Yves Citton is professor of French Literature and Media at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis. He previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh, New York University, Harvard. He is member of the Institut Universitaire de France, directed the ArTeC graduate school from 2018 to 2021, and co-directs the journal Multitudes. Apart from a dozen books in French, he published The Politics of Curiosity. Alternatives to the Attention Economy (with Enrico Campo, Routledge, 2024), Mediarchy (Polity Press, 2019), The Ecology of Attention (Polity Press, 2016). A translation of his 2010 book Mythocracy will be published by Verso in 2025. His articles are in open access on his website www.yvescitton.net.
Bojana Cvejić, born in Belgrade (YU) and based in Brussels since 2001, is practicing dramaturg and writer whose research spans performance theory, critical theory, philosophy and dance studies. She is single author of Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in European Contemporary Dance and Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, Maska 2021 in Slovenian) and co-authored five books, most recently Toward a Transindividual Self: A Study in Social Dramaturgy (co-written with Ana Vujanović 2022). Cvejić is Professor of Dance Theory at Oslo National Academy of the Arts She has been affiliated with P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels) since 2002 where she teaches performance & dance theory and oversees the theory program. Since 1996, Bojana has made, performed or collaborated on numerous works of music theater, dance, and theater in Europe as co-director, dramaturg or performer. Bojana also co-authored several videos and video-installations exploring dance and choreography, …in a non-wimpy way… (with Steve Paxton, 2013), Yvonne Rainer’s WAR (2013) and Spatial Confessions (for Tate Modern, 2014). Her research in social choreography, transindividuality, and practical dramaturgy drives her politically to co-organize collective platforms of self-education and experimental production (Performing Arts Forum, Saint-Erme since 2005; TkH/Walking Theory 2001-17). Bojana collaborates with Jonathan Burrows on his research on the felt sense of making and choreography as a medium of motor cognition.
Jonathan Burrows danced for 13 years with the Royal Ballet in London, during which time he also began performing regularly with experimental choreographer Rosemary Butcher. He has since created an internationally acclaimed body of performance work including The Stop Quartet (1996) and Weak Dance Strong Questions (with Jan Ritsema 2001), as well as his long series of collaborations with composer Matteo Fargion including Both Sitting Duet (2002), The Quiet Dance (2005), Speaking Dance (2006), Cheap Lecture (2009), The Cow Piece (2009), Body Not Fit For Purpose (2014) and Rewriting (2021). Burrows is a founder visiting member of faculty at P.A.R.T.S Belgium and has for many years been a regular collaborator on Jonzi D’s Back To The Lab hip hop theatre mentoring project at Breakin’ Convention, Sadler’s Wells London. He is the author of A Choreographer’s Handbook (Routledge 2010) and Writing Dance (Varamo 2022) and is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University.
Carla Montez Fernandes is Principal Investigator at FCSH – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Director of the Lab “BlackBox Arts & Cognition” at FCSH-UNL. Coordinator of ICNOVA’s Research Group on Performance & Cognition.
Awarded a European Research Council Grant to create a new research team and LAB around the topics of her interdisciplinary project “BlackBox – A collaborative platform to document performance composition”.
Trained as a cognitive linguist, her current research focus is in the intersection of Arts and Cognitive Science, Multimodal Communication, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Performance Studies (from cognitive and ethnographic perspectives). Particular interests include human non-verbal behaviour in creativity settings, the power of performing arts in communities and society in general, and the creation of digital “archives of processes” as alternative ways to document more ephemeral art forms.
She supervises PhD and MA theses at NOVA and other national and international universities, and is author of book chapters and numerous papers in international journals and conferences in the fields of Multimodal Communication, Human Behaviour in creativity settings, Performing arts documentation, and preservation of Intangible Heritage via new media.