J Henry Fair is an American photographer, environmental activist, and co-founder of the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he currently lives and works in New York City. A selfdescribed provocateur, he has occasionally lost his temper at charitable events.

With his photos, Fair has called attention to environmental and political problems in different regions of the world. Fair has had touring photography exhibits in the USA, Europe, and Asia. Additionally, he travels around the world, giving environmental symposia to teach audiences about consumer responsibility and environmental awareness. Fair's work has been published in The New York Times and magazines National Geographic, Vanity Fair, TIME, and New York and featured on the programs Today and Marketplace, television and radio, respectively.

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Giorgio Sancristoforo is a sound artist and audio engineer born in 1974 in Milan, where he actually lives and works.

He’s member of the Contemporary Music Center AGON of Milan, the Prisma Group and lecturer of sound design and sound synthesis in institutions such as the SAE Institute of Milan. the Accademia of Belle Arti of Bergamo, and the Centro Tempo Reale of Firenze. He’s the author of two new sound synthesis techniques: the Triple Axis Modal

Synthesis or TAMS and the Additive Tropical Synthesis developed together the Italian mathematician Cristiano Bocci, of the Department of Mathematics of the Siena University. He has written a number of softwares for electronic experimental music used by artists, universities and composers in more than 40 countries worldwide. Hehas also published articles, books and filmed documentaries about electronic music.

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Nastassia Zenovich is a graphic designer, born in 1991 in Belarus.

She graduated with a science popularization project as BA Graphic Design and has 7 years work experience in common, now working with local NGOs and projects related to cultural heritage, developing an empathy in communities, and science popularization.

During last years she was engaged in projects like: choiceproject.eu (editorial design for the cultural studies), humanlibrary.by (developing a visual system for a local Human Library organization), fly-uni.org (an identity system, exhibition design, etc) and others, helping them to design strong visual systems to move on their ideas (like stimulating an active public discussion on the related topics, promoting smart large-scale reforms in Belarus, cultural and social studies, etc).

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I had my master degree in plastic arts specialty engraving in Tunisia. Then I took training in 3D production and special effects and I worked as a 3D artist and graphic designer of video games. Currently, I continue my research at

the University of Arts in Strasbourg. I question the representation of invisible violence in art. My artistic practice is varied, I create paintings, engravings and photography and videos. In video I use self-filming as a primordial technique, which materializes the introspection and the moment's confrontation with oneself. Originally from a Maghreb patriarchal society where the most entrenched religion is Islam, from a very young age I witnessed of injustices and intolerable aggression vis-à-vis the female condition. This scourge of violence against women is so serious that every second woman is a victim of aggression. Sadly, it is almost legitimate and moral to abuse women.

Faced with this reality, I can not be passive. I want to highlight in my works all the feelings of anger, shame, indignation that may be felt victims of abject abuse and violence.

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Aleksander Väljamäe received his PhD in applied acoustics at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2007. During his PhD studies on multisensory perception he also worked at University of Barcelona, Spain and NTT communication Science Labs, Japan. In 2007-2010 he has being a postdoctoral fellow and the psychophysiology lab director at SPECS Laboratory, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain. In 2011-2012 he was a senior postdoctoral fellow at Neuropsychology Laboratory, University of Graz, and Graz BCI lab, Technical University of Graz, Austria. From 2013 till Feb. 2015 he was Marie Sklodowska-Curie International Outgoing Fellow (Sankt Petersburg State University and Linkoping University) working on collaborative neurofeedback applications.

During this time he has being active in a number of EU projects: POEMS, PRESENCCIA, BrainAble, TOBI, Future BNCI, CONTRAST, GALA, BrainHack; and acted as an external expert for EC. Since 2016 he is an associate professor in physiological computing at Human-Computer-Interaction group, Tallinn University, Estonia. His current psychophysiology research concerns how audiovisual media influence humans on perceptual, cognitive and emotional levels, with particular stress on health/well-being and new applications (Brain-Computer Interfaces, neurocinema, neurotheatre). He actively participates in art and science projects, e.g., his technical directing of the

“Multimodal Brain Orchestra” performance in 2009, Prague or directing neurotheatre performance "Demultiplexia" in 2017, Brussels. He authored over 30 journal articles and book chapters.

Renate Quehenberger, Art researcher, theorist, art reviewer, science communicator; Doctoral candidate, Art & Knowledge Transfer Department at University of Applied Arts Vienna; Local organizer of the International Symmetry Festival 2016; Member of the Austrian Science Center Network, Member of the German Society for

Geometry and Graphics (DGfGG), Member of the Austrian Geometry Association (ADG) Art & Science FWF/PEEK project „Quantum Cinema - a digital vision“ (2010-

2013 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, mentored by Prof. Peter Weibel) Development of 3D animated geometry for a visual access to higher mathematics.

• Contribution to mathematics: the finding of the 3D representation of the Penrose Kites and Darts tiling, the unit cell of 5-dimensional space, named epitahedron (E±)

• Scientific relevance of the 5-dimensional geometry was published and presented in the fields of mathematics, quantum physics and genetics, cf.: Theories of Light, Poster Session at QTRF6, Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations at Linnaeus Conference (SE, 2012), Poincaré’s Dream, International Congress of Mathematicians - ICM 2014 Seoul (KR), A Proposal for a Psiontological model based on 5-dimensional Geometry, QCQMB Workshop:

Quantum Contextuality in Quantum Mechanics & Beyond, Prag (CZ, 2017).

• Exhibitions & Film screenings: Ars Electronica Linz, Best Austrian Animation Festival (A), Symmetry Festival, Bridges Mathematics & Arts Festival Neues Museum Weimar (D, 2012), MuseumsQuartier Vienna (A, 2013), British Council, Di-Egy Fest 0.1 Kairo (EY, 2013), Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (A, 2013/14), Cairotronica (EG,

2016).

• Multimedia-Production «[A, G ; C, T/U] Epita Matrix Genetics in Sound and Visions», Vienna 2016

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Maria McKinney is a visual artist based in Dublin. She recently completed a significant body of work that considered the use of genomics in modern cattle-breeding, resulting in a solo exhibition in the RHA (Dublin), funded by the Wellcome Trust and Arts Council of Ireland Project Award.

She will be taking part in Skowhegan 2017, an International summer school in the countryside of Maine, USA.

Previous solo exhibitions include Lokaal 01, Antwerp, Belgium (2016), La Permanence, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2015), the MAC, Belfast (2012) and the Lab Gallery, Dublin (2010). She was shortlisted for the MAC International 2014 and has completed residencies in the UCD school of science 2015/16 and Fire Station Artists Studios 2012-2015. In April 2017 she will begin a three-year tenure in Temple Bar Studios.

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Ele Carpenter is a curator and writer in politicised art and social networks of making. Her curatorial practice responds to interdisciplinary socio-political contexts such as the nuclear economy and the relationship between craft and code. Her curatorial research into nuclear culture investigates the contemporary aesthetics of living in the nuclear anthropocene through commissioning new work, field research, writing, and curating exhibitions, film screenings and roundtable discussions. In partnership with the Arts Catalyst the project is commissioning new work in response to the issues raised by dismantling British nuclear submarines in consultation with members of the Submarine Dismantling Project Advisory Group.

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