Fernanda Olivares is a Selk’nam woman, member of the Selk’nam Community Covadonga Ona in Chile. Nowadays she is (CEO) at Fundación Hach Saye, organization with headquarters in Porvenir, Tierra del Fuego, with the main focus area is to promote, strengthen and protect both Selk’nam culture and the Great Island of Tierra del Fuego.
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Jacqueline Puratich (CL)
Born in Puerto Natales, surrounded by beautiful wild landscapes, always the mountain was the link of her life. Mountaineer, tour guide, craftswoman, mother, all different aspects of her life linked deeply with Nature as an inspiration and refugee. Now exploring the conexion of geological processes and the internal and spiritual human dimensions, with the objective of expanding knowledge in a new and experiental way. Searching to restore the bond between humanity and the Earth.
Thierry Dupradou (FR)
Studied photography between 2001 and 2006 at the Les Fleurs Youth Center, in Pau, France. In the summer of 2000 he got to know Patagonia and in 2006 he settled in Punta Arenas. Since 2002 he has exhibited individually in France, Spain and Chile. One of those samples is from 2011, when part of his work is exhibited in the Montjuic Castle, Barcelona, Spain. He conducts heritage records with archaeological researchers. In 2015 he works as director of photography in the feature film “Fuego” and participates as a photographer in an INACH expedition in Antarctica.
Mirko Petrovich (CL)
Musician and researcher. Born in 1976 in the city of Osorno, Chile. He studied sound engineering at the Universidad Tecnológica Vicente Perez Rosales. He has worked producing multimedia for several theater and dance projects in Chile and abroad.
He worked at the Shanghai Expo as a multimedia designer for the Chilean Pavilion, and has been technical director and curatorial advisor for the Media Arts Biennial in Chile.
As a musician and media artist he has presented his work in different cities like Berlin, Vienna, Paris, New York and Santiago.
Alessandra Burotto (CL)
Alessandra Burotto, is curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of Chile, where she coordinates the MediaMAC/Anilla Unit area dedicated to putting value in artistic practices and languages that use technologies, helping to promote the field of media arts at the crossroads between art and science, technology, nature and society.
Journalist and graduated in Cultural Criticism from the University of Chile, for 10 years she has led the Ibero-American Network Anilla Cultural Latin America-Europe for the MAC, an international instance dedicated to the development of new museum formats and methodologies for contemporary cultural action through the intensive use of new information and communication technologies.
Sofia Balbontin (CL)
Sofía Balbontín, architect and sound artist, co-director of the Resonant Spaces project and member of the Nucleo de Lenguaje y Creación UDLA. Herwork is mainly focused on the interaction between sound and space, developing from this starting point experimental proposals around music, video, performance and installation. She is currently doing a PhD in Arts at the University of Lisbon.
www.sofiabalbontin.com
Julio Contreras (CL)
Magallanic, son of Chilotes. Since childhood living in the southern territories and Tierra del Fuego and knowing directly the lives of sheepherders and fishermen in Chiloé communities.
As a student he participated in resistance struggles against the Pinochet dictatorship. As a medical doctor since 1986 he has always sought to ensure that human health expresses the expansion of the full potential of life. Formally, he has studied various currents of biological psychiatry and has a master’s degree in psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology from the University of Uruguay. Since 1997, he has been developing a conservation project in Caleta María, together with his family, friends and nature lovers; an option to build a cooperative and communal life in these Fuegian territories with the mountains, the multiple and diverse life of the forests, the seas, the wind and the spirits of the original inhabitants.
Claudia Augustat (AT)
Claudia Augustat is an anthropologist and since 2004 curator for South American Collections at the Weltmuseum Wien in Austria. Her research focuses on collections from the Amazon and Tierra del Fuego, material culture and cultural memory, on collaborative curatorship and the decolonization of museum praxis. She is head of the EU co-founded Creative Europe Project TAKING CARE. Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Space of Care.
Melanie Duclos Katunaric (CL)
MS in Ecosystem Health, PhD (c) in Conservation Medicine. She is a researcher at the Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability – CAPES, of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile; and at the Center for Research for Sustainability – CIS of the Andrés Bello University in Santiago, Chile. Her lines of research are ecology, ecotoxicology, genetics and health of wild populations.
Paula Lopez Wood (CL)
Writer and Explorer, Paula Lopez (1987) graduated from Audiovisual Direction and Aesthetics in Universidad Católica de Chile, and also has an MFA in Creative Writing at New York University. Her work has been published in several Chilean magazines and digital media (El Mercurio, Ladera Sur, Escalando), also international press like Desnivel (Spain), The Explorers Journal (New York) and she has written and produced documentaries series on Chilean natural history (Wood Producciones). Her storytelling has focused on sharing with passion and deep knowledge the wilderness of the southernmost territories of Chile and Antarctica.