ROCÍO GARCÍA ROBLES, Computer Engineer and Bachelor of Fine Arts, from the University of Seville (USA). She carried out a doctoral thesis with European mention in the transdisciplinary field of Artistic Holography (physical and digital), awarded as the best doctoral thesis by the Seville City Council, and currently deposited in the funds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Museum). She obtained a three-year “Marie Curie” research fellowship at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS, Joint Research Center, EC). Subsequently, she worked for three years as a researcher at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona. She is currently a lecturer and researcher in the US Department of Computer Architecture and Technology. She supervises several doctoral students on SciArt in two doctoral programs: “Art and Heritage” and “Computer Engineering”. She has supervised more than thirty Master’s Thesis on STEAM. She has also created, together with four other experts, the regulations for four new Computational Thinking (STEAM) Secondary and Highschool subjects offered in the Andalusian educational community.

Her research career has focused on the Art-Science-Technology-Society synergy (STEAM and SciArt approaches), and on the design of General User Interfaces (GUI, eAccessibility, Usability), as well as on the use of ICT as support to teaching (eLearning) and health (eHealth). She is founder and leader of the research group (TIC-247) “ASTERISM: Art, Science, Technology, Engineering Research: Innovation, Synergies and Methodologies”. Previously, he was a member of several research groups: “Interactive Technologies” (UPF), “Interdisciplinary Physics” (US), “Robotics and Information Technologies Applied to Rehabilitation” (US), “Graphics and Digital Creation” (US). Experience in computational creativity (generative coding, robots, …), highlighting an installation work “alter-eGo” awarded at the Transversal of the BIACS (Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville). She is also very motivated and involved in projects with a social focus (for example, robots to support the cognitive rehabilitation of children with cancer; STEAM robotics for children in Africa; art analysis to develop critical thinking, etc.). She has worked in more than 10 European funded projects, 2 national and 1 regional project.

She is currently the director of a new master’s degree in SciArt + STEAM, and leads the ASTER research project (financed by European FEDER funds) mainly related to SciArt + STEAM, one of its purposes being to support sustainable and democratic transdisciplinary co-creation between scientists and artists.

ÁUREA MUÑOZ DEL AMO (Badajoz, Spain, 1980) has a degree in Fine Arts (specializing in Printmaking and Design) and a PhD in Fine Arts (European Mention). She is currently Professor of the Drawing Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Seville. She teaches in the Degree in Fine Arts, in the Degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage and in the Master in Art: Idea and Production and is part of the Doctorate Program Art and Heritage of the University of Seville.

His teaching, artistic and research work is closely linked to the field of contemporary graphics and the construction of creative discourse through drawing, printmaking procedures and infographic media. In 2004 she was awarded a scholarship for the Training of Research Personnel (FPI) of the University of Seville’s Plan Propio for the completion of her thesis. She has carried out research stays in art centers in different European countries (United Kingdom, Italy, Finland, Holland and Belgium), participating in multiple artistic projects and receiving, among others, the “Fundación Pilar Banús” Award, within the XV National Engraving Awards organized by the Foundation of the Museum of Contemporary Spanish Engraving in Marbella. Among the solo and group exhibitions held, to highlight the one held in 2009 at the Historical Archive of Cáceres, entitled “Ex umbra in solem”, funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Junta de Extremadura, and “Light Dance”, held at the Acadèmia de Belles Arts (Sabadell) in 2012; in addition to other participations in group exhibitions such as “Art on paper: reminiscence or validity? ” (itinerant: Francisco Fernández Torreblascopedro Contemporary Art Center, Jaén, 2021; Museum of Jaén, 2022; Toledo School of Art Exhibition Hall, 2022), “Murillo and the Faculty of Fine Arts 400 years later” (Sala Santa Inés, Seville, 2017), “Synergy” (Centro de Estampación Artística Litografía Viña, 2014), “F5-actualizar” (Nuevoarte Gallery, Seville, 2012) or the “III Bienal Iberoamericana de Obra Gráfica Ciudad de Cáceres 2016” (Palacio de la Isla, Cáceres, 2009).

