Serpentine – (London)

Tamar Clarke-Brown is an artist, writer, and curator of art and technologies at Serpentine in London. Her practice explores alternative mythologies, diasporic experiences, and imaginaries that have been pushed to the margins of dominant narratives, focusing on the social and cultural potential of emerging technologies.

At Serpentine, she develops new commissions, public programmes, and research and experimentation projects investigating world-building practices and new technological imaginaries. She has collaborated with institutions including Tate, Somerset House, Kadist, NEW INC, the Venice Biennale, and Yale. Among her most recent projects is Third World, developed with Gabriel Massan: a project combining video game, web3, and exhibition formats to explore Black and Indigenous experiences in contemporary Brazil.

Signal Festival – (Prague)

Daniel Burda is a curator and audiovisual creator based in Prague. A graduate in Economics from Charles University in Prague and in Audiovisual Studies from FAMU, he has developed a practice connected to experimental film, video production, new media, and contemporary audiovisual practices.

He has presented work at Galerie Rudolfinum and the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. He currently works as a curator at Signal Festival in Prague, where he coordinates installations, international conference programmes, and activities related to the festival’s international outreach.

Jawa El Khash is a Syrian-Canadian artist and researcher working with holography, web simulation, 3D modelling, and virtual reality. Her practice uses digital technologies to archive, reimagine, and reactivate cultural artefacts, art history, and botanical heritage, opening up new ways of preserving, interpreting, and reconstructing cultural memories.

In Raqqa Ware 2.0, she revisits and updates Raqqa ceramics from the 12th and 13th centuries through a contemporary digital lens. The project combines 3D-modelled ceramic pieces with a virtual museum simulation to reflect on heritage, cultural reconstruction, and memory in contexts shaped by destruction, conflict, and displacement.

Hirondelle – (France)

Richard Neyroud is an independent curator whose practice is collective, experimental, and cross-border, focusing on research, collaboration, and the exploration of new formats for artistic mediation. He currently directs Hirondelle, a nomadic curatorial research residency based in the Moselle region and across cross-border territories, in collaboration with Castel Coucou.

From 2013 to 2026, he was part of the team at CRAC Alsace, where he co-curated several group exhibitions. In 2024, he also curated Splendore, joie, joie, joie…, organised to mark the reopening of the Fernet-Branca Foundation in Saint-Louis, France. He is a member of C-E-A, the French association of contemporary art curators.

Adelaida is an artist, vocalist and performer born in Barcelona’s Raval neighbourhood. Trained in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins in London and in classical singing at the Orfeó Català, she has developed a language of her own that explores the expressive, ritual and performative limits of the voice.

Her second album, Muérdago, produced by MANS O and Pura Cadera and mastered by Rashad Becker, premiered at Sónar 2024 and has toured several countries across Europe and Mexico, appearing at venues and festivals such as Tabakalera, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Museu Tàpies, SAT, Europalia and La Casa Encendida. Her debut, Cántaro, built from endless vocal layers, took her to festivals and venues including Primavera Sound, Eufònic, Fundació Miró, BAM and She Makes Noise.

Direcció de Promoció Cultural (Andorra)

Joan-Marc Joval is Director of Cultural Promotion at the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Andorra. A philologist and political scientist, he has built a career at the intersection of culture, innovation and public policy, with a focus on international outreach, network-building and the development of creative talent.

Since 2022, he has led strategic projects to strengthen the professionalisation of Andorra’s artistic sector, foster the internationalisation of its creators and reinforce cultural ties with other territories and institutions. He has also contributed to the implementation of initiatives such as the Strategic Plan for Culture, the Strategic Plan for Andorra’s Museums and Monuments, and the Artist Status Act, with the aim of positioning Andorra within international cultural ecosystems.

DMentes – (Barcelona)

Berta Segura is a trend analyst, planner, and expert in innovation processes, futures, and new generations, especially Gen Z and Gen Alpha. Since 2007, she has led DMentes, a strategic innovation consultancy that supports brands, institutions, and companies in connecting with their audiences in an authentic, relevant way with a positive social impact.

She is also a speaker and consciousness-raiser, with a critical perspective closely connected to the cultural, social, and consumer shifts shaping the present. She recently gave a TED Talk titled “How to Surf the Futures”.

