Contributors &
Conversational Partners

Britta Acksel (Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy, Germany; britta.acksel@wupperinst.org) is a cultural anthropologist interested in sustainability. She holds a doctorate from Goethe University Frankfurt and ethnographically explored sustainability governance in/of cities. As a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen, her work focused on Anthropology of Policy, Human-Environment Relations, Energy Transition and Participation. Following an interlude as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Media Studies (RUB), she now works as scientific advisor for methods of transformation research at the Wuppertal Institute.

‍Dario Azzellini, visiting research fellow at Cornell University, holds a PhD in political science and a PhD in sociology. His research focuses on social movements, workers‘ and local self-management and democracy. His latest book are Communes and Workers’ Control in Venezuela: Building 21st Century Socialism from Below (Brill 2017) and The Class Strikes Back. Self-Organised Workers’ Struggles in the Twenty-First Century (co-edited, Brill 2018). www.azzellini.net/

Yael Bartana, born in 1970 in Kfar-Yehezkel, Israel, is a video artist who explores the imagery of cultural identity. In her photographs, films, and installations, she critically investigates her native country’s struggle for identity. Her early work documents collective rituals introducing alienation effects such as slow motion and sound. In her recent work she stages situations and introduces fictitious moments into real existing narratives. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, the School of Visual Arts New York, and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. In 2011 Yael Bartana represented Poland in the 54th edition of the Venice Biennial. Bartana’s work has been shown in numerous leading museums and biennials including: the 31st Sao Paulo Biennial (2014); 19th Biennial of Sydney, PAMM (2013); Walker Art Center, Pittsburgh (2013); Carnegie International (2013); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2012); Secession, Vienna (2012); 7th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2012); and the 54th Venice Biennale (2011).

Amanda Beech is an artist and writer. In video, painting, print and sculpture her work proposes art as a form of intelligence and power beyond the ideals of capitalism and the limits that art has set for itself by means of its critiques. Exhibiting internationally shows include Delphic Future, Twelve Ten Gallery, Chicago and the Havana Biennale 2021. Forthcoming work includes a book of philosophy, The Intolerable Image, from MIT.

Mathias Benedek and Emanuel Jauk work in the Department of Psychology at the University of Graz (AT). Senior scientist Benedek and research assistant Jauk are interested in cognitive ability (creativity and intelligence) with a focus on underlying cognitive processes, assessment methodology, training and nurturance issues and neuro-scientific correlates. Their present neuro-scientific study aims to determine brain activation specifically related to the generation of new and creative ideas, in contrast to ideas recalled from memory, during the spontaneous process of idea generation.

Dominique Savitri Bonarjee is an artist, a dancer, a seeker. Her research focuses on embodied knowing within the movement and dance practices of ancient wisdom traditions. In her art practice she innovates unrestrictedly across media and disciplines combining sound, dance, sculpture, electronics, textiles to imagine living artforms through which to contemplate energy, transformation, transduction, and impermanence. Her Art PhD (Goldsmiths University) is entitled Space of the Nameless and proposes a methodology for ‘detaching the I’ to enable polydisciplinary experimentation in the expanded field of dance. She is a qualified Tai Chi Chuan instructor, a Sufi dervish, and a student of Hindustani Classical Music. Her monograph, Butoh, as Heard by a Dancer (Routledge,2024) is an oral account of Butoh’s postwar Japanese origins and legacies, told from a practitioner’s perspective. In a similar vein to Marcel Duchamp's introduction of the 'readymade' into art, in her art, she aspires to stage the human body as a radical vessel of flux—a fountain.

Doro Born holds a PhD in Science and Technology Studies as well as a Master’s degree in Ecology. Their research gravitate around issues of sustainability, science communication and inter- as well as transdisciplinary practices. Apart from coordinating the ASF hub they are also involved in a Sparkling Science project working with primary school children about futures literacy and resource management. Doro also regularly teaches classes at the department for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna, currently about the relation of nature, science and society.

Laura Brechmann works as a theatre scientist and performance artist. She studied "Film- Theater- and Cultural Studies" and "European Literature" in her Bachelor's degree at JGU Mainz and "Scenic Research" at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (M.A.). From 2018 to 2021, she worked as research assistant at JGU Mainz in the field of theater studies. Her research focus is on essay research, artistic methodologies, performance & philosophy and Artistic Research. In addition to her teaching and research activities, she is active as a performance artist in Germany, Austria and Czech Republic. As production director, she has been organizing performative Laboratories on the topic of "Multilingualism" together with dancer Florent Golfier since 2019, most recently at the psycholinguistic institute of TU Dortmund University. In 2017, she initiated the project "In/Out Balance", which performatively explores vertigo as a cultural, political and subjective phenomenon. The individual vertigo episodes are both solo works (monologue) and collaborations with artists* (dialogue) and are dedicated to different aspects of vertigo (e.g. loneliness, deception, loss of orientation). The episodes so far have been created through the support of various production houses and residency formats, including Atelier Automatique (Bochum), Folkwang Museum Essen, Tanzfaktur Cologne, Choreografische Werkstatt Frankfurt and Studio Alta (Prague). From spring 2021 she will continue her dizziness study as part of the PEEK project "Navigating Dizziness Together" (21-23).Laura is an active member of ID Frankfurt, Society of Theatre Studies (GTW), Embodied Research Group and volunteers for climate protection.

Sonja vom Brocke, born in 1980 in Hagen (GER), lives in Berlin. She studied philosophy, German and English studies in Cologne, Hamburg and Paris. She published "Venice singt"‍ (kookbooks, 2015),  „Düngerkind“ (Verlag Peter Engstler, 2018), and most recently: „Mush“ (kookbooks, Oktober 2020).

Katrin Bucher Trantow, born in 1971 in St. Gallen, (CH), lives and works in Graz, (AT). She studied art history and history at the University of Basel. From 2001-03 she worked as assistant curator at Kunsthalle Basel. Since 2003 she has worked as curator at Kunsthaus Graz and since 2016 as its interim director. Selection of curated exhibitions: Katharina Grosse; Berlinde De Bruyckere; Cittadellarte. Sharing Transformation; Michael Kienzer; Measuring the World, Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art; Robot Dreams (with Museum Tinguely, Basel); Life? Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture; Albert Oehlen; China Welcomes You…; M Stadt, European Cityscapes; and Sol LeWitt. She has made numerous contributions to catalogues and other publications, e.g. Camera Austria International, Domus, and Parnass. Katrin Bucher Trantow is a founding member of Translocal, a cooperation network of medium-sized European museums of art.

Michael Butter has been Professor of American Literary and Cultural History at the University of Tübingen since 2014. He received his PhD from the University of Bonn in 2007 and his Habilitation from the University of Freiburg in 2012. He is the author of four monographs: The Epitome of Evil: Hitler in American Fiction, 1939–2002 (New York: Palgrave, 2009), Plots, Designs, and Schemes: American Conspiracy Theories from the Puritans to the Present (Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2014), Der »Washington-Code«: Zur Heroisierung amerikanischer Präsidenten, 1775-1865 (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016), and “Nichts ist, wie es scheint”: Über Verschwörungstheorien (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2018), a German introduction to conspiracy theories aimed at a general audience which was translated into English as The Nature of Conspiracy Theories (London: Polity, 2020). Translations into Portuguese and Polish will be published in 2022.

Maxime le Calvé (Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; maxime.le.calve@hu-berlin.de) is an anthropologist of art and science. His latest ethnographic project explores navigation practices in neurosurgery. As a graphic ethnographer, Maxime uses drawing as a fieldwork method. He trained in ethnology in Paris Nanterre and holds a PhD in social anthropology and theater studies, from EHESS Paris and FU Berlin. He has published on art, music, brains, ethnographic training, and the ethnographic study of atmospheres (Exercices d’ambiances, 2018, Golden Pudel-Ethnographie, forthcoming2024).

Leonardo Caffo is philosopher and writer. Currently he is a Philosopher in Residency at Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art  and former curator of the Public Program at La Triennale Milano and former professor of Ontology at Politecnico, in Turin. He is professor of Philosophy of Art, Art Direction and Philosophy of Fashion at NABA in Milan, and Faculty Member at Made Program (Sicily). His latest book Essere Giovani (2021) is published by Ponte alle Grazie. Forthcoming English book is Human Fragility (Palgrave MacMillan 2022).

Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha is an actress, director and researcher from Brazil. In her theatre and cinema career, she has worked with directors such as Ariane Mnouchkine, Georgette Fadel, Cibele Forjaz, Grace Passô, Eryk Rocha and Heitor Dhalia. For the past 5 years, the artist has developed the Riverbank Project: about rivers, buiúnas and fireflies, an art research dedicated to listening to and amplifying the testimony of Brazilian rivers that are living an experience of catastrophe. The first part was created from the testimony of Araguaia River in 2015: the play Guerrillas or to earth there are no missing persons about the women who fought in the Araguaia Guerrilla Group. After touring Brazil, in 2019 the play was presented in the region where the conflicts actually took place, accompanied by presentations, workshops and debates. In 2019 the second stage of this research project premiered at the Sao Paulo International Theatre Festival. The performance installation Altamira 2042 is created from the testimony of the Rio Xingu about the catastrophe caused by the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam. Currently, Gabriela is working on the finalization of two film projects with the filmmaker Eryk Rocha, as well as the Parimentos exhibition, her latest artistic conception. Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha is the recipient of several international art and research scholarships. In 2019 she won the award for best supporting actress at the Rio Film Festival.

Sebastian Cichocki (PL) is chief curator and head of research at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. In his curatorial and publishing projects, he refers to the history of ecological, feminist and antifascist movements. Selected curated and co-curated exhibitions: Who Will Write the History of Tears. Artists on Reproduction Rights (2021), The Penumbral Age. Art in the Time of Planetary Change (2020), Never Again. Art against War and Fascism in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (2019), Yael Bartana’s ... and Europe will be Stunned, Polish Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition, Venice (2011, with G. Eilat)

‍Marijana Cvetković Marković completed her undergraduate degree in art history at the University of Belgrade and earned her MA in Management in Culture and Cultural Policy at the University of Arts in Belgrade and Université Lyon 2, France. Currently she is a PhD candidate at the University of Arts in Belgrade, focusing on museum management and development. Since 2009 she has taught as a guest lecturer and teaching assistant in the Cultural Management and Cultural Policy program at the University of Arts in Belgrade (UNESCO Chair) where, since 2011 she has also taught in the MA in Performance Researchprogram. Marković has initiated and realized various programs and projects in the fields of cultural policy, international and Balkan cultural cooperation, and contemporary dance and visual arts. She is the co-founder of Station Service for Contemporary and Nomad Dance Academy, a Balkan platform for the development of contemporary dance and performing arts. As a cultural activist she works throughout the independent cultural scenes of Belgrade and Serbia. Her fellowships include: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Central European University, Budapest and Università di Foggia.

Davide Deriu is Reader in Architectural History and Theory at the University of Westminster. His research explores critical intersections between spatial and visual cultures, and is published in journals such as Architectural Theory Review, The Journal of Architecture, and Emotion, Space and Society. Edited works include Emerging Landscapes: Between Production and Representation (Ashgate, 2014). Davide has been awarded grants from the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council, British Academy, Paul Mellon Centre, and Canadian Centre for Architecture, where he also curated the ‘Modernism in Miniature’ exhibition. He’s currently working on a book based on the ‘Vertigo in the City’ project he leads at Westminster.

Jeanne Drach aka Jeanne Nickels is an Austrian-French artist, utopian who travels the world with her band KIDS N CATS, and before that grew up in Algiers, Dakar, New York, Paris, among other places. She is the founder and chief voice of the podcast label OH WOW and has hosted her feminist podcast "Jeanne's Heroines" since 2017.

Sergio Edelsztein was born in 1956 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and studied at Tel Aviv University from 1976-85. Edelsztein founded and directed Artifact Gallery in Tel Aviv (1987-1995). In 1998 he founded The Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv (CCA) where he is director and chief curator. In the framework of the CCA, he curated seven performance art biennials and four International Video Art Biennials-Video Zone. He has also curated numerous experimental and video art screenings, retrospectives, and performance events. Since 1995, Edelsztein has curated exhibitions and video programs in Spain, China, the UK, and other nations, as well as the Israeli exhibition at the 24th São Paulo Bienal in 1998 and the Israeli Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. He has also lectured and written for exhibition catalogues, web sites, and various magazines and journals.

Teboho Edkins (*1980) became well known for his short films and documentary films about life in South Africa after apartheid had ended. Having grown up in Lesotho (his mother is German, his father South African), his films are shaped by a search for borders: between belonging and intrusion, between documenting and fictional storytelling, between film and video art. His work often reflects on processes of creativity, filmmaking and life. His films and projects have already been presented internationally and received international prizes. In 2014, he won the main prize of the International Jury at the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen for his film Gangster Backstage.

Olafur Eliasson was born in 1967. He grew up in Iceland and Denmark, where he studied from 1989 to 1995 at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1995, he moved to Berlin and founded Studio Olafur Eliasson, which today comprises a large team of craftsmen, architects, archivists, researchers, administrators, cooks, programmers, art historians, and specialised technicians. known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. He is well known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience.

Tim Etchells is an artist and a writer based in the UK. He has worked in a wide variety of contexts, notably as leader of the world-renowned performance group Forced Entertainment and in collaboration with a range of visual artists, choreographers, and photographers. His work spans performance, video, photography, text projects, installation and fiction. He is currently Professor of Performance & Writing at Lancaster University.

Gareth Evans is a writer, curator, and presenter, and the film curator at Whitechapel Gallery. He creates the program for PLACE, the annual cross-platform festival at Aldeburgh Music and is Co-Director of Production Agency at Artevents. He has curated numerous film and event seasons across the UK. He conceived and curated the major London season John Berger: Here is Where We Meet in 2005, co-curated All Power to the Imagination! 1968 and its Legacies in 2008, and co-curated Chris Marker’s first UK retrospective in 2014. He produced the essay film Patience (After Sebald) by Grant Gee as part of his nationwide arts project The Re-Enchantment (2008–2011) and currently has three long-form works in production. He also edits Artesian and runs Go Together Press. At present he is working on the major project City, Religion, Capitalism: Turning Points for Civilisation with Alexander Kluge, positing that these three concepts are essential to an understanding of contemporary societies, inextricably linked with one another, and are central catalysts in the history of civilization. Kluge and Richard Sennett will introduce their new project at Whitechapel Gallery, including discussions, three new feature-length essay films and an eight-hour epic.

Yael Eylat Van Essen is a researcher and curator specializing in the interface between art, design, science and technology and museology. She curated numerous exhibitions in Israel and abroad, among them for the Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale for Architecture. Her research interests include digital heritage and museology, digital culture theory, new-media art, post-photography, resilience studies and speculative design. She is a senior lecturer in the Design Faculty at HIT Holon Institute of Technology and teaches at Tel Aviv University, and she is currently on a research residency at MUSeum+ in the Czech Republic.

‍Karoline Feyertag is a cultural worker and philosopher currently employed by the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Her research interests focus on the aporias and ambiguities of becoming(-human, -different, et cetera). Recently, she facilitated the edition of two anthologies, Music and Democracy, and Knowing in Performing (both 2021). Since 2014, Karoline has been working together with Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond on their research-creation evolving around Dizziness. She is also the co-author of the reader Dizziness-A Resource (2019) and author of the monograph Sarah Kofman. Eine Biographie (2014).

Rainer Fuchs lives in Vienna (AT) and is an art historian and Chief Curator and Deputy Director at MUMOK, Vienna. Exhibitions he has curated include: Exhibition (1994), Self Construction (1996), Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1998), Lois Weinberger (1999), Public Rituals – Video/Art from Poland (2003), Christian Hutzinger (2004), John Baldessari (2005), Ryan Gander (2006), Keren Cytter (2007), Mind Expander (2008), Painting: Process and Expansion (2010), Aktionsraum 1 (2011), Dan Flavin (2012), Poesie der Reduktion (2013), Marge Monko (2013), and Space and Reality (2014). He has contributed to various publications on modernism and contemporary art, including monographs, catalogues, and art reviews.

Ruth Gadish was born in 1966 in Haifa, Israel. She lives and works in both Tel Aviv and Paris.

