Sarah Bachinger
Sarah Bachinger is a New York-based artist whose work integrates art, science, and cultural knowledge systems. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installation, photography, film, community art, audio/visual media, painting and mixed media. She engages with frameworks such as New Materialism, Ecofeminism, and Indigenous/ancestral knowledges to examine human-environment relationships and promote dialogue across disciplines. Her work explores how cross-disciplinary methods can address ecological and social challenges and challenge anthropocentric perspectives. Sarah’s projects often involve collaboration with scientists, impacted communities, and more-than-human systems. Her work has been exhibited internationally through group exhibitions, screenings, and workshops, alongside solo shows and features on art-science platforms. In 2024, she was an artist-in-residence at Arts, Letters, Numbers in Averill Park, NY through the Writing the Land project. In 2025, she received an Individual Artist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Saratoga Arts Regrant and support from The Puffin Foundation for her project With the Meltwaters, So Too We Go. Her piece Elegy For A Glacier was selected for exhibition at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris in March 2025 for the first World Day for Glaciers and World Water Day and at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France in the Cryosphere Pavilion. Sarah’s work connects disciplines and communities through art-based approaches to environmental understanding.
Oriana Confente
Oriana Confente is an artist-researcher, writer, and maker-of-things currently based between Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal and Tkaronto / Toronto. They explore postnatural ecologies and sustainable practices, with particular interest in more-than-human encounters through alternative photography. When she’s not making a mess at her studio, Oriana is walking, talking, writing, or workshopping. Since completing their MA in Rhetoric and Communication Design at the University of Waterloo, Oriana’s projects have been exhibited in Canada, Portugal, and Brooklyn, and also published through peer-reviewed journals as well as creative platforms. She has attended residencies in New York and Spain, and she will be an artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of Burlington between September 2025-26. In June 2025, Oriana performed in the inaugural season of Angles of Consequences. Between 2024-25, Oriana graciously received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the CALQ.
Dr. Henry Segerman
Dr. Henry Segerman is a mathematician and mathematical artist originally from the UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Stanford University and an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Oxford. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Oklahoma State University and serves as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Mathematics and Art. His research focuses on 3-dimensional geometry, topology, and mathematical visualization. Henry is widely recognized for using 3D printing, virtual reality, and other emerging technologies to make complex mathematical ideas accessible and interactive. He is the author of Visualizing Mathematics with 3D Printing (2016), the first book dedicated to mathematical 3D printing, which explores how physical models can support mathematical understanding. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Bridges Conferences. Henry collaborates with both artists and mathematicians and regularly creates educational videos and public talks to engage broader audiences. Through his clear and creative communication of complex concepts, Henry has become a leading figure in mathematical art, outreach, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Eden X. Redman
Eden Redman is the CEO and Executive Director of the Network for Applied Technology (NAT), Alberta’s grassroots emerging tech network. He holds a BSc and BA from the University of Alberta and is currently pursuing an MSc in the Integrated Program in Neuroscience at McGill University. His research spans neural interfaces, biosignal processing, neuromodulation, and translational neuroscience. Since 2017, Eden has been building communities at the intersections of emerging technologies and typically siloed disciplines, driven by special interests in computational neuroscience and innovation ecosystem design. He is committed to challenging entrenched assumptions — and to examining and changing the perverse incentive structures that shape our institutions. In his artistic work he attempts to translate complex neuroscience concepts, such as perception, consciousness, and the self, into accessible visual formats. Eden works across media, including painting, sculpture, and digital design, to support science communication and public engagement. NAT, which he founded in 2021, and continues to lead, is a builder-led organization that creates open-source tools, runs educational programming, and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration through community and competition. One of NAT’s flagship programs is a multi-day competition where students and recent graduates design, build, and pitch creative solutions to real-world problems, using emerging technologies. Find out more here. Through the fusion of art and science, he hopes to broaden public understanding of the brain and mind, how individual belief and culture interacts, and how the foundation of a free and open society is a willingness to maintain spaces for dialogue between disciplines and world-views.
Dr. Eva Sánchez Martz
Eva Sánchez Martz is a choreographer, movement researcher, educator, and pianist working at the intersection of dance, psychology, and neuroscience. She holds a PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience from City St George’s, University of London, and has over 20 years of experience across artistic and academic contexts. Her background includes roles as a former member of Cirque du Soleil, founder of ACDN Productions, Associate Head of Dance at the Institute of the Arts Barcelona, and lecturer at Villanueva University in Madrid. Through her company, Martz Contemporary Dance Company, Eva develops research-led projects focused on how movement decisions are made and how cognitive and neural mechanisms influence choreography and dancer training. She collaborates with institutions such as London City University, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ballet Nacional de España, and Compañía Nacional de Danza de España. Based in Madrid, Eva is committed to advancing her personal choreographic language while integrating scientific research into movement practice. Her work supports the development of new tools and methods for dance education and performance around the world.