DMentes – (Barcelona)

Francesca Tur Serra is a futures analyst, communicator, and creative consultant. Named by Forbes as one of Spain’s top 40 futurists in 2021, she reads the present from different perspectives: media, creative research, strategy, and education.

Through Tendencias.tv, the media platform she founded in 2006, she maps contemporaneity and the cultural shifts shaping brands, audiences, and communities. She also supports projects, companies, and initiatives through future-oriented strategic consultancy processes, co-directs the Master’s Degree in Fashion Brand Creation at EsDesign, and works as a mentor and investor in early-stage projects.

Sociedade Harmonia Eborense – (Portugal)

João Carlos Parreira is a Portuguese composer, guitarist, producer, and sound engineer. Also trained in mechanical engineering, his practice sits between music, technology, and sound research, approaching the recording studio as a space for experimentation and creation.

After developing his musical career between Lisbon and Évora, he has been involved in projects such as The Lemon Lovers and currently chairs Sociedade Harmonia Eborense. With his project SCIENCE IS FICTION, he explores the relationships between structure, production, and sonic experimentation, while preparing the release of his first EP.

Marina Monsonís is a visual artist, cook, and researcher. For more than twenty years, she has worked at the intersection of cooking, community, food sovereignty, and ecology, connecting culinary practices with oral memory, vernacular knowledge, and issues of social and climate justice. Her research explores the potential of cooking as a space for knowledge transmission, community building, and critical reflection on food systems.

Since 2018, she has directed La Cuina del MACBA, a project that brings together food, culture, and participation through public activities, research processes, and open gatherings. She is the author of La cocina situada. Un diccionario para la soberanía alimentaria and Mare Mar, which received the Ara Llibres Non-Fiction Prize and the Roca Award for Best Gastronomy Book in 2025. Her practice combines artistic production, research, and public engagement around the relationships between food, territory, and community.

Jordi Duch holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Universitat Rovira i Virgili and a PhD in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona. A lecturer and researcher in data science and artificial intelligence at the URV, he is currently head of the Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics and director of the University–Knowledge Region Chair.

His career combines research, teaching and university management, with a focus on the relationships between technology, knowledge and territorial development. He has been a visiting professor at Northwestern University and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States, and since 2007 he has collaborated on the UOC’s Master’s Degree in Video Game Design.

Marisol López Vicente is Director General for Innovation and Digital Culture at the Government of Catalonia. A cultural manager specialised in the intersection between technology, innovation and culture, she works to promote public policies linked to digital culture, digital arts, video games, new media and creative practices emerging from technological environments.

Before taking up this position, she headed the Digital Area of the Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies, where she developed support programmes for the digital cultural ecosystem and its international outreach.

Josep Piñol Curto is a conceptual and performance artist born in Tivenys. His practice operates between the artistic field and the mechanisms of institutional legitimation, questioning the structures, narratives, and power relations that function both inside and outside the art system.

After an initial stage linked to installation and scenography, he has developed conceptual and performance-based projects around memory, subjectivity, the body, and collective experience. In recent works such as EVITADA, he shifts artistic practice towards the contract, the commercial agreement, and the act of renunciation, opening up a critical reflection on the carbon offset market.

Lauren Moffatt is an Australian artist working with immersive environments and experimental narrative practices. Her works, often presented in hybrid and iterative forms, explore the paradoxical subjectivity of connected bodies and the indistinct boundaries between digital and organic life. She uses a combination of conventional, outdated, and pioneering technologies to create universes that span between physical and virtual space. Lauren’s works have been exhibited most recently at Sonar (ES), Matadero Madrid (ES), Haus am Lützowplatz (DE), La Gaïté Lyrique (FR), SXSW (US), UNSW Galleries (AU), Daegu Art Museum (KOR), Le Grand Palais Ephémère (FR), SAVVY Contemporary (DE), FACT Liverpool (UK) The Sundance Film Festival (US) ZKM (DE), Q21 Freiraum (AT) and at Hartware MedienkunstVerein (DE).  Lauren lives and works in Valencia (ES). 

Josep Poblet is a multidisciplinary artist and designer born in Vila-seca, known for his light installations and for a practice that combines craftsmanship, experimentation and technology. After studying Economics and Music, he shifted his career towards artistic creation, drawing on the knowledge of manual trades and workshop culture he had learned from a young age.

