Bêka & Lemoine have stood out on the architectural scene for the innovative nature of their cinematographic work, disrupting the usual representation of contemporary architecture by putting people at the forefront (The New York Times described them as “cult figures in the European architecture world”). Presented in major biennials and international events, such as the Venice Architecture Biennale, Oslo Architecture Triennale, and Performa New York, their films are also frequently exhibited in prestigious museums (e.g. MET, New York; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen; Victoria & Albert Museum, London) and awarded by film festivals (e.g. CAFx, Copenhagen; DocAviv, Tel Aviv; ADFF, New York; AFFR, Rotterdam). Bêka & Lemoine have been invited as guest professors at GSAPP / Columbia University (New York), Domaine de Boisbuchet (France) HEAD in Geneva (Switzerland), and AA School in London.

Nina Canell (*1979) frequently collaborates with Robin Watkins (*1980). The transfer and distribution of energy has been an integral preoccupation of their work since the beginning, often working with situations that are highly sensitive to spatio-temporal variables. Grounded as much in the chance encounter as in close study, their sculptural process foregrounds material agency.

Their work has been shown in solo museum exhibitions in Mexico, Switzerland, Belgium, South Korea, Ireland, Austria, the US, Sweden, France, Germany and England. They have taken part in the Venice, Cuenca, Sydney, Manifesta, Lyon and Liverpool biennials as well as group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Witte de With, Rotterdam; the ICA, London; Secession, Vienna; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Guggenheim, Bilbao, among other places.

Lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, who work under the name Ubermorgen.com, live and work in Vienna, Cologne, and St. Moritz. Ubermorgen became notorious for their media hacks in the 2000s. The artist duo owns more than seventy-five active web pages, safely embedded within the Swiss Alps on military secured grounds. The French newspaper Libération described the strategy behind the vote-selling platform Vote-Auction (2000–06) as “un plan machiavélique.” Ubermorgen.com’s work has been shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Biennale of Sydney, and Gwangju Biennale, among others and has won the Swiss Art Award, transmediale Award, and IBM Award for New Media. Ubermorgen.com influenced by Rammstein, Samantha Fox, XXXTentacion, Pfizer’s Olanzapine, Albert Hofmann’s LSD, and KFC’s Coconut Shrimps Deluxe, as well as Viennese actionism.

SEVER was developed as a speculative design project by Francesco Sebregondi, Alexey Platonov, Inna Pokazanyeva, and Ildar Iakubov during the New Normal postgraduate program at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow. SEVER seeks to intervene into current Arctic debates by disturbing the landscape of the region’s possible futures.

Underworlds is a cross-disciplinary, open-data platform for monitoring urban health patterns, shaping more inclusive public health strategies, and pushing the boundaries of urban epidemiology. Pioneered by the Senseable City Lab and the Alm Lab, and sponsored by the MIT-Kuwait Center for Natural Resources and the Environment, a prototype smart sewage platform is being developed at MIT consisting of physical infrastructure, biochemical measurement technologies, and the down­stream computational tools and analytics necessary to interpret and act on our findings.

Design Earth is a collaborative architectural practice led by El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn. The office’s work engages the geographic to open a range of aesthetic and political concerns for architecture and the environment. The practice of making geographies—literally, “Earth writing,” from the Greek geo (Earth) and graphia (writing)—involves the coupled undertakings of “writing about,” that is, projecting or representing the Earth, and also “writing on,” or marking, forming, or re-presenting a world. Design Earth is based in Ann Arbor, MI, and Cambridge, MA. El Hadi and Ghosn co-authored the Graham Foundation grant-supported Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (2018) and Geographies of Trash (2015).

Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe (PACIT) is a traditional village descended primarily from Chitimacha, but also Atakapas, Biloxi, and Choctaw—all farmers, fishers, and hunters—who have been living in lower Pointe-au-Chien along the Louisiana Gulf Coast for centuries. PACIT is a state-recognized tribe but has been seeking federal recognition since the 1980s. The tribe is in crisis because of the changing environment of the Louisiana wetlands. The water is rising and the wetlands have almost disappeared. The situation is made worse by corporations that exploited the environment in the past without regard for the impact on the habitats of wildlife. The real solution, PACIT believe, is to work with the natural environment and restore the barrier islands that are now covered by the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. PACIT formed the First Peoples’ Conservation Council in order to organize and have a seat at the table in determining the Tribe’s future and the future of their land.

Anthony D. Barnosky is a paleobiologist and global change scientist. His work combines paleontology, biology, and conservation biology in ways that have helped define how people have triggered the onset of the Anthropocene. Currently at Stanford University he is the Executive Director Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve and a Professor of Biology. Prior to that he was on the faculty in Integrative Biology at the University of California Berkeley, where he is a Professor (Emeritus). Author of numerous scientific publications, op eds, blog posts, and books, he has spent more than three decades conducting research related to past planetary changes, and what they mean for forecasting the changes to come on Planet Earth in the next few years. He has worked in South America, India, China, Africa, Europe, and the western USA in a quest to learn how past species reacted to major environmental changes, the state of our planet today, and how we can guide it toward a future we want, rather than one that inadvertently happens to us.

Golnoush Abbasi is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, looking at the stock and flow of products containing flame retardants in the US and Canada from 1970 to 2020. She has used sales data and consumption patterns of certain products to establish a time-dependent stock of flame retardants (PBDEs), and has also investigated the fate of flame retardants added to products during their use in the indoor environment, by using dust as an indicator of their migration from products. To understand the fate of these chemicals at the end-of-life stage of products, she has applied material flow analysis to estimate the substantial flow of these products to waste management. Golnoush’s results suggest that, despite efforts made to eliminate chemicals of concern, these substances will remain in use long after controls and restrictions have been implemented. Moreover, the accumulation of these products in waste management and the use of recycled products will continue to act as sources of these substances in both indoor and outdoor environments.

Maria José de Abreu studied anthropology of media at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, and received her PhD in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in 2009. Her work engages with a range of anthropological, philosophical, and literary debates about religion, time, space, personhood, the human senses, and their technological extensions. She is currently working on two book projects. The first is on the flourishing of Byzantine iconography in urban São Paolo through the media practices of a religious movement. The second is on an anthropology of the impasse among Portuguese youth as part of the Errans project at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. She has published in various journals, edited volumes, and has recently been awarded a grant to support an international Wenner-Gren symposium titled “New Media, New Publics?” (2015). She worked as a visiting scholar at Concordia University (2010) and Columbia University (2011), and in 2013–14 as a fellow of the Forum for Transregional Studies under the program Art Histories/Aesthetic Practices. She is affiliated to the Department of Art History at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Virginia García-Acosta is a social anthropologist (BA and Master) and historian (PhD) from Mexico. Since 1974, she has been a teacher and researcher at CIESAS (Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology) in Mexico City and was the General Director from 2004 to 2014. She has published over 100 articles and book chapters, either as a single author or as a coordinator, as well as 24 books in Mexico, the USA, Europe, South America, and China. She has also been Principle Investigator and Co-Principle Investigator for several research projects funded by Mexican and international entities. Her research relates to food history and disaster and risk from a historical-anthropological perspective, and her research interests center around earthquakes and agricultural disasters (hurricanes, floods, droughts, hailstorms, etc.) in Mexican and Latin-American history.

Morgan Adamson is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota. She is a scholar-practitioner who works at the intersections of film and digital media, critical theory, and cultural studies. Her recent book, Enduring Images: Towards a Future History of New Left Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), examines how cinema became a form of collective resistance within international New Left social movements during the 1960s and 1970s. She has also published on the relationship between culture, finance capitalism, and the Anthropocene. She is currently working on a documentary essay film that addresses the promise and pitfalls of architectural utopianism in Minneapolis during the 1960s and 1970s.

Courtney Addison is a Lecturer in the interdisciplinary Centre for Science in Society at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington. Working across Anthropology and Science Technology Studies, her doctoral research employed lab and hospital ethnography to explore the everyday ethics of experimental genetic medicine in children. More recently, she has begun a project investigating the multispecies politics of poisons-based pest control in Aotearoa.

Babak Afrassiabi is an artist who works both in Iran and the Netherlands. Since 2004, he has collaborated with Nasrin Tabatabai on various joint projects and the publication of the bilingual magazine Pages (Farsi and English). Their work seeks to articulate the undecidable space between art and its historical conditions, including the recurring question of the place of the archive in defining the juncture between politics, history, and the practice of art. The artists’ work has been presented internationally in various solo and group exhibitions and they have been tutors at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2008–13), and Erg, école supérieure des arts, Brussels (2015–).

Malin Ah-King is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and an evolutionary biologist (PhD) in the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on gender and queer perspectives on biology and feminist science studies and her current project explores how views on females have shifted in evolutionary biology. Ah-King has conducted research at Uppsala University, Sweden; University of California, Los Angeles; Macquarie University, Sydney; Philipps University of Marburg, Germany; and Humboldt University of Berlin. She has published in Evolutionary Biology, lambda nordica, Confero, PLOS Biology, and Ecology and Evolution.

Nabil Ahmed is a writer, artist, and researcher. He participated in the 2012 Taipei Biennale and the 2014 Cuenca Biennale, and his works have been exhibited at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, the Shanghai Study Centre at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture, and the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC) in Toronto. He has written for Third Text, Volume, and the book Forensis (Sternberg, 2014). He is co-founder and co-curator at “Call & Response,” an artist-run sound art project space based in London. He teaches in the architecture school at the CASS London Metropolitan University, where he runs the MA course in Architecture, History, Theory, and Interpretation. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Nabil has previously taught in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, and has been an invited critic at the Architectural Association in London and at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Westminster.

Fallon Samuels Aidoo, an endowed professor of urban design, planning, and preservation at the University of New Orleans, has researched and redesigned the adaptation of built environments to new uses and users, risks, and hazards for nearly 20 years. Her community-engaged research, interdisciplinary teaching, real estate consulting, academic publications, and professional service focus on the front lines of economic, demographic, and climate change, particularly aging buildings, historic commercial corridors, and coastal communities of color most at risk of disinvestment pre- and post-disasters. An urban planner who meets the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for historic preservation, Fallon advises and evaluates the resilience policies and revitalization projects of public agencies and corporations as well as community foundations, nonprofit conservancies, universities, neighborhood associations, business alliances, and preservation societies. She recently mapped and historicized neglected assets of Boston Main Streets, Philadelphia’s transit villages, and Newark’s waterfront; currently, she is retooling African American heritage preservation leaders fighting speculative development and storm surges—from Pontchartrain Park, New Orleans to Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard. Recently named a NextCity Fellow and Louisiana Landmarks Society trustee, Fallon holds degrees in urban planning (Ph.D., Harvard), architectural history (M.S., MIT), and civil/structural engineering (B.S., Columbia).

