Mladen Alexiev constructs fictional stories and narrative interventions in an approach that he calls ‘a mockumentary theatre’. He is interested in investigating, documenting and staging of the biographies of people that have never existed and events that have never happened. He is trained in theatre directing and fascinated by the way our lives are shaped and driven by beliefs and ideologies. In order to capture and insert his fictions into different environments he is working with various media such as text, audio and video, live action, photos and objects. Lately he has been producing his work via the production body of Silent space.

Mariam Morshed Bergloff examines the musical and philosophical approaches to the sustained note, the drone. Investigating established tuning systems, ontologies of listening, and theoretical understandings of the 'inaudible', she aims to unravel the mysticisms of sonic resonances in relation to the musical drone. She is a classical pianist exploring the boundaries of electroacoustic music composition and new musical instruments. Working with sound and mixed media, her installations and multichannel compositions seek to immerse the public into a state of active listening. This use of interactive and spatialized processes invite listeners to shift their understanding of noise, silence and stillness. www.soundcloud.com/mby31

Flavia Bertorello (b.1980 in Cordoba, Argentina) is a process artist and architect investigating the relationship between form and matter through a practice that includes: writing, drawing and experimenting with materials in various formats, scales & spatial contexts. Bertorello’s practice construes her experience. She is interested in the exchange that takes place between her body and the materials she chooses to interact with. She regards the process of my work as a total body experience, meandering intuitively about art forms, natural phenomena and material qualities. The bodies she creates are the remnants of the dialogue that take place between her body and the materials during the process of making: She establishes relationships with them and embrace their qualities while breathing new life into them.
www.fbartlab.com

Liliana Carvalho is a Portuguese architect and a sound artist. A Diploma in Architecture got her to work and study in Poland, Portugal, UK and Germany. Whilst studying she worked as radio technician and broadcaster at RU(, progressing for 8 years and engaging with different electronic music radio-shows. Invited to DJ at events in Portugal and to be part of the production team at Forte Festival2014 as co-producer. The co-founding and project managing of SonicLab’s early stages was the inevitable milestone for forthcoming projects, such as premiering a sound art installation at Semibreve Festival2014 in collaboration with musician XNX. Whilst working as an architect she studied Sound Art in London also presenting few installations. Her projects intertwine theory, research and practice on both fields resulting in an exegesis with an aural and phenomenological approach shaped in sound compositions, installations, performance or research – a continuous expression of the reciprocity narrative of Sound and Space.
www.the-dots.com/users/liliana-carvalho-588674

Rudi Cossovich

Rodolfo Cossovich is a Clinical Instructor of Arts at NYU Shanghai. He is also the director of his own organization, Koding Kreators. He holds a degree in Engineering with a specialization in Telecommunications from Escuela Superior Técnica del Ejército in Argentina. Cossovich has co-founded several projects with a focus on Open Source Hardware for robotics, education and electrical vehicles. He has successfully crowdfunded some of these projects and his work has been covered by major press outlets such as Popular Mechanics, CNN and CCTV. He is also an active member of the maker and entrepreneur community in Shanghai. www.todocono.github.io

Sarah Jane Eaton is a Salt Lake City based artist who makes sense of her world and her thoughts through visual art. She works mainly with portraiture and abstract art but is endlessly curious about all forms of creating. She makes giant messes in her studio that feeds in to her final images. She also works with lumen photography, printmaking, and collages.

