Jury 2024
Guadalupe Casasnovas
Visual Artist / 2024 Jury
Bio
Guadalupe Casasnovas (b. 1960, USA) is a Dominican architect and visual artist trained at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña and the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. Her work has earned recognition at major competitions, including the National Biennial of Visual Arts, Elit-tile International Triennial, and Eduardo León Jimenes Art Competition. She has exhibited in PhotoEspaña, PhotoImagen, and the Centro de la Imagen Biennial, receiving awards and mentions for her contributions to contemporary photography.
In 2019, she co-published La Era Plasteozoica with Victoria Thomen, presenting it at the Madrid Book Fair, Cuesta Libros, and Centro León. Recently, she participated in Experimental Loop 2023 in New York, the Air Digital exhibition at the Alliance Française in Santo Domingo, and closed the year with her solo show Hablando en Serie at Bodden Art Gallery.
Sujetka Val
Visual Artist / 2024 Jury
Bio
Sujetka (b. 1996, Peru) is a queer multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her performance-based practice explores power dynamics, the ‘gaze,’ and the perception of the body within repressive structures, with a focus on language and its impact on identity.
Her work addresses mistreatment in women, children, and the service industry, challenging normalized behaviors and prompting reflection on social roles and complicity. She studied at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Corriente Alterna, completing her training in 2020. A permanent member of Argentina Performance Art, she has exhibited in Peru, New York City, and Spain.
Julián Medina
Visual Artist, VJ, and Art Director / 2024 Jury
Bio
Julián Medina (b. Colombia) Visual Designer, Master in Digital Art Curation, and Specialist in Contemporary Philosophy. Director and Curator of the Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Director and Designer at 4N Design Studio.
Expertise in the curation of audiovisual, digital, and experimental arts; in the management and production of cultural projects, festivals, symposiums, laboratories, and other spaces for arts, culture, and artivism.
Passionate about new media, technology, and the discourses and actions of contemporary philosophy and politics. Visual Designer with extensive experience in the management and design of visual and strategic communication projects, brand development and branding, and political marketing.
Yamil Orlando
Visual Artist / 2024 Jury
Bio
Yamil Orlando (b. 1995, Punta Arenas, Costa Rica) is a multimedia artist trained at the National School of Fine Arts San Alejandro (2016) and the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) (2022). His practice integrates Arduino programming, video editing, and new media, developed under the mentorship of Joaquín Cabrera (ISA) and Milton Raggi (Ludwig Foundation).
His video installation The Kisses I Didn’t Give You Become Stars in My Mouth won second prize at Post-it X. In 2019, he trained in new media at Alanus Hochschule (Germany) with Andrea Sunder-Plassmann, and in 2023, he completed a film scriptwriting scholarship at the Free University of Cinema in Rome.
Ezequiel Taveras
NYLAAT Chief Curator / 2024 Jury
Bio
Ezequiel Taveras (b. 1965, Dominican Republic) is a sculptor, curator, and educator based in Santo Domingo. He studied at the National School of Fine Arts, where he was mentored by Master Omar Rayo, and later taught at Altos de Chavón School of Design (Parsons affiliate), UNIBE, and Universidad Pedro Henríquez Ureña.
He has held 12 solo exhibitions, including The Language of the Heart (IDB Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.) and Pi (Centro Cultural Español, Santo Domingo). His work has earned multiple awards, including Best Work of Art by a Foreign Artist (San Juan Association of Art Critics, Puerto Rico, 2006) and Second Place in the 2nd Latin American Printmaking Biennial (Buenos Aires, 2002).
Taveras represented the Dominican Republic at the 2019 Venice Biennale and has participated in over 100 exhibitions in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Peru, Japan, Bulgaria, Spain, Cuba, Slovenia, Norway, Brazil, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the United States.
Lesly Fonseca
Independent Curator / 2024 Jury
Bio
Lesly Fonseca (b. Cuba) Curator, art critic and techno-cultural researcher. She holds an MA in digital art curation (ESDi) from the Ramón Llull University of Barcelona. She majored in art history (University of Havana, Faculty of Arts and Humanities), her research has focused on the field of new media, specifically game studies. She has given conferences on video art in spaces including summer seminars at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAAM); Conversando sobre Arte Contemporáneo by video art critic Magali Espinosa; Charlas Continuas at Galería Continua; at Galería Factoría in Havana; at the Asimtria experimental sound and video festival in Peru; in the Comic Art Festivals of the Camagüey Council of Plastic Arts; at GAIA 2021 (Game Arts International Assembly); and at the 2021 Toda la Teoría del Universo Festival (Chile). Her writings can be found in El Oficio (a Cuban art magazine); Art Crónica; ArtonCuba and in the Lenguaje Sucio Anthology of Cuban Art.
Naivy Pérez
Experimental Loop Executive Director / 2024 Jury
Bio
Naivy Pérez (b. 1986, Cuba) is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and curator based in New York City. Her work examines control structures and individual consciousness, integrating art, technology, and experiential processes.
She holds a Gold Diploma in Visual Arts from the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) in Havana and studied at the Provincial Academy of Visual Arts “Raúl Corrales” and “Raúl Martínez.” She was awarded a prestigious technology and robotics scholarship at Kungliga Konsthögskolan in Stockholm, Sweden, which deeply influenced her experimental approach.
Pérez is the Founder and Executive Director of the Experimental Loop International Video Art Festival and Deputy Director of the New York Latin American Art Triennial (NYLAAT). She has curated major exhibitions and contributed to the Tenth Havana Biennial, reinforcing her expertise in global, interdisciplinary curatorial projects.