Saturday, November 7th

Antonio Roberts is an artist and curator based in Birmingham, UK. His practices explore what ownership and authorship mean in an age impacted by digital technology. His work has been featured at galleries and festivals including databit.me in Arles, France (2012), Glitch Moment/ums at Furtherfield Gallery, London (2013), Loud Tate: Code at Tate Britain (2014), glitChicago at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, US (2014), Permission Taken at Birmingham Open Media and University of Birmingham (2015-2016), Common Property at Jerwood Arts, London (2016), Ways of Something at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017), Green Man Festival, Wales (2017), Barbican, London (2018), Copy / Paste at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2019) and We Are Your Friends at Czurles Nelson Gallery, Buffalo, US (2019).

Auriea Harvey is a 3D Artist based in Rome, Italy. She creates sculpture for real-time simulation and 3D printing, blending digital and handmade, the virtual and the real, mirror loops of Antiquity and the Future. Choosing polygons as her material, she explores Baroque forms, mythologies and performative (inter)action with/in simulated environments.

Caroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of natural language processing, artificial intelligence, abuse, online harassment, and politics in digital, conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design + Research, an agency focusing on the intersections of machine learning, user research, designing for public good, and solving difficult communication problems. As a designer and researcher, she has worked with Amnesty International, Intel, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation, and others. Currently, she is a fellow with Ars Electronica AI Lab with the Edinburgh Futures Institute and a visiting fellow with the Weizenbaum Institute looking at labor and systems in AI and platforms. Sinders has held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School, the Mozilla Foundation, Pioneer Works, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Eyebeam, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been featured in the Tate Exchange in Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, MoMA PS1, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Slate, Quartz, and the Channels Festival as well as others. Sinders holds a Masters from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Faith Holland is an artist, curator, and educator whose multimedia practice focuses on gender, intimacy, and technology. She has exhibited at venues such as The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), NRW Forum (Düsseldorf), Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder), Human Resources (Los Angeles), and DAM Gallery (Berlin). Her work has been written about in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Sunday Times UK, Elephant, Hyperallergic, Broadly, and The Observer. She has been a NYFA Fellowship Finalist in Digital/Electronic Art, an artist-in-residence at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and Harvestworks, and a finalist for Fotomuseum Winterthur’s Post-Photography Prototyping Prize. She opened Hard/Soft, her third solo exhibition with TRANSFER, online and offline in 2020.

Mary Flanagan is an artist, author and game designer with works exhibited at museums around the world such as The Whitney Museum, The Guggenheim, Tate Britain, and museums in Spain, New Zealand, South Korea, China and Australia. In 2018, Flanagan won the Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica in the Interactive art+. Flanagan was awarded an honorary PhD in Design by Illinois Tech, has held numerous honorary fellowships, and holds a distinguished professorship at Dartmouth College, USA. Flanagan is also author and co-editor of numerous books, such as Critical Play and Reload: Rethinking Women in Cyberculture.

Mohsen Hazrati was born in 1987 in Shiraz, Iran. He graduated with a BA in graphic design from Shiraz Art Institute of Higher Education in 2012, minoring in new media and digital art, where he was also acted as a teachers’ assistant. His works focus on digital culture, new-aesthetic and the integration of these two issues into the Shirazi culture and its mystical literature, and have been exhibited in Transfer and Babycastles Gallery - New York, Matchbox Gallery - Texas, V-Gallery Tehran, Espronceda gallery Barcelona etc. Since 2013, in collaboration with Milad Forouzande, he has been the co-founder and curator of “Dar-AlHokoomeh Project”; a new media art project and activity based in Shiraz, Iran. And has been the co-curator of “Dar Al Wrong”, The first Iranian pavilion and embassy of the wrong biennale inside Iran, Patch Room, new media art section of Teer art, the first Iranian Art fair and etc. In 2016, Mohsen began lecturing as an assistant professor in his alma mater, teaching Digital Aesthetics and VFX courses. In 2017, Mohsen was invited as one of the guest speakers on the “Mollasadra St” episode of TEDx video series.

Martina Menegon (Italy, 1988) is an artist working with interactive and extended reality art.
In her works, Martina creates intimate and complex assemblages of physical and virtual elements that explore the contemporary self and its synthetic corporeality. She experiments with the uncanny and the grotesque—including the self, the body, and the dialogue between the physical and virtual realities—to create disorienting virtual experiences. Martina is a University Assistant and Lecturer at the department of Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where she teaches “Digital Design and Virtuality.” She also teaches multimedia tools for interactive arts at the IUAV University in Venice (MA Digital Exhibit, BA Multimedia Arts) together with Klaus Obermaier and Stefano D’Alessio. She is currently Head of Extended Reality and Curator at “Area for Virtual Art,” a platform for immersive experiences and get-togethers. She is also part of the curatorial team of the new media art festival of Vienna, CIVA Festival. Martina Menegon currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

Maggie Roberts co-founded the collaborative artist 0rphan Drift in 1994 in London (see 0D bio for this show). In recent years Maggie has been increasingly influenced by octopus consciousness, seeing it as a template for addressing our paucity of imagination towards forging different futures. Major solo shows in 2018-2019 (glimmer breach at iMT Gallery London and Uncanny Valley, Difficult Kin at Aspex Gallery Portsmouth) explored our relationship with nonhuman consciousness (whether organic octopoid or synthetic AI). She is currently developing the ISCRI project, a collaboration with machine learning research company Etic Lab to train an AI with an octopus in a mesocosm.

Rosa Menkman’s work focuses on noise artifacts that result from accidents in both analogue and digital media (such as glitch and encoding and feedback artifacts). Through her research, which is both practice based and theoretical, she uncovers these anti-utopic, lost and unseen or simply "too good to be implemented" resolutions -- to produce new ways to use and perceive through and with our technologies.

Tamiko Thiel has been awarded 2018 SAT Montreal Visionary Pioneer Award for 30+ years of political/socially critical media artworks. Lead product designer on "Connection Machine CM1/CM2" AI supercomputer, in 1989 world’s fastest computer; now in MoMA NY. First VR: "Starbright World" (1994 -1997) w/Steven Spielberg. VR installation "Beyond Manzanar" (2000, w/Zara Houshmand) in collection of San Jose Museum of Art; "Land of Cloud" (2017) won Audience Award at 2018 VRHAM Hamburg. First AR: "ARt Critic Face Matrix" (2010) AR intervention into MoMA NY, "Shades of Absence" AR intervention at 2011 Venice Biennial. AR commissions include "Unexpected Growth" (2018, with /p), in Whitney Museum.

Gretta Louw is an Australian artist and curator based in Munich, Germany. Working across digital media, textiles, and installation, Louw’s practice explores a broad range of psycho-social and environmental phenomena in relation to advancing technologies. Her work has been exhibited widely—including at the National Portrait Gallery of Australia (AU), Zuccaire Gallery (US), Kunstmuseum Solothurn (CH), Watermans London (UK), and Villa Merkel (DE). Louw has been recognised with a number of awards including most recently the Visual Arts Prize Munich and an Australia Council career development grant. Her work has been covered by Motherboard, Hyperallergic, AQNB, and Kunstforum, amongst others.