Since 2019 she is responsible for the research group “Graphics and Digital Creation” (HUM822). She is currently co-principal investigator in the active R+D+i Project “Aster: Promoting Art-Science-Technology-Engineering Research By Using Collaborative Methodologies And Tools” (FEDER 2020 call) whose objective is to merge research in art and science as a method to detonate new ideas.

AMALIA ORTEGA is an artist and lecturer of Videocreation and Discourses of Graphic Art in the Department of Drawing at the University of Seville. Her main research topics are: art and gender; image-text intersections and hybridizations between traditional and digital techniques of artistic creation.

Placing herself within the gender discourses, she produces a critical, ironic, subtle and poetic work to approach the female identity and the lives of women. A work that although it is related to women in society in general, as well as to the construction of gender within our culture, it delves into particular and recurring themes, such as the concept of time, loneliness, care, freedom, fears, beauty, the domestic, etc.

His multidisciplinary work makes him move between different media such as painting, photography, video and graphic work. Since 2009 he has been introducing video-creation in his practice, in various configurations: as single-channel video, as part of installations, or as projections on different media.

Among his latest solo exhibitions with a predominance of video art works are those held at the Centro de las Artes de Sevilla (2017), the Palazzo Fernandez in Palermo (Italy, 2016), or at the Centro de Iniciativas Culturales de la Universidad de Sevilla (2012).

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 MARÍA JOSÉ ROMERO TERNERO (ADRIANA) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5383-1973 PhD in Tourism, International Mention, University of Seville (Spain) in collaboration with York St. John University (England) (2017) and Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (US, 2012). She holds a Diploma in the area of Social and Legal Sciences, in Tourism (UMA, 2000). Official Master’s Degree in Public Policy and Tourism Management and Planning (US, 2011). By means of a scholarship, she is doing her TFM where she researches on ethnological heritage and its relationship with tourism development. Performed and presented collaboration as an internal student Scholarship-Collaboration of the M.E.C. (B.O.E. no 160 of July 6, 2011), granted for the academic year 2011/2012, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, US, researches on the role of citizenship in the representations, resignifications and expressions of identity in relation to cultural property, ethnological heritage and museum spaces, her vision is critical, transdisciplinary and merged, presents works such as Tourism in the face of cultural transformations. Heritage and ethnological museums.

She is currently collaborating and researching within the G.I PAIDI TIC-247 ASTERISM (Art Science Technology Engineering Research: Innovation, Synergies and Methodologies) US (Spain) in the framework of the R+D+i Project “Aster: Promoting Art-Science-Technology-Engineering Research By Using Collaborative Methodologies (FEDER). At the same time, it is cooperating in a project with a gender and equality perspective “EMPOWER-IT: Workshop for empowering women students in Computer Science Engineering at ETSII and encouraging sorority”. Another project in perspective is the collaboration in the study of the anthropological analysis of ‘fictionalized’ audiovisual images on myths and stories linked to Andalusian Tourism and cinema. It is within the PhD Program in Art and Heritage (2022) Faculty of Fine Arts (US, 2022) in the area of Humanities.

She is affiliated to the HAVRC group (Heritage and Arts Visitor Research Collaborative) York St. John University (England).  Her latest publications deal with: the study of uncomfortable attributes connected to cultural property Arte urbano, reflexión sobre lo repulsivo y el terror, y la necesidad patrimonial (Urban art, reflection on the repulsive and terror, and heritage necessity) (IAPH, 2021), ‘counter-memory’ in visual analysis and in film language using Nvivo software ‘Democratic visions for a conflicting heritage. La “contra-memoria” cinematográfica del Valle de los Caídos (1978-2016)’ (Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 2023) and participant observation in game contexts for the development of an application Participant Observation to Apply an Empirical Method of Codesign with Children (Participant Observation to Apply an Empirical Method of Codesign with Children) (Advance in Human-Computer Interaction, 2022).

