Masayuki Iwase

Wolfgang Weileder

Sculpture, Installation, Photography, Film, Sound

Narjis Mirza

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

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

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

Jeneen Naji

digital culture, electronic literature, technosocial interactions, digital practice

Mahmoud Nuri

Farabi, Avicenna, Suhrawardi, Film Studies

Shahrooz Yousefian

Iranian Studies, Intercultural Theatre and Performances, Film Aesthetics, Iranian Drama, Ta’ziyeh & Islamic Philosophy, Contemporary Arts and Literature, Orientalism, Literary Criticism and Theory.

Jan Hendrickse

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

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

Moallem

Poetry, Gardening, Yoga, hiking, Dancing

Sheila Petty

Sub-Saharan, North African and Amazigh Screen Media

Niusha Hatefinia

film and media studies, film-philosophy, Iranian cinema

Invited Artists

Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad

Delinda Collier

African art, media studies, logocentrism,

Tarek El-Ariss

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

Paul Goodfellow

Systems Art, Systems Thinking, Ecology, The digital object

Juan Castrillón

Breath, listening, talismans, ethnographic artifacts, filmmaking, ney, ta'wil.

Bahar Akgün

Katya Nosyreva

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

Alize Zorlutuna

Somayeh Khakshoor

Steven Baris

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

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

Kalpana S

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

Robbie Schweiger

Gilles Aubry

Lynn Marie Kirby

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).

Sembatya

Performing Arts, Dance Teaching and Choreography, Ethnochoreology, Interculturalism, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Contemporary Dance and African traditional dances.

Radek Przedpełski

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

Millie Chen

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

Mriganka Madhukaillya

Media Philosophy, Cinema, Moving Image, Cybernetics, Forest

Siying Duan

New Media Arts, Chinese Aesthetics, Comparative Aesthetics

M Javad Khajavi

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

Jessika Kenney

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

Arash Akbari

Critical AI, Ishraqi Philosophy, Post-Digital Philosophy, Generative Art, Immersive Technologies, Interactive Art, Sound Art

Mehvish Rather

Documentary Filmmaking, Poetic Cinema, Magical Realism, Transcendental Realism, Folktales, Folk Culture, Editing, Embroidery, Puzzles, Sufism.

Nezih Erdoğan

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

Rafik Patel

Architecture, Spatial Design, Cultural Studies, Islamic Philosophy (Ibn al-'Arabī)

Matthew Sansom

sound, improvisation, sufism, soundscapes, creative process

Bettina Schülke

Art science textiles technology

Ali Taheri

Philosophy, Ishraq, Embodied HCI, Enactivism and embodied Cognition, Emerging Medium, XR, Cinema, Haptic Visuality, Video Games, Interactive Experiences

Maure Coise

poetry, music

Nina Czegledy

arts science technology

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

Mena El Shazly

time-based media, visual culture, digital navigation gestures, video art, embroidery, artist-run initiatives, poetry of wine, ancient Egypt, entropy, mythology.

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.

Andy Thomson

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

Ziggy Lever

Laura U. Marks

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

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

Junko Theresa Mikuriya

Photography, Neoplatonism, Theurgy, Surrealism, Mysticism, Light

Yvan Tina

Performance art, curation, technology, philosophy, postcolonial studies

Roger Malina

Waèl Allouche

Football or better known as Soccer