Team

Kristof Timmerman is a designer and director of digital performances and installations, working in the field of live, interactive digital environments and virtual reality. He worked for several theater companies, including the experimental CREW. In 2006 he founded the digital artist collective studio.POC with whom he created theater performances and installations such as IPEX (2006), Kroes (2008), Bloggers (2010), EGG (2014), Bodymap (2015) and Empty Mind (2021). 

Kristof is the chair and coordinator of MAXlab, the research group on the interaction between art and digital technology at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. He is involved as promoter and researcher in several research projects on virtual and augmented reality, mostly in a multidisciplinary context. He is connected to the Immersive Lab of the AP University College and organizes the annual summer school 'Storytelling in Virtual Reality. An Immersive Encounter'. He is a teacher and frequently consulted coach for VR productions and digital storytelling.

Annelise Cerchedean is an Antwerp-based graphic designer with a focus on print and multimedia techniques, on the confrontation between the material and the digital. She studied Graphic Design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts where she is currently pursuing an educational master.

As a musician, performer and multimedia-artist Max Schweder works for the international, inclusive and interdisciplinary performing arts company Un-Label. They push towards a more diverse, mixed-abled cast on stage and challenge themselves to make their performances as accessible to anybody as possible. As a current researcher at the Academy for Theater and Digitality in Dortmund (Germany), Schweder is presently developing ‘SOUNDVISION’. He has worked for Red Bull Radio and as a freelance musician, producer and performer. He is one half of the electronic-music duo CYLVESTER.
Schweder studied ‘Pop Music Production’ for his Master’s degree and ‘Saxophone Jazz/Pop’ for is Bachelor’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (HfMT, Cologne, Germany) and ArtEZ Arnhem (Netherlands).

Lowie Spriet graduated in 2020 as a bachelor Electronics-ICT (AP University of Applied Sciences Antwerp). For his undergraduate thesis, he created a full-stack face recognition prototype for applications in the Port of Antwerp in collaboration with Rombit. 
Since 2018, Lowie has been teaching programming classes at CodeFever. This is a non-profit organization that teaches young people and children to program with Scratch, Micro-Bit, Minecraft Education and Repel-IT. 
Since 2021, he has been working as a researcher for the Immersive Lab (AP College), namely for the Tetra project AI-driven VR training (2021-2022) and for Merging Realities (2020-2024. As a 3D Unity developer, he develops solutions and training for Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality.