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Lotte de Jong + Antonia Hernández
Lotte de Jong + Antonia Hernández
Antonia Hernández is a theorist, designer and media artist whose work explores infrastructural relations of intimacy, combining theoretical investigation with arts-based practices to understand the fleshy, living, and domestic aspects of media. She has presented her work and research-creation methodologies widely at conferences, exhibitions, and in artist talks, and is preparing a book on the role of fictional currencies in sexcam platforms. Lotte Louise de Jong is a media artist from the Netherlands with a background in filmmaking. Her work is research-based and ranges from physical, digital and online installations to more traditional forms of narrative. Her practice addresses how we, as a society, view and shape our identity through mediated spaces like the digital world. The Internet as a space for exploring intimacy has been the main focus of her past projects.
lottelouise.nl antoniahernandez.com
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Plot Twisters
Plot Twisters
Plot Twisters is an online community of creators who are researching and developing personal storytelling tools, especially for young people. Connected by a vision for consensual education and work, we work to empower individuals, especially people who are societally marginalized, to make sense of knowledge for themselves, advocate for their needs, set boundaries, understand how feeling processes shape their behaviors, and hold their educational and labor systems accountable. We want to grow our community to address this challenge through a thousand small actions. Cat is a user experience researcher who will be leading the framework development, including research and writing. Jenny is a visual designer and web developer who will support the framework writing, as well as create the wireframes and development plan for the website. Isaac is a Plot Twisters advisor who will support research and writing.
plottwisters.org
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Ioanna Thymianidis
Ioanna Thymianidis
Ioanna Thymianidis is an international artist creating sculptures exploring patterns in nature and patterns in human society. Having studied in Italy and with investigation of her Greek lineage, she became inspired by traditional materials including marble and bronze. Her current developing series Future Archeology harnesses a contrast of contemporary methods including 3d designing and printing. Ioanna’s practice is often led by site specificity and skill sharing. She has led community development projects in Australia and Colombia and held artist residencies in USA, Norway, Brazil and Germany. Ioanna is a professional designer and researcher practicing in the Human-Centered Design space. Concerned with cracking the code on talent, Ioanna has designed courses and recruitment processes for start-ups and worked in research roles for multinational organizations including Samsung and Michael Page.
ioannathymianidis.com
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Mateus Guzzo
Mateus Guzzo
Mateus Guzzo is a multimodal artist from Brazil, recently graduated with a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. He works with (moving) images, strategy, and social agency to design collaborative alternative platforms of imagination, culture, and public policy. His upcoming movie, Third World Manager, is a documentary fiction about the impact of entrepreneurial culture on media activism in Brazil. He is currently a Research Associate at the Edgelands Institute in Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, and a member of the Latin American Network of Surveillance, Technology, and Society Studies (LAVITS)
matguzzo.com
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Mara Karagianni
Mara Karagianni
Mara is an artist and sysadmin, who works with networks and servers in all kind of settings, from telecom to feminist collectives’ contributions. She co-organizes ad-hoc tech workshops and grassroots festivals, and writes about technology as an independent researcher. Currently she enjoys making zines and silkscreens about secure internet connections and encryption, and collaborating in the management of two autonomous servers. She is based in Athens, Greece.
mara.multiplace.org
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Sherry Wong + Eryk Salvaggio
Sherry Wong + Eryk Salvaggio
Şerife (Sherry) Wong is an artist and founder of Icarus Salon, an art and research organization exploring the ethics of emerging technology. She has been a resident on artificial intelligence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center and frequently collaborates with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is currently a researcher in the Transformations of the Human program at The Berggruen Institute, an affiliate with O'Neil Risk Consulting and Algorithmic Auditing, a member of Tech Inquiry, and serves on the board of directors for Digital Peace Now. Eryk Salvaggio is an interdisciplinary design researcher and artist. His focus is on intersections of technology, society, culture, and the environment. He has worked with partners including the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Wikimedia Foundation, the Internet Archive, and the National Gallery of Australia.
icarussalon.com cyberneticforests.com
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Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist who empowers people to leverage bleeding edge technology to effect positive change in the world. She works as a Senior Technical Training Specialist for Contentful and is the Chief Innovation Officer at the Land Acknowledgement Lab for the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture - Honor Native Land Initiative. She founded the project Wampum. Codes which is both an award winning podcast and ethical framework for software development based on indigenous values of co-creation. Wampum. codes was awarded a Mozilla Fellowship embedded at the MIT Co-Creation Studio from 2019-2020. She continued her research in 2021 at Stanford University as their artist and technologist in residence made possible by the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning (VAF) . In 2019 she was an invited presenter to His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama, at his World Headquarters in Dharamsala for the Summit on Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion.
