Arif Kornweitz - PhD candidate and part of the KIM RESEARCH GROUP on critical artificial intelligence at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, where he researches (in)compatibilities between AI ethical standards and humanitarian ethics, focusing on the principle of 'first, do no harm'. Arif teaches courses in critical design, drawing from posthumanist thinking, that result in exhibitions and publications. This year he has been teaching at DESIGNLAB at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

Rodrigo Ochigame an assistant professor in the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Their research examines unorthodox models of computational rationality, such as nonclassical logics from Brazil, nonbinary Turing machines from India, and frameworks of information science from Cuba. Ochigame received a BA with highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Mariana Fernández Mora (MX/NL) is a visual artist and researcher based in Amsterdam, she is interested in dynamics of power, algorithms and the relation between geographical and digital landscapes. With a background in architecture her work usually involves interdisciplinary installations that search to give body to the videos she creates. In 2018 she graduated from The Gerrit Rietveld Academy and currently she is part of the masters program F for Fact at The Sandberg Institute where she is researching our intimate and sometimes problematic relationships with technology and co-writing her thesis with Natural Language Processors like GPT3 and Replika.

Daniel van der Velden / Metahaven The work of Metahaven consists of filmmaking, writing, and design. Films by Metahaven include Chaos Theory (2021), Hometown (2018), Eurasia (Questions on Happiness) (2018), and Information Skies (2016, nominated for the 2017 European Film Awards). Solo exhibitions include Passphrases, State of Concept Athens (2021), Turnarounds, e-flux, New York (2019), Version History, ICA London (2018), Earth, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2018), Hometown, Izolyatsia, Kyiv (2018), and Islands in the Cloud, MoMA PS1, New York (2013). Public lectures include “An Evening with Metahaven,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019), “After The Sprawl,” Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2019), and “Inhabitant,” Harvard GSD, Cambridge (2020). Recent publications include PSYOP: An Anthology (2018, edited with Karen Archey), and Digital Tarkovsky (2018).

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Flavia Dzodan is a senior researcher and writer at the Research Group on Algorithmic Cultures at Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Even though much of her work comes out of academic research and theory as part of her work at Sandberg Instituut, Flavia takes pains to point out the non-academic nature of her practice. She describes herself as a “scavenger” of theory, an outsider who collects and assembles bits and pieces of existing ideas and hypotheses to construct her own discourse. In her case, this discourse is a sharp and critical analysis of algorithms and digital culture at the intersection of race and gender politics. She places particular emphasis on the way in which the colonial agenda of the past mutates and persists in our digital tools, cultural products, surveillance systems, networks, and data flows.