Curator and Director of Zhulong Gallerz. She brings varied curatorial experience and a cultivated understanding of the complex relationship between technology and art, new media and design practices to Zhulong Gallery, where she is the Director. Martin has worked for the Nasher Sculpture Center, The Dallas Museum of Art, the Blaffer Contemporary in Houston and Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, among others. She has also consulted with non-profits, including La Reunion TX, the MADI, and the Meadows Forum for Art and Urban Engagement.
Martin has published in print and online publications and her academic research, presented locally and nationally, focused on Modern and Contemporary art, acculturated spaces, site-specific art and the fluidity of art and design.

Medical Doctor, Gallerist and Writer.  She is currently a Professor of Critical and Creative Writing at HEAD (Haute école d’art et de design – Geneva University of Art and Design). She is the founding director and curator of Geneva-based gallery, Analix Forever, which represents both emerging and established artists. She created, together with Paul Ardenne, VIDEO FOREVER, a venue to promote video art in an academic and open context. She is also a curator and her curated shows always include video art.

May 5th, 2016

Last update: 16th November, 2020

Film-maker and Director. She has extensive experience in film production, new media and moving image. After studying digital art and visual communication in Holland and US she worked for many years in New York as filmmaker and art director in film and advertising (establishing brands and supervising vision for e.g. CÎROC® Ultra Premium, luxury jewellery e.g. Harry Winston and high-end fashion brands as well as developing communication campaigns for humanitarian organisations e.g. United Nations and Oxfam International). Irene is interested in the impact of digital change on society, culture and art and the values associated to its shifts as well as our perception of new spaces of reality.
Alongside her work in VAC she continues to make art and films.

20 April 2017

Art critic and independent curator, with a PhD in Information and Knowledge Society, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Bachelor in Art History from the University of Barcelona. Waelder has curated several digital art exhibitions in museums and foundations and has been a member of the jury in various contemporary and digital art awards. He writes regularly for several specialized, international publications, as well as catalogues and monographs. Currently, he is a consulting professor in Humanities and Design as well as postgraduate courses at UOC. He is also a writer for the magazines ETC Media (Canada) and Estonian Art (Estonia), and he is section editor of Media Art in art.es contemporary art magazine.

Last update: May 15th, 2017

Co-founder and Director of Carroll / Fletcher – a London-based commercial contemporary art gallery. Established in 2012 by Jonathon Carroll and Steve Fletcher, the gallery has quickly emerged as a leading platform for contemporary art with an emphasis on multimedia, film/video and new technologies. The gallery also hosts an online cinema, Carroll / Fletcher Onscreen, showing curated weekly screenings of experimental and artists’ film.

May 5th, 2016

Researcher, Thinker and Entrepreneur. He has a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven, where he explored the relationship between machine learning and creativity. He holds Bachelor’s Degrees in EE and Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. McConaghy has authored two books, 3 papers and 20 patents and has given invited talks at MIT, Columbia, Berkeley, Jet Propulsion Lab, and more. Dr. McConaghy began his career doing machine learning research for the Canadian Department of Defence. Since 1999, Dr. McConaghy has built three venture backed companies in Canada, the USA and Germany.

May 5th, 2016

Vanina Saracino (she/they) is an independent curator, film programmer, writer, and lecturer.

Her work focuses on theories and art practices that explicitly question anthropocentric and binary worldviews from an intersectional perspective, with an emphasis on lens-based and time-based art. Her latest project, Other Minds, is the fourth edition of the Screen City Biennial (curated with Daniela Arriado), which took place at the astronomical observatory Archenhold Sternwarte and other venues in Berlin in 2022.

Since 2021, Saracino has been teaching at the Institute of Time-based Art – IZM, Universität der Künste (UdK) in Berlin, with Prof. Nina Fischer. She has collaborated with Kumu Art Museum and EKKM (Tallinn), Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi (Venice), TBA21 – Academy, Cinemateca Brasileira (São Paulo), Cinemateca do MAM (Rio de Janeiro), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg), The EYE Film Institute (Amsterdam), and Centro Párraga (Murcia), among others. Saracino has realized residencies at ISCP (New York, 2023), Q21 – MuseumsQuartier (Vienna, 2021), Fire Station Artists’ Studios (Dublin, 2019), CPR – Curatorial Program for Research (Reykjavik, Tórshavn, Tromsø, Boden, Luleå, Hyrynsalmi, Helsinki, 2018), and GENERATOR – 40mcube/EESAB (Rennes, 2018). Graduated in Communication Sciences, Saracino holds an MA in Arts Management (GIOCA, Università di Bologna) and in Philosophy and Art Theory (UAB, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona). She has been a member of IKT since 2015.

Last update: 17th November , 2023