Invited Artists

Niusha Hatefinia

film and media studies, film-philosophy, Iranian cinema

Paul Goodfellow

Systems Art, Systems Thinking, Ecology, The digital object

Katya Nosyreva

Geometry, proportion, sufism, perception, imagination, porcelain clay

Narjis Mirza

light, projection mapping, installation art, geometry, calligraphy, Islamic aesthetics, Mulla Sadra,

Alize Zorlutuna

Nezih Erdoğan

early cinema, Turkish popular cinema, film theory, storytelling, Japanese calligraphy (shodo), Islamic calligraphy

Yvan Tina

Performance art, curation, technology, philosophy, postcolonial studies

J.R. Osborn

Media, Script, Type, Diagrams, Museums, Reflexivity, Islamic Art, African Art, Graphic Design, Semiotics, Retrofuturology, History of Technology, Comparative Media, Aesthetics, Comic Books

Sembatya

Performing Arts, Dance Teaching and Choreography, Ethnochoreology, Interculturalism, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Contemporary Dance and African traditional dances.

Matthew Sansom

sound, improvisation, sufism, soundscapes, creative process

Mehvish Rather

Documentary Filmmaking, Poetic Cinema, Magical Realism, Transcendental Realism, Folktales, Folk Culture, Editing, Embroidery, Puzzles, Sufism.

Kalpana Subramanian

experimental film and media, practice-based research, film phenomenology, transcultural aesthetics, Yoga philosophy, Breath studies, Deleuze, comparative philosophy

Mahmoud Nuri

Farabi, Avicenna, Suhrawardi, Film Studies

Andy Thomson

Moving image, Visual Arts, Perception, Eastern arts and world views

Steven Baris

Contemporary art, painting, video, design, Buddhism, Post Industrial Landscapes, Diagrams, Diagrams & Art

Tarek Elhaik

Dialogues between Anthropology, Art History, and Philosophy, Images, Curation, Geo-Philosophy, the rapport between finitude and the infinite, Cogitation, Gilles Deleuze, Gregory Bateson, Ibn Rushd (Averroes).

Navine G. Dossos

Azadeh Emadi

Film, New Media artts, intercultural study, Persian Islamic aesthetic and philosophy, Sadrian philosophy, digital technology, practice based research methods, pixels and other minimal parts.

Rafik Patel

Architecture, Spatial Design, Cultural Studies, Islamic Philosophy (Ibn al-'Arabī)

Waèl Allouche

Football or better known as Soccer

Tarek El-Ariss

monster, magic, myth, portal, fantasy, fiction, digital, hacking, leaks,

Ali Taheri

Philosophy, Ishraq, Embodied HCI, Enactivism and embodied Cognition, Emerging Medium, XR, Cinema, Haptic Visuality, Video Games, Interactive Experiences

Roger Malina

Gustavo Furtado

media, space and territoriality; film and media theory; questions of modernity and modernism in the Global South; Latin American literature and cinema; travel writing; documentary film studies; indigeneity and indigenous film and video

Mansoor Behnam

Media Arts, Experimental Film and Video, Film Studies, Iranian Cinema, Comparative Literature, Performance, Cultural Studies, Research-based creative work, Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy, Islamic Mysticism/Philosophy

Sheila Petty

Sub-Saharan, North African and Amazigh Screen Media

Wolfgang Weileder

Sculpture, Installation, Photography, Film, Sound

Radek Przedpełski

geo-media, media archaeology, contemporary art, steppe art, Tatar art, Eurasian and Eastern European Art, art philosophy, Deleuze/Guattari/Simondon

Gilles Aubry

Mriganka Madhukaillya

Media Philosophy, Cinema, Moving Image, Cybernetics, Forest

M Javad Khajavi

Immersive Media, Virtual Reality, Animation-based media, Animated Arts, Islamic Aesthetics, Game Design

Robbie Schweiger

Jeneen Naji

digital culture, electronic literature, technosocial interactions, digital practice

Delinda Collier

African art, media studies, logocentrism,

Lynn Marie Kirby

Cigdem Borucu

Electro-Acoustic Music, Classical Music, Classical Piano, Soundscape Compositions, Sound and Music for Film, Music for Theater, Chamber Music, Contemporary Music, Sound Installation

Masayuki Iwase

Hicham Khalidi

Farshid Kazemi

Film Theory, Film and Media Studies, Global Cinema, Iranian Cinema, Psychoanalytic Theory, Literary Theory, Iranian Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Islamicate Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Islam

Nina Czegledy

arts science technology

Jessika Kenney

Voices, Selflessness, Cultural Somatics, Micro-philology, Friendship, Enfleshment, Untranslatability, Geomusicalities, Haptic Aurality

Carol Bier

algorithmic aesthetics, Islamic art, Islamic architecture, Islamic ornament, Islamic geometric patterns, symmetry, symmetry-breaking, quasiperiodic patterns, Oriental carpets, textile technologies, history of textiles, crafts and technology

Laura U. Marks

media art, carbon footprint of streaming media, media archaeology, intellectual genealogies, intercultural, algorithmic media, Islamic aesthetics, Deleuzian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, process philosophy, Hermetic tradition, taqiyya

Bettina Schülke

Art science textiles technology

Mena El Shazly

time-based media, visual culture, digital navigation gestures, video art, embroidery, artist-run initiatives, poetry of wine, ancient Egypt, entropy, mythology.

Ziggy Lever

Bahar Akgün

Pantea Karimi

art, history, cinema, creative process, history of science, fashion, design, opera; Baroque opera, sports, dancing

Navid Navab

temporality, ontogensis and formation or life from none-life transmutations, life-preserving transformations, perception, complexity, movement, media, embodiment, alchemy, ethico-aesthetics and play

Siying Duan

New Media Arts, Chinese Aesthetics, Comparative Aesthetics