DISNOVATION.ORG FR
DISNOVATION.ORG is a research collective set up in paris in 2012, whose core members include Maria Roszkowska (pl/fr), Nicolas Maigret (fr), Baruch Gottlieb (ca/de), and Jerome Saint-Clair (fr). They work at the interface between contemporary art, research and hacking, and compose tailor-made teams for each investigation together with academics, activists, engineers, and designers. More specifically their recent artistic provocations seek to empower post growth imaginaries and practices while challenging dominant techno-solutionist ideologies. Their research includes artworks, publications & curation.
Centre Pompidou (Paris), Transmediale (Berlin), the Museum of Art and Design (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), FILE (Sao Paulo), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Strelka Institute (Moscow), ISEA (Hong Kong), Elektra (Montreal), China Museum of Digital Arts (Beijing), and the Chaos Computer Congress (Hamburg)… Their work has been featured in: Forbes, Vice, Wired, Motherboard, Libération, Die Zeit, Arte TV, Next Nature, Hyperallergic, Le Temps, Neural.it, Digicult, Gizmodo, Seattle Weekly, torrentfreak.com, and Filmmaker Magazine among others.
disnovation.org
Coby-Rae Crosbie UK/FR
Coby-Rae Crosbie is a London-based artist and researcher. She was born in Australia and grew
up in Belgium and France before moving to London for her Masters in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, from which she graduated in 2020.
She is currently a part of the Unité de Recherche Numériques (Digital Research Group) at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Lyon (France), and is the host of the cyberfeminist reading group GLURN. She is also a member of the collective Entropies, which publishes the artist-run journal *Serres*. Coby-Rae’s practice has been generously supported by Arts Council England through a DYCP grant.
Her work has been shown in the UK (Saatchi, SET, Goldsmiths, ...), France (MUCEM Marseille, Le Magasin Grenoble, Galerie Tator, Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, ...), Lithuania (SODA 2123,
Pamènkalnio Galerija, Vilnius Academy of Arts), Poland (E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts,
Wrocław), Germany (Frappant Gallery Hamburg), China (Tree Art Museum), & online (The Wrong Biennale, Arebyte).
cobyrae.com
RYBN.ORG FR
RYBN.ORG (1999) is an artist collective based in Paris, leading extra-disciplinary investigations on complex systems and phenomena within the realms of economics and cybernetics – high-frequency trading, financial algorithms, flash crashes, market infrastructures, tax avoidance opaque schemes and offshore financial circuits, artificial intelligence, digital labor, etc.
rybn.org
Gijs Gieskes NL
Gijs Gieskes is an industrial-designer/artist from the Netherlands specializing in the design of electronic devices, for audiovisual use.
When he started to make electronic things he knew almost nothing about how they work, but with simple solutions he managed to make usable instruments anyway. For instance he used a speaker as a relay, where a transistor should have been used. Because of knowing little he used his creativity in a none efficient way, he invented things that already existed. But he feels proud of these inventions, for instance the Relay, the Vactrol and the Phase Locked Loop. Nowadays he knows much more about electronics, but he still want to work the same way as when he started.
gieskes.nl
::VTOL:: RU/SI
Dmitry Morozov aka ::vtol:: (b.1986) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher. He focuses on contemporary media arts including sound, robotics and installation, placing special emphasis on the link between emergent systems and new kinds of technological synthesis. Currently based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
His works have been exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide, including the Laznia Center for Contemporary Arts (Gdansk), ZKM Zentrum (Karlsruhe), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung), Kapelica gallery (Ljubljana), ArtScience Museum (Singapore), HEK (Basel), Laboratoria Art&Science Space (Moscow) etc., and in festivals such as SIGGRAPH 2016 (Anaheim), Mirage (Lyon), Ars Electronica (Linz), Future Everything (Manchester) and CTM (Berlin).
He is the award winner of the Sergei Kuryokhin Prize (Russia, 2013 and 2020), Innovation (Russia, 2020), Prix Cube (France, 2014) and also received honorary mentions at VIDA 16.0 (Spain, 2014) and Prix Ars Electronica (Austria, 2015, 2017).
vtol.cc
Claire Williams FR/BE
Claire Williams' works take the form of woven antennas, glass sculptures filled with plasma or even devices that capture the invisible. Radio telescope data materialises in knitted dots, sound vibrations or even in the form of light pulsations. She shapes electronic sculptures in order to make visible the electromagnetic movements going from the cosmos to our magnetosphere, to the radio waves crossing our terrestrial environment or even those emanating from our bodies and our psychic activities. She currently works as a duo in “Les Æthers” which collect and reactivate the practices of the invisible found in the archives of occult and experimental sciences of the 19th and 20th century.
