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Alessandro Y. Longo

Alessandro Y. Longo is a researcher, writer, and cultural organizer based between Berlin and Turin. He’s a PhD candidate at DREST (Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies), where he investigates the emergence of synthetic intimacy on AI companionship platforms. Alessandro is the initiator and maintainer of REINCANTAMENTO, an independent research and publishing group exploring technology, radical imagination, and rituals through the lens of re-enchantment. He also acts as user researcher on Shared Visions, a Creative Europe-funded cooperative art platform adopting Web3 infrastructure, and has spent several years contributing to cooperative protocol design and blockchain governance through Curve Labs and Circles Coop.

Andreas Treske

Andreas Treske is an author, and filmmaker living in Ankara, Turkey.In 2015 he published Video Theory. Online Video Aesthetics or the Afterlife of Video. with Transcript. In 2025 the INC published “Heaven’s Delight: On the Pleasures of Audiovisual Practices.” Since 2008 he has been involved in the Video Vortex network.

Anna-Verena Nosthoff

Anna-Verena Nosthoff is Junior Professor of Ethics of Digitalisation at the University of Oldenburg and Co-Director of the Critical Data Lab at Humboldt University Berlin. Her work examines platform power, AI, cybernetics, and digital governance, with particular attention to Big Tech, political subjectivity, and contemporary forms of technological control.

Annalisa Pelizza

Annalisa Pelizza is professor of science and technology studies and information studies at the University of Bologna and University of Aarhus. She researches and teaches about how vulnerabilities are created through identification infrastructures, long-term transformations in modern institutions prompted by digital infrastructures, ontologies and interoperability. With the INC she has published the book Communities at a Crossroads, on Ars Electronica’s digital communities.

Antonia Hernández

Antonia Hernández is an artist and an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Concordia University in Montreal. Through a combination of theoretical investigation and art-based practices,Hernández explores the poetics of governance and the domestic side of platforms. She is currently working on “A Liquid Frontier,” a paper opera addressing water financialization and resistance in Chile.

Anya Shchetvina

Anya Shchetvina is a PhD candidate in Media Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is a coordinator of Matter of Imagination and co-editor of Imagining the Internet(s): A Collaborative Glossary. In the past, she has coordinated The club for internet and society enthusiasts in Moscow, facilitating critical pedagogical and research projects, as well as public discussions related to internet studies.

Burchhhha

Zeynep Burça Oral, a.k.a. Burchhhha, is an Amsterdam based performance media sound dj noise image text vocalist musician artist working with communication, media, and disgust. She likes positioning her audience in an uncomfortable place, while still letting them enjoy her colourful superficiality. You can find her burrowing around different underground scenes, and nestled between absurdity and naivety.

Cade Diehm

Cade Diehm (IE/AU) is a researcher, author, founder of New Design Congress (DE, 2018) and Para-Real Ltd (IE, 2025), and a founding member of Modal Collective (2025). Over a thirteen year career, Cade has developed a forensic practice capable of piercing opaque systems of power to make sense of their structural function. His work moves between security, digital identity, AI, cultural memory, political risk, and game systems, building tools and frameworks for understanding how digital systems produce material consequences. Cade’s expertise has informed projects across major institutions and civil society organisations – including the European Parliament, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, PEN America and others – and his team frequently collaborates with research institutions, civil society, technology firms and environmental groups. Cade serves on the executive board of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics and the observer board of the Digital Credentials for Europe (DC4EU), a European Union Digital Europe Programme pilot.

Chloë Arkenbout

Chloë Arkenbout has been part of the core team of the Institute of Network Cultures since 2020. Their personal research centers on what it means to be (in)visible in the (semi)digital public sphere, discussing the political and emotional dimensions of subjects such as comment discussions, call-out culture, shadow banning, conflict & care in social movements, and political memes. She also co-edited the three Critical Meme Readers that INC published in 2021, 2022 and 2024, and Fragments of Tactical Media, published in 2026. Additionally, she works as a teacher at the Communication and Multimedia Design program at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and she volunteers at COC Nederland, the oldest still-existing LGBTQAI+ rights group in the world. Before joining the INC, she worked as an independent journalist and communications specialist, focusing on cultural and societal projects.

