Dr Răzvan Ion is a university professor of AI, art & critical thinking. He is best known for leading the DerAffe Vienna team in creating A.I. JARVIS, the first artificial intelligence curator. More: www.linktr.ee/razion ; speaking: raz@deraffe.ioHe is a speaker on AI, critical thinking, art, human rights, and journalism.He is the founder of GAY45.eu, a European queer media outlet with a journal, a podcast and Queer Journalism Campus.Dr Ion was a consultant for different political, corporate and administrative organizations helping in their efforts to establish better communication with the LGBT+ community. (See www.gay45.eu/consultancy). "Răzvan Ion is promoting a molecular revolution in the terms of Deleuze and Guattari..." (The Huffington Post, 2014)"Răzvan Ion is a member of Europe's second generation of progressive dissidents, the ones who have taken up the mantle of the 1989 generation in continuing to fight injustice." (John Feffer, in "Aftershock..", Zed Books, 2017)"Dr Ion is mediating today a type of critical thinking involvement of corporations and LGBT+ community..." (New York Times, 2021)"Prof. Răzvan Ion said we are morally bound to teach Gen Z about Jews, Gay and all people killed by nazi. We can not pretend it did not happen." (Haaretz, 2022)He was an associate professor and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley; Lisbon University; Central University of New York; University of London; Sofia University; University of Kyiv; University of Bucharest, etc. where he taught Curatorial Studies and Critical Thinking. He has held conferences and lectures at different art institutions like Witte de With, Rotterdam; Kunsthalle Vienna; Art in General, New York; Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Casa Encedida, Madrid, etc. Recently he curated the Bucharest Biennale together with Beral Madra, and „Wie wir Dinge betrachten“ was shown on the occasion of the Austrian EU Presidency. He worked for several media outlets like The Look, De Volkskrant, Bay Area Reporter, a.o.He is the CEO and founder of Deraffe Vienna, the parent company of GAY45.eu, DerAffe.io Elevationlabor and A.I. JARVIS. (Biography devised by Dr Dominik Böhler)