Kira Akerman is a film director based in New Orleans. She directed the short Station 15, recently featured on PBS and on a Smithsonian exhibition across Louisiana. It also screened at The Climate Museum in NYC, Sheffield Doc/Fest and DOCNYC. Her short The Arrest screened with MOMA this summer and was acquired by Tulane University’s Newcomb Art Museum. Kira’s work has also appeared at the Borscht Film Festival, Prospect Art Biennials 2 & 3, New Orleans, The New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, Rotterdam, and Clermont Ferrand. She is currently in production on her first feature-length documentary, Hollow Tree, produced by Monique Walton, Jolene Pinder, and Chachi Hauser. “Hollow Tree” is supported by Sundance and The International Documentary Association.

Memo Akten is an artist, researcher, and philomath working with computation as a medium, inspired by the intersections of science and spirituality and collisions between nature, science, technology, ethics, ritual, tradition, and religion. He is currently a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is researching artificial intelligence, machine learning, and expressive human-machine interaction. Exhibitions and performances include the Grand Palais, Paris; Royal Opera House, London; Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Design Museum Holon Museum, Tel Aviv; EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Amsterdam; and Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

Mohammad Al Attar is a Syrian Playwright, theater maker and essayist. His work takes place on the boundary between fiction and documentation. His plays such as Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence, Iphigenia, The Factory and Damascus 2045 were staged at various international theaters and festivals around the world. He is considered an important chronicler of war-torn Syria.

Pablo Alarcón is a set, costume, and stage designer for independent theater productions and films. Alongside his work for Fahrad Payar, Yumiko Yoshioka, the Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder), Theater Salpuri in Berlin, and others, he regularly works for Theater Thikwa, Berlin, for which he has designed numerous costumes. Another key place for him is Salzburg, where he served as costume designer and costume assistant for the Salzburg Festival productions Les Boreades, Don Giovanni, and Macbeth, as well as for many productions in the independent scene (including Theater ECCE, Theater bodi end sole, Stadttheater Hallein, and others). Since 2012, he has been Art Director at the Stelzen Theater Dulce Compania, Berlin.

Morehshin Allahyari is an artist, activist, and educator. Her projects, including her recent 3D-printed sculptural reconstructions of ancient artifacts destroyed by ISIS, titled Material Speculation: ISIS (2015–16), have received widespread curatorial and press attention and have been exhibited worldwide. She is the recipient of Foreign Policy magazine’s Leading Global Thinkers of 2016 Award and her work has been shown at the Queens Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; Venice Biennale of Architecture; and Centre Pompidou, Paris, among many others.

Hugo Ricardo Noronha de Almeida is a molecular biologist, comics scholar, and artist. His current work is concerned with the visual representation of narratives in comics and in scientific literature, particularly evolutionary narratives. He is also one-fifth of the artists’ collective Clube do Inferno. Hugo is currently conducting postdoctoral research in comics studies at the Artistic Studies Research Centre (CIEBA) of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon University. He has previously undertaken doctoral research in molecular biology at the Telomeres and Genome Stability Laboratory, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal (2006–13) and undergraduate studies in microbial and genetic biology at the Faculty of Sciences at Lisbon University (2002–06).

Hugo Almeida is a researcher and visual artist at CIUHCT (Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology), FCT-NOVA (2017-). He has a PhD in molecular biology from the NOVA University of Lisbon for research at the Telomere and Genome Stability Laboratory, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (2013), and has been a post-doctoral researcher at CIEBA, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon (2013-2016). He is an alumni of the Saari Residence (KONE Foundation), Mynämäki, Finland (2016), and of the Art and Science residency program of IMéRA Foundation, Marseille, France (2016-2017). He is a cofounder of comics zine label Clube do Inferno (2012-2019), where he published several comics, including Radiation and Colony Collapse Disorder. More recently, he has cofounded MASSACRE (2020-), a new arts and theory-oriented publishing label and artists’ collective, whose launch was marked by the group exhibition Loot Box, hosted at the FCT Library, which inquired on the role of videos games in the Anthropocene. His latest publication is an artist book called Not-human, Not-fly, which looks at the concept of the posthuman and its relevance to the Anthropocene discussion through an interdisciplinary approach that includes a written essay, drawings, pixel art, and a “molecular narrative” told in DNA sequence constructs that imagines the hybrid genome of the mutant creature in David Cronenberg’s The Fly.

Kayla Anderson participates in the art world as an interdisciplinary artist, a critical writer, a sometimes-curator, a precarious administrator, and an aspiring educator. Her visual practice is time-based, spanning video and interactive virtual environments, as well as performance, installation, and publication. Her work explores the ways that subjectivity shapes, and is shaped by, technology. Through art, she practices ways of being with the world: uncovering its curiosities and rubbing up against its contradictions. Her criticism approaches art as a testing ground for the development of new perceptions, ethics, and world views. Growing up under the influence of US working-class capitalism, she values art as an arena for non-strategic modes of thinking, feeling, and communing with others. Her work has been shown at Currents International New Media Festival (Santa Fe), the Australian Centre for the Moving Image ART+FILM Festival (Melbourne), MELT: Festival of Queer Arts and Culture (Brisbane); HTMlles Festival (Montreal), Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography; Urban Institute for Contemporary Art (Grand Rapids), Grey Projects (Tiong Bahru), Nối Projects (Hanoi), as well as many artist run and itinerant spaces throughout the US. Her writing has been published by Leonardo Journal (MIT Press), Art & Education, Kunstlicht Journal (University of Amsterdam), Aperture Magazine, Temporary Art Review and others. She received an MFA from Northwestern University, a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is a Visual Arts Fellow of the Luminarts Cultural Foundation.

Marie-Luise Angerer has been Chair of Media Theory/Media Studies at the Institute of Arts and Media, University of Potsdam since 2015. Between 2000 and 2015, she was a professor of media and cultural and gender studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. She has also been a guest professor in the US, Canada, Australia, Berlin, Bochum, Budapest, Ljubljana, and Zürich and has extensively published about the body, the construction of gender identities in communication and media, and new discourses on post-human life and future visions. Currently, Angerer is working on new materialism, media technologies and affect, knowledge forms, and aesthetic production. Her most recent publication is Ecology of Affect: Intensive Milieus and Contingent Encounters (2017).

André Araujo is a Brazilian researcher, writer and teacher at Associação de Pesquisas e Práticas em Humanidades (APPH). He holds a PhD in Communication and Information from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and is the joint coordinator of the research project Earth and Us: Education, Research and Citizenship in the Anthropocene (2022-2024) and the Age of the Earth Network, responsible for the production of both the Anthropocene Campus Brazil and Latin America. His research investigates the productive crossings between Semiotics, Media Studies and Anthropocene Studies. Also, he is a researcher of contemporary speculative fiction, specially Latin American horror fiction. He is the founder of the Research Group in Ecology of Practices (GPEP–APPH) and Research Group in Critical Semiotics (GPESC–UFRGS).

Bergit Arends is Curator and Researcher at the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London and at the Research & Public History Institute of the Science Museum Group. Her PhD thesis of 2017 is titled “Contemporary art, archives and environmental change in the age of the Anthropocene”. She curates the Kunst/Natur program at the Natural History Museum, Berlin (2016–18), and was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Natural History Museum, London (2005–13). She studied Curating at the Royal College of Art, London. In her research, she explores the interferences of the arts and the sciences, focusing on environmental humanities, fine arts, and curating.

Marco Armiero, Director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, is an environmental historian. He is one of the founders of the environmental history field in Italy, authoring, among other works, the first Italian textbook on the subject. His main topics of study have been the history of environmental conflicts over property rights and access to common resources (forests and sea), the politics of nature and landscape in Italian nation-building, and the environmental history of mass migrations. After short periods of research at the University of Kansas and Brown University, he worked at the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University, at the Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University. He was a Marie Curie fellow at the Autonomous University in Barcelona. He is an affiliate researcher at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where he is a member of the team for the Marie Curie Initial Training Network in Political Ecology. He holds a permanent position as senior researcher at the Italian National Research Council.

Leah Aronowsky is a PhD candidate in History of Science at Harvard. Her current research focuses on the history of the concept of the biosphere in the Life and Environmental sciences in the late-twentieth century United States, especially as it related to new ideas about “life” as a biogeochemical phenomenon, force, and process.

Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi is a Basque philosopher and “matrix” researcher. She has a BA in philosophy from the University of Deusto, Bilbao, and graduated with a Master’s degree from the University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona. She completed postgraduate studies in hermeneutics and postmodernism, and is currently a PhD candidate in philosophy and media theory at the University for Arts and Design, Karlsruhe; in her PhD project she is developing a philosophical proposal for a “matrix” theory. Taking as a starting point the semantic root of the term “matrix”—that is, uterus and mother—she tries to locate the ontological difference between both notions. The eidetic difference between what is mother and what is uterus is in sum the difference between what is world and what is not. While the mother is inside the world, the uterus is its exteriority, or its inner fold. Arantzazu draws on numerous contemporary theoretical contributions relating to crisis and trauma on the Earth (“geotrauma”), and the influence of human beings on our geological era (the Anthropocene), and argues that such expressions are manifestations of matricide. She has given lectures and has taken part in seminars in various European countries and has produced Spanish translations of German philosophical writers. She has also taught communication theory at the University of Arts and Applied Sciences, Freiburg.

Kat Austen’s artistic practice focuses on environmental issues. She melds disciplines and media, creating sculptural and new media installations, performances, and participatory work. Austen’s practice is underpinned by extensive research and theory, and is driven by a motivation to explore how to move towards a more socially and environmentally just future. Working from her studio in Berlin, Austen is Senior Fellow at University College London Arts and Sciences and Associate Artist Fellow at Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam. Her studio hosts two scientists in residence through the STUDIOTOPIA programme. In 2022 Austen was awarded a STAR+T+S Residency: Repairing the Future at Ars Electronica to develop an algae-based Vinyl alternative in cooperation with Fara Peluso. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, within her artistic practice Austen has participated in several artist in residence programs and exhibited and performed internationally, including at Wrocław Contemporary Museum, The Polar Museum, Cambridge, Kunsthalle Rostock, Opera North, UK, COP24, Fusion Festival, and Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco.  

Elie Ayache was trained as an engineer at l’École Polytechnique, Paris. He subsequently pursued a career as an option market maker on the floor of Marché à Terme International de France (MATIF, 1987–90) and London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE, 1990–95). He then turned to the philosophy of probability, by pursuing postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne, and to the technology of derivative pricing, by co-founding ITO 33, a financial software company, in 1999. Today, ITO 33 is the leading specialist in the pricing of convertible bonds, the equity-to-credit problem, and more generally the calibration and recalibration of volatility surfaces. Ayache has published numerous articles on the philosophy of contingent claims. He is the author of The Blank Swan: The End of Probability (2010) and The Medium of Contingency: An Inverse View of the Market (2015).

