Michelle Vosters

Michelle Vosters resides in Ghent but word has it that her suitcase is always packed and ready to go. The world and its inhabitants are a playground Michelle is set to discover. She's basically the human equivalent of a particle accelerator, but instead of smashing (sub)atomic particles, you'll find Michelle forging lasting connections between people. She has a keen eye for everyone's strenghts and passions and combines that with a 'can do' mentality. Past (and present) endeavours at Kavka (Antwerp, BE), Nerdlab (Ghent, BE) and Walking Life festival (Crato, PT) prove that she is able to construct close knit communities and to engage various groups of people into working together, as one.Having contributed to a whole lot of events, festivals and a variety of organisations (all in the arts / technology sphere) Michelle quickly perfected the art of production.

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

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.

Ana Margarida Esteves

Ana Margarida Esteves is a Research Fellow at the Center for International Studies of the University Institute of Lisbon, ISCTE-IUL and Guest Assistant Professor of the Department of Political Economy of the same institution. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University (Providence, RI, USA). Her research and teaching focuses on sustainability transitions and regenerative development, including issues of social justice, inclusion and democratic participation, synergies between nature, culture and technology and the role of critical pedagogy and the arts in these fields. She collaborates with ECOLISE- European Network for Community-led Initiatives on Climate Change and Sustainability (https://www.ecolise.eu). She is a co-founder and member of the International Editorial Committee of the journal "Interface: A journal for and about social movements" (www.interfacejournal.net). She also co-founded the New Orleans Solidarity Economy Network and "Academia Cidadã" (The Citizenship Academy), a civil rights and urban activism collective in Lisbon, Portugal.

Ann Peeters

Freyja Sewell

Freyja is a designer and artist who creates for the mind. Much of her work is aimed at facilitating privacy and mindfulness with-in our increasingly hectic and connected world. She explores this though both traditional furniture and cutting edge technologies, creating spaces and tools for increased metacognition and mental wellbeing. Drawing inspiration from Buddhism and science fiction her long term aim is to blend science with spirituality to create and contribute to an optimistic, biophilic future. In 2012 she was awarded the London Design Museum Residency and her past clients include Selfridges and Unilever. After being awarded the Furniture Makers Guild Bursary, Sewell has recently graduated from the RCA.

Farshad Goldoust

Farshad is a mathematical modeler, physicist, electronics engineer, systems engineer, policy analyst and R developer. He follows the star-crossed ancient passion of "knowing it all", in this lifetime by striving to capture educated observations in the flask of quantitative models and computer simulations. For a generalist like him, anything with a measurable input and a measurable output is a system, either an electronic circuit (a hard system of free electrons and physical limitations) or a society (a soft system of minds, desires and regulations). He is fascinated by Feynman's quantum electrodynamics (QED), mind and consciousness philosophy, deep space and gravitational waves, Bayesian graphical models and Italian renaissance art. When not working, he’s busy cooking Persian and Italian dishes, painting portraits, playing unpopular video games or looking at his favorite set of astrological charts.

Franchesca Casauay

Victor Steemans

Victor is a graphic designer working and living in the beautiful city of Ghent, Belgium. He has been fascinated since childhood by science fiction stories, biology, the human condition, artistic practices and all things involving future thinking. He focuses on clear communication mixed up with conceptual design.

Al 'king' Librero

King considers himself as a generalist deeply interested in bridging ecology, information and communication technology, agriculture and community building. So far, he has earned degrees in in Agriculture, Computer Science and Environmental Science at UP Los Baños. Currently he is assistant professor at the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU). Al has been one of the driving forces behind Biomodd in the Philippines, and has participated on other Biomodd projects in Europe and Asia.

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.

Nils Faber

Nils is a creative mind who is focussed on turning ideas into reality. He gets his kicks from enabling a better future by providing people and organisations the means to communicate their vision through tangible concepts. Nils co-creates concepts for art installations, academic research and mainstream products through his multidisciplinary skill set. From making initial visualisations throughout 3D modeling and soft- and hardware prototyping to 3D printing functional models, he makes abstract ideas real and tangible. By working on a wide variety of topics, like healthcare, space ecosystems, gaming and fashion, he continually seeks to apply insights across different fields of expertise. Within the SEAD collective Nils has collaborated on Biomodd and E|A|S.

