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Andrea Bigiarini lives in Florence, Italy, where he was born in 1956. Since he was a child he has developed a fascination for painting, graphic design, music and photography.

In 2012, he founded the “The New Era Museum”, the first museum dedicated to mobile photography as a tool for improving reality and build a new era.

He is also founder and president of FIPA – Florence International Photography Awards. His latest project is called Impossible Humans. In addition, Bigiarini curates several photo galleries such as Impossible Humans and The Most Wanted Visionaries Catalog. He has organized, in iconic buildings in Florence and Rome, immersive exhibition experiences featuring the musical performance of Marco Testoni.

https://www.andreabigiarini.com

Giulia Baita has a degree in Art History, is a teacher and artist. From 2015 to 2019 she participated in numerous international exhibitions such as “Light Impression” (Miami), “MIRA Mobile Prize” (Porto), “mDAC 2017” (Palo Alto).

Some of her videos (using the iPhone) were selected by festivals such as MoMo Festival, International Mobile Film Festival, Woman’s Mobile Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival. In 2016 she collaborated with jazz composer Marco Testoni to create three music videos for the projects “Impossible Humans” and “Ah!”.

In 2017 she founded MAG Mobile ArtGroup, a group of artists that aims to promote Mobile Art as a contemporary art form.

She collaborated with the magazine “ONLY Mobile Art” (NYC). She has been a member of juries for several competitions such as the MIRA Mobile Prize (Porto); MDAC 2021 (Palo Alto, California), and Mobgraphia (Brazil). In 2018, she organized her first exhibition as a curator in Cagliari (Italy), where she presented mobile artists from around the world. Three more followed in Sardinia and Milan.

Meanwhile, she has developed her artistic practice in solo and group exhibitions: “Talk with me” in Genoa (2021) at the “Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence”. She exhibited in 2021 and 2022 in Milan and Fuerteventura. In 2022 she participated in the “Roots” exhibition in NYC at Arte Azulejo Gallery and in Milan at MAEC Gallery with the exhibition “I have a dream”.

Joanne Carter is the creator of the world's most popular mobile art and photography website — TheAppWhisperer.com: an essential cyberspace for mobile artists.

Promoting mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today's art world has become the focus of his life. She has given conferences to promote mobile photography and its artists, among others, at the Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea and at Focus on Imaging in the United Kingdom. She has participated as a jury in competitions in several countries: Portugal, Canada, USA, South Korea, United Kingdom and Italy and has participated in important events in Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil and London.

Pioneered the world's first online mobile art gallery – TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com – Specializing in prints for limited edition, exclusive and never-before-seen art collectors. His freelance photographic journalistic work is widely recognized having published in the UK and USA: The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and, most recently, for the BBC as a contributor, columnist for Vogue Italia and contributing editor for LensCulture.

His professional photography has been widely exhibited in Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom. She is currently producing books related to mobile photography.

joanne@theappwhisperer.com

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Tânia Dinis, 1983. Mestrado em Práticas Artísticas Contemporâneas FBAUP, 2015. O seu trabalho atravessa diversas perspetivas e campos artísticos, tais como a fotografia, performance, cinema ou o da estética relacional, partindo de imagens de arquivo de família e outros registos de imagens do real. Salienta nos seus filmes, Lurdes 2021, prémio Incentivo no FUSO, Não são favas, são feijocas 2013,premiada em vários festivais de cinema, Laura 2017 prémio de melhor curta-metragem no Arquivo em Cartaz – Festival Internacional de Cinema de Arquivo e Armindo e a Câmara Escura. Realizadora selecionada no SANGUE NOVO 22º – Festival de cinema Luso Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira, 2019. Artista selecionada para ARTISTA NO CENTRO 2020/2021 pela Oficina – Guimarães. Foi uma das vencedoras do Open Call dos Laboratórios de verão na GNRATION. Integrou diversas exposições coletivas. Residência artística 2020/2021 na Solar Galeria de Arte Cinemática de Vila do Conde. Está representada na coleção de arte contemporânea do Município do Porto.