Ravi Baghel is a postdoctoral researcher working at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context,” based at Heidelberg University in Germany. His current research is focused on Himalayan glaciers and his interest in the Anthropocene developed during his PhD research on river control projects—including dams and embankments in India—which demonstrated the dramatic transformation of the entire planet through such projects.

Jennifer Baichwal has been directing and producing documentaries for twenty years. Her films have played all over the world and have won awards nationally and internationally. Her work includes: Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles, which won an International Emmy in 1999; Manufactured Landscapes, about the work of artist Edward Burtynsky, which was released in twelve countries; and Act of God, about the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning, which opened the Canadian Hot Docs Film Festival in May 2009. Payback, an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s Massey Lectures, produced by Ravida Din and the National Film Board of Canada, premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012 and was released in Canada and the United States that spring. Watermark (co-directed by Edward Burtynsky, and produced and filmed by Nick de Pencier) is a feature documentary film about human interaction with water around the world; it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2013 and won the Toronto Film Critics’ Association prize for Best Canadian Film 2014 and the Canadian Media Awards prize for Best Documentary 2014. It is currently on release in a number of countries.

Meghan Bailey is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford and a researcher for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). She has been working across sub-Saharan Africa for the past eight years. Most recently, she has been studying undernutrition and climate variability in Ghana’s Upper West District, and co-developing community adaptation plans for communities living within Niumi National Park in the Gambia. She has completed research projects on drought management and climate variability in Karamoja, Uganda as a Red Cross Young Humanitarian Scholar and has been managing a coastal resilience program in Kenya since 2008. She is interested in all forms of social differentiation and how these points shape the lived experience of individuals in marginal environments.

Sammy Baloji is a photographer living and working in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo. He graduated in Humanities Studies from the University of Lubumbashi. Sammy has exhibited his works at several international exhibitions in Brussels; at Bamako Biennale; at Musee du Quai Branly in Paris; and at Cup Biennale (South Africa). In addition, he has exhibited his works in his hometown. In addition to his solo work, he has also collaborated with Anthropologist Filip de Boeck. Their collaborative, and one in which Sammy and I work was featured in Urban Now. City Life in Congo, a major exhibition that went on show at the WIELS contemporary art centre in Brussels, in May 2016 and will be travelling to New York, Lisbon and Toronto in the coming months. Together, Filip De Boeck and Sammy Baloji also authored Suturing the City. Living Together in Congo’ Urban Worlds (2016, London: Autograph).

Anna Baltschun is a Berlin-based architect and urban researcher. She graduated from Architecture School at RWTH (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule) Aachen, Germany, in 2003. Between 2003 and 2006 she worked in international offices in New York and at OMA/AMO in Rotterdam, before training as an urban researcher at the Bauhaus Kolleg and continuing work as a curator at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (2006–08). Since 2009, she has been employed as an assistant professor and since 2010 has been a PhD candidate at the School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture (ASL) at Kassel University, Germany. In 2011–12, she held a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship for doctoral research and visited archives at MoMA New York, the Buckminster Fuller Archive at Stanford University, the Archigram Archives at Westminster University in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her doctoral thesis, “Well-tempered New York: visionary architecture in the environmental decade” is in progress, and concerns the question of how technology, human needs, and environmental concerns could integrate into architecture and urban planning to achieve a greater equilibrium with the Earth’s spheres. Her analysis focuses on the experimental design proposals of the 1960s for the island of Manhattan.

Subhankar Banerjee is an activist, artist, and public scholar. He is Lannan Chair and a professor of art and ecology at the University of New Mexico. He is author of the book Seasons of Life and Land: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (2003), editor of the anthology Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point (2012), and The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (with TJ Demos and Emily Eliza Scott, forthcoming). Banerjee’s work is included in the exhibition Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment, which is on view at the Princeton University Art Museum from October 13, 2018–January 6, 2019.

Arren Bar-Even earned his PhD at the Department of Plant Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot. His work focuses on biochemistry, cellular metabolism, systems biology and computational biology, among others. He leads the Research Group Systems and Synthetic Metabolism at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, aiming to uncover optimality in metabolic designs and to offer novel solutions for humanity’s needs in chemical and energy production.

Lisa Baraitser is Professor of Psychosocial Theory in the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London and a psychoanalyst in practice in London. She is the author of Enduring Time (2017) and has written widely on motherhood, ethics, care and temporality. She currently co-leads a Wellcome Trust research project on waiting and other forms of elongated time, as they play out in healthcare systems ‘in crisis’.

On Barak is a social and cultural historian of science and technology in non-Western settings. He has been a senior lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University since 2012. Prior to this, he was a member of the Princeton Society of Fellows. In 2009, Barak received a joint PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from New York University. His most recent book is On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt (University of California Press, 2013), and his current publication project, Coalonialism: Energy and Empire before the Age of Oil, is funded by a European Union Marie Curie Award and an Israel Science Foundation Grant.

Bruce Sunpie is a musician, writer, naturalist, park ranger, ethnographic photographer, and actor from Saline County, Arkansas, and former NFL player (Kansas City Chiefs). Along with his band, the Louisiana Sunspots, Barnes pioneered a unique mixture of zydeco, blues, gospel, jazz, and African and Afro-Caribbean music into a musical gumbo that he dubbed “Afro-Louisiana” music. Barnes plays accordion, harmonica, piano, trombone, rubboard, and various other musical instruments. Sunpie is deeply involved in New Orleans parade culture and takes his music to the streets. He is Second Chief of the North Side Skull and Bone Gang, one of the oldest existing carnival groups in New Orleans, and a member of the Black Men of Labor Social Aid and Pleasure Club.

Taking part in the base project “Anthropocene Kitchen” at the Cluster of Excellence “Image, Knowledge, Gestaltung” at Berlin’s Humboldt University, Stephan Barthel’s focus lies in spatial urban development generated by the processes of human nutrition. As a geographer and research assistant at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, he focused on urban disparity and conflicts, and on vulnerability and risk research, especially on the different mechanisms of displacement in Latin America’s megacities. Currently, he is working on a Master’s degree in geoinformation and visualization at the University of Potsdam, with the aim of visualizing the interdependency of building structures and the socio-spatial organization of urban societies, as well as urban mining.

Anil Bawa-Cavia is a computer scientist with a background in machine learning. He runs STDIO, a speculative software studio. His practice engages with algorithms, protocols, encodings, and other software artifacts and his doctoral research at the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London was on complex networks in urbanism. He is a founding member of Call & Response, a sonic arts collective and gallery space in London, and a member of the New Centre for Research & Practice.

Oliver Belcher is a Lecturer in Political Geography at Durham University. Previously, he held postdoctoral positions at the RELATE Center of Excellence (University of Oulu; 2014-2015) and the BIOS Project (University of Lapland; 2013). He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled “Signature Wounds” which focuses on the relationships between technology, violence, and experience through critical accounts of key moments in the U.S. wars in Afghanistan (the 2009-2011 “surge” in Kandahar and Helmand province) and Iraq (the two battles of Fallujah). The project draws on extensive interviews with US military, civilian personnel, Iraqis, and Afghans involved in those operations, as well as memoirs, and the nascent fiction coming out of the wars.

​​Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent is professor emeritus at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research topics span from the history and philosophy of chemistry to technosciences in general, along with a continuous interest in science and the public issues. She is a member of the French Academy of Technology and member of several ethics committees. She was the recipient of the Dexter Award for outstanding achievements in the History of Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (1994) and was awarded the History of Science Society’s 2021 Sarton Medal. Her recent publications include: Between Nature and Society. Biographies of Materials (2022), Living in a Nuclear World. From Fukushima to Hiroshima, co-edited with Soraya Boudia and Kyoko Sato (2022), Temps-paysage. Pour une écologie des crises (2021), French Philosophy of Technology. Classical Readings and Contemporary Approaches, co-edited with Sacha Loeve and Xavier Guchet (2018), Research Objects in their Technological Settings, co-edited with Sacha Loeve, Alfred Nordmann, and Astrid Schwarz (2017), Carbone, ses vies, ses oeuvres, co-authored with Sacha Loeve (2018), and Chemistry. The Impure Science, co-authored with Jonathan Simon (2008).

Dr. Etienne Benson is a historian of science, technology, and environment in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the history of relationships between humans and animals and on the history of environmentalism and the environmental sciences. He received his PhD in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology & Society from MIT in 2008. His book Wired Wilderness is about the history of wildlife radio-tracking and its media technologies. Prior to 2013 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment and a research scholar in Department II of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Anne Berg received her BA in history and psychology from Rutgers University in 2002 and her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2011. Trained as a historian of modern Germany and Europe, she has been teaching German, European and world history at the University of Michigan since 2012, where she is currently both a lecturer and the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her research follows multiple tracks: as well as studying cities, war, public leisure, film, and popular culture, she has a deep interest in the global politics of waste and recycling. Anne is conducting research along a number of parallel paths, all connected by her sustained interest in the visual, the spatial, and the material, as well as the technologies that mediate, govern, and decode them. She is currently completing the manuscript of her first book, Urban Legends: Cinema and the making of the Nazi city, and is also working on a second book project provisionally entitled Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and war in Nazi Germany. Lastly, she is working on a number of connected articles on the politics of the crudest of waste management technologies: the dump.

Ana Dana Beroš is an architect and curator focused on creating uncertain, fragile environments that catalyze social change. Her research project Intermundia, which questions alternating borderscapes of trans-European migration, was selected as the Wheelwright Prize finalist by Harvard Graduate School of Design and received a special mention at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale curated by Rem Koolhaas (2014). She was the Zagreb curator of ACTOPOLIS, a transnational artistic lab initiated by the Athens Goethe-Institut (2015–17). Currently, Beroš is the guest editor of Life of Art magazine on the topic of TRANS/MIGRANCY and Vice President of the Croatian Association of Architects.

Caitlin Berrigan works across performance, video, sculpture, text, and participatory public interventions to engage with the intimate and uncanny social dimensions of power and politics. Her work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Harvard Carpenter Center, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Hammer Museum, and Anthology Film Archives, among other venues. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Humboldt Foundation, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and PROGRAM for Art and Architecture Berlin, and will be a 2015–17 Schloss Solitude fellow. She is a full-time member of the faculty at NYU Tisch Photography and Imaging, and holds an MA in visual art from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA from Hampshire College, Massachusetts.

Josh Berson is an anthropologist, novelist, and sound artist. His first book, Computable Bodies: Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche, won the 2016 PROSE Award in Language and Linguistics. His next book, Meat: From Human Origins to the Crisis of Capitalism, will appear in 2018. Since 2013, Berson has been a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. From 2014 through 2016, he led the Remote Sensing of Mood strand at the Wellcome-funded research initiative Hubbub. Berson consults regularly on the design of scalable platforms for the real-time remote sensing of subjective states of being. His current research starts with and takes a deep-time perspective on the question “What does a person, or a community, really need to survive? In order to flourish?”

