Contributors

Sam Bunn is a multi disciplinary artist living and working in Linz. His work explores the incomplete and the prototype using a mixture of humour and desire. His master thesis is about the absence of positive utopias from mainstream film and how art can be a good breeding ground to address that problem.

Samuel Hertz is a Berlin-based composer and researcher investigating connections between sound and climate, emphasising geologic, ecologic, and social listening practices at more-than-human scales. As the first winner of the DARE Prize for Radical Interdisciplinarity, he researched Infrasound alongside climate scientists, music psychologists, and paranormal investigators, with a premiere at Opera North (UK).

As a researcher, Hertz has been involved with HKW’s Anthropocene Curriculum since 2016 and is the author of six essays on sound and environment, including collaborations with Studio Tomás Saraceno, Sonic Field and Critical Path.

Golubjevaite (she/her) is a text±sound artist and a creative coder based in the Netherlands. Live digital/audiovisual performances, installations and DIY interfaces lie at the core of her practice. Through her work she seeks to create a bridge between language, autobiography and coding practices. She codes her own language-based tools in order to produce experimental visuals and sound and refuses the commodified masculine-imposed approaches to software development.

Sanela Jahić (1980, Slovenia) graduated in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana in 2008, and received her master’s degree in 2010 in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from the Bauhaus University in Weimar. Jahić is an intermedia artist, who constructs visual and technologically supported kinetic objects and installations. In her latest production, the artist places the research of complex relations between technology, labour and subjectivity directly within the critique of capitalist production relations.

Santiago Zabala is a philosopher and cultural critic. Since 2010 he has been ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where he teaches contemporary philosophy, supervises Ph.D. theses, and directs the UPF Center for Gianni Vattimo’s Archives and Philosophy. In addition to an extensive speaking schedule at conferences, festivals, and biennales, Zabala is also visiting professor at Renmin University, IDSVA, and several other international institutions.

Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo is an artist, programmer, and erstwhile data designer. Her work focuses on using the digital in a manner that can transcend its squalid and militaristic roots and reach out towards the sublime. She has created data-obscured art sites, new computer languages, and hybrid nostalgia machines.

SASCHA NEUDECK lives and works in Vienna and Styria.
"After spending many years behind the laptop, my desire to make sound without computer grew increasingly. Actually I play live without laptop, solely with my selfsoldered devices, a delay, a reverb going to a little mixer. The haptic enjoyment of working this way, and the spectacular look of my set, does more than compensate the lack of the endless possibilities with computers.
Several months ago I decided to share my knowhow of building/designing weird sonic devices under the moniker -SubtleNoiseMaker- in

Working in Film/Video Postproduction and as Graphics- & Webdesigner. Doing more and more software development now using a completely free work environment since I switched to Linux.