studioamelia.com
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Barabar
Barabar
Barabar is a social design collaborative born out of Bhawna and Rubina’s sheer passion to decolonise design and use it as a tool for social justice and liberation. Barabar, which literally translates to ‘equal’, focuses on a community-centered and contextual approach to design more egalitarian futures for those systemically pushed to the margins. In an attempt to bring deep listening and compassion to their work, Barabar also gives Rubina and Bhawna a brave space to unlearn and challenge their own worldviews, as we recognize our own roles in these exclusionary systems. Bhawna and Rubina graduated from the School of Design at Ambedkar University Delhi and together have over 10 years of experience in social justice work. In our collective and individual capacities, we have experimented with speculative design, designing futures, and designing pasts. Our work is reflective of a deep engagement with the socio-political and cultural questions of our time.
barabardesign.com
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Caroline Sinders
Caroline Sinders
Caroline Sinders is a critical designer and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital conversational spaces. She has worked with the United Nations, Amnesty International, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation and others. Sinders has held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School, Google's PAIR (People and Artificial Intelligence Research group), the Mozilla Foundation, the Weizenbaum Institute Pioneer Works, Eyebeam, Ars Electronica, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Sci Art Resonances program with the European Commission, and the International Center of Photography. Some of her research fellowships and funded research work has focused on dark patterns, community health, online harassment, AI inequity, and the labor and systems in AI and platforms.Currently, she is a fellow with Ars Electronica AI Lab with the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
carolinesinders.com
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Mallory Knodel
Mallory Knodel
Mallory Knodel is the CTO at the Center for Democracy & Technology based in Washington DC. In addition, she has been a freelance consultant for systems administration, digital security training and community-led research for the better part of two decades. She has worked in feminist movements her entire career, but most notably as the technical specialist for the Association for Progressive Communications, including its Women’s Rights Programme, based in the global south. She brings vision and writing-for-influence experience to the project, as well as intimate knowledge of the A19 network, A19’s audience and its stakeholders. She is the co-author of the illustrated book published by No Starch Press (2020), "How the Internet Really Works". She is the chair of the Human Rights Protocol Considerations research group of the Internet Research Task Force and has co-authored drafts on inclusive language, encryption, feminism, freedom of association, censorship and network measurement.
Mallory Knodel Linkedin
Antonia Hernández is a theorist, designer and media artist whose work explores infrastructural relations of intimacy, combining theoretical investigation with arts-based practices to understand the fleshy, living, and domestic aspects of media. She has presented her work and research-creation methodologies widely at conferences, exhibitions, and in artist talks, and is preparing a book on the role of fictional currencies in sexcam platforms. Lotte Louise de Jong is a media artist from the Netherlands with a background in filmmaking. Her work is research-based and ranges from physical, digital and online installations to more traditional forms of narrative. Her practice addresses how we, as a society, view and shape our identity through mediated spaces like the digital world. The Internet as a space for exploring intimacy has been the main focus of her past projects.
lottelouise.nlantoniahernandez.com
Plot Twisters is an online community of creators who are researching and developing personal storytelling tools, especially for young people. Connected by a vision for consensual education and work, we work to empower individuals, especially people who are societally marginalized, to make sense of knowledge for themselves, advocate for their needs, set boundaries, understand how feeling processes shape their behaviors, and hold their educational and labor systems accountable. We want to grow our community to address this challenge through a thousand small actions. Cat is a user experience researcher who will be leading the framework development, including research and writing. Jenny is a visual designer and web developer who will support the framework writing, as well as create the wireframes and development plan for the website. Isaac is a Plot Twisters advisor who will support research and writing.
plottwisters.org
Ioanna Thymianidis is an international artist creating sculptures exploring patterns in nature and patterns in human society. Having studied in Italy and with investigation of her Greek lineage, she became inspired by traditional materials including marble and bronze. Her current developing series Future Archeology harnesses a contrast of contemporary methods including 3d designing and printing. Ioanna’s practice is often led by site specificity and skill sharing. She has led community development projects in Australia and Colombia and held artist residencies in USA, Norway, Brazil and Germany. Ioanna is a professional designer and researcher practicing in the Human-Centered Design space. Concerned with cracking the code on talent, Ioanna has designed courses and recruitment processes for start-ups and worked in research roles for multinational organizations including Samsung and Michael Page.
