AnimaeNoctis

AnimaeNoctis is a multimedia and multidisciplinary duo consisting of Silvia Marcantoni Taddei (1994) and Massimo Sannelli (1973). They have been living and working together since 2019. The duo has focused on porn art since 2023 as part of a broader practice encompassing e-publishing, literature, music, performance, and video performance. In porn filmmaking, they have shot and released more than 70 shorts and two features, available on PinkLabel.tv, BrightDesire and Postporn.org. They live and work in Novi Sad, Serbia.

ALFRED BOW

My artistic practice engages with the “Politics of the Living,” in Achille Mbembe’s sense, as an exploration of the immeasurable and unpredictable — a space that questions and challenges quantitative logics, including digital technologies, social media, and positivist modes of thinking. Against the kind of “certainty” criticized by Eva Menasse, which constrains “ambiguity … and frayed humanity,” I understand art as a practice of the living: a process that cultivates ambiguity, resistance, and openness. Through large-scale painting, as well as drawing, printmaking, ceramics, installation, music, and performance, I develop “fragile figurations and hybrid morphologies in which bodies appear as dynamic interfaces. The permeability between inside and outside generates affective sensoriums in which perception is transformed.” (Marija Nujic) In the spirit of Frederic Laloux, who understands life as a “journey of discovery” in which there are “no mistakes, only experiences that point us toward a deeper truth about ourselves and our environment,” my works create spaces of possibility in which the unavailable and uncontrollable can become generative experiences of knowledge.

Kevin Blackistone

Kevin Blackistone (US/AT) is an artistic researcher using immersive, tangible, participatory and performative elements as tools for exploratory engagements. His current focus investigates the networks of cross-interactions between our human organism(s), its habitats & inhabitants, and their technological interrelations. His research background includes a BA in digital arts, post-bacc research with the Laboratory of Neurogenetics, and MAs in interactive arts and sound/synthesizer design. His exhibitions have included Ars Electronica, Mapping Festival, Siggraph Asia, Zeiss-Großplanetarium, and Miraikan with awards including the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, Rubys Arts Awards, and the Linz Media Arts Awards. He currently instructs interactive immersive performance and brain-computer interfaces at the University of Arts Linz.

Deniz Yenimazman

Deniz Yenimazman is a philosopher, media theorist, and writer working on political theology, technics, sovereignty, violence, desire, and algorithmic governance. His publications include “On Autochthonous Violence” (2019), “Political Theology and Turing Machines” (2021), “The Dialectics of Enmity in Relation to Sovereignty in the Works of Georges Bataille” (2025), and “Cosmotechnical Cosmopolitics: Inheriting Latour after Anthropology” (2026). His current research examines how desire, violence, decision, and collective life are reorganized through technical infrastructures. He also works across essayistic, curatorial, and experimental formats, such as “Hide and Seek: A Manual Without Instructions.”

Michal Kabát

Michal Kabát, PhD., is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Games, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia. His academic research focuses on game culture history, visual communication, and the mechanics of censorship in digital spaces. He is a regular contributor to international scholarship on computing and media taboos, investigating topics from early local game histories to the algorithmic suppression of sexual education on corporate platforms. Kabát is a founding member of the Porn Game Research Network and a member of hernihistorie.cz. He actively organizes regional events to support and archive digital play experiences.

Maya Magnat

Maya Magnat is a performance artist, speaker, and certified sex educator specializing in intimacy, technology, and education. She holds an MA in Education and Technology (Haifa University) and an MFA in Performance Research (Tel Aviv University). As Digital and Innovation Manager at Elem Digital, she harnesses technology for social impact, supporting at-risk youth online. Her interactive performances explore mediated intimacy and the evolving relationship between humans and technology. As a speaker, she focuses on AI and love, sextech, and teenagers in the digital age. Her work has been featured at re:publica, Lyst, Reimagining Sexuality, and the Biennial of the Moving Image.

Jean Ketterling

Jean Ketterling (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies – Gender, Sexualities and Social Justice Program at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Her interdisciplinary research is informed by feminist and queer theories and focuses on representations of sex in videogames. She is particularly interested in how videogames represent sex, their ability to make space for experimental sexual play, and how sexual content in videogames is promoted, controlled, and regulated by platforms. She is the Principal Investigator of the Pornography, Platforms and Play Project (www.pppproject.com), which focuses on the social, cultural, legal, and economic factors that shape the production, distribution, and consumption of pornographic videogames. Jean’s work has appeared in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies, Surveillance & Society and Feminist Media Studies. She is the vice president of the Canadian Game Studies Association.

