Roxane is a french artist living in Montreal. She’s in charge of the communications and graphic design at TOPO, an artist center dedicated to digital arts. She’s the one responsible for ILIDI’s visual identity and website.
Roxane Michel
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Michel Lefebvre
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Michel Lefebvre is General Director and founding member of TOPO, an art centre dedicated to creation, production and dissemination of new media projects at the crossroads of visual arts, literature and digital narrativity. Since 25 years, TOPO has created and produced numerous interactive projects with artists of different disciplines.
Luis Guzmán-Zirate
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With a degree in arts and a keen user of computers and systems, he is interested in the implications of creativity and programming for activism and social development. The use of open source platforms and web spaces is the current forum for his research.
Alfonso Hernández
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Alfonso Hernández has a heterogeneous profile between arts and technologies that allows him to create magical stories, narratives and rich human experiences using surprising and atypical technologies or approaches. His innovative spirit allows him to imagine, and quickly put into practice, original and refreshing concepts that would not otherwise be accessible.
At Atypic Labs, he designs interactive installations and experiential pathways for fields as varied as events, museums and augmented public spaces. During the pandemic, Atypic Labs created the Agora platform, which allows for thinking outside the box to create virtual and hybrid experiences that foster a sense of community and shared experience, at the heart of history.
Kofi Oduro (Illestpreacha)
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My artistic practice is an observation of the world around us, that I then put into artworks for others to relate to or disagree with. Through Videography, Poetry and Creative Coding, I try to highlight the realms of human performance and the human mind in different scenarios. These situations can be described as social, internal, or even biological, which we face in our everyday lives.
Mario Guzmán
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I am a mexican researcher, experimental writer and new media artist merging language with audiovisual phenomena, web development, electronic art, algorithmic literature, and robotics.
In my work, I explore the communication between human and non-human agents, robot-human interaction, and different methods to encode perception and narrative through technology.
I want to bring code, storytelling, and culture together. From my perspective, writing is a performative process that creates meaningful scenarios in which humans and machines participate together in the creation and negotiation of meaning as an interactive experience.
Santiago Tavera
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Santiago Tavera is a Colombian-Canadian artist based in Montréal. Tavera’s practice revolves around constructing immersive and interactive projects that expand the body through digital media, to evoke virtual simulations of migrant and queer narratives of dislocation. In Tavera’s work, mixed media compositions of videos, 3D graphic animations, text, sound and reflective surfaces create blurred experiences of physical and virtual spatial embodiments. Tavera’s projects have recently been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, and presented in Canada at Optica, MAI-Montréal, arts interculturels, Articule, SUR Gallery, TOPO, Montréal’s 3rd International Digital Art Biennial, Interaccess, Forest City Gallery, as well as Internationally at the International Art Fair of Bogota-ARTBO, the Images Festival of Manizales, the International Symposium on Electronic Art-ISEA (Colombia), La Galeria de Arte e Pesquisa–UFES (Brazil), Solange Guez + Arte Contemporaneo (Argentina), Laboratório de Arte Alameda (México), and Centro Cultural Rogelio Salmona (Colombia), Tavera holds a Master of Fine Arts in Intermedia from Concordia University, and a Bachelor of Arts with an Honor Specialization in Visual Arts and a Major in Psychology from Western University. Tavera is currently a visiting scholar at the Elastic Spaces Media lab at Concordia University.
Rolando Rodriguez
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He holds a doctorate in Art and Design, a master’s degree in Contemporary Art and a second one in Education. His work focuses on the exploration of three elements: image, text and sound. He has research and production projects that use analog and digital technologies as tools to explore expanded possibilities through text.
Ximena Atristain López
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Ximena Atristain López (1978) is an editor and translator who graduated from the College of English Literature at UNAM. Since 2014, she has been working as an editor at the Centro de Cultura Digital de Mexico, and is currently in charge of the editorial coordination of the Center’s editorial collections as well as Revista 404, an electronic publication dedicated to the dissemination of reflections on the uses of technology in various disciplines and fields of study as well as in daily life, and its social and ecological impacts. Since 2016, she is also the director of the book publishing house Lenguaraz.
Alexandra L Martin
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Alexandra L Martin (she/her) is a digital literary arts PhD and researcher living and working in the unceded territory of Tiohtià:ke. Since 2019, she has been working at the NT2 laboratory at the University of Quebec in Montreal, where she also collaborates as a curator, notably on the exhibition “S’éclipser | Phases of Resilience” (2020) for the HTMlles festival, as well as “Trans[creation]” (2021).
Her research revolves around the digital and organic networks of communities and the question of collective memory. In her curatorial and research activities, Alexandra uses an eco-critical approach, focusing on the experimental process of reading or consuming digital art and the transformative power of this process in physical and digital spaces.