ioannathymianidis.com
Mateus Guzzo is a multimodal artist from Brazil, recently graduated with a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. He works with (moving) images, strategy, and social agency to design collaborative alternative platforms of imagination, culture, and public policy. His upcoming movie, Third World Manager, is a documentary fiction about the impact of entrepreneurial culture on media activism in Brazil. He is currently a Research Associate at the Edgelands Institute in Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, and a member of the Latin American Network of Surveillance, Technology, and Society Studies (LAVITS)
matguzzo.com
Mara is an artist and sysadmin, who works with networks and servers in all kind of settings, from telecom to feminist collectives’ contributions. She co-organizes ad-hoc tech workshops and grassroots festivals, and writes about technology as an independent researcher. Currently she enjoys making zines and silkscreens about secure internet connections and encryption, and collaborating in the management of two autonomous servers. She is based in Athens, Greece.
mara.multiplace.org
Şerife (Sherry) Wong is an artist and founder of Icarus Salon, an art and research organization exploring the ethics of emerging technology. She has been a resident on artificial intelligence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center and frequently collaborates with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is currently a researcher in the Transformations of the Human program at The Berggruen Institute, an affiliate with O'Neil Risk Consulting and Algorithmic Auditing, a member of Tech Inquiry, and serves on the board of directors for Digital Peace Now. Eryk Salvaggio is an interdisciplinary design researcher and artist. His focus is on intersections of technology, society, culture, and the environment. He has worked with partners including the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Wikimedia Foundation, the Internet Archive, and the National Gallery of Australia.
icarussalon.comcyberneticforests.com
Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist who empowers people to leverage bleeding edge technology to effect positive change in the world. She works as a Senior Technical Training Specialist for Contentful and is the Chief Innovation Officer at the Land Acknowledgement Lab for the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture - Honor Native Land Initiative. She founded the project Wampum. Codes which is both an award winning podcast and ethical framework for software development based on indigenous values of co-creation. Wampum. codes was awarded a Mozilla Fellowship embedded at the MIT Co-Creation Studio from 2019-2020. She continued her research in 2021 at Stanford University as their artist and technologist in residence made possible by the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning (VAF) . In 2019 she was an invited presenter to His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama, at his World Headquarters in Dharamsala for the Summit on Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion.
studioamelia.com/
Barabar is a social design collaborative born out of Bhawna and Rubina’s sheer passion to decolonise design and use it as a tool for social justice and liberation. Barabar, which literally translates to ‘equal’, focuses on a community-centered and contextual approach to design more egalitarian futures for those systemically pushed to the margins. In an attempt to bring deep listening and compassion to their work, Barabar also gives Rubina and Bhawna a brave space to unlearn and challenge their own worldviews, as we recognize our own roles in these exclusionary systems. Bhawna and Rubina graduated from the School of Design at Ambedkar University Delhi and together have over 10 years of experience in social justice work. In our collective and individual capacities, we have experimented with speculative design, designing futures, and designing pasts. Our work is reflective of a deep engagement with the socio-political and cultural questions of our time.
barabardesign.com
Caroline Sinders is a critical designer and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital conversational spaces. She has worked with the United Nations, Amnesty International, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation and others. Sinders has held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School, Google's PAIR (People and Artificial Intelligence Research group), the Mozilla Foundation, the Weizenbaum Institute Pioneer Works, Eyebeam, Ars Electronica, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Sci Art Resonances program with the European Commission, and the International Center of Photography. Some of her research fellowships and funded research work has focused on dark patterns, community health, online harassment, AI inequity, and the labor and systems in AI and platforms.Currently, she is a fellow with Ars Electronica AI Lab with the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
carolinesinders.com
Mallory Knodel is the CTO at the Center for Democracy & Technology based in Washington DC. In addition, she has been a freelance consultant for systems administration, digital security training and community-led research for the better part of two decades. She has worked in feminist movements her entire career, but most notably as the technical specialist for the Association for Progressive Communications, including its Women’s Rights Programme, based in the global south. She brings vision and writing-for-influence experience to the project, as well as intimate knowledge of the A19 network, A19’s audience and its stakeholders. She is the co-author of the illustrated book published by No Starch Press (2020), "How the Internet Really Works". She is the chair of the Human Rights Protocol Considerations research group of the Internet Research Task Force and has co-authored drafts on inclusive language, encryption, feminism, freedom of association, censorship and network measurement.