Jan Boelen is a curator of design, architecture, and contemporary art. He is artistic director of Atelier Luma, an experimental laboratory for design in Arles, France. Boelen studied Product Design at the Media & Design Academy in Genk and is the founder and former artistic director of Z33 – House for… Read more »
Ina Grabosch lives, works and studies in Karlsruhe and Freiburg. She has worked as Assistant to the Directors for the Vitra Design Museum and as an industrial clerk for the company Vitra. With her studies in product design at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) she now follows her passion for a change… Read more »
Julia Ihls is an interdisciplinary researcher and designer at the intersections of (natural-)philosophy, media theory and scenography. After studying art/media studies (M.A.) in Konstanz and Cork, and scenography/media art (Dipl.) in Karlsruhe, she worked as a concept designer and writer, among others for the ZKM Karlsruhe. Since April 2021, she is the head of the… Read more »
Convinced that reaching our climate targets requires a fundamentally different way of using resources, Susanne Kadner initiated the Circular Economy Initiative Germany at acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering. She leads the Head Office of the state and industry-funded initiative, which aims at defining the transition towards a resource-efficient and digitally-enabled Circular Economy… Read more »
Freo Majer is the founder and artistic director of Forecast, an international mentorship program that transcends disciplines and geographical locations to connect cultural practitioners with renowned mentors.
Trained as an opera director, Majer looks back at a career as a director and producer in European theaters, opera houses, and at festivals, including at Mainz… Read more »
Vera Sacchetti is a Basel-based design critic and curator. She serves in a variety of curatorial, research and editorial roles, most recently as program coordinator for the multidisciplinary research initiative Driving the Human (2020-2023) and curator of the initial edition of architecture festival Archipelago: Architectures for the Multiverse (2021). She is co-curator of TEOK Basel… Read more »
Martina Schraudner is head of the Fraunhofer Center for Responsible Research and Innovation and of the department Gender and Diversity in Technology and Product Development at the Technical University of Berlin. From 2018-2021, she was on the board of directors of acatech – German Academy of Science and Engineering e. V. She deals with methods,… Read more »
Albert-László Barabási is a physicist who changed the course of modern science with his discovery of scale-free networks. He is the Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science, a Distinguished University Professor of Physics, and the director of the Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR) at Northeastern University. He also holds an appointment in the… Read more »
Frédérique Aït-Touati is a historian of literature and modern science and a theatre director. She works on the uses of fiction and narrative in astronomy in the seventeenth century, as well as the history of images and scientific instruments; more recently, her research has focused on the narratives and aesthetics of the Anthropocene, particularly in… Read more »
Michel Bauwens is theorist, writer, advisor and founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives, working in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He is also research director of CommonsTransition.org, a platform for policy development aimed toward a society of the Commons and a founding member… Read more »
Through videos, performances, photographs and installations, Melanie Bonajo studies subjects related to how technological advances and commodity based pleasures increase feelings of alienation, removing a sense of belonging in an individual. Captivated by concepts of the divine, Bonajo explores the spiritual emptiness of their* generation, examines peoples’ shifting relationship with nature and tries to understand… Read more »
Joanna Bourke is a social and cultural historian who has shaped profoundly our understanding of subjects central to human experience like violence, the body and emotions. She is Professor of History in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, where she has taught since 1992, Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London, a fellow… Read more »
Lili Carr is a British-born architect with a background in the natural sciences. Her work explores how alternative models of architecture practice can be attentive to the material, social, legal and ecological “by-products” of designed spatial transformation. She joined Feral Atlas in late 2018 where she was overjoyed to discover its vibrant multidisciplinary worlds of… Read more »
Claudia Chwalisz is an expert on democratic innovation, deliberative democracy, citizen participation, and populism, whose research and writings are mostly on these issues, but also touch on European and Canadian politics, elections and public opinion. She is leading the OECD’s work on innovative citizen participation, which explores the paradigm change underway towards a more participatory,… Read more »
Alba G. Corral (b. 1977 – Madrid) based in Catalunya is a Visual Artist and creative coder. With a background in computer engineering, Corral has been creating generative art using software and coding for the past decade. Her practice spans across live performance, video, digital media and installation, exploring abstract narratives and expressing sensitivity and… Read more »
Sasha Costanza-Chock (they/them or she/her) is a researcher and designer who works to support community-led processes that build shared power, move towards collective liberation, and advance ecological survival. They are known for their work on networked social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. Sasha is a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology… Read more »
