Linda Wan Lee (b. Los Angeles) is an independent researcher and works at Willem de Kooning Academy and with the Rotterdam Arts & Sciences Lab. She is interested in the biopolitics of the built environment and human-machine friendships and feuds. She previously worked as an architect in New York City on various projects, including a masterplan for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, an urban pocket park, an outdoor gallery and screening venue, and several residential constructions. She studied art history and French & francophone studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and architecture at Yale University.

Cristina Cochior (RO) is a researcher and designer focused on structures of knowledge co-production, politics of automation, archival representation, collective publishing and situated software practices. Her artistic research practice is embedded within the material conditions of knowledge organisation technologies. She graduated from the Piet Zwart Institute – Master Media Design and the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design – Visual Communication and she is part of the collective Varia in Rotterdam. http://randomiser.info/

Born in Buenos Aires in 1988, Sonia de Jager is currently a doctoral researcher at Erasmus University, writing a thesis about the philosophy of artificial intelligence. De Jager also works at the Willem de Kooning Academie as an art theory tutor and runs the yearly music and philosophy conference Regenerative Feedback.

Danae Tapia, a working-class feminist writer, multimedia artist and technologist, is a lecturer of Hacking and Autonomous Practices at the Willem de Kooning Academy and the founder of The Digital Witchcraft Institute. In the past, she has worked as a project manager and researcher in digital justice organizations in Chile, Brazil, the US and The Netherlands.

Agathe Balayn is currently a PhD candidate in computer science at the Delft University of Technology, with a penchant for interdisciplinary research. She works on uncovering safety and discrimination harms that various artificial intelligence technologies might create, as she develops technical methods and structured processes to better understand how these technologies come to be and deploy. In the past, she has also explored the fields of assistive robotics and hate speech detection through research visits to different institutions.

Sieta van Horck (1992) is a project manager in the V2_ lab. Projects she guides include a wide range of artworks, hosting the Critical AI meetups, the Summer Sessions network for Talent Development and coordinating various art exhibitions, and is part of the Slow reading Group focussing on AI and gender inequality. She is educated as a creative technologist and holds a BA in Digital Media and Culture and MSc in Media Technology.

As an artist she is interested in using technology as a language to investigate the subtle layers of living organisms and explore human intuitive embodied knowledge. Technology is used as a tool to provide insight into the natural functioning of the human system and to create connections between the internal world of experience and the external environment. At the basis of her work is inclusivity instead of separation, connection instead of categorization. Her interactive experiments invite you to perceive beyond analytic thinking. Her aim is to create a in perception that allows for the opportunity to reassess our relationship to ourselves, others and the Earth.

Renée Turner is an artist and writer whose practice engages with digital narratives, archives, and interdisciplinary collaborative inquiry. Whether working collectively or on her own, her research is informed by feminist perspectives, and the entanglement of sites, histories, material encounters, and embodied subjectivities. She has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan, the Rijksakademie, and the Jan van Eyck Academy and awarded grants from the Mondriaan Foundation, Creative Industry Funds, and The Institute of Creative Technologies. Currently, she is a Senior Research Lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy, where she seeks critically committed approaches to pedagogy within the arts. She is a Fellow at V2 and a researcher within the Rotterdam Arts and Science Lab (RASL), a transdisciplinary consortium between the Willem de Kooning Academy, Erasmus University, and Codarts. She is also a doctoral candidate at LUCA’s Intermedia Research Unit: Deep Histories Fragile Memories.

Noemi Biro is a designer and digital landscaper currently based in Rotterdam, NL. With a background in graphic design, she graduated from the Autonomous practice Digital Craft from Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam, NL) in 2019.

Through processes that guide the outcome and input that fuels the process, she works with participatory design and online platforms. Her artistic research focuses on movement and space in the context of Augmented Reality as an interactive installation piece and alternative web experiences.

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Anna Laura (aka SUKUBRATZ) is an audio-visual, multimedia artist and DJ based in Rotterdam [NL]. Coming from an artistic background based on the love for the artificial and radical visual art she also extends her practice towards the world of sonics. As an upcoming artist her musical roots are based on her Chilean heritage, but mixing it with club, and love for hardcore, tekno and sounds of the European scene.

'As we live in an image-based society I find it crucial to critically question the inputs that surround us and that our eyes are subjected to. In my practice I strive to push the boundaries of the very definition of visual itself, and I do this by creating parallel micro-cosmos that exist purely in the ether or artificial reality.'

(Picture by Beto Zanine, mask by Miloš Šedivý, performance by S. de Jager as Alistair Shitte)

Sapo attends when she is in the mood.