Yunchul Kim | 김윤철 (KR)

Yunchul Kim is an artist and electroacoustic music composer whose practice explores the fundamental dynamics of Transmatter and Mattereality. Transcending the realm of human experience, his work demonstrates the potential of imagination to create new realities. He envisions a material world that exists before language and culture defined it as a dimension where humans, non-humans, machines, and materials hold equal agency. In his works, matter exists not as an object but as the subject of events, a concept he defines as "Transmattering." Kim has received international awards, including the 2016 Collide International Award from CERN, Prix Ars Electronica, and VIDA 15.0. His works have been exhibited internationally, including the Korean Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale; 798CUBE, Beijing; Yokohama Triennale; CCCB, Spain; Science Gallery Melbourne; FACT Liverpool; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; ZKM, Karlsruhe; and Copenhagen Contemporary. He served as chief researcher of the transdisciplinary research group Mattereality at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), participated in the art-research project Liquid Things at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and was a member of the international art and science project team Fluid Skies. He is the founder of Studio Locus Solus in Seoul.

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Hrvoje Hiršl (HR)

Hrvoje Hiršl is a transdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. His practice investigates the ways in which natural and technological systems shape perception, materiality, and the construction of reality. He develops process-oriented artistic structures that can be initiated and guided but ultimately evade complete control, creating a space between determinacy and uncertainty. His work encompasses drawing and painting, sound and light installations, performance, and immersive robotic systems. Through phenomena such as resonance, entropy, feedback, and quantum processes, he explores the relationships between the visible and the invisible, the measurable and the indeterminate. He has participated in numerous international residency and research programmes and has collaborated with scientific institutions including the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching and TU Delft (Delft University of Technology). He was an invited participant in AND AND AND as part of documenta (13) in Kassel and represented Croatia at the London Design Biennale in 2016.

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Earl Park | 박얼 (KR)

Earl Park is an artist who lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. While designing novel forms of media, he developed an interest in the basic materials and technology that underpin new media. Drawing on his personal familiarity with machinery, he explores diverse relationships between the human and the machine, questioning the conventional limitations of terms such as “machine-like” and “human-like,” thus expanding their boundaries while connecting them to seemingly antinomic definitions. He realizes these ideas mainly through kinetic / robotic installations. As a member of ‘Media artist Group: Jonpasang’ (2009-2017), he participated in the planning and installation of large-scale works such as Hyper-Matrix, Brilliant Cube, Shinsegae main department store façade, and Paradise City project. He was selected as a residency artist at Incheon Art Platform (2020), Asia Culture Center (2015, 2017, 2018) and Seoul Art Space Geumcheon (2012), and took part in several group exhibitions, including the Creators Project: Seoul, Da Vinci Creative, Daejeon Biennale, Changwon Sculpture Biennale and Korean Cultural Centre UK.

Tereza Teklić

Holds MA degrees in Art History and German Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Since 2008 she has worked as a coordinator, project manager, and curator at KONTEJNER, and in that capacity has realized and curated numerous exhibitions and festivals in Croatia and internationally (Zagreb, Rijeka, Dubrovnik, Prague, Montreal, and beyond). From 2011 to 2018 she was part of the curatorial team of Mochvara Gallery and the production platform Sound Art Incubator, both collaborative projects with the Culture Development Association and Mochvara Club, Zagreb. Since 2019 she has been the project manager and curator of the EU project EMAP − European Media Art Platform, an international network of residencies for emerging media artists.

tereza.teklic@gmail.com

Nika Jurlin (HR)

Nika Jurlin holds a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where she began her scientific career. She subsequently worked as a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin. Alongside her research, she has been actively engaged in science communication across Europe and the United States through public lectures and educational projects. She currently runs her own science education company dedicated to making science accessible to a broad audience.

Ana Sladetić (HR)

Ana Sladetić graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, in 2009, and earned her PhD there in 2016, under the supervision of Professor Ante Rašić and Associate Professor Leonida Kovač. She has participated in more than 200 group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad and has presented around twenty solo exhibitions. She has received numerous awards for her artistic work. She has undertaken further professional development and artist residencies in Germany, Belgium, France, Finland, and the United States. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Academy of Arts and Culture, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek.

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Ahyeon Ryu | 유아연 (KR)

Ahyeon Ryu received her BFA in Sculpture from Hongik University and her MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in the United Kingdom. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Sculpture at Seoul National University. Her solo exhibitions include Outlet (Museumhead, Seoul, 2023) and White Mirror: Prequel Version (WWW Space, Seoul, 2020). She has participated in group exhibitions including Magical Thinking (Songzhuang Contemporary Art Archive, Beijing, 2026), Referential (Hite Collection, Seoul, 2026), The 24th SongEun Art Award Exhibition (SongEun, Seoul, 2024), and To You: Your Direction (ARKO Art Center, Seoul, 2022). She received the Dream NEXT: Sketch Award from Korea Securities Finance Corporation in 2026 and awards from the Chunman Arts Foundation in 2025 and 2026. She was also awarded the Research grant in 2026 and the Artistic Creation Support—Track A grant in 2023 by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.