Daniel Leix Palumbo

Daniel Leix Palumbo is a musician and PhD researcher at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies and the Department of Language, Technology and Culture at the University of Groningen. As a solo sound artist and with the band Fernweh, he has worked on installations, performances, audio & video documentaries, commissioned by various organisations, among which are the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam Alternative, Fundacion Princesa de Asturias, Palazzo Reale Milano and Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi.

Dasha Hetmanova

Daria Hetmanova is currently pursuing their PhD at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Operating at the intersection of science & technology studies and critical border studies, Daria’s current project focuses on mapping—both spatially and temporally— the Russian-established system of “filtration” of Ukrainian civilians during Russia’s war against Ukraine. Daria’s work was featured at Cashmere Radio and Mariupol Memory Park, as well as presented at PHI Montreal, Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna,

Diana Milán

Diana Millán (they/he/she). Artist and predoctoral researcher (PDIF/FPU) at UAM, Madrid, and main researcher at the Internet Core project (INC). They have carried out research stays at the University of Applied Sciences (Amsterdam), the Center for Digital Cultures (Lüneburg-Berlin), and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Lerma-Mexico City). Their Internet Core theory reflects on a new stage in internet art in the face of platform brutality.

Donatella Della Ratta

Donatella Della Ratta is a writer, performer, and curator specializing in networked media, with a focus on the Arab world. She is a former Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, currently teaching Media Studies at John Cabot University, Rome. From 2007 to 2013, she served as Arab world community manager for the international organization Creative Commons. Her research on generative AI earned her the Italian Ministry of Culture ‘Italian Council’ award 2024-25. She is developing her concept of ‘speculative violence’ across multiple formats, ranging from a book to the lecture performance Ask Me for Those Unborn Promises That May Seem Unlikely to Happen in the Natural developed in collaboration with The Void collective.

Dunja Nešović

Dunja Nešović is a PhD candidate in Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. Her doctoral research investigates the mediation of lesbian desire in the convergent digital media environment, with a focus on (reality) television and social media.

edj

edj grew up organising electronic music events in small-town Switzerland, founded a children’s keyboard punk orchestra, and somehow ended up remote deejaying for LA’s beloved dublab.com. Eclectic by nature, synth-obsessed by choice. Catch his annual end-of-year mix if you know where to look.

Eke Rebergen

Eke Rebergen is a PhD candidate at ASCA (University of Amsterdam) and part of the Cultural and Creative Industry research group of CARADT (Avans University of Applied Sciences). His research focuses on creative resistance in relation to algorithmic technologies. He looks at radical philosophies to inform design politics, art activism and critical design projects that creatively challenge and oppose. He developed and coordinated workshops and design projects for practical engagement and has taught accompanying philosophy and design theory courses.

Emanuele Braga

See MACAO.

Federico Aldovisi

See MACAO.

Francesco Barchiesi

Francesco Barchiesi (he/him) is a Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Birmingham (UK). His research investigates the genealogy of incel culture to understand non-radicalising trajectories for youth masculinities, both online and offline.

Gabriel Vigliensoni

Gabriel Vigliensoni is an electronic music artist, performer, and researcher whose work explores the creative affordances of machine learning in the context of sound and music making. He holds a PhD in Music Technology from McGill University and is an Assistant Professor in Creative AI at Concordia University.

Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink is the founder of the Institute of Network Cultures and Professor of Art and Network Cultures at the University of Amsterdam. His work spans tactical media, organized networks, platform critique, and alternative forms of publishing and digital organization. He is the author of numerous books on internet culture and networked media.

Gianmarco Christofari

Gianmarco Cristofari is a data protection lawyer and a socio-legal researcher that over the last decade has been working on platformization. With INC, he published the book The Politics of Platformization and the interview series on the development of digital soveregnty in Latin America ‘Digital Tribulations’. He holds a Phd in Global Studies from the University of Macerata and has worked at New York University and the University of Palermo. Currently, he is researching public platform alternatives, state platformization, and the rise of China as in the longue durée of capitalist development.

Giovanni Rossetti

Giovanni Rossetti is a media researcher, activist, and cultural programmer. He is interested in how different media systems organize and shape visibility, and preserve or exclude political and activist histories. In his practice, he experiments with participatory methods to activate dormant archives and collectively produce new readings and uses of materials. He is active in several community spaces in Amsterdam, including Filmhuis Cavia and ]LAG( hacklab.

