Eran Hadas is a poet, software developer and new media artist from Tel-Aviv. He builds computer based poetry generators that utilize the internet for their input. He calls what he does “Augmented Poetry”, enabling humans to manipulate the material of language by employing automated algorithms.

Udi Ben-Arie is the head of production and a lecturer at the Digital Media Program, the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel-Aviv University, and a lecturer at the Screen-Based Department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. His research and work centers on interactive storytelling and user experience design in digital media. Ben-Arie has directed and shot several interactive and documentary movies, he was nominated for the Oscar student foreign film award for his debut short film “Second Watch”.