Through the Scope of Life: Art and (Bio)Technologies Philosophically Revisited

María Antonia González Valerio, PhD in Philosophy, full Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Director of the Seminar Arte+Ciencia, which brings together artists, academics and scientists to work interdisciplinarily producing graduate education, specialized theoretical research, artistic artworks and practices and exhibitions. She is also a curator and leader of the artistic collective Bios ex Machina. Leader of the research project "Media and Species: Ecology and Evolution in Natural Philosophy" linked to the Faculties of Sciences and Philosophy and Literature at UNAM. She is the proponent of a philosophy of nature within an ontology-aesthetics. She has presented her philosophy in universities across the world: North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.

Polona Tratnik, PhD in Philosophy, full Professor, is the Dean of the Faculty for Slovenian and International Studies of New University in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is scientific councilor, the leader of the research project Social Functions of Fairy-Tales. She used to be the leader of the national research program Research of Cultural Formations, the Dean of Alma Mater Europaea - Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Faculty for Postgraduate Studies (2016-2019), Head of the Department for Cultural Studies of the Faculty for Humanities of the University of Primorska. In 2012 she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California Santa Cruz. She was a guest Professor at University of California Santa Cruz, as well as at Capital Normal University in Bejing, China, at Helsinki TAIK, Finland, and at National Autonomous University of Mexico. She teaches at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts and at Academy of Fine Arts and Design, at University of Maribor, Faculty of Education, at Faculty for Design, associate member of the University of Primorska. She is the president of Slovenian Society of Aesthetics (since 2011) and executive committee member of the International Association of Aesthetics.

馬里亞·安東尼亞·岡薩雷斯·瓦萊里奧，哲學博士，墨西哥國立自治大學哲學與文學學院的全職教授。她是藝術與科學研討會的主任，該研討會匯聚藝術家、學者和科學家，進行跨學科合作，產出研究生教育、專門理論研究、藝術作品及實踐和展覽。她同時也是藝術集體Bios ex Machina的策展人和領導者。她負責的研究項目「媒介與物種：自然哲學中的生態與演化」與UNAM的科學與哲學文學學院相關。她提倡一種在本體論美學中的自然哲學。她在全球各大學發表過她的哲學，包括北美、拉丁美洲、歐洲和亞洲。

波洛娜·特拉特尼克，哲學博士，全職教授，斯洛維尼亞盧布爾雅那新大學斯洛維尼亞與國際研究學院的院長。她是科學顧問，並領導研究項目「童話的社會功能」。她曾是國家研究計畫「文化形態研究」的負責人，並擔任過阿爾瑪·馬特爾·歐洲人文學院研究生學院的院長（2016-2019），以及普里莫爾斯卡大學人文學院文化研究系的主任。2012年，她曾是加州大學聖克魯斯分校的富布賴特訪問學者。她曾在加州大學聖克魯斯分校、北京首都師範大學、芬蘭赫爾辛基TAIK以及墨西哥國立自治大學擔任客座教授。她在盧布爾雅那大學藝術學院及馬里博爾大學教育學院、設計學院任教，並是普里莫爾斯卡大學的副會員。自2011年以來，她是斯洛維尼亞美學學會的會長，並擔任國際美學協會的執行委員會成員。