Alan Weisman (US) was Laureate Professor in Journalism and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona
Amelia Cuni (IT) is a singer and composer. She studied vocal techniques and music in India, in the tradition of Dhrupad singing and Kathak dance.
Bas van Koolwijk (NL) began his career as a painter. He works with video errors and digital code to create sound and image interactions.
Ben Woodard (CA) is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario.
Benjamin H. Bratton (US) is a theorist whose work spans philosophy, art and design.
BJ Nilsen (SE) is a composer, sound and recording artist. He focuses primarily on the sound of nature and its effects on humans
Burnt Friedman (DE) is a musician and producer who works under a variety of project names in the fields of electronica, dub and jazz.
Douglas Kahn (US/AUS) is a historian and theorist of media, the arts and music. He studies sound, electromagnetism, and natural media.
Ekkehard Windrich (DE) graduated from the Hochschule fur Musik C.M. v. Weber, Dresden. He specialised in contemporary music
Ele Carpenter (UK) is a curator and writer researching Nuclear Culture
Elizabeth Ellsworth's (US) research focuses on media and change, the design of mediated learning environments, and documentary media forms.
Emptyset (UK) is a production project formed by James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas. It examines the physical properties of sound
Espen Sommer Eide (NO) is a musician and artist from Tromsø. He has been a prominent representative of experimental electronic music from Norway.
Femke Herregraven (NL) is a designer and researcher. Her work traverses the contemporary realms of global finance, information and geopolitics.
Florian Hecker (DE) is an electronic music composer whose compositions tend towards noise music.
Gabriel Paiuk (AR) is a composer and sound artist who researches the conditions surrounding the experience of sound.
Gert-Jan Prins (NL) focuses on the sonic and musical qualities of electronic noise and investigates its relationship with the visual.
Graham Harman (US) is Distinguished University Professor at the American University in Cairo. He is a founding member of the Speculative Realism movement
Grischa Lichtenberger (DE) is praised for his constructivist compositions and refined sounds.
Herman Kolgen (CA) has been modelling sumptuous audiocinetic sculptures for over twenty years. Powerful synergy and intimacy are at the heart of his works.
Hilary Jeffery (UK) is a self-proclaimed ‘desert trombonist’ and composer. A central influence on his music is a sense of silent-space
Hillel Schwartz (US) is a poet and cultural historian. His current research concerns the changing nature and notion of emergency since the late 18th c.
Jacaszek (PL) is a composer and producer of electroacoustic music, focusing on theatre and film music.
Jaki Liebezeit (DE) is a drummer, best known as a founding member of the legendary Can, one of the most influential bands of all time
Jamie Kruse (US) is an artist, designer and part-time lecturer at Parsons, The New School for Design, NY. She co-founded smudge with E. Ellsworth.
Jana Winderen (NO) studied at Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London, with a background in mathematics, chemistry and fish ecology.
Jananne Al-Ani (IQ) is Senior Research Fellow at University of the Arts London. In her work, Al-Ani tackles issues of conflict, loss and displacement.
Jeff VanderMeer (US) is the author of the bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. It delves into environmental issues and the dysfunction in human ecologies.
John Foxx (UK) is an English singer, artist, photographer and teacher, primarily associated with electronic synthesiser music.
Trained in anthropology and philosophy, Treschs explores the diversity of the sciences, especially their interactions with other cultural formations.
Jonathan Hagstrum (US) has worked as a research geophysicist with the US Geological Survey since 1979.
Joris Strijbos (NL) is an artist who works in the fields of expanded cinema and audio performance, and develops kinetic-light-installations.
Juha van ‘t Zelfde (NL/FI) is researcher, developer and exhibition maker, working across the domains of art, music and technology.
Karbon (UK) combines digital processes with organic elements, to create mind-blowing pieces in which beauty and disorder seemingly interact.
Karen Gwyer (US) has a number of releases on Opal Tapes and No Pain In Pop. She assimilates house and techno tropes into warm, hypnotic slow burners.
Karl Lemieux’s (CA) films, installations, and performances have been shown internationally in museums, galleries, music venues and film festivals.
Killing Sound (UK) is an outgrowth of the endlessly recombinant Young Echo collective from Bristol, consisting of Vessel, El Kid and Jabu.
London-based electronic music artist, DJ, and owner of the Hyperdub record label Kode9 is one of the founding members of the early dubstep scene.
