About Us

Andreas von Bubnoff  is a German-American journalist and multimedia producer based in Berlin and Kleve, Germany, where he is a Professor for Science Communication & Crossmedia Journalism at Rhine-Waal University. He’s perhaps best known for his award-winning multimedia work involving soundscapes, such as a soundscape ecology project for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2015; Grimme Online Award 2016), and the Virtual Reality project “Songbird” for The Guardian (2018; VR Now Award 2019) that recreated the soundscape and visuals of the very moment a bird species went extinct. His writing has appeared in the anthologies Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire (MIT Press 2018) and The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and in many American and European media outlets including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, WIRED, The Atlantic, Nautilus, Quanta Magazine, Nature, RiffReporter, and DIE ZEIT.

Veronica Semeco is a Venezuelan-American product designer working with startups in Berlin. She moved here from New York City, where she worked as a designer & art director in branding & identity, design systems and advertising, for ad agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi and Wunderman Thompson. Her diverse client portfolio at agencies and as a freelancer ranges from the non-profit OpenStreetMap annual State Of The Map conference to corporate pharmaceutical clients. Before her time in New York, she lived and worked in Washington, DC and Baltimore.

Oscar Antonio Rodriguez is a Venezuelan-born artist based in Brooklyn, NY. After receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA degree in Marketing and Project Management, he received his MFA degree from the Dance program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He has performed in the Dimenna Center for Classical Music and the Radio City Music Hall, was featured in Steven Spielberg's remake of “West Side Story” and in the production “Dancing Through…," a virtual collaboration by Theatre Dance Vietnam and The Tank NYC. His work has been featured in Earl Mosley’s Dancing Beyond, A Benefit for Dance Against Cancer event at the Manhattan Movement Arts Center. Oscar is a strong believer in the diversity and uniqueness that each artist brings to the creative process.