Damian Dziwis
TH Cologne
Damian T. Dziwis is a composer, media artist, and researcher from Düsseldorf whose work explores generative audiovisual systems, live coding, spatial audio, AI, and XR. He holds a B.Eng. in Media Technology (HS Düsseldorf) and an M.Mus. in Electronic Composition (HfMT Köln). Since 2017 he has pursued a Ph.D. at TU Berlin and TH Köln. His works have been shown in international festivals and biennials, and his research appears in leading conferences and journals. He was a visiting professor (HfM Demtold), and artist in residence at the ICST (ZHdK) and ZKM Karlsruhe. He co-directs the ATEM Biennial and was nominated for the AI Newcomer Award 2021 by the German Informatics Society (GI).
Portrait: © Constanze Flamme
Jasmin Grimm
Independent Curator
Jasmin Grimm is a German-Algerian artistic director, lecturer and consultant for international cultural projects. From 2020 to 2023 she was Artistic Director of NEW NOW Festival at Stiftung Zollverein, with a focus on digital arts. In 2019 she co-founded a studio for digitality, conceiving exhibitions, festivals, conferences and workshops at the intersection of art, society and technology. She has directed programmes at NRW-Forum, Bitkom, Retune Festival and TINCON, and consulted for Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Futurium, Goethe Institut and the Ministry of Culture NRW. She has taught at Humboldt University Berlin, University of the Arts Berlin and FH Potsdam.
Jinran Ha
IUNO Artistic Fellow 2026
Jinran Ha is a Berlin-based visual artist and interaction designer. Her research-driven practice spans installation, performance, and digital media, investigating structural exclusions within technological systems through the lenses of migrant feminism, decolonial solidarity, and techno-mythological inquiry. Recent projects engage generative AI, archival research, and spatial interaction as tools for critical artistic practice. She is currently a board member of District * School without Center, a queer feminist art and cultural association in Berlin.
Robert M. Stanley
European Artist Bank
Robert M. Stanley is a Berlin-based cultural entrepreneur and product leader working at the intersection of creative industries and digital innovation. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of European Artist Bank (E.A.B. Global Oy), a cultural fintech initiative developing artist-first infrastructure to support the protection, management, and monetisation of intellectual property through emerging technologies. With over 20 years of professional experience, Robert brings a cross-disciplinary background spanning music, cultural production, and new technologies, including XR, blockchain, AI and digital rights systems.