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 aecting 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/

Mihara was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. Based in Kyoto. He creates open systems engaged with the world that employ a wide range of materials and phenomena such as acoustics, foams, radiation, rainbows, microbes, moss, air streams, soil, humidity and electrons in order to reinterpret them as art. Since 2011, he has been involved in the Blank Project, which examines the relationship between technology and society, both in Japan and overseas. Since 2013, he has been participating in a series of artist-in-residencies in 18 locations in 9 countries, from the Arctic Circle to tropical rainforests, from military borders to bio-art labs, from the center of art to extreme environments. He has won awards including at Ars Electronica, Transmediale, and the Japan Media Arts Festival, and was on the jury of the Prix Ars Electronica in 2019. Since 2022, he has co-organized the event “Ride the Waves on March 11th”. In recent years, he has also been involved in conservation and restoration of sound art and media art for which methodologies have not yet been established.
http://mhrs.jp

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] (2004–010), 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), Forum “Spirits as Energy | Stone, Water, Forest and Human” (General Incorporated Association Dialogue Place). Juror of many international competitions, many co-publications. The first solo publication“ Ecosophic Art” (2023). 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 dierent 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/