Anna Abraham

Anna Abraham is the E. Paul Torrance Professor and Director of the Torrance Center for Creativity at the University of Georgia (UGA), USA. She leads the Creativity and Imagination Lab at UGA where she also serves as a Neuroscience faculty member of the Integrated Life Sciences Program (ILS), a faculty fellow at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI), and a faculty affiliate of the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research (OIBR).
Dr. Abraham investigates the psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying creativity and other aspects of the human imagination, including the reality-fiction distinction, mental time travel, social and self-referential cognition, aesthetic experience, and mental state reasoning. She is the Founding Editor of the Cambridge Elements in Creativity and Imagination . Her latest book is The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths (2024, MIT Press).

Kaffe Matthews

Kaffe Matthews is a pioneering music maker who works live with space, data, things, and place to make new electroacoustic composition. Her past has taken her through things such as midi violin, theremin, star maps, NASA scientists, sharks, children, solo walks and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to create a massive body of works. The physical experience of music is also key to her approach so she also invents unique interfaces such as the sonic armchair, the sonic bed and a range of sonic bikes which offer new paths into composition for makers, and ways in to listening for wide ranging audiences worldwide.
Kaffe has been performing, collaborating and teaching worldwide since 1992, receiving awards such as the NESTA Dreamtime Fellowship; Honorary Professor of Music, Shanghai Music Conservatory; a Scottish BAFTA with Mandy McIntosh & Zeena Parkins; Distinction Prix Ars Electronica Sonic Bed_London and Honorary mention for cd cécile. She is the first woman to have received the Edgar Varèse guest professorship, computer music, TU Berlin. and has been releasing solo works on Annette Works since 1996.