Alexandra took part in LMCC Workspace Program, Open Sessions Residency at the Drawing Center and The Art & Law Program in New York;Banff Centre's "01 The Retreat: A Position of DOCUMENTA (13)" in Alberta, Canada. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, 2012 and a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, 2004

Aleksandra Borys
Born in 1985, from Poland lives and work in London. Art and science artists, working in a field of art, choreography, video, installations, photography, walking art, ecology, astronomy, anatomy, space science. Graduate of MA Art and Science at Central Saint Martins- University of the Arts in London and BA Dance/Performer Codarts – University of Arts in Rotterdam. Her artistic research and interest orbits around the subject of human body in relation to the environment. She is exploring the relation of human body, Earth and Universe in scientific and cultural context. With a fascination into space travel her work admires the beauty of planet Earth Interested in looking at Earth from a distance, and how this ability influences the way life on our planet is approached. With her work, she wishes to challenge the way human physical existence is viewed in relation to its environment. Likes to approach the human body, nature, the Earth and Universe all as a physical being and as a one organism. Her choreographic works base on movement research, physical possibilities and functionality of human body in various environments. Combining choreographic approach to create installations that offer physical and kinetic experience of connectivity, and bring out physicality of scientific concepts.

Bia Monteiro
Born in 1976, in Rio de Janeiro and is now based in NYC. She Received a MFA degree from the International Center of Photography in New York where she was awarded with the Director’s Fellowship in 2015/16. Bia is a visual artist working primarily with photography, video and installations. Her work references matters of displacement, as well as environmental concerns (mainly in Brazil) through the use of human body, historical references and architecture. Bia has exhibited her work in Brazil, Europe, Japan and New York, and is part of the Studio Duo collective in NYC.

Bianca Lee Vasquez
Born in 1983 in Miami, of cuban-ecuadorian origins, has lived and worked in Paris for the past 10 years. She works with nature in a way that is emphatically corporal, striving for a communion between body, nature and art. As an artist, she is interested in developing a metaphysical understanding and an earthbody expression that advances the promulgation of Ayni. Her interventions involve natural elements such as trees, branches or large stones intently exploring the connections between man and nature. Although she frequently uses her own body, she is rarely representing herself literally. The common thread running through her works draws from her sustained interest in her ancestral beliefs that cosmology and the human body are interrelated.

Catherine Sarah Young
Born in 1983, Manila, the Philippines. Artist, designer, and writer whose work explores emerging technologies and alternative futures through interactive storytelling, sensory experiences, and participatory art. She has worked in several countries for more than a decade, giving her unique perspectives into many cultures. Her experimental and interdisciplinary practice evokes conversation about our current systems, collective futures, and individual choices.
Catherine has collaborated with scientists, companies, chefs, non-profits, and museums around the world. She often engages local communities, especially children, to participate in her work. In her writing, she explores subjects related to the environment, feminism, and future scenarios. She is the founder of The Apocalypse Project, an interdisciplinary platform that explores climate change and our environmental futures, and Future Rx, a platform for sustainability and citizen science. Catherine received her undergraduate degree in molecular biology and biotechnology from the University of the Philippines, fine art education from Barcelona, and an MFA in Interaction Design at the School of Visual Arts NYC as a Fulbright scholar. She has spoken internationally about her work in various conferences and workshops, and has received grants and fellowships in the US, Spain, South Korea, Singapore, and Colombia.

Laura Gorski
Brazilian, born in 1982 in São Paulo, city where she lives and works. Graduated in Design by Centro Universitário de Belas Artes de São Paulo (Brazil). Laura Gorski works with the construction of imaginary landscapes through drawing and its unfolding in space. She creates silent atmospheres that proposes an expanded sense of time and is intent to engage the viewer inviting him for a few moments of pause and contemplation.

Lisa Schonberg
Born in 1977 in Portland, USA, where she lives and works. Lisa is a musician, artist, teacher and natural historian. She started playing drums as a child in Staten Island, NY, studied ecology and entomology through college and graduate school, and has since traveled extensively to carry out fieldwork and perform. She integrates her interests through creative documentation of soundscapes, insects, and habitat. Lisa's place-based compositions are performed by her percussion and noise ensemble Secret Drum Band, her duo Coordination, and in solo performance.

