Architect, media artist and researcher, Ph.D. (Doctor in Fine Arts, University of Sao Paulo and CAiiA hub of The Planetary Collegium), Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship awardee (UCLA, Art|Sci Center/James Gimzewski Lab), M.Arch. (Master of Architecture Theory and History, University of Sao Paulo), member of the UCLA Art|Sci Collective, she is the chair of the first Leonardo/ISAST LASER talks to be hosted in Brazil/Latin America (2017-present). She was part of the founding team of the Roy Ascott Studio in Shanghai and has been serving as a reviewer for the Leonardo Abstracts Service (Leonardo LABS), the Leonardo Journal and the Intellect Books’ Technoetic Arts Journal. Having performative technoetics and digital humanities as compass, she is interested in cross-scale information and communication dynamics that impacts human-nonhuman behavior and other macro-scale emergent phenomena. Exploring in her more recent projects the metaphysics of information-visualization in subversive morphogenetic strategies, she welcomes the animistic to navigate ecologies-as-cosmologies. Clarissa has exhibited and presented her work internationally in collective exhibitions and solo shows, artist talks, paper and panel sessions, and workshops in several edition of FILE Sao Paulo, ISEA, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, China VIS, POM, Consciousness Reframed, CAA, IEEE VIS ART program. She is a Professor at the University of Fortaleza where she directs the LIP – Lab for Innovation and Prototyping.

Chen Yufei is a sound artist and engaged in the research of analytical philosophy for many years.During his master's degree, his main research focuses on skepticism and strategies. During his doctor's degree, he mainly studies free will ( determinism, randomness over uncertainty, and discussion on the relationship between order, logic and freedom). Chen Yufei has been engaged in live music performance and sound creation for many years, and has rich experience in cooperation with different artists and studios, such as low-tech laboratory, UFO studio, SLATE Contemporary Dance Troupe, etc.

Huang Wei is an artist based in Shanghai. His research focuses on equipment feeding, data reproduction, media breeding, information hybridization and audio-visual elements generated from shooting, sampling, misappropriation, field recording, photogrammetry, CG production and parameterization. he has a deep and broad knowledge of the theoretical aesthetic, narrative and technical elements of artistic research. His works mainly reflect on the chaotic situation of information overload, landscape worship, consumerism, algorithm management and intelligent hegemony,etc.

Drawing on her experiences as a media artist, Chinese medicine physician and medical humanities scholar, Michelle Lewis-King’s work explores the inter-relationships between embodiment, the performance of medicine and cross-cultural approaches to science and technology. During her performances, Michelle repurposes premodern technologies and methods within the Chinese medicine encounter into contemporary tools that investigate humanist questions.

Michelle has performed at Ars Electronica, TodaysArt NL, and ISEA festivals and at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Anatomy Museum London, MAAT Lisbon, and Ex Teresa Art Actual Museum Mexico. Her research is published in the Journal of Sonic Studies, The Acupuncturist, Digital Creativity, Red Bull Music Academy Daily, Technoetic Arts, and ELSE Journal of Artistic Research.

Film Director / Media Artist, lives and works in Shanghai. Department Head of Digital Media Art Major in Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. She was nominated for the "Porsche Biennial Artist" at the ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair (2019) and her work was selected for UNESCO's Art and Society Project (2020). Her research interests are focused on the navigation space in digital media, considering analyzing the multiplicity of image paradigms from a narrative perspective. Her work have been selected into the art project “FILTER THE PUBLIC" for the fifth anniversary at the Shanghai World Financial Center and Photo Arts Fair Shanghai (2015) and in several international film festivals, including Festival de Cannes 2010 (SFC), shortlisted by Air France Jeunes Talent Prize (2010), and also nominated as Best Director Award in 2012 Madrid International Film Festival. Mujin was also the winner of Grand Prize of the Jury in Festival d’art vidéo et de cultures numériques-videoformes (2012), France.

Media Artist based in Shanghai, Graduated from the New Media Art program at the China Academy of Art and obtained a master's degree in Digital Art Design from the Shanghai Theatre Academy. She has rich experience in New Media Exhibition Design, where she excels in blending art, technology, and interactive experiences to create immersive and innovative exhibitions. In 2011, Zhang Hong was awarded the Lin Fengmian Silver Award. In 2012, she exhibited in the Shanghai Interactive Ink Painting Exhibition and her artwork was featured in the "Image" exhibition at the Himalayas Art Museum's opening. In 2014, Zhang Hong received the Best Innovation Award at the Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition and the Scientific Progress Award from the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film, and Television. In 2018, Zhang Hong was honored as an " Emerging Artist" at the 19th China International Silk Expo. In 2019, Zhang Hong was awarded the " Pioneer Artist" at the 2019 Tencent New Chic Awards. In 2020, she received the Outstanding Award at the Li Zhengdao Science and Art Exhibition.

John (Ioannis) Bardakos is an artist, academic, and researcher who oscillates between Athens, Paris, and Shanghai, acting as a hunter-gatherer of forms and non-localities. His academic journey spans the fields of Mathematics, Digital and Traditional Media with a keen focus on Applied and Fine Arts. This led him further into a PhD in the Philosophy of Technology, Aesthetics, and Art. Bardakos' artistic mastery extends beyond the practical. He possesses an in-depth and extensive knowledge of theoretical aesthetics, narrative, and the technical elements of artistic research. His work represents a profound understanding and innovative experimentation with cybernetics, where he seamlessly merges theory and practice. He employs a variety of methodologies, including Traditional, Analog, Digital, Generative, Virtual, and Interactive approaches. As an experienced educator, Bardakos has collaborated with both traditional academic structures and experimental ex-institutional environments within the realms of art, technology, and philosophy.