Chiara Dona' Dalle Rose
Lawyer, curator, patron, artist herself and patroness of the arts, she founded and directs BIAS, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the religions of humanity. Venetian, she studied in France and Italy. She is the president of WISH, World International Sicilian Heritage, a foundation active in the protection of the artistic and architectural heritage of Sicily and southern Italy, President of the Donà dalle Rose Foundation with the same name with six hundred years of patronage and good governance in the Serenissima Republic of Venice. She has been a lecturer at the II level Masters in law and art at Sapienza and at the San Raffaele University in Rome. He often collaborates with the Venice Biennale as Project Legal manager and curator of official National pavilions in art editions.
He is a member of the board of directors of the Faculty of Architecture of Venice IUAV and collaborates with the Polytechnic of Turin for which he conceived the recovery project of the municipality of Salemi and numerous other recovery projects and social incursion in Italy and the Middle East.
In addition to international and community law, she specializes in environmental and biodiversity law, landscape protection and cultural heritage in the promotion of visual arts, architecture and interdisciplinary projects. Assiduous frequenter of cenacles of architecture and art, tireless in her civic and professional support for the enhancement of culture, she recently obtained the Green Urbanism Specialization Master at the Italian Design Institute in Milan.
www.legalit.it
Walther Haaswijk
Walther Haaswijk was born and raised in Suriname. He was trained in the Netherlands as a tax lawyer at the University of Amsterdam. He also has a great deal of knowledge in the field of administrative law, labor law and social security law. He has worked as a lawyer for a number of large clients such as the municipality of Amsterdam, the UWV, the Dutch Healthcare Authority.
Since 1997 he has had his own practice as a tax advisor and mentor for independent entrepreneurs. He has a lot of experience in negotiating for clients with the tax authorities and the UWV. He lives and works in Amsterdam but carries out assignments throughout the Netherlands.
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Federico Bonelli
(director)
Federico is an independent researcher and an artist. Has a university degree in philosophy of science, has studied history of mathematics and arts. Lives in the netherlands since 2002
Is an explorer of aesthetic forms and an empirical researcher. His artistic background has prematurely met technological applications and information technology, open source and in the daily practice of the original hacking culture.
In his art related activities we count an important experiment in generative digital painting, lighting and installation, non linear storytelling, formats for mixed media and performance.
Bonelli sees his production as "a poetic of transformation", an expression of time and the philosophical unity of the whole. His methodology of Trasformation and laboratory practice found fields of application in the ideation and exploration for technologies of social innovation.
Participated as researcher and coordinator for dyne.org in EU founded projects DECODE, PIE/COMMONFARE and LEDGER.
Since 2012 directs the international site-specific laboratory "Trasformatorio" he has founded and is the actual foundation director.
Raffaella Rovida
Raffaella has a background in engineering and a PhD in Sustainability and land management. 15+ yrs of experience in European funding and project management. Leader of the research department of the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design for the last 4 yrs she is now moving to Panama looking for the next adventure.
She got involved with Trasformatorio in the co-design of Le Grand Jeu bringing her angle on circular economy and she keeps on collaborating with the foundation delivering expertise in European funding, project management and sustainability issues.
Raffaella Rovida Website
Marco Pasi
Associate Professor in History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents
University of Amsterdam
Marco Pasi is an Associate Professor in History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents. He holds a Laurea degree in Philosophy from the University of Milan, and a DEA and a PhD in Religious Studies from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris). He Has focused his research on the relationship between modern esotericism and politics, esotericism and modern art, the history of the idea of magic, and on methodological issues related to the study of western esotericism. He is the editor in chief of the Aries Book Series (Brill), board member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), co-chair of the Western Esotericism Group at the American Academy of Religion (AAR). Since 2014 he is the General Secretary of the European Association for the Study of Religions (Easr).
He is the author of Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics (Acumen Publishing), Kabbalah and Modernity: Interpretation, Transformations, Adaptations, edited by Boaz Huss, Marco Pasi, and Kocku von Stuckrad, and Peintures Inconnues d'Aleister Crowley (La Collection de Palermo , Milan, Archè, 2008).
University of Amsterdam
Haytham Nawar
Haytham Nawar is a practicing artist and designer, as well as a scholar in the fields of art and design.
Nawar’s extensive experience spans continents as he worked at the Ionian Centre for Art and Culture in Kefalonia, Greece, and taught at the School of Design in Hong Kong, in the Department of Communication Design, Polytechnic University. In 2014, he pursued his academic career as an Assistant Professor of Design at the American University in Cairo (AUC) before holding the post of Chair of the Department of the Arts at AUC since 2019.
Nawar is a two-time Fulbright Grantee. He was a Fulbright Visiting Artist at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, USA, in the academic year 2011-2012. Later, in the academic year 2017-2018, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar conducting post-doctorate research at the ArtSci Center of UCLA, LA, USA.
Nawar is the founding director of Cairotronica, Cairo International Electronic and New Media Arts Festival, Egypt. Cairotronica is a biannual festival that takes place in Cairo since 2016.
https://www.haythamnawar.com
https://www.aucegypt.edu/fac/haythamnawar
