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    • Tehilla Shwartz – Altshuler

    Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler is a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and head of the institute’s Media Reform Program and Democracy in the Information Age Program.

    Yuval Adar

    A member of the Utopia Festival team for the past 11 years, Adar serves as a curator, content editor, and producer.

    Lital Amos

    Content Writer

    Uri Aviv

    Director of the Utopia Festival for Science Fiction and Future Story-telling. As the Promethean Consultancy, program curator, PMO, artistic consultant and producer, writer and speaker on topics of technology and society, science fiction and the future.

    Yoav Avni

    Writer & translator

    Rina Jean Baroukh

    Literature researcher, writer, translator, editor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and in the Be'er Sheva Writer's House, Editor of the literary magazine "Speculation".

    Yaara Better Pocker

    Yaara Better Pocker is a writer, producer and a cliche of herself.

    Amir Bogen

    Bogen is a veteran film journalist, film program curator, academic scholar and festival director at LIFF (Lighthouse International Film Festival, NJ, USA)

    Yuval Brenner

    Brenner creates and explores visual world and themes using both digital tools and traditional techniques.

    Eli Cook

    Senior Lecturer in the General History Department at the University of Haifa in Israel and head of the American Studies Program.

    Yotam Dobrin

    Film programmer, co-founder of the Instagram page “The 4th Wall”, film critic at the websites “Seret” and “Geeklopedia”.

    Nimrod Dweck

    CEO of Dice Marketing and the Rimon Studio, Founding member of the “Darkenu” Israeli social-political movement, game designer and author

    Alex Epstein

    Alex Epstein is an Israeli writer of Russian descent known for his micro stories, two-time winner of the Israeli Prime Minister's Prize for Authors and Poets (2003; 2016). Epstein’s publications include a children’s book, poetry, novels and short story collections. His work has been translated into numerous languages, including English, French, Portuguese and Russian. In 2013-14 Epstein took part in the Utopia “Designing Tomorrow” project, getting authors, designers and creatives together with technology entrepreneurs and scientists.

    Adam Etzion

    Writer, sailor, climate activist

    Eitan Gafny

    Film director who pioneered Hebrew Horror. He's also a published author and a nice person in general, with a terrible fear of cockroaches.

    Olga Gershenson

    Professor of Jewish Studies and Near Eastern Studies and Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

    Prof. Elana Gomel

    Prof. Gomel teaches in the Department of English Literature and American Studies at the Tel Aviv University with research specializations in science fiction and fantasy, narrative science, Dickens, Victorian culture and Post-humanism. Alongside her research and teaching, Prof. Gomel is also a published author of science fiction and fantasy texts and novels.

    Eran Hadas

    Poet, programmer and media artist. Co-founder of the Digital Media track at Tel Aviv University and lecturer there, at the School of Visual Theatre Jerusalem, and in other frameworks.

    Tsila Hassine

    Hassine is an artist, lecturer and researcher. Her creative work was exhibited at the Jerusalem Science Museum, the Tel-Aviv Center for Contemporary Art, the Berlin Transmediale, Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Gasworks (London), Maxxi, the Venice Biennale, and more. As of 2019 She is the founder and CEO of the early stage ArtUp “Shmoogle: Search Different, Think Different."

    Itamar Heifetz

    Artist, graphic designer, typographer, with expertise in typographic and calligraphic design, alongside design for the arts & culture worlds.

    Omri Herzog

    Israeli literature critic and culture researcher and theorist, specializing in popular culture and literature.

    Saul Judd

    Independent film and media/video-art programmer and curator & part of the programming team for the LICHTER Frankfurt International Film Festival, where he is head of the LICHTER Art Award and Programmer/Curator for the LICHTER International short film program.

    Ezry Keydar

    Lives in Mitzpe Ramon, loves nature mountains and desert landscapes, photographer, musician, entrepreneur and social and environmental activist.

    Ziv Kitaro

    Game Creator, Writer, Devoted Sci-Fi lover, Creative Director at Funfacters.

    Jonathan Kopievker

    Cultural researcher, content editor, and film critic at Portfolio Magazine. Has lived and breathed cinema from a young age and lives as someone who writes to find meaning.

    Eden Kupermintz

    Program curator, speaker and music & culture journalist, programmer for Utopia, the Tel-Aviv International Festival for Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, editor-in-chief of Heavy Blog is Heavy, web developer and scifi enthusiast.

