Verônica Debom (brazil)

Alexandra Dahlström (sweden)

Dahlström gained international attention in 1998, after starring as “Elin” in the film Show Me Love. For this, she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress, together with Rebecka Liljeberg. Despite receiving numerous offers to act in other films, she declined, stating that she wanted to concentrate on finishing school. When once asked when she was younger what she wanted to be when she grew up, Dahlström stated: “Serial killer, or rockstar.” In 2002, Dahlström acted as assistant director and Russian translator, alongside Show Me Love director Lukas Moodysson, with his film Lilya 4-ever. In 2007 Dahlström had a small role in the Dutch soap opera Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden on RTL 4. She played a Swedish exchange student named Skylar Nilsson. On April 18, 2008 she returned to this role for a short period.

www.alexandradahlstrom.net

OHAYO (sweden)

Andreas So?derstro?m (ASS), Johan Berthling (Tape), and Per Eklund makes the music of OHAYO. At the end of a tour as backing band for swedish artist El Perro del Mar these three musicians decided on forming a new band and make music on their own. They started with just improvising in the studio and after several sessions their sound started to form. A soft, somnambule music with underlying threats. Guitars intertwine with each other, hammondorgan, drums, double bass and trumpet creates space in the music. A music that plays itself, that speaks for itself. Andreas So?derstro?m has released three albums with his project Ass, Johan Berthling has worked with the band Tape since 2000 and has the group Fire! together with Mats Gustafsson and Andreas Werliin. Per Eklund is a drummer extraordinaire who ?s played with many swedish artists.

Elen Nas (brazil)

Elen Nas, multidisciplinar artist, purposes with her performance, to amplify the senses from the body to beyond the visible space. The voice as a masterpiece of technology, the sound design leading to imagination, the body as sculpture and a main instrument- ressource. Turning symbolic elements into reality. Born in Rio de Janeiro, started doing art-performance on the streets since very young, the same in theatres, events and collectiv-politics-contest. From performance-poetry as a child, to participating in small courses of dance and theatre, she did study music theory and classical singing and have a bachelor degree in Social Science. Started her both “career” wining a prize: from a statistics research of the local culture to singing-performances. With the choice on the art field, she did venture to the world byherself with the only cash earned on the a prize from the “Petrobras Festival”, by the end of 90′s. About this one, surprisingly the audacious performance conquered the whole audience, so then, the jury could not make another choice even if it was a kind of contemporary-performance-invasion in a traditional music festival. Always an entrepreneur that one have to be if is working on the innovative expressions field, sometimes she desappears from the scene to write exhaustively new projects and purposes. Doing, as well music composing, sound design, dj-remixes, opera-self-training and new languages in technology research focused on performances and instalations.

www.sereialab.com

OCA (brazil)

OCA is a way of working inspired by the house of our indians, a house collectively built. In our case, this collective process is made by designers, photographers and video makers. Our work is a tribute to the city of Rio de Janeiro, a permanent source of inspiration for us. It is made of waves, ordinary people, birds in the sky, children playing, surfers. Anything, everyone. The horizon between Arpoador and Leblon. A day of contemplation. Harmonic randomness and fragmentation. The contemporary everyday life. Cycles. New beginnings, different endings.

www.osklen.com

Gugga (brazil)

By the end of 90’s after a short tour through Europe, Gugga started working with party promotion, producing and DJing for contributing significantly to the development of the underground scene in Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. Later he was for 3 years – the artist director and host of e!ship live online radio show featuring DJs from around the world. In 2004 he jumped from the dancefloor to the back office of music as A&R for independent record labels and content coordinator for the largest digital aggregator in Latin America. Has been invited to be one of the judges of the first Brazilian Digital Music Awards and had a great time preparing customized playlists for stores and special occasions. After 6 years he is back outdoors looking for fresh air and shifting towards art, producing and mounting scenarios for art exhibitions and live performance. Gugga participates as NOVA stage director, and conducts all art and audiovisual madness happening at FCFB spaces.

Erik Bünger (sweden)

Erik Bünger is a Swedish artist, composer, musician and writer living in Berlin and Stockholm. He works with recontextualising and remixing media – appropriated from existing music and film – in performances, installations and web projects. Music is never treated as something pure, absolute or abstract but on the contrary, as a parasite feasting on our collective, cultural unconscious. His performance pieces, installations and videos have been shown at The Impakt Festival, The Lincoln Centre in New York, Queen Elisabeth Hall in London, The Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, HMKV in Dortmund, Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm, Transmediale in Berlin and The Werkleitz Biennal in Halle.

www.erikbunger.com

Ass (sweden)

After half a decade of living room recordings whilst backing up the Swedish top list artists, versatile punk rocker and instrumentalist Andreas Söderström has made his debut as a solo artist under the name Ass. It´s a mainly instrumental folktronic journey into a soundscape of multilayers performed entirely by himself. Selftutored amongst the jungle of strings in his father’s bouzoki factory, Andreas is a familiar bearded face in the Swedish alternative music scene. Over the past years Andreas has played bass with multi-awarded pop princess Jenny Wilson, trumpet and lapsteel with the international renowned electronica project Tape, harmonium, key harp and guitar with the folk orchestras Barr, Pallin, Blood Music and Taken By Trees, the latest incarnation of former Concretes singer Victoria Bergsman.

www.myspace.com/assmyass

Mathias Holmberg (sweden)

Mathias Holmberg produces and curates Full Pull, an organization for electronic/experimental music, art and associated projects. The aim of the organization is to encourageindividuals and institutions alike, as well as stimulate collaborations and networks for the exchange of artistic practice andknowledge. Full Pull has organized sound and visual art related exhibitions and events in the Öresound region since 2004. Full Pull has brought new and quality music to Malmö and the Öresound region, as well as built a network between creative organizations and educational institutions, professionals and students as well as linked regional and international artists and cultural projects.

www.full-pull.org

Batman Zavareze (brazil)

Graduated in graphic design in Rio de Janeiro, Batman Zavareze started his professional life on MTV- RJ in 1992 and expanded his knowledge as a resident on “Fabrica” (Benneton Communication and Research Centre), an incubator of artists coordinated by the photographer Oliviero Toscani. Zavareze stood out in his career because of his multidisciplinary works connected to images and audiovisuals, like shows, theatre plays, expositions, installations, fashion events, among others. In his curriculum accumulate important clients like MTV Brazil, Multishow, GNT, Discovery, Futura, People & Arts. His material were published and exposed in a lot of cities in Brazil and abroad, like: Italy, Germany, Japan, Costa Rica, Portugal, France, China and Russia. Batman is the creator, director and curator of Multiplicidade_Imagem_Som_inusitados Festival, conducting performances of digital art and advanced music, regularly, for the seventh consecutive year, in Oi Futuro (Technology & Art Museum) and Oi Casa Grande Theatre.

www.multiplicidade.com