Alvaro Cassinelli obtained an Engineering Degree and a PhD in Physics in France. Before becoming Associate Professor and Director of the Augmented Materiality lab at the School of Creative Media (HK), he lead the Meta-Perception group at the Ishikawa-Oku Laboratory, University of Tokyo - a group specialized on developing interfaces enhancing human expression and expanding the vocabulary the New Media Arts. Awards includes a Grand Prize (9th Japan Media Art Festival), the Excellence Prize (13th Japan Media Art Festival), an Honorary Mention (Ars Electronica), the NISSAN Innovative Award (2010), Jury Grand Prize at Laval Virtual (2011) among others. www.alvarocassinelli.com