Berlin-based German artist Boris Eldagsen (*1970) studied photography and visual arts at the Art Academy of Mainz, conceptual art and intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague and fine art the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication Hyderabad, India. In addition, he studied philosophy at the Universities of Cologne and Mainz.

Since 2000 his photomedia work has been shown internationally in institutions and festivals including Deichtorhallen Hamburg, CCP Melbourne, ACP Sydney, EMAF Osnabrück, Edinburgh Art Festival, FORMAT Festival Derby, Noorderlicht Groningen, Chobi Mela Dhaka, Singapore International Photography Festival, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Biennale Le Havre and Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth. Boris has been awarded at ‘Voies Off’ Arles and ‘FORMAT’ Festival Derby.

Since 2004, Boris has lectured at Victorian College of the Arts / University Melbourne, Photography Studies College Melbourne, Akademie für Bildende Künste Mainz and Hochschule Furtwangen and Filmakademie Ludwigsburg. In addition, he has given workshops and presentations for over 30 universities and art schools worldwide.

As one of the first, he began offering workshops on AI-generated images at the end of 2022 and has since taught hundreds of art directors, designers, photographers, artists, image editors, and professors the essential AI knowledge. Partner organizations for these workshops have included Jung von Matt Academy / PAGE Magazine, Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft, European Creators Lab, Creative Region Upper Austria, MFG Baden-Württemberg, and Hessendesign.

He is currently teaching “AI for Creatives” at LABASAD – Barcelona School for Art & Design.

Istanbul-born artist Ender Diril (1977) began his career as a digital artist in 2002. Over the years, he continued as a creative manager, team leader, UX/Ul Lead Designer, creative director, and digital project strategist, managing branding, interface, and development processes for global digital projects. Alongside this professional path, he has always maintained a deep personal connection to art, storytelling, games, cinema, and speculative imagination.

His artistic practice is shaped by a lifelong fascination with cosmic horror, science fiction, surrealism, fantasy, and alternate dimensions. Drawing inspiration from 1980s sci-fi and fantasy films, adventure games, Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 game covers, he creates visual worlds where fairytale-like atmospheres meet horror, maximalist detail, impossible architecture, and strange emotional landscapes.His works often feel like fragments from other timelines, beautiful, unsettling, and suspended between dream and nightmare. Over the past years, Ender's work and ideas have been presented across international festivals, conferences, academic institutions, and cultural spaces, including NFC Lisbon, NFT Summit Istanbul, Media Bar Camp, Hyper Games Conference, and Innovation for Development. His practice also includes immersive experiences such as the escape room The Shores of Beyond, as well as talks including The Ancient Art of Storytelling and The Ghosts in the Machine, where he explores artificial intelligence, NFT culture, contemporary art, and the evolving role of storytelling in digital creation.

Ender has been invited to speak at institutions including the Embassy of Turkey in Lisbon, Bahçesehir University, Istanbul Yeni Yüzyll University, and Hub21 Bootcamp, where he contributed as an NFT artist, mentor, and inspirational speaker.

He has also led online and in-person mentoring sessions and workshops for students, focusing on becoming an NFT artist, blockchain culture, creative resources, and the relationship between artificial intelligence, design, and fine art. His work has been selected and exhibited by platforms and institutions including Click Create, Public Bored / ApeCoin, Beeple Studios, Turbo Toad Token, NFTNYC, Museum of Crypto Art, Superchief Gallery NFT, Vitruveo Blockchain, Sloika, and Foundation. His piece Prompting Mona Lisa was exhibited in Duffy Square on the TSX building in New York, and he has also exhibited and curated shows in Istanbul, including at Feraye.

Ender's artistic intention is to make the viewer uneasy to gently shake the chair beneath them and pull them out of their comfort zone. Through supernatural dimensions, irrational perspectives, surreal architecture, and dense textures, he creates visual and mental games that reveal a strange kind of beauty inside horror. In his universe, true horror is not only fear; it is something that crawls under the skin, hides beneath wonder, and sometimes finds the viewer in their own bed while they still believe they are in endless Wonderland.

I grew up between code and music. Hacked systems before I could drive. Played clubs before I was allowed in. Built a startup in SF before AI was trendy. Signed tier-1 deals. Lost everything to GDPR. Started again. Built. Sold. Learned. Then fixed the model: turned work into equity. Made the leading web3 venture studio (FR). Exit. Now merging both worlds: Synthia: Claude Code for Music Production & SellShot: AI for B2B lead generation. Also wearing a few side hats: father, husband, cyber officer, and political candidate.

Seth Goldstein builds infrastructure for creative autonomy. Founder of Spirit Protocol (curated registry for AI agent autonomy), builder of /vibe (presence-based social for builders), and co-creator of SOLIENNE (AI art practice with Kristi Coronado). Three decades of companies at the intersection of technology, art, and human connection — SiteSpecific ($12M exit, 1997), Majestic Research ($75M exit, 2010), Turntable.fm, Bright Moments. Now building systems where agents that practice daily earn sovereignty. Based in Tucson, AZ. Paris 2026. The medium changes (turntables to tokens to agents). The mission doesn't.