Obi Blanche
Experimental electronics, guitars and broken vocals from Finland. Dirty transistor distorted electronic beats and squealing no wave guitar destruction are mixed together in his personal take on melodic popular music. Building his own guitar (known as ‘Rake’), with the guidance of Dutch inventor Yuri Landman, has been the culmination of the research towards his sound: perfectly imperfect and raw. Guitarist at Thomas Azier, formerly Anika (Stones Throw) and Norman Palm (City Slang).
Currently pursuing his academic research at Postdigital Lutherie, Tangible Music Lab Linz.

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Kristina Tica 
Interdisciplinary artist and researcher, with her most recent practice centred on the artistic and theoretical exploration of the aesthetics and ethics of machine learning applications in visual computational processes. Tracing the impact of emergent technologies in popular culture under critical theory and philosophy in media and arts, her work activity spans through various disciplines - from visual arts, to coding, writing, and music.

Currently pursuing her practical and theoretical PhD research at the intersection of critical AI, computational image and its aesth-ethics, media theory and law, between the Department of Media Theory at the University of Applied Arts (die Angewandte) Vienna and the Metaverse Lab [LIFT_C] at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. Formerly a lecturer in Feminist Hacking Strategies at MA Postdigital Lutherie, Tangible Music Lab Linz. Exhibited at festivals such as Ars Electronica, Speculum Artium, ESOF Trieste, The Wrong. Works recently published in ACM Journals; Leonardo Journal (Vol. 57); and The Practice of Art and AI by Hatje Cantz.

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