Vanina Hofman is a Lecturer at the History and Art History Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Catalonia) where she also directs the Aula de Cine i Arts Audiovisuals. She  develops her work in a hybrid territory between academic research and cultural production. Her field of interest lies in the intersections among Art, Science, Technology & Society. She is particularly interested in the processes involved in the construction of memory in digital culture, the archiving of media arts, the unconventional arts histories and the digital materialities. She has recently published the book “Divergent Practices of Media Arts Preservation. Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Culture” based on previous fieldwork conducted in Argentina. She is part of the interdisciplinary Research Group MIRMED-GIAC (URV, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica).

Gabriel Virgilio Luciani (Atlanta, USA, 1995) is a curator, editor-in-chief of exibart.es and contemporary art history professor based in Barcelona. Their sphere of research is situated at a liquid intersection between neo-corporealities, poetry, queer theory, magic and objectual affectivity. Over the past eight years, they have curated shows in various galleries, art centres and alternative spaces in the Barcelona area, some within the framework of festivals such as LOOP Barcelona, Art Nou and Barcelona Gallery Weekend. They hold a Masters degree in Digital Arts Curation from the Universitat Ramon Llull – ESDi and a Bachelors degree in Fine Art from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona – Escola Massana.

Angel Leung is a moving image and media art curator who works in HK, Paris, and London.

She is the curator of Micromégas (2021-2023), Video Gaze (2023) at Videoex, and Ersilia – Body of Gateway Cities (2022). Her co-curated programmes include Foundation: A Web3 Media Art Festival (2022-23), Virtual Bodies Micro Residency in Peer to Peer: UK/HK (2022), Birds without Legs: Body & Mobility (2022) and Digital Birth: Zooming in on NFT (2021) at Art Basel Hong Kong.

She finished her Master’s degree in Screen Art at Université de Strasbourg in 2016 and received her Bachelor’s degree in Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in 2009. She is also a researcher and writer on cinema. She co-edited the book David Lynch (Kubrick, 2017) while her articles were published in various media.

Hamaca is the reference archive of the historiography of the experimental audiovisual linked to Spain. Around its catalog of single-channel pieces, it develops a program and a network of collaborations for the dissemination of this type of work and works as a distributor, promoting decent conditions for the remuneration of artistic work. It is an initiative of the artistic community itself through the AAVC, and has been operational since 2007. The entire collection is digitized and made available to the public for consultation through the web platform hamacaonline.net.

Lluís Roqué Comas, Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, is a conservator-restorer at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. He specializes in the conservation and restoration of media art and photography and is in charge of the preservation of audiovisual, photographic and digital collections. He coordinates with the rest of the department the management of documentation related to conservation and restoration in the museum’s database system and participates in the transversal project of digitization of the audiovisual collections of the MACBA Collection – MACBA Digital Repository since its creation. He carries out conservation-restoration, supervision and assembly of works from the MACBA Collection and temporary exhibitions.

He is also an associate professor of the Degree in Conservation and Restoration at the University of Barcelona where he teaches the subject of Infography and Software for Conservation-Restauration.

Mimiko is an artist based in Istanbul who mostly produces videos, photography series and textual works, focusing on connecting to/through the body and transcending the body. The first decade of her practice focused on gender roles and socially constructed identities through a subjective documentary approach. For the past five years she’s been working towards exploring the expression of the inner flow — ‘innergy’— in human bodies and water-bodies.

By conducting a primarily visual and bodily experience-based artistic research and drawing connections between constructed binaries and dichotomies, she questions global narratives about gender roles, identities and more recently about climate and ocean emergencies with a multidisciplinary approach, aiming for creating a disturbance of predisposed personal and social structures. In addition to solo shows in Turkey, France and Geneva, she participated in group exhibitions and screenings in Germany, Sweden and The Netherlands.

Ayça Okay has been actively engaged with LOOP since 2022, nowadays serving as both a scouter and advisor. In her role, she fosters new connections and facilitates collaborations across the European region and the Middle East.

Ayca Okay (born in 1991, Izmir) is a member of AICA Turkey (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art) and CIMAM (International Committee of Museums and Collections of Modern Art), serving as a curator primarily based between Istanbul and Berlin.

Since 2018, Okay has been actively curating and overseeing exhibitions across various collections, including Borusan Contemporary Museum, Baksı Museum, Contemporary Istanbul Foundation, and the Yves Rocher Foundation. She has also collaborated with projects, spaces and galleries such as Vorfluter Projektraum, Scope Berlin, and Somos Arts in Berlin.

She emphasizes the creation of unique discourses on contemporary issues, aiming to transcend the confines of contemporary art by considering it as a product of various processes, including thoughts, ideas, texts, and experiments. She was elected as a board member of BAKSI Museum and TÜSİAD BBI (Berlin Bosphorus Initiative).

Currently, she is researching the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens’s collection as part of the International Curators Visiting Program and curating an extended collection exhibition at BAKSI Museum for 2024.

Last updated: February 28th 2024

Grégory Castéra (he/him) is a curator, an educator, a director and an institution advisor working in the field of contemporary art. He works at the intersection of curating, artistic research and institution development.

He is currently curator-at-large and chief of “Learning from the Commons” at KANAL-Centre Pompidou (Brussels). As an advisor, he works with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Paris and Lisbon), the Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht), and Kerenidis Pepe (Paris and Anafi). His last essay, “Of Attentional Environments (The Pearl Necklace)” has just been published by Valiz in the anthology Sensing Earth.

Before this, Castéra was director of Council, a curatorial office for art and society that he founded together with Sandra Terdjman. They are still involved in one of Council’s projects, Afield, a translocal network of artist-led social initiatives, that continues to grow independently. From 2019 to 2022, he was guest professor of collective practices at the Royal Institute of Art Stockholm. From 2010 to 2012, he served as co-director of Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, a center for artistic research situated in the outskirts of Paris, together with Alice Chauchat and Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. From 2007 to 2009 he was coordinator and educator at Bétonsalon, a center for art and research located in the new 13th’s ‘city university’ in Paris. From 2007 to 2014, with the collective L’Encyclopédie de la parole, he created an online encyclopedia and several productions exploring the spoken word in all its forms.

Grégory Castéra has worked with artists such as Agency, Tarek Atoui, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Eglė Budvytytė, Jennifer Lacey, Franck Leibovici, Mobile Akademie Berlin, Carlos Motta, Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Marjetica Potrč, Zhou Tao and Akram Zaatari. Among projects that he has curated and co-curated are The Against Nature Journal (2020-2022); Shoreline Movements at Taipei Biennial (2020); Collectively at Iaspis (2019); Infinite Ear at Sharjah Biennial (2013), Bergen Assembly (2016), Garage Museum (2018) and CentroCentro (2019-2020); Foreign Places at Wiels (2016); The Manufacturing of Rights at Ashkal Alwan (2015); On Ordinary Narratives at Villa Arson (2014); and Playtime at Betonsalon (2008, 2009). 

Théo-Mario Coppola is a curator and arts writer. They are currently based in Paris, France.

Théo-Mario Coppola has contributed to catalogues, magazines and online publications. They regularly lecture on radical aesthetic practices at art schools and universities.

Last update: November 17th, 2022