Contributors

  • Bernhard Nessler

    Bernhard Nessler

    AT

    DI Dr. Bernhard Nessler is Research Manager for Intelligent Systems and Certification of AI at Software Competence Center Hagenberg and lecturer at the Institute for ML at Johannes Kepler University Linz. He is also a founding member of ELLIS (ellis.eu) and vice-president of the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (ASAI). He received his PhD in…

  • Benjamin Orthner

    Benjamin Orthner

    AT/GH

    Benjamin Orthner, born in Austria and raised in Ghana, is an experimental physicist at the Vienna University of Technology. Returning to Austria for his higher education, he is currently completing his master’s thesis on designing, building and controlling the optical setup for the BruQner—The Sound of Entanglement project. Orthner’s previous research experience includes work in…

  • Benjamin Brunnbauer

    Benjamin Brunnbauer

    AT

    Benjamin Brunnbauer, a time-based artist based in Linz, revels in vibrant colors across film, ceramics and painting. His art embraces chaos to organize his inner self and communicate with the outside world. Rejecting the confines of a singular artform, he consciously embraces diversity, allowing it to infuse every aspect of his creative expression.

  • Astrid Safron

    AT

    Astrid Safron is an Austrian artist based in Linz. She is trained in fine arts and printmaking and exhibits her work internationally

  • Astrid Mager

    Astrid Mager

    AT

    Astrid Mager is senior academy scientist at the Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and lecturer at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna. Her longstanding research on search engines and algorithmic systems in socio-political contexts has been widely published.

  • Arts at CERN

    Arts at CERN

    CH

    Arts at CERN invites artists to the Laboratory to experience how fundamental science pursues the unknown questions about our universe. Our vision is to inspire exchanges between artists and scientists and to participate in an international cultural community eager to connect with CERN. Mónica Bello is Head of Arts at CERN. She oversees the Laboratory’s…

  • Anna Schaeffner

    Anna Schaeffner

    FR

    Anna Schaeffner (FR) is an interaction designer exploring the field of human-computer interaction through a practice-based PhD at École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« in Berlin. Her research centers on the design of deformable materials. Through her design practice, she investigates tangible interaction as a…

  • Andreea Sandu

    RO

    Andreea Sandu is a cultural manager, curator and founder of Galateca gallery in Bucharest. She is the initiator of cultural platforms CSWeek—Sustainable Creativity Week and the first Art and Science Annual in Romania, Neo Art Connect (NAC).She has produced, curated and coordinated dozens of interdisciplinary programs and projects.

  • American Artist

    American Artist

    US

    American Artist makes thought experiments that mine the history of technology, race, and knowledge production, beginning with their legal name change in 2013. Their artwork primarily takes the form of sculpture, software, and video.

  • Amanda Bennetts

    Amanda Bennetts

    AU

    Amanda Bennetts is an Australian installation artist. Living with a neurological disease and a rare muscular disease, Bennetts harnesses her lived experience in order to critically explore illness and disability. Bennetts is an awarded artist and has exhibited extensively within her emerging career. Through her collaboration with data scientist Johanna Einsiedler, Bennetts critically explores how…

  • Ama BE

    Ama BE

    GH/US

    Ama BE is a Ghanaian/American artist exploring African relationships to land, labor, and migration. She explores materiality and memory, working largely with botanical materials that carry antithetical ties to hegemonic trade, violent labor migrations, spirituality and holistic remedies. Her work probes at the porous spaces between time, technology, and sentience to nuance experiences of encounter…

  • Alexander Ploier

    Alexander Ploier

    AT

    Alexander Ploier is a junior researcher at the Institute for Integrated Circuits at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. His multidisciplinary research work has been published in fields ranging from mathematics to quantum computing. His current research focus is the combination of science and art, and especially on how to make high-end research more accessible to…