Contributors

  • Paul Nemitz

    Paul Nemitz

    DE

    Paul Nemitz is the Principal Adviser on Digital Transition in the Directorate General on Justice and Consumer Policies in the European Commission. His responsibilities cover the triangel between Democracy, the Rule of Law and Technology. He was the lead Director for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Whistleblower Protection Directive. Nemitz is a…

  • Noayama

    Noayama

    BR

    Noayama is the alter ego of 21-year-old producer and interdisciplinary artist Noah Berger. Growing up near Munich, he came into contact with electronic music at a very early age. Socialized with the diverse facets of hip-hop culture and inspired by contemporaries such as JPEGMafia, Madlib, Earl Sweatshirt, Samiyam, Slauson Malone but also Jockstrap and Christian…

  • Pedro Tayette

    Pedro Tayette

    BR

    Pedro Tayette was born in Brazil in 1998 and started dancing as a child. He completed his dance training at the well-known Escola do Teatro Bolshoi no Brasil. In 2019, Tayette was a member of the Europa Ballett Company in St. Pölten before becoming a part of TANZ LINZ. He has been a member of…

  • Sri Sowjanya Suraj

    Sri Sowjanya Suraj

    IN

    A MIT SOLVE team member, Sri Sowjanya Suraj is a mentor and coach (learning & development) who values dedication, service and excellence. With over 18 years of experience in the corporate, K-12 education and social sectors across geographies, and a strong background in Organization Development, Change Management and Learning & Development, she works with under-served school…

  • Roberto Papa

    IT

    Prof. Roberto Papa is Full Professor of Agricultural Genetics, head of the Agrobiodiversity Lab, at the Polytechnic University of Marche. His research focuses on the conservation and utilization of agrobiodiversity and plant genetic resources. By applying genomics approaches and pioneering the use of molecular phenotyping, he contributed new knowledge on crop germplasm genetic diversity, on crop domestication…

  • Raquel Colacios

    ES

    Raquel Colacios is an architect and urban designer, she holds a PhD by the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Barcelona. She is co-founder of the firm Taab6 in Barcelona. She is currently a researcher at TURBA research group at UOC Barcelona, and assistant professor at UMEA University in Sweden, visiting lecturer at KU Leuven and…

  • Marko Vivoda

    SI

    Marko Vivoda is a Slovenia-based artist, producer, and researcher, active primarily as a curator of the Festival IZIS and artistic director of HEKA Electronic laboratory under the auspices of Pina association. As an artist, he is active in the fields of, art installations, scenography and mentorship. He is co-founder of the collective Stran 22, Festival…

  • Mark Farid

    Mark Farid

    GB

    Mark Farid is an artist, researcher and lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. He specializes in the intersection of the virtual and physical world, and the effect that new technologies have on the individual and their sense of self. Farid’s work embodies hacker ethics, such as a focus…

  • Lou Asril

    Lou Asril

    AT

    Numerous styles have found their way into Lou Asril’s work: in addition to soul and RnB, which initially dominated, pop, hip-hop and electronic music are strong influences that continue to help him find his very own style. Lou Asril released his second EP RETROMIX21 in March 2023. It was followed by some exciting live performances:…

  • Lennart Grau

    DE

    Lennart Grau completed his studies in Fine Arts at Berlin University of the Arts in 2012. His works have been displayed in galleries focusing on new media such as Annka Kultys in London and Christine König in Vienna, and are also part of international private and public collections.

  • Laura Thäter

    Laura Thäter

    DE

    Laura Thäter is a doctoral candidate at the Sustainable Transformation Management Lab of Johannes Kepler University Linz. Her research focuses on new and alternative forms of organization. She is specifically interested in exploring how the platform economy and platform labour markets in particular can be made more sustainable.

  • Bill Fontana

    Bill Fontana

    US

    Bill Fontana is an American sound artist who studied philosophy at John Carroll University and the New School in New York City and music at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Bill Fontana has been using sound as a sculptural medium since the late 1960s and has called his works sound sculptures since 1976. Metropolis Cologne,…