Marco Barotti is a multimedia artist working at the intersection of art, science, sound, and environmental research. His data-driven kinetic sound sculptures—crafted from audio technologies, consumer electronics, waste, and natural materials—form fictional “tech ecosystems” that mimic the behaviors of animals and plants. These works merge scientific inquiry with artistic imagination, raising awareness of the ecological and cultural conditions of the Anthropocene.
Barotti’s practice explores how technology can be reimagined as part of the natural world, using sound as a bridge between disciplines and species. His work fosters dialogue between scientific research and public perception,translating complex ecological data into emotionally resonant experiences.
He has received numerous awards, including an Honorary Mention at the S+T+ARTS Prize, the NTU Global Digital Art Prize, the Tesla Award, and the Delux Colour Award. His projects have been supported by institutions such as S+T+ARTS, Stiftung Kunstfonds, EMAP/EMARE, BBK, Musicboard Berlin and the Zer01ne Creators Project.
His installations have been exhibited at leading international venues including the Gwangju Biennale, Ars Electronica, Saatchi Gallery, Science Gallery Melbourne, New Media Gallery, Futurium, FACT Liverpool, WRO Art Center, Dutch Design Week, among others.
Anne Marie Maes is a Brussels-based multidisciplinary artist whose work blends art, science, and ecology. With a background in botany and visual anthropology, she explores ecosystems, alchemical processes, and the intricate relationship between nature and form. Her practice integrates living organisms, biological, digital, and traditional media to examine self-generating art processes. On the roof of her studio, she has created an experimental garden and field laboratory, studying insects, bacteria, and natural phenomena to understand how form emerges in nature. Maes’s long-term projects, such as Connected Open Greens, Bee Agency, and Laboratory for Form and Matter, engage with ecological systems through collaboration with universities and fablabs. Her work is deeply influenced by the temporal nature of processes and the use of natural and everyday materials, drawing inspiration from the working methods of Bauhaus and Arte Povera. Maes has received multiple awards and exhibited internationally, pushing the boundaries of art and ecology.
Sefa Sagir - multimedia artist, musician, and performer. He creates interactive experiences that merge art and new technologies, from immersive visual systems to sound design. He teaches at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw and has collaborated with institutions including the Copernicus Science Center, Goethe-Institut in Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin Science Week, and the Sapporo International Art Festival. His current focus is on theater and audiovisual performance, weaving together art, technology, and dramaturgy into cohesive narratives.
Robertina Šebjanič - based in Ljubljana, is an artist/researcher whose practice drifts through the fluid thresholds of ecology, (geo)politics, and arts, attuned to the rhythms and ruptures of aquatic worlds. Her award- winning works navigate the intertidal zones between species, and bringing to the surface the submerged voices of oceans and rivers.
Her latest project, Echoes of the Abyss, builds on research initiated during her residency aboard the TARA research vessel in the Baltic Sea; continued in North and Adriatic Sea, investigating the environmental and geopolitical toxic legacy of submerged unexploded munitions.
Her works received awards, honorary mentions and nominations at Prix Ars Electronica, Starts Prize, Falling Walls., Re: humanism.
Dr Kuai Shen - is an artistic mediator of ant worlds specialised in multispecies ethnography. His practice-led research employs technology-based performances and decolonial tactics to overturn conventional representations of ants by dominant research imaginaries. Kuai develops the concept of inverted aesthesis: a multisensory amplification of insect-human relations through earthly attunements with more-than-human ecologies and indigenous ontologies.
His transversal work has been published in journals such as Society and Animals, Antennae, Art&Australia, Humans and Nature, and in the book Distributed Perception. His artworks have been commissioned by Eli Broad Museum, FACT Liverpool, National Art Gallery Vilnius, House of Arts Brno, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Quito. Kuai has been awarded stipends and prizes, such as Musikfonds Germany, Bridge from Michigan State University, the Saxony Cynetart Award, the Edith-Russ-Haus Media Prize, and an honorary mention at Prix Ars Electronica.
Rafał Kosewski – graduate of the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw, exhibition curator, cultural strategist and manager, playwright. He worked, among others, with the Warsaw Rising Museum, the History Meeting House, Museum of Warsaw and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. For many years, he has been associated with the Copernicus Science Centre as curator of the Przemiany Festival – an event supporting the creative dialogue between art, science and new technologies. In the curatorial work, his research interests focus on areas such as futures studies, speculative design, critical posthumanism, art & science.
Konrad Juściński- a visual artist who creates objects, spatial installations, and performances. At the Institute of Visual Arts, he leads the Sculpture Studio. 
Natalia Kopytko - graduate of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (2007) and Doctor of Arts at UKEN (2019). Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art and Design since 2016. Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage – ‘Young Poland’ (2016), the City of Kraków (2018), and the ‘Resilient Culture’ Programme (2020). She creates sculptures and installations, mainly ceramic. In her works, she explores memory, traces, reflections of things that do not exist, and evokes the forgotten. She is involved in the ‘archaeology of childhood' – the exploration of places and objects of special significance and their relationship with nature and human. Member of the O.W.L. collective. She lives and works in Kraków.
Centrala (Gosia Kuciewicz i Simone De Iacobis) - create projects under the slogan ‘Amplification of Nature’, based on the study of the relationship betweenarchitecture and natural processes. For them, architecture is a flow, not just a static form, while gravity, water circulation, atmospheric or astronomical phenomena are its building blocks. They consider architecture, which combines the intimate, human scale with the scale of the planet, as a toolthat helps to tune us to the rhythms of the world around, to enhance our sense of connection with nature, to open us up to experiencing its disappearing cycles, to direct our attention to the relationship of micro-events and transformations taking place at the scale of the Earth.
Diana Lelonek - graduated from the department of Photography in the Faculty of Multimedia Communication at the University of Art in Poznań (PL). She defended doctoral dissertation at the Interdisciplinary PhD Studies, University of Art in Poznań. She currently works at the Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw. 
Oliwia Thomas - painter, performer, and environmentalist. She holds a Master’s degree from the Faculty of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she developed her interests within the Art & Science framework, particularly in areas such as neuroaesthetics, ethnobotany, hydrology, and geoecology. A laureate of the Artystyczna Podróż Hestii competition and the Coming Out – Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts showcase. She has participated in exhibitions including COP26 in Glasgow, Galeria Labirynt, and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and has collaborated with galleries such as Raster and TRAFO, as well as with the Warsaw Greenery Authority and the University of Warsaw. In her practice, she focuses on a dialogue with nature, seeking languages of communication with other forms of life as a way to counteract the destruction of Poland’s natural heritage.