Boundaries

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Jeroen Cluckers (BE) is an artist-researcher: his work explores the boundaries between analog and digital, authentic and artificial, real and virtual. His work has been exhibited in over 40 countries at venues such as Ars Electronica, ZKM, Japan Media Arts Festival, ISEA, and CVPR. He has received several awards, including Best 60 Seconds Film at the NY Film Week, and was nominated for the New Technological Art Award (Liedts-Meesen Foundation).

He is affiliated with AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts Antwerp: as an artistic researcher at Maxlab (Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp) and as creative research lead at Immersive Lab. Recently, the immersive total experience The Desert of The Real — developed with Studio Radiaal, supported by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), and co-produced by studio.POC and Concertgebouw Brugge — had its premiere at the latter venue.

Boris Eldagsen (*1970) studied Fine Arts and Philosophy in Cologne, Mainz, Prague, and Hyderabad. Since 2000, his photographic and media art has been exhibited and awarded at international institutions and festivals. Since 2004, he has been teaching the theory of ideas and creativity at international art academies such as the Victorian College of the Arts / Melbourne University, Kunsthochschule Mainz, Filmakademie Ludwigsburg, and Pathshala Media Institute Dhaka. In addition, he has held workshops and presentations for 40 universities and art schools worldwide, as well as nearly a dozen Goethe-Institutes.

He is currently teaching “AI for Creatives” at LABASAD – Barcelona School for Art & Design.

Boris is one of the few internationally recognized experts in AI-generated images and videos and is a regular guest at panel discussions and events such as TEDx, re:publica, World AI Conference Shanghai and C2 Montréal. His refusal of the Sony World Photo Awards in April 2023 triggered a global debate on the relationship between photography and AI-generated images. He was called the “poster boy of the AI debate” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), “the man who lifted the lid on Pandora’s box” (The Age), and his image “PSEUDOMNESIA | The Electrician” was described as “the picture that stopped the world” (The Guardian), becoming a symbol of a new era. He is an appointed member of Germany’s two oldest photography associations, DFA and DGPh, and a founding member of the AI working group of the German Photographic Council, the umbrella organization of over 40 photography associations and institutions in Germany. For the Council, he produces a monthly AI podcast. He recently was a jury member for the Ars Electronica Award in Linz.

September 2025, he curated the group show “PSYCHOPOMP! AI images as an expression of the unconscious mind” for the inauguration of the Roger Ballen Centre for Photography in Johannesburg / South Africa. 

Eldagsen lives and works in Berlin.

Václav Janoščík is professor, theorist and curator, focusing on philosophical critique and appropriation of popular culture, vernacular ontologies, speculative history, democratization of contemporary art or thinking, political ecology (of affects), philosophy of technics and media, and gaming. Currently he teaches at Faculty of Art and Design University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem and Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM), The New Centre for Research and Practice, University of New Haven.

 He edited several volumes on problems of contemporary thinking ranging from contemporary art, ontological turn, acceleration, future and media theory (for instance Object, 2015 [CZ]; Reinventing Horizons, 2016; Mind in Terrain, Philosophical Realism in 21. century 2018 [CZ]; Back to the Future2019 [CZ]). His own books are Nonsleeping (2018) [CZ] giving auto-fiction account of social acceleration or abstraction. Straining the Contemporary, Detective Search for Shared World (2020) [CZ], Dystopian Realism. How to learn through capitalism and dark futures (2022) [CZ], Past Dreams about Today: History of Superheroes and Critical Theory (2024) [CZ] forming a trilogy aiming at to reinterpretation and weaponization of pop-culture and contemporary philosophy. He curates extensively and creates art projects, music, pc games, focusing on expanding thinking into broader discourse and issues, art into gaming, technology or experimental and collaborative practices.

He tries to accelerate as a doppelgänger in pc games.

Erik Mátrai studied painting at the University of Fine Arts in Budapest. In his work, he combines traditional media with new technologies, creating installations, photography, video, and site-specific projects in exhibition spaces and public areas.

Mátrai focuses on religious narratives and Christian iconography, nature and natural elements (especially light, water, and fog), and geometrical forms. He uses light as his primary material and medium for creating new spatial and temporal experiences. His video works are slow, meditative, and often reference themes of eternity, redemption, and immortality.

The artist creates site-specific installations that connect space with the viewer and the artwork. He has realized works directly in churches and public spaces, transforming ordinary places into contemplative zones. His interactive light installations—illuminated human bodies, huge spheres, endless columns in forests—offer audiences new ways of perceiving and interpreting space. Collaborative work with other artists is also an important part of his practice.

Martin Newth is an artist, Head of the School of Fine Art, and Professor of Art and Education at The Glasgow School of Art. He studied at Newcastle University and the Slade School of Fine Art, London.

Working primarily with photography, but also through video and installation, Newth explores and exposes the processes and apparatus of image-making, foregrounding the material and technological conditions of photography itself.

He has exhibited widely, with solo exhibitions including Rezension – Skulptur, Objekt, Apparat at MEWO Kunsthalle, Germany, and Re-view at Photofusion, London. Other solo and group exhibitions have been presented at institutions such as the Xiamen Art Museum, China; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Kronika Centre for Contemporary Art, Bytom, Poland; Loft 8 Gallery, Vienna; and the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei.

Newth has held senior leadership positions at University of the Arts London and the Royal College of Art. His current research includes collaborative work through the cross-European network .PNG, which examines how social and global conditions shape how art is made and taught.

www.martinnewth.com

Miles Matsui Schleifer (GER/US) is a visual artist of Japanese heritage, raised between Austria and Southern California. He studied at the University of Vienna and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie for Art and Design in Amsterdam, where he currently lives and works. His narrative driven practice is informed by speculative fiction and anthropological methodology. It is concerned with all things small and subtle or seemingly insignificant, that bide absence in the grand equation of societal and ecological workings. These artistic inquiries are by format in written word, photographical and audiovisual installation and performance.