Electronic artist, develops interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art. His main interest is in creating platforms for public participation, by perverting technologies such as robotics, computerized surveillance or telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival and animatronics, his light and shadow works are "antimonuments for alien agency".

Andrew Kudless is an architect based in San Francisco where he is an associate professor at the California College of the Arts. Andrew has taught design studios, workshops, and seminars at The Ohio State University, the Architectural Association (London), Yale University, and Rice University. He earned a Master of Arts with distinction from the Architectural Association’s Emergent Technologies and Design graduate program and a Master of Architecture with honors from the Tulane University School of Architecture.

The Block Research Group (BRG) at the Institute of Technology in Architecture at ETH Zürich is led by Prof. Dr. Philippe Block and Dr. Tom Van Mele. Research at the BRG focuses on several core areas, including analysis of masonry structures, graphical analysis and design methods, computational form finding and structural design, discrete element assemblies, and fabrication and construction technologies.

Alicia Nahmad / Shajay Bhooshan / Vishu Bhooshan

This workshop will be a collaborative design exercise which seeks to explore new pluralities on the intersubjectivities of human and machine within the context of architectural design methods. Participants will train a neural network (GAN) by procedurally sketching architectural ideas, they will then select words and images that associate to those sketches.

Judyta Cichocka / Thomas Wortmann / Radoslaw Grymin

The workshop explores applications of Architectural Design Optimization (ADO). Participants will learn about major classes of black-box optimization algorithms—Metaheuristics (including Swarm Intelligence), Direct Search and Surrogate Model-based Optimization—and experiment with algorithms from each category: Genetic Algorithms, Particle Swarm Optimization, DIRECT, and optimization with Radial Basis Functions.

Multidisciplinary creator devoted to developing new paradigms that revolve around science, technology, art, social structures, philosophy, the mind, and reality itself. His work has different outcomes that include scientific experiments, art work, writings, software, hardware and music; and has been appreciated in many countries, such as Japan, Australia, Germany, Ireland, England, France, Southafrica and U.S.A., among many more, and has appeared in Wired Magazine UK as one of top 100 innovations.

Arcángel Constantini produces work of a marked ludic-experimental nature, strongly influenced by the fortuitous, chaotic processes of the city as reflected in the systematic use of error aesthetics. His work and artistic practice explore the dynamics of visual and sound works, low-tech installations, propaganda action, visual/sound performance, hardware hacking, physical computing, installation, sound art and net art.

Nathalie Regard’s work is placed as an intermediate between virtual and visual. The work reflects and refracts the power and the nature of the image, through both electronic and hand manipulated processes, relating to it both memory and representation. Nathalie comes from the practice of painting, preserves about it the notion of persistence, the idea that a task is not significant for its effect but how it becomes a way of life or a habit, investing in the backlog texture as a collection of moments.

Multimedia artist, composer, curator and independent researcher. He made his studies at the Faculty of Music at the National Autonomus University of Mexico (UNAM). As a multimedia artist he has participated in several collective exhibitions in Mexico, Berlin, New York, Madrid, Montevideo, Hamilton and Saõ Paulo. He has composed music for video-art, interactive installations, electroacustic mixed pieces, dance companies, sound-poetry and performances.