Lisa Ertel is a designer currently based in Maastricht as an artist in residence at the Jan van Eyck Academy. She studied product design and communication design at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design where she recently co-founded the open research platform Bio Design Lab in collaboration with ZKM. Lisa is part of the… Read more »
Sabine Faller (St.Ex.II) is Research Associate in the Department Museum Communication at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Her main focus lies in developing workshops and programs in the fields of media art and digital education. She is project manager of the scholarship program Masterclass and Kulturakademie as well as co-creator at the… Read more »
Jan Fermon is a lawyer at the Bar of Brussels, Belgium, specialized in criminal law, international (humanitarian) law and human rights law. Since 2005 Fermon is a bureau member of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), the biggest international organization of progressive jurists. He has represented trade unionist against attempts to criminalize collective action,… Read more »
Anett Holzheid is a humanities and media scholar who currently works for ZKM | Karlsruhe directorate as a scientific consultant to Peter Weibel and as co-curator. Before joining the ZKM in 2015 she lectured extensively in the fields of communications and media studies at several German universities as research associate. After completing two graduate programs… Read more »
Maximilian Ilse is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab (AMLab), University of Amsterdam. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics from the Universität Leipzig and finished his M.Sc. with distinction in Audio communication and technology at the Technische Universität Berlin in 2015. His interest has shifted since then from working with time series… Read more »
Michael Kaethler is a sociologist of design whose work focuses on the transmission, production and embodiment of knowledge in art and design oriented practices. He has held a range of diverse positions, from human rights researcher in conflict and post-conflict contexts, curator, design educator, and writer, resulting in a broad range of publications across both… Read more »
Barbara Zoé Kiolbassa M.A. is a research associate at the ZKM | Centre for Arts and Media. She is part of the ZKM | Museum Communication team, focusing on art education and participatory media art projects related to the exhibitions and (research) topics of the museum. Besides her work at the ZKM, she is a freelance curator, art mediator and lecturer…. Read more »
Bogna Konior is a writer and an academic, focusing on digital culture, philosophy of technology, and new media. She has a broad interest in the relationship between accelerating ecological and technological change, and its impact on digital culture. She is currently a research fellow at NYU Shanghai, Interactive Media Arts department and at the AI… Read more »
Kim André Lange is a South German designer with the aim of making our surrounding more pleasant. He likes to achieve joy through visual / sensorial pleasure and advanced usability. With his work he likes to raise awareness of the beautiful place we are living in.
He believes sustainability is an integral part of… Read more »
Sarat Maharaj is Professor of Visual Art & Knowledge Systems, Lund University/Malmo Art Academy, Sweden—and Research Professor, Goldsmiths University of London where he was Professor of Art History/Theory (1980-2005). He was the Rudolf Arnheim Professor at the Philosophy Faculty of the Humboldt University, Berlin (2001-02) and Stedelijk Fellow 2018 at the University of Amsterdam…. Read more »
Julien McHardy is a designer, dramaturge, para-academic and publisher contributing artistic and scholarly sensibilities to the making of exhibitions, performances, strategies and books. Searching for stories that help us make sense of our intimately connected lives on this fragile planet motivates his work. Questioning what we know and how it might be different, requires crossing… Read more »
Since 2013 Daria Mille has been holding the position of a curator and research associate at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany. Prior to this she had worked as a curatorial assistant to the chief curators of the 3rd and 4th editions of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and completed her academic traineeship at the… Read more »
Alexandre Monnin is Scientific Director of Origens Media Lab, Professor in a management school (ESC Clermont BS), co-initiator with Diego Landivar of Closing Worlds and Director of the Master of Science “Strategy and Design for the Anthropocene” in partnership with Strate School of Design in Lyon (the world’s first training course on the Anthropocene with… Read more »
Simone C Niquille is a designer and researcher based in Amsterdam. Her practice Technoflesh investigates the representation of identity and the digitization of biomass in the networked space of appearance. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design and an MA in Visual Strategies from the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam. She… Read more »
Anne-Sophie Oberkrome lives and works as an independent designer in Berlin. She studied product design at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and graduated in summer 2019. During her studies she was interning at Studio Aisslinger, Berlin in 2015.
In her work she investigates contemporary developments and local phenomena, including production techniques and… Read more »
Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zürich, Switzerland) is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show World Soup (The Kitchen Show) in 1991, he has curated more than 300 exhibitions.
