Paul Sermon is a Professor of Visual Communication at the University of Brighton, UK. He has worked for over thirty years as an active academic researcher and creative practitioner and has developed a series of celebrated interactive telematic art installations. Having worked under the visionary cybernetic artist Professor Roy Ascott as an undergraduate Fine Art student in the mid-1980s, Paul Sermon went on to establish himself as a leading pioneer of interactive media art, winning the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in Linz, Austria, in 1991. It was an accolade that then took Paul to Finland to develop one of the most ground breaking telepresent video installations of his career Telematic Dreaming in 1992.

Catty Dan Zhang is an associate professor of architecture, and the founder of Temporary Office– award-winning design practice exploring architecture and digital technology through the production of exhibitions, objects, drawings, animations, installations, and writings. Her work experiments with the multiplicity of techniques and mediums, translating ordinary objects into performative and synergistic systems to visualize and to modulate ephemeral forms. Her projects have received recognitions internationally in competitions and design awards and has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at ‘T’ Space, London Design Festival, Carnegie Museum of Arts, A+D Museum, Harvard GSD, among other institutions. Zhang was a finalist of the Harvard GSD’s Wheelwright Prize in 2018 and 2021. She was awarded the first prize in the Pamphlet Architecture 37 competition and is the author of the most recent volume in the Pamphlet Architecture series titled Active Atmospheres: On Instruments and Protocols for Medium Hybrids and Architectural Voids.

Harpreet is an Assistant Professor of Interaction and Media Design at Parsons School of Design. His research is situated at the intersection of Material Science, Biology, and Electronics, drawing on the complementary abilities of the biological and artificial worlds. He terms this as 'Convergent Design' and creates cutting-edge bionic materials and hybrid substrates that lend themselves to future ecological machinery, sensing systems, and interaction design. Harpreet earned a graduate degree in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab and has previously lived and worked in Austria, India, Japan, Paris, Singapore, and the USA. He is currently an Honorary Fellow at the Berggruen Institute (Los Angeles) and an INK Fellow (India), collaborating with intellectuals across cultural and political boundaries. Harpreet's experience spans corporate research wings, studios, museums, and academic centers. He has previously worked at Google Creative Lab, Microsoft Research, MIT Media Lab, Ars Electronica Museum, National University of Singapore, Keio University, Telecom Paris, The University of Tokyo, and more. He has previously been named an MIT Technology Review Under 35 Innovator and has received awards including CHI Golden Mouse, Edison Gold, SXSW Interactive Innovation, Fast Company World Changing Ideas, among other accolades. His academic work has been published in peer-reviewed conferences like CHI, DIS, TEI, IEEE VR, and other human-computer interaction venues. Harpreet's artwork has been showcased at Ars Electronica Festival, Somerset House, CID Grand Hornu, Garden Museum (Somerset, UK), Tower Hill Botanic Gardens, MIT Museum, among several other venues. He serves as an advisor to venture-backed start-ups developing technologies for plant science and has also been solicited for advice by government offices, including the Abu Dhabi Executive Office. He has been invited to TEDx venues, INK Talks, and regularly lectures internationally at universities and innovation centers.

YuFan Li is an interdisciplinary researcher with backgrounds in engineering, design, data and art. She is a PhD student of Computational Media Art, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Her current research interest lies in exploring color-related cross-modal phenomena with a focus on emotional mediation. Her research findings have been published in conferences and journals about AI art or data visualization, such as VISAP'23, VINCI'22; while her artworks have been presented in several exhibitions such as the Shanghai Biennale and Deviant Colors in Beijing.