Tanea Tajiri

Frederico David Alencar de Sena Pereira

Fred is by nature curious about how and why organic or mechanical things work. He holds a BSc in Computer Engineering and Master in Mechanical Engineering along with extensive self-thought knowledge in 3D-modeling and 3D-printing. Born in Brazil, he is working on 3D bioprinters to produce human organs . He contributed to the making of a Space 3D Bioprinter named Organaut, which was launched to the ISS in december 2018 to conduct several experiments with cells and crystals. Fred's mind lives in the non-defined borders of science, art and engineering and a good dose of philosophy,capoeira and freeride longboarding make him a happy person.

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.

Rob Figueroa Jr.

Bobby is a technologist, teacher, and researcher who works in the area of Educational Technology and Information Systems. He is currently working on research projects involving virtual reality in learning contexts. He is a PhD Candidate at the International Christian University in Japan and Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines Open University. He also does consulting work as a Learning Management Systems project leader. As one of the newer members, Bobby joined a SEADS project in the Philippines and hosted a small collaborative project sponsored by JICUF in Japan.

Jeroen Verschuren

Jeroen is a mixed media artist, and aviator interested in humanities, art, and technology and how these themes are often intertwined.

Trained as an airline pilot, his experience varies from flight instruction to flying cargo, corporate, and for airlines in the US, Africa, and Europe. As an artist, his work embodies some of the themes he experienced during flight.

Jeroen is interested in ideas that examine and rethink our existence in the universe and more specifically, the mental, physical, and philosophical relationship between humans and the different environments we inhabit or could possibly inhabit.

His current responsibilities within SEADS are to further develop data sculptures in 'Engines of Eternity' and develop a generative model for module distribution in 'Evolving Asteroid Starships'.

Louis Rutherford

Ploy Thongchamnan

Ploy Thongchamnan is a product designer.
She studies at the design university of LUCA School of Arts in Belgium. Ploy is a multipotentialite, she has a scientific background and creative pursuits. Curious as a sponge, she explores the sweet spot between science and design. The enthusiasm in her projects can be found, the way it involves the spectators.

Fabian Mansmann

Ulrike Kuchner

Ulrike Kuchner is an astrophysicist, artist, curator and creative producer publishing both in astronomy and in the inter- and transdisciplinary context of ArtScience. She (simultaneously) studied Astrophysics at the University of Vienna, as well as Fine Arts/Paintings at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where she was born and raised. Today, after Masters and Ph.D. degrees have taken her to Australia, Chile, the US and Germany, she is a postdoctoral researcher in astronomy at the University of Nottingham, UK, as well as a visual artist. In her research into Astronomy, she studies how mass is assembled in the Universe and how galaxies form and evolve over their lifetime. To do this, she bridge simulations (specifically, cosmological hydrodynamical simulations) with observations of world-class telescopes. As an artist and interdisciplinary researcher, she operate where art, culture, and science intersect, using both backgrounds to find or reject interdisciplinary answers to overarching questions. Her art often deals with the themes of humanity and imperfections in data, something we tend to strip away from science. Ulrike also joins the creative process of other art-scientists and science-artists as curator and mentor to integrate different approaches and knowledge systems, challenging the frontiers between the two cultures without imposing a hierarchy.

Pim Tournaye

Pim is an improviser, musician, and technologist. He likes making things, people, processes and dynamics talk to each other. Currently studying Interactive Media Arts at NYU's ITP program, he researches and makes projects around communication and its multiplicity.

Jorge Guevara

Jorge is a Colombian choreographer, experience & interaction designer based in Brussels whose work lies in the intersection of interface technologies and sociology. His choreographies propose playgrounds where the body in time-space becomes a source of non-binary knowledge. He creates frameworks with a responsive/interactive/relational aspect where the subject of attention is the public, where the people come together. His focus is on decolonizing knowledge where the body is a source of healing.

daniel vandersmissen