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Artists Bios 2026
ANNA UTOPIA GIORDANO
Anna Utopia Giordano is an Italian creative director, poet, artist, and performer. She graduated with honors in Philosophy from the Università Statale di Milano, with a thesis on Network Science. She currently curates Poiesis, a column on artificial intelligence for the Italian street art magazine Wails Papers, where she publishes AI-assisted artworks in each issue.
Her AI-generated digital illustration ZER0, conceived for the homonymous musical composition by Leonardo Barilaro, was launched towards the International Space Station on March 15, 2023 with Maleth III, a biomedical research coordinated by Prof. Joseph Borg at University of Malta (in collaboration with MCAST and MG2i - MCAST Gateway to Industry), aboard the SpaceX CRS-27 mission (NASA and SpaceX), part of the NASA's Commercial Resupply Service program. The illustration and the musical composition were presented during a live stream from the ISS on April 11. Subsequently, the SpaceX CRS-27 mission safely completed its journey, returning to Earth on April 16, 2023.
Utopia conceived the series ἐκγραφῆς (2022), blending her poetry with artificial intelligence and digital post-production. The first cycle of this collection was showcased during the seventh edition of Fuori Visioni Contemporary Art Festival (Piacenza).
In March 2021, she released her first spoken word poetry album titled Fogli d'ombra, followed by the music video Entelechia (o sul senso del dovere) at the end of July 2021. Entelechia earned a place in the official selections of numerous national and international festivals.
Prior to this, Utopia conceived a series of digital art collections, including My Social Generation, Venus, PopBottles and #BornToBeVirtual. These art series have garnered global recognition, having been featured in prominent newspapers, school textbooks, and across hundreds of websites and blogs. Additionally, these collections have been exhibited in both solo and group shows worldwide.
Utopia's poetic style finds expression in the Rhapsodies, a collection of hermetic and cryptic poems distinguished by their use of technical, scientific, and philosophical language. The Rhapsodies have earned their place in anthologies, magazines, e-zines, and cultural blogs.
LEONARDO BARILARO
Dr Leonardo Barilaro, The Space Pianist, is a visionary pianist, composer, and researcher who bridges the worlds of music and space exploration.
As a Cultural Ambassador of the Space Art Movement, The Space Pianist is promoting the idea that 'Art can help us better understand the Universe and our place in it.'
Leonardo uses the emotive power of music to inspire people to view Space not just merely as a scientific or technological frontier but as a source of creativity, expression, and imagination, as well as the power of human connection to the cosmos, embodying the ethos: “In Space, there is space for Everyone.”
Leonardo, The Space Pianist, plans to perform the first-ever piano concert on Mars, playing a Steinway, setting a new milestone in art and space history.
MORA IBARRA
Mora Ibarra is a digital artist from Rosario, Argentina. Her work explores emotional states and symbolic identity through expressive digital portraiture, often reflecting on the complexities of femininity, vulnerability, and strength. Her style draws from pop surrealism and introspective symbolism, creating images that act as emotional mirrors and speculative rituals.
She has exhibited in various group and solo shows in her hometown and in Buenos Aires, particularly in Galería Forma, with whom she has been working for over ten years. In 2024, she was selected to participate in the II Selezione della Biennale di Roma, exhibiting her work at the Pontificio Maffei Marescotti in the Galleria La Pigna, Vatican City.
Her latest project, Infinite Skin, engages artificial intelligence as a speculative lens to reflect on the self. Through AI-intervened portraits and poetic log entries, she explores how machines interpret — or misinterpret — emotional presence and personal essence. Mora’s work builds a bridge between traditional emotional depth and the aesthetics of digital media. Her portraits are not simulations, but confrontations with what it means to be seen.
NICOLA BERTOGLIO
Italian visual artist, activist and performer who lives in Milan. Since 2013 he has dedicated himself mainly to photography using mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. He participated in many exhibitions especially in Italy and some in France, England and USA. He recently dedicated himself to digital art by experimenting with artificial intelligence, augmented reality and network art.
CAROLINE McMANUS
Caroline McManus is an interdisciplinary artist working across and between installation, sculpture, performance, video and text. She studied film at Yale University, experimental filmmaking at The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague and was a Dean’s Merit Fellowship recipient in documentary at the University of California Berkeley.
Her work has been shown internationally at Artists' Television Access, Castel Belasi Contemporary Art Center for Eco Thought, The Gallery at the Whitney, Black Brick Project Gallery, Labocine, Berkeley Commonplace, Dizzy TV, Swale House and elsewhere. She has been awarded residencies at Swale on Governors Island, Inside the Castle Press and We Are the Flood at MUSE (Museo delle Scienze) in Trento, Italy. She has written for the Cleveland Review of Books, Jacobin Magazine, Polyester Magazine, Teen Vogue and others.
Her experimental book, ANAMNESIS, was published in 2024 from Inside the Castle Press. She is a 2025 resident at DOMUS, an international ecofeminist art residency in Galatina, Italy, and works as an Associate Producer on Good Morning, Buffalo, a documentary directed by Thomas Allen Harris.
