SPEAKERS

Lev Manovich is Presidential Professor at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and founder of the Cultural Analytics Lab. As a pioneer in the field of digital culture, he helped lay the foundation for the disciplines of new media studies, software studies, cultural analytics, and AI aesthetics. He has published seventeen books, including the influential The Language of New Media. His most recent book is Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media (2024).

Noëlle van Dijk is a Dutch multidisciplinary artist and art director. Her work spans large-scale installations, video projections, and self-initiated projects, collaborating with international clients like Google, Amsterdam Dance Event and Rosewood Hotels.

Silvio Lorusso is an Italian writer, artist and designer based in Lisbon. His work critically examines design culture, digital platforms, labour and artificial intelligence through writing, publishing and artistic practice. He is the author of Entreprecariat and What Design Can’t Do, and teaches at Design Academy Eindhoven.

As a pioneer in the field of augmented reality, Sander Veenhof held a technique for years that allowed him to intervene in reality and control people, or even bring them together in an alternative narrative reality. Currently, he manipulates AI in a similar way by devising applications in which AI bots interfere in the human world.

Constant Dullaart is a visual artist whose work explores the influence of the internet, social media, and digital platforms on society. His practice exposes the hidden power structures behind online visibility, data, and algorithms, and has been exhibited internationally.

Rosa Menkman is a Dutch artist, researcher, and theorist known for her pioneering work on noise, glitches, and resolution studies. Through installations, writing, and visual experiments, she investigates how errors and artifacts in digital and analog media shape perception, technology, and culture.

Peter Lunenfeld is a writer, theorist and professor at UCLA. His work can be found at the intersection of media philosophy, design theory, art criticism, urban history and digital humanities. Recent books include City at the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Reimagined; Digital_Humanities (co-authored with Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp); and The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine;

URLAND is a Dutch theatre collective that brings together technology, performance, and digital culture. Their productions explore how artificial intelligence, algorithms, and virtual worlds are reshaping what it means to be human. Combining theatre, film, and digital media, they create bold and immersive experiences.

Mieke Gerritzen is a Dutch designer, writer, curator and Creative Director of Next Nature Museum in Eindhoven. Previously, she served as Director of MOTI, Museum of the Image), where she established an international platform for image culture. Her work has explored the cultural impact of digital technology through graphic design, exhibitions, publications and public debate.

Marsha Simon is moderator, presentator en programmamaker. Gedreven door nieuwsgierigheid naar wat mensen beweegt en wat er op het spel staat, maakt zij complexe onderwerpen helder en tastbaar. Zodat wat groot en ver weg lijkt, dichtbij kan komen.

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