Ana Borralho and João Galante met while studying visual arts at AR.CO (Lisbon) and collaborated as actors and co-creators with the theatre group Olho, in Almada. Since 2002, they have been working together in the fields of performance, dance, theatre, installation, photography, sound, and video. Their work has been presented at national and international festivals. In addition to being artistic collaborators, they are also a couple in life, an entity with two bodies, an essential biographical element for understanding their work. They co-founded the cultural association casaBranca with Mónica Samões and are the artistic directors of the Verão Azul Festival in the Algarve.

Piny is a dancer, choreographer, performer, researcher, producer, curator, and cross-disciplinary teacher who believes in a free, socially and politically engaged artistic practice. Her work moves between Hip Hop and clubbing culture, through dance, DJing, and graffiti, and Middle Eastern and North African dance traditions, exploring their contemporary fusions. She holds academic training in Architecture, Scenography, and Contemporary Dance in both national and international contexts. She founded the collectives ButterflieSoulFlow, Orchidaceae, and Vogue PTChapter. Piny works as a performer and creator, collaborating with a wide range of artists. In 2023, she founded the OU.kupa festival, focused on urban and clubbing dance cultures.

John Krakauer is Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (USA), where he holds the John C. Malone Chair. He is also an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute (USA). A neurologist and neuroscientist, his research focuses on the motor system and functional recovery after stroke. He is Chief Medical Advisor at the Swiss company MindMaze and a long-time collaborator of Champalimaud Research, where he leads upcoming initiatives in clinical neuroscience and neurotechnology. His experience bridges research, medical practice, technological innovation, and the integration of art in healthcare.

I. Memming Park is a Group Leader of the Neural Dynamics lab at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. His primary interest is in the intersection between neuroscience and artificial intelligence regarding temporal information processing. He aims to understand cognitive algorithms (e.g., for decision making or working memory) using statistical machine learning methods applied to neural data. He was an associate professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at Stony Brook University. He received his BS in computer science from KAIST, MS in electrical engineering and PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Florida, and trained with Jonathan Pillow as a postdoc. He received the NSF CAREER award and the SBU Discovery Prize.

Tiago Marques is a Researcher at the Champalimaud Clinical Centre, where he co-leads the Digital Surgery LAB, and a Guest Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. He develops technologies to improve cancer treatment by combining AI, medical imaging, and augmented reality. He holds a PhD from the Champalimaud Foundation and was a researcher at MIT, where he studied visual perception and developed AI algorithms. He holds a Master’s in Engineering Physics from IST, where he worked on control and data acquisition systems for Nuclear Fusion.