Sarah Whatley is Professor and Director of the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University, UK. Her research interests extend to dance and disability, dance and new technologies, intangible cultural heritage, dance archives, and somatic dance practice and pedagogy; she has published widely on these themes. Whilst her expertise is primarily in dance, her…

Andrea Siniscalco is an assistant professor at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Department of Design. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2007 with a thesis on optimizing production processes for the lighting sector. Since 2003 he has researched and taught at the Laboratorio Luce of Politecnico di Milano. The research areas are the design of lighting…

Artem Smolin is Associate Professor at Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems. Director of the Center for Usability and Mixed Reality. Director of the Center for Design and Multimedia at the St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanica and Optics (ITMO). He is Head of the educational program of the Master’s Degree “Multimedia…

Donato Santeramo is Full Professor and Head of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON, Canada. He is cross-appointed to the Department of Drama and is associated with the Cultural Studies Graduate Program.  He teaches Semiotics, Mafia Culture, Dante, Pirandello’s Theatre, and Semiotics of the Arts at LLCU. He…

Rémi Ronfard is a research director at Inria. He has conducted research in a variety of domains, from geometric design to 3D animation and computer vision. This includes work on storyboarding and layout animation, action recognition and statistical analysis of image and film styles, directing virtual worlds. He has co-chaired international workshops on intelligent cinematography…

Riku Roihankorpi (FT, Docent), Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Drama Research in Tampere University and Associate Professor (Docent) in Theatre Studies in The University of Helsinki, has led numerous international arts and research projects on technological performance and virtually augmented live arts production and education (2009-) as well as The Centre for Practice asResearch in…

Alejandra Medellín de la Piedra holds a Master’s degree in Performing Arts from the University of British Columbia (Canada) and a Bachelor’s degree in Theater from the Escuela Nacional de Arte Teatral (Mexico). She began her career as a researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación Teatral “Rodolfo Usigli” of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas…

Mariel Marshall is a celebrated Canadian artist and technology entrepreneur, known for her work in immersive performance. She co-leads bluemouth inc., an interdisciplinary performance company based in Toronto and New York, and is the co-founder of Tandem Experiences, a social-tech company developing solutions to experience discovery. Her work centers on the integration of emerging technologies…

Melchor Gómez García is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Pedagogy, Autonomous University of Madrid, with more than 20 years of teaching and research experience. He received the degree in mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in educational sciences and philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid. He teaches at the Faculty of Educational…

Simone Garagnani is Associate Professor at the Department of Human Studies (DISTUM) at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering with an excellent evaluation. He is specialist in “Representation and Modeling, methodologies and technologies for the 3D representation and modeling of…