Constanza Piña CL/DE
Constanza Piña (Curicó, 1984) Sound artist, researcher and independent educator. Her work is based on electronic experimentation, open source technologies, DIY philosophy and techno feminist social practices. She explores noise as a sonic, political, cultural and spiritual phenomenon. She reflects on the role of machines in our culture and the human/non-human-technological units, questioning the academy, capitalism and heteropatriarchy as opposition to open knowledge, autonomy and enhancement of technical manual work.
corazonderobota.wordpress.com
Samiir Saunders UK
Samiir Saunders is a multimedia poet from Birmingham working in spoken word, alternative hip-hop, and performance art.
samiirsaunders.com
!MEDIENGRUPPE BITNIK DE/CH
!Mediengruppe Bitnik (read – the not mediengruppe bitnik) live and work in Berlin. They are contemporary artists who work on and with the Internet. Their practice expands from the digital to affect physical spaces, often intentionally employing loss of control to challenge established structures and mechanisms. The works of !Mediengruppe Bitnik formulate fundamental questions concerning contemporary issues.
!Mediengruppe Bitnik are the artists Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo.
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org
Geert Lovink NL
Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author of Uncanny Networks (2002), Dark Fiber (2002), My First Recession (2003), Zero Comments (2007), Networks Without a Cause (2012), Social Media Abyss (2016), Organisation after Social Media (with Ned Rossiter, 2018), Sad by Design (2019) and Stuck on the Platform (2022).
Institute of Network Cultures
Roos Groothuizen NL
Roos Groothuizen is an independent media artist and designer who dances on the borders of interaction, theater, intervention, web, film, games and animation.
roos.gr
Olivia Jack US
Olivia Jack is a programmer and artist who works frequently with open-source software, cartography, live coding, and experimental interfaces. Her research interests include algorithmic representations of uncertainty and chaos, peer2peer networking, and live coding as a way to enter into a continuous dialogue or feedback loop between herself and her computer.
ojack.xyz
DISNOVATION.ORG FR
DISNOVATION.ORG is a research collective set up in paris in 2012, whose core members include Maria Roszkowska (pl/fr), Nicolas Maigret (fr), Baruch Gottlieb (ca/de), and Jerome Saint-Clair (fr).
disnovation.org
Ted Davis US/CH
Ted Davis is an educator / designer / media artist originally from the United States and based in Basel, Switzerland, where he teaches interaction design and coordinates the UIC/HGK International Master of Design program within the Institute for Digital Communication Environments HGK FHNW.
teddavis.org
Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo US/DE
Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo is an artist, programmer, and erstwhile data designer. Her work focuses on using the digital in a manner that can transcend its squalid and militaristic roots and reach out towards the sublime. She has created data-obscured art sites, new computer languages, and hybrid nostalgia machines.
art.sarahghp.com
Benjamin Gaulon FR
Benjamin Gaulon is an artist, researcher, educator and cultural producer. Since 2002 he has released work under the name "recyclism".
recyclism.com
nowebsite.org
Dasha Ilina RU/FR
Dasha Ilina is a Russian artist based in Paris, France. Through the employment of low tech and DIY approaches her work highlights the nebulous relationship between our desire to incorporate modern technologies into our daily lives and proposed social imperatives for care of oneself and others.
dashailina.com
nowebsite.org
Teresa Dillon IE/UK/DE
Teresa Dillon is an artist and researcher whose work symbolically and critically examines the techno-civic systems that affect and shape everyday urban life.
polarproduce.org
Jonah Ross-Marrs US/FR
Jonah Marrs (Fablab Manager) has a background in History, Architecture and Electronics. He is interested in the intersection between Media Archaeology and avant-garde creative practices and hopes to develop new ways to introduce students of design to electronics and computer science.
Terrains Communs FR
Philippine Mangeart and Max Félix co-founded, in 2022, Terrains Communs, an nonprofit at the crossroads of ecology, arts and applied arts. The non-profit manages a 1.3 hectare wasteland near the city center of Nevers as an educational and creative ecosystem which hosts workshops, workshops, training, shows around the arts, applied arts and ecology.
Nica Ross US
Nica Ross is an artist, educator and cultural producer located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA. Through participatory video installations and games their work reveals and challenges norms and social constructions that are reinforced by technology, performance and play.
Nica holds a B.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State University and an M.F.A. in Advanced Photographic Study from The International Center of Photography, Bard College program. Nica has worked in a wide array of video, theater and event production on both commercial and artistic projects. They have worked with 3-Legged Dog Media & Theater Group, The Joshua Light Show along with many individual artists. Presently they are Director of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and Associate Professor of Video and Media Design in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama.
