Born January 5th 1961 in Sofia (Bulgaria) • 1978-80 – Technical College of Photography, Sofia • 1984-89 – Academy of Fine Arts (FAMU), Prague, Dep. of Film and TV Camera in the class of J. Kališ, diploma thesis on The Image Stylistics of Andrey Tarkovski films, under the supervision of Professor J. Macháňě • member of the A.Č.K. (Association of Czech Cinematographers)
Efstathios Stavrakis is a post-doctoral researcher currently with the University of Cyprus. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology (Austria) and has studied for an MSc. in Computer-Aided Graphical Technology Application and a BA (Hons) in Creative Visualisation at the University of Teesside (UK). He has conducted and published research at the intersection of computer graphics and vision, non-photorealistic rendering, eye-tracking and psychophysics, as well as 3D audio rendering for VEs. He brings a wealth of experience in graphical algorithms, interface design and software development. Previously, he has held posts at the Technical University of Vienna (Austria), at INRIA Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée (France) and the Glasgow School of Art (UK).
Yiorgos is an associate professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Cyprus where he is also heading the Computer Graphics Lab. He received is PhD in 1996 from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, under the supervision of Mel Slater. He then worked as a research fellow (1996-1998) and a lecturer (1998-2001) at University College London, where he was a member of the Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments group. His current research interests are in the broader area of Computer Graphics and include real-time rendering, visibility, crowd rendering and simulation, virtual and augmented reality and applications to cultural heritage.
David Steiner studied theoretical physics until 24, then started working as an assistant director, then an executive producer. At Chamaerops Productions, he produced about 20 tv ads and was in charge of the international development of the company. He wrote and co-directed the award-winning “Stereo 3D Filmmaking: The Complete Interactive Course”, and is now a partner at Parallell Cinéma, which won two awards at Dimension 3 2011, one at Dimension 3 2010, and provide stereoscopic services for David Guetta’s Zénith concerts, Salle Pleyel’s concerts, Canal+ etc.
Cédric-Alexandre Saudinos is a producer, director and stereographer. He’s one of the associates of Parallell Cinema, a Paris-based S3D production company.
After a Master’s Degree in Philosophy at La Sorbonne University, Cédric-Alexandre Saudinos joins Chamaerops Productions.
He directed or produced a dozen documentaries, about forty TV-ads, numerous corporate films, a weekly show for France 3 and a monthly show for Cinaps TV.
How to master all the parameters of stereo production and obtain a pleasant stereoscopic 3D effect without cerebral stress and thus contribute to the emergence of a new form of cinema? Ever since Binocle 3D was founded, its philosophy, research and development have focused on these issues.
Yves Pupulin is one of the professionals who got interested very early in the creative potential of 3D. After starting as an assistant operator in the 80s, he joined Excalibur, the company in which he co-directs the special-effects (SFX) department.
Graduated from the famous ENS Louis Lumiere film school in Paris, Celine Tricart is an independent filmmaker who is particularly interested in storytelling for stereoscopic cinema. She has already directed several shorts, two of which were shot in 2K 3D, and received many awards around the world.
Well known director, cameraman, and producer and the author of many documentary movies. He also teaches at FAMU (Film and TV faculty of the Academy of musical arts in Prague). Besides many other activities he is a founder of the independent film production company CinePoint.
Todd Margolis is a transmedia producer of interactive artworks. He is currently the Technical Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at UCSD.
Margolis’ current research investigating social and cultural relationships to emerging media draws on over a decade of experience creating tele-collaborative immersive and interactive artworks and systems. He has published multiple papers on mixed reality artworks & systems and lectured on new media both nationally and internationally. His work has been shown in museums, festivals and galleries globally. He serves on the boards of several non-profit and academic organizations in the US and UK which focus on immersive and interactive art and technology.
The ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation was founded by the artists Achilleas Kentonis and Maria Papacharalambous. It is a contemporary arts and science center dedicated to research and creativity: two magical worlds of adventure and discovery, encompassing sojourns into the fields of learning, chaos and imagination.
SPAFi is the society for Education and Knowledge Exchange Support in the computer animation and film industry. The main objectives of the society are to provide the opportunity for artists, designers and developers to keep in touch with state-of-the-art technologies, to introduce such parties to Best Practices in the digital film industry and computer games production, and to help artists both acquire and improve on their knowledge and experience.
Magiclab s.r.o. is a creative postproduction, animation and VFX studio founded in 2009 and based in the center of the Prague, Czech Republic. The word ,,creative,, in the headline means that our main purpose is integration in the whole process of production of any visual creation. Our philosophy is to be a part of the process from the very beginning, when first ideas are coming. In such case we can influence the process in the best way to achieve perfect results in postproduction, both creatively and economically.
Founded in 1986, the Information Systems Laboratory has become a major focal point in the international research community. It combines expertise in knowledge representation and reasoning, database systems, net-centric information systems, and conceptual modeling. Its grand research challenge is to succeed in the transition from traditional information systems, such as information retrieval systems, database and workflow management systems, to semantically rich, large-scale, adaptive information systems.
Bohus Ziskal graduated from Czech Technical University with a degree in Technical Cybernetics. He was an assistant professor at the Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship at Charles University and was a lecturer at Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and in Film and TV school of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
Emilie Bouchet-Le Mappian promoted in 2009, in Nantes (France), on the subject: Intellectual property and the concept of property in English, German and French law. Her Ph.D. deals with the question whether intellectual property was shaped as a true property right in history and in present law.
Carlo Meghini is a prime researcher at ISTI. In more than two decades of work, he has published more than 50 papers in international conferences and journals in the area of information systems. Since the beginning of the 90’s, he is doing research on multimedia information retrieval, contributing the Multimedia Information Retrieval Model entry to the Encyclopedia of Database Systems
Simona Rabinovici-Cohen is a research staff member at the IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel. She holds M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in computer science, both from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Simona leads Preservation DataStore Cloud that provides preservation-aware cloud based storage services to ENSURE, an FP7 European Union integrated project.
Martin Doerr studied mathematics and physics from 1972 to 1978 and holds a PhD in experimental nuclear physics from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Since 1990 he has been the principle researcher at FORTH . He has been leading or participating in a series of national and international projects for knowledge management, terminology management, cultural information systems and information integration systems.
Kia is a senior lecturer at the University of Leeds where he is director and co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music (ICSRiM). Kia involves in several research domains relating to 2D and 3D imaging, multimodal analysis, gestural interfaces, interactive multimedia, digital preservation, computer vision and computer music, in collaboration with many European and international organisations and individuals in the field.
TransISTor is run by CIANT: the International Centre for Art and New Technologies in Prague, Czech Republic.
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