Hilan Bensusan is a philosopher, performer and installation artist currently interested in the vertigos of the present and in the insistence of excess. (S)he lectures and researches at the University of Brasilia, being part of the Anarchai investigation unit concerned with current cyberpolitics. Hilan has helped create the peri-academic publication das questões. (S)he has been […]
Sha Xin Wei PhD is Professor at the School of Arts, Media + Engineering and the School of Complex Adaptive Systems, and directs the Synthesis Atelier for transversal art, philosophy and technology in the Global Futures Lab at Arizona State University. He established and directed the pioneering transdisciplinary Topological Media Lab for gesture, media and […]
Joel White is a Research Affiliate of the Research Network for Philosophy of Technology and executive editor of Technophany, the Network’s academic journal (Radboud University Press). His research is situated in the emerging transdisciplinary field of continental philosophy of media, science and technology, currently focusing on how 19th-century thermodynamics was received into philosophy and literature […]
Ben Woodard is currently a fellow at the ICI Berlin. He received his PhD in Theory and Criticism from Western University in 2016. From 2017-2020 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the IPK at Leuphana University where he completed a habilitation on the analytic/continental divide in philosophy through the work of F.H. Bradley. Since 2020 […]
María Inés Plaza Lazo is a founder and publisher of Arts of the Working Class, the multilingual street newspaper for art and society, wealth and poverty from Berlin. She just started working at the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden on communications strategies for the institution at the intersection between curating, publishing and public relations.
Jumoke Fernandez is an Art Director and Creative Lead specializing in the realm of mobile games and entertainment apps. With a dedication to knowledge and artistic expression, she embodies the role of a young, self-taught digital visionary.Jumoke embraces the latest frontiers of technological advancements, encompassing the realms of Augmented Reality (AR), Blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence […]
Sz uses the interconnectedness of the internet as his medium. He is hyper aware of the styles and technologies being used around the world. As a 360° creative technologist/director, disruptive memetician & networker, he manifests these vivid relationships for big projects in technology, fashion, art, and communication design. Sebastian is the digital fire that never […]
Hossein Derakhshan is an Iranian-Canadian author, researcher, and public speaker, as well as the pioneer of blogging, podcasts and tech journalism in Iran. He is currently completing a PhD at the department of media and communications at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Gary Zhexi Zhang is an artist and writer interested in how concepts fail. His current projects explore financial fictions, weird temporalities and catastrophe. Dead Cat Bounce, an oratorio he made in collaboration with Waste Paper Opera, premiered at Somerset House, London in July 2022. A recent body of work, Cycle 25, documented events that shape […]
Roxanne Panchasi is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is the author of Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France Between the Wars (Cornell University Press, 2009) and the founding host of New Books in French Studies, a podcast channel on the New Books Network. Her research and writing has […]
Ganaele Langlois is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University, Toronto. Her interests lie in digital technocultures, from textile cultures to algorithmic manipulations. She is the author of Meaning in the Age of Social Media (2014), co-author of The Permanent Campaign: New Media, New Politics (2012) and Really […]
Hossein Derakhshan is an Iranian-Canadian author, researcher, and public speaker, as well as the pioneer of blogging, podcasts and tech journalism in Iran. He is currently completing a Ph.D. at the department of media and communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Kazys Varnelis is a Lithuanian and American transdisciplinary artist and historian, working at junctures of art, technology, architecture, sound, and the environment where he completed his dissertation on the role of the spectacle in the production of form and persona in the architecture of the 1970s. Holding a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and […]
Lindsay Lerman is an interdisciplinary writer and translator with a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Her first novel, I’m From Nowhere, was published in 2019. Her second book, a hybrid work of philosophical fiction titled What Are You, was published in 2022. Her doctoral research (on nonknowledge and spirituality, […]
Shiona Tregaskis is an editor at impossible object. Her poetry and critical writing has been widely published.
Will Scarlett is a writer and researcher interested in phenomena of presence between the sensory, virtual, imaginary, and ecological. His current project, Being There and Not There, explores how humans are cultivating presence in a highly mediated world, often in ways that reconfigure social boundaries around the real. His writings have appeared in The Senses and Society, The Journal […]
nvk (nick von kleist) (b. 1991) is a drag––artist, poet, producer, and performer––assuming the role(s) necessary for each collaboration and activation. nvk collects these traces and gestures as scores to be rehearsed, reshuffled and ruptured––allowing each process to inform and paint new points of collaboration and collision. nvk has recently shown work with EKKM and […]
Mstyslav Kazakov holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and is a Certificate Student in The New Centre’s Transdisciplinary Studies Program. Born and spending his whole life in Ukraine, he now lives in Madeira, Portugal, part-time lecturing remotely at Kyiv Polytechnic University. His research interests encompass metaphysics of temporality and philosophy of time (both within the context […]
Aanchal is a researcher-artist-architect based in London, where she is completing her Masters from The Bartlett School of Architecture. In 2022 she joined The New Centre’s Certificate Program on Post-Planetary Universal Design as a Full Scholarship recipient. Previously, she was working as an Exhibition Designer and Art Manager with What About Art and collaborated with […]
Cássia Siqueira is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Titled “Inteligência Artificial Geral e Formas de Vida”, her master’s thesis gives an exegetical account of Reza Negarestani’s Promethean project in Intelligence and Spirit (2018), as well as offers a Wittgensteinian reading of constitutive alienation as related to forms […]
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