Bilyana Palankasova is a curatorial researcher, currently a PhD candidate in Information Studies at the University of Glasgow with co-supervision at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Her doctoral work is concerned with the relationship between computational and technocritical arts, curatorial methods, and institutional conditions with a focus on festivals; the research draws on curatorial practice, history of art, organisational studies and science and technology studies. Bilyana holds MA History of Art and Digital Media from the University of Glasgow, MSc Modern and Contemporary Art from The University of Edinburgh and graduated with Distinction from the MLitt Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) programme at The Glasgow School of Art. She’s worked with organisations such as FutureEverything, NEoN Digital Arts, Jupiter Artland, GSA Exhibitions, CCA Derry~Londonderry and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.

Julie Marsh is an artist and researcher at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster. Julie is a specialist in collaborative and knowledge-led approaches to field research. In 2017, she coined the term ‘site-integrity’ as part of her practice-based PhD at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the intersections between film, installation, performance and site-specificity. Through the exploration of real and representational space, she investigates how technical machines can perform site, creating critical experiences for audiences that open debate and question social spaces. She has exhibited most recently as part of the ‘Three British Mosques’ at Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, LOOP Moving Image Festival, Barcelona (2019), The Biennial for Emerging Arts, Romania (2018) The Starmach Gallery, Krakow (2018), Sputnik-Kino, Berlin Short Film Festival (2018), Meetfactory, International Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague (2018).

Gillian Rhodes is an American performer and storyteller by profession. They are the Content and Research Lead for Lahore Digital Arts Festival and currently the Global Outreach Coordinator at the School of Creative Arts for the University of Lahore. They graduated from Columbia University in 2012 and have lived and worked globally since, in Cambodia, South Korea, and Pakistan.

Najam Ul-Assar is a creative entrepreneur with more than 10 years of experience in managing cultural businesses and has managed more than 25 large-scale festivals across South Asia. He is the co-founder of rearts, Pakistan’s most prominent record label, and did his Master’s in Media Arts Cultures from the Erasmus Mundus Joint Degree. He founded LDF in 2019, also consults the United Nations in Copenhagen, and has just begun his PhD in Digital Humanities in British Columbia, having his life between Canada, Denmark and Pakistan.

Vanina Hofman is a Lecturer at the History and Art History Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Catalonia) where she is also Director of the Unit Aula de Cine. She develops her work in a hybrid territory between academic research and cultural production. Her field of interest lies in the intersections among Art, Science, Technology & Society. She is particularly interested in the processes involved in the construction of memory in digital culture, the archiving of media arts, the unconventional arts histories and the digital materialities. She has recently published the book “Divergent Practices of Media Arts Preservation. Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Culture” (Prometeo Libros, 2019) based on previous fieldwork conducted in Argentina. https://www.vaninahofman.com/ Ignacio Fiz, PhD. is a Serra Hunter Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) since 2014, and Research Fellow (R4) at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) since 2008. With a degree in computer science and a PhD in Archaeology, he is an expert in information technologies applied to the humanities. He currently teaches on the Master's Degree in Classical Archaeology, the Bachelor's Degrees in History, Archaeology and Art History and the Master's Degree in Advanced Research in Humanistic Studies, teaching subjects related to the Digital Humanities. https://www.historia.urv.cat/en/faculty/arqueologia/fiz/ Both work together in the Digital Humanities Lab at URV and teach courses related to these subjects at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. https://www.instagram.com/humanitatsdigitals/

Elena Giulia Abbiatici is an art historian, researcher and curator of the contemporary art. She has exhibited and developed projects at numerous contemporary art events, including: I and II edition Something Else - Off Biennale Cairo (2015, 2018, 2023), 56th and 57th Venice Art Biennale (2015, 2017), 15th Venice International Architecture Biennale (2016), Media Art Festival Maxxi Prize (2016), 15th Istanbul Biennale (2017), Berlin Art Week (2017), Manifesta 12 Collateral Events Palermo (2018). Her latest project 'THE ETERNAL BODY. The human senses as a laboratory of power, between climate crisis and transhumanism', has been initiated in the year 2021, thanks to the Italian Council award, an initiative of the DGCC of the Italian Ministry of Culture, in partnership with the University L'Orientale of Naples and Tecnoculture Research Unit (Naples); Tor Vergata University, Rome- Department of Humanities, Art and Philosophy. In she was invited by POLI.design (Milan) to teach within the Master's Degree Course in Olfactory Design.