Contributors

TinTin Patrone is a German-Filipino composer, musician, actress, film and music producer as well as painter, performance artist and author. Patrone founded the group Krachkisten Orchestra in 2009, the International MusicMotorcycleClub in 2012, and runs various musical and artistic individual projects in parallel. The connections between music, art, sound and experimental gesture is the general field TinTin Patrone is interested in. One focus of her creations lies on the visual elements of music, the tension between conceptual ideas and physical existence.

The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI) is a trans-practice gathering of activists, artists, engineers and theorists initiated by Miriyam Aouragh, Seda Gürses, Helen Pritchard and Femke Snelting. They convene communities to hold computational infrastructures to account and create spaces for articulating what technologies in the “public interest” might be when “public interest” is always in-the-making.

Tiziana Centofanti (IT) is an Environmental Scientist at alchemia-nova and a Visiting Professor at Central European University. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences, a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences (with distinction). Tiziana has developed, led, and managed multiple projects in the field of green-technologies and nature-based solutions for water and soil contamination.

Tjaša Kancler is an activist, artist, researcher, and Serra Húnter Professor of Media Arts and Gender Studies at the Department of Visual Arts and Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona.

Tjaša Kancler, photo by JP

Toma Pilein builds and unbuilds machines to reveal and conceal electromagnetic processes through sound, visible light, and consumable substances. Revolving around the phenomenon of oscillation, the fields of portrait photography, cocktail robotics, and amateur radio are ploughed. Academically Toma researches on electronic textile transducers and is teaching students how to build mechatronic ideas. In the spirit of sharing, Toma has presented his work on morning TV shows, international conferences, and art festivals in Europe, Asia, and North America.

Trial#1 is a Linz based collective of three female artists: Natalia Shepeleva (RU), Sara Mlakar (SI), and Mascha Illich (UA). Combining knowledge from technical and artistic fields, they are mainly focused on creating and hacking DIY noise instruments, exploring their audio and/or visual signals, and combining them into unique sonic landscapes.

ultramorbidi is prepared to paste themselves into the hearts of queer and electro-loving nerds around the networked globe. formed in late summer of 2023 the duo is an always incomplete fusion of transginger and scriptboy, comprising their cyborg bodies and and life companionship. ultramorbidi choose free, feminist and alternative tools for organizing and music making whenever possible. soon to be found at ultramorbidi.xyz, else look for #ultramorbidi on the fediverse.

Us(c)hi Reiter studied graphic and design at the Kunstuniverstät Linz. As artist and project developer with a special interesst in net.activism and audio-visual communication, she has been collaborating with different groups and artists since 1998. From 2005 till 2017 Reiter run the non-profit cultural backbone organisation servus.at/Kunst & Kultur im Netz.

She continues to research Free/Libre/Open Source Software in the frame of cultural production and art as well as work on conceptual and performative setups.

Valentina Vuksic works from within the radiation of the computational. She is improvising with the electrosmog of code, collecting and streaming sonic recordings of electricity and reading the unwanted side-effects of technology-based experimentation as intrinsic to the core of contemporary digital technologies.