Lucy Helton
Born in London and based in New York. Work as artist, curator and teacher in which explores the notion of movement and diversity as connected to language, geography and poetry. Lucy Helton received her master’s degree in fine art photography from Hartford Art School, CT, in 2014. Rising from a necessity to express her personal anxieties and concerns about the environment, her first photobook "Actions of Consequence" was nominated for the MACK First Book Award 2014, shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Award 2015, and The Anamorphosis Prize 2015. Her most recent book "Transmission" (Silas Finch, 2015) is a communication from our future to our recent past and it was shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture First Book Award 2015. Helton is immersed in photo book making and has participated in various book fairs and festivals in New York, L.A., London, Germany and France.

Naomi Bailey Cooper
British fashion embellishment designer, born in 1987. Her work explores the potential of integrating alternative materials and processes, which include ethical textiles and bio-materials, with aesthetic appeal at the core of her work. She is currently studying for a PhD at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, researching; How can embellishment deliver an alternative to the decorative and seductive notion of exotic animal material? Her PhD is funded by the Victoria & Albert Museum / London College of Fashion, Artscom PhD Award. Prior to commencing her PhD studies, Naomi worked across; research & development for large corporate brands, various creative projects and commissions, and gained business start-up experience for an individual venture and as part of a group materials start-up based at Makerversity, Somerset House. Her previous education includes a BA in Fashion Design Womenswear from Central Saint Martins, graduating in 2012 with a collection based on biodegradable embellishment.

Patricia Gouvêa
Born in 1973 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,here she works. Visual artist, works with photography, video, installation and urban intervention. Her work as an artist prioritizes moving photography and images and their potential interfaces, where the notion of time is one of the main pillars of her research. She is a Communication graduate from ECO/UFRJ, a Specialist in Photography and Social Sciences (UCAM/RJ) and a Master of Communication and Culture on the Communication Technologies and Image Aesthetics track (ECO/UFRJ). From 2005 to 2009 she was a member of the Grupo DOC (Desordem Obssessiva Compulsiva) collective, which promoted scores of actions in Brazil and abroad. She has published the books “Membranas de Luz: os tempos na imagem contemporânea” [Membranes of Light: times in contemporary imagery] (2011, Azougue Editorial), "Imagens Posteriores" [Posterior Images] (2012, Réptil Editora) and "Banco de Tempo" [Benches of Time] (2014, in partnership with artist Isabel Löfgren, edited by the authors), and participated in many others.

Renata Cruz
Brazilian, born in Araçatuba in 1964. Live in São Paulo, Brazil. Graduated from Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) and Bellas Artes from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, like a foreigner student. And Post-Graduated in Integrative Art from Universidade Anhembi Morumbi. Renata Cruz explores relationships between text and image. And she uses literature with her drawings to connect, like a collage, images and texts from different times and spaces. Many times, she organizes the work to create a system for cataloguing images of everyday life with objects and stories of lives from several people from several countries. She also develops installations were the drawings interact with the space on the exhibition like an open book in a space. Her interest is creating an open narrative or several narratives that are built while people walk in between the work.

Sabina Sallis
Born in 1979 in Lancut, Poland. Lives and work in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Sabina has a multifaceted approach to arts provision- as a researching, collaborating and exhibiting artist and as a curator. Sallis graduated in 2005 from University of Arts, Poznan, Poland with a MA in Fine Art. Currently Sabina is a recipient of Research Excellent Academy scholarship and is undertaking practice-led Phd which researches Aesthetics of Sustainability: critical multi-media arts practice and visions for a sustainable future at School of Fine Arts, Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
Sabina uses video, drawing, performance, sculpture and narrative in a multimedia transdisciplinary approach that interweaves fact and fiction. She uses poetic, spatial, aesthetic language to explore and present visions of possible sustainable futures and examine what the aesthetics of sustainability might encompass. Using eclectic research themes as a vehicle to promote humane, ecological concepts such as evolutionary transformation, resilience and adaptability, Sabina explores the human embodied potential and complex, transformative aspects of sustainability.

Sandra Bühler
Filmmaker and new media artist with a focus on documentary filmmaking and experimental animation.
After completing her studies as graphic designer in Zurich, Switzerland, she turned towards moving images as well as audio-visual performances and studied experimental film in Berlin, Tokyo and LA.
Through experimental, essayistic, docu-fictional technics she questions the contructed „nature“ of images as well as realities in general. She likes to work on the boundaries of conceptual thoughts especially between human and nonhuman and its politics. Hence in the last years she developed a strong interest in non-humanity, perspectivism, animism and mythology. In her practice, she strives towards social-cultural exchange, sustainable interaction and close engagement with communities. She co-created various community based art projects around the world, working with marginalized groups as well as dense nature.