Claire Williams lives in Brussels. Graduated with a master's degree in Textile Design from ENSAV La Cambre and Fresnoy national studio of contemporary arts. She exhibits internationally and is a speaker in higher arts schools. Her work has been exhibited in digital arts festivals, sound arts and group exhibitions such as Bozar (Be), Le Fresnoy (FR), Conflux (NL) Center Wallonie Bruxelles (Paris), La friche de belle de mai (FR) , Biennal Chroniques (FR), Ososphere (FR), Scopitone (FR) Red Room (TWN), Grenier a Sel (FR), Tamat (BE), Transnumériques (BE) Digital Encounters (UK), Women's Voice Festival (BE) ), Hangar (ES), Halles Saint Géry (BE), Le Signe (FR), Site St Sauveur (FR) etc. As well as solo shows at Le Vector(BE), la Manufacture(FR), Constant(BE) and the Centro Cultural Puerta de Castilla(ES)
www.xxx-clairewilliams-xxx.com
Ted Davis US/CH
Ted Davis is an educator / designer / media artist originally from the United States and based in Basel, Switzerland, where he teaches interaction design and coordinates the UIC/HGK International Master of Design program within the Institute for Digital Communication Environments HGK FHNW.
His work and teachings explore the volatility of digital media through glitch and reactivating older ‘new media’ through newer programming means. His open source projects (basil.js, XYscope, P5LIVE, p5.glitch) enable designers to program within Adobe InDesign, render vector graphics on vector displays, collaboratively live code visuals with p5.js, and glitch any media in real-time within the web browser. In 2019, he was a p5.js Contributing Conference participant, joining a working group focused on Music and Code in Performance. In 2021 he received the Basel Media Art Prize (Basler Medienkunstpreis) for p5.glitch and was a Processing Foundation Teaching Fellow. With international exhibits, lectures and workshops, he empowers students to take hold of the computer’s ability to design possibilities beyond that of the hand or mouse.
teddavis.org
Antonio Roberts UK
Antonio Roberts is an artist, musician and curator based in Birmingham, UK. His practice is concerned with how the misuse of digital technology impacts people of colour and other marginalised groups.
His recent work focuses on the depiction of Black people in digital media, ranging from stereotypical misrepresentations in early video games to modern algorithms and AI codifying existing biases.
His (Algo|Afro) Futures mentoring programme teaches live coding software as a way to address how Black people have been under/mispreresented in digital art and electronic music, despite being pivotal to its development.
He is currently learning game development, with the aim to explore how immersive environments can be used as a narrative storytelling device. He is also working on his debut EP, created using a combination of live coding software and hardware synthesisers.
hellocatfood.com
Char Stiles USA
Char Stiles is a computational artist, educator, and programmer. She works creatively in the lower levels of graphical computational systems & makes jokes about how computers work. She is currently at the MIT Media Lab's Future Sketches group researching the future of creative coding in performance. She is a part of the Livecode.nyc collective & she co-founded Hex House, an artist studio and event space in East Williamsburg. She has performed internationally, including festivals such as Electric Forest, Portola, and Mutek Nexus. She has lectured and led workshops at Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University, University of Limerick, MIT, and NYU.
charstiles.com
Geert Lovink NL
Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author of Uncanny Networks (2002), Dark Fiber (2002), My First Recession (2003), Zero Comments (2007), Networks Without a Cause (2012), Social Media Abyss (2016), Organization after Social Media (with Ned Rossiter, 2018), Sad by Design (2019) and Stuck on the Platform (2022), Platform Brutality (2025). He studied political science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and received his PhD from the University of Melbourne. In 2004 he founded the Institute of Network Cultures (www.networkcultures.org) at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA). From 2007-2018 he was media theory professor at the European Graduate School. In December 2021 he was appointed Professor of Art and Network Cultures at the UvA Art History Department. He's part of support campaigns for Ukranian artists, in particular UkrainaTV and the StreamArtNetwork.
www.networkcultures.org
Thibault le Page FR
Thibault le Page is an illustrator and a PhD candidate in socio-anthropology. Since 2022, he has been working on a doctoral thesis focusing on the "ruins" of pop culture and those who preserve it at the University of Geneva and HEAD – Genève (HES-SO), under the supervision of Nicolas Nova and Mathilde Bourrier.
He is writing a significant portion of his dissertation in the form of a graphic novel. His work has been featured at documenta 15 in Kassel, the International Design Biennial in Saint-Étienne, the Angoulême International Comics Festival (young talent selection), and the Acts of Urbanism festival in Detroit.
@thibault.le.page
