Foteini Vergidou is a curator, researcher and project manager based in Athens. Her curatorial practice focuses mainly on digital culture, advanced models of communication theory, cyberpsychology, data justice, the ethics of artificial intelligence and the impact of new technologies on art and the experience of everyday life.​ She holds a BA in Communication and Mass Media from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and an MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice from Goldsmiths University in London. She is an editor at the online platform Ferocious Urbanites where she focuses on art and technology as it is approached by Greek artists, with a focus on promoting their work in the international community.

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!Mediengruppe Bitnik (read – the not mediengruppe bitnik) live and work in Berlin. They are contemporary artists who work on and with the Internet. Their practice expands from the digital to affect physical spaces, often intentionally employing loss of control to challenge established structures and mechanisms. The works of !Mediengruppe Bitnik formulate fundamental questions concerning contemporary issues. !Mediengruppe Bitnik are the artists Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo.

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browserbased group is a collaboration of artists who participate in and organize exhibitions on a project-by-project basis, while also maintaining numerous channels since 2013. In 2024, Alex Zakkas, Martino Morandi, and Zsolt Mesterhazy joined up to work together for the installation titled "Preference Management." In addition to creating various works, their activities include organizing online and offline biennales, meetings, artist talks, book launches, and screenings, in order to make logging in interesting. The group frequently collaborates with noemata, white page galleries, and the NFCW Project. Selected projects include the “Leap Second Festival” (2017, online), "Near Enough?" in Amsterdam (2018), "Wanna Try (Again)?" in Rio de Janeiro (2019), "The Burrow" for TheWrong (2020), "The Unmoving Show" for the Electronic Literature Organization (2023), and co-organizing the 3rd biennale.no in 2024.

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Yiannis Christidis is an assistant professor at the Department of Fine Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology, a documentary filmmaker and musician. His artistic work focuses on observing everyday life, combining image and sound to highlight social and cultural paradoxes. As a musician, he is the founder of the band "gav", which since 2014 has been creating pieces based on references from folk music. The band has released two albums, "Fola" and "A Christmas Demo(n)," which stand out for their humor and self-deprecating mood.

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Silvia Dal Dosso is a creative and film director and a researcher in digital technologies and web subcultures. In 2016 she co-founded Clusterduck, an art collective working in the fields of research, design and transmedia. With Clusterduck she co-created collective exhibitions and interactive installations such as #MEMEPROPAGANDA, Meme Manifesto, The Detective Wall, and publications such as “The Detective Wall Guide” (Aksioma, 2021). She regularly writes about art, technology and how to survive it, on Domus, Not, INC Longform, and others.

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Dr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a New York-based artist and biohacker whose biopolitical art critiques technology through projects like Stranger Visions, where she created DNA-based portrait sculptures from genetic material collected in public spaces. She has exhibited internationally, including at the World Economic Forum, Daejeon Biennale, Guangzhou Triennial, Transmediale, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and PS1 MoMA. Her works are in significant collections like the Centre Pompidou, Victoria & Albert Museum, and SFMoMA and have been widely discussed in the media, from the New York Times and the BBC to Art Forum and Wired. Heather holds a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is an Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium, and is an affiliate of Data & Society. She is a founding board member of Digital DNA, a European Research Council funded project investigating the changing relationships between digital technologies, DNA, and evidence.

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Konstantin Economou is a Greek-born Swedish academic and exhibition curator. He is associate professor at the division of Culture, society, form and media at Linköping University, Sweden. He holds a Ph.D in interdisciplinary Communication studies. His research interest has centred on people’s sociocultural and situated practices of cultural production. Αs a curator, he has co-founded The Museum of Forgetting (https://www.museetforglomska.se/), which has worked as a collaborative curatorial platform in Sweden, Greece, and internationally since 2006. He has produced a series of art and new media projects centred on language and communication, childhood and cultural transitions, and remembering.