Sookyun Yang (KR)

Sookyun Yang is an artist whose practice explores matter and experience within technological ecosystems. She studied Painting at Hongik University, where she received an MFA in Interaction Design and a PhD in Film and Digital Media. Since her debut through the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture’s Geumcheon Art Factory Davinci Idea in 2010, her practice has evolved from wearable devices that visualize embodied technological experiences to collective practices that explore real-time spatiality through signal-based transformations of physical objects (Jonpasang, 2010 –2016). More recently, she investigates the flexible relations between matter and information through algorithmic errors, minor data in opposition to big data, and non-universal uses of applications, working across diverse media. She has participated in residencies at Geumcheon Art Factory (2011), Asia Culture Center Creators in Lab (2015 –16), and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) Chang-dong Project Team (2017) and has received project support from the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science & Creativity, and Hyundai Motor Group ZER01NE. Her work has been exhibited at CDA, HEK Basel, Ars Electronica, C-LAB Taipei, Nam June Paik Art Center, ACC Creation, Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, and G.MAP. Her solo exhibitions include Material, Sensory, Generation (2018), A Vanishing Sense of Physical: Habitat Data (2023), and Speculative Matters (2025).

Olga Majcen Linn

Art historian, curator, and researcher with a PhD in Art and Media, focused on subversive art practices. She is one of the founders of KONTEJNER, where since 2002 she has curated and developed numerous international projects and festivals, including Device_art (exploring intersections of art, science, and technology), Touch Me Festival (dedicated to art and science), and Extravagant Bodies (addressing disability, normativity, and the body in contemporary art). She is currently a guest lecturer and mentor at the Academy of Fine Arts (ALU) in Zagreb. She regularly participates in international academic and artistic conferences such as Medea Art Histories, Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence, ISEA, FEMeeting, and Consciousness Reframed: Art Matters.

omajcen@gmail.com

Filip Borelli (HR)

Filip Borelli is a Croatian new media artist whose practice explores the interaction between light, sound, movement, and music. He graduated in New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and also holds a degree from the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb. His work frequently incorporates scientific approaches to the exploration of natural phenomena. Kinetic sculptures, interactive installations, performances, experimental films, and photography are among the primary forms of his artistic expression. During his studies, he was an active member of KSET (Electrical Engineering and Computing Student Club), DZIU Medika (Performance Arts Hall), and the Zagreb Dance Center (ZPC). As a performer and musician, he has been active since 2009 and is a member of the Croatian Musicians' Union (HGU). Since 2021, he has also been a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU). He has participated in numerous exhibitions in Croatia and abroad and received the Croatian Postal Bank (HPB) Award at the 2020/2021 HDLU Youth Salon. In 2019, he founded Studio De Borell, a creative studio specialising in film and new media artistic practices, where he works as a producer, director, cinematographer, editor, and performer on numerous theatre productions, films, and music videos.

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Vitar Drinković (HR)

Vitar Drinković is a Croatian contemporary artist working in the fields of interactive installations, sculpture, extended reality (XR), computer game technologies, biofeedback, and new media technologies. His artistic practice explores perception, communication, and the relationship between the human body, technology, and virtual environments through participatory artworks. He graduated in Sculpture (2008) and Animation and New Media (2014) from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb. He has presented more than twenty solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, the Die Angewandte Festival in Vienna, the Pixxelpoint Festival in Slovenia, Schaumbad in Graz, Lauba – The House for People and Art, and Klovićevi Dvori Gallery, as well as exhibitions and festivals in France, Austria, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and the United States. He was a Radoslav Putar Award finalist (2021), participated in international artist residencies in France and the Czech Republic, and regularly leads workshops in the fields of interactive art and new media. As an external lecturer, he taught at RIT Croatia and participated in educational programmes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.

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Hugo Baranger (FR/HR)

Hugo Baranger was born in Niort (France) and grew up in the heart of the Green Venice region, the Marais Poitevin. The colours, winter fog, and landscapes of this area form the foundation of his visual iconography. At the age of five, he was diagnosed with severe astigmatism and hyperopia, both of which had gone undetected until then. As a result, his visual perception was largely shaped by blurry sight and difficulties with perception and focusing. Hugo graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Angoulême in 2016, where he co-founded the Nani$ôka Groupe collective. He has exhibited and performed in Canada, China, France, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, and Japan.

