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Kobe Matthys
Kobe Matthys (23 November 1970, Ghent – 18 May 2023, Tollembeek) was an artist. In 1992, he founded Agency, an agency for quasi-creations. He conducted long-term research on the practices of reappropriation and the public domain. He lived in Brussels.
Kobe Matthys regularly contributed to a community farming project in Brussels and was one of the driving forces behind State of the Arts, an action group that opposed culture cuts in Belgium in 2019. In 2021, Agency received the Flanders’ Ultima Awards for Visual Arts.
Richard Hoeck
Richard Hoeck is a Vienna-based multimedia artist working in installation, sculpture, performance, photography and video. Hoeck's work explores worldviews, social conditions, and the possibilities of perception. In recent years, Hoeck has increasingly devoted his attention to the changing relationship between haptics and optics, between body and image. Together with his long-time collaborator John Miller, they use the inherent materiality of mannequins to explore bodies, surfaces, and transformation as displacement grows due to more of our life happening in the digital space.
Mauricio Rafael Duk Gonzáles
Mauricio Duk is an architect, having graduated from Universidad La Salle in 1995. He holds distinctions in local and international competitions, including representing Mexico at the Abacus and City Workshop in Madrid, Spain, in 1998. He has collaborated with renowned architects in Mexico, such as Alberto Kalach and Becker Arquitectos. He combines architectural practice, both in Mexico and the United States, with theoretical discussion through lectures, essays, and installations.
José Pérez de Lama
José Pérez de Lama Halcón Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture and professor of Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Sevilla. In 2009 he founded the FabLab Sevilla at the universidad de la ciudad andaluza, which remains being the director. For ten years, with Sergio Moreno and Pablo de Soto, he participated in the hackitectura.net group, undertaking projects in which free technologies, social networks and urban territories were related. His works have been exhibited, among other places, in the ZKM in Karlsruhe and LABoral of Gijón. His latest book is titled Yes, We Are Open! Fabricación digital, tecnologías y cultura libres( (RUBooks, 2014).