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is an architectural designer and researcher who mobilises design, fiction and performance to stoke embers of emancipatory political thought and fires of collective action. Using fiction as a design tool and tactic, she engages in projects which provoke questioning of the status-quo, whilst working with communities, policy makers, unions, artists and architects.

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works at the intersections of performance, drawing, collage, video and written text. His broad interest in unraveling the complexity of the world, both inside and outside of the human realm, often lead him to transdisciplinary, queer and playful approaches.

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is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. He employs humour as a means to confront the viewer with historical narratives and contemporary culture.

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is a conceptual media artis. In reference to the omnipresence of codes and algorithms in our world, programming forms the basis of his artistic process. He examines the invisible mechanisms of modern mass surveillance analysis procedures using methods of decontextualisation and searches for their artistic qualities.

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is an artist and researcher whose practice spans writing, computation and installation, alongside composing for dance, film and environments. Mukul’s work is informed by North Indian music, the evolution of electronica through the 1990s, OuLiPo and 1960s conceptual practice, mathematics, and the relational turn in the sciences.

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is a painter as well as a conceptual, mixed-media, performance, body art, and video artist. Scheirl’s work includes golden penises and dolls dangling from the wall, red catwalks and curtains, sophisticated bachelor machines, sensuality, surreal elements, suspenders and suspenseful shame, allusions to Klimt, and the glamour of the 1970s.

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is exploring the boundaries of machine and human vision together with Ranu Mukherjee as “Orphan Drift” collective. They consider AI through the somatic tendencies of the octopus. “Nine Brains”, their current project assumes an octopoid worldview as a means of playing with and questioning the presence of AI in narratives of futurity.

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is a cloud-based artist and PhD Candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Seeger’s work explores the responsibility the networked individual has within the circulation and retention of personal and global crises, and the collective (unpaid) labor of history-writing through the (shit-) post.

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investigates algorithmic art, affective computing, robotics, parametric design, and ethics of artificial intelligence in the context of transgression, obsession, difference and repetition whilst incorporating at the methodological level contemporary theoretical tools regarding the radical matter, new materialisms and the political.

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is a new media artist, scenographer and artistic researcher. From a critical post-humanistic perspective, her works evolve around the encounters between humans and non-humans in spatial performative installations. Her current research focuses on data storytelling of living organisms, fungi-inspired biocomputing and more-than-human interactions with (industrial) robotics.

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takes as a starting point that war trauma and possibly all trauma can be seen as a particular set of scars shaped by memory, fear, identity and politics. A re-positioning of those scars can reveal not only how their intensity operates in the discourse but also sheds light on how the mechanisms of creating knowledge, identity and meaning are formed.

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John Wild is a London based artist who works across performance, sound, text, code, electronics and machine learning to carry out speculative research into the futures imminent within digital technology.

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specialises in merging dance and performance with advanced technologies like motion capture, AR, VR, and XR. Her research delves into the concept of 'skin' as an embodied digital code within choreographic environments, focusing on 3D worldbuilding and the cognitive processes of AI.

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explores the gap between the conscious and the unconscious. He realises his works by designing narratives through real-time processes. “The Human Robot Transference” is the centrepiece of his current research, drawing parallels between psychoanalysis theories and human-robot interaction within the context of new media arts.

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sees the human-centred concept of nature as a social construction in which the responsibility for dealing with the planet and ourselves is permanently negotiated. In her work she documents the traces left behind by humanity and its dealings with other beings and ourselves and emphasises the need to constantly challenge and change these perspectives.

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sees her artistic activity as analogous to poaching as she sets visual traps and create poetic pranks in public and communal spaces. Through subtle interventions and significant obstructions, she aim sto explore the distinction between the public and the private. However, Sonja seldom wait to witness if anyone falls into their traps.

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is a researcher and technologist focusing on AI, epistemology and the absurd. Her artistic practice is a mix of performance, computation and writing. She is part of the art collective Punk[Art]Rave and organises with No Tech For Tyrants and was named as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2022. Currently Yasmine is a fellow at the Ada Lovelace Institute, London.

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is a jeweler and academic working in a variety of materials, specialising in conceptual and narrative-led artworks. His practice-led, critically reflective research employs an interdisciplinary approach, utilizing digital and analogue working methods placing jewelry at the centre of the dynamic relationship between person and thing.

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is an artist, curator and publisher. In his work, he repeatedly deals with the topic of publishing and the negotiation of art and language in the specific space of the book. His archive "Salon für Kunstbuch" currently comprises around 30,000 titles from all artistic disciplines and is unique in this form in Europe.

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is a video artist who picks apart, categorizes and abstracts the various shades of human pain reincarnated in architecture, monuments and places. In that process, the unpredictability of randomness is the key to reaching our intestines – letting the death breathe and oscillate.

is an architectural designer working in between cultural studies and architectural practice. He mediates information and experience through publications, buildings and workshops. Within his building practice he aims to develop ecologically and energetically sound solutions.

is a Graphic-UX designer, at the Art & Science programme of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She is interested in language, human-machine correlation, and researches on questions around personal archives, idea generation and the role of physical senses in memory recording, with a practice moving in between art and design.

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engages in research and writing across social science, humanities, and migration. Her endeavours extend to performance, DJing, and occasional ventures into visual arts – all threaded together by a common focus on culture. Her commitment extends to prioritising non-binary, unconventional, and non-conformist approaches to existence and creation.

