is a Jarman Award nominated artist (2018). He completed a BA in Mixed Media Fine Art at University of Westminster in 2005 and an MA in Sculpture at The Slade School of Fine Art in 2008. He lives and works in Essex, and has been a tutor on the Photography MA programme at Royal College of Art since 2016. Achiampong currently serves on the Board of Trustees at Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and is represented by C Ø P P E R F I E L D.

is an architect, creative director and urban theorist. Adeyemo is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, a fellow of the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam and a current recipient of the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Andrew Mellon research grant. He leads an architecture design studio at the Royal College of Art in London.

is a PhD student in the Program in Literature at Duke University. She works on surveillance and contemporary film and literature in the Middle East.

is a lecturer in Art and Visual Cultures of the Global South, Department of History of Art, UCL. His work revolves around speculative articulations in machine learning, philosophies of being, mathematics, engineering, and black ontology.

is an artist based in London & Brighton, who works with the image in the digital world. His works slip between performance and video, reality and construct, using references sampled from the wide, disparate sources that provide his (and our own) individualist sense of self.

is Senior Lecturer in Digital Society and Deputy Head of the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. Her research explores how digital technology transforms knowledge and with it power. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Network for the Critical Humanities Terra Critica and co-founder of the Creative AI lab, a collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery.

is an independent critic and writer. He is known for his interdisciplinary and intercultural work on music, popular and metropolitan cultures. More recently he has transmuted this line of research into a series of postcolonial analyses of the formation of the modern Mediterranean. He is author of Urban Rhythms: pop music and popular culture (1985), Popular Culture: The metropolitan experience (1986), Border dialogues: Journeys in postmodernity (1990), Migrancy, culture, identity (1994), Culture after humanism (2001); and most recently, Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity (2008).

is a researcher, artist and cultural practitioner. Her research lies at the intersection between practices of private memory (like biographical archives) and collective memory, through the development of video art, sounds, writings, performances, installations, and lectures. One of her latest projects is Il paese delle terre d’oltremare (2012-2020), focused on the exhibition space Mostra delle Terre d’Oltremare in Naples and on the (colonial) Archive. She is a member of the Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies, at the Oriental University of Naples and has founded Dormire in 2014, a project of informal residency at Naples for thinkers, artists, researchers and visionaries.

is a researcher, DJ and music producer. He holds a PhD in International Studies from Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, where he is a member of the Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies and of the Technocultures Research Unit. He is a founding member of the research and practice network Sound System Outernational based at Goldsmiths, University of London and author of Black Noise. Tecnologie della diaspora sonora (Meltemi, forthcoming). As a member of the Critical Computation Bureau he is the Online Coordinator of the Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence and Speculative Computation Symposium.

is Professor and Director of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. An academic and practicing artist, Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva’s work addresses the ethico-political challenges of the global present. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), A Dívida Impagavel (Oficina da Imaginaçāo Política and Living Commons, 2019), Unpayable Debt (Stenberg/MIT Press, forthcoming) and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).

is a Professor in the Education and Social Research Institute and co-director of the Biosocial Laboratory for Research on Learning and Behavior, at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on anthropological and philosophical investigations of mathematics, science and technology, pursuing the implications and applications of this work across the social sciences and humanities. Recent article publications on digital methods include: The temporal fabric of research method (2017); Non-human findings from the laboratory of speculative sociology (2017); Calculating matter and recombinant subjects (2017); The new empiricism of the fractal fold (2016); Material encounters and media events (2016); Video data and the time-image (2015); Assembling the posthuman subject (2015).​

is director of the Master of Science in Social Policy Program, chair of the Data Analytics for Social Policy Certificate of the Masters of Science in Social Policy Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Inheriting Possibility: Social Reproduction & Quantification in Education (2017, University of Minnesota Press). He also co-edited Thinking Comprehensively About Education: Spaces of Educative Possibility and Their Implications for Public Policy (2012, Routledge) as well as co-guest edited "Alternative Ontologies of Number: Rethinking the Quantitative in Computational Culture" (2016, Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies) and “The computational turn in education research: Critical and creative perspectives on the digital data deluge” (2017, Research in Education). He is also working on an authored book project that is theoretically and empirically examining the ways in which data and algorithms become racialized forces, particularly in the area of algorithmic governance, and, as a result, are active agencies in reconfiguring sociopolitical relations in society.

