is an independent curator who works in the areas of sound art and media arts. Eric Mattson has commissioned works in media art, sound art as well as kinetic art. He did collaborate with festivals in Canada, including Sight & Sound, Send+Receive, Sounds Like, Mutek and abroad with CTM Berlin, Tsonami (Chile), Tuned City, and with art galleries in Quebec and Canada. Facilitator for the artists in many ways, he also produces documents and sound objects under the label ORAL. Involved, thru the years in various structures to present and develop media arts practices, he is clearly devoted to hybrid forms of contemporary creation, questioning the relation between production and diffusion.
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Elisita Balbontin (CL)
musician, artists and wildlife explorer. Performs under the name of Futuro Fosil, which is a musical interpretation/exploration into sound fossilization fossilized sounds. She is a musical collaborator in Estudio de Campo and Museo del Hongo. On the side, Elisita works with hand-printed techniques (screenprint and letterpress) and paints large scale murals. Her challenge through visual arts has been how to create new visual languages for music.
Valentina Montero (CL)
Independent curator, researcher and teacher in contemporary art and new media. Journalist, PhD Candidate in Advanced Studies on Art, and Bachelor in Aesthetic from Catholic University of Chile. She has developed projects on pornology, feminism, art and new technologies. From 2003 has worked as producer and curator in Biennial of Video and New Media (BVAM); and she has worked for the Fine Art Museum in Santiago de Chile.
Christian Espinoza (CL)
architect and artist, working, researching and experimenting with territories under the esthetic of dark ecologies. Currently, its production revolves around the collision points between biological and electromagnetic corridors, and the liminal sites in the large lax, discontinuous, heterogeneous and multipolar areas of the extractivism macro-regions. His sound research includes listening as an active and political action, a technology and, in many cases, an extension of the ecological battlefield. His work has been presented at different festivals, spaces and galleries in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Brasil and France.
Rene Rissland (DE)
is an Architect, Urban Thinker and Designer living and working in Nuremberg. He studied Architecture at the Postgraduate Program for Architecture and Urban Research — akademie c/o — of the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts with Arno Brandlhuber. Since 2011 he is an assistant professor at the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg.
In 2006 he founded the office eyland 07 and merged in 2016 together with Kappler Sedlak Architekten to srap.land. There field of interest focuses on the peripheral areas of architecture and city planning, often working in interdisciplinary teams together with landscape architects, artists, musicians and sociologists. The relationship of architecture and sound is one of the office’s main focus topics.