Australian media theorist and writer, currently lives and works in
New York. McKenzie Wark grew up and studied in Australia, at Macquarie University, the University of Technology, Sydney and at the Murdoch University. In 2000, he emigrated to the US.
Theorist, writer, and Research Fellow at the Moving Image Lab as well as coordinator and curator at the Post-Media Lab at Leuphana University in Lüneburg.
ReadRita Raley is Associate Professor of English, with courtesy appointments in Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and Global Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of digital media and humanist inquiry, with a particular emphasis on cultural critique, artistic practices, and language (codework, machine translation, electronic literature, and electronic English).
Charles Hirschkind is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests concern religious practice, media technologies, and emergent forms of political community in the urban Middle East and Europe. In his recent book, The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics (2006), he explores how a popular Islamic media form?the cassette sermon?has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades. He is also the co-editor (with David Scott) of Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad an his Interlocutors (2005). Other publications include "Cultures of Death: Religion, Media, Bioethics" (Social Text 2008), "Cassette Ethics, Public Piety, and Popular Media in Egypt." (Media, Religion, and the Public Sphere, eds. A. Moors and B. Meyer, 2005), "The Ethics of Listening: Cassette-Sermon Audition in Contemporary Cairo" (American Ethnologist 2001). His current project is based in southern Spain and explores some of the different ways in which Europe's Islamic past inhabits its present, unsettling contemporary efforts to secure Europe's Christian civilizational identity. This project has been funded through an award from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
ReadBas Raijmakers is the creative director of STBY. Since the early nineties he has worked in the internet and media industry as consultant and research manager. He holds a master degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Amsterdam (1990) and a PhD degree in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London (2007).
ReadFelix Stalder is a researcher, economist, and media theorist, working in Zürich and Vienna. He is co-founder and co-moderator of the influential nettime mailing list for net criticism.
ReadNathalie Magnan is an artist and theoretician. She produced video essays for Paper Tiger TV, Deep Dish TV as well as for Canal+.
ReadPaolo Gerbaudo is Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at the Department of CMCI at King?s College London.
ReadThe editors of the Tactical Media Files archive and documentation
resource is a continuously changing group of individuals. The resource
was started in 2008 by David Garcia, Eric Kluitenberg, Michiel van der
Haagen, and Ian van Riel, further assisted by Gerbrand Oudenaarden, Adam
Hyde, Huub Sanders (IISG) and many other individuals and organisations.
The Raqs Media Collective enjoys playing a plurality of roles, often appearing as artists, occasionally as curators, sometimes as philosophical agent provocateurs.
ReadTatiana Bazzichelli (it/de) is a researcher, networker and curator, working in the field of hacktivism and net culture.