Vladimir Novak (HR)

Vladimir Novak bases his artistic practice on investigating the boundaries of sculpture as a medium through objects, light installations, and sound installations, with a particular emphasis on the poetics of space, medium specificity, and affective intensities. Through iterative working processes, he examines and dismantles the boundaries between media, exploring the relationships between the visible and the invisible, as well as the concepts of body and mass, object and installation, stillness and movement, and light and shadow. His recent minimalist and subtle interventions in gallery and public spaces emphasise the processual nature of artistic practice and the interconnectedness of the artwork with natural and urban rhythms. He is particularly interested in transformations from one medium to another, as well as in the physical and socio-ecological resonances of his works. Operating at the threshold of perceptibility, in the ambiguity between malfunction and artistic gesture, he challenges the viewer's perception, sense of time, and patience, questioning the boundary between aesthetic experience and the banality of everyday phenomena. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his artistic work.

Ivan Marušić Klif (HR)

Ivan Marušić Klif is a multimedia artist whose practice focuses primarily on interactive video installations. His interests include kinetic, light and video installations, sound, music, and performance. He collaborates extensively with other artists, particularly on theatre productions and with musicians working in interdisciplinary audiovisual performances. From his early light installations of the 1990s to his recent software-controlled works, Ivan Marušić Klif has consistently explored the possibilities of both emerging and obsolete media through the use of sound, light, and moving image, creating increasingly complex immersive environments mediated by technology. Alongside his artistic practice, he is actively engaged in education and the organisation of workshops, hack labs, media labs, and academic programmes. He is the Executive Director of the Vector Hack Festival.

Kata Mijatović (HR)

Kata Mijatović is a visual artist whose artistic career began through her involvement with the artist collective Močvara in the Baranja region between 1988 and 1991. She began studying painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1991, continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1993, graduating in 1997, and has since exhibited extensively. From 2005 to 2019 she served as the Director of the Gallery AŽ at Atelieri Žitnjak in Zagreb. Since 2007 she has been a member of the artist collective PLEH.She has created numerous solo exhibitions and projects and has participated in many group exhibitions and collaborative projects in Croatia and abroad. In 2013 she represented Croatia at the 55th Venice Biennale with the project Between the Sky and the Earth, curated by Branko Franceschi. The central concern of her artistic practice is the exploration of the complex relationship between the conscious and the unconscious. A distinctive strand of this research focuses on dreams as both the structural and motivational foundation of her artistic projects.

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Mihael Giba (HR)

Mihael Giba is a multimedia artist whose practice focuses on digital technologies, video games, extended reality, and interactive installations. By combining traditional and digital techniques, he creates multimedia—often interactive—installations that describe, document, and critically examine contemporary society.He has exhibited in more than fifty solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and internationally, and continuously collaborates on multimedia projects with numerous artists, cultural organisations, and institutions, including the realisation of three Croatian pavilions at the Venice Biennale. He was a finalist for the Radoslav Putar Award (2013) and the HT Award (2010, 2018), and received the Third Prize at the 33rd Youth Salon. He graduated from the Arts Academy of the University of Split in 2008, and has been a faculty member at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Rijeka since 2023.

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Marijana Stanić (HR)

Marijana Stanić graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2003. Her professional practice is centred on visual culture and contemporary art through both her own artistic work and socially engaged projects developed within the association 90-60-90 / Platform for Contemporary Art. She is the Director of Gallery 90-60-90 / Pogon Jedinstvo and works as a visual artist. She has been actively engaged in artistic practice since 2001. Her work spans a wide range of media, including drawing, audio, video and light installations, radio drama, objects, and art games. Motivated by a desire to question prevailing perceptions of the world we live in, she examines the value systems of contemporary society, consumerism, and representations of reality, while exploring models of everyday communication and strategies for living. Her works draw on the aesthetics of children’s toys, kitsch, and small ornamental objects, while her themes often engage with familiar realms of imagination through an ironic lens. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU) and the Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association (HZSU). She lives and works in Zagreb.

Tin Dožić (HR)

Tin Dožić graduated in Psychology from the Faculty of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb and in New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. His work Songs for the Anthropocene (Pjesme za antropocen) received the Golden Watermelon Award at the Media Mediterranea Festival in 2018. He was a finalist for the Radoslav Putar Award in 2019 and is an alumnus of the 2019/2020 WHW Academy. As a member of the collaborative team comprising Sven Sorić, Hrvoje Spudić, Sara Salamon, and himself, Dožić received the Young Artists Award at the 55th Zagreb Salon of Applied Arts and Design for the visual identity of the 30th Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ). As one half of the artistic duo Dožić & Udovčić, he received the same award at the 58th Zagreb Salon of Applied Arts and Design for the project Forest Cabin (Šumska koliba).