Felix Stalder

Felix Stalder is a professor for Digital Culture at the Zurich University of the Arts. His work focuses on the intersection of cultural, political and technological dynamics, in particular on new modes of commons-based production, control society, copyright and transformation of subjectivity. He not only works as an academic, but also a cultural producer, was a moderator of the mailing list, and member of World Information Institute in Vienna, as well the Technopolitics Working Group (both in Vienna). Among his recent publications are “Digital Solidarity” (PML & Mute 2014) and “The Digital Condition” Polity Press, 2018).

Jennifer Walshe

“The most original compositional voice to emerge from Ireland in the past 20 years” (The Irish Times) and “Wild girl of Darmstadt” (Frankfurter Rundschau), composer and performer Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her music has been commissioned, broadcast and performed all over the world. She has been the recipient of fellowships and prizes from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York; the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm, the Internationales Musikinstitut, Darmstadt and Akademie Schloss Solitude among others. Recent projects include Aisteach, a fictional history of avant-garde music in Ireland; EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT, a work for voice, string quartet and film commissioned by the Arditti Quartet; and TIME TIME TIME, an opera written in collaboration with the philosopher Timothy Morton, which has been touring to critical acclaim. Walshe is currently Professor of Performance at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart.

Cornelia Sollfrank

Cornelia Sollfrank is an artist, researcher and university lecturer living in Berlin. Recurring subjects in her artistic and academic work both in and about digital cultures are artistic infrastructures, new forms of (political) self-organization, authorship and intellectual property, techno-feminist practice and theory. As a pioneer of Internet art, Cornelia Sollfrank built up a reputation with two central projects: the net.art generator – a web-based art-producing ‘machine’, and Female Extension – her famous hack of the first competition for Internet art. Her experiments with the basic principles of aesthetic modernism implied conflicts with its institutional and legal framework and led to her academic research. In her PhD “Performing the Paradoxes of Intellectual Property,” Cornelia investigated the increasingly strained relationship between art and copyright. In her follow-up artistic research project Giving What You Don’t Have she started to explore art projects that all contribute to the creation and maintenance of ‘digital commons.’ This led to her current research project ‘Creating Commons,’ based at the University of the Arts in Zürich. Her most recent performance À la recherche de l’information perdue is about gender stereotypes in the digital underground with the example of Wikileaks. Her book “Die schönen Kriegerinnen. Technofeministische Praxis im 21.Jahrhundert” (The beautiful warriors. Technofeminist Practice in the21st Century) was published in August 2018 with transversal texts, Vienna.

Evert Hoogendoorn

Evert Hoogendoorn is a strategist and game designer at IJsfontein Interactive Media. He has been part of the game industry for over 20 years and was co-founder of the first game design program in Europe at the University of the Arts Utrecht.

He aims to make games that are not only entertaining, but have a positive and proven impact on people’s lives. He is mostly focused on the domains of medical care, - cure, mental health and education, but also worked for museums, NGO’s and corporates. To do so he works together closely with researchers from different universities and medical centers, often within academic constraints.

To effectively incorporate academic rigor with game development he is not only designing the games itself, but also the co-design strategies to better align the process of validation with the creative- and production strategies of games.

Evert Hoogendoorn has a background in education and theatre and combines his work at IJsfontein with the development of innovative educational solutions with the University of the Arts in Utrecht (HKU). There, he is program leader “ludodidactics” at the HKU College. Here he and his colleagues us game design principles to create innovative educational tools and learning experiences.

Abhay Adhikari

Abhay Adhikari works globally with the private and public sector to develop digital innovation projects. This includes programmes for organisations such as the Guardian, Google and Nesta. He leads the Urban Sustainable Development Lab, which has been named one of UK’s 50 radical-thinking projects by the Observer newspaper. Abhay has a research background in biofeedback gaming from the music research centre (mrc) University of York. He has collaborated with an artist to conduct mindfulness workshops in Japan. In 2019 he is launching Culture Labs to foster social innovation led by the cultural sector. The first lab will run in Bilbao. Abhay speaks on digital culture at events such as FutureEverything, Battle of Ideas and TEDx.

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