Through light, he creates immersive spaces that transform the perception of the surrounding environment and generate sensory experiences for audiences. Among his most notable projects is Lux Domus, an installation conceived as an architecture of light and an emotional refuge, presented at Llum BCN, the Cathedral of Santa María de Vitoria, the Signal Festival in Prague and the Celler de Vila-seca.

Ortésia Cabrera-Espuny is a visual artist and writer born in Amposta. Her practice brings together painting, text, and relational processes to think through forms of inequality, territory, matter, and communities from a body shaped by multiple dissidences and experiences of resistance.

Her work has been presented at spaces including MACBA, Arts Santa Mònica, Mèdol Centre d’Arts Contemporànies, Sant Andreu Contemporani, the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern – IVAM, Sala d’Art Jove, and Centre d’Art Lo Pati. She has received the Premi Art Jove de Patrimoni and the Premi Miquel Casablancas de Mediació.

tr.easured – (Liverpool)

Mandy Romero is a British trans artist based in Liverpool. Her practice spans live art, performance, cabaret, film, writing, and public interventions, with an artistic identity that functions not as a simple alter ego but as a living vehicle for experimentation, transformation, and presence.

She has presented actions and interventions in contexts including Shanghai, Copenhagen, Barcelona, and the Pearl River Delta, among many others, and has maintained a long-standing relationship with Liverpool’s Bluecoat Arts Centre. She also took on the role of Queen of Culture during Liverpool’s celebrations as European Capital of Culture 2008 and initiated TReasured – A Living Encyclopaedia of Trans Experience, a living archive dedicated to trans experience.

Aran des Arts – (Vall d’Aran)

He is a cultural manager and artistic advisor. A stage director and cultural institutions leader, he studied Economics at the University of Barcelona and holds a degree in Acting from the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Cultural Project Design from the University of Barcelona, a Master’s degree in Public Management from ESADE, and has completed the General Management Program at IESE Business School.

He was a member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab in New York in 2013. He is co-founder and executive committee member of the Directors Lab of Mediterranean. From 2015 to 2017, he was part of the artistic direction team at Teatre Lliure. Between 2017 and 2018, he taught at the Scuola di formazione del mestiere dell’attore in Florence. In 2019, he served as International Artistic Advisor to the Teatro della Pergola – Fondazione Teatro della Toscana, the same year the board of the Fundació Teatre Lliure – Teatre Públic de Barcelona appointed him as the institution’s director until 2024. He is a member of the University Council at UIC and the Executive Committee of the Barcelona Council for Culture, and teaches at ESMUC, UPF and UIC.

Centre d’Art i Cultura de la Diputació de Tarragona – (Tortosa)

Maria Lluïsa Gené Rebull és gestora cultural i investigadora especialitzada en art, mediació i patrimoni. Actualment és coordinadora i delegada de direcció del Centre d’Art i Cultura de la Diputació de Tarragona a Tortosa, on impulsa projectes vinculats a la creació contemporània, la formació i el territori.

Formada a la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona i especialitzada en comissariat i disseny d’espais expositius, combina la gestió cultural amb la recerca. També presideix Arjau Vela Llatina de Cambrils, entitat dedicada a la conservació del patrimoni marítim, i ha desenvolupat diverses investigacions sobre patrimoni immaterial i cultura popular.

Roberta Bosco is an Italian journalist based in Barcelona for decades, specialising in contemporary art, digital art and digital culture. Since 1998, she has been a regular contributor to El País and its cultural supplement Babelia, and since 1994 she has served as the Spain correspondent for Il Giornale dell’Arte, one of Italy’s leading art publications.

She has also curated exhibitions at institutions including Es Baluard, the Museu d’Art de Reus, Arts Santa Mònica, MACBA and Laboral Centro de Arte. She is a member of the acquisitions committee of the BEEP Collection of Electronic Art and, together with Stefano Caldana, has been one of the leading voices in bringing digital art to wider audiences through the media.

Robin Servant is a musician and sound artist from Quebec. His practice moves between traditional music, improvisation, audiovisual creation and sound installation, with particular attention to everything that usually falls outside the field of listening.

Active in several traditional and improvised music projects, he works to build bridges between popular traditions and contemporary musical practices. He is currently artist-in-residence in the second edition of Confluence, the exchange programme between Catalonia and Quebec. In the field of sound art, he develops immersive experiences that sharpen listening and question the place of human beings within technology and the world they inhabit. His methodology is based on philophony, a practice that understands listening as a form of empathy.