Currently Margarita Koehl is a research assistant at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna. In her PhD project she investigates the role emotions play within the process of technology appropriation and use from a trans-cultural perspective.
From 2011 to 2013 she worked as a representative of the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD) incvKaohsiung, Taiwan. She was also visiting researcher at Dokkyo University, Tokyo and Silpakorn University, Bangkok.
Contributors
Mariana Marangoni is an artist, researcher, and educator based in London. Through a wide range of media such as installations, web-based experiments and visual poetry, Mariana critically explores the materiality of media and the aesthetics of digital decay. Recent work has been focused on heterogeneous computational paradigms for an increasingly exhausted planet. She is currently a PhD student at the Creative Computing Institute and a Lecturer for the BA Fine Art: Computational Arts programme at the Camberwell College of Arts.
Marije Baalman is an artist and researcher/developer working in the field of interactive sound art. She has an interdisciplinary background in physics, acoustics, electronic music and interactive art. In her artistic work she composes behaviors and interaction modalities, using physical computing, livecoding, digital and analog sound processing.
To realise her works she mostly uses open source technology (software and hardware) and she is an active contributor to the open source community.
Marina Gržinić is a full professor and principal research associate at the Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU, and a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Marina Gržinić, photo by Jane Štravs ©
Born in 2000 and since 2020 studying BA Sculptural Conceptions / Ceramics at Kunstuniversität Linz. Last works: für siine fru (2022), Gipfelschrei (2021)
Markus Puschenreiter (AT) works as a soil ecologist at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) and also collaborates with the Burgenland-based engineering company Natur-Umwelt-Nachhaltigkeit. At BOKU, his research interests include the interaction of plant roots and soil, as well as metal-accumulating plants – an unusual plant group that stores extraordinarily high concentrations of metals in the leaves, making them interesting both for the purification of polluted soils and for metal extraction.
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 Disley is an artist, software developer and PhD researcher at the Institute for Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. His practice-based research is grounded in critical engineer, investigative aesthetics and adversarial design, manifesting the internal contradictions and logical limitations of emerging data technologies in beguiling images, video and sound.