Everardo is a Professeur des universités in the Digital Humanities Department at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. His research considers visual culture and representation, digital studies, interfaces and environments. He is the author of The Image-Interface (2017) and the editor of four edited collections in this area. Everardo’s creative work comprises information and cultural visualisation.

Bhautik sits at the intersection of art, science & engineering, and has worked with global tech and creative giants like Industrial Light & Magic, Flickr, Adobe, and most recently Canva. As an engineer he has leveraged his skills across broad and deep realtime data analysis at web-scale, stereoscopy tools for feature films, motion capture, virtual and augmented reality, previsualization for TV, game development, real-time computing, signal analysis, surgical simulation, and medical imaging. He also proudly advises RMIT University’s undergraduate Media program on future directions in media and technology.

Jessie boasts a strong technical background in creative technology and over a decade of industry experience across various domains; this is expertise she leverages to global effect as Senior Creative Technologist of Sydney-based tech start-up Leonardo.Ai. With over 15 million users spanning 189 countries, the platform has seen a staggering 6 million visual assets created daily, resulting in well over one billion unique assets completed to date.

Jon is Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, where he also founded and co-directs the SensiLab, a research collective exploring the creative applications and undiscovered opportunities of technology. Jon works at the nexus of art, technology and society. His experimental practice is driven by an enduring interest in computing and incorporates generative art, music and sound art, evolutionary systems, computer creativity, physical computing and artificial intelligence. Inspired by the complexity and wonder of the natural world, his work is concerned with electronic ‘after natures’: alternate forms of artificial life which, due to unfettered human progress and development, may one day replace a lost biological nature.

Daniel Binns is a tinkerer-theorist exploring creative technologies’ impact on storytelling and media cultures. A leading scholar on digital creativity and media practices, Daniel has published on Netflix documentary style, drones and game engines in filmmaking, and the evolution of media genres including the war film and superhero media; his two monographs to date are The Hollywood War Film (2017) and Material Media-Making in the Digital Age (2021). Daniel’s industry experience includes screenwriting, directing, and producing for Seven Network, TV2, Fox Sports and National Geographic, and his film and installation work has featured in over 20 international festivals and streaming platforms.