Soichiro Mihara
Born in 1980, Tokyo and currently works in Kyoto, Japan. Aiming to make art that openly engages with the world, Soichiro Mihara creates systems that employ a wide range of materials, media, and technologies, such as acoustics, bubbles, radiation, rainbow, microbes and moss in order to continually questions the here and now. Since 2011, after an earthquake and tsunami struck the East coast of Japan, he has been working on ‘blanks project’, which explores the boundaries of the systems that drive modern society. In other projects he has collaborated with the specialists from different backgrounds such as musicians, artists, electronic instrument engineers and researchers specializing in a haptic study.

Zane Cerpina
Latvian born artist based in Oslo, Norway. She is working within emerging media, focusing on the themes of the Anthropocene, environmental awareness, ecological criticism, interactive technologies and embodied experiences. Zane is educated in Art and Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her artistic works vary from mobile app concepts such as the “Opinify App” and “The Earth Cancer” to body based performance series “Body Liquids”, exploring the relationship to one’s own bodily fluids.

Anibal Turenko Beça
Fourth generation Visual Artist from Amazonas. Since 1992 investigates the Amazon: from natural, biodiversity and anthropological (indigenous societies) aspects; specializing in the Amazonian people and their relationship with the rivers, the forest and Amazonian symbols. Conceptual work with different supports and material, performances and urban art derives from this.

Barbara Marcel
Has studied Film and Philosophy in Rio de Janeiro, holds a master’s degree in Art in Context at the Berlin University of Arts Berlin (UdK) and is currently a PhD candidate of Fine Arts at the Bauhaus-University in Weimar. Her work is based on the relationship between artistic and scientific research, investigating spaces and specific events with social-political concerns. Her Ph.D. project investigates the Essayfilm as a historiographical tool, focusing on issues related to postcolonial and cultural studies, with the Botanical Garden Berlin-Dahlem and its plants as current material of study.

Blanca Botero
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, where currently lives and works. In recent years studied, worked and expressed point of view on issues of interest, using the expressive languages of art. Working life divided in two phases, the most recent being dedicated to art. Previously studied law and practiced for some years, working in public and private sectors and a multilateral agency, in Colombia and the United States.

Daniel Kukla
Visual artist, currently residing in New York City. Artistic practice informed by intersection of work as a photo-based artist and formal training in biological and anthropological sciences. Works at juncture of these disciplines, creating work that has the power to articulate our ever changing relationship with the natural world.

Emmy Mikelson
Born and raised in rural Iowa. Has lived and worked in New York City for the past 10 years. As an artist, both in studio and curatorial projects, is interested in cultivating a philosophical understanding and a visual language that advances nonanthropocentric perspectives.

Gustavo Torrezan
Born in Piracicaba, lives and work in São Paulo. His works come from the notion of art history and culture, public and private spaces, center and periphery , memory and oblivion, territory and counter-territory, place and no-place, in order to show tension on hegemonic and power relationships.

Guto Nóbrega
Born in Brazil, has been developing series of artworks which encompasses drawings, photos, videos and robotics systems. Doctoral thesis is a transdisciplinary research in the fields of art, science, technology and nature investigating how the confluence of these domains (specially in the last decades) has informed the creation of new aesthetics experiences. The study resulted in the development of a theoretical-practical intervention in the field of arts with focus on the ideas of interactivity, telematics, field theories, and hyperorganisms.

Kyle Tryhorn
Born amidst the many waterfalls of the Niagara Region in Canada,Kyle’s work is an exploration of the processes by which value is assigned to the various, often mediated, experiences we encounter in and throughout nature. As a result the viewer is invited to question the constructed hierarchies resulting from a systemic experience that appraises things by their perceived utilitarian and anthropocentric qualities.

Marcelo Moscheta
Lives and works in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The common thread running through Moscheta’s work is a great fascination for nature, together with willingness to travel and experience the landscape. Experience of travelling and living in difficult environments stimulated interest in depicting the memory of a place in his works, developing a classification procedure like that of an archaeologist questioning the boundaries of territory, geography and physics through art.

