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Carlos Velandia (1996, Colombia) is a filmmaker with a background in film programming and New Media, whose work focuses on anti-hegemonic representation and expanded animation. His work with Angelica Testrepo has qualified for the 96th Academy Awards, BAFTA and Goya Awards and has won the Uppsala Award in Memory of Ingmar Bergman. Their films have premiered several times at the Annecy International Animation Festival.
Daniel Nuderscher (1982, Austria) works with many possibilities for artistic expression, such as photography, film, sculpting, light installations, text, pa- inting, visuals, and land art. He has presented his work in various exhibitions in Vienna, Lower Austria, Hanoi, and South Tyrol; the short film SKRFF has been shown in competition at festivals like Annecy, Animafest Zagreb and Ottawa, amongst others.
Georgia-Lucy Ingall (1987, Australia) is a multidisciplinary artist whose ou- tput is both personal and culturally critical. Her art re-uses and re-incorpora- tes, using existing materials and forms to engage with humour, communities, and the transformative potential of risk.
Marina Kožul (1978, Croatia/Yugoslavia) works for the 25 FPS Association for Audio-Visual Research, a non-profit organisation in Zagreb. At the 25 FPS Festival, she works as one of the programmers and producers. She has curated programmes for festivals and art cinemas and has promoted Croatian experimental film, video and animation at European and international film and media events. Since 2012, she has worked for the International Film Festival Rotterdam as a consultant for short films.
Mariya Nikiforova (1986, Russia/USSR) obtained her MA in cinema and AV art from the Sorbonne and is currently a PhD candidate at Paris 8 (Saint- Denis). She is the Film Collection and Documentation Centre Manager at Light Cone, a French distributor and archive of experimental cinema. She is a film curator, author of many papers and publications on film and a filmmaker. She is also a member of L’Abomniable, an art cooperative and film laboratory in Paris.
Soda Jerk is an Australian artist duo who make sample-based films with a rogue documentary impulse. They are fundamentally interested in the politics of images; how they circulate, whom they benefit and how they can be undone. Based in New York for over a decade, they have recently relocated to Europe.
Armand Lesecq (1994, France) is an interdisciplinary artist and music composer developing his practice in the fields of sound and visual art, art- science, experimental music and expanded cinema.
Ulrich Ziemons (1982, Germany) has been head of Forum Expanded since 2021 (until 2024, together with Ala Younis). Since 2006, he has worked for Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art in various capacities. Since 2012, he has been a member of the curatorial team of Forum Expanded. In addition to his work at the Arsenal, he has been a member of selection committees for short film programmes of various festivals.
Ivan Ramljak (1974, Croatia/Yugoslavia) is a filmmaker, film critic and independent curator. He founded the Human Rights Film Festival in Zagreb. He has curated the Short Tuesday film programme at the Tuškanac cinema in Zagreb and he has been the Artistic Director of the Tabor Film Festival. His films have been shown at more than 80 international festivals. He is a member of the International Film Festival Rotterdam selection committee for shorts and serves as a scout for films from former Yugoslav countries.
Sam Mountford (1992, Australia) is an artist-filmmaker living in Portugal. He completed his BFA at the School for Creative Arts and Media, University of Tasmania and is currently completing an MA with the Dutch Art Institute- Roaming Academy. Sam’s work has been exhibited and screened in festival programs and institutions such as Het Nieuwe Instituut, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Bienal Fotografia do Porto, ISFF Oberhausen etc.
Silvia Dal Dosso (Italy) is an artist, writer and 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 created and curated collective exhibitions and interactive installations, such as #MEMEPROPAGANDA and Meme Manifesto, and publications, such as The Detective Wall Guide. She writes about art and technology.
Joanna Bacas (1994, Greece) is a transdisciplinary artist based in Berlin. She holds a diploma in Fine Arts/Sculpture from Weissensee Academy of Art Berlin. Her practice spans ceramics, jewelry, poetry, and illustration. She has exhibited internationally, including at HGW STD, Milan Jewelry Week, Budapest Jewelry Week, and Schwules Museum Berlin, and recently contributed to a symposium at Die Angewandte on digital constructions of girlhood.
Socrates Stamatatos (1997, Greece) is an independent curator and transdisciplinary artist based in Athens. Their curatorial, artistic and theoretical pursuits engage deeply with the queer experience and the philosophy of caring. They have shown their work independently and in collaboration with a variety of art and cultural institutions, including Institute of Network Cultures, panke.gallery, HGW Std., Onassis ONX/AiR, die Angewandte, and State of Concept.
Tadej Droljc (1981, Slovenia/Yugoslavia) is an artist and creative coder who works at the intersection of sound, image and light. He completed his do- ctoral research at the Centre for New Music Research at the University of Huddersfield. He is recepient of several international awards. He has perfor- med and exhibited at festivals such as Ars Electronica, Mutek, Paris Biennale NEMO, L.E.V., Brighton Digital Festival, Semibreve, Sonica Glasgow, Lunchmeat, Node etc.
Neža Knez (1990, Slovenia/Yugoslavia) is an intermedia artist based in Ljubljana and Zagreb. Her work explores hybrid formats that combine discur- sive and poetic principles of artistic practice, which she sees as inseparable from everyday life. She is interested in the relations and diffractions that emerge in the structuring of forms, be they moving images, sound, language or mixed media installations.
Andrej Lupinc (1961, Slovenia/Yugoslavia) was a member of the Laibach group from 1980 to 1984. During this period, he created several independent video projects under the pseudonym Keller. Since 1983, he has been working as a cameraman and director of photography and has been a permanent collaborator in the ŠKUC-Forum video production. He also made some video/ films based on his rich experiences of travelling around the world, mainly accompanying theatre groups and television team.
Karpo Godina (1943, Macedonia/Yugoslavia) is an essential figure of Yugoslav cinema. He infused the radical “Black Wave” of the 1960s with an irrepressible expressive freedom squarely targeted against all forms of repression. For more than 30 years, the half-Slovenian, half-Macedonian filmmaker has been moving breathlessly between fiction and nonfiction in his avant-garde shorts of the 1960s and ’70s and his feature films of the 1980s and ’90s.
Sara Bezovšek (1993, Slovenia) is a visual artist working in the fields of internet art, experimental film and graphic design. Her artistic practice is characterized by a reappropriation of online and pop-cultural materials. Her narratives are both a critique and a celebration of the highly saturated online media landscapes we navigate daily. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions.
Lara Reichmann (1995, Slovenia) is an artist working in video and animation. Her work is often based on stories of forgotten, erased or indefinable places and characters that dwell on the peripheries of archived history. Her recent projects focus on digital interfaces, glitches and time lapses through which parallel virtual landscapes of satellite imagery are built. She has participated in several group and solo exhibitions and has curated several exhibitions
Anže Peršin is a film producer with many years of experience in film. He had worked on commercial film productions throughout Southern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and owned a commercial production company in Lisbon. Since 2015, he has been developing Stenar Projects, a production platform for the artists’ moving image, based in Portugal. He is a member of Associação de Produtores de Cinema e Audiovisual in Portugal and a 2019 Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee. He is the producer of Resonance Spiral.