Obrist has lectured internationally… Read more »
Alexandra Pirici is an artist with a background in dance and choreography who works undisciplined, across different mediums. Her work has been exhibited within the decennial art exhibition Skulptur Projekte Munster 2017, the Venice Biennale – Romanian Pavilion at the 55th edition, Tate Modern London, New Museum New York, Art Basel Messeplatz, The 9th Berlin… Read more »
Guillaume Pitron, is an award-winning French journalist and documentary maker for France’s leading television channels. He holds a post-graduate law degree from the Paris universities, and a Masters in international law from the University of Georgetown, Washington, D.C. From Chinese rare earth metals to oil extraction in Alaska, Pitron focuses his work on commodities and… Read more »
The sessions of Tutu are odes to life, between pure adrenaline and the most genuine curiosity. Like windows that open to horizons both near and far, her sets run through the landscape with the same intensity that she lives other creative facets of her life. With a spectrum of sounds that range from bass house… Read more »
Lena Reitschuster studied South Asian Studies and Religious Studies at Heidelberg University, Philosophy and Curatorial Practice at HfG Karlsruhe, and Media Studies at The New School in New York. Her research is located at the intersection of philosophy, biology and art. She is interested in the history of ideas and notions around interspecies-dependencies, emerging cosmologies… Read more »
Teresa Retzer is an art historian, writer, and curator. She studied art history and philosophy in Vienna, Siena, Zurich, and Basel. She has presented her research at international conferences and has written scientific texts for catalogues and journals. She is interested in how society is influenced by digital infrastructures as a means of cultural production. By discussing established and… Read more »
Jeremy Shaw (1977 North Vancouver, Canada) works in a variety of media to explore altered states and the cultural and scientific practices that aspire to map transcendental experience. Often combining and amplifying strategies of verité filmmaking, conceptual art, music video and scientific research, he creates a post-documentary space in which disparate belief-systems and histories are… Read more »
Jonas Staal is a visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art, propaganda, and democracy. He is the founder of the artistic and political organization New World Summit. With BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, he co-founded the New World Academy, and with Florian Malzacher he is currently directing the utopian training camp… Read more »
Jenna Sutela works with words, sounds, and other living media, such as Bacillus subtilis nattō bacteria and the “many-headed” slime mold Physarum polycephalum. Her audiovisual pieces, sculptures, and performances seek to identify and react to precarious social and material moments, often in relation to technology. Sutela’s work has been presented at museums and art contexts internationally, including Guggenheim… Read more »
Vivien Tauchmann is a designer and researcher, exploring socio-political relations through an embodied and kinaesthetic approach. By positioning the human body as relational material, she seeks to expose and confront aspects of man- made infrastructures and subvert processes that seem to constitute social and cultural boundaries of power and injustice. Her on-going project Self-As-Other-Trainings was… Read more »
John Thackara is a philosopher, writer and curator, working in the realms of social, ecological and relational design. He curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years, first in Amsterdam, later across India; he was commissioner of the UK social innovation biennial Dott 07, and the French design biennial City Eco Lab, and… Read more »
Julijonas Urbonas is an artist, designer, researcher, engineer and founder of Lithuanian Space Agency. He is a PhD student in Design Interactions at the Royal Collage of Art, London, associate professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius and former Pro-Rector at Vilnius Academy of Arts. Having worked in amusement park development as a designer and engineer,… Read more »
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas are artists, educators, and co-founders of the Urbonas Studio, a transdisciplinary research practice that facilitates exchange amongst diverse nodes of knowledge production and artistic practice in pursuit of projects that transform civic spaces and collective imaginaries. Urbonas have exhibited internationally at the São Paulo, Berlin, Moscow, Lyon, Gwangju, Busan, Taipei Biennales, Folkestone Triennial, Manifesta and Documenta exhibitions, including a solo show at the Venice Biennale… Read more »
Peter Weibel is an Austrian artist, curator and media theorist. He is artistic-scientific director and CEO of ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and director of the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (WID). He was professor of Media Theory at… Read more »
Cary Wolfe is Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University, where he is Founding Director of 3CT: Center for Critical and Cultural Theory. His books and edited collections include Animal Rites: American Culture, The Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (Chicago, 2003), Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minnesota, 2003) What Is Posthumanism? (Minnesota, 2010), Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical… Read more »
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, NYC. He is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update. Wolff’s lecture topics focus among others on the origins… Read more »
