Zeynep Abes: Zeynep is an artist, curator and educator from Istanbul, Turkey. She studied film and interactive media at Emerson College, later getting her start at LACMA’s Art+Tech lab creating AR installations. She then worked at the Sundance Film Festival's New Frontier Exhibitions and is a recent graduate of UCLA’s Design Media Arts MFA program. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Media Arts and Practice program at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. She primarily works with archived photography, video, photogrammetry and immersive media. Her subjects revolve around identity, history, and loss of memory. She is in pursuit of exploring the role artists play in preserving memories to navigate the struggle and alienation that arise from changing social environments and shifting identities.

Paul Brown is an artist and writer who has specialised in art, science & technology since the late 1960’s and in computational & generative art since the mid 1970’s. His early work included creating large-scale lighting works for musicians and performance groups (like Meredith Monk, Music Electronica Viva, Pink Floyd, etc…) and he has an international exhibition record dating to the late 1960’s that includes the creation of both permanent and temporary public artworks. He has participated in shows at major international venues like the TATE, Victoria & Albert and ICA in the UK; the Adelaide Festival; ARCO in Spain, the Substation in Singapore and the Venice Biennale. His work is represented in public, corporate and private collections in Australia, Asia, Europe, Russia and the USA. In 2023 he was awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art. In 1984 he was the founding head of the United Kingdom's National Centre for Computer Aided Art and Design where he founded on of the UK’s first Masters programmes in Media Arts. In 1994 he returned to Australia after a two-year appointment as Professor of Art and Technology at Mississippi State University to head Griffith University’s Multimedia Unit. In 1996 he was the founding Adjunct Professor of Communication Design at Queensland University of Technology. From 1992 to 1999 he edited fineArt forum, one of the Internet's longest established art 'zines and from 1997 to 1999 he was Chair of the Management Board of the Australian Network for Art Technology - ANAT. In 2005 he was elected Chair of the Computer Arts Society (CAS – a BCS SG) and served in this position again from 2008 to 2010.

Juergen Hagler is an academic researcher and curator at the interface of animation, game, and media art. Currently, he is a Professor of Computer Animation and Media Studies and the head of studies of the bachelor’s and master’s programme Digital Arts at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg Campus. Since 2014 he is the co-head of the research group Playful Interactive Environments with a focus on the investigation of new and natural forms of interaction and the use of playful mechanisms to encourage specific behavioral patterns. He has been involved in the activities of Ars Electronica since 1997 in a series of different functions. Since 2017 he is the director of the Ars Electronica Animation Festival and initiator and organizer of the Expanded Animation Symposium. In 2023, he founded ANIMA PLUS, a Linz-based organization with the aim of supporting animation art and culture in Upper Austria and beyond.

Chih-Yung CHIU is now a full professor at National Tsing University Taiwan. He serves as the associate dean in Col-lege of Arts, the director for Graduate institute of Art and Technology, and the director for Interdisciplinary Program of Technology and Art in College of Arts, as well as a curator, art critic, and photographer. Prof. Chiu is also a board member of Trustee of Digital Art Foundation Taipei, and the council member of Cultural Studies Association Taiwan. He received his PhD from School of Interdiscipli-nary Arts at Ohio University in USA, with double major in visual arts and film studies, as well as a minor in aes-thetics. His specialties are in digital aesthetics, techno-culture studies, art criticism and curation

Zheng (Moham) Wang (mohamstudio.com) is currently a second-year Ph.D. candidate in Art, Design, and Media, specializing in contemporary Asian art history and theory, at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also an internationally published author, art critic, and artist of Iu-Mien ethnicity.

John Chow Ho Fung currently serves as the project coordinator at the M+ museum in Hong Kong. He plays a pivotal role in the inaugural Asian Avant-Garde Film Circulation Library, an initiative focused on establishing the first-ever circulation platform for pioneering moving image works from the Asia-Pacific region in the 1960s-90s; He also actively involved in the M+ Restoration project for Hong Kong's feature-length classics. With the background as senior archive coordinator at Videotage, John has shared his extensive experience in preservation and conservation practices for time-based media artwork in various platforms including ISEA, Art Basel HK, Photofair Shanghai, and ART Taipei.

Sam Chan Hin Chung studied Creative Media (New Media) at the City University of Hong Kong where he obtained his bachelor degree in 2016. This was followed by five years of research under the guidance of Hector Rodriguez and Prof Maurice Benayoun at the Center of Applied Computing and Interactive Media (ACIM) of City University of Hong Kong. He co-founds the professional restoration company Restituo and continues to lead the research. His major research interests include image/video processing and restoration utilizing spatio-temporal deep learning algorithms and attention-based transformers.