Mary Maggic (b. Los Angeles, '91) is a nonbinary artist working at the intersection of hormones, body and gender politics, and ecological alienations. Maggic frequently uses “biohacking” as a xeno-feminist practice of care that holds the potential to demystify invisible systems of molecular biopower. Completing their Masters in the Design Fiction group at MIT Media Lab, they received the Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention in Hybrid Arts (2017) for the project “Open Source Estrogen” and a 10-month Fulbright research award in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2019).
Contributors
Mary Tsang is an artist-biologist practicing in civic biosciences, open source organisms and tools, and how to deploy them. Her projects explore the biopolitical nature of biotechnologies, their roots in society and transhumanism, and the question of who gets access. Since 2013 she has partnered with a filmmaker to produce a documentary web-series on “bio-art” and emerging communities in DIYBio. The web-series DIYSECT hopes to initiate conversations on the rapid effect of biotechnologies on our society.
Mathieu Zurstrassen is a trained architect who from 2013 embraces the path of visual arts. In designing objects, he moves away from the projection of the drawing and focuses on the experimentation of construction.
Matthew Rice is an Advocacy Officer at Privacy International working across the organisation engaging with international partners and strengthening their capacity on communications surveillance issues. He has previously worked at Privacy International as a consultant building the Surveillance Industry Index, the largest publicly available database on the private surveillance sector ever assembled. Matthew graduated from University of Aberdeen with an LLB (Hons.) and also has an MA in Human Rights from University College London.
Pitscher works as an artist, designer, meditation teacher, barista, researcher, entrepreneur and bad influencer. The artifacts he produces deal with the constant changes we face in our transition to a technologically connected society. Analytical yet humorous, he demonstrates how digital media transforms our perception of reality. Through play and interaction the visitor often becomes the center of the artwork itself. His interactive installations, performances and audiovisual pieces are shown at international Festivals, Museums and Galleries.
Matthias Urban, sound artist, born 1986 in Feldkirch, Austria creates acousmatic sound-pieces based on environmental recordings, found vintage media, data streams taken from natural phenomena etc.. The sounds and/or data are mainly processed and transformed with modified tape recorders, experimental microphony, computers, analog modular synthesizers and other–mostly magnetic-based–vintage sound equipment
1999 AHS-Matura (school-leaving examination)
1999 - 2000 Civilian service
2000 - 2001 TU Technical University Vienna - Information management
2001 - 2003 “Graphische” Vienna - Graduate: Engineer for multimedia management and technics
2004 Bavarian Academy for Marketing and Advertising - Marketing communication
2001 - 2003 Punkt net.Services, Vienna - Content Manager
2004 - 2006 futureheadz bordercross marketing, Munich - Project Manager
since 2007 Freelace work, Berlin
Mey Lean Kronemann is an artist, hacker and researcher from Berlin.
Her works have been internationally shown and presented both in a scientific context and in the art context (including lab.30, transmediale, Piksel, technarte, DIS, ICRA) and were awarded by Digital Sparks (Honorary Mention for schuechterne lichter), Art of Engineering, and Japan Media Arts Festival (Jury Selection Work for lumiBots).
Mey has studied Interaction Design in Malmö, Sweden, and Product Design in Potsdam, Germany.
Michael Aschauer is a digital artist, software artisan and freelance web developer. He studies visual media design at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. His works have been show in numerous exhibitions and festivals around the globe and won awards, among others at the Prix Ars Electronica. He has been using free software as his main production environment since the beginning of this millennium. He currently lives between Paris, Linz and Vienna.