Kurt Hentschläger (AT) creates audiovisual installations and performances. His work is visceral and immersive, with extreme perceptual effects
The Kwartludium ensemble (PL) are D. Sadkowska (violin), M. Górczyński (clarinet, bass clarinet), P. Nowicki (percussion) and P. Nowicki (piano).
Le Révélateur (CA) is an audiovisual duo composed of the electronic musician Roger Tellier-Craig and video artist Sabrina Ratté.
Liam Young (UK) is a designer, futurist, critic and curator. He is a founder of the think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today
Logos, production alias of James Parker, is a London based artist who creates spacious and hypnotic grime and club influenced electronic music.
Lukas Marxt (AT) is a filmmaker whose goal is to capture time. He is interested in deserted places and violent geographies such as oil rigs or Arctic coastlines.
M.E.S.H (DE/US) is a Berlin-based producer who has helped to create a new club culture that is not genre-based.
Mario de Vega (MX) is a sound artist best known for his site-specific interventions, sculptures and sound improvisations.
Mark Williams (UK) is Professor of Geology at Leicester University. The Anthropocene is one of his primary research themes.
Martin Howse (UK) investigates the links between the earth (geophysical phenomena), software and the human psyche (psychogeophysics).
Matthijs Munnik (NL) explores the fringes of sensory perception through an interplay of stroboscopic light, colour combinations, patterns and rhythms.
Michael Welland (UK) obtained a PhD in geology from Cambridge. He is the author of the award-winning book Sand – A Journey Through Science and the Imagination.
Minor Science (UK) is a house and techno musician. In his first release Noble Gas he is distilling and skewing elements of American and European house
One of grime's best, Mumdance (UK) aka Jack Adams, has been releasing music for some time, but appeared reborn on his Twists & Turns mixtape.
Murcof (MX) is an electronic musician and composer. Drawing on minimalism, postmodernism, and baroque music, Murcof creates a shifting sound world.
Nik Gaffney (BE/AU) is a founding member of FoAM, a distributed laboratory for speculative cultures.
Noam M. Elcott (US) is Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and an editor of Grey Room.
Otto Piene (DE) is most known for his colourful paintings and gigantic open air sculptures, including the 600-metre-long Olympic Rainbow at the 1972 Olympics.
part wild horses mane on both sides (Kelly Jayne Jones, Pascal Nichols) (UK) defy experiential boundaries in installation and performance
Paul Bogard (US) teaches creative nonfiction and environmental literature at James Madison University.
Pedro Maia (PT) has has been working within the boundaries of live cinema since 2004, manipulating images in real time and interacting with sound.
Ralf Meinz (DE) started as a drummer in various bands. He still plays the drums in several improv projects and bands, and is also an audio engineer and owns his own record label.
Raviv Ganchrow (US/NL) is a sound artist and researcher. He explores interrelations between sound and space
Reza Negarestani (IR) is a philosopher and writer associated with the philosophical movement of speculative realism
Rob Holmes (US) explores new modes of territorial planning in the context of contemporary urbanisation and large-scale anthropogenic landscape change.
Robert Curgenven (AU) is a composer and sound artist who draws inspiration from the physicality of sound
Robin Hayward (UK) is a tuba player and composer. Over the years, Hayward has introduced revolutionary playing techniques to brass instruments.
Rod Maclachlan (UK) did his MA at University College Falmouth, where he developed an interest in 18th and 19th century chemical, optical, and electrical devices.
Shackleton (UK) is an English electronic music producer. His musical style includes a variety of genres such as dubstep, garage, and techno.
Shapednoise (IT) is an electronics, noise and speaker-ripping techno producer. He founded the label REPITCH with Ascion and D. Carbone.
Shxcxchcxsh (SE) is a duo based in the once industrial city of Norrköping in eastern Sweden, who share a love for the darker and more experimental realms of techno
Steve D’Agostino (UK) is a recording artist, music producer and sound engineer.
sYn aka Federico Nitti (IT) is an international sound and video artist and experimental noise musician.
TCF (NO) is one of the monikers of the artist and musician Lars The Contemporary Future Holdhus.
Timothy Morton (US) is Professor and the Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, Houston.
Vessel (UK) is a member of the Bristol-based producers collective Young Echo. His work includes hybridisations of techno, house, garage, dubstep, ambient, and industrial music.
London producer Visionist (aka Louis Carnell) is perhaps best known as the Lit City Trax and PAN Records affiliate who makes music inspired by grime.
Werner Durand (DE) studied saxophone with Ariel Kalma in Paris, Indian classical music in India and Berlin (with Kamalesh Maitra), and Iranian ney with Ali Reza Asgharia.