Dani Gal (1975, Jerusalem) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at Bezalel Academy for Art and Design in Jerusalem, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule in Frankfurt and in Cooper Union in New York. His films and installations have been shown at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), Istanbul Biennale (2011), New Museum New York (2012), Kunsthalle St. Gallen Switzerland (2013), The Jewish Museum New York (2014), Berlinale Forum Expanded (2014), Kunsthaus Zurich (2015) Kunsthalle Wien (2015), Documenta 14 (2017), Centre Pompidou (2018) and at Club TransMediale Festival Berlin (2020). In 2019 he was artist-in-residence with Blood Mountain. Projects and research fellows at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute. dani-gal.com

María Auxiliadora Gálvez (Córdoba, Spain. 1973) is architect by E.T.S.A.M (1998), PhD in Architecture since 2012, and Landscaper. She is also a teacher of the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education by the Feldenkrais Institute (2018). Since 2016, she has directed the “Platform of Somatics for Architecture and Landscape” (PSAAP) and its associated Laboratory (LSAAP). She is professor at the Institute of Technology of the U.S.P - C.E.U in Madrid, Spain. In parallel she develops workshops, doctorate programs, seminars or happenings all around the world. She has been distinguished in national and international urban and architectural contests, highlighting the VI, VII and IX editions of EUROPAN. Her work has been published and exhibited worldwide featuring her presence in the 8th and 16th Venice Architecture Biennale. Nowadays she works challenging and transforming the role, definition and performance of design developing the potentials of SOMATIC ARCHITECTURE within a more-than-human world.

Florent Golfier is a performer, clown-activist and choreographer. He studied acting in Nancy and dance, clown and physical theater at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. Together with Lukáš Karásek, Marie Gourdain and Zuzana Režná, he founded the performing art collective tYhle, he has co-created nine performances as a choreographer or performer. He has worked with choreographers such as Karine Ponties, Kitt Johnson, Vít Nezval, Linda and Mathias Straub and Ondřej Holba. As an artist, he aims to connect with the fragility we all share, and from which we draw inspiration, honesty and power, and help others to accept it as a precious part of ourselves. Based on this artistic approach, Florent searches for ways to connect initiatives across disciplines in order to work on acknowledgment and clarification of our present and future identities.

Iseult Grandjean is a journalist, writer, and researcher living in Vienna, Austria. Iseult is currentlyworking on a doctoral dissertation on heat & global warming in contemporary literature. Shewould consider herself an existentialist, although she doesn’t smoke.

Jojo Gronostay is a german artist with ghanaian roots. In his conceptual work he is dealing with questions of identity, platforms, recycling and the in-between. Furthermore Gronostay’s works engages systems that interrogate relationships between Europe and Africa. He explores concepts of value and economy as well as spiritual human and material exchange, as they perform in different social contexts. He studied Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Martin Guttmann and at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Gronostays is represented by Gallery Hubert Winter and the founder of Dead Mans White Clothes, an interdisciplinary clothing label

David Grubbs is Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. At Brooklyn College he also teaches in the MFA programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) and Creative Writing. He is the author of The Voice in the Headphones; Now that the audience is assembled; and Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (all published by Duke University Press) and, with Anthony McCall, Simultaneous Soloists (Pioneer Works Press). Grubbs has released fourteen solo albums and appeared on more than 190 commercially-released recordings. Grubbs is known for his cross-disciplinary collaborations with poet Susan Howe and visual artists Angela Bulloch and Anthony McCall, among others. His collaborations with Susan Howe appear on four CD releases and have been presented in performance at MoMA, the Southbank Centre (London), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Cambridge University, Harvard University, and Yale University’s Beinecke Library. 

Jack Halberstam is the David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYUPress, 2005),The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of GenderVariance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book, 2020 from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled: Unworlding: An Aesthetics of Collapse. Halberstam was recently the subject of a short film titled “So We Moved” by Adam Pendleton. Halberstam was recently named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.

Oliver Hangl was born in Grieskirchen (AT) and is a performance/media artist. He originally started his career as actor and stage designer in 1993, is just as active in performative disciplines and media spaces as in fine arts exhibition sites. His works mark a consistent confrontation between man and environment. Hangl pushes at the boundaries between physical and psychological spaces. His work takes place in real and fictional settings. With the public space as his stage he playfully embeds a site and context-responsive set of experiences and interactions for both planned and incidental audiences.

Katrin Heinlein (Mikrodruck) is a Graphic design student and screen print enthusiast from Vienna working on collaborative projects as well as on independent ideas in the visual realm. Into lots of colors, organic shapes and funky imagery with focus on a research-based foundation.‍

Henry Hills was born in Atlanta, Georgia (US). He is an experimental filmmaker who lives in New York, Vienna, and Prague. In 1978 he earned a M.F.A. in filmmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he studied with James Broughton, George Kuchar and Hollis Frampton. Upon moving to New York, he began an association with the ‘Language Poets’ and with the first-generation, downtown improvised music scene. Hills has made more than twenty-two short experimental films since 1975, including: GEORGE (1976), PORTER SPRINGS 3 (1977), KINO DA! (1981), RADIO ADIOS (1982), MONEY (1985), LITTLE LIEUTENANT (1994), PORTER SPRINGS 4 (1999), KING RICHARD (2004), FAILED STATES (2008), and arcana (2010). He has frequently collaborated with composer John Zorn and choreographer Sally Silvers and directed several music videos for Zorn’s band Naked City. He is currently a professor at the film academy FAMU in Prague since 2005, where he manages the film program for the National Film Archive and administers a visiting-filmmaker program funded by the Trust for Mutual Understanding. His work is represented in the permanent collections of MOMA, New York Public Library, Austrian Film Museum, Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archive, Rocky Mountain Film Center, Archives du Film Experimental d’Avignon, Arsenal Berlin, Lux London, San Francisco Art Institute, Bard College, California Institute of the Arts, University of Pennsylvania, SUNY Binghamton, and Wayne State University. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009.

Christian Hoffelner is a graphic designer and potter, writer and editor. He holds a master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Technology, Graz, and graduated in Book Design/Graphic Design from the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig. Currently he’s Senior Lecturer for Typography at the University of Art and Design Linz (Kunstuniversität Linz). CH Studio is a micro­scale atelier founded by Christian Hoffelner in 2009. The studio works for private and institutional clients, collaboratively and academically as well as a project self­initiator – all the while focusing on typography and printed matter. The research platform is located at: http://www.ch-studio.net/ab11/.

Leo Hosp moved to Vienna in 2022 to continue their research on the practice of queering. Leo studied their BA of Sociology and MSc of Social Ecology in Vienna. After that they decided to move to Southern Sweden to study the BfA of Visual Communication + Change and work as an artistic research assistant. This combination of different fields disembogues in an interest in the intersections of art, visual communication, science, society, and sustainability. Leo’s research circles around the topics of intersectionality, queer(ing), space, belonging, and bodies. Their main tools of thinking and working methods are (creative) writing, performance, moving and still image collaging, and experimental film making. From September 2022 on, they contribute to Navigating Dizziness Together, investigating connections, parallels, or frictions between dizziness and queering.

Charlotte Hug is a Swiss born multimedia artist known for her innovative musical/visual solo performances for voice and viola, and for her interdisciplinary “Son-Icons” or sound-drawings. Having completed her studies in fine art and music, she received a plethora of awards including artistic residences in cities including London, Paris, Berlin, and Johannesburg and also became “artiste étoile” at the Lucerne Festival 2011. Alongside her activities in international exhibitions, Hug is fully active as a concert performer, soloist, composer, and conductor of her own works at major festivals in Europe, Africa, North America, Latin America, and Canada. She has collaborated with international greats, such as the photographer and filmmaker Alberto Venzago and theatre and opera director Jossie Wieler. As a concert performer, she has appeared with artists including Joan Jeanrenaud from Kronos Quartet, Maggie Nicols, Barry Guy, Phil Minton, Larry Ochs, Evan Parker, and Elliott Sharp.

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Cameron Jamie was born 1969 in Los Angeles (US). He is an artist whose practice encompasses film, performance, photography, drawing, and sculpture. Jamie often examines European and American societies through their specific ritualistic practices.