Human Observer

Human Observer is a multimedia artist and organiser based in Amsterdam. He grew up on internet core music and vinyls found in his parent’s collection and will be playing some of those at Exit Fest <3

Hunter Nassar

Hunter Nassar is an audio and performance artist based in The Hague whose practice questions permanence in space, systems theory and situated listening. He takes inspiration from media, ecology, history of spaces and experimental sound practices. He is currently studying at the art science department at the KABK and co-organising Mushroom Radio.

İdil Galip

Idil Galip (she/her) is a writer, researcher and teacher. Her work explores the meme as foundational infrastructure of contemporary culture and politics, revealing how memetic media form new publics, dictate the rhythms of attention, and act as an ideological battleground.

Inte Gloerich

Inte Gloerich is postdoctoral researcher at the Visual Methodologies Collective (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) and at the Antwerp Media in Society Centre (University of Antwerp). She likes to critically, creatively, and collaboratively reimagine emerging technology from decolonial, feminist, and ecological perspectives. She has also been hanging around the Institute of Network Cultures for more than a decade.

Jernej Markelj

Jernej Markelj is a Lecturer in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on affective politics of digital media, agentic imaginaries of AI, and online gend

Jordi Viader Guerrero

Jordi Viader Guerrero (he/him) is a practice-based researcher working across philosophy of technology, media theory, and technological design. His research engages with dissenting participatory design practices, activist media, and the intersections of media theory and digital culture. Jordi is a co-founder of THE VOID, a research project at the Institute of Network Cultures exploring tactical uses of online video for political action and artistic research.

Kate A. Babin

Kate A. Babin (she/her) is a Postgraduate Researcher at Coventry University. She works with and through feminist affect theory and applies a methodological approach of critical empathy to researching anti-feminist networked publics. Her ongoing dissertation project examines the affective constructions of race, neurodiversity and the body within a ‘blackpilled’ misogynist incel forum.

Klara Debeljak

Klara Debeljak is a researcher and artist working at the intersection of writing, design, and video. Her practice explores internet infrastructures and the potential for interventions in the algorithmic structures of reality. She has presented her work in group exhibitions across Europe and West Africa, including at UNFAIR (Amsterdam), the Dakar OFF Biennale and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Ljubljana). Her texts have been published in Designers Write, Nero Editions, Kajet, Disenz and Makery and have been translated into Italian and French. She has moderated discussions on technology and visibility for the IMPAKT Festival, and her essay Theory of the Chrono-Ghettos received the Designers Write award. Since 2021, she has been a researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, and in 2024 she began a two-year residency at Švicarija in Ljubljana, where she is developing a project on digital gentrification and speculative infrastructures.

Klaudia Orczykowska

klaudia orczykowska (orczi96) is a recovered egirl — designer, researcher, and writer based in the hague & online ★ retired dj, music lover. exploring contemporary (online) storytelling. her work moves between visual forms, fiction & non-fiction writing, and sound design.

Konfluxus

Konfluxus is a Budapest-based stream art collective producing experimental live broadcasts and hybrid networked events since 2024. It started as a 24-hour solidarity act at the Intermedia department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, when students joined UKRAiNATV with a stream commemorating the second anniversary of Russian invasion and full-scale war in Ukraine. Following that initial connection the collective practiced stream art as a means of creating alternative hybrid meeting spaces for artists in the hostile environment of the Orbán regime. Nowadays the collective is focused on building self-hosted sustainable infrastructures in close collaboration with the Stream Art Network.

Ksenia Ryback

Ksenia Rybak is a researcher, writer, and curator based in Kyiv, Ukraine. She studied media art history and critical media theory within Media Arts Cultures EMJMD. Her work focuses on the intersections of technology, space, and violence. Combining investigative research, media theory, and visual methodologies, she has contributed to projects including the Mariupol Drama Theatre Spatial Archive with the Center for Spatial Technologies and Forensis/Forensic Architecture, and research With Bricks, Not Bombs within the collective Scarcity investigating Mariupol reconstruction under occupation. She is currently a research fellow at the University of Siegen’s CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation,” where she is conducting research on Russian filtration politics at Sheremetyevo Airport in collaboration with Daria Hetmanova and Natasha Pereverzina.