is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at University of Western Ontario. He is author of Cyber-Marx (University of Illinois, 1999), and co-author of Digital Play (McGill-Queen's, 2003), Games of Empire (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), Cyber-Proletariat (Pluto, 2015), and the co-author of Inhuman Power (Pluto, 2019).

is an independent researcher who works on the intersection between fugitivity and artificial intelligence.

is a practice-based researcher working with digital media. Her main interests are infrastructure and logistics as an entry point in a decolonial approach towards post-Soviet space. Anna’s recent projects include Machinic Infrastructures of Truth - an investigation in the infrastructures of algorithmic surveillance, presented as the part of Transmediale Festival 2020 in Berlin and commissioned by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art; Adversarial Infrastructure – interrogation of the Russian Crimean Bridge, as functioning under the principles of adversarial machine learning.

is an independent researcher and art curator. Her main interest is in the investigation of curatorial methodologies from a postcolonial, decolonial and feminist point of view. Her research is both practical and theoretical and focuses, in particular, on the Italian artistic context. She holds a PhD in International Studies from Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale. She is a member of the Technocultures Research Unit; together with the artistic collective canecapovolto, she is a founding member of the cultural organization Scuola FuoriNorma. She is co-curator for the artists' section of the Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence and Speculative Computation Symposium.

is a PhD candidate in Media Studies at Stanford University and a member of the arts/media workshop Critical Practices Unit.

is an Italian artist whose work investigates gender, sexuality, care and labor in relation to neoliberal capitalism and the borders of the Global South. Her work has been exhibited and screened at MoMA (New York), Whitney Museum [Sunrise/Sunset Commission], Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2018, Unofficial Internet Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennial, XVI Quadriennale di Roma, rhizome.org [Download Commission], The Flaherty NYC, Institute for Contemporary Art, Milano (ICA Milano), among others. Giardina Papa received an MFA from RISD, and a BA from Politecnico of Milan, and she is currently pursuing a PhD in film and media studies at the University of California Berkeley. She lives and works in New York and Sant’Ignazio (Sicily). Giardina Papa is a founding member of the artist collective Radha May

Steve Goodman is an artist, writer and, under the name Kode9, an electronic musician. He founded the record labels Hyperdub in 2004, and Flatlines in 2019. He has produced 3 albums, 2 with the late vocalist The Spaceape (Memories of the Future, 2006; Black Sun, 2012) and one solo, (Nothing, 2015). His book Sonic Warfare was published in 2009 (MIT Press) and in 2019 he co-edited Audint - Unsound: Undead (Urbanomic Press) He co-runs the monthly event series Ø and his installations have appeared at, among others, venues such as the Tate Modern, the Barbican and Arebyte Gallery in London, and CAC in Shanghai.

is Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Media at NYU Shanghai. She teaches courses in media theory, philosophy of technology and digital humanities in the program for Interactive Media Arts. Anna holds a PhD in Continental philosophy from Warwick University, UK. While at Warwick, Anna was a founding member of the Cybernetic culture research unit (ccru). Her current research interests lie at the intersection of urban Asia and emerging media. Anna’s latest book Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. She is currently working on a project on China and the Wireless Wave.

is a media theorist whose scholarship engages with artistic and philosophical practice. She received her PhD in Computational Media, Arts and Cultures from Duke University in 2020. Her dissertation examines counter-visual artistic practices that intervene in the material conditions and ethico-legal systems underlying the extractive operations of computational media in the context of the Middle East.

is a Cape Town based performance artist, sculptor and filmmaker known for his sculptural suits and experimental video art. Since completing his formal education in 2015, Knoetze’s practice has been itinerant. He has spent the past 5 years working on projects in South Africa (National Arts Festival, Goethe Institut Johannesburg), Dar es Salaam (Nafasi Art Space AIR), Kinshasa (Kinact3), Dakar (Afropixel6/Digital Imaginaries), New York (Art OMI AIR), Chengdu (Centre Pompidou), Shenzhen (33 Space), and Paris (Centre Pompidou). He is a recipient of the Digital Earth Fellowship and has been featured as one of Mail & Guardian Newspaper’s ‘Top 200 Young South Africans’.

is an Assistant Professor of Humanities (Literature) at Yale-NUS College. Her research interests include literary and critical theory, media studies, and global Chinese literature, film, and art. She has published in academic journals such as Science Fiction Studies, Configurations, Mediations, and positions. Her first book manuscript, The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861-1906 is forthcoming in 2021 with Duke University Press as part of the ‘Sign, Storage, Transmission’ series.

is a writer, research editor and art director. His research interests focus on issues in political economy through the lens of Black Studies. In 2019, Christxpher received a Master of Arts from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He co-wrote, mixed and edited The Cosmogony of (Racial) Capitalism with Director Dele Adeyemo, and is the Assistant Symposium Coordinator to Recursive Colonialism.