Ann Veronica Janssens is a contemporary visual artist who works primarily in light. She was born in 1956 in Folkestone, England. She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Her work has been exhibited in multiple solo exhibitions, including Serendipity at WIELS, Brussels; Are you experienced in Espai d’Art Con-temporani de Castelló; the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris; the CCA Wattis Insti-tute in San Francisco; the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham; the Kunsthalle Bern; MAC in Marseille; the Venice Biennale; Carriageworks in Sydney. Her œuvre is represented in numerous large public and private collections.

Anna Jermolaewa was born in St.Petersburg, Russia is an artist based in Vienna, Austria since 1989. In her videos, photographs, and installations, she analyzes social interrelations and political circumstances as they appear in everyday life. The subtle humor of her works reveals the effects of history and power manifested in the individual’s experience. She graduated from the University of Vienna with a master’s degree in art history in 2002 and also earned a masters degree at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Painting & Graphic Art/New Media. From 2005-11 she was a professor of media art at the University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe. In her videos, photographs, and installations, she analyzes social interrelations and political circumstances as they appear in everyday life. The subtle humor of her works reveals the effects of history and power manifested in the individual’s experience. Her work is held in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, MUMOK-Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Volpinum Kunstsammlung, MUSA, Museum auf Abruf, Vienna, Tiroler Landesmuseums Ferdinandeum, Vehbi Koc Foundation, Kontakt-The Art Collection of Erste Group, Belvedere, Landesgalerie Linz, Wien Museum, Collection of Bank Austria, and EVN Collection and Arbeiterkammer Wien.

Jonna Josties (Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; jonna.josties@hu-berlin.de) is a PhD candidate in Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institute for European Ethnology. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the Bay Area and the Berlin tech world. During her field studies, she was a visiting scholar at the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation focuses on the emergence and adaptation of the concept of the ecosystem in economic reasoning.

François Jullien, born in 1951, is a French philosopher and Sinologist. Jullien is Professor of Chinese Philosophy and Literature at the University of Paris VII, Director of Institute Marcel Granet, and Director of Institute de la Pensée Contemporaine, Paris. He received the 2010 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought, and the Grand Prix de Philosophie of the Académie Française for his body of work in 2011. His work reevaluates the foundations of European thought, prioritizing the constitution of exteriority. Recent publications include: Les Transformations silencieuses (2009), L’écart et l’entre. Leçon inaugurale de la Chaire sur l’altérité (2012), and Vivre de paysage ou L’impensé de la Raison (2014).

Harald Katzmair is a social scientist, management philosopher and entrepreneur. He brings a visionary understanding of network science and resilience theory to the fields of leadership, decision making, and business development. He is the director and founder of FASresearch, established in 1995. FASresearch is a social network analytics and strategies firm located in Vienna and Brussels, with two decades of cross-industry experience in applying the science of networks and resilience. Harald Katzmair and his international team of scientists and consultants have developed a unique and proprietary set of tools and technologies to empower decision makers in the areas of influencer mapping, executive networking, robust decision making, storytelling and framing, stakeholder engagement, and social change to navigate through the increasing complexities of a world in transformation.

Anna Kim is a writer and essayist based in Vienna. Her publications include: Die gefrorene Zeit. Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz 2008; Invasionen des Privaten, Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz 2011; Anatomie einer Nacht. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012; Der sichtbare Feind. Die Gewalt des Öffentlichen und das Recht auf Privatheit, Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten 2015; Die große Heimkehr. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2017. For the Research Project “Navigating Dizziness Together” she will write a novel about Anderwald + Grond's Artist's Novel.

Bogna Kietlińska a researcher at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, Department of Culture Research Methods, University of Warsaw. Publications (selected): Sidewalks as spaces of con–flict [Chodniki jako przestrzenie konfliktów], in: So–cietas / Communitas, 2 –1 (18 –1) 2014, pp. 243 – 247.; Multi–sensory Warsaw – a proposal for qualitative research,[Warszawa wielozmysłowa – propozycja badań jakościowych] in: Research practices [Praktyki badawcze], Barbara Fatyga, Magdalena Dudkiewicz, Bogna Kietlińska (eds.).Warszawa: ISNS UW, 2013, pp. 27 – 36,. Using quantitative methods to research the sensory perception of a city [Badanie zmysłowe–go odbioru miasta za pomocą metod jakościowych], in: ‘Science and Higher Education’ [Nauka i Szkol–nictwo Wyższe], Helena Jędrzejczak, Bogna Kietlińs–ka, Anna Klimczak (eds.), 1 / 41 / 2013, pp. 131 –142,; Looking and seeing. The role of competence in the perception of a city [Patrzenie a widzenie. Rola kompetencji w odbiorze miasta], in: ‘Zeszyty arty–styczne’, no. 24, pp. 89 – 96, October 2013,; Katarzy–na Kalinowska, MA (co–author, ISNS UW), Creators of an invisible city –engagement profiles [Twórcy niewidzialnego miasta – profile zaangażowania], in: Invisible City [Niewidzialne Miasto], Marek Krajew–ski (ed.). Warszawa: The Bęc Zmiana Foundation Publishing, 2012, pp. 247 – 265,; Invisible–urban aes–thetics [Niewidzialnomiejskie estetyki], in: Invisible City [Niewidzialne Miasto], Marek Krajewski (ed.). Warszawa: The Bęc Zmiana Foundation Publishing, 2012, pp. 147 –156.

Astrid S. Klein has been working translocally with protagonists from the African continent, the African diasporas, the Caribbean, and Europe since 2005, jointly creating many-voiced, sustainable projects. Her research is focused on the decentering of one’s own thinking, on the fostering of new relationships through different knowledge, and on opportunities for collective action. Her investigations trace connections and paths which intend to depart from the 'colonial library' (V.Y. Mudimbe) and to permit vibrant, non-essentialist neighborhoods of multiple worlds. For her research, Astrid S. Klein has received numerous grants and fellowships. Her works have been shown at various venues, including Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Berlin), Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst (Berlin), Heidelberger Kunstverein (Heidelberg), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart), Wien Modern (Vienna), Le Plateau (Paris), Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration (Paris), Apexart (New York), Anthology Film Archives (New York), Doual’art (Douala), Goethe-Institut Yaoundé (Cameroon), Accra (Ghana), Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), and CCA Lagos (Nigeria). www.crossing-boundaries-of-doubt.net

‍Joachim Koester, born 1962 in Copenhagen (DK), lives and works in Copenhagen and New York. His documentary films, photograph series, and books bring together collective memory and fiction. Micro-events, the invisible, and erasure form the subject matter of an oeuvre that focuses on the mental exploration of the subconscious. For the past ten years, Koester has explored alternatives to rational consciousness in his work. In his research, he calls attention to exceptional individuals who have developed corporal experimentation as the means of accessing knowledge. Koester’s numerous exhibitions include: The Magic Mirror of John Dee, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2006); Venice Biennale 2005 (The Danish Pavilion with Gitte Villesen, Peter Land, Ann Lislegaard & Eva Koch); Documenta 10, Kassel (1997); and Reptile Brain or Reptile Body, It’s Your Animal, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013).

Gerald Koller became director of a drug consultation center by the age of twenty-six. He launched one of the first Austrian initiatives in the field of social medicine and prevention. However, it was only after encountering prisoners with drug addiction that he realized the shortcomings of his work, namely that he was only combating the behavioral symptoms of the addict rather than the root cause. Gerald then decided to quit his job to start addressing these causes of addictive behavior. He pioneered Austria’s field of addiction prevention by founding the country’s first drug addiction prevention agency. Based on his growing expertise, he was asked to develop prevention methods throughout Austria and Europe. His wide range of experience, knowledge, and scientific expertise led him, in 2000, to launch his risk management approach, the Risk and Fun program. Koller has had significant success in shifting both young people’s behavioral awareness related to risk, as well as radically changing communication and learning structures between decision makers, educators, and young people.

Helga Köcher is an Austrian artist with a particular interest in social issues and structures. She is also a manager of multidisciplinary projects, focusing on cultural studies. Her work includes researching artist and scientist networks in order to create “social sculptures” as well as photography projects. She is also a mother of four children.
Köcher has worked as a painter, journalist, art critic, marketing specialist, curator, and moderator. She is also a passionate entrepreneur and co-founded an alternative school for children aged 10–14 years. She also founded the following projects: Brücken für den Frieden (Bridges for Peace), ATTAC Austria, Emergence of Projects (eop), and ViennAvant.