Markus Von Platen
Works revolve around the question of the object, of the entity, of the industrial thing that is no longer simply a commodity, but whose core is already below the commodity form and has overcome its fetish character. There are alienated and decontextualized hyperobjects in which industrial materials with little significance, views of modernist sculpture, and reflections on display and presentation come together.

Pedro Vaz
Born in Maputo in 1977. Artistic work is based on a research on landscape, mostly in painting and video-installation. Interested in reflecting upon the power involved when artists ability to represent and landscapes ability to be represented come together, implying what is meant by space, place and landscape. Personal contact with real place is fundamental in his artistic practice and his projects often include a tour.

Rihards Vitols
Born in Latvia. In past years working with multidisciplinary works around themes nature, ecology,
technology and the future. In this time has collaborated not only with artists from
different art fields but also with scientists. This experience has given many opportunities
to see the afore-mentioned topics of interest from different point of views.

Stahl Stenslie
Norwegian artist, curator and researcher specializing in experimental art, interactive experiences and disruptive technologies. Artworks challenge our ordinary ways of perceiving the world. Practice asks the questions we tend to avoid or where the answers lie in the shadows of existence. Keywords are somaesthetics, unstable media, transgression and the numinous. The technological focus of works is on the art of the recently possible - such as i) panhaptic communication on Smartphones, ii) somatic sound and holophonic soundspaces, and iii) open source, disruptive design for disruptive technologies such as low cost 3D print of functional and lethal art – weaponry.

Thiago Rocha Pitta
Born in Tiradentes, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Multimedia artist, always develops work searching for an intimate relationship with nature. In 2014, participated in artistic residency program Circulating AiR, organized by Stiftelsen 3,14 (Norway), and presented Atlas Oceano, a solo show at Galeria Millan (São Paulo, Brazil).

Tina Ribartis
Born in 1981 in Vienna, Austria. Artist based in Berlin and Vienna. Ribarits works with a conceptual approach in a variety of media including photography, projection, audio and sculptural elements to create site-specific installative objects. Work engages with (female) cultural fictions such as the narrative of the country estate and landscape represented in victorian and antebellum literature (and their film adaptions), as well as the idea of nature in the light of exoticism and colonial history. She creates set-ups that allow socio-visual explorations of a slowly fading past and its remainders.

Simone Fontana Reis
Holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Artistic practices navigate between painting and sculpture. Involved in permanent installations in public spaces in Sao Paulo, even before studying arts.

Felipe Cidade
Leaves in Sao Paulo and his artistic practice is about establishing a relationship of entropy within the social, gathering historical factors and reconfiguring signs found in society. The observation, reflection and questioning of the present, together to a past that insists in reappear nostalgic in the day-to-day, it creates an entropic character in the artist’s research. Despite of following a political tendency, Cidade’s works move away from mere activism to problematize everything involving political attitudes, allowing reframing the banal into the field of politics. Going through this questions,
his production permeates the marked effects in history to face them now as mere myths, is the great myth of democracy or, more simply, the myth of security.

Fernanda Rappa
Started her art production through photography and her works always have been heavily influenced by biological science. Initially, she explored the photographic moment and the mental processes related with that exact instant. Rappa's current research takes on sociobiology, as she studies the evolution of humans in relation to nature and the complex concept of conscience. Through this research, the artist presents a symbolic project that ironically reflects upon human beings and how they relate to drawings made by and for humans.

Lívia Pasqual
Born in Caxias do Sul in 1984. Lives and work on Porto Alegra, Brazil. Graduated on Audiovisal Creation from Unisinos, Brasil – 2009. Has a master degree in Concept and Creation in Photography from EFTI, Spain - 2011. In 2012 she was among the finalists for Iberê Camargo grant. In 2013 she was part of LABVERDE selected artists and since then has been part of several artistic residencies worldwide.

Rodrigo Braga
Was born in Manaus (Amazon, Brazil) in 1976, was raised in Recife where he was graduated in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Pernambuco (2002). Currently living in Rio de Janeiro. In 2012 received the Pipa Prize - Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro and, in 2013, the Emerging Talent Prize of Art Museum of São Paulo – MASP. Some of his works can be found in private and public collections in Brazil and abroad, such as Maisón Européene de La Photographie, Paris, and Modern Art Museum of São Paulo.