Andreas Broeckmann

Andreas Broeckmann is an art historian and curator who lives in Berlin and works as the curator of the Leuphana Arts Program in Lüneburg.

• art,
• theory,
• media theory,
• deep europe

Mrityunjay Chatterjee

Mrityunjay Chatterjee is a designer who conceptualizes and coordinates creative (digital and print) productions for both Sarai and Cybermohalla.

Alessandro Ludovico

From 1993 is the editor in chief of Neural, the Italian/English new media culture magazine.

Matteo Pasquinelli

Matteo Pasquinelli is a writer, curator and researcher. He completed his doctorate at Queen Mary University of London with a thesis on the new forms of conflict within knowledge economy and cognitive capitalism. He wrote the book Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons (2008) and edited the collections Media Activism (2002) and C'Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader (2007). He writes and lectures frequently at the intersection of French philosophy, media culture and Italian post-operaismo.

• theory,
• media theory

Joanne Richardson

Organiser, networker and writer, based in Cluj. Born in Bucharest, Romania, grew up in New York. Ex-philosopher, media theorist and freelance organizer.

Noortje Marres

Noortje Marres is a political philosopher and researcher at the University of Amsterdam. She completed her Ph.D. thesis No Issue, No Public. Democratic deficits after the displacement of politics, at the philosophy department of the University of Amsterdam in November 2005.

Brian Holmes

Brian Holmes, is an art critic, theorist and activist, particularly involved with the mapping of contemporary capitalism.

McKenzie Wark

Australian media theorist and writer, currently lives and works in New York. McKenzie Wark grew up and studied in Australia, at Macquarie University, the University of Technology, Sydney and at the Murdoch University. In 2000, he emigrated to the US.

 Critical Art Ensemble

A collective of five artists dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, radical politics and critical theory.

• art,
• tactical media,
• theory,
• biotechnology,
• biowarfare,
• contestational biology,
• performance

Steve Cisler

Steve Cisler is a librarian by training who only began using computers when he was middle-aged (42).

Florian Schneider

Florian Schneider is a filmmaker, writer, and developer in the fields of new media, networking and open source technologies. In his work he focuses on bordercrossings between mainstream and independent media, art and activism, theory and technology.

• migration,
• no border,
• dictionary of war,
• borders

Nathan Martin

Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink is a media theorist, net critic and activist.

Arun Mehta

Dr. Mehta has been very active in the areas of telecommunications, computing and human rights since his graduation from IIT Delhi in 1975.

David Garcia

David Garcia is an artist, teacher and organizer who has pioneered new forms of critical engagement with art and media based on occupying of the cracks which began to appear in the edifice of the broadcast media in the 1990s.

• art,
• tactical media,
• next 5 minutes,
• tactical television,
• tactical education

Eric Kluitenberg

Eric Kluitenberg is an independent theorist, writer, and organiser on culture, media and technology.  He is the editor-in-chief of the Tactical Media Files, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Network Cultures (2013). He teaches media theory and history at the Art/Science Interfaculty in The Hague.

• art,
• tactical media,
• media theory,
• public domain,
• hybrid space