Dr. Gal Kronenberg is a mathematician working in the areas of combinatorics and graph theory, probability theory, and the interface between them. She received her Phd from Tel Aviv University in 2019, and she is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Oxford. She is a feminist and is actively involved in promoting women in mathematics. She served as the head of the TWIM (Tel Aviv University, Women in Maths) organisation.

Rebekka Ladewig is a cultural history and media theory scholar based in Berlin and Weimar. In 2012, she received her PhD from the Department of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-University Berlin. She held research positions at the Cluster of Excellence »Image Knowledge Gestaltung« at Humboldt-University and at the Faculty of Media at Bauhaus-University Weimar. Between 2018 and 2020, she was Adjunct Professor for »History and Theory of Cultural Techniques« at Bauhaus-University, and in 2020/21 she held a Visiting Professorship at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at University of Vienna. She is a founding member and co-editor of the journal ilinx. Berliner Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft and the book series ilinx-Kollaborationen, published by Spector Books, Leipzig. Currently, she completes a monograph on Michael Polanyi, Alan M. Turing and the origins of tacit knowing in the light of digitalization. She also pursues a research project on the cultural history of bow and arrow, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and affiliated with the Bauhaus-University Weimar.

Viktor Landström was born in 1984. He is a contemporary visual artist, who originates from Sweden. His work often consists of found images, texts and videos. These form a polyphonic collage that evokes contradiction and confusion. He is living and working in Sweden.

Michael Landy (born 1963) is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He is best known for the performance piece installation Break Down (2001), in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the Art Bin project (2010) at the South London Gallery. On 29 May 2008, Landy was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum and the New York Times, among others. She teaches critical journalism at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life.”

Efva Lilja is a Swedish artist, choreographer, and researcher with a global reach. Her choreographed events challenge and offer new visions for creating a reality where political activities and everyday action can be questioned and reformulated. Her award-winning works, often seen as controversial and trailblazing, have been presented in forty countries. Many people know her as a driving force for developing artistic research in the European context since the 90-ies. Efva Lilja is also an author and a lecturer in great demand worldwide. www.efvalilja.se

Jarosław Lubiak is artistic director at Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland. He also teaches at Art College in Szczecin. In his work as a curator and art critic he focuses on crossings between contemporary art, philosophy and social sphere,aesthetics and politics, art institution and political economy. He recently curated Slavs and Tatars: Mouth to Mouth, Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw in 2016–2017; The State of Life: Polish Contemporary Art within the Global Context in National Art Museum of China, Beijing in 2015. He was a member of a curatorial team of Europe (to the power of) (2012–2013) — the project led by Goethe Institute, London and co–realized by ten partners in Europe and China and of Scenarios about Europe (2011–2012)— at Museum of Contemporary Art in Leipzig, Germany. He also curated with Małgorzata Ludwisiak Correspondances: Modern art and Universalism juxtaposing and interweaving the collections of the Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz and of the Hermann and Magrit Rupf Foundation/Kunstmuseum, Bern in 2012. The books he recently edited include: The State of Life. Polish Contemporary Art within the Global Context (Beijing: National Art Museum of China, People’s Fine Art Publishing House, 2015), Unleashed Forces: Angelika Markul and Contemporary Demonism (Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 2013); Correspondances: Modern art and Universalism, with Małgorzata Ludwisiak (Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 2012); The Afterimages of Life: Władysław Strzemiński and the Rights for Art (Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 2012).

Ruth Mateus-Berr is an artist, artist-researcher and Professor for Art and Design Education at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Ruth has published several articles and books contributing to the fields of art and design, arts and design-based research, inter-/transdisciplinarity, health and education. Since 2016, she has been working on dementia research in the field of art and has conducted the artistic research projects Dementia Arts Society (FWF AR-366) and demedarts (FWF AR-609) funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

‍Michael Marker was born in 1974 in Vienna (AT), where he currently lives and works. He studied philosophy, history, and medical studies at the University of Vienna. Marker worked as a research associate on the study Effect of specific versus nonspecific beta-blocade and aspirin on platelet function following maximal exercise at AKH Vienna. He currently works as a dermatologist and venereologist at the KA Rudolfstiftung Vienna.

Michał Matuszewski is film curator, exhibitor and author working at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art where he oversees the film programme and runs regular art–house cinema with daily screenings and various programmes – from experimental films to midnight movies. He curated several film events and retrospectives. He studied Polish Literature and Lin–guistics and used to work as a film journalist. He was a member of international juries (Venice and Berlin). Now he is working on many new projects including a Chris Marker retrospective, a VR cinema project and non–human perspective in cinema.

Philippe-Alain Michaud is Curator at the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou in charge of the collection of films, Professor at ERG, (Ecole de Recherche Graphique) Brussels and Visiting Professor at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, since 2008. He is the author of Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion (Zone Books, 2002 and Macula 2012), Le peuple des images (Desclée de Brouwer, 2004), Sur le film (Macula, 2016) and has written extensively on the relations between film and visual arts. He has curated a number of exhibitions among which : Comme le rêve le dessin (Musée du Louvre/Centre Pompidou, 2004), Le mouvement des images (Centre Pompidou, 2006), Nuits électriques (Musée, de la photographie, Moscou and Laboral (Gijon, Spain) 2007, Tapis volants (Villa Medici, Rome and Les Abattoirs, Toulouse) 2010, Images sans fin, Brancusi photographie, film (Centre Pompidou, 2012, with Clément Cheroux and Quentin Bajac), Beat Generation (Centre Pompidou, 2016, with Rani Singh and Jean-Jacques Lebel).

Matti Mintz PhD. is a psycho-biologist and professor at the School of Psychological Sciences, Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is fascinated by the topic of balance in terms of its obvious control of movement and its magic regulation of emotional states. He is a leading innovator, by collaborating with engineers from across Israel and the European Union he has developed a nano-device – a small robot – to stimulate damaged brain tissue. He has successfully implanted this „robotic cerebellum“ in a brain-damaged rodent, restoring communications between its brain and body, while active. This research has the potential to eventually develop nano-devices that will restore mobility and speech to people who can no longer walk and talk.

Jonathan Monk was born in Leicester in 1969 and lives and works in Berlin. He has a BFA from Leicester Polytechnic (1988) and an MFA from Glasgow School of Art (1991). Solo exhibitions have been held at the CCA Tel Aviv, Israel (2019); Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany (2019); Vox, Montreal, Canada (2017) and others. Monk replays, recasts and re-examines seminal works of Conceptual and Minimal art by variously witty, ingenious and irreverent means. Through wall paintings, monochromes, ephemeral sculpture and photography he reflects on the tendency of contemporary art to devour references, simultaneously paying homage to figures such as Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman and Lawrence Weiner, while demystifying the creative process. Monk is constantly asking ‘what next?’.

Laurel Nakadate born in 1975 is an American video artist, filmmaker, and photographer living in New York City. Her videos, photographs, and sculptures challenge conventional notions of propriety, volition, and gender roles. Nakadate was featured in MoMA PS1’s 2005 survey of emerging artists, Greater New York and she had a solo show at the museum in 2011. In 2009, Nakadate directed her first feature-length film, Stay the Same Never Change.

Philippe Narval was raised in the Austrian Lake District. After receiving a scholarship, he completed his secondary education at the Lester B. Pearson United World College in Canada and holds university degrees from Kings College London and the University of Oxford. He spent several years of his professional life living and working in in the arts and in international development in Eastern Europe, South America and the Middle East. In March 2012, he assumed the role of managing director of the European Forum Alpbach. He writes and lectures on issues related to renewing our democracy and citizen participation. In 2018 his book “Die Freundliche Revolution” (“The friendly revolution”) was published on the topic; portraying a number of successful democratic innovations all across Europe.

