Contributors

  • Maria Năstase

    RO

    Maria Năstase experiments with digital artistic practices and interactive technologies and organizes playdates using her extensive toy and object collection. She works as a freelance documentary videographer, researcher and organizes multimedia workshops for teenagers. Năstase has an MA in Ethnographic Filmmaking from the University of Manchester.

  • Krater Collective (Danica Sretenović, Andrej Koruza, Gaja Mežnarić Osole, Amadeja Smrekar)

    SI

    The Krater collective is a group of transdisciplinary enthusiasts who were courageous to reinvent their respective professions, studios and working conditions to act as guardians of a rewilded ecosystem at the pending construction site in Ljubljana. Since Krater’s ecosystem is constantly on the verge of extinction, they cultivate creative resilience in the face of urgency…

  • Katja Schechtner

    Katja Schechtner

    AT

    Katja Schechtner is an urban scientist who advises global governments and businesses on how they can build the cities of the future. Previously, she developed technology and innovation policy at the OECD in Paris, led infrastructure programs at the ADB in Manila and a research lab at AIT in Vienna. As part of the MIT…

  • Marita Muukkonen

    Marita Muukkonen

    FI

    Marita Muukkonen is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Artists at Risk (AR), Ecologists at Risk (ER) and Perpetuum Mobile (PM). She has been a curator at FRAME—Contemporary Art Finland, an editor of FRAMEWORK: The Finnish Art Review, Chairperson of the Helsinki International Artists-in-Residence Programme (HIAP) and held key functions at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art…

  • José Manuel Higes

    ES

    José Manuel Higes is a playwright and a PhD-qualified mathematician. He graduated in psychology at Universidad Complutense.

  • Joanna Bryson

    Joanna Bryson

    GB

    Joanna Bryson is a professor of Ethics and Technology at the Hertie School. Her research focuses on the impact of technology on human cooperation and AI/ICT governance. From 2002-2019 she was on the Computer Science faculty at the University of Bath. She has also been affiliated with the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and…

  • meta:morphosis

    KR/US/NL/GB/BG

    Aleksandra Naydenova is a UX/service designer and socio-technology researcher. Amber Macintyre is a researcher, facilitator and mixed-media artist. Cyan D’Anjou is a multimedia performance and sculpture artist. Dorijn Boogaard is a project advisor facilitating public-private digital partnerships. Kurina Sohn is a multidisciplinary designer.

  • Jo Lawson-Tancred

    Jo Lawson-Tancred

    GB

    Jo Lawson-Tancred is an experienced art journalist covering many facets of the art world, including the crossover of art and technology. She is currently European News Reporter at Artnet News and has written for Apollo magazine, Financial Times, The Guardian and BBC Culture. Her new book AI and the Art Market (Lund Humphries) is coming…

  • Jesús Ibáñez Martínez

    ES

    Jesús Ibáñez Martínez PhD is a professor at the EMAiD school of art and design in Barcelona. He is a computer scientist and an artist.

  • Miguel Mendoza Malpartida

    ES

    Miguel Mendoza Malpartida is an artist and researcher who graduated in Fine Arts and Master in Art: Idea and Production from the University of Seville. He is currently studying for a doctorate in the Art and Heritage program of the same faculty.

  • mkrz lab / makers collective

    mkrz lab / makers collective

    AT

    mkrz lab and the makers collective were founded after more than 20 years of experience in the digital solutions business. The focus of their work and research projects is on how manual creation with different materials can foster and challenge people’s learning and innovation skills. As a result, the Alternative Lab for Future Skills has…

  • Jesse Fleming / The Awareness Lab

    US

    Jesse Reding Fleming is a contemplative artist focusing on the self-other dichotomy. His hybrid work spans XR development, contemplative programming, media art, installation, tool building and filmmaking. He is an assistant professor at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts and directs the Awareness Lab (tAL), a creative research studio for art, technology and…