Laura Mrksa

Laura Mrksa (Croatia, 1992) is a slow designer in a fast-paced world, working from Amsterdam. Her design practice revolves around the transformation of everyday objects, predominantly furniture, as a means of exploring concepts related to materialism, consumerism, and individualism. At the moment, the focus of her practice is directed towards crafting objects that engage with the notion of rest. Within this theme, Laura adopts a comprehensive research approach, exploring urgent social realities such as workplace pressures and the impact of social media on our daily lives. Simultaneously, she delves into the design sector’s imperative to create slow and meaningful spaces and encounters. Her dominant design tool is weaving, and she has developed a technique inspired by net-repairing methods used by women in fishing communities, emphasizing care, patience, and often invisible labor. Without set patterns, each piece evolves intuitively, escaping the binary code of loombased weaving, and turning the process into a slow, meditative dialogue between chance and intention.

Laura Subirats

Laura Subirats is an artist and researcher whose practice focuses on processes of accumulation and excess within personal archives, both virtual and non-virtual. Her work investigates how data saturation reshapes our relationship with memory and identity. She is currently a PhD candidate at BAU, Centre Universitari d’Arts i Disseny de Barcelona, with the project Silly Archiving: on Backlog, Buffering and Data Hoarding, and is a long-term artist-in-residence at Hangar, Barcelona. She is also conducting a research stay at the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam.

Lesia Kulchynska

Lesia Kulchynska is a curator and researcher in media and visual studies, currently based in Amsterdam. She holds a PhD in Film Studies and has worked as a researcher at the Pinchuk Art Center and as a curator at the Visual Culture Research Center in Kyiv. She was a Fulbright Scholar at New York University (2018-2019), a postdoctoral fellow of Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute of Art History (2022-2024), and was a fellow for six months at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (2024-2025). She is also an affiliated researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her current research is on the visuality of violence during the Russian War on Ukraine.

Letizia Chiappini

Letizia Chiappini is an assistant professor of urban sociology and digital geography in the Department of Behavioural, Management, and Social Sciences at the University of Twente. Letizia holds a joint PhD from the University of Milan-Bicocca and the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests focus on processes of digitization, digital literacy, and their effects on urban spaces and society. She is a co-founder of the Slutty Urbanism collective, which is part of the Austrian Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale with an artistic, written, and photographic contribution titled “Glitches in Platform Urbanism.” Letizia writes for various local and international magazines in the Netherlands and Italy.

MACAO

MACAO is an independent centre for art, culture, and research. Rejecting the creative industries model, it treats artistic production as a tool for social transformation, political critique, and experimental forms of governance. Its research focuses on labour conditions in the cultural sector, the right to the city, and new organisational and technological models for cultural production. MACAO runs a cross-disciplinary programme spanning performing arts, cinema, visual arts, design, literature, new media, and civic assemblies. It is coordinated through an open assembly of artists and activists. At the INC Exit Fest, MACAO is represented by Federico Aldovisi, Emanuele Braga, and Virginia Roghi.

Marc Tuters

Marc Tuters is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and co-director of the Open Intelligence Lab. His research focuses on platform cultures, propaganda, conspiracy theories, and digital infrastructures, with particular attention to online political movements and media ecologies.

Martina Raponi

Martina Raponi is a writer and artist researching noise and the unheard through writing, sound performance, expanded reality, interactive installations, and workshop activations. She published two books: “Psofotopias. Noise: Sounding Out the Unheard” (Auditorium, 2025) and “Strategie del Rumore. Interferenze tra Arte Filosofia e Underground” (Auditorium, 2015). Martina is co-founder of noiserr, an interdisciplinary research group focused on noise. With artist [M] Dudeck, Martina founded the Ansible Institute, a transitory speculative fiction laboratory. She is part of N.R.U. (Noise Research Union) with Sonia de Jager, Cécile Malaspina, Miguel Prado Casanova, Inigo Wilkins, and Mattin. Martina is an art theory tutor and sound researcher at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and PhD candidate at ASCA, Univeristeit van Amsterdam. http://noiserr.xyz/

Mela Miekus

Mela Miekus is an Amsterdam-based writer and researcher with a background in art theory and curating. Her research practice centres around contemporary art and internet cultures with a focus on mediated figure design, the politics of aesthetics, and online girlhood. She holds a Master’s in Curating Art and Cultures from the University of Amsterdam (2025). She was a curator-in-training at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2024-25). As of 2025, she is a researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures.