Anders Nyqvist was born in 1977 in Sweden and started playing the trumpet at the age of ten. After high school he was offered a scholarship to study music at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, where he continued studying the trumpet. After three years in Hong Kong, he continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he was able to study and perform with some of the great orchestras and artists of our time. He became a member of Klangforum Wien in 2004. For Anders, the opportunity to work with composers, develop new sounds, and be part of the creative process is an essential ingredient of music making. He has performed internationally both as a soloist and with chamber-music ensembles at many major festivals and concert venues. As a soloist, he has performed with ensembles and orchestras such as Klangforum Wien, DSO Berlin, RSO Wien, and the NÖ Tonkünstler Orchester. In 2009, when the subject “Performance Practice in Contemporary Music” was made part of the official curriculum, he started teaching the trumpet at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz; and from 2011 also at the University of Music in Vienna. He also regularly conducts master classes in Europe and Asia. Composers such as Matthias Pintscher, Bernhard Gander, Bernhard Lang and Pierluigi Billone, Dai Fujikura, Nina Senk, Roland Freisitzer and Jorge Sanchez-Chiong have written numerous pieces especially for him.

Jo O’Brien is an artist, educator, and researcher whose work explores the queer-crip potential of confusion as both a form of resistance and call for collaboration. Their artistic research practice includes material and social forms of art-making, and access-oriented pedagogy and community building in the University context. Jo’s work is often collaborative, and their pedagogical research has been supported through fellowships and grants. Their doctoral project at the University of Applied Arts Vienna examines the relationship between legibility and illegibility, confusion, and community. Jo is also a Lecturer in the Faculty of Culture and Community at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Vivian Ostrovsky is an artist and curator and lives everywhere. She studied psychology and film studies at the Paris 3-Sorbonne and the Cinemathèque Française and is mainly interested in avant-garde works and documentaries. During the 1970s, she organized women’s film festivals and distributed films made by women (Cine-Femmes International). Her films have been shown in festivals (Toronto, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, Tribeca, Viennale etc), cinematheques, art fairs (São Paulo Biennale and Arco, Madrid), and at: MoMA, NY; Lincoln Center, NY; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Anthology Film Archives, NY; and Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA.

Trevor Paglen is an artist and geographer who explores and documents invisible infrastructures, ranging from secret corporate and government sites to networks known through technologies of non-human, machine vision. Paglen’s work spans through image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering and numerous other disciplines. Among Paglen’s chief concerns are learning how to see the historical moment we live in and developing the means to imagine alternative futures. Paglen’s work has had one-person exhibitions at Vienna Secession, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Van Abbe Museum, Frankfurter Kunstverein, and Protocinema Istanbul, and participated in group exhibitions the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern and numerous other venues. Paglen holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley.

Philippe Parreno, born 1964 in Oran, Algeria, and raised in Grenoble, France, Parreno now lives and works in Paris. He creates site-specific installations that transform their environments and examine the ways in which meaning can be made—particularly the passage of time, memory, and non-linguistic methods of storytelling. Parreno frequently collaborates with other artists and cinematographers. Parreno’s films can start anywhere—during a conversation with a friend, from an observation made during a soccer game—but nearly always follow a single person or idea. In 2019, Parreno was commissioned to create a site-specific environment at MoMA. Using motorized sculptures, video animation, light, and sound, he exhibited a series of interconnected objects comprising a being named “Echo,” which inhabits the Museum.

Alice Pechriggl is an Austrian philosopher and social scientist. She is the co-founder of the Gender Initiativ Kolleg at the University of Vienna. In 2003 she took up her post as a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. Pechriggl is part of the international interdisciplinary research network Social Imaginary and Creation, connecting the arts and cultural studies, organized by Association Castoriadis (Paris), and IMEC (Caen, Paris Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Columbia University New York, Université d’Ottawa, Université Paris 7-Diderot, University Södertörn of Stockholm and Université Saint-Louis-Bruxelles).

Jonathan Pouthier, born in 1983, has been in charge of programming at the film department of the National Museum of Modern Art Centre Pompidou, Paris since 2012. He has curated several extensive film programs such as Back to East: The Croatian Avant-Garde(2012), Film Culture (2013), Shirley Clarke: An American Experience (2013), Common Places (2014) and Duchamp as Film (2014). Graduating from LA FEMIS (Ecole nationale supérieure des métiers de l’image et du son), his research focus is on cinema exhibition and distribution practices inside the museum network. He was in charge of acquisitions for Co-production Office Berlin and part of the curatorial project KOW Berlin Galerie from 2010 to 2012.

Rohde-BeSB is an independent engineering office involved in all aspects of architectural and technical acoustics, sound system design, and audio technologies. Together with its German partner BeSB GmbH Berlin, it also offers consulting services in the fields of building physics and vibration control. The office focuses on special problems and complex tasks, thus achieving national and international recognition. It has cooperated in research projects with TU Graz and Joanneum Research. Due to the wide spectrum of skills of its expert team – ranging from engineering and architecture to music and IT – it offers problem specific solutions for every project.

Robert Prosser, born in 1983 in Tyrol (AT), is an author and anthropologist. In Innsbruck and Vienna, he studied comparative literature and cultural and social anthropology. Prosser has spent time in Asia, England, Africa, and most recently the Balkans. His publications include the novel Geister und Tattoos or “Ghosts and Tattoos” published by Klever Publishing in 2013. Prosser has received numerous awards including the 2014 Literarisches Colloquium Berlin literary scholarship, Reinhard-Priessnitz-Award 2014, and the Grenzgänger-Scholarship by Robert-Bosch-Stiftung 2014. For more information, see his website at www.robertprosser.at.

Ursula Prutsch studied at the University of Graz and the University of Vienna. She is author of the monographs “Eva Perón. Leben und Sterben einer Legende” (2015), “Brasilien. Eine Kulturgeschichte” (together with Enrique Rodrigues-Moura) (2013), “Iberische Diktaturen. Portugal unter Salazar, Spanien unter Franco” (2012), and “Creating Good Neighbors”. Die Kultur- und Wirtschaftspolitik der USA in Lateinamerika, 1940-1946.” She co-edited books on Brazil, movies in Latin America, emigration from the Habsburg Monarchy to the Americas and Inter-American relations. Currently she is working on a monograph on Populism the United States and Latin America from the late 19th to the 21st century. In her research she is generally interested in relations between state and civil society, power and resistance, the influence of European ideologies such as fascism in the Americas, and biographies of contradictory personalities such as Eva Perón in Argentina.

Oliver Ressler produces installations, projects in public space, and films on issues such as economics, democracy, global warming, forms of resistance and social alternatives. Solo exhibitions: Berkeley Art Museum, USA; Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Egypt; Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo – CAAC, Seville; MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; SALT Galata, Istanbul. Ressler is the first price winner of the Prix Thun for Art and Ethics Award in 2016. www.ressler.at

Monika Rinck lives in Berlin and Vienna. Together with Orsolya Kalász she translates literature and poetry from Hungarian to German. Furthermore, she cooperates with musicians and composers, and is Professor of Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In spring 2019, she published CHAMPAGNER FÜR DIE PFERDE with Fischer Verlag, her latest poetry publication ALLE TÜREN with kookbooks, as well as the poetical lecture WIRKSAME FIKTIONEN with Wallstein Verlag and HEIDA HEIDA HE! with Wunderhorn Verlag.

Shifra Sagy is the director of the Martin Springer Center for Conflict Studies and its multidisciplinary graduate program of conflict management and resolution. As an emeritus professor of psychology in the Department of Education at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, her primary research interests include salutogenesis and coping and adjustment to stressors. She is involved in political psychology studies concerning the historical and political consciousness among children, adolescents and adults. In the past decades, Shifra has been engaged in peace education in the Palestinian – Israeli context at all levels – teaching, lecturing, writing, researching, participating and initiating dialogue workshops.

Katja Schechter is an Urban Scientist at OECD and MIT and recent Finalist at Fast Company Award 2018 World Changing Ideas with the project ADB Pedicab - Buddha Pedal Power. She works as an Urban Scientist at OECD in Paris, as a researcher at MIT Media Lab and as a speaker and consultant across Asia, Europe and the US. With homes in Vienna, Paris and Boston, she is a global urban nomad, bringing together people and bridging cultures - in science, finance and arts.

Ariel Schlesinger, born 1980 in Jerusalem, is an artist who lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City. His diverse body of work navigates Schlesinger’s installations often dislocate everyday objects, rearranging them in ways that leave viewers simultaneously amused and apprehensive. In 2017, Schlesinger won an international competition to design a public work for the entrance of the newly renovated Jewish Museum in

Elisabeth Schlögl, born 1987 in Bad Radkersburg (AT). Elisabeth Schlögl studied History of Art at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz. Since 2014 she has been working at the Kunsthaus Graz as an Assistant Curator.