    Boaz Lavie

    Lavie is an Israeli author and playwright, game designer and entrepreneur. His play “Nephilim” (created with Yonatan Levi) premiered at The Israel Arts Festival in Jerusalem. “The Divine”, a graphic novel (created with illustrators Asaf and Tomer Hanuka) became a New York Times bestseller, was a Hugo Award Nominee and won the International Manga Award and.

    Ron Lavy

    Copywriter at the Adler-Chomsky ad agency, writes independently about ideas and topics at the nexus of cinema, pop culture and psychology

    Emanuel Yitzchak Levi

    Poet and musician ("Emmanuel and the Yearnings"). His debut poetry book (“The Sun Sings to Melchior”, Hava La’or Publishing, 2020) has awarded him the Minister of Culture's Prize for Poets in their Early Career.

    Maya Magnat

    Theater and performance artist, academic researcher, educator and social activist at the focal point of digital culture, technology, media and intimacy.

    Noa Manheim

    Editor of prose and screenplay, essayist and cultural critic, recipient of the 2021 Israel Minister of Culture's Award for Editing. Head of the Hebrew Literature Department, Kinneret-Zmora-Dvir publishing.

    Yael Maurer

    Yael Maurer is a researcher and lecturer with an interest in science fiction, American literature, popular culture and film.

    Erika Mejia

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    Shalev Moran

    Artist and game designer, Digital Utopia editorial board

    Gabriel S Moses

    Artistic researcher of post-digital media, sequential narration, and performance.

    Nadav Neuman

    A writer focused on the surprising connections between strange things - technology, psychedelia, science fiction, mysticism and esoterica, cute animals and strange peoples.

    Amos Noy

    Poet and cultural researcher. Research fellow at the Center for Folklore Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, a master’s in computer science, and a PhD in folklore and folk culture from the Hebrew University.

    Yuval Ofer

    Producer, content writer and curator, DJ and activist. Former journalist and news-editor. Ofer is a member of the Utopia magazine editorial board and an artistic consultant for the film festival.

    Keren Omry

    Science Fiction scholar in the English Department, University of Haifa.

    Gadi Rimer

    Film-maker, critic and journalist, Cinema Studies graduate from the Tel-Aviv University Film School.

    Gil Rimon

    Web developer, writer

    Mayan Rogel

    Mayan Rogel is an Author, screenwriter and story-hacker, podcaster and narrative expert. Rogel is a mom and a martial arts expert.

    Gili Ron

    Israeli architect based in Berlin. Ron practices computational design, design-research and writes about digital culture in architecture.

    Michael (Mysh) Rozanov

    Visual artist, politically queer, optimist for real

    Yanai Sened

    Yanai Sened is an (ex) Programmer, (ex) Teacher, and philosophy PhD candidate, Fordham University, New York City.

    Tom Shapira

    Shapira is a comics critic who writes for several venues including Haaretz, The Comics Journal, PanelXPanel and others.

    Shirley Shor

    New media artist since Y2K .Cyber Art culture pioneer. Crypto artist since 2018.

    Orr Sigoli

    Film writer and critic, artistic consultant and director. Artistic director at JIFF, the Jerusalem International Film Festival. Editor, co-founder of the Srita.net film website. Program manager at the Holon Cinematheque.

    Amital Stern

    Amital Stern writes film, theater and other texts. She teaches experimental writing workshops.

    Amital Stern

    Amital Stern writes film, theater and other texts. She teaches experimental writing workshops.

    Dana Tor

    Researcher and writer in the field of Psychoanalysis, holder of Master's degree in English Literature from TAU, in Lacanian psychoanalytic formation.

    Pablo Utin

    Film Scholar and critic, Author of 3 books on Israeli Cinema and has a passion for teleporting which he can't currently pursue for lack of proper technology.

    Marlyn Vinig

    Marlyn Vinig is a film critic and Jewish-Orthodox film researcher

    Liam Young

    Young is an architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is founder of the urban futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts' Today (TTT), exploring the possibilities of fantastic, perverse and imaginary urbanisms.

    Mushon Zer-Aviv

    Designer and educator in Shenkar College, GA member of A Land For All

    Yair Lipshitz

    Researcher of the interface between theatre, performance, and Jewish religious tradition. Recently, he has also been exploring the connections between theatre, role-playing games, and fantasy.

    Rita Kogan

    ריטה קוגן, נולדה בסנט פטרבורג ב-1976. עלתה ארצה ב-1990. גרה בתל אביב.