Contributors

  • Kathleen Richardson

    Kathleen Richardson

    GB/IE

    Kathleen Richardson is a Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI at De Montfort University. Her work explores the anthropological, ethical and political intersections of people, non-human animals and representational technologies of the human.

  • Kathleen Bryson

    Kathleen Bryson

    GB/US

    Alaskan-born evolutionary anthropologist Kathleen Bryson researches social connections in humans and other great apes. Previously as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Oxford, and now as a Research Fellow in the Ethics of Representational Technologies of the Human at De Montfort University, she investigates AI, avatars, dehumanization and empathy.

  • Katharina Meyer

    Katharina Meyer

    DE

    Katharina is Director of the Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund, supporting research on digital commons. As historian of technology and science, she investigates immaterial infrastructures like software, data, and their relations to sustainability. She was curator at re:publica & led research at Sovereign Tech Fund as well as The New Institutes New Hanse program, focusing on…

  • Katharina Leitner

    Katharina Leitner

    AT

    Katharina Leitner, who hails from Upper Austria, completed an MA in industrial design in Graz. She now works as a lighting designer in the emergency lighting sector. Additionally, she runs an advertising agency that offers product design, graphic design, and visualization services. Her career has taken her to Germany and Denmark. Her passion lies in…

  • Kate Crawford

    Kate Crawford

    AU

    Kate Crawford is an internationally leading scholar of artificial intelligence. She is a professor at USC, a senior principal researcher at MSR-NY, and was the inaugural chair of AI and Justice at the Ecole Normale Superieure. Her award-winning book Atlas of AI has been translated into twelve languages. She leads the Knowing Machines Project, which…

  • Karl Singline

    Karl Singline

    AT

    Karl Singline is a graduate architect and roboticist from Australia. He runs a popular YouTube channel, specializing in tutorials on visual programming and robotics. As lead researcher within Creative Robotics, Singline works on personal research as well as partnering with external industry partners to further explore new ways of adapting robotic technologies to architecture and…

  • POLISONUM

    POLISONUM

    IT

    Polisonum (Filippo Lilli, Donato Loforese) is a collective that uses sound as an investigative method and tool to explore processes and metamorphoses related to the present time. They create sound installations and performances in dialogue with visual language. Thanks to their hybrid identity, which brings together multiple disciplines, they build projects that rely on a…

  • Kacper Krajewski

    Kacper Krajewski

    PL

    Kacper Krajewski uses installation, sculpture, bioforms, live organisms, and worldbuilding to explore posthuman relationships between human-made entities and nonhumans. His work envisions a future where artifacts of humanity, devoid of their creators, form symbiotic relationships with nature. He explores humanity’s ephemerality and the world’s enduring continuity, questioning if humanity’s extinction means the world’s end and…

  • Julia Moser

    AT

    Julia Moser’s mission is to rethink fashion and textile design practices towards a more sustainable and healthy future. She researches and teaches at the University of Art in Linz and has exhibited internationally at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the National Art Center in Tokyo and the Design Museum in Holon.

  • Johannes Kofler

    Johannes Kofler

    AT

    Johannes Kofler is a Senior Lecturer in the field of quantum information science at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. He received his PhD from the University of Vienna in theoretical quantum physics. His research covers topics in quantum foundations (in particular Bell tests), quantum optics, quantum metrology and machine learning.

  • Johannes Braumann

    Johannes Braumann

    AT

    Johannes Braumann is a professor for Creative Robotics at UfG Linz, leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers towards exploring robots as an interface between the digital and physical world. As co-founder of the Association for Robots in Architecture, he is tightly linked with both the robotics and design community. Braumann is the main developer of…

  • Johanna Einsiedler

    Johanna Einsiedler

    AT

    Johanna Einsiedler is a PhD student in Social Data Science at the University of Copenhagen. Her primary area of research are applications of network science methods and machine learning algorithms in the social sciences. Through her collaboration with artist Amanda Bennetts she wants to explore if and how algorithms can be used to improve an…