Meet our team of organisers.
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Elina Melgin (Producer) Ph.D., is Professor of Practice of the University of Vaasa’s School of Marketing and Communication, Finland. She is also Adjunct Professor of the University of Turku, Finland. She served as a Manging Director of ProCom, the Finnish Communication Professional Association, for 17 years, representing the communications industry both in Finland and internationally. After stepping down in autumn 2022, she became an entrepreneur and senior advisor for various organizations, including T-Media, a leading Finnish company focused on reputation and strategic consulting. In 2022, she received the ProCom award “Elämäntyöpalkinto” (trans. Lifetime Achievement Award) for her life-long career in communication. Elina Melgin is also a painter. Since 2019 she has joined several art exhibitions in Finland and abroad.
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Toija Cinque (Curator) is Associate Professor of Communication (Digital Media) in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia. She is the founder the Intelligent Media Lab and leads the Critical Digital Infrastructures and Interfaces (CDII) research group. Her interdisciplinary research explores how emerging screens and digital technologies shape education, culture, and society. Drawing on diverse theoretical and methodological frameworks, Cinque investigates the transformative impacts of digitisation, datafication, and platformisation—particularly their techno-cultural dimensions and implications for our digital futures. Her latest book, Emerging Digital Media Ecologies: The Concept of Medialogy (Routledge, 2025), offers a bold rethinking of how we engage with digital systems. |
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Rebekah Rousi (Curator) is an Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Economy, University of Vaasa, who holds a PhD in Cognitive Science. Rousi is a Research Artist – undertaking her performance arts practice in the research context – completed a Bachelor of Art (Visual Art) with First Class Honours at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Edith Cowan University, Australia, with a Masters in Nordic Arts and Cultural Studies (Digital Culture major) from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Rousi’s work focuses on human-AI, and human-robot interactions, particularly from the perspectives of embodiment, trust, privacy and posthumanism. Rousi has significant experience in art and academic event organization.
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Aska Mayer (Curator)
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Esteban Guerrero Rosero (Curator)
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Lyndsey Morley (Exhibition Designer)
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