Annie Abrahams is an independent artist known worldwide for her netart (Being Human - online low tech mood mutators / not immersive. 1996 - 2007) and collective writing experiments. She is an internationally regarded pioneer of networked performance art. Abrahams has performed and shown work extensively in France, including at the Centre Pompidou and the Jeu de Paume, Paris, and in many international galleries as the Stadtgalerie Mannheim, Germany; the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, USA; the New Museum, New York; Furtherfield Gallery, London; NIMk, Amsterdam and Aksioma in Ljubljana. She was lead-performer in ELO2017 Porto. https://bram.org

Eugenio Tisselli is a programmer, writer and researcher. As a programmer-writer, he has explored ways in which code influences our understanding of the world, and has attempted to write against meaning by focusing on the materiality of language. As a programmer-researcher, he has engaged with diverse social and environmental issues, which have led him to develop platforms for the collaborative creation of community memories. He has presented his work in multiple conferences, festivals and exhibitions. His work is available at motorhueso.net and ojovoz.net.

Dr. Corey Sparks is Assistant Professor of English-Digital Humanities in the English Department at California State University, Chico. His research and teaching interests include digital humanities, medieval studies, poetics, and critical theory. He earned an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago, and he earned a PhD in English from Indiana University. Since coming to Chico State in 2014, Dr. Sparks has taught courses in ancient and medieval literature and culture; college writing; literature and political activism; literary theory; technology, history, and society; and technology and literature. Dr. Sparks works on and has published print articles and book reviews as well as a digital media projects. His work can be found in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Pedagogy, The Medieval Review, Exemplaria: medieval/early modern/theory, Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde. He is founding- and managing-editor for the academic blog EXM:medieval/early modern/theory/blog , and he is a former editorial assistant for the online review journal The Medieval Review. His current digital project, titled The Procedural Sonnet, is a text-based video game in which a player makes poetic choices while navigating a seventeenth century sonnet sequence.

Fanny Gravel-Patry is a lecturer and PhD researcher in communication studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Supervised by Krista Geneviève Lynes, her doctoral research is supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC). Her research interests are in visual culture, social media, feminism(s) and practices of care. Her doctoral research project focuses the affective potentials of mental health support groups on Instagram. Fanny has an MA in Art History from Université de Montréal that she received with great distinctions.

Malthe Stavning Erslev is PhD fellow with Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University. His research documents, theorizes, and experiments with the interwovenness of machine learning and mimesis in a framework of electronic literature. Erslev was ELO research fellow in 2020/21.
http://darc.au.dk/mse.

Paulo Silva Pereira is Assistant Professor of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra and a Member of the Centre for Portuguese Literature Center. He holds a PhD by the U. of Coimbra, teaches in the areas of Portuguese Literature; Cultural Studies; History and Periodization of Portuguese Literature; Interart Studies; Literature, Memory and History; Literature, Arts and Media, and Digital Humanities. He has published several works on Portuguese literature and culture from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. He is a member of the project ‘No Problem Has a Solution: A Digital Archive of the Book of Disquiet’. In 2015 he co-edited an issue of MATLIT on “Arts, Media and Digital Culture”, and has been working as thesis adviser on research projects in the fields of Digital Humanities, intermediality, and digital media. He is Director of the PhD Programme in Portuguese Language Literature and currently the principal investigator of the project ‘Ex Machina: Inscription and Literature’. He is also a Member of the Management Committee of COST Action ‘Distant Reading for European Literary History’.

Christelle Proulx is a PhD candidate in Art History at the Université de Montréal. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, her thesis project focuses on the photographic perspective that underlies the utopian aspirations animating the main platforms and web technologies. Her research interests linger on the various phenomena of online visual cultures, software and media studies, photography and sociology. She has published several articles on the subject and co-directed the book L’agir en condition hyperconnectée: art et images à l’oeuvre (PUM, 2019, forthcoming). She is a member of the Art et site research team (artetsite.org) since 2012, a research project that studies public art, photography and digital cultures, led by her supervisor Suzanne Paquet.

Dan Rockmore is the Associate Dean of the Sciences and the Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science, the William H. Neukom 1964 Professor of Computational Science, and Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College. He has published widely on topics as wide-ranging as the computational analysis of artistic and literary style, models of personality, the navigation of knowledge spaces, and Fourier transforms. His most recent book is What Are the Arts and Sciences: A Guide for the Curious (UPNE, 2017).