Bernhard Leitner studied Architecture at the Technical University in Vienna. From 1968 to 1983 he lived in New York, where he started working on architectural and sculptural spaces built and formed with sound. He was Associate Professor at NYU (1971 -1982) and published articles in Artforum and in Art in America. Between 1987 and 2005 he became Professor for Media Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He is considered a pioneer of the art form generally referred to as ‘Sound Art’. The scale of his work reaches from large permanent urban installations (Le Cylindre Sonore,Paris; Sound Field 1020 Vienna; Sound-Space, Technical University Berlin) to body-related sound sculptures (Sound Chair; Vertical Space for one Person; Sound Suit; Sound Swing; Head-Space-Pieces).

Anne-Laure Chamboissier holds a BA and MA in Contemporary Art from La Sorbonne Paris IV. After being in charge of Contemporary Art and Cultural Heritage in the historical region of Touraine, she specialised in interdisciplinary practices and co-curated the Belgian sound art festival “City Sonic” for four years (2009-2012). From 2007 to 2009, she was appointed curator by the French Embassy in Brussels, during the French Presidency of the European Union. Meanwhile, she curated exhibitions for institutions, such as the school ENSA Bourges. In 2014, she co-curated Tentative(s) d’épuisement for ARCO Madrid with Christophe Daviet-Thery, and in October of that same year, she presented Sounds by the river in collaboration with the program Hors les murs at FIAC, Paris. In April, she was also invited at the MUNTREF University in Buenos Aires as a visiting lecturer. In January 2015, the film that she co-directed on sound poet Bernard Heidsieck was released on DVD. She is the curator of Beyond the Sound, an exhibition that inaugurated this past May at Le French May in Hong Kong.

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Lluís Nacenta is a curator, writer, musician and researcher in the space of confluence of music, art, technology and science. He holds a degree in mathematics, a degree in piano, a master’s degree in comparative studies of literature, art and thought and a doctorate in humanities, with a thesis on musical repetition. He has been Head of Postgraduate Studies at Eina, University Center of Design and Art of Barcelona, from 2015 to 2017, Director of Hangar, Center for Production and Research of Visual Arts, from 2018 to 2021, and is Director of Quo Artis since September 2022.

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