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Sarah Mackenzie (she/her) is a cultural strategist, documentary filmmaker, and a media arts curator based in Montreal, working at the forefront of art, technology, and society. She is currently the MUTEK Forum and Partnerships Director, where she oversees the programming of the annual symposium on art and technology for the festival. Over the past decade, she has spearheaded culture projects for creative studios, brands, and media companies, including the Red Bull Music Academy, CHANEL, Coach, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Asahi, CBC and many others. As an expert on culture, technology and digital art, Sarah is a regular speaker on these topics internationally, most recently at SXSW, AVA London, Future of Festivals Berlin, Art Basel, C2 Montreal and Water & Music’s Wavelength Summit.

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Marc Da Costa is an artist and anthropologist whose work explores the relationship between emerging technology and lived experience. Da Costa’s artistic research and interactive installations examine how data and technical infrastructures focus our attention on the world in particular ways and, in so doing, shape the structures of experience available to us. Da Costa’s anthropological scholarship has explored these themes through studies of placemaking practices in the Anthropocene, with particular focus on Antarctic research expeditions and critical cartography. Da Costa’s work has been exhibited widely in the US and Europe and his writing on the intersection of data and society has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, VICE and elsewhere.

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Matthew Niederhauser is an artist and educator. His work pushes the limits of emerging AI and XR technologies within a wide range of mediums. He studied anthropology at Columbia University before earning his MFA in Art Practice from SVA while also a Pulitzer Center Grantee, Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology (CAST) and Member of NEW INC. At NEW INC he cofounded Sensorium, an experiential studio working at the forefront of immersive storytelling. When not focusing on projects that have premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Sundance New Frontier, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and IDFA DocLab, he teaches at NYU Tisch and Tandon. Most recently, Matthew became the Technical Director at Onassis ONX in New York.

Photo: Matthew Niederhauser