Pieter Steyaert

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.

Mary Pedicini

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.

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.

Sven Kiefer

Sven Kiefer is a PhD student passionate about revealing the enigma of exoplanets. His academic journey began with observing these far-off worlds, but he has since shifted his focus to hands-on work with computer models to comprehend cloud formation in planetary atmospheres. He harbors a deep curiosity about how these clouds shape the weather and chemical makeup of exoplanets. Outside the confines of the lab, he delights in creatively sharing the marvels of space. His significant contributions to 'Exomoon Theater,' a project aimed at making the science of astronomy both engaging and accessible, cannot be overlooked. For Sven, it's all about demystifying the cosmos, making it feel closer to home, and inspiring curiosity in all.

Amy Holt

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.

daniel vandersmissen

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.

Katrien Kolenberg

Katrien Kolenberg's work lies in the interstices of artistic expression and scientific exploration. After obtaining her PhD in astrophysics at the KU Leuven, she did research at the University of Vienna and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She currently is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Antwerp and the Free University of Brussels (VUB), as well as STE(A)M coordinator at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), and an artist. Her research lies in the field of stellar astrophysics, particularly variable stars and asteroseismology. Linked to her research, she also investigates the potential of sonification for scientific data analysis, as well as the benefits of including arts in science education.

Olga Mrozek

I am a multidisciplinary designer, a illustrator and a tattoo artist who finds interest in issues, development, structure, and functioning of human society.
I enjoy creating concepts that challenge and provoke the viewer as I believe that the change begins with the thought.

I'm a graduate of Product Design from the Glasgow School of Art.
Currently working as a designer at On*Arte as well as freelance Foresight Analyst, Illustrator and tattoo artist.

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.