Aphrodite

Aphrodite has been part of the hacker community for over 25 years and a part of trans communities for nearly 20 years. In that time, she has been a core team member of Hackers On Planet Earth; president of the Self Actualization Support Society, a Canadian nonprofit that operated a major DIY HRT site; a part of Trans World Express, an organization that helps trans people find paths to safer countries; and a keynote speaker at Arse Elektronika 2015. Nowadays, she helps trans and gender questioning people worldwide from her abode in rural Greece.

Philipp Blab

Philipp Blab, born in Vienna, explores aesthetics as an intersection of art and politics, working as a curator, author, and observer.

Lars* Kollros

Lars* Kollros (b. 1979) is a Vienna-based artist and researcher working at the intersection of media theory, queer studies, and posthumanism. After studying electrical engineering and sociology, Lars* studied Fine Arts in the Studio for Video and Video Installation under Dorit Margreiter at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and completed a second degree in Art and Cultural Studies in 2024. Since 2023, Lars* has been working on the doctoral dissertation Desire of Humans and Androids in Contemporary Life and Science Fiction, examining how desire is constructed, represented, and projected onto artificial life forms. Lars*’s artistic research investigates the relationship between bodies and media technology through interactive installations using sensors, video, sound, and networked spaces, as well as performances addressing measurement, the digital panopticon, and the becoming-cyborg of the queer subject. Lars* founded the punk label RilRec in 2007 and directed the documentary Festival der Demokratie on the 2017 G20 protests. The work has received a Culture Moves Europe grant from the EU (2024) and a St. Petersburg residency (2019). Lars* is genderqueer and uses no pronouns or the English singular they/them.

Eric Singer

Eric Singer is a Brooklyn, NY-based Mad Scientist and Undisciplinary Artist who can't be arsed to stick to one medium. His oeuvre spans musical robots, pyrotechnic games, reactive installations, guerrilla street antics and all manner of sonic, visual and sundry stimulatory interventions.

Erin Robinson

Erin Robinson is an award-winning computational artist and researcher whose work examines how eroticism, identity, and embodiment are rewritten through algorithmic systems. She treats AI as both instrument and subject, working with synthetic images, surveillance architectures, and data-driven models to study how bodies are fragmented, reconstructed, and circulated. Across installations, image and 3D, she develops frameworks that expose the technical and libidinal logics shaping contemporary visual culture. Her practice moves between critical theory and hands-on computation, using her own body as a site for testing how desire, authorship, and agency are changed within synthetic media.

Eric Coombs Esmail

Eric Coombs Esmail is an artist and scholar interested in documentary philosophy, poetics and the politics of human migration. Trained as a cinematographer, he works across film and video production for performance, installation and theatrical release. His work has taken him far afield and close to home, from Palestine to Pennsylvania, where he explores ideas around power, place and human experience. Eric is the director of the Center for Documentary Media at the University of Colorado, general editor of Transformations Journal, and co-founder of the Mimesis Documentary Festival.

Edem Dotse

Biography coming soon.

Sandra Muciño

Sandra Muciño is a bassoonist and improviser. Her experience in that field broadened her musical approach and interest in experimental forms, incorporating performance and the exploration of new interfaces into her practice.

Lilith-Isa Samer

Lilith-Isa Samer is a sound and media artist from Vienna, based in Linz. Her work investigates the relationship between interaction and sound. As an artist she explores the fine line between discomfort and joy.

Saumil Bhandari

Saumil Bhandari (b. 1989, Lucknow, India) is a media artist, designer, engineer, and instrument maker whose practice explores the intersection of sound, electronics, material culture, and performance. He previously worked as a Creative Technologist for over nine years, developing consumer products, interactive technologies, and user experiences for mass production. His current practice spans tangible participatory installations, curation of public space art exhibitions, and experimental instrument design, investigating how traditional knowledge systems, folk instruments, and handmade materials can be reinterpreted through contemporary electronics and digital media.

Sabrina Verhage

Sex Tech Sabrina (aka Sabrina Verhage) is a creative technologist based in Amsterdam. Through interactive installations and artistic research, she explores how emerging technologies shape intimacy, pleasure, and human connection. Combining AI, sound, and participatory experiences, her work questions the assumptions embedded within technological systems and imagines alternative relationships between humans and machines. She also organizes Live Coding Sessions Amsterdam, celebrating code as a live creative medium.