LUIS SANTIAGO SÁNCHEZ FERNÁNDEZ is a Computer Engineer with extensive experience in computer systems administration, and as a teacher of ICT, both in schools and in professional environments. He belongs to the research group of the Andalusian Research Plan TIC-247 ASTERISM (Art Science Technology Engineering Engineering Research: Innovation, Synergies and Methodologies). Passionate about photography and technological art, he has participated in interdisciplinary artistic projects, for example, in the project “alter-eGo” awarded in the call “La Transversal de la BIACS” (International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, 2009). 

He is currently deputy director of ICT of the Andalusian Health Service, responsible for IT in hospitals and public health centers throughout the province of Seville. He has developed different work profiles in the field of systems, from the installation and support of basic systems in SOHO environments, through the administration of 7×24 environments in multinationals, to advanced auditing and consulting tasks.

He is now immersed in the change of the ICT management model of the Andalusian Health Service, helping to adapt it to the new management paradigms. He participates as a technical advisor in research projects on personalized medicine (based on genetics), project of unification of diagnostic imaging systems in Andalusia, and project for the implementation of new leading radiotherapy systems in Andalusia.

CARMEN SALAZAR PERA Degree in Medicine and Surgery, Doctor of Fine Arts, Extraordinary Doctorate Award, University Professor (ANECA). Professor of the Drawing Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Seville. She teaches in the Degree in Fine Arts and in the Degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage.

Her artistic work is part of public and private collections, having been widely disseminated in exhibitions, competitions, catalogs and books. Aided by the creative and argumental freedom that multidisciplinarity allows, she reflects on diverse themes in which the common thread is life experiences, her own or others’, and how they are perceived in a globalized world.

She is a researcher and teacher whose activity has resulted in articles and presentations at national and international events. In addition to her individual research, she has been an active member of the group HUM822 (Graphics and Digital Creation) of the Junta de Andalucía since 2000, as well as co-director of several research projects funded by the CEU San Pablo University of Seville. He is currently collaborating in the active R+D+i Project Aster: Promoting Art-Science-Technology-Engineering Research By Using Collaborative Methodologies And Tools (FEDER 2020 call) whose objective is to merge research in art and science as a method to give impulse to new modes of expression.

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HELENA HERNÁNDEZ ACUAVIVA (Sevilla, España, 1995) es licenciada en Bellas Artes, con un Máster en Arte y un Máster en Diseño. Actualmente es investigadora contratada en el Departamento de Arquitectura e Informática, Doctoranda en Arte y Patrimonio y Ayudante de Honor en el Departamento de Dibujo de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Sevilla.

Como investigadora, artista y docente su trabajo y discurso creativo se concretan a través de la fotografía, el dibujo, la pintura, los procedimientos de grabado y la cerámica. En el curso 2015-2016 obtuvo la Beca Iberoamericana Santander para realizar un curso completo en la carrera de Diseño Gráfico en la Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México. Ha realizado múltiples exposiciones y proyectos artísticos como, entre otros, la exposición colectiva itinerante XIV Bienal Internacional del Cartel de México en Chapultepec, Museo Arocena, Museo Franz Mayer (México); Exposición colectiva LXXI Exposición de Otoño. Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría , Casa de los Pinelo (Sevilla);exposición colectiva Postrimerías. Valdés Leal de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de Sevilla. Sala de la Virgen del Hospital de la Santa Caridad (Sevilla); o la Exposición Colectiva #8 Foro Arte Relacional en la Fundación Valentín de Madariaga (Sevilla). Además, ha trabajado durante cinco años como ayudante del pintor Pepe Barragán, ha trabajado en la galería de arte La Caja China y colabora con la galería de arte ArtTazgona de Madrid.