Elisa T. Bertuzzo studied comparative literature, sociology, communication, and media studies and holds a PhD in urban studies. She was a curator and project leader with Habitat Forum Berlin, including for the project Paradigmising Karail Basti (2010–16). Bridging discourses from the fields of cultural and urban studies, her research focuses on the everyday life facets of urbanization and settlement in South Asia. On that topic, she published Fragmented Dhaka: Analysing Everyday Life with Henri Lefebvre’s Theory of Production of Space (2009) and runs her multimedia project Archives of Movement (since 2012), which deals with the everyday life of temporary labor migrants in Bangladesh and India.

Sunshine is a fiercely driven, entrepreneurial-minded professional who effortlessly wears more hats than most could imagine. A scientist, activist, Ethnobotanist, and IT innovator.

The Barbados-born Toronto native earned a degree in Sustainable Agriculture, before self-funding a 2-year globe-trotting odyssey through work on regional farms and as a chef. Currently, Sunshine applies mobile tech to knowledge systems, specific to Public Health and Industrial Hygiene towards sustainable cities. She’s an Ethnobotanist who’s studied Health & Wellness (via Applied Historical Ecology and Medicinal Anthropology), with a focus on Indigenous knowledge systems as they specifically relate to traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).

AmnAya is a robust database of regional plants and their relation to public health (i.e., herbal remedies) with assistance of tech collaborator, Shabih Haider, is then made available to indigenous and socio-economically deprived populations around the world (with a particular interest in the Global South) via a user-friendly web and mobile app. Pairing traditional knowledge with Western academic studies; using a collaborative editing platform similar in practice to that of Wikipedia allows for communities to actively claim ownership of their native resources.

Goal? (1) The reclamation and (cultural) preservation of information lost through historical migration, various forms of gentrification, and even biopiracy by large corporations. (2) Data is re-introduced through hyper-local community-based work: from workshops and edible schoolyard curriculum to community gardens. (3) Empowers communities to preserve, protect and employ their knowledge for local benefit.

Best promotes her efforts — often doing public speaking as well as workshops for conferences and symposiums.

Started her MSPH in 2019. 2020 brings beta-testing specific countries globally, and possibly with Indigenous nations [in the United States].

And yes, Sunshine Best IS her real name.

Shagufta Bhangu is a PhD candidate in sociology and social anthropology at Shiv Nadar University. She is also a member of the Climate Change Group at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics. Her research interests include science, technology studies, and medical anthropology; in particular, she is interested in exploring understandings of the body and bodily experiences, and debates around nature–culture, subject–object, and human–nonhuman. She is studying these key themes through two parallel registers: firstly, the attempts made by medical knowledge to understand, trace, and treat pain, which remains a particularly elusive category that resists measurement; and secondly, the attempts of meteorological science both to track air quality and to make this information available, accessible, and comprehensible to city dwellers, as has been attempted through SAFAR (System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research) in Delhi.

Daniel Birnbaum is the director and curator of Acute Art. He was the former Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Among his most recent projects as a curator are the 1st Moscow Biennale (2005), Airs de Paris (with Christine Macel) at the Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2007), the 2nd Yokohama Triennial (2008), and Zero (with Tijs Visser) at Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, 2015). In 2009, he was Director of the fifty-third Venice Biennale. Birnbaum coauthored, together with Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Spacing Philosophy: Lyotard and the Idea of the Exhibition (Berlin, 2019).

Marcia Bjornerud is Professor of Geosciences at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. Her research focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain building, and she combines field-based studies of bedrock geology with quantitative models of rock mechanics. She has done research in high arctic Norway (Svalbard) and Canada (Ellesmere Island), as well as mainland Norway, Italy, New Zealand, and the Lake Superior region. A contributing writer to The New Yorker, Wired, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, she is also the author of two book for popular audiences, Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth, and Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World.

Sara Black’s work uses conscious processes of carpentry, woodworking, and craft as a time-based method; diseased or affected wood, inherited building materials, or other exhausted objects as material; and creates work that exposes the complex ways in which beings and things are suspended in worlds together, often generating forms that intend to push beyond human frames of reference. Within her practice she works both individually and collaboratively, most recently with artists Amber Ginsburg and Raewyn Martyn. Sara is currently an assistant professor of Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has given talks and presented workshops at MassArt, Harvard University, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. Her work has been exhibited in a variety of spaces including: Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the Smart Museum of Art, Gallery 400, and Threewalls; Portland’s Museum of Contemporary Craft; New York’s Park Avenue Armory and Eyebeam; Boston’s Tuft University Gallery; Minneapolis’ Soap Factory; and Cleveland’s SPACES.

Alisa is a landscape designer, mapmaker, and writer living in St. Louis. Struck by the tallgrass prairie landscape since her childhood in Minnesota, she seeks to cohere its remains among the forms of the urban spatial environment and across private, public, and nonprofit realms. Her writing, cast from first-person research, considers the phenomenology of this and other, more aqueous landscapes. Alisa holds a masters degree in landscape architecture from the Sam Fox School of Washington University in St. Louis.

Adam Bobbette is a geographer and Lecturer at the University of Glasgow in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences. His current monograph The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java examines how Indonesian Islam shaped the modern understanding of the earth. His writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, N+1, and Cabinet Magazine and he is co-editor and contributor to Political Geology: Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life (2019) and New Earth Histories (2022). New Earth Histories tells the history of the environmental and earth sciences from a cosmopolitan, global perspective. He is currently working on a project about twentieth century spiritual movements, fossil fuel prospecting, and conceptions of self. He is co-founder of Kebun Lithos, a research centre on Mount Merapi volcano in central Java.

Jeremy Bolen is an artist researcher, organizer and educator interested in site-specific, experimental modes of documentation and presentation. Much of Bolen’s work involves rethinking systems of recording––in an attempt to observe invisible presences that remain from various scientific experiments and human interactions with the earth’s surface. His work has been exhibited widely at numerous locations including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; La Box, Bourges; POOL, Johannesburg; PACT Zollverein, Essen; EXGIRLFRIEND, Berlin; University at Buffalo, Buffalo; IDEA Space, Colorado Springs; The Mission, Houston; Galerie Zürcher, Paris; Andrew Rafacz, Chicago; Soccer Club Club, Chicago; Salon Zürcher, New York; The Drake, Toronto; Untitled Art Fair, Miami; Gallery 400, Chicago; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland; Depaul University Art Museum, Chicago and Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. Bolen lives and works between Chicago and Atlanta, serves as Assistant Professor of Photography at Georgia State University, is a co-founder and co-organizer of the Deep Time Chicago collective, and is represented by Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago.

Rozalinda Borcilă is a Romanian-born, Chicago-based artist, writer, educator, and organizer interested in the ways imperial border regimes are produced, experienced, and contested. She uses performance, field research and video to trace local geographies of global racial finance, following patterns of flow that link warehouse districts, weapons manufacturing sites, detention centers, petroleum supply chains, property speculation, financial rituals and technocratic forms. She is collaborating with Cree/Lakota educators Janie Pochel and Fawn Pochel on a book and walkabout series on how the petropolitics of prairie restoration is shaped by settler fantasies of reconciliation and innocence. She collaborates with Compass, NoName Collective, and Moratorium on Deportations Campaign, and is committed to autonomous noborder activism. Borcilă teaches in universities, social centers, squats, refugee camps, and in the streets.

Dr. Andrea Borsato received his PhD in earth science from the University of Milan in 1995. Currently Senior Research Associate at the University of Newcastle, Australia (2016–), he was previously a consultant hydrogeologist and Research Associate at Museo delle Scienze, Trento (1996–2013) and responsible for Quaternary geology mapping for the Italian Geological Survey (2003–2011). Dr. Borsato is an expert in karst and cave studies, speleothem petrography, karst hydrology, geochemistry, Quaternary geology, palaeoclimate reconstructions from continental carbonates, and trace element analyses. Since 2002 he has pioneered synchrotron XRF and XANES analyses of continental carbonates, becoming the world-leading expert in the field. He has published over seventy articles in high-ranking journals and has contributed to six book chapters. He collaborates with numerous research institutions in Italy and elsewhere in Europe, the USA, and the Asia-Pacific region, has been awarded over 25 grants, and has participated in over 40 research projects. He is regularly invited as keynote speaker to meetings and workshops, and has served as a referee for numerous prestigious scientific journals and international funding institutions.

Paul Boshears is on the faculty of the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University, Atlanta. He is Co-editor of the media-agnostic publication continent. He earned his PhD from the Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought program at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. His research is concerned with the nature of human relationships and the objects that mediate them. Boshears specializes in East-West comparative philosophy, emphasizing Chinese philosophy, aesthetics, and contemporary French and German contributions to the philosophy of technology.

Susan Bostwick is an artist and educator.

Alexander Bouchner is a student of architecture at the Technical University Braunschweig.

Elena Bougleux is associate professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Bergamo and teaches anthropology of science in the PhD program of the Research Center on Anthropology and Epistemology of Complexity (CE.R.CO). After her degree in theoretical physics, a PhD in general relativity (University of Florence and Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam), and an MA in cultural and gender studies (University of Florence), her research interests have focused on the epistemological implications of strategies of knowledge construction according to a constructivist and multicultural perspective. After a scholarship in Einstein Year 2004/05, she collaborated again with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in 2014. Her research makes use of ethnographic and visual methodologies, and shaped her work as a member of the Gender and Intercultural Studies Laboratory (University of Florence, 2003–07), and as coordinator of the Workshop on Migration and Urban Ethnography (University of Bergamo, 2009). Recent work focuses on the processes and practices of applied research as performed by the research and development (R&D) departments of multinational corporations. Her ethnographic fieldwork is based in the Indian R&D division of a US-based corporation and concentrates on the strategies of resistance and appropriations enacted by local actors in order to modify or accomplish the corporate policy of expansion in emerging contexts.

Dominic Boyer is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and Founding Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (2013-2019). He recently led the editorial collective of the journal Cultural Anthropology (2015-2018) and edits the Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge book series for Cornell University Press. He is currently pursuing ethnographic research with flood victims in Houston, Texas, and on electric futures across the world.  His most recent book is Energopolitics (Duke UP, 2019), which is part of a collaborative duograph, “Wind and Power in the Anthropocene,” with Cymene Howe, which studies the politics of wind power development in Southern Mexico. With Howe, he also helped make a documentary film about Iceland’s first major glacier (Okjökull) lost to climate change, Not Ok: a little movie about a small glacier at the end of the world (2018). In August 2019, together with Icelandic collaborators they installed a memorial to Okjökull’s passing, an event that attracted media attention from around the world. Boyer also produces and co-hosts (with Howe) the weekly “Cultures of Energy” podcast (available on iTunes, PlayerFM and Stitcher).

Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University, where she was founding director of the Center for the Humanities (2006–2016), founding professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities (1988–2005), and first academic director of the Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies (1995–2005). Her publications include The Posthuman (2013), Posthuman Ecologies (2018, with Simone Bignall), Conflicting Humanities (2016, with Paul Gilroy), and Nomadic Theory (2011). His most recent publication is Posthuman Knowledge (2019).

