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Olexii Kuchanskyi is an independent film programmer and researcher, whose main interests lie in the intersections of experimental moving images, situated geographies, and critical cultures of nature. Her/his essays and articles have been published in transversal, TransitoryWhite, e-flux Notes, Theory on Demand, figurationen, and others. S/he (co-)curated film programs and shows for Kyiv Biennial, Coalmine — Raum Für Fotografie (Winterthur, Switzerland), e-flux Film, among others.

Asia Bazdyrieva's work focuses on hybrid European-Soviet modernity and its ideological and material implications in spaces, bodies, and lands. Bazdyrieva co-authored Geocinema, a collaborative project exploring infrastructures of earth sensing as a form of cinema, which has been nominated for the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research (2020) and the Golden Key Prize at the Kassel Dokfest (2021). She is currently a member of Critical Media Lab Basel and a resident of transmediale.

Johannes Bruder studies psychological categories, sociological models, artistic practices and speculative designs encoded in digital cultures. He is currently most interested in imaginaries of energy, the management of energies physical and affective, and tactics of disaffection. His most recent publications include "Optimal Brain Damage. Theorizing our Nervous Present (w/ Orit Halpern; culturemachine) and "AI as medium and message" (in: Queer Reflections on AI, ed. Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Ann-Kathrin Koster & Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss). Johannes heads the Critical Media Lab Basel.

Svitlana Matviyenko is Assistant Professor of Critical Media Analysis in the School of Communication and Associate Director of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Her research and teaching are focused on information and cyberwar, the political economy of information, media, and environment, infrastructure studies, and nuclear heritage. She is co-author of Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (Minnesota University Press, 2019), and a co-editor of Lacan and the Posthuman (Palgrave, 2018) and The Imaginary App (MIT Press, 2014).

Elena Vogman is a scholar of comparative literature and media. A Principal Investigator of the research project Madness, Media, Milieus: Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe at Bauhaus University Weimar and Visiting Fellow at ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, she is the author of Sinnliches Denken. Eisensteins exzentrische Methode (Sensuous Thinking. Eisenstein’s Eccentric Method, 2018) and Dance of Values: Sergei Eisenstein’s Capital Project (2019).