Georgiana Cojocaru is a writer, researcher, and editor based in Amsterdam and originally from Romania. She is currently doing research with the Institute of Network Cultures on topics such as artificial intelligence and literature, necro-aesthetics, emerging subjectivities in developing Worlds, Cold War literature, and the future of networked solidarities. She studies at the Transdisciplinary Program […]
Maks Valenčič is finishing his Masters degree in Communication Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. Lately, he’s been inspired by German accelerationism and the theory of “deep futurology” and is on a mission to revitalize accelerationist philosophy in light of current debates and pushbacks from other camps. To do that, he’s convinced […]
Swatee Sinha is a PhD Research Scholar at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences IIT, Kharagpur. My research interests span culture and critical theory with a particular focus on Deleuze and Guattari’s mobilization of desire as a determinant of critical agency. My Doctoral dissertation is situated at the interface of philosophy and literature and […]
Born in Istanbul, Esen Küçüktütüncü is a documentary filmmaker, visual artist, and researcher. After shooting two mini-documentaries during her studies at Lycée Français Notre Dame de Sion, she received her BA from Bahçeşehir University with the thesis “Obsol-escence: Pursuit of Rewriting One’s Past” along with an interactive installation. Between 2018-2020, she was a part of […]
Denise Luna Acevedo is an architect, researcher, and professor from Mexico. She studied architecture at Universidad Iberoamericana Tijuana. She was a researcher in the program “The New Normal” iteration 2018 at Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture & Art, where she collaborated in research and design projects for cities, exploring the impact of emerging technologies on […]
Filipe Felizardo is a philosophy student, artist, and musician from Lisbon. Having an informal education in film, comics, and musical pedagogy, they founded Antumbra Publishing House, dedicated to photography and Portuguese translations of neo-rationalist thought. Their current research in Critical Philosophy at the New Centre for Research & Practice focuses on systematic reconceptions of learning […]
Katherine C.M. Adams is a curator, writer, and researcher based in New York. She is currently a graduate student at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and a Researcher with the New Centre for Research & Practice. At present, she serves as a Core Curator for the 2023 edition of The Immigrant Artist Biennial […]
Cássia Siqueira is a researcher at the Critical Philosophy program of The New Centre For Research & Practice. She is a graduate student in philosophy, a noise musician, and a member of Seminal Records, an experimental label based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her most work is a master thesis that explores Reza Negarestani’s philosophical […]
Saeedeh Asadipour is an art history Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a particular interest in the contemporary art and visual culture of the Arab world. Her research focuses on time-based art as a speculative praxis: engaging with the constant invention of alternative temporalities and exploring the possibility of activating transformative immanent realities […]
Regis Alves has a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and a Master’s in Philosophy around Hegel’s Science of Logic, both from the University of São Paulo in Brazil. His general research interests include the differences and similarities between idealist and materialist dialectics and the actualization of a post-Kantian ontology fueled by the consequences of post-structuralist thinking […]
Carl Olsson is a writer and theorist working with histories and philosophies of science and geography. His current project narrates the natural history of naturalism as a story about self-effacement, like a mouth that is destined to eat itself up. Lasting interests include self-effacement, philosophical naturalism, and transcendental arguments. Olsson has an MSc from Lund […]
Digital Archive Coordinator Mo Shakoori has a Bachelor of Arts from Kingston University in London (2018) and a Bachelor of Philosophy and MA in Philosophy from Tehran University (2001-2006). He is currently a Producer at BBC, London. He has worked on several film and video productions. Shakoori joined The New Centre in 2019.
Technology Coordinator Masoud (Mohammad Reza) Ahmadi has a BA in Computer Science and an MA in AI Development from Azad University of Tehran. Since 2018, he has worked as an independent technology developer and consultant. He joined the New Centre team in 2020.
Austin Gross is a PhD candidate at the Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy (London). His research concentrates on returns to authority in philosophy, and on philosophers who claim to rely on “tradition” in a philosophical manner, particularly on how rather than turning back to scholasticism, these philosophers borrowed from jurisprudence and theology to […]
Laurence Kent is a Digital Film and Television Lecturer at the University of Bristol. In 2020, he completed his Ph.D. in the Film Studies department of King’s College London, exploring the metaphysics of Gilles Deleuze’s cinematic philosophy. He has been a module convenor at KCL, an associate lecturer at the University of Arts London, and […]
Sam Forsythe is a Doctoral Researcher in International Security at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, and a member of the Research Group for the Use and Control of Emerging Disruptive Technologies in the Cluster for Natural and Technical Science Arms Control Research. Forsythe’s current work explores the logic of deception in international statecraft and strategy, […]
João Oliveira Duarte obtained a degree in philosophy from the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, and a master’s degree in aesthetics from the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where he is currently pursuing a PhD in art history. An FCT scholarship recipient and member of IHA and CEAA, he […]
Operations Organizer Rafael Pedroso is a Brazilian independent scholar. He holds a Masters in International Relations at PUC-Rio, with a thesis focused on reading Marx in the Anthropocene by weaving together Marxist ecology and media theory. He also holds a Certificate in Critical Philosophy from The New Centre. His interests revolve around political economy, ecology, […]
Eduarda Neves is a Professor of Contemporary Art, Art Theory and Critical Studies and an independent curator. She has published widely on contemporary art and visual culture and curated several exhibitions in Portugal and across Europe. For the two-year period 2019-2020, she has been a member of the Commission for the Acquisition of Contemporary Art […]
Andrea Cetrulo was Programme Curator at Theatrum Mundi. Andrea curates the live programme of Making Cultural Infrastructure, as well as the sound archive and media content for all TM projects. She previously worked as a researcher in cultural policy organisations in London with projects in Europe and Latin America. She holds a Master’s degree in […]
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