Benjamin Bratton’s work spans philosophy, art, design, and computer science. He is a professor of visual arts and Director of the Center for Design and Geopolitics at the University of California, San Diego and Program Director of the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow. Bratton is also a professor of digital design at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, and visiting faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles. In his most recent monograph, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (2016), Bratton outlines a new theory for the age of global computation and algorithmic governance.

Axel Braun studied photography at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, and fine arts at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. His artistic research deals with controversial infrastructure projects, tautology as an attempt to understand reality, and failed utopias in art and architecture. Currently, he is pursuing the long-term project Towards an Understanding of Anthropocene Landscapes. Recently exhibited works include Some Kind of Opposition (2016) at Galeria Centralis, Budapest, and Dragonflies drift downstream on a river (2015) at Kunstmuseum Bochum.

Dr. Keith Breckenridge is a Professor and Deputy Director at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, and one of the editors of the The Journal of African History. He writes about the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, the state, and the development of information systems. His interest in the history and contemporary politics of biometrics has also drawn him into the global institutional history of state documentation, especially the forms of birth, death, and marriage registration that are ubiquitous (but very poorly understood) in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He is currently working on several book projects.

Christopher Brick studied economy at the Freie Universität Berlin and Harvard University. He worked for the German Consulate in New York City and the Hertie School of Governance. He now works for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Berlin. He focuses on corporate social responsibility, global governance and economic policies.

Roman Brinzanik is a physicist, computational biologist and business developer for renewable energies. Currently, he is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, and at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, focusing on molecular systems biology of energy metabolism and of cancer. He co-authored Will We Live Forever? (2010), containing conversations about the present and future of bio-, nano-, info- and neuro-sciences and about the technological manipulation of human nature. Together with KRAFTWERK he develops decentralized renewable energy solutions for emerging and developing economies such as Brazil, Egypt and Kenya.

Dr. Soren Brothers is the Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. He is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. Soren’s research examines the effects of climate change on lakes, and how changes in aquatic systems can influence their greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. More broadly, he is interested in understanding how feedback loops and the transdisciplinary study of lakes can help us better understand and predict global tipping points that may accelerate anthropogenic climate change. Dr. Brothers has worked on lakes in a diverse array of environments around the world, including the Nunavut tundra, Quebec’s boreal forests, and the Great Lakes. He is leading a Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network initiative to improve understanding of the widespread greenhouse gas impacts of desiccation. He is also passionate about science communication and community outreach. 

Kate Brown’s research interests illuminate the point where history, science, technology, and bio-politics converge to create large-scale disasters and modernist wastelands. She has written four books about topics ranging from population politics, linguistic mapping, the production of nuclear weapons and concomitant utopian communities, the health and environmental consequences of nuclear fallout from the Chernobyl disaster to narrative innovations of history writing in the twenty-first century. She is a Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in History of Science, Program in Science, Technology and Society, MIT. She teaches environmental history, Cold War history, and creative non-fiction history writing. Her book Manual for Survival was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Johannes Bruder is a researcher who works at the intersection of anthropology, science and technology studies and media studies. He studies the influence of artificial intelligences on psychological categories, sociological models, artistic practices and speculative designs. His first book Cognitive Code. Post-Anthropocentric Intelligence and the Infrastructural Brain (2020) provides insights into the bio-politics of contemporary machine learning.

Berlin- and Milan-based artist Giulia Bruno works with photography and video. She received an MA in biology from Università degli Studi in Milan before going on to study photography at CFP Bauer, Milan and filmmaking at Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti, Milan. Her artistic and photographic research focuses primarily on issues of identity, technology, language, and architecture, and the contradictions that arise through their interaction. As a filmmaker, she is interested in the boundary between the artificial and the natural, and its difficult identification in contemporary structures—both material and abstract—with reference to climate change, science, and biodiversity. Of particular interest is the fragility of landscapes and languages, and the fractures that emerge in human relationships. Her short film Capital was awarded first prize at Visioni Italiane 2015 and in 2018 her work was selected in the Future Greats of ArtReview. She has collaborated for many years with Armin Linke. In collaboration with scientists of the Anthropocene Working Group, Bruno and Linke recently developed an exhibition for Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.

François Bucher was born in Colombia in 1972 and lives and works between Berlin and Paris. He has collaborated with his partner Lina López on various projects since 2013. His work seeks to deconstruct the hierarchy of knowledge set in place by contemporary scientific materialism, and looks towards an understanding of man and nature within a broad cycle that is encompassed by—and in turn encompasses—other cycles. This proposition signals a de facto move towards a multidimensional type of thinking, the qualities of which are holographic.

Seth Bullock earned DPhil (PhD) in evolutionary simulation modeling from the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at Sussex University. He spent two years at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin working on simulating the evolution of adaptive decision-making behavior in people and other animals. In 1999, Bullock took up a five-year University Research Fellowship at the University of Leeds and founded the Biosystems research group. In 2009, he became Director of Southampton’s Institute for Complex Systems Simulation (ICSS). He was promoted to professor of computer science in 2011, and in 2015 he joined the University of Bristol’s Department of Computer Science as Toshiba Chair in Data Science and Simulation.

Clementine Ewokolo Burnley is a writer, mother and community worker. She writes about loss, survival and cultural hybridity, mostly recently in the Witnessed series, Versal Journal, The Feminist Wire, Parabola Magazine and The Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology (2017). Burnley is a project coordinator at the Migrationsrat Berlin-Brandenburg.

Nicolas Buzzi has been playing drums since he was ten, and at age thirteen he began playing synthesizers. Since 2007, he has worked as a musician and audio engineer for concerts, theater shows, and other live performances, specifically in the fields of electronic and electroacoustical live music, improvisation, and sound art.

Susana Caló is a researcher. She obtained a PhD at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), London. Her thesis concerns the relations between language, semiotics, and politics in the work of Félix Guattari with a particular focus on linking institutional analysis to broader militant, social, and institutional contexts. She has a degree in Psychology and a Masters in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy from the University of Porto, with a thesis setting out a dynamical systems approach to cognition. She has worked in the field of cognitive science and developmental psychology at research centers in Portugal and the UK.

Giorgio Andreotta Calò is an Italian artist who lives and works between Italy and the Netherlands. His research explores the dimension of transit, as a way of approaching a work through the gradual reappropriation of the landscape and its history. The work presented to the public is the combination of a process and a time, set in the physicality of matter, taking its form from the environment with which it interacts, and from the energies released within.

Luis Campos is the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair of Astrobiology and Associate Chair of the History Department at the University of New Mexico. Trained in both biology and the history of science, Campos’s scholarship brings together archival discoveries with contemporary fieldwork at the intersection of biology and society. He has written widely on the history of genetics and synthetic biology and is the author of Radium and the Secret of Life (2015) and Making Mutations: Objects, Practices, Contexts (2010). Campos also serves as Secretary of the History of Science Society, the world’s largest society dedicated to understanding science, technology, medicine, and their interactions with society in their historical context.

Lino Camprubí is a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He is author of Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime (Cambridge; Massachusetts 2014: MIT Press). Camprubí obtained a PhD in history at UCLA and then became a member of the ERC-funded project The Earth Under Surveillance, where he published on phosphates at the Western Sahara. His current project deals with oceanography, acoustics and the global environment.

Alejandra Torres-Camprubí is currently Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo. Her particular areas of specialization and doctoral research include international climate change law and policy, energy law, the law on statehood, law of the sea, human rights, and refugee law, as well as security and strategy policies.

Guido Caniglia earned a PhD in philosophy from the University of Florence in 2010 and has worked in various academic communities, mainly in Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Since 2011, he has been a postdoctoral researcher for the Global Classroom project, a partnership between Arizona State University (ASU) and Leuphana University in Germany. Since September 2010, Guido has also been pursuing a second PhD at the Center for Biology and Society at ASU, with the aim of integrating his philosophical training with approaches from the historical and social study of science. The goal of the Global Classroom is to develop a new model for liberal arts education that pivots around transdisciplinary, intercultural, and research-based learning. This educational experiment is part of a broader movement that aims to rethink the overall curriculum of liberal arts education in the twenty-first century. Besides teaching several modules in the Global Classroom, Guido coordinates and organizes the project’s wider activities in close connection with the rest of the instructors. In their experimental classes, they deal with urban systems in relation to their sustainability, addressing the topic using tools and methods, among others, from history, philosophy, sociology, ethics, and sustainability sciences. The Global Classroom instructors aim to facilitate international, collaborative projects among students from different educational and cultural backgrounds. The questions that drive Guido’s research relate to the ways in which scientists produce, articulate, and modify knowledge about the evolution and functioning of complex, hierarchical, social structures—from urban systems to animal societies. In his research into the history and philosophy of the life sciences, Guido focuses on investigations into the evolutionary pathways that led to the emergence of social behaviors in social insects (wasps, bees, and ants), one of the major evolutionary transitions in the history of life. He looks specifically at some pivotal moments and personalities that have shaped our understanding of social life, in particular the life of social wasps, which provide an important model system for such understanding. Guido mainly concentrates on Leo Pardi’s work in Italy from the 1940s; Bill Hamilton and the origins of sociobiology in the late 1960s and early 1970s; Mary Jane West-Eberhard and the beginning of evolutionary developmental biology in the 1970s and 1980s; and Gro Amdam and Robert Page’s lab in current molecular sociobiology. Guido’s goal is to write an epistemological history of studies about the evolution of social behaviors across national, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries.

Maud Canisius is an artist and landscape architect conducting research as a PhD candidate in the faculty of Arts & Design at the Bauhaus-University Weimar. Her practice is research-based and process-oriented with a focus on walking as an artistic gesture, sensorial tool, and connector between people and environments. These engagements serve multi-disciplinary outcomes ranging from interactive installations and photo series to written accounts. Canisius’ work is concerned with the socio-political aspects of environmental relations, culture/nature, embodiment, the Anthropocene, experimental cartography and feminist methodologies.

Alice Cannava is an editor, graphic designer and front-end developer based in Berlin. She publishes and writes for the online magazine Occulto, which explores new possibilities in the popularization of science in connection to other fields such as the visual arts, parascientific theories, and history of ideas. In her work with Occulto, Cannava affirms the cultural value of scientific knowledge and the potential of an interdisciplinary approach opened to deviance and irony. Her research also questions past and present attempts to find shortcuts to knowledge (and power), the fascination towards the irrational and revealed truths.

Dr. Neal Cantin is a research scientist. His PhD, awarded by James Cook University, Townsville, Australia in 2008. investigated the impact of photoinhibition on coral reproduction and the influence of genetically distinct Symbiodinium species on the physiology of the coral host. His research focuses on historical records of coral calcification from long-lived massive corals in combination with experimental aquarium-based studies to better understand the response of coral physiology and calcification to past, present and future environmental stressors, particularly thermal stress and ocean acidification.

