Ben Miller is a writer, researcher, and graduate student in Berlin. He has taught on queer history, literature, and visual cultures at the Humboldt-Universität and worked for and with visual artists including AA Bronson and Elijah Burgher. His essays, fiction, and criticism have been published or are forthcoming in The New York Times, the Toronto Biennial, […]
Răzvan Anghelache lives and works between Bucharest, Berlin, and Umeå. He holds a BA in Cinematography and Media from the National University of Arts in Bucharest and an MFA from Umeå Art Academy. In 2018, he began to work with The New Centre for Research & Practice. In 2018, he participated in Artificial Cinema Project […]
Francesco Degl’Innocenti is a designer with a past in advertising and engineering. After working with architecture firms in Spain, China, Denmark and Italy, he is currently Editor at Volume Magazine. Keen on exploring trans-media dimensions of space, during his master he initiated a research unit between architecture and interaction design. He did a career detour […]
Leonardo Dellanoce is an art historian who explores technological realities using art and design as navigational tools. Collaboration is at the core of his practice, as he works with artists, spatial designers and theorists on a variety of projects. Among others, he is co-leading the cross-disciplinary research project Vertical Atlas: a Techno-political Cartography, and co-curating Digital Earth, a […]
Václav Janoščík (1985) is pedagogue, theorist and curator currently teaching at Academy of fine Arts (AVU), Film and TV school (FAMU), and Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM). He edited several volumes on problems of contemporary thinking ranging from new materialism, speculative realism, acceleration, future studies and media theory (Object, 2015; Reinventing […]
Ryota Matsumoto is a co-director of an award-winning architectural design research office, Ryota Matsumoto Studio. He is an artist, designer and urban planner. Born in Tokyo, he was raised in Hong Kong and Japan. He received a Master of Architecture degree from University of Pennsylvania in 2007 after his studies at Architectural Association in London […]
João Florêncio is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter, UK. His research navigates the intersections of visual culture with queer studies and the posthumanities in an attempt to rethink the horizons of the body, desire, pleasure, ethics and community.
Bassam El Baroni is assistant professor in curating and mediating art at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland and visiting lecturer at the Dutch Art Institute, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, the Netherlands.
A native of Szczecin, Poland who grew up and gained early curatorial experinece in Vancouver, Canada, Szewczyk brings with her broad international experience, most recently as a curator for documenta 14: Learning from Athens. Prior to her move to the Greek capital in 2014 to realize this uniquely bi-located edition of documenta, she developed the inaugural exhibitions program of the Reva and […]
Misal Adnan Yıldız is a curator, writer, and educator. He is currently the Director of Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden in Germany and a Member of the Board at The New Centre. Yıldız was the Director of Artspace NZ in Auckland (November 2014- June 2017). Previous to that he held the position of Artistic Director at Künstlerhaus […]
Charles Esche is a Professor at the University of the Arts London, a museum director, a curator and a researcher. He has a BA in Mediaeval Studies and an MA in Gallery and Museum Studies from The University of Manchester. He is the director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands since 2004 and […]
Clémentine Deliss is a curator, publisher and cultural historian. She studied art practice and semantic anthropology in Vienna, Paris, and London and holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London. Between 2010–2015, she directed the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, instituting a new research lab to remediate collections within a post-ethnological context. Exhibitions she curated at […]
Raqs Media Collective (pron. rux) founded 1992, in Delhi Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi & Shuddhabrata Sengupta) follows its self-declared imperative of ‘kinetic contemplation’ to produce a trajectory that is restless in its forms and methods, yet concise with the infra procedures that it invents. The collective makes contemporary art, edits books, curates […]
AA Cavia is a computer scientist and researcher based in Berlin. Their studio practice centers on speculative software, engaging with machine learning, algorithms, protocols, and other computational artifacts. They have lectured and exhibited internationally, at institutions such as Jan van Eyck Academie, ZKM, The New Centre for Research, and Seventeen Gallery. Their writings have been […]
John Gerrard (b. North Tipperary. Ireland 1974) is an artist working in Dublin and Vienna, best known for his sculptures, which typically take the form of digital simulations displayed using real-time computer graphics. Recent solo exhibitions include Western Flag, Desert X, Palm Springs: Solar Reserve, LACMA, LA, USA: Western Flag, Somerset House with Channel 4, […]
Agnieszka Polska is a visual artist who uses computer-generated media to reflect on an individual and their social responsibility. She’s attempting to render the ethical ambiguity of our time into hallucinatory films and installations. Polska has presented her works in international venues, including the New Museum and the MoMA in New York, Centre Pompidou and […]
Renzo Martens (1973) studied political science and art. He gained international recognition with the films Episode I, and Episode III: Enjoy Poverty, which was televised in more than 23 countries. In 2012, Martens established the Institute for Human Activities (IHA) and its Gentrification Program in DR Congo. Together with the plantation workers of Cercle d’Art […]
J.-P. Caron is a philosopher and musician based in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil. He’s a lecturer at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and an instructor at the New Centre for Research and Practice. As a musician he released many albums, several through his own label Seminal Records. He’s currently writing […]
Thomas Moynihan is a UK-based writer. He holds a DPhil from Oriel College, Oxford, and is currently a Visiting Researcher at Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. His motivating interests include how attitudes towards temporality have changed throughout time. That is, how beliefs about deep history and the further future have become […]
Anna Longo obtained her PhD in Aesthetics Philosophy at University Paris 1. She is a member of the Collège International de Philosophie (Paris). She has taught at the University Panthéon-Sorbonne and CalArts (Los Angeles), and is an instructor at the New Centre for Research & Practice. Her research crosses several fields such as metaphysics, epistemology, […]
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