סינמטופיה > קיץ וסתיו 2023 - Guests

Yanai Sened

Festival Programming Team, Magazine Editorial Board, Utopia | Doctoral Student at Fordham University, New York City

Israel

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

Uri Aviv

Director, Utopia Festival & Association | Arts & Culture Project Management and Production, Program Curation, Artistic Consultancy, Speaker and Writer | Science Fiction Evangelist

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.

Yariv Bash

Tech entrepreneur, Flytrex, SpaceIL

Space and flight tech entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the drone delivery startup Flytrex, Previously, founder of the Google X-Prize contestant association SpaceIL (crashed a space probe on the Moon!)

Eitan Gafny

Film Director & Author

Israel

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

Eli Cook

Cultural and Economic Historian of American and Global Capitalism, Head of the American Studies Program, the General History Department at the University of Haifa in Israel.

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

Romi Mikulinsky

Head of the Master of Design (MDes) program in Industrial Design, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

Researcher of Digital Culture and Design-led Innovation

Mushon Zer-Aviv

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

Israel

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

Nadav Neuman

Writer focusing on the history and philosophy of ideas, and Head of Education at Sapienship

Israel

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

Amir Harash

The Novelist

Israel

Amir Harash is a novelist, scribe, and literary scholar. Author of the books "Bronze – Canaanite Fantasy" (2019) and "Horror in West Rishon" (2023).

Hadas Erel

Head of Social HRI research, milab, Reichman University

Israel

Prof. Hadas Erel, Head of the Human-Robot Interaction research in the media innovation lab at Reichman University.