Mélanie Courtinat (1993) is an award-winning artist and art director based in Paris.Considering video games as a major medium, she focuses on their extraordinary immersive properties and seeks to push their boundaries.Her work, crafted through the use of digital tools, encompasses CGI images and films, interactive experiences, as well as virtual and augmented reality projects.As an artist, her personal creations are consistently showcased worldwide in cultural institutions, galleries, and museums, from Tokyo to New York.As an art director, she collaborates on commissioned projects for clients in the luxury, fashion, culture, and music industries.Mélanie ...

Michael Connor is Executive Director of Rhizome, where he oversaw the Net Art Anthology initiative, an effort to retell the history of net art through 100 works, presented as an online exhibition, gallery exhibition, and book. He is also curatorial advisor for Kadist, a non-profit contemporary art organization, and ArtBlocks, an NFT platform. His first online curatorial project took place in 2003 at FACT, Liverpool, where he organized an edition of the traveling exhibition “Kingdom of Piracy” with Shu Lea Cheang, Yukiko Shikata, and Armin Medosch. Connor is currently editing a book by Gene Youngblood about the work of Kit ...

Misha Sra is the John and Eileen Gerngross Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she directs the Human-AI Integration Lab in the Computer Science department. Misha received her PhD from the MIT Media Lab in 2018, advised by Prof. Pattie Maes in the Fluid Interfaces Group. She has published at the most selective HCI, VR, and machine learning venues such as CHI, UIST, IEEE VR, CVPR, ECCV and EMNLP where she received four best paper awards and honorable mentions. MIT selected her as an EECS Rising Star in 2018. In 2023, she was awarded an NSF ...