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Yioula Hadjigeorgiou studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), earning a Master’s in Painting while also studying Printmaking, Stage Design, and Theatre at the National Theatre of Athens. She teaches as a Special Scientist at the Cyprus University of Technology’s Department of Fine Arts and co-founded M.A.M.A. Contemporary, a cultural organization in Paphos, Cyprus. Her work has been featured in prominent solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including the 53rd Venice Biennale, 25th São Paulo Art Biennial, 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, National Museum for Contemporary Art Athens, Bozar Expo Brussels, National Portrait Gallery Washington D.C., and Ocean Flower Island Museum, China.

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Hypercomf is a multidisciplinary speculative design identity whose practice explores the relationship between nature and culture, domestication, industry, and science, and fosters interdisciplinary collaborations and community engagement. Engaging with methods of production that often include a wide range of biodiverse participants, it is structured around creating dynamic narratives that feature both organic and inorganic protagonists. These processes are manifested as space activations, new feasts, multimedia artworks and sustainable design prototypes and objects. Hypercomf was originally founded in 2017 as a fictitious company profile by artists Paola Palavidi and Ioannis Koliopoulos, it is based on Tinos island, Greece. 

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Vicky Pericleous is a visual artist and assistant professor at Cyprus University of Technology’s Department of Fine Arts. She studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, Wimbledon School of Art, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Her work explores environments, gestures, and encounters, oscillating between familiarity and alienation, ruins and models, and post-colonial cultural imaginaries. She has exhibited internationally, including at Espace Commines, Paris, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, and the 3rd Athens Biennale. She co-initiated “Uncovered: Nicosia International Airport” and was a core member of the Noise of Coincidence Art Group. Her work has been published in notable art catalogues and academic publications.

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Sungsil Ryu is an artist interested in the Korean social phenomenon that arises when the indigenous trait of Korea collides with neoliberalism. Her work focuses on creating videos, installations, and performances that explore this theme through black comedy scenarios. She has exhibited her work in many museums and institutions internationally. Sungsil was selected as a resident artist for the 2024 DOOSAN International Residency at ISCP. Her work is currently part of the collections at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, and the Nam June Paik Art Center.

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Zoe Samourka is an architect and visual artist whose work explores abstract expression and structural purity. She participated in the 7th Venice Biennale of Architecture and received the Mies van der Rohe Award. Her architectural projects are celebrated for their simplicity, clarity, and unpretentious construction. Driven by a need to reflect on fundamental principles, she transitions into visual art through diverse materials like chipped walls, weaving, embroidery, threads, painting, cheap materials, metals, and magnets. Her practice reflects a deep connection to rhythm, architectural elements, and materiality.

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Andreas Savva (b. Kyrenia, Cyprus) explores social, political, and economic themes through large-scale installations. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1991-1996) and completed a postgraduate program in Digital Arts there (2002-2004). He has held over ten solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows across Europe, including So Close Yet So Far Away (Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Israel, 2017), Open 12 (Venice Lido, Italy, 2009), and BIACS 1 (Seville, Spain, 2004). His works are permanently displayed at The Fields Sculpture Park, OMI International Art Center, New York, and CONTEXTS International Festival, Poland.

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E Scourti is an artist and writer based in Athens and London. They have participated in international exhibitions, presenting artworks, artist talks, and performances, at prominent venues such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (solo exhibition, "Profiles of You", 2023), the High Line New York, the Wellcome Collection, the Hayward Gallery, the Munich Kunstverein, the ICA London and the Athens Biennale: ECLIPSE (2021). Their writings have been published in various works, including "On Care" (Ma Biblioteque, 2020), "Spells" (Ignota, 2018) and "Fiction as Method" (Sternberg, 2017). Their first poetry collection, "No to Self", was published by Veer2 in 2023, and their latest book, "As the non-world falls away", was published by TEXTZ in 2024.

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Nicos Synnos is an animation filmmaker and visual artist. His work deals with themes
of selfhood, individualism and authoritarian human behavior, combining experimental practices of spatiotemporal parameters in animation film production with drawing and other forms of animation. He is Associate Professor at the Department of Fine Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology and the founder and coordinator of the Lab for Animation Research (LAR).