Es miembro investigador del grupo de investigación “Gráfica y Creación Digital” (HUM822) desde 2020. Desde entonces ha publicado en revistas internacionales y ha participado en congresos relacionados con el arte, como el II Congreso Internacional Estética Híbrida de la Imagen en Movimiento: Identidad y Patrimonio, Proyecto MICIU I+D+i EShID, celebrado en la Universitat Politècnica de València. Actualmente es investigadora contratada en el Proyecto I+D+i “Aster: Fomentando la Investigación Arte-Ciencia-Tecnología-Ingeniería Mediante el Uso de Metodologías y Colaboradoras Herramientas”, convocatoria FEDER 2020-Universidad de Sevilla (proyecto activo) e imparte docencia en el Taller de Pintura en el Ayuntamiento de Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla).

CLAUDIO ENRIQUE BUSTAMANTE GALLARDO (Viña del Mar, Chile, 1991) is a Civil Computer Engineer, graduated from the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Valparaíso, Chile. He is currently a contract researcher in the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology, student of the Master’s Degree in Logic, Computation and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Seville.

He has more than 10 years of experience as a video game developer. As of 2016 he was co-founder of the developer company Frisson Games. As director of this company, he participates in multiple video game productions for different platforms, including Web (HTML5), Mobile, PC, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Along with the company, he is awarded and manages several projects with state support, supported by agencies such as CORFO (Corporación de Fomento de la Producción), Sercotec (Servicio de Cooperación Técnica) and the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage. The last of these projects, Beyond the Stars, is a video game focused on astronomical dissemination, carried out with support from the ALMA observatory.

In the period 2018 to 2020 he serves as director of the trade association Video Games Chile, holding the positions of Vice President and President of the association. As part of this position, he participates in various instances of collaboration between the industry and Chilean government entities for the promotion and support of the industry. In 2018, he participates as Chilean representative in the international fairs GDC in San Francisco and Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. In 2019 and 2020, he managed the LATAM VGF Diversity Scholarships, designed to allow the participation of underrepresented segments in business spaces and video game exhibition such as GDC.

He also works as a teacher since 2017, in the Video Game Design careers at Arcos Institute and teaching the subject Video Game Creation Process at Universidad Santa María.

OLGA ALBILLOS CASTILLO (Sevilla, 1991) is a graduate in Fine Arts (specializing in Sculpture and Printmaking), with a Master’s degree in Art, Idea and Production. She is currently a PhD student in Art and Heritage at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville, is part of the research group: Art Science Technology Engineering Research: Innovation, Synergies and Methodologies (TIC247)  and is a collaborator in the ASTER project, in addition to being Honorary Assistant in the Department of Sculpture and History of Plastic Arts.

Her artistic and research work is closely linked to the field of artistic installation, interaction and technology, due to her start as a university student in the career of Physics, she maintains a close relationship with science and technology that reverts in her artistic work, with special interest in the interaction work-spectator.
the work-spectator interaction.

She has participated in multiple exhibitions, among others, the group exhibition Entre a Tradição e a Vanguarda, in Arruda dos Vinhos, Portugal, in 2018; Group exhibition Homenaje a
Venancio Blanco, At the Patronato Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Torres in Prieto de Cordoba; or Group Exhibition Mar de Bronce Wuayra Escultura Líquida, at the Antiquarium in Seville, in 2019. Currently she has been named finalist in XXVIII Certamen Europeo de Artes Plásticas Universidad de Sevilla and has participated as a speaker at congresses related to art, such as XVII Congreso Internacional del Arte en la Sociedad 2022, De los límites de la representación a la frontera con la narración .

JUAN MANUEL TORRADO MARTÍNEZ (Badajoz, spain, 1980) has a degree in Fine Arts specializing in Printmaking and Design. He obtained the Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in 2013, he is currently pursuing a PhD on Contemporary Graphics and Digital Creation. She is a member of the research group “Graphics and Digital Creation” (HUM822). She has completed her academic training by attending different courses such as “Serigraphy and Digital Printing” at the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation in Mallorca, “Image Code. Data visualization with Processing.org” and “Development of applications with augmented reality”, both from the International University of Andalusia, as well as “Art and Internet. La red como campo de investigación para las nuevas prácticas artísticas” at the UNED, and also the VIII edition of the course “Transformaciones. Art and aesthetics since 1960. Keys to think the landscape” (CAAC).

