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is an artist working at the intersection of ecological crisis, emergent technology, and somatic practice in multiple formats including video, performance, installation, writing and drawing. Trained as a sociologist and taking on the role of artist-as-fieldworker, Simun spends time within communities of experts, including biomedical engineers, carnivore conservationists, hunters, cephalopods, free divers, and breastfeeding mothers, to create research-based artworks rooted in lived experience. Simun’s practice excavates the poetic and the political from collisions of human and non-human bodies among rapidly evolving techno-ecosystems.

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is a post-critical design studio with an experimental practice drenched in strategies of performance art, play, and subversion. The Rodina invents ways of producing and preserving experience, knowledge, and relations. It intertwines its interests in social issues and situated knowledge with the development of design as a space for new imaginaries.

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Sahej Rahal is primarily a storyteller. He weaves together fact and fiction, to create counter-mythologies that interrogate narratives shaping the present.

His myth-world takes the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings, installations, and AI programs, that he creates by drawing upon sources ranging from local legends to science fiction, rendering scenarios where indeterminate beings emerge from the cracks in our civilization.

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• Crosslucid
• Guillemette Legrand and Vincent Thornhill
• GUO Cheng and Weihao Qiu
• Hollow
• Jakob Steensen and Joel Kuennen
• Jelena Viskovic
• Lou Cantor
• Lucile Olympe Haute
• Moritz Jekat
• Saša Spačal
• Theodolus Polyviou and Loukis Menelaou
• Wisrah Villeforth
• Ziyang Wu and Mark Ramos
• Tatyana Zambrano
• and refers to the work of Nolan Oswald Dennis, Zheng Mahler, Nushin Yazdani und Can Karaalioglu from Phase 1

PhD works at the intersection of visual art, media, science, and emerging technologies in curatorial practice, theory, and writing. She is head of program and curator for Enter the Hyper-Scientific, the newly established artist-in-residence program of the College of Humanities (CDH) at EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. Previously curator and producer at EPFL Pavilions (2018–21) and a member of the curatorial team of ZKM | Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe (2014–17), she has curated and co-curated numerous collective exhibitions and solo presentations, among them Nature of Robotics. An Expanded Field (EPFL, 2021) and, as part of the project Beyond Matter, Spatial Affairs and S.A.Worlding (Ludwig Museum Budapest 2021). Bini authored Media spazio display. ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe | HFG Hochschule für Gestaltung (Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2022) and is a lecturer at the HEAD Geneva Work.Master program.

is a curator and art historian. She has curated exhibitions around themes such as the genealogy and social impact of planetary computation or electronic surveillance and democracy at institutions of contemporary and media art worldwide since 2006, including at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Chronus Art Center (Shanghai), Nam June Paik Art Center (Seoul), Tallinna Kunstihoone, and the Ludwig Museum Budapest. In 2019 Nolasco-Rózsás started her curatorial research into the “virtual condition” and she is the initiator and head of the international collaborative project Beyond Matter at ZKM | Karlsruhe, which brings together several institutions such as Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the Aalto University.

is a Korean-born graphic designer, web designer, and web developer running her own independent creative studio, YSong. She is interested in upending the general understanding of web design and playing with visual elements and interactions emerging from content structure. She designs and develops experimental websites and interactive graphics generated from sets of rules instead of static templates and conventions.

is an interdisciplinary artist from Johannesburg. His practice explores a Black consciousness of space, meaning the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonisation. He questions the politics of space and time through a system-specific approach. He is concerned with the hidden structures that predetermine the limits of our social and political imaginations. Through diagrams, drawings, and models, Dennis probes this hidden landscape of systematic and structural conditions, attempting to stitch technological, spiritual, economic, and psychological systems together – to read the technological alongside the spiritual, to combine political fictions with science fiction.

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is a Berlin-based automation engineer currently working in VR research. His artwork focuses on discriminatory and oppressive technologies through the lens of intersectionality, as well as on how technology impacts identities and digital culture in general.

is an interaction and transformation designer, artist, and AI researcher based in Berlin. Her work examines the interconnectedness of digital technologies and social justice, of artificial intelligence and discrimination, from an intersectional feminist perspective. She seeks to explore design processes that dismantle oppressive structures. At Berlin's Education Innovation Lab, Yazdani works on transforming the education system and creating innovative learning methods. She lectures at various universities, and is a member of the Design Justice Network and dgtl fmnsm. She also curates and organizes community events at the intersection of technology, art, and design.

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is artist Royce Ng’s and anthropologist Daisy Bisenieks’s Hong Kong-based collaborative examination of the mutual influence and relational networks connecting global trade, nature, and technology, with a particular interest in more-than-human geographies and the environmental architectures they produce. Utilising digital media, performance, and installation, they develop speculative scenarios and immersive, sensory encounters that explore the limits and potentials of their respective disciplines. Together they have exhibited, performed, and participated in numerous international art spaces, institutions, and residencies, working alongside various communities.

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is a queer housing attorney, parent, and interdisciplinary artist whose writing has appeared in Keywords for Radicals, Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review, The Funambulist, e-flux Architecture, Recess Arts, and more. Phillips is the founder of the AfroFuturist Affair, a founding member of Metropolarity Queer Speculative Fiction Collective, cofounder of Black Quantum Futurism (BQF), and cocreator of Community Futures Lab. As part of BQF and as a solo artist has exhibited, presented, been in residence, and/or performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Manifesta Biennial, and more.

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• Ibrahim Cissé & Asmaa Jama,
• João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga,
• Nelly Y. Pinkrah,
• Ainslee Alem Robson & Kidus Aailesilassie
• Michelle M. Wright
• Dior Thiam, George Demir, Luïza Luz, Mathias Becker
• Ruben Susanne Bürgam, Gertruda Gilyte, Théo Pożoga, Andi Teichmann
• Marcel Heise, Yuyen Lin-Woywod, Zaidda Nursiti Kemal and
• Xiaoyu Tang & Sayaka Katsumoto

is co-founder and chief editor of the art magazines Contemporary And (C&) and Contemporary And América Latina (C&AL). With Yvette Mutumba, she was presented the prestigious 'European Cultural Manager of the Year' award in 2020 for exemplary approaches in cultural mediation and sustainability. Grosse is a lecturer at the Institute for Art in Context at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She studied art history, German literature and media studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum and worked as a columnist and arts journalist in London for Die Tageszeitung (taz), Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS), Architectural Digest, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 2020 she curated the festival 'Friendly Confrontations: Festival für Globale Kunst und Institutionskritik' at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the art magazines Contemporary And (C&) and Contemporary And América Latina (C&AL). With Julia Grosse, she was presented the prestigious 'European Cultural Manager of the Year' award in 2020 for exemplary approaches in cultural mediation and sustainability. She also lectures at the Institute of Art in Context, University of Arts in Berlin and is Curator-at-Large at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. 2018 she was part of the Curatorial Team of the 10th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art and Visiting Professor for 'Global Discourses' at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. 2012 to 2016 she worked as a curator at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt a. M. Mutumba studied Art History at Freie Universität Berlin and holds a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London.

is an architect and independent curator based in Luanda. She has curated several exhibitions in Angola, South Africa, Portugal, Italy, including participations at the Bam-ako Biennial, VI Lubumbashi Biennial, the African Mobilities Project and is the curator for Focus Africa at Arco Lisboa. She is the co-founder of Beyond Entropy Africa, a collective that developed projects in the fields of architecture-contemporary arts and geopolitics and was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennial in 2013 and an African Architecture Award in 2017. Nascimento collaborates with several educational projects and has contributed to several publications. She has an MA in Architecture from the London South Bank University.