NEW WORLD ORDER

JAYA KLARA BREKKE

Jaya Klara Brekke works across theory, technology and design and is currently writing a PhD on the political geographies of blockchain infrastructures at Durham University. The Distributing Chains research project looks concepts of authority, sovereignty, trust and consensus and trace these as they are assumed, encoded and executed through blockchain technologies. She is based between London, Athens and Durham.

xfx (aka AMI CLARKE)

Ami Clarke is an artist whose work considers models of mass behavioural procedures, such as the financial markets, in anticipation of new behaviours emerging from news produced/distributed primarily through social media, as people seemingly act in groups at a level of pre-verbal, emotional intensity, arriving at what has been described as a post-truth politics. She is founder of Banner Repeater: a reading room with a public Archive of Artists Publishing, and project space; opening up an experimental space for others, on a working train station platform at Hackney Downs station, London. She has recently exhibited and curated works at the ICA, Dundee, Wysing Arts Centre, Museo Del Chopo Mexico City, Hayward Gallery.  She commissions new artists/writers works through Banner Repeater, and several publishing imprints, inc Un-Publish.

PETE GOMES

Pete Gomes is a filmmaker and artist working across all forms of moving image. His works have been shown across Europe, India, Russia, Tasmania, Iceland, South America and USA, including: Institute of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Gallery, Architecture Foundation, Royal Opera House, Southbank Centre, Gimpel Fils, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture, Stedelijk Museum, Vienna Museum of Contemporary Art, Leeds International Film Festival, Sonar and others. In 2013 he received an award from architect Bernard Tschumi for his film Path 1 at Cinecity Architectural Film Project in Melbourne. 

He has collaborated extensively including: Shobana Jeyasingh, Scanner, Michael Nyman, Errollyn Wallen, Jocelyn Pook, Donnacha Dennehy and Throbbing Gristle. He is currently working on his phD in improvisation, developing new working methods for Improvising Cinema across both production and performance.

ELIAS HAASE

Elias Haase is interested in alternative pathways for technological futures and how they intersect with life. He is a critic of the homogenising impact of tech-savvy elites and tries to help crash the gates so that as many different people as possible can take part in shaping the future of technology.

Elias is one of the founders of B9lab, conducting training and research around blockchain and decentralised applications.

PAUL KOLLING

Paul Kolling is a media artist and designer living in Berlin, Germany. After some time spent working as a carpenter, he moved to Berlin to study visual communication at the University of the Arts. Since 2014 he has been a student of the new media class of Prof. Joachim Sauter and Jussi Ängeslevä. He works at the intersection of media art, design research and industrial design, and strives to explore the interaction between (new) materials, objects and new technologies. Terra0 was originally developed in the Digitale Klasse at the University of Arts, Berlin by Paul and Paul Seidler.

ROB MYERS

Rob Myers is an artist, hacker,and writer. For more than two decades his work has probed and clarified the significance to society of practices in expressive and engineering cultures, from the apparently mundane and bureaucratic to the deeply mysterious. Through his artworks, many of which take the form of software, he plays with concepts of art, value, authorship and creation in the age of digital networks.

O’KHAOS and Primavera De Filippi

O’Khaos Creations is a collective of artists, eager to explore creativity through interactive installations, kinetic sculptures and mechanical contraptions constructed from recycled materials, all licensed under Creative Commons licenses. The collective was co-founded by Primavera de Filippi in 2010. As a legal researcher, artist and coder, Primavera De Filippi explores the intersection between law, technology and art. Primavera conceived and produced the genesis Plantoid and has since them been working on creating the ecosystem to ensure the evolution of the other Plantoids.

PAUL SEIDLER

Paul Seidler, a artist/interaction designer living and working in Berlin. Since 2013, he studies at the University of the Arts in the digital media class by Prof. Joachim Sauter. While studying he worked at a range of research facilities including the Design Research Lab and the Hybrid Plattform. His projects and papers have been presented at Leap Berlin, CTM, Dutch Design Week and ecocore. Terra0 was originally developed in the Digitale Klasse at the University of Arts, Berlin by Paul and Paul Kolling. 

LINA THEODOROU

Lina Theodorou lives and works in Berlin and Athens, primarily through video and installations.

She has participated in shows at Bozar, center for fine arts, Brussels, Museumsquartier, Vienna,National museum of contemporary art, Athens, EMAF, European media art festival, Osnabrueck, Deste Foundation, Athens, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel,Macedonian Museum Of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, 8th international Istanbul Biennial, 6th ev+a Limerick Biennial, 53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 11th International Architecture Exhibition Venice Biennial, Impakt festival, Utrecht, State Museum Of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Benaki Museum, Athens, Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Cultural Center, Museum of Rome in Travestere, Rome, Biennial of the moving image, Buenos Aires.