Captured! Zwischen Aufmerksamkeit und Überwachung

Andrés Belfanti lives and works in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. He is an artist, researcher, and teacher. His work revolves around technological anomalies. Through hacking and programming, he explores the hidden aspects of the machines and systems that surround us, seeking alternative ways to establish links between humans and machines.

He has attended clinics and workshops with various artists and curators, including Carlos Alonso, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Guto Nobrega, and Leo Nuñez, among others. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Argentina, Chile, and European countries. Highlights include: “Andreani Foundation Award 2025,” “Memories in Gestation” (Recoleta Cultural Center, 2024), and “Art and Technology Exhibition” (CCK, Buenos Aires, 2019).

In 2025, he received a grant to participate in the “Bodies, Machines, Public Space” residency at Centro Nave (Santiago, Chile). In 2024, he won the 3rd prize in the „You Will Reap Your Science“ competition and was awarded the „Constellations“ grant by Red Quincho. In 2023, he won the 1st prize in the „Support for Contemporary Art Production“ competition, awarded by CCEBA. That same year, he received a grant to participate in the „Present Continuous“ program, sponsored by the Williams Foundation. In 2019, he won the Creation Grant from the National Arts Fund.

He is the director of the bachelor’s degree in design and an adjunct professor in the University Technical Degree in Multimedia Creation at the Provincial University of Córdoba.

Daniela Brugger lives and works in Basel, where she moves between art, teaching, and organisational development. She has completed international studio residencies in Berlin, Johannesburg, New Delhi, Kinshasa and Rotterdam. She regularly exhibits her visual work and has initiated several collaborative projects, including a radio project with inmates, a performative band project involving two bands playing simultaneously, and a collaborative Wikipedia writing project. She is currently working on a publication reflecting on feminist practices within Wikipedia, while exploring the social and environmental dimensions of digital technology in her artistic practice. Her work is included in public collections such as HEK (House of Electronic Arts), Kunstkredit Basel, and Kunstraum Niederösterreich in Vienna.

Ludovica Galleani d’Agliano (she/her) is an interaction designer and researcher working across video installation, interactive digital performances, and participatory research-based practices. She graduated from the MA Interaction Design at the ZHDK in 2023, with the research @Syntia_CAM, re-imagining (online) sex work through digital storytelling, an ongoing research and community-based participatory project on sex work online. The project has been awarded the Förderpreis Design 2023, nominated for the Emerging Talent Pax art prize 2024, and has been exhibited in national and international festivals. In 2024, she was an artist in residence at the BODIES-MACHINES-PUBLIC residency at IAS and Kornhausforum, where she developed the performance Syntia_cam Live.

Mona Hedayati is an artist and scholar working across science and technology studies and artistic research. She studied digital media, social-political art and design, artistic research, and interdisciplinary humanities for her MFA, MRes, and dual PhDs, respectively. Bridging artistic production and scholarship, she has presented at over 40 conferences and venues and published extensively on both her practice and its theoretical and methodological foundations. She has presented her work at a diverse range of international venues, including Fylkingen New Music and Intermedia Center (SE), IMPAKT Center for Media Culture (NL), ISEA (FR and AU), Ars Electronica x3 (AT), NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival (USA), Kasko Center for Art and Performance and Mesh Festival (CH), Barents Spektakel (NO), and Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (DE), among many others.

Puneet Jain (IN/CH) is an artist-researcher working at the intersection of Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), eXtended Reality (XR), Critical Design, and Disability Studies. His practice emerged from a background in engineering and this trajectory shifted toward art and research-creation, using immersive technologies to critically interrogate dominant narratives of disability. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Switzerland. Her research is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), where he is a research associate on the project Probing XR Futures at the Immersive Arts Space, ZHdK.

Yesica Duarte (AR/AT) is an artist-researcher working across immersive technologies, experimental DIY body-based interfaces, and chatbots. As a Latin American woman, immigrant, and able-bodied researcher, designer, and artist, her experience of navigating an inaccessible world has shifted toward critical inquiry through her participation in an inter-abled collective. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Human–Computer Interaction at IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University in Austria and holds a master’s degree in technology and Aesthetics of Electronic Arts from UNTREF, Argentina.