Michael Dieter

Michael Dieter is an interdisciplinary researcher with a focus on interface critique, app studies, tactical media, technological aesthetics and media genealogies concerned with socio-political organization, labour and infrastructural power. He is based at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.

Miriam Rasch

Miriam Rasch is a philosopher and essayist. She writes books and articles about literature, technology, ethics, and digital culture and works as research educator and coordinator for the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. From 2012-2020, she was part of the Institute of Network Cultures. There, she published the open access experimental essay collection Shadowbook: Writing Through the Digital, 2014-2018. In 2020, she published Frictie: Ethiek in tijden van dataïsme (De Bezige Bij), which was awarded the annual Socrates Cup for the best philosophical book in the Dutch language. With her WdKA colleagues, she wrote Hands on Research for Artists, Designers & Educators (Set Margins’, 2024). Her latest book, about the ethics of listening in polarised times, will come out in an English edition at Columbia University Press this fall as Listening. For more see, www.miriamrasch.nl

Morgane Billuart

Morgane Billuart is a writer, researcher, and storyteller whose work navigates the intersection of critical inquiry and narrative practice. Her practice spans writing, visual media, and sound, exploring how technology shapes contemporary modes of imagination, perception, and social relation. She is an affiliated researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures and the New Center for Research and Practice, and co-hosts the podcast GirlEmployee with Carmen Lael Hines. Her written works include The Heat of Others (2026), Cycles, Becoming the Product (2025), and The Sacred and the Doomed (2024), reflecting a sustained engagement with the material, ethical, and cultural entanglements of technology in contemporary life.

Nathalie Fridzema

Nathalie Fridzema is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen. She is coordinator of Matter of Imagination and co-editor of Imagining the Internet(s): A Collaborative Glossary. Her research examines the cultural history of the early Dutch web (1994–2004), with a focus on web imaginaries, everyday practices, and regional histories often overlooked in dominant accounts of internet history.

Ned Rossiter

Ned Rossiter is Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, and a theorist of media infrastructures, logistics, and organized networks. His work examines how digital systems reorganize labor, institutions, and political life, with particular attention to automation, platform economies, and new forms of organization.

Noura Tafeche

Noura Tafeche is a visual artist, onomaturge, and independent researcher whose practice moves across archival methods, laboratory-based processes, video, installation, neologisms and drawing. She graduated in New Media Art from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, with a particular focus on net.art, however, her most formative experience has been The Influencers Festival, Barcelona. Her research explores visual culture and its techno-political entanglements, with particular attention to digital militarism, online aesthetics, internet hyper-niches, and non-Anglophone meme cultures. She also examines the use of synthetic images in institutional neo-propaganda strategies. She has exhibited, lectured, and led laboratories at Aksioma (Ljubljana), Medialab Matadero (Madrid), transmediale (Berlin), Disruption Network Lab (Berlin), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur), Impakt (Utrecht), Foto Colectania (Barcelona), Design Museum (Helsinki), Tainan Art Museum (Tainan), Tomorrow Maybe (Hong Kong), TheWrong Biennale (internet), Aarhus Kunsthal (Aarhus), Triennale Milano (Milano), Pirelli HangarBicocca (Milano), Almanac Inn (Turin), Mattatoio (Roma), Dutch Art Institute (Arnhem), Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam), and the European Union Representative Centre (Al Quds, Palestine).

Patricia de Vries

Patricia de Vries leads the Art & Spatial Praxis research group at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, where she explores artistic and academic interventions within spatial, institutional, and digital enclosures. She also serves as the programme director of ARIAS, a platform that fosters research through the Arts and Sciences. From 2013 to 2020, she worked as a researcher and project coordinator at the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. She was the project lead for MoneyLab — before Inte took over. Her work focused on the connections among art, theory, and activism, particularly regarding algorithms and digital financial infrastructures.

Rosa Menkman

Rosa Menkman is a Dutch artist and researcher of resolutions. Her work focuses on noise artifacts resulting from accidents in both analog and digital media.

Ruben Stoffelen

Ruben Stoffelen is an Amsterdam based writer and independent researcher who holds a research master degree in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam and is working at the Institute of Network Cultures. His research ranges from networked subcultures and visual culture to infrastructure and the built environment, whilst underscoring digital culture and agency.

