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  Marie Sophie Beckmann is a PhD candidate in the Graduiertenkolleg
‘Configurations of Film’ at the Goethe University, Frankfurt. She received her
B.A. in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Düsseldorf and completed
the M.A. program Curatorial Studies – Theory – History – Criticism at the
Goethe University and the Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende
Künste, Frankfurt (Academy of Fine Arts). As a writer and independent curator,
she focuses on contemporary film, video art and feminist art practices.

   Simone Dotto is a post-doctoral fellow and a lecturer in History and Techniques
of Television and New Media at the University of Udine. His research deals with
sound studies, media history and archaeology, sponsored and non-theatrical
cinema. He is a member of the Cinema&Cie editorial boards and one of the
scientific coordinators of the FilmForum International Film and Media Studies
conference. His essays has been published on several national and international
journals and collections, and he recently authored his first monography “Voci
d’Archivio” on the history and theory of phonography as an archival medium in
interwar Italy (Meltemi, Milan 2019).

   Donal Fullam is a PhD researcher in University College Dublin analyzing
algorithmic composition and the rationalization of music within algorithmic
culture. He is primarily concerned with video game music as it is procedurally
constructed, but also with the material and historical conditions in which this
musical approach has developed. As an aspect of contemporary algorithmic
culture, video game music can be understood in terms of a historical impulse
towards the transformation of human expression into the logic of data and
computation. Donal makes games in UE4, plays with the National Concert Hall
Gamelan Orchestra, and various underground punk bands..

   Matias Guerra (Santiago - Chile 1973) is a painter, multimedia artist and
musician focusing mainly on video and sound experimentation, his work
often reflects this diverse expertise highlighting the relationship between man,
machine and chance. He collaborates with artists, musicians and composers and

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with associations as an organizer or cultural promoter, prioritizing collective and
self-sustained projects. Has held workshops and lectures at IED and Standards,
in Milan, at University of Pisa, at Venice Biennale. His work has been shown in
galleries and contemporary art museums (most recently at MACRO in Rome).
Since 2008 he collaborates with La Camera Verde in Rome.

   Sandra Lischi is full professor in “Cinema, Photography and Television”,
University of Pisa. Her research focuses on the language and aesthetics of video-
art, experimental and independent cinema, innovative television, the relationship
between cinema, video and the arts in media history, themes which she has dealt
with in monographs, essays in volumes, contributions in journals, articles, books
and catalogues. She has taught and held lectures in universities, cultural centers
and museums in several european and non-european countries. She is co-curator
of the “Invideo Festival” in Milano and curator of the “Ondavideo” activities
and screenings in Pisa.

   Runchao Liu is a Ph.D. candidate and graduate instructor in the department
of Communication Studies at University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Her research
intersects with critical media studies, cultural studies, feminist and queer theory,
and sound studies. She is currently working on her dissertation project examining
the musical perspective of Asian American diasporas and the postcolonial
politics of experimental popular music. She also writes about rock music politics,
performative feminist activism, transnational musical communication, women in
music, and youth culture and identity.

  François Mouillot holds a joint Research Assistant Professor position in
the Department of Music and in the Department of Humanities and Creative
Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research is at the intersection of
Music and Cultural/Media Studies and focuses on the mediation of popular and
experimental music practices through their infrastructural and technological
dimensions, and on contemporary identity politics in relations to these practices
and other forms of popular culture. He has particular interest in music scenes
of various industrialized minority cultures. His work analyses historic and
current developments in the recording and live music industries, digitization,
the evolution of contemporary urban cultures, the construction of contemporary
minority identities, as well as improvisation and Do-It-Yourself practices in music.

   Gauri Nori is a PhD researcher at the English and Foreign Languages
University, Hyderabadand has a Masters in Film and Literature from The
University of York,U.K. Her research explores spaces for radical and alternative
thought and seeks to delineate experimental film practices in India. She has
taught various Liberal Arts courses with an emphasis on Film and Gender
Studies at the graduate and undergraduate level.


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   Ana Ramos holds a Ph.D. from the department of communication, University
of Montreal. Her current postdoctoral research at the SenseLab, Concordia
University, is devoted to process philosophy inquiry in the field of aesthetics
and affect theory as related to art experience and techniques of the body. Her
research work spans questions concerning technology, perception, and collective
subjectivity applied to media studies. In her publication “On Consciousness-
with and Virtual Lines of Affection” (Evental Eesthetics) she acknowledges an
affective dimension of the body.

   Francesco Spampinato is a contemporary art and visual culture historian and
writer and senior assistant professor at the University of Bologna. He holds two
degrees from the University of Bologna, in Preservation (2003) and Art History
(2004), an MA in Modern Art (2006) from Columbia University, New York, and
a Ph.D. in Arts et Média: Études Cinematographiques et Audiovisuelles from
Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. From 2011 to 2015 he was Adjunct Professor at Rhode
Island School of Design, Providence, US, teaching courses on contemporary
art history, and performance art’s relations to media. His articles have been
published on academic journals such as NECSUS, PAJ, Senses of Cinema, and
Stedelijk Studies, as well as magazines such as Abitare, Blueprint, DIS, Flash Art,
Kaleidoscope and Mousse. In 2015 he authored the books Come Together: The
Rise of Cooperative Art and Design, Princeton Architectural Press, New York,
and Can You Hear Me? Music Labels by Visual Artists, Onomatopee, Eindhoven,
and in 2017 Art Record Covers, TASCHEN, Cologne.

   Maria Teresa Soldani holds a Ph.D. in History of Art and Performing Arts
(Pegaso Program – Universities of Florence, Pisa and Siena, Italy). She is webTV
author/editor and video archivist at the “Luigi Pecci” Center for Contemporary
Art in Prato. Her research focuses on American independent cinema, film music,
underground cultures, experimental cinema, and video art. She published the
monograph Naked City. Features of Identity, Independence, and Research in the
Filmography on New York City (Quaderni di CinemaSud, 2013), essays and
video-essays in books and journals, such as Imaginations, Cinéma&Cie, Cinergie,
L’Avventura, SegnoCinema, and Duellanti. She is also composer and musician, in
particular for many film scores of Daniele Segre’s documentary films.




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