Jury for the IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling

Abel Enklaar is an artist, director, and educator with a background in theatre and spatial design. They lead VPRO Medialab, the innovation lab of Dutch public broadcaster VPRO, which researches the impact of new technologies on society and media, and explores new forms of storytelling with AI and immersive technologies. Through their artistic practice, Studio Enklaar, they make works for stage, screen, and installation which bring high and low tech into dialogue, with the body as a recurring starting point. Recent work includes Études for Live (2025), a performance, installation, and publication developed during a two-year residency at Cinedans, and the anniversary broadcast VPRO Viert 100 Jaar for NPO2. Abel previously taught at University of the Arts London and at ArtEZ University of the Arts, where they co-founded the Future Storytelling Lab.

Claudix Vanesix  is an artist from Peru dedicated to feminist and decolonial AI and XR in film and performance art. Their practice examines sexism, racism, and authoritarianism in tech systems. Recent works employ textile and movement to interrogate technological determinism, challenging transhumanist narratives through embodied and cultural practice. Vanesix's work has been awarded and featured in galleries and festivals in Latin America, the United States, Europe and Asia. Their next performance will be The 3 Bitcoin Opera, which received the Best Project Award of La Biennale di Venezia, College Blend in 2026.

Pegah Tabassinejad is an interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver. Her new media practice primarily revolves around the construction of digital and live performances, film, video installations and city performances. Her work interrogates themes that include the intersection of digital and surveillance culture on identity, virtual and physical presences and absences, and the forces that structure and shape the movement and perception of marginalized and female bodies in private and public space. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Simon Fraser University and a BA in Stage Direction from the Tehran University of Art. She also studied Visual Art at Azad University in Tehran. She has taught at the Tehran University of Art, Bamdad International House, Barg Institute, and Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Her projects have been shown locally and internationally. Her eight-channel video installation Entropic Fields of Displacement, presented at IDFA DocLab, VIFF-Signals, VIVO Media Arts, and a rose is a rose is a rose at Rozenstraat in Amsterdam, won the IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling in 2024.