As for his work as a teacher, he has been a Teacher of Drawing in Secondary Education since 2005. In addition, he has taught the following workshops: Processing Workshop. Infographic Workshops at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville (2012). Initiation to engraving techniques (2006), Hollow engraving techniques (2007) and Contemporary engraving techniques (2010) in different teacher training centers.

He has participated in different group exhibitions such as “Art on paper: ¿reminiscence or validity?” (itinerant: Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Francisco Fernández Torreblascopedro, Jaén, 2021; Museo de Jaén, 2022; Sala de Exposiciones de la Escuela de Arte de Toledo, 2022); Premio Sala El Brocense de Cáceres (2018); Premio Timoteo Pérez Rubio de Oliva de la Frontera (in the years 2009, 2011 and 2018); or the Paul Ricard award in Seville (2010).

GUILLERMO RODRÍGUEZ TENORIO (Sevilla, Spain, 1997) Graduate and Master in Fine Arts from the University of Seville. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Art and Heritage and is Honorary Assistant in the Drawing Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Seville.

His line of research and production specializes in the spiritual and its relationship with the narratives of virtual artwork. She is researching on the applications of Artificial Intelligence in the production of narratives. Until now, her explorations have focused on the concept of the False-Verosimile and the narrative tools that make us accept fiction and the separation between Past and History in our daily lives. These last concepts were the core of his last exhibition “METAMAPS” (2021), at the Casa de la Provincia in Seville. He has also participated in several group exhibitions inside and outside Spain such as “Adentro/Afuera” (2022, at El Chico gallery in Madrid, “自然: 性自然-臺灣&西班牙版畫交流展” (2019) at 102 Gallery in Taina (Taiwan) or the exhibitions “2 ROMBOS” (2016) at Espacio Santa Clara in Seville and “Rumbos, Mapas, Itinerarios, Caminos” (2017) at Cicus in Seville, coordinated by the Garabattagge association. Finalist in the last year in the III Certamen de creación joven de artistas emergentes 2021 and in the XXVII Certamen europeo de artes plásticas de la Universidad de Sevilla.

In parallel he has worked in the development of Augmented Reality content for advertising and communication after obtaining the development license for Facebook in the first phase of release of its SparkAr technology, and is working as an animator and creative director in the world of independent game development, highlighting his project “SNAAAK” published by the collective 10mg within the “10mg Collection”, and the creation of the Kutigore studio with which he is currently working.

JOSÉ DEL REY ORTEGA (Sevilla, Spain, 1999) is a graduate in Artistic Photography and a student of the Degree in Computer Engineering and Virtual Technologies.  He has also studied two years of Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.  

He is a collaborator of the emerging research group ASTERISM (Art Science Technology Engineering Research: Innovation, Synergies and Methodologies) at the University of Seville (Spain). 

His research interests focus on the intersection Art-Science, with special emphasis on Artificial Intelligences and their application in creative environments. He also develops his artistic profile in the field of electronic music, using DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations), especially Ableton Live. 

He has exhibited his photographic work at the Valentín de Madariaga Foundation in Seville (2020), in the exhibition “Horizonte_Cercano 20_20” and his musical work can be heard on platforms such as Spotify, Amazon Music or iTunes under the name “Corot”. 

JOSE ANTONIO VIEJO ABAD (Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, 2003) is a 2nd year student of the double degree in Industrial Design Engineering and Product Development and Mechanical Engineering at the Escuela Politécnica Superior, University of Seville.

His interests are related to programming, free hardware and its application in all kinds of projects within the field of engineering and artistic creation. He is especially interested in the fields of music art, (ambient, interactive, electronic music…), architecture (bioclimatic, kinetic architecture…), and design (product design, sustainable design, generative design…). These fields have in common that they are related to Sci-Art and the possibility of including interactive or automation technologies in them.