’s research is a philosophical investigation of technology in culture, aesthetics and politics. She is a Professor in Media Philosophy at the Program in Literature and the Computational Media Art and Culture at Duke University. She is the author of Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (2004, Continuum Press) and Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and Space (2013, MIT Press). She is completing a monograph on alien epistemologies and the transformation of logical thinking in computation.

is a Romanian theorist and educator based in South-East London. With a background in Philosophy and Semiotics, she holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths University of London and is the author of The Arab Spring between Transformation and Capture. Autonomy, Media and Mobility in Tunisia (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020). A member of the international research & practice networks Sound System Outernational and The Critical Computation Bureau, Oana is the Coordinator of the Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence and Speculative Computation Symposium.

is Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, where she has been a faculty member since 2000. Her most recent book is The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) published with Duke University Press in the series ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise that she co-edits with Mel Chen. Puar is the author of award-winning Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007).

is an independent researcher, whose work revolves around the politics of cultural production and technoscapes in the Arab World. She holds a PhD in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies from Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, where she is a member of the Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies and of the Technocultures Research Unit. She is co-curator for the artists' section of the Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence and Speculative Computation Symposium.

is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. In 2000 he founded the Sarai program along with Ravi Vasudevan and the Raqs Media Collective. Sundaram is the author of Pirate Modernity: Media Urbanism in Delhi (2009), and No Limits: Media Studies from Delhi (2013). Sundaram has co-edited the Sarai Reader series, The Public Domain (2001), The Cities of Everyday Life (2002), Shaping Technologies (2003), Crisis Media (2004), and Frontiers (2007). His current research looks at the worlds of circulation after the mobile phone, information fever, ideas of transparency and secrecy, and the postcolonial media event.

is a London based DJ and the co-curator alongside Kode9 of the monthly Ø event that champions emerging music and installations. She is also an NTS Radio regular.

is Lecturer in Politics & Technology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She works on migration and borders in the Mediterranean region. She is the author of The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders (2019), Tunisia as a Revolutionised Space of Migration (2017) with Glenda Garelli and Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings (2014). Her work explores the biopolitical mechanisms by which some subjects are racialised and governed as “migrants”, analysing the intertwining of modes of objectivation and subjectivities. More recently, she has investigated the technologization of the border regime and how technologies constitute a battlefield for migrants, states and non-state actors. She is part of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy, member of the editorial board of Foucault Studies and co-founded of Materialifoucaultiani journal.

is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and New Media in the Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples, 'L'Orientale'. She is the author of Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age (Pluto Press, 2004) and numerous essays about digital media in journals such as Theory Culture and Society, Culture Machine, New Formations, CTheory, and in edited collections. She is a member of Euronomade (www.euronomade.info) and a co-founder of the Technoculture Research Unit (www.technoculture.it).

is a writer, photographer and filmmaker. His work concerns notions of home and the significance of place and landscape, often exploring the marginal spaces that give clues to our contemporary condition. The first feature film The New Wild: Life in the Abandoned Lands premiered at various international festivals in 2017 and is now being distributed theatrically throughout Italy by Tucker film.

is an artist, sculptor and robotic designer based in Kinshasa. As an insatiable creator, he finds satisfaction in diverting objects from their primary use: broken electronic toys, computer parts, sheet metal, plastics or organic materials. He re-appropriates these discarded "dead materials", which he assembles - in a certainly aesthetic construction logic - and brings them back to life in the form of disconcerting machines.

Rebecca Uliasz is an artist and PhD Candidate in the department of Computational Media, Arts and Cultures at Duke University. She researches contemporary computational visual culture, the history of cybernetics, and computational aesthetics. She is part of the audio-visual research collective GOVERNANCE.