Zachary Caple’s research examines the phosphate fertilizer industry and its transformation of the Central Florida ecoregion. Building on commodity chain analysis, he traces the social history of phosphate fertilizers from mine to farm but departs from these approaches in charting environmental modifications across the supply chain. In Central Florida, phosphate rock is mined, converted to fertilizer, and used abundantly in agriculture. He studies how mining alters ecological landscapes through earthmoving and waste disposal, and is particularly interested in landscapes made from waste clays and sands. In agricultural zones, phosphate fertilizers can induce abrupt transitions in species composition and water quality—a process known as eutrophication. He documents the eutrophication of Lake Apopka, a large shallow lake transformed by twentieth-century vegetable farms. Zachary’s thesis tackles three dimensions of phosphate fertilizer-related landscape change: 1) histories of mining, agriculture, and their environmental impact; 2) novel patterns of ecological succession, involving both native and exotic species, in industry-disturbed lands and waste formations; and 3) efforts of state environmental agencies and local advocates to restore pre-industrial conditions.

Isabelle Carbonell is a Belgian-Uruguayan-American award-winning documentary filmmaker. Currently she is a PhD Candidate in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work lies at the intersection of expanded documentary, environmental anthropology, and the anthropocene, while striving to develop new visual and sonic approaches and methods to rethink documentary filmmaking.

Thiago Cardoso is a biologist with a Master’s degree in ecology (from the National Institute for Amazon Research in Manaus), for which he produced a thesis on agrobiodiversity, landscape, and indigenous practices. He is currently working on a PhD in social anthropology, studying contested landscapes in the Anthropocene. He is a member of research groups such as CANOA (Collective of Environment, Practices, and Perception), PACTA (Local Populations, Agrobiodiversity, and Rights), and AURA (Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene), where he is involved in the Niels Bohr Professorship and Project “Discovering the Potential of Unintentional Design on Anthropogenic Landscapes.” Thiago is engaged in projects on the environment, anthropology, political ecology, protected areas, indigenous peoples, land rights, and making landscape, and he has published books, articles, and presentations on these themes.

Chris is the director of Studio Land Arts a landscape design project stationed at GCADD (Granite City Art and Design District) a consortium of indoor and outdoor creative spaces where gardens, garden making, and plant production work to revitalize abandoned buildings and lots. Chris is a gardener and craftsperson as well as designer and draftsperson and has worked with private, non-profit, municipal, and institutional partners and clients to realize artful yet pragmatic stormwater projects, native plant installations, and unique outdoor spaces for people and wildlife.

Andrea Carlson (Ojibwe/Anishinaabe) is an artist currently living in Chicago, Illinois. Through painting and drawing, Carlson cites entangled cultural narratives, while questioning institutional authority over objects they possess and display. Current research activities include Indigenous Futurism and assimilation metaphors in film. Institutions such as the British Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada have acquired her work. Carlson was a 2008 McKnight Fellow and a 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors fellow.

Jen Caruso earned a PhD in comparative literature with an emphasis on European modernism and critical theory. She is Associate Professor of Liberal Arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her recent research and teaching interests include aesthetics in the context of late capitalism, and cultural responses to climate change. She has made recent conference presentations on slow cinema, representations of climate change in contemporary film, and on ecomedia and scale in the multimedia works of the artist Katie Paterson. She has an essay on alienated labor in the novels of William Gibson in the anthology Alien Imaginations: Science Fiction and Tales of Transnationalism (Bloomsbury).

Barbara Casavecchia is a writer, curator, and educator based in Venice and Milan, where she teaches at Brera art academy. Contributing editor for Frieze, her articles and essays have appeared in Art Agenda, Art Review, Flash Art, Mousse, South/documenta 14, Spike, among others, as well as in several artist books and catalogues. She is currently (2021–23) leading the research fellowship The Current III “Mediterraneans: ‘Thus waves come in pairs’ (after Etel Adnan)”, promoted by TBA21-Academy at Ocean Space.

Benjamin Casper is an architect and city planner. He graduated from RWTH (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule) Aachen in 2008 and has worked as an urban researcher for the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning at RWTH Aachen and at M:AI (Museum für Architektur und Ingenieurkunst). He has also refurbished several kindergartens as a self-employed practicing architect. Following a year abroad in Bangkok (2001–02), he has conducted several projects dealing with the city and has written a Diploma thesis based on a phenomenological investigation of the shop house as a Thai–Chinese building typology in Bangkok. Since the beginning of 2013 he has been a PhD student at the Institute of Geography at the University of Cologne. His thesis deals with the transformability of urban spaces adjacent to waterways (khlong) in Bangkok, with their architectural, urban morphological, spatial, structural, and institutional implications. Benjamin became aware of the Anthropocene following his visit to the GWSP (Global Water System Project) conference in Bonn in May 2013.

Felipe Castelblanco is a multidisciplinary artist. His current work activates avenues for biocultural peace-building through participatory art and media in the Colombian Andean-Amazon region. He is the founder of The Para-Site School, a project that infiltrates the university to serve artists-migrants excluded from the higher education system in the U.S. and Europe. In 2015, Castelblanco served as a Cultural Emissary for the US State Department to the Philippines.

Since early 2015, Eva Castringius has been a PhD student at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. She studied fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts, and studied for her MA with Professor Leiko Ikemura. She had previously completed a master’s degree in art teaching, art history, and psychology at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. During an extended stay in the USA on a scholarship to the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, she began to take an interest in the industrial landscapes of the southwest United States. More recently, she has written about the nuclear test landscapes of the Nevada test site. She complemented her time in the US with a trip to Japan in 2013, where a visit to the sites helped her in her research of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The artist has received a number of awards and scholarships, and her artworks are displayed in galleries and museums in several countries. Eva has received numerous grants, including a scholarship from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1996; a 2009 studio scholarship from the Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago; and, in 2013, a “Research in Culture” residency at the Banff Centre, Canada.

Alejandro Cearreta, is Full Professor of Micropaleontology at the Universidad de Pais Vasco and Director of the postgraduate program in Quaternary: Environmental Changes and Human Fingerprint. His activity is performed in different coastal environments both in Spain (Cantabrian and Mediterranean coasts) and elsewhere (Portugal, Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, and Chile). He has developed 3 main lines of research: 1) Environmental evolution of the coastal zone during the Holocene; 2) Sea-level changes in the Quaternary; and 3) Human impact during the Anthropocene. Since 2002, he leads a consolidated research group that investigates coastal changes from a multiproxy geological perspective. He is the author of more than 150 scientific publications and acted as Guest Editor in different issues of SCI journals in collaboration with numerous international colleagues. He is currently member of the Anthropocene Working Group (International Commission on Stratigraphy) and Associate Researcher of the Basque Centre for Climate Change-BC3.

Dean Chahim is a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. His dissertation project focuses on how engineers, communities, and elites in Mexico City come to believe and at times resist the notion that the megalopolis can and should continue to grow despite a glaring water crisis. In his ethnographic and archival research, he plans to examine the role of engineers in translating impossible political demands into technically justifiable plans. He attempts to juxtapose this research with a broader investigation of how engineering projects render the environmental consequences of urban growth distant, and cause them to diffuse in space and time. Before beginning graduate studies, he obtained a SBcE in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and a self-designed BA in International Development & Social Change from the University of Washington. Upon graduation, he received a fellowship to travel independently across the global South for eight months. He later worked in Seattle as an environmental engineer on the clean-up of industrial pollutants, and volunteered as an organizer with low-wage Latino workers fighting against wage theft. He continues to organize with local community organizations and is involved in Stanford’s fossil fuel divestment movement.

Aron Chang is an urban designer, researcher, and educator based in New Orleans. He is a co-founder and co-lead of the Water Leaders Institute. He is currently working on a Water Map of New Orleans as well as New Orleans’s Gentilly Resilience District. He is also a founder of Civic Studio, a cooperative (formerly the Blue House) focused on civic dialogue, multi-disciplinary storytelling, and equitable planning and design practices. From 2014 to 2018, he served as co-founder and co-director of Ripple Effect, an organization that promotes water literacy through teacher training and curriculum development. From 2011 to 2017, he worked as an urban designer, resilience planner, and project manager at Waggonner & Ball Architecture/Environment, where he was a design team lead and outreach coordinator for the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan. Aron moved to the Gulf Coast in 2009 after studying architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Julian Charrière is a French-Swiss artist living and working in Berlin. Charrière explores ideas of nature and its transformation over deep geological as well as human historical time. Addressing pressing matters of ecological concern, his work frequently stems from fieldwork in remote locations with acute geophysical identities, such as volcanoes, ice fields, oil palm plantations, and undersea and radioactive sites. An ongoing reflection upon the mythos and politics of exploration in a globalized age is central to his practice. Working across media and conceptual paradigms, Charrière frequently collaborates with composers, scientists, engineers, art historians, and philosophers. His work often provokes, inviting critical reflection upon cultural traditions of perceiving, representing, and engaging with the natural world.

A former student of Olafur Eliasson and a participant in the Institute for Spatial Experiments, Charrière graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts in 2013. His artwork has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (2021); Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (2020); MASI Lugano, Lugano (2919); MAMbo, Bologna (2019); Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2018); Parasol Unit Foundation, London (2015); Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (2014); Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2014), among others. His work has been featured in the 17th Biennale Architettura, Venice (2021); the 57th Biennale di Venezia (2017); the Taipei Biennial (2018); the Antarctic Biennale (2017); and the 12th Biennale de Lyon (2013). Group exhibitions include Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2021); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich ( 2020); ZKM – Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe (2020); Sprengel Museum, Hannover (2019); Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus (2019); SCHIRN Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2018); Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London (2018); and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017), among others. Charrière is one of the four nominees for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021 with an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Sria Chatterjee is currently a PhD candidate in the Art and Archaeology department at Princeton University. Her research lies at the intersections between the histories of art and anthropology with a particular focus on the politics of ecology. She has received fellowships from the Max Planck Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Italy, and the Paul Mellon Centre in London. She has degrees from Oxford University in the UK and Jadavpur University in India.

As a poet, Sria is currently working on a manuscript of poems that engage the borderlands of human and nonhuman consciousness. Recently, her poem ‘Ahistory’ was featured as a part of Tomas Saraceno’s Museo Aero Solar. The exhibition was titled Anthropocene Monument and curated by Bruno Latour and Bronislaw Szerszynski.

is an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins – University of the Arts London. She received her PhD in philosophy from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. Her research concentrates on Soviet epistemologies across philosophy, literature and art, as well as on post-Soviet politics and culture. Her book Alexander Bogdanov and Soviet Epistemologies: Transformation of Knowledge After the October Revolution is forthcoming in 2023.

