Rômulo Moraes is a Brazilian writer, sound artist, and ethnographer. PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at CUNY Graduate Center with a Fulbright/CAPES Scholarship, he holds a Masters in Culture and Communication from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Author of “A fauna e a espuma” (2023) and “Casulos” (2019), he has published essays and reviews […]
Mattin is an artist, musician and theorist working conceptually with noise and improvisation. Through his practice and writing he explores performative forms of estrangement as a way to deal with structural alienation. Mattin has exhibited and toured worldwide. He has performed in festivals such as Performa (NYC), No Fun (NYC), Club Transmediale (Berlin), Arika (Glasgow) […]
Laura Tripaldi is a PhD scholar in Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where she works on the design of hybrid nanomaterials and the study of their processes of self-assembly for advanced technological applications. Parallel to her academic research, she writes about speculative and philosophical aspects of science and technology, with a […]
Simon DeDeo is the William S. Dietrich II Career Development Chair at Carnegie Mellon University, in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences. He is also an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and External Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. His work has appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, […]
Franziska Aigner works at the intersection of philosophy, performance and music. In 2020 she completed her PhD at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), London on the topic of Kant and Technics. Complementing her philosophical work, she has studied at P.A.R.T.S., the school of choreography and dance in Brussels directed by Anne […]
Tony Yanick is the co-convener and former organizer of The New Centre (2014-2017). A Philosopher, media-theorist, computer engineer, multimedia artist, and musician from the United States. He holds a Master of Science in computer engineering with a concentration on mobile robotics and artificial intelligence, as well as an interdisciplinary Master of Arts in philosophy and […]
Zainub Verjee has over four decades built a formidable reputation as an artist, writer, critic, cultural administrator and public intellectual. Deeply engaged with the UK’s British Black Arts, Third Cinema and the post-Bandung decolonization, Tactical Video Movement, Zainub has been embedded in the early years of Vancouver’s photo-conceptualism movement as well as history of women’s […]
Founders of Maeta Design LLC. Architectural Design, advanced robotic fabrication, computational design research, algorithmic and machine learning research in geometry and representation, interactive media installations, set design & narrative spaces. http://maetadesign.com/ Danielle Willems is a designer, professor, and currently is a partner in maeta design llc. Her work was recently published in the book titled […]
Post Brothers is a critical enterprise that includes Matthew Post, an enthusiast, word processor, and curator often engaged in artist-centered projects and collaborations, or occupying the secondary information surrounding cultural production. Post Brothers has an MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and a BFA from Emily Carr […]
Carl B. Sachs is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marymount University (US). He is the author of Intentionality and the Myths of the Given (Routledge 2015) and has published several articles and invited book chapters on Sellars, C. I. Lewis, Carnap, Nietzsche, and Adorno. He is currently working on a book about how Sellars used […]
Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London. Her interests lie in the poetics of science and imbrications of politics and technologies. Current work focuses on turbid media and the aesthetics of turbulence. Her books include various studies and translations of Walter Benjamin, as well as “Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory […]
Korinna Patelis is a 25-year Internet veteran with a Ph.D. in Internet Communications from Goldsmiths College embarked upon when the web was still in its infancy, just after she read Philosophy at Warwick University. Being in the right place at the right time has given her the unique opportunity to research technoculture, political economy, and […]
Tony Yanick is a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow in film-philosophy and holds a MS in computer engineering, artificial intelligence and robotics. His work focuses on the intersection between philosophy aesthetics and ethics, but also includes research in new media, political economy and technology.
Lukáš Likavčan is a researcher and theorist, writing on philosophy of technology, political ecology and visual cultures. He teaches at Center for Audiovisual Studies FAMU (Prague), and Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design (Moscow). Likavčan is also a collaborator of the Digital Earth fellowship programme (digitalearth.art), a member of Display – Association for Research […]
DEJAN LUKIĆ (Ph.D. Columbia University) is a professor at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA). He is a scholar and writer with vast teaching experience stemming from arts schools, liberal arts colleges, and research universities, including: Reed College, Rutgers University, The New School, Columbia University, and the School of Visual Arts […]
Founders of AUM Studio and Spec.AE. Architectural design, curation, theory, scenarios, & interactive media; residential, installations, competitions in Europe and the US. Spec.AE [speculative futures] joined the Data and Matter group show, Venice Biennale, 2018. AUM Studio: https://aum.aumstudio.org/ Keller & Leitão have convened 20+ international conferences and lecture series. Their work and writing has appeared […]
Posthuman Studies Lab is an independent post-disciplinary curatorial and educational initiative based in Moscow. The collective consists of Ekaterina Nikitina, a researcher in the field of posthumanism and animal studies, and Nikita Sazonov, a philosopher who works around speculative philosophy, posthuman politics and transdisciplinary research and thinking. Together, they think through the post-soviet condition with […]
Jacob Eriksen has studied Musicology, Philosophy, and Sound Studies in Copenhagen, Toronto and Berlin and is currently completing his PhD in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at Universität der Künste Berlin on the topic of posthuman attitudes in sonic arts. Eriksen’s work as an artist and researcher oscillates between artistic experimental practice and theoretical conceptualisation.
Loren Britton is an interdisciplinary artist and thinker based in Berlin. Britton is currently an artistic researcher on the interdisciplinary project Re: Coding Algorithmic Culture within the Gender/Diversity in Informatics Systems Research Group at the University of Kassel, DE. https://lorenbritton.com/.
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