Stefan Lutschinger

Stefan Lutschinger is an artist-philosopher, creative technologist, and metaverse developer exploring the intersections of art, technology, and speculative media. Engaging with embedded systems, digital textiles, and intelligent interfaces, he examines how bodies extend into machinic environments. His recent work investigates the aesthetics of biodata, neurofeedback, and cybernetic intimacy, reimagining sensory experience through interactive wearables. Blending speculative design with critical theory, his practice fuses philosophical inquiry with hands-on experimentation, challenging distinctions between human, machine, and code.

Anna Ivanova

Anna Ivanova is a PhD researcher in Audiovisual Arts and Media Studies at Tallinn University (Baltic Film, Media and Arts School), studying AI-mediated intimacy and embodiment, and a Research Associate on the LGBTQI+ Futures Project (CHANSE). Their practice spans filmmaking, critical AI work, and speculative worldbuilding about consent-centered intimacy technology; their queer porn films have screened at festivals including Toronto Queer Film Festival and Berlin Porn Film Festival. Their research combines ethnographic and practice-based artistic methods to investigate how large language models script boundaries, gender, and authenticity. Before the PhD, they trained as a feminist ethnographer (MA Visual and Media Anthropology) and built software products.

Viola V

Viola V is your obscure object of desire and has been making pornography for almost 20 years. Her work explores fetishes and psychosexuality. When she's not indulging in perversions, she's planning and scheming as the Creative Director of Satyrs & Maenads: Athens Porn Film Festival.

ANONYMOUS ARTIST

The artist might seek to remain anonymous, but might have exhibited at Roboexotica and might have taken part in the previous Arse Elektronika with a project called Nas-Horn. Details might be found here: https://hackaday.io/project/183047-nas-horn. The artist’s main project, alongside numerous side projects, might be a document intended to offer common ground between AI and humans, with the possible aim of achieving world peace. Details might be found here: https://github.com/VoiceOfHumanityFoundation/42/releases/latest/.

Evelio Moreno

Evelio Moreno (Bisont) is a Mexican visual and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the crude boundaries between organic materials, physical metamorphosis, and psycho-erotic narratives. Navigating between the raw visceral nature of Henry Miller and the fragmented structures of Julio Cortázar, his practice spans frame-by-frame animation, collage, and large-scale installations. He was awarded 2nd Place at the International Image Festival (FINI 2023, Mexico) and has recently exhibited his solo show "Metamorphosis" at the Kunsthaus Weiz in Austria. His work is a sort of intuitive automatism, creating handcrafted audiovisual experiences where the physical body reclaims its chaotic, untamable nature. He has been selected in an international call to participate next year in a group exhibition at Lucca Biennale Cartasia, Italy, where he will show a crafted short film made with the cut-out motion technique.

Maxin Krippner

Maxin Krippner (b. 1993, lives and works in Vienna) studied Fine Arts at the Kunsthochschule Mainz. Their practice centers bodies and desire, exploring presence and absence as ways identities take shape through imagination, longing, and relation. Working with painting and drawing, they make moments of rest and vulnerability visible realities.

Rica Fuentes Martinez

Rica Fuentes Martinez, born in Barcelona in 1977, lives and works in Vienna as a visual artist. She holds diplomas in photography and media design and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the Contextual Painting class of Ashley Hans Scheirl and Jakob Lena Knebl. She is a co-founder and co-organizer of PUMPILLE Lichtspielerei. She previously served as deputy chair of the art and cultural association Das Werk and worked as a photographer for the art and cultural centre Das WERK in Vienna’s 16th district. Since 2010, she has been a member of the performance group Grillhendl Rotation Crew and has appeared with Zirkus Mops, Lunatics, and the Pink-G Performance Crew. She is an honorary member of the association Zeitzoo and a member of the artist group NO DOG! HYPER FLUX!

Cornpop Bright and Squareheart

Cornpop Bright and Squareheart are best friends. They sometimes make films together. Cornpop Bright is an artist and gardener. In their free time, they create sensual, minimalist films and share them with other perverts. Science fiction is a strong influence on their work. Squareheart enjoys technical challenges and cats. He works across film, music, and animation. Horny for film grain and narratives, his art dives deep into the dream world and the subconscious.