Among his skills are creativity, decisiveness and the ability to work in a team. She is curious and open to learn about all kinds of research fields. During the last few months he has been learning to program Arduino, an interest in robotics that began at the age of 12, when he took classes in technology and STEM tools. He studied elementary music at the Joaquín Turina Conservatory (Sanlúcar de Barrameda), in addition to playing bass and electric guitar as a hobby. He is currently a collaborating student in the R+D+i Project “Aster: Promoting Art-ScienceTechnology-Engineering Research By Using Collaborative Methodologies And Tools” (FEDER 2020 call).
(FEDER 2020 call).

PABLO DÍAZ GÓMEZ  (Huelva, Spain, 1997) graduated in Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Seville. He currently works as a mechanical designer in the R&D department of a health company, where he is dedicated to the design of laboratory equipment.

From the early years of his university education he excelled in subjects related to his technical training as well as in those that had more to do with design, obtaining a grade of “Matrícula de Honor” in ten subjects. He developed special interest in those subjects related to computer science and programming, completing his training in a self-taught way learning several languages such as Processing, Java, HTML or CSS. So much so that he dedicated his Final Degree Project, “Optimization of the suspension system of a racing motorcycle using Genetic Algorithms”, to the use of evolutionary computation techniques for the resolution of a mechanical design problem.

Recently, he has become a collaborating member of the Project “Aster: Promoting Art-Science-Technology-Engineering Research By Using Collaborative Methodologies And Tools” (FEDER 2020 call) whose objective is to promote signergies between art and science.

MARIO RODRÍGUEZ PÉREZ (Palencia, 1984) studied Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Valladolid (Spain). His professional career spans software development in service-oriented architectures, document management, and several Spanish and/or European funded research projects related to learning, mobility, wellbeing, digital health, and personal health data processing.

In 2021/22, he completed the Master’s Degree in Secondary School Training (MAES) at the University of Seville and an internship at a local institute. In the master’s thesis “Creativity and artistic expression for an approach to computational thinking” he explores the educational possibilities of programming as a vehicle for learning, collaboration, critical thinking, the gender perspective, and the motivation of students towards STEAM learning.

Passionate about programming and creative coding (crafting software pieces as a creative medium for personal expression), puppets, object theatre, long-form improv and new forms of narrative and interactive fiction.

JOSÉ MANUEL HIGES LÓPEZ (Madrid, 1978) has a degree in Psychology and a degree in Mathematics with Extraordinary Prize, PhD in Mathematics Cum Laude from the Complutense University, Master in Creative Writing from the University of Seville with Extraordinary Prize.

He has been a predoctoral researcher at the University of Tennessee in the United States and postdoctoral researcher in Geometry at the Hausdorff Institute of Mathematics in Bonn and at the Freie Universitat in Berlin. Founder and director of theater and comedy theater companies such as Aquí no hay estación espacial (2008-2009), Improducciones Teatro (Madrid 2012-2015) and Noches de los que surja (Seville 2016-2017), some with shows with more than three years on stage. He has directed and written theatrical pieces that have been premiered in spaces such as Microteatro por Dinero or La Escalera de Jacob. He has also dedicated himself to professional illusionism: he is a member of the Spanish Society of Illusionism (since 2012) and the International Brotherhood of Magicians (since 2009). Specializing in creative writing, he researches the interactions between performance art, poetry, illusionism, narrative and science. He has participated in more than thirty poetry recitals and I have been a winner in different sessions of Poetry Slam, Seville (2016). He obtained the Scholarship for Literary Creation of the Community of Madrid (2018) with the collection of poems El tiempo en que no fuimos in which, among other things, describes personalities of science and culture using scientific-poetic language. He has been a professor of creative writing in the Course of Literary Creation at the University of Seville in the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 courses and of the Course of Fantastic Story in the year 2020-2021, the latter was under his direction.

He is currently a professor of Mathematics at the Polytechnic School of University of Seville, studying his second PhD in Communication at the University of Seville, director of the online writing academy Poliedro, Secretary of the Literary Order William Shakespeare in Seville, weekly collaborator (since 2019) in Canal Sur Radio with the space Oír para creer on scientific dissemination and is the director and playwright of the company, La Insolente Teatro.