Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a ‘Private Ear’. In 2023 he founded Earshot, the worlds first organisation to use sound in defence of human and environmental rights. His projects that reflect on the politics of sound and listening have been presented all over the world and received multiple awards including the 2019 Turner Prize.
Jaya Brekke was awarded a PhD in the field of Digital Geography from the Durham University, UK and has spent the last fifteen years working on the meaning-making and political economies of emerging technologies in theory and practice. She is currently Chief Strategy Officer at Nym, a decentralized platform that inverts the principle of AI in order to provide unprecedented security for internet traffic in transit
Al Hassan Elwan is the instigator & founder of POSTPOSTPOST™, a brand/movement that produces publications, films and online cultural commentary. POSTPOSTPOST: Reflections on a New Avant-garde, the inaugural publication has been featured in various publications such as Dazed, FlashArt, Frieze Seoul, Novembre, DAMN magazine, among others. His solo writing has been published in RealReview, Dazed and DoNotResearch, and they lecture part-time at MSCHF. He also wrote and directed POSTPOSTPOST’s launch film, produced by Liam Young and published on DIS.
Halle Frost is the editor of Weird Economies, a journal, programming space, and podcast exploring economic imaginaries in contemporary finance. She serves on the board of Arts of the Working Class and is the founder of Halo Creative, a design collective working under the ethos of spiritual tech.
Idil Galip is a Lecturer in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. Her work focuses on cultural production on platforms. She is the founder of the Meme Studies Research Network.
Aya Gawdat is an artist and researcher exploring the intersection of spirit, memory and technology. Through painting, mixed media, and digital culture, her work investigates the unseen forces that shape human experience. She is the creator of One With The Internet, an anonymous platform reflecting the collective consciousness of the online world.
Rem Koolhaas is an architect and a writer. In 1975, he founded OMA together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis, and Madelon Vriesendorp. He has worked in the United States, Europe, China, and the Middle East. Koolhaas is a professor at Harvard University since 1995. His built work includes the Qatar National Library (2018), the headquarters for China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing (2012), Seattle Central Library (2004), and the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin (2003). His publications include: Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (1978), S,M,L,XL (1995), Project Japan: Metabolism Talks (2011), Countryside, a Report (2020).
Charlie Koolhaas is an artist, writer, and photographer exploring globalization, urbanization, and cultural identity. She has taught at leading institutions and authored Metabolist Trip (2012) What Happened in Rotterdam (2018) and City Lust (2020). Her work has been exhibited at the Vitra Design Museum, Venice Biennale, and Kunstinstituut Melly. She co-founded The Faculty of Everything in Dubai.
Zein Majali is a sound and visual artist whose work explores the collision of technology with a rapidly evolving political landscape, with a particular interest in a post-colonial and globalised Middle East. Her recent performance work has been presented at the V&A, Somerset House, and the ICA.
Konstantinos Meichanetzidis is an interdisciplinary scientist in Quantinuum, integrating quantum computing and AI and designing quantum algorithms to solve hard problems in mathematics and the natural sciences. In parallel, he advises Moth Quantum, a novel startup developing quantum technologies for creatives.
Ana Nicolaescu (1992, Bucharest) is a London-based artist and researcher. Her work investigates the representational, spatial and socio-political relationships embedded within image technologies. She is co-founder of Cream Projects, a collaborative practice that uses emerging imagemaking technologies as tools for visibility across research and direction projects. She holds academic positions at the Architectural Association and London College of Fashion.
Hans Ulrich Obrist is Artistic Director of the Serpentine, London and Senior Advisor at LUMA Arles. Since his first show “World Soup” (The Kitchen Show) in 1991 he has curated more than 250 exhibitions. Obrist’s publications include The Extreme Self, The Age of Earthquakes (both with Shumon Basar and Douglas Coupland), A Brief History of Curating, Project Japan: Metabolism Talks with Rem Koolhaas, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating But Were Afraid to Ask, Do It: The Compendium, Think Like Clouds, Ai Weiwei Speaks, Sharp Tongues – Loose Lips – Open Eyes – Ears to the Ground, along with new volumes of his Conversation Series.
Venkatesh Rao is a writer and consultant. He wrote the widely read Ribbonfarm blog from 2007 to 2024, and more recently, the popular Ribbonfarm Studio Substack newsletter. He is the author of Tempo, a book on timing and decision-making. He has been an independent consultant since 2011, supporting senior executives in the technology industry. He holds a PhD in control theory (2003) from the University of Michigan. He is currently based in the Seattle area.
Milia Xin Bi is a curator and writer based between Manchester and Shanghai, whose curatorial practice explores the intersection of arts, decentralised technologies and contemporary social (sub)culture. Xin has been part of Chronus Art Center since 2017 and is the winner of the Hyundai Blue Prize Art+Tech 2022.
Günseli Yalcinkaya is an artist and researcher based in London. She is Contributing Editor at Dazed Magazine and co-curator of Cybernetic Serendipity: Towards AI, which took place at London’s ICA in 2024. Yalcinkaya has appeared in talks and panels at the Architectural Association, BFI, Central Saint Martins, LAS Art Foundation, London College of Fashion, Somerset House, Sónar+D, Unsound Festival, and X Museum. Her writing has appeared in Dazed Magazine, Spike Art and 032c.
Gary Zhexi Zhang is an artist exploring cosmology, technology and economy. Lately, he exhibited at the 9th Asian Art Biennial, edited Catastrophe Time! and toured Dead Cat Bounce with Waste Paper Opera. He is an affiliated researcher at Serpentine R&D, British Council and Center for AI & Culture, NYU Shanghai.