Offerus Ablinger

Offerus Ablinger studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. His work has been shown at Art Düsseldorf, QWIEN (Queer Art Prize Shortlist), xHibit Vienna, Galerie des Artistes in Paris, Galerie 5020 Salzburg, MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Ars Electronica, and the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna.

Federico Niccolai

Federico Niccolai is an artist and interactive systems designer. He specializes in the development of video games, multimedia experiences, and performances, working across both the artistic field and the preservation and communication of cultural heritage. His research investigates the relationship between physical and virtual 3D environments, with a particular focus on real-time audiovisual interaction. Born in Livorno, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where he graduated in New Expressive Languages – Sculpture. In 2018, he completed a postgraduate specialization course at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa. Since 2021, he has been part of the Teogonia collective, which he co-founded with artist Davide Martiello. Teogonia focuses on multimedia performances where visuals interact in real time with live music. In 2025, he obtained his PhD in Cultural Heritage Sciences, specializing in the 'New Media for the Valorization and Communication of Artistic Heritage' curriculum at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.

Maria Papoutsaki

Maria Papoutsaki is a digital arts and cinema student with a deep interest in performance art. She has an extensive dance background spanning numerous styles, including burlesque, Latin, and ballroom. She expresses her social and political concerns through movement, drawing on this dance background. She is also interested in dance performances centered on sexual self-expression, as well as feminist, queer, and camp themes.

Aleksandr Smetanka

Aleksandr Smetanka is a Ukrainian visual artist working between Milan and Lisbon. His moving image practice explores desire and the body through synthetic organic forms that shift between organism, ornament and apparition. Before developing this practice, he worked for twenty years across design, illustration, advertising and digital visual culture. His current series, The Desire of Matter, has reached more than 60 million views and 30 million viewers organically over the past four months. He works with generative systems as a medium for creating images rather than as the subject of the work.

Carina Papouschek

In my artistic practice, I engage with internalized patriarchal structures and their examination and transformation. My work focuses on making visible and dismantling prejudices, exposing internalized patterns of behavior, and exploring resilience and vulnerability. I observe and analyze my surroundings attentively and with great sensitivity. I translate both conscious and unconscious insights directly into my artistic practice. It is important to me not to provide definitive answers, but rather to create spaces for individual interpretation and personal reflection. At the heart of my work is the freedom of individual self-expression and the possibility of critically questioning social norms.

Alessandro Amaducci

Alessandro Amaducci was born in Turin, Italy, in 1967. He worked with the Archimedes Centre of Visual Arts, where he led video workshops; the National Film Archives of Resistance in Turin, where he made documentaries on the Second World War, the Resistance, workers’ struggles, and related subjects; and Theater Juvarra, producing multimedia shows and video performances. He is a professor of video language and practice at DAMS, University of Turin, and has written several books on video art, video techniques, and the aesthetics of electronic art. Since 1989, he has made experimental videos, music videos, video installations, multimedia shows, video scenographies for dance performances, and digital photographs.

Laura Schlagintweit

Born in 1999. Lives and works in Vienna Academy of Fine Arts University of Applied Arts

Matthias Jaklitsch

Matthias (Ramon) Jaklitsch, born in Vienna in 1991, is a media artist, director, musician, and editor. He has worked on a range of film, theatre, and documentary projects, often taking on multiple roles including directing, editing, cinematography, and sound. His first feature-length projects as a director include the satire *Zweite Tür Rechts* (2019) and the long-term documentary project *Leben und Überleben* (2025). His work is primarily situated within Austrian independent film and is characterized by an openness to different formats and modes of expression. He is particularly interested in the interplay between documentary approaches and aesthetic form.

Lou Liska

Lou Liska is a gender-queer performer, artist, and human ecologist based in Guntramsdorf, near Vienna, Austria. Coming to art without formal training, Lou’s practice is shaped by a working-class background and a sustained engagement with structures of power. Social, economic, and political hierarchies inform an ongoing investigation into how identity, agency, and self-empowerment are negotiated within, and against, these systems. A non-binary perspective functions as both position and method, resisting fixed categories in favor of fluid, relational modes of making. Working across performance, photography, painting, and video, Lou creates intimate, hybrid works that foreground the body as a site of knowledge. Recent projects examine contemporary power dynamics and gender roles through the lens of a self increasingly entangled with digital technologies and AI. By placing the analogue logic of the body in tension with the synthetic logic of technology, Lou’s work asks how embodiment, autonomy, and desire are being reshaped in the present.