Bruno Z’Graggen studied Social and Art History at the University of Zurich, and has a PhD in Social History. He continued his education and obtained a Certificate of Advanced Studies Culture Management Audience (CAS) from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in the year 2000. He has been working as a freelance curator and consultant since 2012, mainly in the field of video art, the year he founded the platform Video Window. He has a special interest in photography originating from Mozambique. Between 2006 and 2023 he was head of the Research Promotion office at the University of Lucerne. He participated in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation programme Próximo Futuro in 2013.

Jean-François Chougnet (France) is the artistic director of FUSO and has dedicated his career to cultural policies. He was Managing Director of Villette, Paris (2001-2006). In 2005, he was the General Commissioner of the Year of Brazil in France. He directed the Berardo Foundation in Lisbon from 2007 to 2011. In 2011, Jean-François Chougnet became CEO of Marseille-Provence Capital of European Culture 2013. From 2014 to 2022 he was president of the Musée des Civilizations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), in Marseille, France. Jean-François Chougnet is a curator and consultant on museum projects and director of the « Lille 3000 » festival.

Director of MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology since 2022, João Pinharanda (Mozambique, 1957) is an art historian and critic. He has a degree in History (Faculty of Letters of the Universidade Clássica de Lisboa, 1980) and a Master’s degree in Art History (Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1985). Alongside his teaching career, he was a programmer at the EDP Foundation (2000-2015), having created and organized the Art Awards promoted by the institution: the EDP Foundation New Artists Award and the EDP Foundation Grand Prize. He also took part in setting up the EDP Foundation Art Collection. He later served as Cultural Attaché at the Portuguese Embassy in Paris and director of the Portuguese Cultural Center in Paris - Camões I.P., between 2016 and 2021.

Isabel Nogueira (b. 1974) holds a PhD in Fine Arts, specialization in Art Sciences (University of Lisbon) and a post-doctorate in History and Theory of Contemporary Art and Image Theory (Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne). She is a contemporary art historian and critic, teacher and essayist. She is a professor at the National Society of Fine Arts, integrated researcher at CIEBA / Faculty of Fine Arts / University of Lisbon, member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). She is an art critic for the magazine Contemporânea and a contributor to the magazine Recherches en Esthétique. She is editor/Diretor of the academic journal Arte e Cultura Visual (CIEBA / Faculty of Fine Arts / University of Lisbon). Recent books: Theories of art: from modernism to the present (BookBuilders, 2019, 2nd ed. 2020); Zona de Rebentação (BookBuilders, 2020); How can ‘this’ be art? Brief essay on art criticism and judgment of taste (Húmus, 2020); History of art in Portugal: from Marcelismo to the end of the 20th century (BookBuilders, 2021); Art Criticism or the Space Between the Work and the World: Chosen Criticism (Húmus, 2021); Histoire de l’art au Portugal, 1968-2000 (Éditions de l’Harmattan, 2022).

Laila Hida is a Moroccan artist and cultural worker based in Marrakech. She is primarily interested in images and photography, exploring their use both as archival material and as triggers for fiction. Her recent work, Le Voyage du Phoenix examines the use of photography, literature, and cinema as tools to distill the 20th century’s attitudes toward desire. In 2013 she founded LE 18 Marrakech, a multidisciplinary cultural space and arts residency based in the medina of Marrakech. It is within this context that she develops her long-term intention to question and explore the impact of the environment on art production, mediation and research. She has curated many programs in Morocco and internationally, including the LE 18 collective project at documenta 15. She launched Dabaphoto, an annual program on photography and image-making in Morocco, which is now in its 8th edition.

Lori Zippay is a New York-based curator, writer and consultant who has been active in media art exhibition, distribution and preservation for over thirty-five years. From the mid-1980s to 2019 she served as Executive Diretor of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), a nonprofit organization that is a leading resource for media art. She developed EAI’s archive of over 4,000 media artworks, initiated its pioneering video preservation program, inaugurated and co-authored its extensive online publications and digital resources, and established numerous long-range projects and artistic programs. She has curated numerous media-based exhibitions and video programs; lectured at institutions and presented at conferences around the world, including at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, among many others; written extensively on media art, and developed and consulted on numerous curatorial, preservation and educational projects with emerging and established artists. She has served on numerous international festival juries, funding panels, symposia, and advisory boards. She currently serves on the Advisory Committees of Times Square Arts and Collaborative Cataloging Japan, and as Diretor Emerita of EAI.

Marie Voignier is an artist who lives and works in Paris. She studied Fine Arts at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon. Marie Voignier is primarily concerned with intricate realities and complex stories that incorporate authenticity and facts. Each of her projects has a unique approach which is guided by the subject of human relationships. Her films have been shown in various exhibition spaces such as: Centre Pompidou (Paris), LAXART (Los Angeles), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), 57th Venice Biennale 2017, La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2012), the 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2010), and also at film festivals, such as the Berlinale (Berlin), the Viennale (Vienna), IFFR Rotterdam (The Netherlands), and FID (Marseille).

Rachel Korman is curatorial and general coordinator at FUSO - International Video Art Festival, in Lisbon and artistic Diretor at FUSO Insular – Video Art Festival, in Azores.
Brazilian of Polish origin, lives and works in São Miguel island, Azores. 
She is graduated in Social Communication (PUC-MG), with a degree in arts from Parque Lage School of Visual Arts, Rio de Janeiro. In 2007 she moved to Lisbon, Portugal where she attended the Advanced Photography Course at Ar.Co and the Independent Study Program on Contemporary Art at Maumaus. 
Cofounded with Paulo Reis (in memory), Carpe Diem Art & Research, a center for residencies, exhibitions and investigation in contemporary art and collaborated with Hangar - Center for Research and Art as communication Diretor and manager of artistic residencies.

Cultural journalist, music critic and chronicler. He worked at the Público newspaper for over twenty years. He has a background in anthropology and sociology. He lived part of his childhood in Niza, grew up in Barreiro, lives in Lisbon, feels like he is from Alentejo. Over the years, he’s been an actor, a DJ, a social scientist or a teacher. Now he is more into journalism, but does not practice impartiality and neutrality. Rather, he believes in choices, rigor, transparency, exhibiting plurality, analysis, questioning and the possibility, through culture, by mixing subjects, crossing languages, whether politics, economics, society, music, art and ideas. He recently released the book Não Dá Para Ficar Parado, where music is the starting point, but only because it includes everything else and Estás na moda ou na merda? a compilation of short reflective texts.