GENOËL VON LILIENSTERN
composer, AI researcher

Genoël von Lilienstern works as a composer in the fields of electronic and instrumental music. His compositions have been performed internationally, including by the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Ensemble Modern, the SWR Orchestra, the Stuttgarter Vocalsolisten, the Ensemble Contrechamps and the Mivos Quartet. A particular focus is on working with neural networks and generative audio. In 2022/23 Genoël was artistic director of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste Berlin. He has been a fellow of the UdK Graduate School and a scholarship holder of the Villa Aurora Los Angeles. He is currently enrolled in the doctoral program at the HfMT Hamburg, with a dissertation on models of musical AI creation.

Prof. Dr. Pavlos Antoniadis is an Associate Professor of Music Communication and Technology at the University of Ioannina, as well as a pianist, musicologist, and creative technologist. His programming features the most complex contemporary works, extremes of physicality, live electronics, multimedia, sensors, virtual and augmented reality and musical theater, often in eclectic dialogue with ancient repertoire from Cabezón to Bartók. He is also active in free improvisation, collaborating with Panos Ghikas or with the Improtech community and notably Mikhail Malt (IRCAM REACH programme) for AI-assisted improv, and has collaborated with the physical theater group Zero Point (Athens). As a soloist, he has worked with composers such as Mark Andre, Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, Wolfgang Rihm, Tristan Murail, Richard Barrett, Walter Zimmermann, Wieland Hoban, and has premiered solo piano works by James Erber, Nicolas Tzortzis, Andrew R. Noble, Luis Antunes Pena, Dominik Karski, Laurentiu Beldean, Lula Romero, Uday Krishnakumar, Irene Galindo Quero, Frank Cox, Michael Edward Edgerton among others. Pavlos Antoniadis is currently Associate Professor of Music Communication and Technology at the University of Ioannina, Greece and a collaborator of the team interaction-son-musique-mouvement at IRCAM, Paris since 2014.

PAVLOS ANTONIADIS
pianist, musicologist, creative technologist

DMITRY MELKIN
director, actor, and educator

Melkin is a graduate of the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA). Since 2007, he has been an actor and director at Liquid Theater. He is a laureate of the National Theater Award "Golden Mask" in the "Experiment" category. Since 2011, he has led the LOW TECH studio and is a resident of the Meyerhold Center. Melkin has created productions such as Solaris, Palms, In Praise of Idleness, and others. He studied biomechanics under Alexey Levinsky. As a director and educator, he taught at the Moscow Art Theatre School in Dmitry Brusnikin's workshop. His production of The Forest received numerous positive reviews from critics and earned five stars at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

ARTEMI-MARIA GIOTI
composer, artistic researcher

Prof. Dr. Artemi-Maria Gioti is a composer and artistic researcher working in the field of Music and Artificial Intelligence (AI). She is currently a Lecturer in New Media and Digital Technologies for Music at the University of Music "Carl Maria von Weber" Dresden and a Research Fellow in Music and AI at University College London (UCL), working on the ERC project MusAI. Her compositional work centers on the concept of interactive compositions: musical works that involve real-time interaction between human musicians and interactive music systems incorporating Machine Learning (ML). Her artistic research explores how the use of Machine Learning in these works impacts the ontological entities of "author", "composition", "performance" and "musical work", and aims to produce critical insights into ML and AI gained through (auto)ethnographies of the creative process.