Kóan Jeff Baysa is a doctor specializing in Translational Medicine; a discipline in which the gap between research and care is bridged by translating questions from patient care into research and application of research means. i.a. technology. In his non-clinical practice he focuses on neuroscience, social media, health perception, medical culture and sustainability. KJ has been on several medical missions to Beirut and Bosnia. He is Chief Medical Officer at Medical Avatar in New York; a company that develops mobile applications for the medical market. KJ Baysa - who was born in Hawaii - is also co-founder and artistic director of the Honolulu Biennial Foundation, an international curator, writer and graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. KJ's network is located at the intersection of medical science, contemporary culture and disruptive technologies. He has made several exhibitions in Dubai, Zagreb, Beijing, Santiago and presented at MoMA and the United Nations.

Co-founder (alongside designer/artist Mike Thompson) of Thought Collider, an experimental, critical art/design research practice based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The studio's work focuses on the exploration of the meanings and values that can be derived from alternative ways of experiencing built and mediated environments, motivated by emerging technologies. To this end, we conduct design experiments and processual artworks spanning various media, generating experiential knowledge from the anecdotal or absurd: lived experiences that confront the norm by countering the thing-like nature of organisms, objects and places.