Chiaramonte’s proposal is to blend the most radical approach to ecology with a fictional conception of the law as a social technique. The law is a creative form that functions as an art of radical reduction and denial of reality. Is the law, thus understood, compatible with the radical ecological approach? How can non-human agency register in legal terms? What could be an amodern approach to the law?

Shadreck Chirikure is Edward Hall Professor of Archaeological Science, Director of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art and British Academy Global Professor in the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. He specializes in the application of scientific techniques to address questions related to skills, knowledge and how they were applied in the past to solve problems.

Myung-Ae Choi is Research Assistant Professor at the Centre of Anthropocene Studies in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Drawing on cultural geography and political ecology, her research explores the politics, cultures, and geographies of environmentalism in East Asian developmental states. Myung-Ae’s current research looks at the crane conservation in and around the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) through three interrelated themes of the Anthropocene—digital conservation, rewilding, and the East Asian Anthropocene. She has also looked at ecotourism and wildlife conservation in South Korea through the cases of whale and dolphin tourism, countryside walking, and Slow City tourism development. Myung-Ae received a DPhil in Geography and the Environment from University of Oxford, and taught environmental politics and governance at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Before pursuing an academic career, Myung-Ae was an environmental correspondence at Kyunghyang Daily News based in Seoul.

Nadia Christidi is an artist, researcher, writer, and cultural practitioner based in Beirut, Lebanon. Her interests include nationalist ideology and identification; immigration, emigrant communities, and expatriate identities; geo-politically contested and ambiguous landscapes; socially inherited narratives of birthright, roots, and ancestry; memory and its preservation practices; reenactment and oral history. Nadia graduated with a BA in History of Art from Bryn Mawr College in 2006. She previously headed the interpretation and learning programs at Darat al Funun in Amman, Jordan, and was Assistant Director at Beirut Art Center in Lebanon. She is the author of a handbook on learning within the gallery context specific to works by contemporary Arab artists, forthcoming from the British Council and in collaboration with Tate Britian and Darat al Funun. Nadia is also the Beirut Desk Editor for Art Asia Pacific and will soon be launching Basariyyat.me, a blog dedicated to providing information on up-and-coming artists from the Arab world. She recently exhibited her first artistic project Untitled (8 km – A Tribute to Danis Tanović) (2011-ongoing) in Beirut Art Center’s Exposure 2011.

Andrew Chubb is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia conducting research on the relationship between Chinese public opinion and government policy in the South China Sea. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Contemporary China, Pacific Affairs, East Asia Forum, and Information, Communication & Society. His blog, South Sea Conversations (southseaconversations.wordpress.com), provides translations and analysis of Chinese discourse on the South and East China Sea issues.

Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar currently teaching in the English Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. His academic interests range from West African, Caribbean, and American literary and cultural studies to a particular focus on sound, technology, and performance. His literary and public work focuses on immigration and black-on-black cultural contacts, conflicts, and exchanges. Chude-Sokei is the author of the award-winning book The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (2006) and The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (2016).

Amy Cimini is a musicologist and violist and is currently Assistant Professor of Music at University of California, San Diego. She is happy to be finishing her first book, Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life, and to be starting new projects on sonic histories of borderwork, labor, and deindustrialization.

Benek Çinçik is a researcher and designer. Since 2015, she has been working on her PhD thesis entitled “‘Relational Intensities’ in Architectural Design: Questions of Scale, Ephemerality and Interiority in the Anthropocene.”

She has Bachelor’s degrees in Interior Architecture (2008) and Architecture (2009) from Istanbul Technical University (ITU). After working in several design offices (Superpool, TRafo Architects), she started MArch at ITU in 2010. Her Master’s thesis was about the interaction between urban space and individuals, reading urban space through “affect.” Since 2010, she has been working as a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Interior Architecture at ITU. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Architectural Design and an instructor in interior architecture and architecture design studios at ITU. Since January 2016, she has been a visiting PhD student in the Architecture Department at the University of Edinburgh.

Nigel Clark is Professor of Human Geography at Lancaster University. Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, he has a long-term interest in the way earth processes shape, perturb, and inspire social life. His current concerns include the pyrogeography of explosions, the evolution of human care and compassion, and interactions between the inner and outer Earth. He is the author of Inhuman Nature (2011) and co-author, with Bronislaw Szerszynski, of Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences (2021). He also co-editor, with Kathryn Yusoff, of a Theory, Culture & Society special issue on “Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene” (2017), and, with David Higgins and Tess Somervell, a special issue of Humanities on “Environmental Humanities Approaches to Climate Change” (2020). In 1999 Clark curated the online art exhibition Shrinking Worlds: Islands, Interconnectivity and Climate Change, and he continues to engage with artists such as Florian Germann, Vicki Kerr, Tomás Saraceno, and Gerry Davies around themes of planetary dynamics and sociocultural change.

Ryan Clarke is a coastal sedimentology Ph.D student in the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Tulane University. Prior to this he received his Bachelor and Master degrees at Louisiana State University, completing a thesis researching Vertical Sediment Accretion Rates after Superstorm Sandy in Jamaica Bay, Queens. He is currently researching carbon sequestration rates and stock budgets in the Mississippi River Delta Front.

Claire Colebrook (University Park, PA) is professor of English at Penn State University. Her areas of specialization are contemporary literature, visual culture, and theory and cultural studies. She has written articles on poetry, literary theory, queer theory, and contemporary culture. She is the editor of the book “Extinction” published in 2012 as well as co-editor of the Series “Critical Climate Change” and member of the advisory board of the Institute for Critical Climate Change.

Rob Connoley is exectutive chef of the restaurant Bulrush STL in the Grand Center Arts District in St. Louis.

Alyne Costa is professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is also an associate researcher at Association for Researches and Practices in the Humanities (APPH), a self-funded nonprofit research and educational association based in the city of Porto Alegre, and a member of the Age of the Earth Network, which brings together researchers interested in the debate and practice of ecology, in a broad sense. Her research focuses on the philosophical and political implications of the Anthropocene, for which she draws mainly from science and technology studies, multispecies ethnography and amerindian perspectivism. She is currently working on what could be called “ontologies of the Earth”, an attempt to deploy notions such as “world”, “planet” and “earth” in a way which combines ontological pluralism and interdependence. She is also the coordinator of the Earth and Us: Education, Research and Citizenship in the Anthropocene (2022-2024) project, which aims to articulate an international and interdisciplinary network of researchers, artists and activists to gather cognitive, affective and political resources for living in the Anthropocene. The project is also responsible for the production of both Brazilian and Latin American editions of the Anthropocene Campus.

Cecilia Costella works for the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre as Technical Adviser on Social Protection. She has worked for the World Bank, the World Food Programme, academia, civil society and the private sector in Africa and Latin America, engaging in policy dialogue and providing technical support to governments and other partners, as well as designing and implementing programmes. Cecilia has developed strategic, research and knowledge agendas in these areas, and has experience in designing and facilitating participatory planning, games and training. She holds one master’s degree in public administration from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and a second in development management from Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany.

Ann Cotten is a writer, translator, and researcher. She is currently working on her PhD, an Aesthetics of Misuseability, at the Peter Szondi Institute in Berlin and was awarded a Junior Fellowship at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies Vienna, thanks to which she is currently conducting research at the University of Hawaii. Cotten’s English language work is published by Broken Dimanche Press and includes I, Coleoptile, (2013) and Lather In Heaven (2016). Her most recent book in German is the science fiction prose collection Lyophilia (2019). She has translated books by Joe Wenderoth, Isabel Waidner, Rosmarie Waldrop, Legacy Russell, and Adam Green.

Angela N. H. Creager is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science at Princeton University, where she teaches and advises students in the Department of History. She has written two books: The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930–1965 (2002), which shows how a virus that attacks tobacco plants came to play a central role in the development of virology and molecular biology; and Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine (2013), which traces how and why artificial radioisotopes were taken up by biologists and physicians, and examines the consequences for knowledge and radiation exposure. She is the co-editor of five volumes, the most recent being Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment with Jean-Paul Gaudillière (2021). Her new book project, “Making Mutations Matter,” examines science and regulation in the 1960s through the 1980s, focusing attention on how researchers conceptualized and developed techniques for detecting environmental carcinogens.

Andy B. Cundy is Professor of Environmental Radioactivity, and Research Director of the University consultancy and research unit GAU-Radioanalytical, in the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton. Having originally studied oceanography, he graduated with a PhD in Geology from Southampton in 1994 and since then has worked at various UK Universities before rejoining Southampton in 2016. He has over 30 years research experience in the environmental cycling and behavior of aquatic and terrestrial pollutants (radioactive, metal, organic, and plastic contaminants); environmental radioactivity and radiochemistry; environmental geology; sediment geochemistry; radiometric dating; and contaminated land, wastes, and water management (including the development of more sustainable contaminated land clean-up methods). Cundy has worked across four continents in projects funded by government, environmental bodies, the European Union, and private industry, and has published over 140 scientific papers and two patents. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health, a member of the Anthropocene Working Group, and sits on the Geohazards committee of the IUGS/UNESCO International Geoscience Programme.

Gregory Cushman is associate professor of International Environmental History at the University of Kansas. His research interests include Latin America, history of science and technology, the Pacific World, indigenous peoples, and global history. His book Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History(Cambridge University Press, 2013) has won international awards. He is the recent recipient of a Carnegie Fellowship, aiming to research the historical roots of the Anthropocene.

Flavio D’Abramo is a postdoctoral fellow of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. His research situates at the intersection of history, philosophy, and sociology of biology and medicine, with a special focus on industrialism and environmental humanities. He has analyzed the inception of biomolecular, genetic, and epigenetic models and their application for the development of biomedical technologies amidst policies of national and communitarian agencies, and the cultural patterns underpinning the scientific production within the healthcare systems. After having obtained a doctorate in Rome (La Sapienza) with fieldwork undertaken at the Imperial College London (Department of Epidemiology and Public Health), he has collaborated with the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS). He was a visiting scholar at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Institute of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine) and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Freie University Berlin, with fieldwork undertaken at the Charité University Hospital.

Søren Dahlgaard, born 1973 in Copenhagen, studied under Phyllida Barlow, Stuart Brisley, Norman Bryson, and Andrew Renton at the Slade School of Fine Art in London (1997–2002). He now lives in Melbourne practising as a research PhD at VCA (Victorian College of the Arts) Melbourne University.

His artistic practice often involves playful participation, creative collaboration, and engagement most often ‘infused with a sly humour,’ as Chris Burden has said of his work. The seven-year long photo series Dough Portraits (published by Art/Books, 2015) is an example of a playful participatory and collaborative work, which functioned as a public creative process and photographic image as well.