Basak Senova is a curator and designer. She studied Literature and Graphic Design (MFA in Graphic Design and Ph.D. in Art, Design and Architecture at Bilkent University) and attended the 7th Curatorial Training Programme of Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam. As an assistant professor, she lectured in various universities in Turkey and in 2017 she was the resident fellow at the University of the Arts, Helsinki in co-operation with HIAP and Associate Professorship by the Higher Education Council of Turkey. Senova has been writing on art, technology and media, initiating and developing projects and curating exhibitions since 1995. She is one of the founding members of NOMAD, as well as the organizer of "ctrl_alt_del" sound art project and "Upgrade!Istanbul". Senova was the curator of the Pavilion of Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Senova completed a long-term research-based art project CrossSections that took place in Vienna, Helsinki, and Stockholm (2017- 2019). At the moment she is running a research-based educational programme "The Octopus Programme" at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien).

Chen Sheinberg is an experimental filmmaker and video artist. Sheinberg’s work has been exhibited internationally in both film festivals and on art platforms, among them: the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2011), Werkleitz Film Festival (2011), Würzburg Film Festival (2012), the International Kansk Video Festival (2015), and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2015). His work has been exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013) and at the Austrian Film Museum (2015). His solo/group exhibitions include: Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2001), Haifa Museum of Art (2006), Minshar Gallery in Tel Aviv (2008), The Israeli Center for Digital Art (2001 & 2003). His films are included in the collection of the Haifa Museum of Art.
He is Curator of Experimental Cinema at the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Tel Aviv and curates avant-garde film programs at the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Cinematheques since 2008. His documentary and experimental films The Top Hat Carriers (1998), Kobi Or(2000), and Ketty (2006) were shown at cinematheques in Israel and broadcasted on Israeli television. He studied in the Tel Aviv University Department of Film and Television M.F.A program and graduated with high honors.
He is a lecturer of experimental cinema, the history of cinema, and the history of video art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv University, Sam Spiegel Film and Television School – Jerusalem, Shenkar College of the Arts, Seminar Hakibutzim College, and the Open University of Israel.

Maya Shmailov was born in Tbilisi (GE) and currently lives and works in Tel Aviv. She is a researcher, writer, teacher, photographer, and patent attorney. She studied biology and mathematics, and graduated from the Science, Technology and Society program at Bar Ilan University. Her PhD work explored formation of a new scientific discipline through the intellectual biography of a consummate outsider in biology: mathematician Nicolas Rashevsky. Maya’s research provides insights not only on the innovative power of outsiders and their fresh perspectives, but also on the complex, at times disturbing, personality traits of boundary-crossers. Maya’s research has been extensively published through lectures and in writing, including: Oren Harman and Michal Dietrich’s Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology (2013), Tedx Talk “My Love Affair with an Outsider” (2014), and the forthcoming Intellectual Pursuits of Nicholas Rashevsky: The Queer Duck of Biology (2016). Maya’s current research concerns designers as outsiders in biology with a particular interest in the designer as a cultural translator of science.

Diana Shoef, born in 1953, lives and works in Tel Aviv. She has been the production manager of The Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv since 2001. She produced the Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale – Visual Art exhibitions from 1993-2007. In 2015 she was the production assistant to artist Tsibi Geva for his exhibition at the Israeli Pavilion in the 56th Venice Biennale. She has produced exhibitions and new works for many artists, including: Yael Bartana, Guy Ben-Ner, Ori Gersht, Garry Hill, Christian Jankowski, Katarzyna Kozyra, Sharon Lockhart, Ohad Meromi, Michal Rovner, Yehudit Sasportas, and many others. Shoef is a board member of the Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation. She also worked with Noa Eshkol as manager of the Movement Notation Society from 1992 until Eshkol’s death in 2007.

Richard Shusterman is an American pragmatist philosopher. Known for his contributions to philosophical aesthetics and the emerging field of somaesthetics, currently, he is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University and Director of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at Florida Atlantic University. Educated at Jerusalem and Oxford, he chaired the Temple University Philosophy Department before coming to FAU in 2005. He has held academic appointments in Paris, Berlin, Hiroshima, Rome, Oslo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai and was awarded senior Fulbright and NEH fellowships. His widely translated research covers many topics in the human sciences with particular emphasis on questions of philosophy, aesthetics, culture, language, identity, and embodiment. Authored books include T.S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism (Columbia 1988), Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life (Routledge 1997), Performing Live (Cornell 2000), Surface and Depth (Cornell 2002), and Pragmatist Aesthetics (Blackwell 1992, 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield 2000, and translated into 14 languages). His recent work in somaesthetics includes three books with Cambridge University Press: Body Consciousness (2008), Thinking through the Body (2012), and Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love (2021), and a bilingual graphic novella, The Adventures of the Man in Gold, based on his work in performance art. Most recently, he authored Philosophy and the Art of Writing (Routledge, 2022).

Ben Spatz is a nonbinary scholar-practitioner and a leader in the development of new artistic and embodied research methods. They are Reader in Media and Performance at University of Huddersfield (UK) and author of three books: What a Body Can Do (Routledge 2015), Blue Sky Body (Routledge 2020), and Making a Laboratory (Punctum 2020). Ben is founding editor of the videographic Journal of Embodied Research and the Punctum imprint Advanced Methods. Their work has been presented at more than thirty institutions in eighteen countries. For more information, please visit: <www.urbanresearchtheater.com>.

Prof. Dr. Marcus Steinweg, born in 1971, lives and works as a philosopher in Berlin. He is a Professor at the Art Academy Karlsruhe. His recent books include: "Duras" (with Rosemarie Trockel, Berlin: Merve 2008); "Politik des Subjekts“ (Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes 2009); "Aporien der Liebe" (Berlin: Merve 2010); "Kunst und Philosophie / Art and Philosophy" (Cologne: Walter König: 2012); "Philosophie der Überstürzung" (Berlin: Merve 2013), "Inkonsistenzen" (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2015), "Evidenzterror" (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2015), "Gramsci Theater" (Berlin: Merve 2016), "Splitter" (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2017), "Subjekt und Wahrheit" (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2018), "Proflexionen" (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2019), "Metaphysik der Leere" (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2020), "Quantenphilosophie" (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2021). Some of his books are published in English by The MIT Press.

Julia Strykovska. I am artist, curator, lawyer and MBA graduate from Kyiv, Ukraine. In March 2022 I came to Vienna from Kyiv in search of temporary relief from the war. I am lucky enough to be chosen as a contributor to ‘On Dizziness’ artistic research project.The main part of my artistic research and practice belongs to the word and text as the means of creating and mapping reality, and experience as the universal ‘record’ of reality perceived. The topics also include the matters of identity definition: personal, cultural, social, as well as identity of the larger groups such as communities, countries, regions, etc.To create my art works (paintings, site specific installations, textile objects, participatory works) I use media that have deep roots in the history of mankind. Their meaning is basic and profound. Therefore, they could create the effect of "recognition" of personal history in universal being: textile, ropes, knots, vintage bed linen, words and texts, readymade objects.At the same time, being the lawyer makes me explore the fields where the law and the art intersect, merge, could supplement or, vice versa, contradict, revolt against each other. How one can benefit from other. And how this can reflect on practice.

SUPERFLEX is an expanding collective of humans and non humans working with an expanding idea of art. SUPERFLEX wants to apply the agency of the artist to all beings. SUPERFLEX practices art as a human activity aiming to embrace non-human perspectives and move society towards interspecies thinking and living, beyond the end of the world as we know it. Originally founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, SUPERFLEX studio is today composed of members from very diverse backgrounds. As an expanding collective, SUPERFLEX facilitates and urges the collaboration of others, bringing participation to the extreme. For SUPERFLEX, the best idea might come from a fish.

