Ted Nannicelli is associate professor and deputy head of the School of the Communication and Arts at University of Queensland in beautiful Brisbane, Australia. He is the former editor of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind and a fellow of The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, with which it is affiliated. His most recent research appears in British Journal of Aesthetics, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 

Maarten Coëgnarts is Assistant Professor in Film Studies at the University of Antwerp, Researcher in the Arts at LUCA School of Arts and Research Fellow at the University of the Free State. His research on embodied cognition, metaphor, and cinema has been published in journals such as Art & Perception, Metaphor and Symbol, New Review of Film and Television Studies and Projections. He co-edited Embodied Cognition and Cinema (Leuven University Press, 2015) and authored Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick (Academic Studies Press, 2019). He is also co-editor of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind.

Hans Maes is Professor & Vice Dean at LUCA School of Arts (University of Leuven, Belgium). He has authored papers on a variety of topics in aesthetics, including the art of portraiture, aesthetic melancholy, existential aesthetics, the role of intention in the interpretation of art, and the relation between art and pornography. The latter is the subject of two essay collections: Art and Pornography (co-edited with Jerrold Levinson, Oxford University Press, 2012) and Pornographic Art and The Aesthetics of Pornography (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013). His recent books include Conversations on Art and Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 2017), Portraits and Philosophy (Routledge, 2020), and Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight: A Philosophical Exploration (Routledge, 2021). Maes is Vice-President of the British Society of Aesthetics, Honorary Lecturer at the University of Kent, and a former Director of the Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent.

Tomas Vandecasteele is a Belgian artist, researcher (FilmEU; LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven), and guest lecturer at LUCA School of Arts. Trained in philosophy and comparative cultural studies at Ghent University, he previously taught fashion film at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent) and mentored emerging photographers for the Antwerp Photo Museum (FoMu). His work has appeared in numerous Belgian and international magazines and has been exhibited at FoMu and MoMu (Fashion Museum Antwerp), among others. As a PhD researcher at KU Leuven and LUCA, he investigates how neuroscience and philosophy can illuminate portrait photography—probing how viewers’ perception and affect shape the evolving meaning of images.