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Petra Gemeinboeck is an artist and researcher seeking to expand our relations with machines through explorations of embodiment, agency, and performativity. Her research unfolds a speculative, posthuman dramaturgy, bridging dance performance-making, creative robotics, and new materialism. As an ARC Future Fellow (2021-2025), she currently leads the Human-Robot Experience (HRX) project. Previously, she led the FWF PEEK project 'Dancing with the Nonhuman' at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and the ARC Discovery project 'Performative Body-Mapping' at UNSW. Petra's artworks have been exhibited worldwide, including at MCA Chicago, National Art Museum of China, and Ars Electronica Centre. Prior to joining Swinburne University, Petra was Director of Postgraduate Research and Deputy Director of the Creative Robotics Lab at UNSW Sydney. Website: Impossible Geographies

Rob Saunders is a computer scientist, design researcher, and artist pioneering research into computational modelling of creativity. As Associate Professor in the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) and a founding member of the Association of Computational Creativity, his mission is to advance the science of computational creativity to benefit society. His research explores intrinsic motivation, emergent languages, and physical embodiment in modelling creative individuals and societies. His collaborative robotic art practice with Petra Gemeinboeck provides a platform for knowledge mobilisation by materially engaging audiences in questions of machine creativity. Their artworks have been exhibited internationally, including at Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao; the International Triennial of New Media Art, Beijing; and the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. Website: robsaunders.net

Audrey Rochette is an interdisciplinary choreographer, performer and movement analyst with a strong interest in the dialogue between the body and technology. Her works have been shown in various venues and festivals in and outside Montreal. As a performer, Audrey danced for many choreographers and interdisciplinary artists, including the company kondition pluriel, which works at the crossroads of media arts and performance. Master student at University of Quebec in Montreal (UQÀM), Audrey is involved in various academic and research-creation projects, notably Machine Movement Lab (Petra Gemeinboeck), DESSAIM (David St-Onge and Hélène Duval) and Movement Observation-Analysis (OAM) (Nicole Harbonnier and Geneviève Dussault). Website: OAM danse

Steph Hutchison is an artist-researcher, choreographer, performer, and teaching-artist. She is Senior Lecturer at the School of Creative Arts, Dance, at QUT and has a rich practice as a solo choreographer/performer and collaborator within dance and technology contexts. Informed by motion capture, animation, and robotics, her dance practice generates dialogues with digital technologies and systems. She leads the Experimental Creative Practice research theme at Queensland University of Technology, and previously led the Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy at QUT. In 2022, Steph received a prestigious ANAT Synapse Residency with Jonathan Roberts to develop the Cobotic Improvisations project, co-hosted by the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub and the Australian Cobotics Centre. Website: QUT

Kristina Mah is an artist, researcher, and karate-ka living and working on Gadigal-Wangal land (inner west Sydney). Born in Manila, Philippines, she is passionate about humanitarianism and environmental stewardship. Her work, inspired by ancient wisdom traditions, emphasizes embodied knowledge and disciplined approaches to investigating human experience. Kristina's creative practice questions notions of self and knowing through explorations of time, space, and relationships. She holds a PhD in human-computer interaction from The University of Sydney and has published in ACM TOCHI, Interactions Magazine, and top-tier HCI conferences. Her artwork has been exhibited in Australia and Singapore. Website: kristinamah.com