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is a fine art studio based / darkroom led photographic artist and scholar. His work, theoretical provocations, aesthetics unapologetically celebrate black queer bodies, the erotic, sex, desire, and the politics of pleasure. In 2022, Ajamu was canonised by The Trans Pennine Travelling Sisters as the Patron Saint of Darkrooms.

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is an artist, social entrepreneur, writer, and activist. Her work spans examining repressive and discriminatory tech, developing new systems around digital care, and creating place-based and localised approaches to sustainability.

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Jeremy Keenan creates artworks using motion, sound, feedback, data, and light. Jeremy is a co-founder of the London, UK sonic arts collective Call & Response. He is of no known relation to the anthropologist of the same name.

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is a is a draughtsman, situationist, photographer and media artist. His artwork is poeticised science and his research involves investigating cultural processes, e.g. that of perception. His strategies of analysis employ a wide variety of acoustic and pictorial processes that he incorporates into his work in a performative and playful manner.

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is a photographer that combines body, form and material in order to amalgamate discourses on femininity and identity. Her works are just the visible part of a reflection process that deals with human body metamorphoses in relation to the superstructure represented by clothing, work tools, and entertainment.

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Matt Lewis is a sound artist and musician whose practice focuses on sound and the social. He has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally

collaborating artist

researches the effects of emerging technologies on daily life, social relations, urban space, and political structures. Her current focus is on corporate-governmental relationships and the social effects of predictive analytics in the algorithmic city. Her works have ended up everywhere from street protests in Hong Kong to a Parliamentary Seminar, from a mobile cinema in the foothills of the Himalayas to the Collection Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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is an artist and author who’s work combines theoretical considerations with installation, video, performance, code, text and language. He explores the “derivative constitution” of today's social relationships, their models, technologies, processes and narratives. He designs formats of conversation between art, science and theory and develops an "aesthetics of resolution" that makes the asymmetries of data-driven performativity transparent.

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works with various media including digital and physical environments, installations, videos, objects, and sculptures. In her work, a discursive engagement with form and media culminates in critical artistic reflections about our entanglement as individuals in current socio-economic situations. She began to work in digital art in the late 1980s and was a pioneer of Game Art. She was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Media Art in 2018.

collaborating researcher

works as editor, translator, and writer focusing on art/design and contemporary theory. With a diverse background in architecture, education studies, and science technology studies, his interests revolve around the excavation of the conditions of technologies to shed light on the entanglement with societal developments. Currently he carries out research on the material and conceptual arrangements that enable large language models and machine learning systems.

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is a conceptual sculptor and artistic researcher. He develops projects that reflect on the politics of human and non-human intra-actions through sculptural material transformations and research-based interrogations. By creating settings of situated perception with conceptual sculptural methods he uses the role of art in the contemporary realm to navigate historical and speculative future contexts.

collaborating researcher

is an American curator and writer working at the intersection of science studies, literature, and performance. She is currently Visiting Curator at the Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston organizing Intimate confession is a project to open in the fall of 2023, one in a series of exhibitions.

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is a Screenwriter, film director, multimedia artist and professor of the »Art & Science« master degree programme at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. His short film "Copy Shop" was nominated for an Oscar. In total, his work has been awarded more than 130 international awards. Virgil Widrich is involved in a variety of roles as project manager, conceptionalist, exhibition designer or artistic director in the creation of screenplays, short and feature films, installations, exhibitions and entire museums, as well as in international research projects.

co principal investigator

was born in New York and lives in London. When times were dark and haunted, she built a house. Likes the company of wild mustangs, big boned cats and, more recently, sentient beings of the 8-legged variety. Holds the chair as Professor of Philosophy and Fine Art at the Royal College of Art (London)t, is PI on two Artificial Intelligence Design labs with Hong Kong Polytechnic, head of the proto-Centre in Radical Matter at the School of Humanities, RCA. Has a particular penchant for Memphis blues, ska, and jellyroll.

co principal investigator

is a restless inventor of things and ideas. He can neither let go nor give up and therefore sometimes appears as an almost pathological optimist. The longing to create systems also informs his work, which is always about establishing or uncovering connections, the more unimaginable the better. More than filmmaking or writing – both of which he loves – discussions and lectures are his preferred media. Like jazz, they allow him to improvise and react to the unexpected and new. Currently he is teaching as a senior lecturer at the Art & Science department.

researcher

is a science journalist, author, and university lecturer based in Vienna. She graduated in theoretical quantum physics at the University of Vienna. Among other institutions, she was guest researcher at the University of California/Santa Cruz (US), Twente University Enschede (NL), and Churchill College Cambridge (UK). Her research ranges from philosophy of quantum physics, history of physics, science and society, feminist science studies, to art & science. Since 2019, she is lecturer at the University of Applied Arts.

co-investigator

is chief RTI strategy advisor and CEO of eutema GmbH. He is an internationally renowned expert in research and innovation strategy with more than two decades of work experience in international research and innovation management and RTDI policy. He works at the interface of technology, philosophy, and the arts – often with the aim to shape research and innovation policy and builds on his research in embodied artificial intelligence to critically investigate contemporary conceptions of knowledge processing and creation.