Elin and Annina met at university and have backgrounds in Cultural Studies and Social Anthropology. Both are interested in exploring questions of identity and the politics of representation. This festival marks their first venture into using AI to create a public piece.

Brigitte Fässler is a professional director and artist specializing in video and new media art. She creates fantastic, playful images and unique fictional universes by mixing the real with the imaginary. Often, her visual poetry is from a mix of analog and digital techniques. Through dedication and passion, Brigitte Fässler pushes herself and the perfection of her artwork to the next level. She loves to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds to create something more inspiring and ingenious than one person could ever do alone. Thus, she has collaborated with various dancers, musicians, and other artists. Brigitte Fässler's videos have been screened and awarded at various national and international film festivals.

Chiara Marinai (she/her) is a Swiss based photo editor and design researcher, originally from NYC. She is an object enthusiast and enjoys digging deep into topics that relate to consumerism and categorizations.

Annina and Elin met at university and have backgrounds in Cultural Studies and Social Anthropology. Both are interested in exploring questions of identity and the politics of representation. This festival marks their first venture into using AI to create a public piece.ws.

Estampa is a collective of programmers, filmmakers and researchers working in the fields of audiovisual media and digital environments. Our practice is based on a critical and archaeological approach to audiovisual technologies, on researching the tools and ideologies of artificial intelligence and on the resources of experimental animation. https://tallerestampa.com/en/

Fernando Obieta (er/ihm, *1990) ist ein New Media Artist, Interaction Designer und Creative Technologist. Nach dem Studium der Computer Science mit Schwerpunkt Medientechnologien studierte er Interaction Design und Transdisziplinarität in den Künsten an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Seine künstlerische Arbeit und Forschung konzentrieren sich auf die Kritik und Reflexion von (digitalen) Medien, Artefakten, Systemen, Diensten und Lösungen und darauf, wie sie kontingent und situiert sind. Er promoviert derzeit an der Kunstuniversität Linz in Medientheorie und untersucht, wie sich eine feministische Ethik und Moral der Maschinen und ihrer Herstellung konstituieren könnte. Zu diesem Zweck arbeitet er an einer Serie von Setzungen unter dem Titel «machines congregating», in denen er untersucht, wie verschiedene Maschinen Menschen wahrnehmen und wie Menschen andere (oder sich selbst) durch Maschinen beobachten. https://fernando-obieta.com/

Ivo is an engineer, researcher and artist from Zurich. He likes robots, algorithms and is interested in exploring how people interact with algorithms in physical way. Ivo has a background in software and mechatronic systems engineering and enjoys the mix of technical engineering challenges and creative expression in his work.

jiawen exists as a user most of the time in her life, having little agency as a standard user, both technology and politic wise, she seeks for otherwise possibilities queering the given identity of a user, her wish is to be an analogkäse in the digital figurations and drip sizzling fat on the cables and ports. Apart from that, jiawen is a researcher-designer based in Bremen, Germany, her research focus on technology as memory and desire, with contaminated history but appearing pure, sterilized, decontextualized and dehistoricized which reduces rather than relating. She looks into technology’s micro-(counter)history, materiality, poetics and politics. She sees l̸͓̪̜͕̮̆̎̓e̷͍̲͕̫̦͌a̵̡̝͈̗̐k̴̢͖̮̞̣̄͛̓͛̐ as an instance of space-time continuum and a definite part of the digital reality, and leaking as a method to survive together.

Karen Eliot is a name that refers to an individual human being who can be anyone. The name is fixed, the people using it aren’t. The purpose of many different people using the same name is to create a situation for which no one in particular is responsible and to practically examine western philosophical notions of identity, individuality, originality, value and truth. Anyone can become Karen Eliot simply by adopting the name, but they are only Karen Eliot for the period in which they adopt the name. Karen Eliot was materialised, rather than born, as an open context in the summer of 1985. When one becomes Karen Eliot one’s previous existence consists of the acts other people have undertaken using the name. When one becomes Karen Eliot one has non family, no parents, no birth. Karen Eliot was not born, s/he was materialised from social forces, constructed as a means of entering the shifting terrain that circumscribes the ‘individual’ and society.

Ludovica Galleani d’Agliano (1996*), communication and new media designer with a master’s degree in Interaction Design at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in 2023. During the last years, she worked for cultural events and organisations such as Videoex, an experimental film festival in Zurich. She exhibited in many venues, among them the GIFF 2023 (Geneva Film Festival) , Sex-Kino Roland (Zurich) and in the immersive exhibition ALT-alterity by UUAD.art

Swiss multidisciplinary artist Niculin Barandun is employing contemporary technology to create immersive performances and installations. His work is inspired by the vernacular of science and often utilizing processes in nature as a starting point for artistic exploration. Barandun is a laureate of the Basel Media Art Prize and has showcased his work in events and venues such as Mutek Montreal, Sonar Barcelona, Rewire Festival Den Haag, Le Guess Who? Utrecht, HeK – House of electronic Arts Basel, Mapping Festival Geneva and International Film Festival Rotterdam. https://nicul.in/

Sinem Görücü is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher, educator, community organizer, and advocate working at the intersection of design, data, and artificial intelligence, hrough the lens of social justice and intersectional feminism. She is the founding director of Feminist Design, an organization that uses feminist frameworks to inform design processes and harnesses creativity as a tool for feminist advocacy. Sinem’s work spans technology, social justice, urbanism, design, data science, AI, civic engagement, and feminism. She teaches and researches topics such as equitable AI, critical data studies, design justice, feminist hacking, community tech, and creative literacy, advocacy, and resistance. Currently, she is a PhD researcher at King’s College London, focusing on environmental footprint of AI and critical visualization. Her projects, talks, and publications can be viewed at sinemgorucu.com. Georgia Panagiotidouis a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Visualisation in the Department of Informatics at King's College London. She obtained a PhD from KU Leuven in Belgium, and completed her MA at Aalto University, Finland. Before joining King's, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UCL Interaction Centre. Feminist Design (www.feministdesign.co] is an intersectional feminist organization and community for research, creativity, education, joy, and justice. Positioned at the intersections of social justice and design, FD focuses on community driven innovation/tech/design/data practices, creative literacy and advocacy, equitable design approaches, feminist hacking and more. Committed to pioneering feminist ways of making and producing, along with participatory research methodologies, Feminist Design uses feminist approaches, frameworks, methods and tools to inform and guide design processes, while also harnessing design and creativity as powerful tools for feminist advocacy.

Wir sind t8y und setzen uns mit den Auswirkungen digitaler Technologien und der kollektiven Gestaltung unserer digitalen Realität auseinander.

Victoria Cheredeeva was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1995. Victoria is a multimedia conceptual designer and artist based in Zurich. She has a Master's degree in Fine Arts and Interaction Design. Some themes in her work include the riddle as a medium, music, which often acts as a guide, and surprise. Across mediums, her work is characterized by improvisation, experimentation, and immediacy. In recent years, she has been interested in idol culture and speculative narratives of the industry.