Francesco Fonassi is an italian artist, sonic researcher and musician operating in the field of live media, contemporary art, transmission art and experimental music since 2006.His work, developed through actions, recordings, environmental configurations, radio transmissions, listening sessions, sculptural prototypes, experimental music and the creation of audiovisuals and sensory spaces, has been featured in institutions, museums, festivals and independent spaces in Europe, Asia and United States. He’s half of the experimental music duo Interlingua and part/founder of VILL∆ and Spettro, independent venues/collectives based in Brescia since 2013. www.francescofonassi.eu

Sam Friedland is a performer and composer of experimental, improvised music. Currently living in Austin, Texas, Sam’s research interests include speculative sound, psycholinguistics, and media theory. Sam’s work situates sound art and web art, within the context of absurdity and humor. They value the fragility of performance as a means of engaging disparate audiences with disparate materials, especially through solo performance. Friedland uses acoustic and digital instruments (both prefabricated and homemade), analog electronics, and video to create recordings, intermedia installations, and site-specific performances. They also play drum set in various improvising groups, as well as in solo settings, making dynamic use of the explicit and implicit possibilities of percussion instruments. Sam likes to play the drums very quietly. Sam likes to imagine playing the drums. Sam likes to wear drums as clothing, use drums as furniture, and make drums into outstruments. Sam holds a BA in music from the University of North Texas, and an MFA in Experimental Sound Practices & integrated media from CalArts. www.samfriedland.com

Rene Meyer-Grimberg has curated ways to invite “audiences” to be part of performance pieces. PIP (participatory immersive/interactive performance) has clear parameters to create experiences in unusual spaces where the visitor can choose to watch, participate, or facilitate. Her pieces have gone from interactive installations - HEIMAT in 2008 to exhibition enhancements in 2015 to PIP starting in early 2016 to storefront transformations in 2017. In the spring of 2017 she produced LIVING ROOM in a storefront in Minneapolis. In the summer of 2017 she performed in two dance pieces at the Walker Art Center – Merce Cunningham‘s Field Dances and Bouchra Ouizguen’s Corbeaux. She also writes about film and performance for the Berlin Film Journal and the Walker Art Center.

Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu is a cello player and composer, based in Istanbul. As a composer and performer, she is interested in collaborating with musicians and artists from other disciplines, mostly involving in improvisation practices. Throughout Turkey and abroad, her compositions had been performed in various concerts and festivals. Her classical and Turkish Music background comes from the State Conservatory for Turkish Music in Istanbul Technical University (ITU TMDK) cello performance and composition departments, where she did her bachelor's and master's degrees. Ayşe is actively playing with Savt, Klank.ist, and Hoca Nasreddin ensembles. Currently, she is continuing her Ph.D. studies at the cello performance department at ITU Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) focused on musical time perception.
www.zeynepaysehatipoglu.com

Sandra Kazlauskaite (b. 1987, Lithuania) is an artist and researcher working across the disciplines of sound performance, sound and video installation, and theory-led projects in auditory culture. She has produced works that question the political histories of the post-soviet bloc. Also interested in the concepts of gendered soundscapes, silencing and spatial embodiment, her practice is embedded in feminist writing and practice, specifically the works of Pauline Oliveros, Ursula Le Guin and Sara Ahmed. Her works have been exhibited and performed in the UK, Iceland, Lithuania, Norway, Germany and the United States. In 2019, she was awarded a PhD (funded by AHRC) at Goldsmiths, University of London for her doctoral thesis ‘Expanded Aurality: Doing Sonic Feminism in the White Cube.’ Her research has been published by Leonardo Music Journal. Sandra is a Lecturer in Sound Theory at University of Lincoln, where she has been teaching practices of listening and courses on auditory cultures. She is a founder of an interdisciplinary practice-led research group ‘Space, Place and Time’ and a member of Extra Sonic Practice (Uni. of Lincoln) as well as Screen and Audiovisual Research (Goldsmiths College). www.sandra.unmute.co.uk

Syowia Kyambi is a mixed media artist, who enacts characters within her performance installations to tell stories, which are alternative layered narratives that disrupt the mono-cultural violence of colonial histories and their shaping of our societies. Her works include a permanent commission ‘Infinity: Flashes of the Past’ for the Nairobi National Museum (2007), and an ephemeral performance installation ‘What’s Wrong Dear Jane’ for the Kenyan Art Fair (2014). She is the recipient of the CAD+SR research fellowship (2018-2020 cycle), the UniArts Helsinki fellowship (2018), the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2017) and the Art in Global Health grant from the Wellcome Trust Fund in the United Kingdom (2013). She has been made a senior fellow with Centre for Arts, Design and Social Research. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Senegal, Belgium, Finland, Kenya, Mali, Sweden, Germany, Zimbabwe, France, United Kingdom, Mexico, South Africa, North America and Ireland.  www.syowiakyambi.com

