Julian Stallabrass

Julian Stallabrass is a lecturer, writer, curator and photographer.

• art,
• theory

 Red Tape

Red Tape is a discussion series initiated by students of the Visual Communication programme at the Royal College of Art.

Adam Hyde

Adam Hyde is a sound and radio artist from New Zealand, and CEO of Floss Manuals - Free Manuals for Free Software.
He is the co-founder with Honro Harger of r a d i o q u a l i a sound and media art collective.

• free software

Mi You

Mi You is a curator and a professor of Art and Economies at the University of Kassel / documenta Institut. Her academic interests lie in new and historical materialism and performance philosophy, as well as the history, political theory and philosophy of Eurasia. She also leads research on alternative value systems, the social value of art and ideological regroupings in art and culture. Previously, she was a research associate at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (2014-2021), where she explored the use of Silk Roads as a figuration for anti-nationalist, de-centralised and nomadic imageries.

• art

Ian Alan Paul

Ian Alan Paul is a transdisciplinary artist, theorist, and curator. His practice includes the production of experimental documentary, critical fiction, and media art, aiming to produce novel conditions for the exploration of contemporary politics, ethics, and aesthetics in global contexts. His projects have approached a wide variety of topics including the Guantanamo Bay Prison, Fortress Europe, the Zapatista communities, Drone Warfare, the military regime in post-revolution/post-coup Cairo, and most recently with the history and future of Palestine.

• art,
• tactical media

Gene Ray

Gene Ray is a critic and theorist living in Berlin, is a member of the Radical Culture Research Collective (RCRC).

• art,
• tactical media

Josephine Bosma

Josephine Bosma lives and works in Amsterdam. From an art background, she is a journalist and author in the fields of art, new media and media theory, focusing on art, sound and performance on the internet, as well as cyberfeminism and media politics.

Rachel Baker

Rachel Baker is a network artist based in London. Between 1991 and 1996 she attended art colleges including Exeter College Of Art and Design, Newport School of Art and Design, and Goldsmiths College where she completed an MA in Design Futures, studying internet + audio communications and pseudo-interactive marketing.

Gergory Sholette

Gregory Sholette is an artist, activist and author based in New York. 

• art,
• activism,
• theory,
• economics

Andreas Broeckmann

Andreas Broeckmann is an art historian and curator who lives in Berlin and works as the curator of the Leuphana Arts Program in Lüneburg.

• art,
• theory,
• media theory,
• deep europe

Darko Fritz

Darko Fritz Fritz is artist and independent curator and researcher. He was born in 1966, in Croatia, and currently he lives and works in Amsterdam, Zagreb and Korcula. He studied architecture at the University of Zagreb [1986 - 1989] and media art at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam [1990 - 1992].

• tactical media,
• migration,
• media criticism

Aalam Wassef

Aalam Wassef, 38, is an Egyptian independent artist (installations, new media), blogger and internet activist.
He is based in Cairo in El Khalifa area.

• art,
• net.activism,
• middle east

Amy Sara Carroll

Amy Sara Carroll is Assistant Professor of American Culture / Latino / a Studies and English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  She received a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University (2004), and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Cornell University (1995).

• art,
• migration,
• borders

Shu Lea Cheang

Shu Lea Cheang (born in Taiwan) is a multi-media artist, working within the fields of net-based installation, social interface and film production.

• art

Inke Arns

Inke Arns, curator and artistic director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein (www.hmkv.de) in Dortmund, Germany, since 2005. She has worked internationally as an independent curator, writer and theorist specializing in media art, net cultures, and Eastern Europe since 1993. She lived in Paris (1982-86), finished school in West-Berlin in 1988, studied Russian literature, Eastern European studies, political science, and art history in Berlin and Amsterdam (1988-96) and in 2004 obtained her PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin, with a thesis focusing on a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflected the historical avant-garde and the notion of utopia in visual and media art projects of the 1980s and 1990s in (ex-)Yugoslavia and Russia.

• art,
• network cultures,
• net criticism

 ArtLeaks

ArtLeaks is collective platform initiated by an international group of artists, curators, art historians and intellectuals in response to the abuse of their professional integrity and the open infraction of their labor rights. In the art world, such abuses usually disappear, but some events bring them into sharp focus and therefore deserve public scrutiny.  Only by drawing attention to concrete abuses can we underscore the precarious condition of cultural workers and the necessity for sustained protest against the appropriation of politically engaged art, culture and theory by institutions embedded in a tight mesh of capital and power.

• art,
• campaign,
• precarity,
• art of campaigning

Oleg Kireev

Oleg Kireev (born 1975) - art- and mediacritic, editor and curator, writer, critic and activist, founder of the Ghetto collective, Moscow. Participated in a number of media-political campaigns ("Against all parties", 1999) and actions ("Barricade at Bolshaya Nikitskaya", May 1998). Author of articles on art and politics in the Russian and international press ("Novaya gazeta", "Nezavasimaya gazeta", "Flash art", "Siksi", "Mute"

• urban intervention,
• criticism