Sebastian Giessmann

Sebastian Giessmann does Media, Theory and Culture at the Universities of Siegen and Cologne. Out now: Das Kreditkarten-Buch: Geschichte und Theorie des digitalen Bezahlens. Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2026. Still there: The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832. MIT Press, 2024. Sebastian is blogging proudly since 2006 at www.netzeundnetzwerke.de.

Sepp Eckenhaussen

Sepp Eckenhaussen is an artwriter, researcher, and organiser based in Amsterdam. He works at the Institute of Network Cultures and the Caradt research group of the St.Joost Academy of Art & Design. From 2020 to 2023, Sepp co-directed Platform BK, an activist think tank that researches the role of art in society and takes action to improve art policy in the Netherlands. He is the author of Goodbye Poverty Jetset: How Art Workers Make Solidarity Economies (HumDrumPress, 2026).

Silvio Lorusso

Silvio Lorusso is an Italian writer, artist and designer based in Lisbon, Portugal. He published Entreprecariat (Onomatopee, 2019) and What Design Can’t Do (Set Margins’, 2023). He is editor of the Magma series for Krisis Publishing. Lorusso is an assistant professor at Lusófona University in Lisbon and a tutor in the Information Design department at Design Academy Eindhoven. He holds a PhD in Design Sciences from Iuav University of Venice. See: https://silviolorusso.com.

Sofi Xian

Sofi Xian (冼納然) is a researcher, cultural theorist, and multimedia artist based in Rotterdam, NL. Drawing on computational linguistics, experimental photography, cinema studies, and sound art, she maps the semiotic terrain of consumer culture, with particular focus on marginal, naïve, and forgotten cultural detritus as reservoirs of emergent aesthetics and ambient meaning. A founding member of the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, she pioneered the field of consumer aesthetics and co-coined the term Frutiger Aero. She founded digicam.love in 2018 and holds an MA in Linguistics (Text Mining) from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Sophie Publig

Sophie Publig is an internet archaeologist and Senior Scientist at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her research moves across critical posthumanism, digital cultures, and aesthetics, analyzing phenomena from meme ecologies to networked subjectivities to internet folklore. She has co-written Digital Occultism (2026, Aksioma) with Mikkel Rørbo.

Tiziana Terranova

Tiziana Terranova is Professor of Cultural Studies and Digital Media Theory at the University of Naples “L’Orientale.” A major theorist of network culture and digital capitalism, her work explores digital labor, automation, platform economies, and the digital commons. She is the author of Network Culture (2004) and After the Internet (2022).

Tommaso Campagna

Tommaso Campagna is a practice-based researcher in media studies and a videographer. He is a researcher and editor at the Institute of Network Cultures. His work examines the technical and political dimensions of online video, publishing, and tactical media. He recently co-edited /expub | exploring expanded publishing/, a book which examines contemporary debates around experimental publishing. He also co-curates THE VOID, a research project and video studio that produces live streams, video essays, and audiovisual publications in collaboration with artists, activists, and academics. Finally, Tommaso’s greatest achievement is the editing of this very booklet.

Valeria Ferrari

Valeria Ferrari is a researcher in law and technology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She completed her PhD at the University of Amsterdam, Institute of Information Law. Her work investigates policy discourses around technology and the relationship between legal change and digital cultures. She is member of Slutty Urbanism, a collective that brings together feminist activism and critical urbanism.

Virginia Roghi

See MACAO.

Vladan Joler

Vladan Joler is an academic, researcher and artist whose work blends critical and system design, data investigations, counter-cartography, data visualization, and numerous other disciplines. He explores and visualizes different technical and social aspects of algorithmic transparency, digital labour exploitation, invisible infrastructures and many other contemporary phenomena in the intersection between technology and society.

Yuk Hui

Yuk Hui is Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and one of the leading contemporary philosophers of technology. Known for his concept of cosmotechnics, his work explores the relationship between technology, culture, ecology, and planetary futures, challenging universal understandings of technological development.

Zeno Poggioni

Living in the city of Amsterdam Gropina is one of the figures behind Paesaggi Records. A label that focuses on trying to bring to reality adventurous, evocative, and spaced-out records and tapes. Currently, he spends his time working at Rush Hour Records or making music in his studio in Amsterdam Oost. Every so often you can catch him playing records in various locations and countries and on independent web radios.