Dr. Theo Schaad
Theo Schaad is a physicist and artist whose work explores the intersection of mathematics, music, and visual art. Originally from Zürich, he spent his career in academia and industry before focusing on mathematical art. After earning a PhD in physics from Harvard University, he contributed to particle physics at SLAC and CERN and later developed seismic sensor technology. Since retiring, he has focused on mathematical art, specializing in tessellations—geometric patterns that cover a surface without gaps or overlaps. He has published papers on six-, seven-, and twelvefold symmetries and exhibited his work at the Bridges Conference on Mathematical Art in Europe and North America, as well as at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Seattle. He also contributed a new sevenfold tessellation to the Bielefeld Tiling Encyclopedia. His creative practice is shaped by connections between musical harmony, geometric repetition, and physical laws, inspired in part by Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach. He works primarily with block printing, combining linoleum prints with mathematical tiling to produce interlocking forms in periodic patterns. His approach to colour and composition remains intuitive, exploring how structure and creativity coexist. Based in Seattle, Theo continues to perform as a violinist and helps organize public physics lectures at the University of Washington.
Peter Ayres
Peter Ayres is a London-based designer, artist and educator with over 25 years of experience working in the UK, US and Japan. He holds a BA in Architecture from Oxford Brookes University and an Advanced Diploma in Architecture from London Metropolitan University. Peter’s work combines hand-crafted quality with mathematical precision. He is known for his folded paper sculptures made from single, unbroken sheets, and for using diagram drawing to explore mental structures and how we perceive the world. He also designs brand identities and logos for a wide range of clients and contributed graphics to the bestselling book Information is Beautiful. In addition, he has designed buildings internationally, using paper in concept models for projects such as the East Beach Café in Littlehampton and the NTU Learning Hub in Singapore. Peter has led workshops for over ten years, including regular drawing sessions for architects and engineers with Drawing At Work. Through his creative practice, he turns ideas into visual pieces that are accessible and meaningful across different fields.
Ant Nevin
Antony (Ant) Nevin is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator working at the intersection of design and living systems. He holds an M.A. in Animation and Interactive Media from RMIT University and serves as co-lead of the Visual Communication Design programme as well as a senior lecturer at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. Alongside his academic career, Ant collaborates with scientists, technologists, and artists worldwide to create experiences that make complex scientific concepts accessible and engaging. His work explores themes such as microorganisms, biological systems, synthetic biology, and generative AI. Ant has exhibited installations and led workshops across Europe, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2019, he was Artist in Residence at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Barcelona, where he investigated what it means to be a human in the 21st century. In 2020, he received the New Zealand Government’s Curious Minds grant to develop The BiolumenLab, an immersive environment enabling people to explore DNA sequencing. Through his creative works, Ant bridges the gap between science and design, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue that inspires fresh perspectives.
Eka Zharinova
Ekaterina (Eka) Zharinova is a dancer, performance artist, and researcher from Ural, Russia, currently based in London. With an M.S. in Mathematics from the Ural State University and a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of California in Davis, her work explores the relationship between the human body and digital media by incorporating everyday technologies like mobile devices, projectors, and TV screens into dance performance. She has performed in over ten countries, produced programs for theatres, museums, galleries, and libraries, and danced with choreographers including Tatiana Baganova, Maida Withers, Anouk van Dijk, and Kota Yamazaki. From 2013 to 2017, she collaborated with software artist Denis Perevalov, co-creating dance performances with interactive digital technology. Currently, Eka’s research investigates the interactions between dance, digital imagery, and machine-human relationships. She invites audiences to experience alternative realities, using dance as a means to explore freedom and diverse ways of living.
Matías Gárate, PhD
Matías Gárate is a digital artist and former astrophysicist based in Luxembourg, originally from Chile. With a PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and research experience at the Max Planck Institute of Astronomy, his scientific work focused on the formation of young solar systems. Alongside this, he nurtured a parallel passion for digital 3D art. During the final year of his PhD, he discovered the world of impossible figures – geometric paradoxes that challenge perception – through the works of Escher, Reutersvärd and the game Monument Valley. This fusion of mathematics and visual art became his creative focus, and today, he creates fine-art prints of paradoxical structures using Blender and print on Hahnemühle FineArt paper. His work invites curiosity, encouraging viewers to imagine alternative realities. After exhibiting in Germany and being featured in digital art magazines with his creations, he transitioned from a focus in science to an artistic methodology informed by his scientific background, bringing a unique perspective shaped by both worlds.