The institute for transacoustic research (german: institut für transakustische forschung, iftaf) was founded by Nikolaus Gansterer, Matthias Meinharter, Jörg Piringer and Ernst Reitermaier in the year 1998 to define and research transacoustics.
With expertise in visual arts, music, sound-poetry and philosophy and supported by external experts the institute organizes public experiments, laboratories and expeditions, conducts field research, invents instruments, creates sound and artworks, and holds workshops and lectures in a process-oriented, context-dependent way.  Matthias Meinharter, born 1971 in Vienna, works since 2003 as an intermedia artist with an atelier in Vienna. Installations, mechanical objects, sound generating machines, photo graphics, video-projects, acoustics and performances are main elements of his heterogeneous artwork. Jörg Piringer, born in 1974 in Vienna. member of the institute for transacoustic research. member of the vegetable orchestra. radio artist. sound and visual poet. musician. master degree in computer science. Ernst Reitermaier, born in 1974, is a freelance philosopher, musician and cultural manager in Vienna, specialized in conceptual and organisational accompaniment of projects in the field of experimental music / performance/ soundart and transdisciplinary cooperations.

Marianna Vecellio is a curator and art historian, graduated in History of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Rome, La Sapienza.Since 2012, she has been Curator at the Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli – Turin – where she has worked since 2007. For the Castello di Rivoli, she conceived and created exhibitions and publications paying particular attention to subjectivity in the digital society. These include aaajiao. Deep Simulator (2020), Renato Leotta. Sole (2020), Claudia Comte (2019-20), Michael Rakowitz. Imperfect Binding (2019-20), Pedro Neves Marques (2019-20), Hito Steyerl. The City of Broken Windows (2018-19), Cally Spooner (2018-19), Anna Boghiguian (2017-18), Cécile B. Evans (2017-18), Ed Atkins (2016-17), Rachel Rose (2016- 17), Paloma Varga Weisz (2015-16), Manifest Intention (2013-14), Massimo Grimaldi. Before The Images (2009). Also she conceived and curated transdisciplinary projects such as Abitare il minerale (2018) and Comp(h)ost (2019-20) which, between ecology and posthuman, explores new forms of coexistence and transformation of the living. Curator of various monographs such as John McCracken and Luigi Ontani, she has collaborated on various catalogs, including the monographs Gianni Piacentino, Robert Overby. Works 1969-1987 and Giorgio Griffa. Works: 1965-2015. She has published with international institutions, including Whitechapel, London, Le Consortium, Dijon, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Le Center d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Fondation Serralves, Porto and has collaborated with Italian and international magazines such as Flash Art and L’Officiel. Since 2016 she has curated the residences program Curva Blu located on the island of Favignana, which was attended: Trisha Baga, Diego Marcon, Giulia Cenci, Stephen G. Rhodes and David Horvitz. Also for INCURVA he also curated Sivilization’s Wake by Stephen G. Rhodes and Barry Johnston (Palermo, 2018).

Ilan Volkov. Since his prodigious breakthrough as Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the age of 19, he has matured into a versatile conductor whose interpretations of familiar repertoire are sought after internationally. He enjoys a long-standing relationship with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, as Principal Conductor from 2003 and Principal Guest Conductor since 2009. A musical omnivore, Volkov also serves as a dynamic figurehead of the international contemporary music scene. He launched the Tectonics Festival in 2012, which has since become one of the world’s most diverse and acclaimed celebrations of new music, with festivals in Adelaide, Oslo, New York, Tel Aviv, Krakow, Athens, Glasgow and Reykjavík. In 2020 he co-founded the I&I Foundation with Ilya Gringolts to support the development and performance of new music. Volkov’s repertoire with a variety of ensembles spreads far and wide, and he often appears at the world’s foremost festivals, such as Salzburg, Edinburgh, BBC Proms, Lucerne, and others. Volkov’s diverse discography includes Stravinsky’s ballet scores and a Gramophone Award-winning recording of Britten’s complete works for piano and orchestra, both for Hyperion, as well as a critically acclaimed survey of Liszt’s three Funeral Odes with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He has a podcast for Radio Halas, in which he explores his extensive musical tastes and interviews colleagues.

Sebastian Wahlforss is a Swedish Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1982.

Karolina Wiktor is an artist and writer, 2001 – 2010 part of Sędzia Główny performance duo together with Aleksandra Kubiak. Selected exhibitions and actions: Chapter III, as part of 4 x performance at Galeria BWA, Zielona Góra, 2002; Tele Game, Artists’ Night, TVP Kultura,2005; Virus action in Magnetism of the Heart directed by Grze–gorz Jarzyna, Teatr Rozmaitości, 2006; competition exhibition Views 2007 – Deutsche Bank Foundation Award,Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, 2007; To Be Like Sędzia Główny, BWA Wrocław, Galeria Awan–garda, 2010; works in collections of, among others, National Museum in Warsaw,Zachęta – National Art Gallery, Signum Foundation in Poznań. In 2009 Karolina organized The Conference Culture and Neuroscience. In 2009 she had two strokes and as a result suffered from aphasia (a speech impediment caused by damage to the brain). Author of blogs www.afazja.blogspot.com and www.poezjawizualna.blogspot.com; Karolina has described her experiences in a poetic autobiography Wołgą przez Afazję [A Volga Ride across Aphasia].

Kathrin Wojtowicz, born in 1984 in Germany, studied drama, film studies, and media science at the University of Vienna and the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. She co-edited the book Vlado Kristl. Der Mond ist ein Franzose (2011) with Christian Schulte, Franziska Bruckner, and Stefanie Schmitt. Currently she works as a researcher and proofreader, develops film programs, and is writing her film studies thesis.

Catherine Yass, born in 1963 in London (UK), is a photographer and filmmaker whose work captures the psychological impact of architecture and space. She lives and works in London and trained at the Slade School of Art, London, the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin and Goldsmiths College, London. In 2002, Yass was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. Her work features in a number of major important collections worldwide including Tate, London; Arts Council of England, The British Council and the Government Art Collection, London; The Jewish Museum, New York; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and the National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection, Washington DC.

Juha van ‘t Zelfde is a Dutch/Finnish exhibition maker and DJ. Since 2014, he has been the artistic director of Lighthouse, a Brighton gallery for new music, film, and art. In 2013 he curated the exhibition Dread, Fear in the age of technological acceleration, at De Hallen Haarlem. He has worked with the Stedelijk Museum, Marres, and The New Institute, as well as with a multitude of internationally renowned artists, including: Thomas Hirschhorn, Haroon Mirza, Metahaven, Trevor Paglen, James Bridle, and Micol Assaël. He has written articles about the cultural implications of new technologies for VICE magazine, Metropolis M, Volume, MONU, Tate Modern, and has lectured at leading international festivals such as Open Knowledge Festival, FutureEverything, and Ars Electronica. His book Dread – The Dizziness of Freedom was published in 2013.
He is active as a DJ and promoter of new electronic music and sound and founded the music network Viral Radio in 2007.

Jörg Zeyringer is a motivational psychologist and author. He gathered experience as a lifeguard, unskilled construction worker, disc jockey, and a temporary officer in the Austrian army. Since 1993, Jörg Zeyringer has worked as a trainer and coach in the health sector, business and professional sport. As a mental coach, he looks after trainers and players in the highest Austrian and international football leagues.

‍Klaus Zeyringer lives in Pöllau (Austria) and Munich, he works as a publisher, a literature and cultural researcher, was a professor for German philology, and hosts in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. In late 2020, he published Schwarzbuch Sport in the Springer Verlag; in early 2022, his current book Im Untergeschoß des Weltgeschehens. Vermischte Meldungen, Faits Divers – eine kleine Geschichte des Pressewesens will be published by S Fischer.

Antoinette Zwirchmayr was born in Austria and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her works have been featured in festivals including Berlinale (D),Toronto International Film Festival (CA), International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (DE) Indielisboa (PT), Media City Film Festival (CA), New Horizons Film Festival (PL), CPH: DOX (DK), Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA), FID Marseille (FR). She has been awarded with the Outstanding Artist Award (BKA 2020), a six month residency in New York (ISCP), the Start-Up Grant for Young Film Artists (Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria 2017), Annual grant for photography (Land Salzburg 2017), Simon S. Filmaward (2016), Kodak Cinematic Vision Award (Ann Arbor Film Festival 2016), Best Innovative Film Award, Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film (2016), Annual grant for film (Land Salzburg 2014), Best short documentary Award - Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film (2014), Sponsorship Award (Salzburger Kunstverein 2014), Birgit-Jürgenssen-Award (2013).