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Tania Candiani lives and works in Mexico City. One of the central interests of her work is the expanded idea of translation, extended to the experimental field through the use of visual, sound, textual and symbolic languages. Many of her projects consider the universe of sound and the politics of listening as a tool capable of expanding and transforming perceptions, both human and non-human. A fundamental part of her work is related to feminist policies and practices, understanding them as a communal, affective and ritual experience. Its production usually involves interdisciplinary work groups in various fields, consolidating intersections between art, literature, music, architecture, science, and labor, with an emphasis on ancestral knowledge and techniques, technologies, and their history in the production of knowledge.

She is a member of the National System of Art Creators of Mexico; she is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in the Arts, the Smithsonian Institution Research Grant for Artists; she is an artist-in-residence at the Arts at CERN program, in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2015, she represented Mexico at the 56th Venice Biennale. Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums, institutions and independent spaces, and is part of important public and private collections.

Ariel Guzik (Mexico, 1960) Musician, researcher, visual artist and inventor. He is the founder of the Laboratory for Research in Resonance and Expression of Nature, a space whose work is inspired by science fiction and is based on classical physics. It explores the phenomena of resonance, mechanics, electricity and magnetism as foundations for the invention of mechanisms that give voice to nature through music. His investigations reflect an intimate need to promote the enchantment of the world, in an attempt to preserve mysteries instead of deciphering them. It privileges the perception of natural events from the senses, fascination and fantasy.

Arcangelo Constantini is an artistic inventor, tech hacker, manager, and curator with a career spanning over 20 years in the art world. His body of work is multifaceted and transdisciplinary, focused on speculative reality and the construction of poetic hypotheses about the perception of the dream-concrete-digital environment. He has created expanded web art, sound artifacts for performative improvisations, and interactive activations, and has conducted extensive research on water molecule anomalies, building pieces of physical computing, interactive installations, and experiments with mantric machines.

As Curator of the Cyberlounge Museo Tamayo, he programmed more than twenty net.art exhibitions and acts of authorial interactivity, as well as the Sunday program of sound intervention "Immerse / sound forum, from 2004 to 2006, from 2000 to 2010 he programmed different visual- sonoros en inter[r] perie , the terrace of his home-studio / formalized as an independent space for the experimentation of art with technology in 2006 with the inauguration of ¼ un-cuarto, he was part of the team of curators of the Art Biennale electronic Transitio MX in the years 2005 and 2009. As well as the Council of Dorkbot Mexico City. He was co-curator with Iván Abreu of the inaugural event of the Cinema and Television Design Center.