Mariana Marangoni is a Brazilian artist, researcher, and lecturer in MA Interaction Design at the London College of Communication. Her work utilizes installations and visual poetry to explore media materiality, the aesthetics of decay, and unconventional computational paradigms. Currently a PhD student at the UAL Creative Computing Institute, Mariana has exhibited and presented her research internationally at venues such as the V&A, Ars Electronica, and Transmediale. She is a core member of the Critical Climate Computing Research Group at UAL.

Lola is a multidisciplinary artist and technologist. She is curious about alternative forms of navigating and experiencing the web. Her work ‘What Do You See?: Alt Text as Artistic Medium’ asked an audience to reconsider their definition of an “image” and interrogate how the visual can be presented in alternative forms such as text. Drawing on the work of Evgen Bavcar, Geraldo Nigenda, Toni Morrison, Jack Whitten and alttextselfies.net, Lola encouraged the audience to create images using ekphrastic poetry and consider how they might describe the abstract pieces of Jack Whitten to a blind viewer. Lola’s technical work extends into open standards through various W3C groups including the W3C Technical Architecture Group where she serves as a co-chair.

Dana Dawud is an artist and writer whose practice moves between film, montage, and sound design, navigating the fluidity of internet cinema across both online and offline spaces. Her work traces ruptures and reverberations in contemporary culture, often taking shape as experimental moving-image projects that resist closure and evolve through mutation and accumulation.

Kat Macdonald is a London-based sound and performance artist exploring collective practice and public space through technology, transmission and alternative pedagogies. She is the founder of the London Community Laptop Orchestra and a long time member of the Design And Performance Lab (DAP Lab).

Lucia Rebolino is an artist, architect, and computational designer. She conceives her practice as a space where different branches of science and design can conceptualize, critique, and visualize new aesthetics, drawing attention to complex and invisible systems. She is a researcher with Forensic Architecture in London, focusing on environmental justice investigations. Her work on prediction and climate models has been featured in e-flux and exhibited at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale (2025) and the Busan Museum of Art in South Korea (2026). Her research-based artistic practice explores technology-driven performances, and she has lectured at international institutions including MoMA, MediaLab Matadero, Columbia University, the Royal College of Art, and ETH Zurich.

Lenyx Dickey (they/them) is a Black queer computational media artist based in Charlotte, NC. Their practice exists at the intersection of code, care, and culture. As a self-taught programmer with over six years of experience, they founded the Black Sex Worker Reparation Fund and teach workshops for The Rouge Support Network. Lenyx’s artistic practice explores themes of digital archiving, queer storytelling, and speculative systems. They strive to investigate how code can preserve marginalized histories and create new forms of kinship.

compost.cc is permacomputing for common digital archives compost.cc is permacomputing for common digital archives — a media art project by Zachary Furste and Diego Gómez-Venegas. The project restores discarded computing devices into servers that collectively preserve endangered archives. The network distributes files using custom software based on the BitTorrent protocol. Have a look at a live network terminal.