Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and writer based in Berlin. Her work addresses media, technology, and the global circulation of images through video installations, digital environments, and writing. She is Professor for Emergent Digital Media at Munich Art Academy. Her research platform at AdbK Munich, run with Francis Hunger, is at www.carrier-bag.net. She is represented by Esther Schipper (Berlin) and Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York).

Nora O’ Murchú is a curator and researcher whose work explores how digital infrastructures—software, algorithms, and networks—reshape contemporary culture and politics. Drawing on queer-feminist and postcapitalist theory, her projects examine how technology can reinforce extractivist and authoritarian systems, while also revealing cracks for collective action and dissent.

She has curated exhibitions, residencies, and public programmes at Akademie Schloss Solitude, LABoral, and the Seoul Museum of Art, and served as Artistic Director of transmediale—Europe’s leading festival for art and digital culture—from 2020 to 2024. Her practice questions the boundaries between art and technology, asking how we might reclaim space for agency and collaboration amid the accelerating reconfigurations of techno-social life and the illusions of techno-solutionism. She currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Limerick in Ireland.

Sam Lavigne is an artist and educator whose work deals with data, surveillance, cops, natural language processing, and automation. He is a Creative Capital grantee, recipient of the Pioneer Works Working Artist Fellowship, and the Brown Institute’s Magic Grant. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Synthetic Media and Algorithmic Justice at the Parsons School of Design.