Peter Erik Lopez’s project of collected portraits is a collective of representation that he hopes that speaks more about people, about the people presented, than it does about him as an artist. He imagines the gallery walls would be a space for each subject to have their requisite level of representational space but also, seen together, would become a space to imagine something greater. Something we may have forgotten. Like much of the world today, representation has become a predominant concern in America; The Black community has sought representation since the country's inception, transgendered and gay people seek the same, women are calling for a new level of representation, and the white middle and lower classes have elected an unfit president in their desperation for it; the attention economy that engines social media is the every-man, woman, and child screaming for it. www.petereriklopez.com

Winston Lee Mascarenhas, born of Brazilian immigrants to the US, has studied piano performance, been a specialist medical doctor for 32 years, and pursued a visual art journey for over 26 years.  A Masters graduate in Fine Art Practice from the Glasgow School of art 2017,  Mascarenhas , through the use of painting, mixed media, sculpture, and installation is interested in the lyrical power and rhythm of the human spirit, life forces, the commonality within our diversities, and the healing that is often required. www.wlmascarenhas.com

Timo Nasseri, born 1972 in Berlin, is a German-Iranian artist working with drawings, sculptures, installations and painting. His work has been exhibited in Middle East and extensively throughout Europe. In his art, Nasseri blends two formative influences — Islamic traditions and Western culture. www.timonasseri.com

Brad Nath is working to expand upon the temporal vocabulary of architecture in an effort to develop new forms of empathy between humans and their environments. Rather than understanding the built environment as a silent backdrop for life, his work positions the building as an ontological sound structure that comes into being through composed vibrations. Through his material research, live performance, music composition, and sonically-sensitive built environments, Brad seeks to amplify the collaborative performances that occur between buildings and their inhabitants. Driven by the belief that humans need to become better at listening—to themselves, to other humans, to other species, to “inanimate” objects, and even to listening itself—his work attempts to broaden our capacity to listen carefully, to design sensitively, to construct empathetically, and to inhabit performatively, because not only do we build this world, but this world also builds us. Brad studied architecture and music at Cornell University in New York and has been based in Berlin since 2018. www.bradnath.com

Ines Marita Schärer (b.1987 in Chur (CH), lives and works in Brussels and Bern) works as an artist across disciplines in the fields of performance, installation and sound art. Her projects often arise in exchange or collaboration with other artists from different disciplines. She holds a Master in Art Practice from DAI, Dutch Art Institute in Holland (2019) and a Bachelor in Fine Arts from HKB, Bern (2012). She spent residencies in Paris (visarte Graubünden, 2013) and Vienna (Kanton Graubünden, 2014). She has participated in group exhibitions at the STADTGALERIE BERN or KUNSTHAUS LANGENTHAL, among others, and has participated in various projects in public space, such as ORTUNG in Chur, KUNSTWEGE in Pontresina, or KUNSTPLÄTZE in Bern (research competition for art in public space). www.inesmarita.ch

Jilliene Sellner is a Canadian sound artist and PhD researcher (Goldsmiths) currently based in the UK. She has been field recording and playing with sound since she was a child and podcasting for over a decade. She has an undergraduate degree from Simon Fraser University in Canada and an MFA from UCA in the UK. She has contributed to Tse Tse Fly Middle East and regularly produces episodes for Framework Radio which explore decolonialism and gender in field recording. She has composed sound for several international artists’ video work and provides training for non-profit organisations and activists in podcasting. Her practice concentrates on collaboration, phonography, composing for installation, 'radio' and video and curating/producing live networked performances. www.jillienesellner.com