Michal Kabát is a Slovak game designer and researcher exploring how play evolves across cultures, bodies, and technologies. His work draws on the history of local game experiences in post-socialist countries, from improvised arcade culture and home-grown proto-LAN scenes to today’s independent and experimental communities.
He designs and studies games across VR, AI-assisted creation, and emerging interactive technologies, with a particular focus on adult play and pornology as meaningful spaces for intimacy, agency, and cultural reflection.
As a long-time game jam organiser and active participant, Kabát builds environments where rapid prototyping, collaboration, and experimental design thrive. His projects connect artistic practice, critical research, and playful experimentation, engaging themes of embodiment, media literacy, and the ways interactive media shape attention, pleasure, and imagination.

Agnieszka Przybyszewska works as an assistant professor at the University of Łódź (Poland) and has been a visiting research fellow at Bath Spa University (UK) since 2020, as well as a research affiliate at Washington State University Vancouver (Electronic Literature Lab). During a summer of 2025 she was a visiting researcher at Immersive Storytelling Lab at York University (Canada). Agnieszka holds a double degree in Polish literary studies and film&media studies, and received her PhD in literary studies. She co-created creative writing studies at University of Łódź and she is frequently supervising artistic projects that use new media for storytelling. Agnieszka led various research projects focused on digital storytelling (including XR), for example: “Audience research as an element of the XR literature research methodology – a pilot study of VR poetry” (NCN 2023-2024) or “Kate Pullinger and innovation in digital writing: from multimodal interactive narrative to haptic, corporeal reading” (NAWA 2020-2022). She was also part of Bath & Bristol R&D project “Amplified publishing”, researching VR and AR as literary platforms, editor of a thematic issue of “The Writing Platform” on XR storytelling and curator of the exhibition “VR and Literature: an (Im)possible Romance” in the British Library (London), which was part of 2023 MIX conference. She is member of Electronic Literature Organisation and Centrum Badań nad Literaturą Elektroniczną UAM, co-editor of “The Writing Platform”. Agnieszka’s book “Kate Pullinger and Innovation in Digital Writing” will soon be published by Bloomsbury Press in the Electronic Literature series, and Agnieszka is also the author of several dozen articles on e-literature, published in peer-reviewed journals and collective academic publications.

Rafael Balulu is an award-winning filmmaker and recipient of the Israeli Minister of Culture Award for Cinema, as well as the World Sephardi Federation’s Pioneer Award in Film. He is the co-founder of the production company BFILMS and serves on the Cultural and Arts Council of the lottery, where he is Chairman of the Film Committee and a board member of the Landau Prize for Science and Arts. Balulu is a member of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. Previously, he served on the board of the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum and taught cinema at the Technion’s Faculty of Architecture.
His acclaimed films include The Last Righteous Man, A Song of Love, Levantine, Tapes of Revolution, and Death in Umm al-Hiran, among others. His works explore the narratives and histories of MENA Jews and Jewish–Muslim relations, and have been screened, honored, and awarded at major international festivals, including Berlin, New York, Jerusalem, Auckland, Toronto, Kosovo, Seoul, and Hong Kong.
Balulu is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents, the TIFF Filmmakers Lab, and the Greenhouse Documentary Development Program. He studied at the Sam Spiegel Film and
Television School, is an alumnus of the Mandel Institute’s Jewish Culture Leadership Program, and a Fellow of the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the
University of Michigan.

Native Voice Films: Giovanna has been developing and producing  international creative documentaries and reportages since 2006 for ARTE, BBC, Channel 4, France 2,  NETFLIX, HBO, AMAZON,  and premiered at SUNDANCE, BERLINALE, TORONTO, IDFA, Sarajevo & others. Her creative features include THE BENGALI DETECTIVE, which premiered at Sundance and Berlinale and winner of a British Grierson Award; the Japanese feature LOVE HOTEL in a UK-France co-production with Oscar winning company Bonne Pioche, for  Netflix USA, BBC Storyville and France 2; and the ARTE/BBC film BETTY—THEY SAY I’M DIFFERENT. Her work SPIDER-MAN OF SUDAN for ARTE and The GUARDIAN in 2023, won the Prix Bayeux Calvados and Hinzpeter Award. She is the lead producer of KHARTOUM . Along with her production work, Giovanna is Director of REACT – Refugee Education Across Conflicts Trust – a UK charity working with those from a migratory background to access education and a dignified life.