Julia Nüßlein is an artist, researcher and organiser who works on the intersection of art, science and society. Currently finishing her MA Interface Culture in Linz (AT), she is also a producer for Amsterdam-based media art festivals Sonic Acts and FIBER Festival.
Contributors 2018
Katalin Hausel is an Hungarian artist/designer/educator with an academic background in philosophy and history. In the last 4 years Katalin has been part of the unMonastery group, a small organisation that connects rural areas, depleted villages with urbanites who seek to leave the compromises and the precarity of city life. These co-living and co-working experiments have taken place on the periphery of Europe (South Italy and Greece), with the goal of re-utilising unused buildings and forging new relationships between the city and the countryside.
Marloes de Valk (NL) is a software artist and writer in the post-despair stage of coping with the threat of global warming and being spied on by the devices surrounding her. Surprised by the obsessive dedication with which we, even post-Snowden, share intimate details about ourselves to an often not too clearly defined group of others, astounded by the deafening noise we generate while socializing with the technology around us, she is looking to better understand why.
Martin Nadal is an artist/creative coder based in Linz and studying the Interface Cultures program. In the past years he has produced a variety of art projects and taught workshops mainly related to money, blockchain and surveillance.
Martina’s passion for cultural diversity of perspectives was rounded off with a semester abroad at the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla/ Mexico. The practical application of her studies helped her succeed in various situations, such as founding a cultural studies magazine, assisting in a digital and socio-cultural festivals like AMRO, and creating a new innovative gastronomy concept for Cup of Soul.
Martino Morandi wrote this bio text on a QWERTY keyboard on a Lenovo laptop on a seat of a Trenord train moving on the italian RFI rails, running on electricity from state-owned hydro-electric power plants on the Alps. He researches the tangle of and our entanglements with these elements and is interested in the politics of our interactions with technology at different scales, from power plants to bio texts.
Nicolas Maigret exposes the internal workings of media, through an exploration of their dysfunctions, limitations or failure thresholds which he develops into immersive, ambiguous and critical artworks. He initiated disnovation.org, a working group which develops situations of disturbance, speculation, and debate, challenging the dominant ideology of technological innovation and stimulating the dissemination of alternative narratives. He teaches at Parsons Paris and co-edited The Pirate Book, an anthology on media piracy.
Nicolas Zemke is a freelance software developer and since 2015 active at Sea-Watch, a sea rescue organization. He oversees the NGOs IT and has implemented several small software solutions. As the situation in the Mediterranean in 2016 worsened and more and more NGOs became active in this area, he developed the concept for the search and rescue application, which gives the civilian rescuers a participatory coordination platform.