Javier Munoz Bravo, a Chilean composer, creates instrumental and electronic music inspired by natural phenomena and temporal flexibility with AI. He trained at the University of Chile, HEAR Strasbourg, HEM Geneva and IRCAM Cursus in Paris. His music has been performed at Musica, ManiFeste, Printemps des Arts Monte-Carlo, Cervantino, Gaudeamus, Archipel and Radio France, and by ensembles such as Contrechamps, Vortex, 2e2m, Sillages and the Geneva Camerata with actress Isabelle Adjani. With Cie Glitch and Stefanie Inhelder, he created ThREE and held residencies in Paris, Bern, Lucerne and Zurich, receiving the ‘Ici et Ailleurs’ 2021 prize. He has been composer-in-residence at Immersive Arts Space ZHdK and Kornhausforum Bern. In 2022 he received the Pulsar Award for Best Chilean Composer.

Stefanie Inhelder studied physical theatre at Comart in Zurich and music/movement at the Hochschule der Künste Bern. She was artistic director of Théâtre Stradini and performed for Anna Heinimann, Karin Hermes, Louis Spagna, Patricia Mai and Philippe Boë. In 2020 she received a grant from the Canton of Bern for a residency in Paris and was awarded the 2‑12 programme of the Cité des Arts–Paris. As a performer, she dances in ANIMA by Alexander Schubert (IRCAM–Pompidou in Paris), and in Né entre corps by Aida Shirazi (IRCAM‑Cursus). In 2021 she received the “Ici & Ailleurs” prize, the film‑treatment competition of St. Gallen, and support from the Double‑Mentoring programme of Pourcent culturel Migros. ThREE, created with Javier Muñoz in 2023, received the SSA choreographic creation grant. In 2025 she worked on Glitch‑ing Bodies at the Immersive Arts Space Zurich.

Ravin Raori is an Indian Media Artist, Architect and Senior Lecturer at University of the Arts London. His practice integrates architecture, moving image, performance and emerging technologies to construct transformative spatial and narrative experiences. His research examines how technological systems mediate human experience, memory and collective futures – visually manifesting through immersive media, mixed-reality installations and films. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica, Tate Britain and Kornhausforum Bern.

Suvani Suri is a practitioner based in New Delhi, India. Her artistic and research inquiries plumb the gaps, cracks and leaks found within the technological processes of production, mediation and perception of sound. Actively engaged in thinking through the relational and speculative capacities of listening, voicing, aural/ oral histories, acoustic ecologies and archival time, her questions often take the form of curatorial propositions, assemblies, workshops, publications, auditory texts, objects, live and discursive interventions. She is interested in producing situations and scenes for associative practices that critically engage with mediatic and sonic sensoriums, uncanny flows and uncommon infrastructures.

Dr. Anna Jobin ist Assistenzprofessorin am interdisziplinären Institut HUMAN-IST der Unversität Fribourg. Sie erforscht die vielschichtigen Zusammenhänge zwischen Digitalisierung und Gesellschaft und analysiert mit ihrem Forschungsteam die komplexen Wechselwirkungen zwischen KI und sozialen Strukturen. Zudem koordiniert sie den neuen interdisziplinären Masterstudiengang „Digital Society“ und lehrt zur gesellschaftlichen und ethischen Perpektive auf KI, Social Media und digitale Innovationen.

Ann Mbuti ist freie Autorin und Professorin für Prozessgestaltung an der HGK Basel. Sie ist auf zeitgenössische Kunst und Medien spezialisiert. Ihr Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt auf dem Thema „Making Publics“ und untersucht die Prozesse, durch die Dinge öffentlich gemacht werden und wie Öffentlichkeiten entstehen. Sie schreibt als Kunstkritikerin für verschiedene internationale Magazine und veröffentlicht ihre Essays in Ausstellungskatalogen wie dem des Deutschen Pavillons auf der Biennale in Venedig, der documenta15 und der Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Ihre Arbeit konzentriert sich auf künstlerische Projekte, die das Potenzial für soziale, politische oder ökologische Veränderungen haben und ihr Buch «Black Artists Now» erschien 2022 im Verlag C.H. Beck.