ELENA SHILOVA
The creativity of Elena Shilova is a symbiosis of art and science, with her paintings imbued with deep meanings.
Elena Shilova graduated from the Tavrida Environmental Institute and the Crimean Art College named after N.S. Samokish, specializing in easel painting (2006).
She was the winner of the IX International Festival "Open Eurasian Literature Festival & Book Forum" (OEBF) in the "Illustration" category (UK, 2021) and a finalist at the international festival "Voices of Friends: Poetry and Art Contest” (Kazakhstan, 2022). Elena Shilova's work has been presented at the Eurasian Culture Week (ECW) in London. Her paintings have been featured in the cultural and tourist guide "Burabay 4Seasons" (UK, 2021) and the art catalog "The Great Steppe Treasury" (UK, 2023).
The main theme of many of her works revolves around reflections on the mysteries of the Universe, evolution, and the journey and purpose of humanity in the surrounding world.
LUCIANA HAILL
Luciana Haill explores the intersection of new technology, neuroscience, and the unconscious, transforming intangible mental states—such as lucid dreams, meditation, and nostalgia—into sensory artworks. Drawing on over 25 years of research into dreaming, meditation, NLP, and the effects of sound on the brain, Haill creates interdisciplinary works that merge augmented reality, heritage, livestreaming, and performance.
Her fascination with the brain began after a period of viral meningitis as a teenager, sparking a lifelong investigation into how consciousness can be visualised and shared. Her signature EEG (brainwave) artworks translate the brain’s electrical activity into what she describes as forms of ephemeral portraiture. This work connects to a rich lineage of neuro-art, referencing early experiments with strobe light devices such as the Dreamachine (by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs) and the pioneering EEG research of Grey Walter. Haill has presented her findings to the European Beat Studies Network in Paris and performed neurofeedback live art alongside musician Arthur Brown at the Isle of Wight Festival.
Her augmented reality and geolocated works, including Pioneer and Apparitions, reveal her ongoing engagement with heritage and innovation. These projects use smartphones to navigate themes of gentrification, technological elitism, and the ghostly traces of Victorian engineering.
Recently, Haill has expanded her practice into ironic video poems and AI-assisted music videos, combining her intricate hand drawings with text prompts and machine-generated imagery. These works conjure anachronistic encounters between poets, DJs, dandies, and artists—hyper-aesthetic and deliberately sterile visions that probe the psychological tension between nostalgia and artifice. Through this lens, Haill imagines how figures like Proust, Larkin, or Poe might use AI to manipulate art, memory, and language as a means of escape.
Haill frequently presents her research on technology and the brain, including for the Computer Arts Society (CAS) and EVA London, where her 2021 presentation Synthesis: Making Magic with GenieMo explored volumetric video, Lidar, and brainwave interaction.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Waag Society (Netherlands), Kibla (Slovenia), FACT (UK), and SPILL Festival (UK). Her neurofeedback live art was selected from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Dream Online micro commission exploring the future of live performance, as well as an honorary mention from Art of Neuroscience (Netherlands).
The Curator
Dr LILA MOORE
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The Artist
Dr Lila Moore is the founder of The Cybernetic Futures Institute (CFI), a platform dedicated to exploring technoetic arts with a unique emphasis on the spiritual and occult dimensions of art, film, screen dance, and networked, digitally interactive forms of performance and narrative.
She is a technoetic artist-filmmaker, screen-dance pioneer, networked performance practitioner, mixed-reality innovator, and visionary theorist.
The CFI is grounded in a body of theoretical writings and creative practice developed as her postdoctoral project at the Planetary Collegium, Plymouth University (2014–2015). It investigates states of consciousness through the arts and through spiritual, magickal, and mystical technologies and techniques in both historical and emergent art forms.
Dr Moore holds an MA and MPhil from Central Saint Martins and a practice-based PhD in Dance on Screen from Middlesex University (2001), developed within the context of contemporary art, experimental film, dance for the camera, ritual, and myth. Her postdoc research at the Planetary Collegium, chaired by Roy Ascott, generated original concepts including Networked Rites, Noetic Fields Weaving, and The Quest for Morphic Fields of Compassion, all exploring artworks as participatory fields of consciousness.
Her writings have appeared in leading academic journals such as Technoetic Arts, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Arts/MPDI and EVA London/BCS, addressing themes of techno-spirituality, art as fields of consciousness, and technoetic and cybernetic aesthetics. She has presented at major international conferences including Consciousness Reframed, EVA London, INSS, and ESSWE, and her artworks and films have featured in exhibitions such as SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology, and Conjuring Creativity.
As a lecturer and dissertation supervisor for the Alef Trust MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology, Dr Moore teaches Transpersonal Psychology and Spirituality and the Imaginal.
Her current artistic practice focuses on the fusion of ancient and emerging aesthetics and the creation of participatory, consciousness-responsive art fields powered by noetic technologies.