Maurice Benayoun (MoBen) is a conceptual media artist based in Hong Kong and Paris. Pioneer of new media art, his work has been a continuous attempt to redefine art practice and the place of the artist in Society. Through VR, AR, AI, and urban media art, MoBen explores the limits of the promises of advanced media, unveiling their societal impact beyond their technological and aesthetic potential. Creating from subtle to large-scale interactive artworks, he has been exhibited in major international museums, biennials, and festivals in about 30 countries around the World. MoBen received close to 30 awards including 4 Ars Electronica awards (and the coveted Golden Nica). Since 2012, Maurice Benayoun is Professor of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. www.moben.art

Dr. Tobias Klein works in the fields of Architecture, Art, Design, and Interactive Media Installation. His work generates a syncretism of contemporary CAD/CAM technologies with site and culturally specific design narratives, intuitive non-linear design processes, and historical cultural references. His works are exhibited internationally at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Antwerp Fashion Museum, the London Science Museum, the V&A, the Bellevue Arts Museum, the Museum of Glass, the Museums of Moscow and Vancouver. He currently lives in Hong Kong and works as an Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

PhD in Blockchain Technology and Critical Theory at SCM City University of Hong Kong. Nicolás Mendoza is a Colombian multidisciplinary scholar, architect, artist, researcher and investor. His PhD research explored the structures that support the emergence of non-state currencies, such as blockchain technology, from an anthropological perspective. His research engagement with Bitcoin and therefore with blockchain technology began as early as 2010, serving in the editorial board of Bitcoin Magazine, and co-editing the issue on P2P Currency of the Journal of Peer Production in 2013. His writings have been published in platforms such as Radical Philosophy and Al-Jazeera.

Former director of Musical Research, Education and Production at IRCAM in Paris, the music of the composer Jean-Baptiste Barrière concentrates on the intersection of music, image, and mathematics. Jean-Baptiste Barrière creates visual concerts with the opera composer Kaija Saariaho, the film director Peter Greenaway and collaborates to many interactive art projects with Maurice Benayoun.

Shubham is a software engineer and an entrepreneur. He founded coindelta.com - one of India’s largest Cryptocurrency exchange. Coindelta acquired 100,000+ users and traded more than $500 million in its first operational year. Graduated from IIT Mumbai in 2015, he worked for target.com as a software engineer before starting his entrepreneurship journey. His expertise includes application of Blockchain Technology.

Currently, Michele is the Creative Director and Head of Art of Ogilvy & Mather Advertising in Hong Kong. Michele considers himself a genuine visual thinker. He has worked across all media, creating global as well as local work. With 20 years of experience at different agencies across Europe and currently based in Hong Kong, He likes ideas which transcend cultural borders. He divides his time between advertising and personal artistic projects

Managing Director, Head of Global Markets Asia Pacific, Natixis. Former director of Musical Research, Education and Production at IRCAM in Paris, the music of the composer Jean-Baptiste Barrière concentrates on the intersection of music, image, and mathematics. Jean-Baptiste Barrière creates visual concerts with the opera composer Kaija Saariaho, the film director Peter Greenaway and collaborates to many interactive art projects with Maurice Benayoun.

Christiane Paul is Chief Curator/Director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School, Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Recipient of the Thoma Foundation's 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, She wrote: A Companion to Digital Art(2016);DigitalArt(2015); Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts(2011); and New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (2008). At the Whitney Museum she curated exhibitions including Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art 1965-2018, and she is responsible for Artport, the museum’s portal to Internet art.

Founder and Director of Art Center Nabi. Curator and art writer, Soh Yeong Roh is the founding director of the Art Center Nabi, a private art institution that played an important role in the development of new media art in Korea. She initiated shows on robots, AI, EEG, Blockchain and became head of ISEA2019, Gwangju. She is an early supporter of MoBen's work and of the Brain Factory project leading to the official launching of VoV on June 5, 2019.

Beatrice de Gelder is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and a member of the Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre (M-BIC). Her current work focuses on the neuroscience of art. Her research has resulted in over 220 peer-reviewed articles and 22 invited chapters in professional books. www.beatricedegelder.com. 

Former director of Musical Research, Education and Production at IRCAM in Paris, the music of the composer Jean-Baptiste Barrière concentrates on the intersection of music, image, and mathematics. Jean-Baptiste Barrière creates visual concerts with the opera composer Kaija Saariaho, the film director Peter Greenaway and collaborates to many interactive art projects with Maurice Benayoun.

Based in New York and, Dooeun Choi, former curator in Chief of the Art Center Nabi since 2000, has worked as art director of Da Vinci Creative 2015/2017. As a curator, Choi treats the space as a laboratory for experimenting with the types of experience and aesthetics that can emerge from combining and recombining scientific knowledge, artistic practices, and historical narratives. 

Art critic, Curator, Researcher, co-initiator of synesthesie.com (the first French online art media), author and independent curator, Jean Jacques Gay is a researcher at CITU (U. Paris 8). Curator of solo exhibitions by Maurice Benayoun, Pierrick Sorin... As an art critic, JJ Gay contributes to Libération, France TV, Arte, Les Lettres Françaises, Muséart, MCD, Artension and Art World Magazine. He gives lectures (EESI, ENSBA, FRESNOY, ENSAD). JJ Gay curated the first Brain Factory show in 2016.

Dr. Wang Xiao is a computer scientist with a special interest in Brain Computer Interface technologies, calibration methods, and signal Processing. Wang Xiao has been working for 8 years with MoBen as a senior researcher on the Brain Factory/VoV project.

Wai-yee Mak, A Ann Mak, is a Hong Kong-based artist, curator, and exhibition producer. Her works are shown internationally. Her expertise in the field of curation and exhibition production spans over 20 years including international photography exhibitions, poetry Festivals, co-curator of "On the Road, Young Media Artists in China" Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Chongqing.