Biographies

Biographies

Manetta Berends

Sophie Boiron

Maria Dada is a Lecturer in Interaction Design at London College of Communication. Her work is placed within the fields of design, continental philosophy and visual culture. She investigates the role of digital imagery in reconfiguring socio-political institutions and structures. She has degrees in both continental philosophy from the Centre for Research in European Philosophy and Computing and Communication Arts from the Lebanese American University.

Pierre Huyghebaert

Phil Langley is an architect and ‘computational designer’ from London. Phil develops critical approaches to technology and software used in architectural practice and more generally for spatial design. Phil developed a number of software prototypes that show how software mediates in design.

Nicolas Malevé

Romi Ron Morrison is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator. Their work investigates the personal, political, ideological, and spatial boundaries of race, ethics, and social infrastructure within digital technologies. Using maps, data, sound, performance, and video, their installations center Black Feminist technologies that challenge the demands of an increasingly quantified world—reducing land into property, people into digits, and knowledge into data. elegantcollisions.com

Simone C. Niquille

Possible Bodies

Helen V. Pritchard

Blanca Pujals

Jara Rocha

Sina Seifee

Femke Snelting develops projects at the intersection of design, feminisms, and free software in various constellations. With Seda Guerses, Miriyam Aouragh, and Helen Pritchard, she runs the Institute for Technology in the Public Interest. Together they convene communities to create spaces for articulating what technologies in the “public interest” might be, when when “public interest” is always in-the-making. With the Underground Division (Helen Pritchard and Jara Rocha) she studies the computational imaginations of rock formations. With Jara Rocha, Femke activates Possible Bodies, interrogating the concrete and at the same time fictional entities of so-called bodies in the context of volumetric technologies. She was co-responsible for the artistic program of Constant, association for art and media based in Brussels. Femke supports artistic research at PhdArts (Leiden) and MERIAN (Maastricht) and at a.pass in Brussels and teaches at XPUB (Master programme for experimental publishing, Rotterdam).

The Underground Division

Kym Ward