Nicola Di Croce is an architect, musician, sound artist, and scholar. He has a PhD in Regional planning and public policies, and he’s currently Postdoctoral research fellow at Iuav University of Venice, Italy.
His research deals with the relationship between Urban Studies and Sound Studies. In particular, he’s interested in collaborative and participatory approach to urban policy analysis and design through methodologies emerging within Urban Planning, Urban Sociology and Sound Art practice.
Sound is central to Di Croce’s artistic and academic practice, as he intends critical listening a pivotal tool for the investigation of urban and cultural transformations affecting particularly vulnerable areas, such as depopulation, segregation and loss of local identities.
Through articles, lectures, compositions, performances, and installations Di Croce aims to foster sonic awareness and to empower institutions and local communities, exploring new potentials for urban regeneration, participatory processes and local development.
https://nicoladicroce.cargo.site/

Aiming to make art that openly engages with the world, MIHARA creates systems that employ a wide range of materials, media, and technologies, such as acoustics, bubbles, radiation, rainbow, microbes, moss, air stream, soil and electron in order to continually questions the here and now. Since 2011, after an earthquake and tsunami struck the East coast of Japan, he has been working on ‘blanks project,’ which explores the boundaries of the systems that drive modern society. Since 2013, he participate residency program from center of contemporary art to extreme environment, such as poler region(ars biaorctica), rain forest(labverde), DMZ(REAL DMZ PROJECT),

MIHARA has exhibited and awarded internationally, as his solo exhibition “The World Filled with Blanks” was held at Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien in Berlin in 2013, and Kyoto Art Center in 2016. Group exhibitions include “Open Space 2017: Re-envisioning the Future” (ICC, 2017), “Elements of Art and Science” (Ars Electronica Center, Linz, 2015‒16), “Sound Art̶Sound as a Medium of Art” (ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2012‒13), residency at 10 sites of 8 countries such as SymbioticA (Perth, Australia), DEPO2015 (Pizen, Czech Republic), Kuandu Museum (Taipei, Taiwan) and Do a Front (Yamaguchi, Japan), awarded from Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Japan Media Arts Festival, co-auther of “Haptics Hacks(Asahi Press, 2016)” and Jury of Prix Ars Electronica 2019. Finalist of NISSAN ART AWARD 2020. In recent years, he has also been involved in the preservation and restoration of sound sculptures and media art works for which no methodology has been established.

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Curator/critic based in Tokyo. Artistic Director of “Forest for Dialogue and Creativity”, President of “AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Japan”. Visiting professor at Tama Art University and Tokyo Zokei University, lecturer at Musashino Art University and Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) and the Postgraduate School of Kokugakuin University.
Her activities traverse existing fields by focusing on “Information flows”. In parallel, working as a curator of Cannon ARTLAB (1990-2001), Mori Art Museum (2002-2004), senior curator of NTT Inter Communication Center[ICC] (2004-2010), as an independent curator, realized many experimental exhibitions and projects. Recents works include SIAF 2014 (Associate Curator), KENPOKU ART 2016 (Curator). Works in 2020 including the Symposium of AICA Japan (Chairperson), MMFS 2020 (Director), “Forking PiraGene” (Co-curator, C-Lab Taipei). Works in 2021 including the Forum “Information as a form of ” (Kyoto Prefecture), “EIR (Energies in Rural)” (Co-curator, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre + Liminaria, Italy, ongoing), Forum “Spirits as Energy｜Stone, Water, Forest and Human” (General Incorporated Association Dialogue Place). Juror of many international competitions, many co-publications. Essay series “Ecosophic Future” at HILLS LIFE (2021-).
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Leandro Pisano is a curator, writer and independent researcher who is interested in intersections between art, sound and technoculture. The specific area of his research deals with political ecology of rural, marginal and remote territories. He is founder and director of Interferenze new arts festival (2003) and frequently he is involved in projects on electronic and sound art, including Mediaterrae Vol.1 (2007), Barsento Mediascape (2013) and Liminaria (2014-18). Among the sonic arts exhibitions he has curated, there are “Otros sonidos, otros paisajes” (MACRO Museum – Rome, Italy, 2017), “Alteridades de lo invisible” (Festival Tsonami, Valparaíso, Chile, 2018) and “Manifesto of Rural Futurism” (Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne, Australia, 2019). He conducted presentations, conferences and workshops in different universities or during events related with new media aesthetics, design, sound and territorial regeneration processes in several countries worldwide. He has written articles in several magazines, such as Corriere della Sera – La Lettura, Blow-Up, Doppiozero, Neural, Exibart and Nero Magazine. He is author of the book “Nuove geografie del suono. Spazi e territori nell’epoca postdigitale”, published in Milan by Meltemi (2017). Leandro Pisano holds a PhD in Cultural and Post-Colonial Studies from University of Naples “L’Orientale”and he is presently Honorary Research Fellow in Anglo-American Literature at University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”.
https://www.leandropisano.it/en/