Contributors

  • Bjørn Erik Haugen

    NO

    Bjørn Erik Haugen is an artist, composer and artist researcher. In his research and artistic works, he often problematizes surveillance and control mechanisms in society and in knowledge-disciplines.

  • Sebastian Comanescu

    Sebastian Comanescu

    RO

    Sebastian Comănescu (b.1992, Iași, Romania) is a new media artist/designer. He draws inspiration from both nature and emerging technologies. His works explore, analyze and simulate natural phenomena which he “translates” to physical or digital mediums using computational design and digital fabrication.

  • Marina Oprea

    Marina Oprea

    RO

    Marina Oprea is an artist who lives and works in Bucharest. Her works stem from a fascination for observing and deconstructing the ways in which an identity is shaped, be it that of people, places, objects, in relation to the patriarchal society, the art world and/or her own personal stances. Her projects are often collaborative.

  • Adelin Schweitzer

    Adelin Schweitzer

    FR

    Adelin Schweitzer is a French contemporary artist, director and performer renowned for his technological detour and iconoclastic use of Extended Realities (XR). His creations go against the techno-solutionist ideology and belief in a technology capable of resolving all social, economic and environmental issues. The artist develops a form of self-defense manual, unusual and mischievous, enabling…

  • Mary Mayrhofer

    Mary Mayrhofer

    AT

    Mary Mayrhofer was born in Traberg in 2002, but has lived and worked in Linz for many years. Mayrhofer’s approach to art stems from a more therapeutic approach and even today increasingly functions as an outlet for processing her own psychological problems and traumas. She is constantly venturing into new media, themes and materials, whereby…

  • Jiabao Li

    Jiabao Li

    CN

    Jiabao Li is an interdisciplinary artist, assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin, founding director of Ecocentric Future Lab and a Harvard graduate. Her works address climate change, interspecies co-creation, humane technology and perceptions. In Jiabao’s TED Talk, she uncovered how technology mediates the way we perceive reality. She is the recipient of…

  • Víctor Mazón Gardoqui

    Víctor Mazón Gardoqui

    ES

    Researcher, senior educator and professional specializing in open hardware and experimental circuit design, device studies and experimental sensory applications. His work reveals the invisible, tackles the inaccessible, and provokes vulnerability and awareness. Perception and altered states are central concepts in his actions. He specializes in: site-specific actions or performances, exhibitions from previous actions and collaborative…

  • Pierre-Christophe Gam

    Pierre-Christophe Gam

    FR

    A polymath artist and researcher, Pierre-Christophe Gam’s practice sits at the intersection of art, technology, and foresight.Trained at ENSAD in Paris and at CSM in London, he crafts stories that draw from ancient myths rooted in Africa’s pre-colonial heritage, bringing them to life through interactive, physical and virtual spaces to expand the limit of our…

  • Aka Niviâna

    GL

    Aka Niviâna is an Inuk writer and this is her on-screen debut. Niviâna started doing poetry with a wish to create nuanced conversations not only about climate change, but also colonialism and indigenous peoples’ rights. She believes in the importance of representation and the People of Color and indigenous peoples.

  • Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner

    MH

    Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner is a poet of Marshallese ancestry. Her writing and performances have been featured by CNN, Democracy Now, Huffington Post and more. Her work has recently evolved and begun to inhabit gallery and performance-art spaces. She also co-founded the non-profit Jo-Jikum, dedicated to empowering Marshallese youth to seek solutions to climate change and other…

  • CompMonks

    CompMonks

    FR CH

    Compmonks is a trained architect who studied in France and is now a researcher in technology for architecture based in Switzerland. He currently leads a research project on interactive and generative design with BCI at ETH Zürich. His artistic work follows a series of design objects and mixed-media installations shedding light on the power of…

  • Maria Smigielska

    Maria Smigielska

    PL CH

    Maria Smigielska is an architect and researcher educated in Switzerland and Poland, based in Zurich. Working with architectural elements, design objects and mixed-media installations, she uses digital and interactive technologies for encoding and modulating materials properties, custom fabrication and design. She has exhibited internationally since 2013, with recent appearances at Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Biennale for…