Undergraduate Mentorship for Final Projects
We had a succesful collaboration with the undergraduate program 'Multimedia & Creative Technologies' at the Erasmus College in Brussels, where we advised students in their final year with their final year installation project. Our international, multisdisciplinary team worked in online sessions with the students to provide tips, feedback and insight.
![[GENERAL] SEADSmembers in an online panel meeting](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/t39t9igo/production/7661cc08551f2737c4bca7788807c80c172d7fda-1440x1919.png)
SEADS members in a project meeting. We frequently use virtual environments, as we are spread out over the globe. The picture dates from 2020-2021 and we are using Jitsi.
Participating SEADS members
Diego Maranan
Diego is an artist, academic, and activist who works in the area of human-technology interaction. Through technology research and intermedia artistic practice, he investigates, critiques, and reimagines the relationship between humans and the world we inhabit. He holds a Marie Curie fellowship at Plymouth University; teaches at the University of the Philippines Open University; advises for WeDpro, a feminist nonprofit that empowers marginalized women and youth in the Philippines; and co-founded Curiosity, a Manila-based design strategy firm. As one of SEAD’s core members, Diego worked on an extensive range of Biomodd projects in the Philippines, New York and Europe.
Giusy Checola
Giusy is a PhD candidate in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of Arts, University Paris 8, in cotutelle with the Doctorate in Humanistic Intercultural Studies, University of Bergamo, where she is studying art-led place-making as an integrated research field and applied theory. She analyses the relationships between art, geoaesthetics as geopolitics, collective memory and thinking, pushing on the conceptual and methodological boundaries across the disciplines to understand the transformative potential of the art project and the deepeness of its social, cultural and political impact.
Hector Dyer
Hector is a visual and performance artist who works with fabric, movement and text.. He looks at ideas of legacy, memory and time, often in relation to the natural world and energy systems. He has shown solo work at Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool, Barbican Centre, National Maritime Museum as well touring to Europe. Alongside this, he works in the curatorial team at the Barbican Art Gallery, focusing on exhibitions that explore performance and liveness. Without formal training, he started out making street performance in Bristol and is passionate to promote different routes into the arts which is are inclusive and representative.
Nassim Versbraegen
Nassim Versbraegen has studied Computer Science (M.Sc.) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is currently enrolled in a PhD at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where his research is centered around the genetic origins of rare diseases.
Angelo Vermeulen
Angelo is a space systems researcher, biologist, and community artist. With his multidisciplinary background, he collaborates closely with practicing scientists, while also creating multimedia art installations, and building communities through design and co-creation. In 2013 he was crew commander of the NASA-funded HI-SEAS Mars simulation in Hawaii. Currently he is doing research on interstellar travel at Delft University of Technology. He has lived in many corners of the world, is a TED Senior Fellow, and loves computer games.
Pieter Steyaert
Pieter Steyaert is an artist and transdisciplinary researcher who explores collaborations within artistic and scientific communities. His work particularly focuses on the context of astrophysics and exoplanets. Pieter is one of the co-founders of SEADS and has worked on a wide range of Biomodd, Seeker and Ēngines of Ēternity projects in Europe, the USA and SE Asia. He leads the development of tools and platforms that support the global SEADS community.
Pieter is fascinated by the possibilities, ethics, and shortcomings of the techno-realm. He shares and explores insights as an educator and researcher. His interests include artificial life, data-driven experience design, and art-science interactions. Pieter conducts research at CHAMELEON, an exoplanet research group which is affiliated with both the University of Antwerp and the University of Copenhagen. His research aims to use artistic methodologies to advance scientific ideation and research.
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Ann Peeters
Ann has a background in performance arts and has earned her spurs in the Brussels social sector, focusing on playful and engaging language learning techniques, as well as digital inclusion and social innovation.
Until 2018, she coordinated Fablab and Medialab Brussels. Her enthusiasm inspires (young) innovators to explore new technologies and take on (social) challenges, preferably through a co-creation approach.
She currently works at a local Brussels ngo TADA to enlarge impact for a more inclusive society.
She has been involved in several SEADS projects and enjoys the overlap of tinkering and social interaction, as well as the new horizons a transdisciplinary approach offers.
You could also bump into her on a swing dancing event or at a game table. Ann loves Brussels for its diversity and unexpected encounters. Her hidden agenda is somewhat anarcho-feminist.
Franchesca Casauay
Franchesca is a cultural worker with an interdisciplinary research & arts practice, often oscillating between creative and curatorial roles. As an artist, she works mostly with new media & performance; as producer, she leads and provides curatorial support for local & international initiatives. In various capacities, she has participated in festivals and art projects in the Philippines and across Asia, Europe, UK, and Australia, most recently as guest curator for public programs at the 22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN. Franchesca holds a degree in sociology and a postgraduate diploma in innovation & creative enterprise, and was a fellow of the Courants du Monde program on contemporary digital art practices in France. Although she loves working in the arts, she likewise nurtures a deep & lifelong affinity for all things science, having grown up in a household of scientists. A Biomodd-LBA2 volunteer in 2009, Franchesca is currently helping develop projects for SEADS Philippines for 2020-2021.
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