Saturn 8 takes pride in our global network, which includes the perspectives of our advisory board. Our panel of members come from diverse fields and backgrounds, helping to provide well rounded expertise that covers strategy as well as creativity.
Saturn 8 takes pride in our global network, which includes the perspectives of our advisory board. Our panel of members come from diverse fields and backgrounds, helping to provide well rounded expertise that covers strategy as well as creativity.
  • Michael P. Aust
    Producer, head of international festivals
    Based in Cologne, Germany
    Heads SoundTrack Cologne, SoundTrack Zurich, Festival Director of Braunschweig International Filmfestival.
    Michael works in the film industry for more than 20 years with producer credits for 16 feature films and feature length documentaries (e.g. 101 REYKJAVIK, LOW LIGHTS, PARALLAX SOUNDS, EVA HESSE). He is managing director and producer at TelevisorTroika GmbH, a Cologne based company for film production, events and public relations in arts, that Michael founded in 1993.
    Michael curates exhibitions and festivals e.g. DuKunst Media Art Festival 1992, Klangvisionen sound art exhibition 1994, StadtKlangNetz conference on cultural education 2007-2014, European Film Music Day at Cannes Film Festival 2009 - 2016, the highly successful The Art of Pop Video exhibition (MAKK Cologne 2011, Odessa Art Center 2012, Liverpool FACT 2013), Next Level Conference on video games 2012, PLAY!CGN on video games in art 2013 , Hostile Sisters - Interdependencies of Theatre and Film conference 2016.
  • Yana Barinova
    Former Director of the Department of Culture of the Kyiv City State Administration until March 2022.
    Based in Vienna, Austria
    Phd in Arts (Sorbonne, Paris), representative of the WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps. She also was the CEO of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (2015-2019). Advisor to the Minister of Culture of Ukraine on cultural heritage issues (2020-2021). MBA in Сulture of managment (Paris School of Business). Member of the strategic board of NGO «Museum of contemporary art» (Ukraine). She is currently working as a Project Manager for European Policies and Ukraine at ERSTE Stiftung and at a Viennacontemporary.
  • Kristina Krasnyanskaya
    Executive director of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
    Art historian and founder of the Heritage Gallery
    Kristina is the author of the first book on Soviet Design - Soviet Design: From Constructivism To Modernism. 1920-1980. (Published in 2020)
    Krasnyanskaya is the head of advisory board of the Museum of Contempory Art (Kostaki collection) in Thessaloniki, Greece. Executive director of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.
    She was curator of the 2015 exhibition Soviet Design: From Constructivism to Modernism, 1920s–1960s in collaboration with Moscow's Shchusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow. She was the firs one who has represented Soviet experimental design objects at DesignMiami/Basel back in 2012. Her galley Heritage participated in multiple international art fairs such as Design Shanghai in Shanghai, China, BRAFA in Brussels, Belgium and many others.
  • Markus Lanxiger
    Founder & CEO of Plinth
    Based in Hong Kong
    Plinth - full-service for fine arts that turns your still photos into TRUE 3D assets and creates solution for blue-chip art galleries, based in Hong Kong. Lanxinger started his career as a stereoscopic 3D film maker for 'The Amazing Spiderman' and 'Xmen: Apocalypse'. He then moved to Nokia Technologies to work in the VR Technologies Team. Whilst establishing Plinth, he is guest lecturer at Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts on VR. Lanxinger is passionate about creating the most dynamic and cutting-edge XR experiences in the Arts. With his extensive experience in 3D production and pioneering knowledge in XR, Plinth can bridge the real and virtual experience of viewing art.
  • Winnie Lam
    Head of Plinth Business Development
    Based in Hong Kong
    Lam graduated with a Master's degree in Engineering from Stanford University. Her early career in the banking industry, has served as a springboard for her entrepreneurial ventures with which, she combines her passion for the cultural experience. Lam is the Founder of a music label in London and Partner in hospitality ventures in US and Hong Kong. Looking to the future and how the visual experience can be improved in the digital world, Lam believes that Plinth can offer an advantage within a rapidly expanding digital marketplace.
  • Miguel Lopez Mora aka Digital 21
    Multi-instrumentalist musician
    Based in Madrid, Spain
    Miguel is a member of electronic duos Digital 21+Stefan Olsdal and Made For Human along with Placebo bass player Stefan Olsdal. He also performed as the solo artist. He has composed, arranged and played every instrument of his solo albums. As a video artist, he has made video art live acts, video creations for their performances and directed music videos. All this being true to his artistic concept of full independence and constantly evolving.In 2010 and 2012 and 2017 he was nominated a finalist in the Music Awards in Spain. Besides awards and mentions by magazines, radios (such as Radio 3) and other media. In his 30 years career, he has toured Spain, Germany, Belgium, Morocco, Hungary, U.K., Russia, Mexico, U.S.A., China, etc.
  • Marianna Quintero
    Art curator and museum advisor
    Based in Mexico City, Mexico
    Works with the Ministry of Culture of Mexico City, the Artistic Director of Grupo 5M and. She collaborates with the Museo de San Carlos and the Museo del Virreinato to finance special projects. Former director of International Relations at MUNAL (National Museum of Art of Mexico). She is the private buyer of the Permanent Collection of Grupo Expansión. Director of TransportARTE project to bring culture to the entire city through the Metrobús (tube/metro/subway). She is the coordinator of the Filcer Collection and has experience in art fairs such as Pinta in NYC, Art Basel in Miami, Venice Biennale and Zona Maco in CDMX.
  • Jeff Rona
    American composer for film, recording artist, and performer
    Based in Los Angeles, CA
    He was a member of Hans Zimmer's MediaVentures. His credits include Sharkwater, Traffic, God of War III, Phantom and Veeram. Jeff Rona was the founder and past president of MMA, the MIDI Manufacturers Association. Rona's projects have received an Oscar, Peabody and Emmy awards, as well as film festival awards around the world. He is a two-time recipient of the ASCAP film and television music award. Rona worked on films and records before landing his first solo composing project, scoring the TV drama series Homicide: Life On The Street for director Barry Levinson. Since then he has scored a number of other films and television projects with directors such as Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Wong Kar-wai, Robert Altman, Steven Soderbergh, Mark Pellington, Stephen Hopkins, Jonathan Demme, Frank Darabont and many others. He was commissioned to compose a concert for the 2008 Beijing Olympics which toured China.
    He was a member of Hans Zimmer's MediaVentures. His credits include Sharkwater, Traffic, God of War III, Phantom and Veeram. Jeff Rona was the founder and past president of MMA, the MIDI Manufacturers Association