Simon Repp (he) works on code, media, and systems with a focus on ethics, simplicity and sustainability. His current occupation lies in researching and developing audiovisual media publishing tools with minimal environmental and operational resource requirements.
Contributors 2024
The Stadtwerkstatt / STWST has been an art, club culture and autonomous structure since 1979 and has always been inextricably linked to a self-image of activism, subculture and a practice of constantly redefining art contexts. STWST has realised many pioneering media and art projects and has always been an inspiring initiative for numerous artists both inside and outside the city. Today, STWST works in the areas of New Art Contexts, runs the STWST Club, media channels such as the newspaper Versorgerin and the Cafe Strom.
Stefanie Wuschitz (b. 1981, Vienna, At) works at the intersection of research, art and technology, with a particular focus on Critical Media Practices (feminist hacking, open source technology, peer production). She graduated with an MFA in Transmedia Arts in 2006 (University of Applied Arts Vienna). 2008 she completed her Masters at TISCH School of the Arts at New York University in 2009 she founded the feminist hackerspace and art collective Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory in Vienna.
Steffen Köhn is a filmmaker, video artist and associate professor of visual and multimodal anthropology at Aarhus University. Entwining experimental ethnography, Science and Technology Studies, and fiction, his work engages with alternative infrastructures and strategies of resistance in today’s uneven sociotechnical landscapes.
Stephen Kerr is a designer, musician, bread-baker and occasional tent-builder based in Rotterdam. He fidgets between making graphic design and performances, questioning and playing with methods and tools. Coming from a serious and realistic background in a big city on a big island (Dublin), he is interested in making people out of designers and a wizard out of himself. Currently he is very very busy making technologies sillier, inefficienter, questionabler, questioneder and collaborativer.
Visual artist who throughout her work has been interested in the exploration of the archive, female roles and public space as artistic research. For this she has used tools such as video, performance, photography, programming and writing, finding in these possibilities to delve plastically in those concerns that have questioned her. Since 2022 she belongs to Toplab and the collective "vestidas y alborotadas", starting her incursion in music and visuals through the code.
After her studies, she came across the field of DIY electronics. Since then she has been exploring the sonic range of simple oscillators based on the misuse of ordinary electronic components. Her work focuses on abstraction, rhythmic structures, strategies for improvised music, collective compositions and the interaction of electronics with acoustic instruments and voice.
Timo Hoogland is an artist, music technologist and educator from the Netherlands. He livecodes electronic music and develops generative audiovisual compositions and installations. He teaches at the University of the Arts Utrecht.
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