Contributors

Stefan Gieber

AT

Stefan Gieber is a physiotherapist and osteopath with extensive experience in sports therapy, medical training, and holistic treatment. He studied at the Academy for Physiotherapy in Steyr, Austria, and later expanded his knowledge in sports therapy in Córdoba, Argentina. He completed his osteopathy studies at the International Academy of Osteopathy. Passionate about addressing the root…
Laura Pudelek

DE

Laura Pudelek is a cellist, composer and performer.Her work is primarily dedicated to improvisation and experimental music and operates at the interface of music, dance and performance. She is particulary interested in the exploration of sound, the practice of collective working processes and open forms of composition. A wide spectrum of musical interest and taste…
Karin Schneider

AT

Karin Schneider is a contemporary historian and art educator. She is been the head of education at the Museums of the City of Linz – Lentos Art Museum and Nordico City Museum. She has been involved in various research projects dealing with the politics of history, memory, and cultural heritage, and exploring participatory methods of…
Tobéchukwu Onwukeme

US

Tobéchukwu Onwukeme is a computational designer and researcher in the interdisciplinary research group FORENSIS. His research and practice focuses on utilizing geospatial technologies and algorithms to map the inherent violence of neocolonial systems and infrastructures. He has worked at various labs and agencies as a design technologist where he designed and developed applications for computer…
Mark Mushiva

Mark Mushiva is a creative technologist. He makes things that combine art, games, music and computer science. He currently works as a research assistant at Forensis.Mushiva holds a master’s degree in Information Technology from the Namibian University of Science and Technology (NUST) and Aalto University in Finland. He also holds a PhD in Human Computer…
Thomas Bürgler

AT

Thomas Buergler is Managing Director of the Competence Center K1-MET for Metallurgical and Environmental Process Development, Senior Expert of voestalpine Steel Divison for climate-neutral steelmaking and Board Member of the Hydrogen Flagship Region Austria.Graduated in Metallurgy at the University in Leoben, his more than 30 years of professional experience as project and research manager includes…
Laura Benítez Valero

ES

Laura Benitez Valero has a PhD in philosophy and is a researcher and university lecturer. Her research connects philosophy, art(s) and technoscience. She is an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She also teaches at Elisava and has served as the coordinator of the Theory area in the…
Volkan Dinçer

TR

Volkan Dinçer’s work focuses on inter-system relations and ecological questions within a broad research field ranging from perception tendencies to symbiotic relationships. Dinçer primarily produces his own electronic systems using various digital tools such as low-level electronics, video, animation and sometimes combines them with living materials usually for blurring the boundaries between the systems and…
Vanessa Lorenzo (aka Hybridoa)

ES

Vanessa Lorenzo’s experience spans industrial design engineering, transdisciplinary artistic research and workshopology. Her work combines speculative design on emerging technologies, biomedia practices, transfeminism and open source philosophy. She has worked extensively with the European cultural and Swiss biohacking communities such as Hackteria, Utopiana Geneva and Hackuarium. Currently based in Bilbao, Vanessa is coordinating a STEAM…
Irene Lucas Fernández

ES

Irene Lucas Fernández is a visual artist working at the intersection of science, art, and technology. She relates common territories of critical art practice, combining methods of nature, art and play pedagogy. The Expanded Garden in Vienna with the artist Christoph Euler or Corridor Breaks at Manifesta 8 in Murcia are some examples. She is…
Fabricio Lamoncha

ES

Fabricio Lamoncha is an artist and researcher from Spain, currently based in Austria. He has a PhD in Artistic Research from the University of Arts Linz and is a Senior Artist in the Interface Cultures program. Lamoncha is member of the Art|Sci Center at UCLA and co-founder of the Leonardo Laser Talks Linz. His research…
He Lin Luo, Chun Cheng Hsu, Yi Bing Lin

TW

He Lin Luo, Chun Cheng Hsu and Yi Bing Lin are three professors from Taiwan who have combined their expertise in different fields to create cross-disciplinary technological projects. Together, they produced the work Heart of the Machine: Virtual Universe X Mechanical Puppet—A Dialogue Between Puppet Theater and Body Data, which integrates traditional puppet theater, technological…