Nicolas Maigret exposes the internal workings of media, through an exploration of their dysfunctions, limitations or failure thresholds which he develops into immersive, ambiguous and critical artworks. He initiated disnovation.org, a working group which develops situations of disturbance, speculation, and debate, challenging the dominant ideology of technological innovation and stimulating the dissemination of alternative narratives. He teaches at Parsons Paris and co-edited The Pirate Book, an anthology on media piracy.
Contributors
Nicolas Malevé is an artist, software programmer and data activist developing multimedia projects and web applications for and with cultural organisations. His current research work is focused on cartography, information structures, metadata and the means to visually represent them. He lives and works in Barcelona and Brussels. Since 1998 Nicolas collaborates with Constant, a non-profit association, based and active in Brussels since 1997 in the fields of feminism, copyright alternatives and working through networks.
Nicolas Zemke is a freelance software developer and since 2015 active at Sea-Watch, a sea rescue organization. He oversees the NGOs IT and has implemented several small software solutions. As the situation in the Mediterranean in 2016 worsened and more and more NGOs became active in this area, he developed the concept for the search and rescue application, which gives the civilian rescuers a participatory coordination platform.
Besides working on projects about social spheres and folly, Niek is actually also into subjects such as cultural division, mediated redundancy and ideological reissuing. He does this by being a bit of an art historian, composer, teacher, conductor, designer, photographer, event planner, animator, film-maker and a lot more at the same time… A true excess of a meta-modernist digital age!
Niharika Singhal is a lawyer with a diverse international experience in IT laws, data protection, intellectual property, FinTech and Artificial Intelligence, having worked in India, UK, Spain, Germany and Estonia. She has worked as a legal counsel in one of the top tier international law firms as well as a judicial and academic researcher and has been awarded professional fellowships in the internet governance space in the Asia Pacific region.
In 2002, Nika Autor (1982) inscribes painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. In 2005, she is an exchange student at the Satakunta Polytechnic Fine Art Kankaanpaa in Finland, and for three months in 2006 at the University of Fine Arts Poznan in Poland. In 2005, she receives a commendation of the Academy of Fine Arts for exceptional achievements in pre-grad. She works with photography, graphics, painting, and video. The subject of her interests is the relationship of the artist to their immediate life surroundings.
Nikola Brabcová graduated from the Painting Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts (Prague, CZ). A few years later in 2014, she co-founded the platform Prototyp which focuses on artistic and curatorial cooperation in the field of contemporary art.
Dr. Nishant Shah is a Professor of Aesthetics and Cultures of Technology and the Director of Research and Outreach at the ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands. He is a knowledge partner for the Humanist Development Institution Hivos, and a mentor for the Feminist Internet Research Network, at the Association of Progressive Communication. His new co-authored book Really Fake, is coming out in Fall 2020 with the University of Minnesota Press. You can find more about him at