Contributors

  • DISNOVATION.ORG

    DISNOVATION.ORG

    FR, PL, CA

    DISNOVATION.ORG merges contemporary art, research and hacking to critically translate complex socio-ecological debates into operative and provocative exhibits. They create radical artworks staged as large lab experiments focused on energy, ecology and economics that work as catalysts for staging futures that diverge from prevailing narratives. Their shows, books and videos permeated global cultural landscapes, fostering…

  • Marie du Chastel

    Marie du Chastel

    BE

    Marie du Chastel is a freelance curator specialised in new media art based in Brussels. She is the artistic director of KIKK, a non profit organization that explores the crossovers between art, science, new technologies and society through 5 major projects: the KIKK festival dedicated to digital cultures, Le Pavillon—exhibition & art centre managed by…

  • Rasa Bocyte

    Rasa Bocyte

    LT

    Rasa Bocyte is a cultural heritage professional with a passion for forging cross-sectoral collaborations underpinned by creative and critical approaches. In her current role at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, she leads the development and execution of international research and innovation projects around new creative practices, business models and technological interventions to increase…

  • Deepak Kumar

    IN

    Deepak Kumar is a PhD Student at Johannes Kepler University Linz. He focuses on fairness in recommender systems, particularly within the recruitment domain, and on developing parameter-efficient bias mitigation techniques.

  • Dominik Baumann

    AT

    Dominik Baumann is a mathematics master student at JKU. He is passionate about developing games in his free time.

  • Gerald Gruber

    AT

    Gerald Gruber is a student at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Campus Hagenberg, studying Digital Art. He is an artist, animator, and designer for games and shorts, and passionate about bringing stories and interactive experiences to life.

  • Ghazal Hosseini

    IR

    Ghazal Hosseini is a new media artist and engineer studying in the Interface Cultures master program at the University of Arts Linz. Her artistic work explores interactive storytelling, affective computing, machine perception, and immersive technologies.

  • Gustavo Escobedo

    PE

    Gustavo Escobedo is a PhD student at Johannes Kepler University Linz with a primary focus on Recommender Systems, Currently, he is working on Debiasing and Privacy-enhancing methods.

  • Michael Preisach

    AT

    Michael Preisach is a system administrator and provides technical support in this project. He cares about the compute hardware, installs the software and configures the network. Besides that, he provides tools for integrating and deploying the software parts and makes use of a soldering iron when needed.

  • Markus Schedl

    AT

    Markus Schedl is a full professor at JKU and LIT, leading the Multimedia Mining and Search (MMS) and the Human-centered AI (HCAI) groups. His research interests include recommender systems, information retrieval, trustworthy AI, and multimedia.

  • Stefan Brandl

    AT

    Stefan Brandl is a student researcher at JKU, specializing in debiasing recommendation systems within the music domain. His work focuses on developing algorithms and methodologies to reduce bias in music recommendations, ensuring a more diverse and fair experience for users.

  • Nils Sparwasser

    Nils Sparwasser

    DE

    Nils Sparwasser is Head of the Science Communication and Visualization Department at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and teaches as a guest lecturer at the Catholic University of Eichstätt. He has been involved in the presentation and communication of outstanding DLR earth observation missions and projects and has produced numerous films, exhibitions and several illustrated…