SI 24 Contributors

Martino Morandi

Martino maintains a recalcitrant relation to bio-texts and other technologies that produce predetermined subjectivities. He is an interdependent researcher at Constant in Brussels, Infrastructural Manœuvres in Amsterdam, and C.I.R.C.E. in Italy. Ongoing projects include studying surveillance and the quantified gaze over contemporary cities (Footfall Almanac with Alex Zakkas) and seeking strategies to resist the computational reform of education (The Relearning Series with Jara Rocha)

Alex Zakkas

Alex Zakkas practices design as a critical and experimental mode of research, using any media unstable enough to observe life in its synthetic condition, systems of thought and behaviour accustomed to designed or wild-grown entanglements with technology, opportunistic workarounds and techno-poetic acrobatics. He works as a teacher and researcher in The Hague University of Applied Sciences and the Rietveld Academie, as well as independently, often with ]LAG(, Browserbased, Tre Tigri, Constant vzw

http://alexzakkas.me/

Aggeliki Diakrousi

Aggeliki Diakrousi is an artist, coder and architect. She is currently involved in research projects that engage with public space, technology, computing, infrastructures and their languages. Her work examines the politics of public spheres and the potentialities of digital tools, spaces and networks through collective processes and knowledges. Aggeliki is an Architecture graduate of the University of Patras in Greece and holds an MA from the Experimental Publishing Master at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. She is a former member of Varia, a space of collective approaches to everyday technology in Rotterdam, and has teached in Fine Arts and Social Practices in Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. In 2022/2023 she was a researcher for The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI).

https://w-i-t-m.net/

Davide Tidoni

Davide Tidoni is an artist working from the boundaries of physical, perceptual, and affective dimensions of sound. His work addresses questions regarding interactions with acoustic space, interdependence, and impermanence. His practice also includes interests in the use of sound in counter-cultures and social contexts of struggle. He published The Sound of Normalisation (2018), a field research on the ultras group Brescia 1911, and Where Do You Draw the Line Between Art and Politics (2021), a series of interviews with individuals active at the intersection of art and politics.

http://www.davidetidoni.name/

maxigas

maxigas is senior lecturer in media & culture at the media department of the university of amsterdam. he interested in hacker culture, cybernetic ideologies, infrastructural imaginaries, and the materiality of the digital. he uses media ethnography and digital methods to answer philosophical questions about contemporary social conflicts. with a thoroughly interdisciplinary background in the social sciences and humanities, a decade long industry experience in it, and a history of media activist practice, he brings a theoretically sophisticated, technologically grounded, politically savvy perspective to debates on media and culture. his papers have been published in leading journals in science and technology studies as well as media studies, from the social studies in science, through the journal of peer production, to most recently in the internet policy review.

https://www.criticalinfralab.net/