Bahar Akgün

Navid Navab

temporality, ontogensis and formation or life from none-life transmutations, life-preserving transformations, perception, complexity, movement, media, embodiment, alchemy, ethico-aesthetics and play

Gilles Aubry

Gareth Davies

Bergson, Deleuze, Sadra, Wittgenstein. The moving image.

Sheila Petty

Sub-Saharan, North African and Amazigh Screen Media

Matthew Sansom

sound, improvisation, sufism, soundscapes, creative process

Jan Hendrickse

sound, music, experimental composition, improvisation, sufism, atmospheres, respiratory aesthetics, Ottoman music, ney flute.

Tarek El-Ariss

monster, magic, myth, portal, fantasy, fiction, digital, hacking, leaks,

Gustavo Furtado

media, space and territoriality; film and media theory; questions of modernity and modernism in the Global South; Latin American literature and cinema; travel writing; documentary film studies; indigeneity and indigenous film and video

Paul Goodfellow

Systems Art, Systems Thinking, Ecology, The digital object

Delinda Collier

African art, media studies, logocentrism,

Katya Nosyreva

Geometry, proportion, sufism, perception, imagination, porcelain clay

Moallem

Poetry, Gardening, Yoga, hiking, Dancing

Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad

Juan Castrillón

Breath, listening, talismans, ethnographic artifacts, filmmaking and museum exhibits.

Millie Chen

multimedia installation, audio, video, intervention, performativity, dialogical and relational aesthetics, land vs landscape

Mahmoud Nuri

Farabi, Avicenna, Suhrawardi, Film Studies

Wolfgang Weileder

Sculpture, Installation, Photography, Film, Sound

Bettina Schülke

Art science textiles technology

Radek Przedpełski

geo-media, media archaeology, contemporary art, steppe art, Tatar art, Eurasian and Eastern European Art, art philosophy, Deleuze/Guattari/Simondon

Cigdem Borucu

Electro-Acoustic Music, Classical Music, Classical Piano, Soundscape Compositions, Sound and Music for Film, Music for Theater, Chamber Music, Contemporary Music, Sound Installation

Andy Thomson

Moving image, Visual Arts, Perception, Eastern arts and world views

Somayeh Khakshoor

J.R. Osborn

Media, Script, Type, Diagrams, Museums, Reflexivity, Islamic Art, African Art, Graphic Design, Semiotics, Retrofuturology, History of Technology, Comparative Media, Aesthetics, Comic Books

Hicham Khalidi

Nezih Erdoğan

early cinema, Turkish popular cinema, film theory, storytelling, Japanese calligraphy (shodo), Islamic calligraphy

Nina Czegledy

arts science technology

Mansoor Behnam

Media Arts, Experimental Film and Video, Film Studies, Iranian Cinema, Comparative Literature, Performance, Cultural Studies, Research-based creative work, Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy, Islamic Mysticism/Philosophy

Lynn Marie Kirby

M Javad Khajavi

Immersive Media, Virtual Reality, Animation-based media, Animated Arts, Islamic Aesthetics, Game Design

Yvan Tina

Performance art, curation, technology, philosophy, postcolonial studies

Waèl Allouche

Football or better known as Soccer

Jessika Kenney

Voices, Selflessness, Cultural Somatics, Micro-philology, Friendship, Enfleshment, Untranslatability, Geomusicalities, Haptic Aurality

Alize Zorlutuna

Jeneen Naji

digital culture, electronic literature, technosocial interactions, digital practice

Ayhan Aytes

Farshid Kazemi

Film Theory, Film and Media Studies, Global Cinema, Iranian Cinema, Psychoanalytic Theory, Literary Theory, Iranian Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Islamicate Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Islam

Invited Artists

Ziggy Lever

Navine G. Dossos

Narjis Mirza

light, projection mapping, installation art, geometry, calligraphy, Islamic aesthetics, Mulla Sadra,

Tarek Elhaik

Dialogues between Anthropology, Art History, and Philosophy, Images, Curation, Geo-Philosophy, the rapport between finitude and the infinite, Cogitation, Gilles Deleuze, Gregory Bateson, Ibn Rushd (Averroes).

Steven Baris

Contemporary art, painting, video, design, Buddhism, Post Industrial Landscapes, Diagrams, Diagrams & Art

Carol Bier

algorithmic aesthetics, Islamic art, Islamic architecture, Islamic ornament, Islamic geometric patterns, symmetry, symmetry-breaking, quasiperiodic patterns, Oriental carpets, textile technologies, history of textiles, crafts and technology

Roger Malina

Robbie Schweiger

Kalpana Subramanian

experimental film and media, practice-based research, film phenomenology, transcultural aesthetics, Yoga philosophy, Breath studies, Deleuze, comparative philosophy

Siying Duan

New Media Arts, Chinese Aesthetics, Comparative Aesthetics

Azadeh Emadi

Film, New Media artts, intercultural study, Persian Islamic aesthetic and philosophy, Sadrian philosophy, digital technology, practice based research methods, pixels and other minimal parts.

Laura U. Marks

media art, media archaeology, intellectual genealogies, intercultural, algorithmic media, Islamic aesthetics, Deleuzian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, process philosophy, Hermetic tradition, taqiyya