Vali Mahlouji is a curator, advisor to the British Museum, Art Dubai Modern, Bahman Mohassess Estate, and director of Kaveh Golestan Estate. He is founder of Archaeology of the Final Decade (AOTFD), a non-profit curatorial platform that excavates accounts of culture, which have remained obscure, banned, or lost through material destruction. His work has been […]
Daniel Young is a visual artist that is currently researching timber transportation economics on the west coast of Canada. He is interested in representing the psychology of social media. One of Young’s last projects was an App ‘Rectangles on a Sphere’ a conceptual response to Instagram, a circumnavigation of the earth using found images. In the past, he […]
Judy Radul’s video installations often incorporate an original computer-controlled system for live and pre-recorded video. Her practice also includes sculpture, photography, writing, and performance. Recent exhibitions include Gwangju Biennale 2022; Show Support in the project series “Demonstration Rooms” at Albertinum Museum, Dresden; a solo exhibition at Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 2017; […]
Zenobio de Almeida is a Brazilian designer and researcher interested in the interactions between the philosophy of design and technology, and the enhancement of cognitions, whose work spans graphic, editorial, and speculative design. He is a Researcher at The New Centre for Research & Practice, where he is developing neo-rationalist speculative design methods as his […]
João Enxuto and Erica Love work on projects about the technopolitics of work, institutions, and economies connected to Contemporary Art. Enxuto received an MFA in Photography from RISD and Love holds BAs from Brown University in Economics and Visual Arts and an MFA from UCLA. Together they were fellows at the Whitney Museum Independent Study […]
Rodolfo Sousa Ortega is a Visual artist from Xalapa, México. He works with the erosion, deformation, theft, and interruption of images as capable of producing new narratives. He uses painting, drawing, video, and performance to appropriate images from archives, newspapers, memes, drifts by hyperlinks, rumors, and local insults. His academic articles and his essays focus […]
Xenia Benivolski curates writes, and lectures about sound, music, and visual art. Her writing appears in art publications and academic journals such as e-flux journal, Artforum, Art-Agenda, Infrasonic, and Flash Art. She is editor and curator of You Can’t Trust Music at e-flux.com, a research project connecting sound-based artists, musicians, and writers to explore together […]
You Mi is a professor of Art and Economies at the University of Kassel / documenta Institut. Prior to joining the University of Kassel, she was a research associate in the Art and Media Studies department at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (2014-2021). Her academic interests are in new and historical materialism, performance philosophy, […]
Manuel Correa is a Colombian artist and filmmaker based in Madrid. His work explores memory and post-conflict reconstruction in contemporary societies. Manuel’s work is exemplified by the difficult task of negotiating highly complex and fragile social relations formed in the aftermath of trauma. He has used documentary filmmaking as a tool through which to bring […]
Dr. Mercedes Vicente is a curator, writer and researcher. She is currently an Associate Tutor in Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art, London. She has held positions as interim Director of Education and Public Programmes at Whitechapel Gallery in London, Curator of Contemporary Art at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Zealand, […]
Jay Springett is a consultant strategist and writer. Currently specializing in the distributed web and world running, he creates cohesive worlds. Hybrid environments made up of people, places and technology.He is recognized as an articulate voice in the emerging speculative genre of Solarpunk, and describes Solarpunk as a memetic engine – a tool to power […]
Stephanie Wakefield is an urban geographer whose work critically analyzes the technical, political, and philosophical transformations of urban life in the Anthropocene. She holds a Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Science from the CUNY Graduate Center and is currently Assistant Professor and Director of the Human Ecology program at Life University. Previously she was an […]
Cymene Howe is a Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, specializing in ecosocial phenomena and more-than-human worlds. Her books include Intimate Activism (Duke 2013) and Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Duke 2019). She is co-editor of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory and Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon (Punctum 2020). Her […]
Thomas Mical is a Professor of Architectural Theory and has nomadically taught the history of modern thought in architecture, medieval surrealism, science fiction film theory, all sorts of diagrammatology, and curious trans-disciplinary doctoral design research methods for many decades in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, EU, China and India. He is currently writing a […]
Jim Schrub is a Ph.D. student in philosophy and aesthetics at the Université Paris-Nanterre. He currently works on Simondon’s impact on contemporary media theory. Previously, he has worked on Marx and Simondon’s theory of technology and wrote a simondonian critique of survivalism.
Ross McElwain is publisher and editor at Impossible Object, a small press that uses web3 tools to publish works of fiction, theory, conversation, and poetry. Impossible Object’s Conversations on AI will feature dialogues on artificial intelligence between Reza Negarestani, Benjamin Bratton, Mat Dryhurst, Holly Herndon, Helen Hester, and Nick Srnicek. Ross is also active in […]
Cécile Malaspina is the author of An Epistemology of Noise (Bloomsbury, 2018) and principal translator of Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (University of Minnesota Press, 2017). She is directrice de programme at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris (Ciph) and Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London and the University […]
Michael Marder holds an M.A. in Political Philosophy granted by the University of York and a PhD in Philosophy from The New School for Social Research. He currently is the Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. He has published and edited dozens of books exploring the phenomenological tradition […]
Conrad Hamilton is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Politics and International Relations at East China Normal University, a junior research fellow at the Center for Ecological Civilization, a member of the programming committee of the New Centre for Research & Practice, and editor of the International Journal of Cultural Studies. His research […]
Mike Watson (PhD, Goldsmiths College) is a theorist, critic and curator who principally focuses on the relation between culture, new media and politics. He has written for Art Review, Artforum, Frieze, Hyperallergic and Radical Philosophy and has curated events at the 55th and 56th Venice Biennale, and Manifesta 12, Palermo. In September 2021 he will […]
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