Cloe Masotta is a teacher, film and modern art critic, curator and art mediator. She holds a Ph.D in communications from Pompeu Fabra university, where she also obtained her degrees in the humanities and audio-visual communications, as well as her master’s degree in film studies and contemporary audio-visuals and her master’s degree in modern art theory and criticism in the context of the independent studies programme of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA). She has recently published the books Cuerpos exquisitos. Identidades y deseo en el archivo Xcèntric (CCCB) and Tendremos que encontrar un lugar donde encontrarnos (La Caníbal edicions and Barcelona Producció 2020).

Director of Choreoscope – the International Dance Film Festival of Barcelona. Co-artistic director of Moovy Tanzfilmfestival Köln. Associate Professor of Dancefilm at IAB (Institute of Arts Barcelona). Born in 1980 in Transylvania, he studied film directing at the Bucharest Film Academy, as well as Photo-Video Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest. Since 2001 lives in Barcelona, where he studied Advertising&PR, and has directed several short dance films. His films have been selected by festivals such as Dance on Camera, Jumping Frames, Tanzbiennale Heidelberg. In 2014 he was a member of the jury of the Production Grant Review Panel for the Dance Films Association New York in the selection of post-production grants for screendance projects and in 2015 for Muvers 360º, a project by Erre Que Erre Danza. In 2015, a retrospective of his work was screened at the III Video and Experimental Art exhibition Vartex Medellín, Colombia. He participated in 2015, 2017 and 2019 in the International Meeting of Performative Research of the University of the Basque Country. In 2018 in the VI International Dance Congress of the University of Malaga, also the Future Screens of Dance Conference of the Loikka International Dance Film Festival in Helsinki. At the Investigation in History and Theory of the Dance Seminar of the Complutense University of Madrid he talked about “Audiovisual Dance: The role of Choreoscope in the delimitation of the discipline”.

In 2019 and 2020 he presented the Choreoscope Case Study for the students of the Master in Event Management at the UPF Barcelona School of Management and is invited to represent IAB as a guest researcher in the Make A Move digital art incubator co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. In 2016 he publishes “Dance 24 frames per second: Reflection and precursor of social changes “. Co-written with Begoña Olabarria Smith, presented in the IV National Congress and I International Dance Research organized by the Spanish Association D+I: Dance and Research in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

Curator. General coordinator C-E-A France.

Stefano Miraglia is an Italian-Spanish artist, curator and writer based in Paris. His activities focus on artists’ moving image. Since 2018 he has curated and presented several programs of experimental and artists’ films and collaborated with various international exhibition spaces such as Bétonsalon, Kora, La Rada and Optica.

Stefano is the founder and principal curator of Movimcat—an online project for the dissemination of artist’s cinema—and a member of the French association of art curators C|E|A.

Often composed from diaristic and archival images, his films explore the notion of collage in cinema, combining noise music, photography, documentary and abstraction. His work has been presented internationally in exhibition spaces such as the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Fabrica research center, Centrum and in numerous film festivals.

IG: @movimcat  @stemiraglia

Last updated: November 11th, 2022

Sonia Fernández Pan is a (in)dependent curator, art writer and researcher. Author of esnorquel since 2011, a personal project in the form of an on-line archive with podcasts, texts and written conversations, where the need – and desire – to think with others can be put into practice. Among her recent curated projects are As if we could scrape the color of the iris and still see (Twin Gallery, Madrid, 2018), CHRONO-MATTER Objects are closer than they appear (Efremidis Gallery, Berlin, 2019) and the one-year curatorial programs The more we know about them, the stranger they become (Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona 2017) and Mirror becomes a razor when it’s broken (CentroCentro, Madrid, 2018-19). Since 2018 she is co-curator of You Got To Get In To Get Out (La Casa Encendida Madrid), a research on the experience of techno music from an experiential, discursive-visceral, political and material perspective. Since the pandemic she hosts the podcast series Feminism Under Corona for Institute Kunst (Basel) and Corona Under the Ocean for TBA21Academy & Institute Kunst. Lives and works in Berlin.

Director of Mostra FIRE!!