The Maldives Exodus Caravan Show first shown at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 highlighted themes on environmental awareness and climate change by making use of games, performance, and the symbolism of a caravan as a home for climate refugees with a tropical inflatable island placed on the roof, further representing the disappearing island nation of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. The intimate space of the caravan as exhibition space served as a platform for meetings, education, and discussions. The exhibition has since toured to seven countries. In the artistic collaboration The Kaboom Process, artists Søren Dahlgaard and Meir Tati have worked with an expanded practice of action painting, pedagogy, and socially engaged art using surprising and inventive methods in works such as The Kaboom art class with third-grade students in Denmark and Composition no. 8 where mobile walls created temporary public sculptures with neighborhood kids in Holon, Israel.

Exhibitions include:
Venice Biennale; Photographers Gallery London; National Art Gallery Denmark; Asbæk Gallery Copenhagen; ECCO Brasilia, Brazil; Aarhus Art Building, Denmark; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; KØS ‒ Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Denmark; KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; Tbilisi Triennial, Georgia; Digital Art Center, Israel; CCA Andratx Contemporary Art Center, Mallorca, Spain; Laznia Art Centre Gdansk Poland, CCBB Brasilia, Brazil; Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw Poland; Vancouver Biennale, Canada; Blurrr 7 International Performance Art Biennial, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; Singapore Biennale 2008; National Art Gallery, Maldives; Te Tuhi Arts Center, New Zealand; Sequences Art Festival Reykjavik, Galleria Civica Museum of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy; Lianzhou International Photo Festival, China; Chisenhale Gallery and Tate Modern, both in London, and MoMA PS1 New York.

Rana Dasgupta is a novelist and essayist. His texts focus on issues of home and homelessness as well as rootedness and motion in a globalized world. His novel Solo won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2010. His latest book, Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First-Century Delhi (2014), is a non-fiction exploration of his adopted city of Delhi, and, in particular, the changes and personalities brought about there by globalization. Dasgupta is Distinguished Visiting Lecturer and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.

Lorraine Daston has published on a wide range of topics in the history of science, including the history of probability and statistics, wonders in early modern science, the emergence of the scientific fact, scientific models, objects of scientific inquiry, the moral authority of nature, and the history of scientific objectivity. Recent books include (with Paul Erikson et al.) How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold war Rationality (2014) and (co-edited with Elizabeth Lunbeck), Histories of Scientific Observation (2011), both products of MPIWG Working Groups. Her current projects include a history of rules, based on her 2014 Lawrence Stone Lectures at Princeton University, the emergence of Big Science and Big Humanities in the context of nineteenth-century archives, and the relationship between moral and natural orders.

She is the recipient of the Pfizer Prize and Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, the Schelling Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the Lichtenberg Medal of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, the Luhmann Prize of the University of Bielefeld, and an honorary dotorate of humane letters from Princeton University. In addition to directing Department II of the MPIWG, she is a regular Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Heather Davis is a researcher, writer and editor from Montreal. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University, where she is working on a project which traces the ethology of plastic as a materialization of the philosophic division of subject and object. She completed her PhD in the joint program in communication at Concordia University in 2011 on the political potential of community-based art. She has been a visiting scholar in the Master’s program in aesthetics and politics at the California Institute for the Arts, the Experimental Critical Theory program at University of California, Los Angeles, the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU, and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She has written about the intersection of art, politics, and ecological disaster for numerous art and academic publications and is the editor of Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies and Sex, Dreams, Animals and Action: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada (both forthcoming).

Professor Filip De Boeck is actively involved in teaching, promoting, coordinating and supervising research in and on Africa at the Institute for Anthropological research in Africa at the University of Leuven. Since 1987 he has conducted extensive field research in both rural and urban communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In addition to his academic work, he also collaborated with artists such as photographer Sammy Baloji. Their collaborative work was featured in the Louisiana Art Museum’s group show Africa: Architecture, Culture and Identity in 2015, and in Urban Now. City Life in Congo, a major exhibition that went on show at the WIELS contemporary art centre in Brussels, in May 2016, and will be travelling to New York, Lisbon and Toronto in the coming months. Together, Filip De Boeck and Sammy Baloji also authored Suturing the City. Living Together in Congo’ Urban Worlds (2016, London: Autograph).

Lucio De Capitani is a researcher in English Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, working on ecocriticism, colonial, postcolonial and world literatures, especially Indian writing in English, and the connections between anthropology and literary studies. He is one of the co-editors of Venice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Guide (2022).

Anelise De Carli is a Brazilian researcher, writer and visual artist. She works mainly with image theory, visual culture, aesthetic experience and political and imaginary emancipation from a decolonial perspective. She holds a PhD in Communication and Information from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2020), where she was also an assistant professor. Lecturer at the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2022-2023) and joint coordinator of the research project Earth and Us: Education, Research and Citizenship in the Anthropocene (2022-2024) and the Age of the Earth Network, responsible for the production of both the Anthropocene Campus Brazil and Latin America. She was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Philosophical Research, the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (2018-2019), working with the research group “Vivre par(mi) les écrans”. In 2013, she co-founded the Association for Research and Practice in the Humanities (APPH), a non-profit research and teaching institution, and, since 2019, she has coordinated the Thinking Through Image Research Group (GPPimg). She is a collaborator researcher of the Covid-19 Humanities MCTI Network.

Miriam De Rosa researches film and space/place, experimental cinema, screen media arts, and visual cultures. She teaches new media, media archaeology, and visual cultures at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she is Associate Professor in film and media. Her books include Cinema e Postmedia (2013), Postwhat? Postwhen? (2016), Gesture (2019), and Film & Domestic Space (2020).

Jennifer Deger is Professor of Digital Humanities at Charles Darwin University and a founding member of Miyarrka Media, an arts collective based in Arnhem Land, Australia. Jennifer works at the intersections of anthropology, art and environmental studies. Her recent book with Miyarrka Media, Phone & Spear: a Yuta Anthropology was awarded the Gregory Bateson book prize in 2020. Jennifer is a co-editor of Feral Atlas: the More-Than-Human Anthropocene and in 2019 co-curated the Feral Atlas exhibitions at the 16th Istanbul Biennial and the inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennial.

Kristine L. DeLong is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University. Dr. DeLong joined the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University in August 2009 after completing her PhD in Marine Science at University of South Florida and her post-doctoral research at the US Geological Survey in St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr. DeLong has expertise in paleoceanography and paleoclimatology with 19 years of research experience. Her research is focused on climate change during the past 130,000 years, primarily in the subtropics to tropical regions. Current projects include investigating shifts in sea surface temperature and ocean circulation in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea using the chemical variations in the skeletons of boulder-size corals, which live for many centuries. Her newest project, funded by the National Science Foundation in the United States, is building coral-based temperature reconstructions for Veracruz Mexico, Flower Garden Banks in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Virgin Islands, and Little Cayman Island, and she will work with researchers at the University of Oklahoma on comparing these results to climate models to better understand past and future climate change. Flower Garden Banks is a candidate for the Anthropocene GSSP project that she is leading.

Seth Denizen is a researcher and design practitioner trained in landscape architecture and evolutionary biology. Since completing research on the sexual behavior and evolutionary ecology of small Trinidadian fish, his work has focused on the aesthetics of scientific representation, madness, and public parks, the design of taxonomies of urban soil, and most recently the political ecology of desertification in China. He currently lives in Hong Kong, where he teaches in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong.

Philippe Descola initially specialized in the ethnology of Amazonia, focussing on how native societies relate to their environment. He has published extensively on his field research with the Achuar of Ecuador and on the comparative analysis of the relations between humans and non-humans, including images. He is Professor of Anthropology at the Collège de France and a Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Among his books in English are In the Society of Nature, The Spears of Twilight, Beyond Nature and Culture, The Ecology of Others. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Rohini Devasher trained as a painter and printmaker and works in a variety of media, including sound, video, prints, and large site-specific drawings. Her current body of work is a collection of “strange” terrains, constructed by observing, recording, fictionalizing, and re-imagining objects and spaces that exist at the interface between science, nature and culture, perception and production. Rohini’s work has been shown at the Dhaka Art Summit 2016, the 5th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2014, and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012, and in the Wanås Foundation, Sweden, the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, among others. She was an artist in residence at Khoj, New Delhi, in 2015; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, 2014; the Glasgow Print Studio, 2014; Metal Culture, the UK, 2013; and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, from March to June 2012. Projects in 2016 include the Artists’ Film International at the Whitechapel Gallery (London), the Singapore Art and Science Museum, the ZKM (Karlsruhe), and the Spencer Museum of Art (Kansas), as well as participating in the Anthropocene Campus: The Technosphere Issue at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin in April. Rohini was the recipient of the Forbes India Young Contemporary Artist of the Year award in 2014, the Skoda Breakthrough Artist award in 2013, and the Sarai Associate Fellowship in 2010. She is interested in encounters between the human and nonhuman, “natural” and “technological,” where intersecting patterns between the two are made visible. How has our experience of wonder changed? Where once the sublime resided in spaces devoid of human encroachment, could we now say that it is in those spaces—sites of extraordinary astronomical and archaeological strangeness—where (through technology) we try to understand our connection to this planet? For more on projects that help articulate Rohini’s point of entry into the Anthropocene—and specifically the Technosphere—visit her website.

http://www.rohinidevasher.com

Chirag Dhara was a researcher in foundational quantum physics, specializing in quantum randomness. However, shifting personal interests and a wider perspective convinced him to move into his current area of research—thermodynamic perspectives on atmospheric boundary layer processes in the larger context of biogeochemistry. What drew him to this field was his concern about the twin problems of climate change and peak energy. These issues reach beyond merely the hard sciences and into the social and economic domains, with their potential to call into question our economic systems and social choices (for example, the link between development and energy consumption). Chirag’s approaches to these issues typically come from the perspective of the physical sciences, and he would like to expand on this and share it with those from other disciplines

Miriam Diamond is professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, with cross appointments to the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, at Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the School of the Environment, and the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Toronto. She founded the Diamond Environmental Research Group, whose aim is to develop defensive strategies to improve the environmental quality in systems subject to anthropogenically elevated contaminant inputs. Her research uses mathematical modeling, analytical chemistry, lab studies, field studies, and information management. Miriam’s main research focus is on semi-volatile organic compounds such as persistent organic pollutants in indoor and outdoor urban environments. An ecologist and mining and environmental engineer, she wrote her PhD on “Modelling the fate and transport of arsenic and other inorganic chemicals in lakes” (1990). In 2007, Canadian Geographic magazine named her Canadian Environmental Scientist of the Year.

Maria Paula Diogo is full professor of History of Technology at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the New University of Lisbon (NOVA). She holds a PhD in history and philosophy of science from NOVA, where she specialized in the history of technology. She is head of the Department of Social Sciences and vice-coordinator of the research unit Centre for the History of Sciences and Technology (CIUHCT). She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of technology, and engineering, and on science, technology, and society, and she publishes on a regular basis both nationally and internationally. Maria Paula is currently looking at Portuguese engineers and engineering, mainly during the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century; she is particularly interested in the role played by engineers in managing the territory of the Portuguese African Empire. She coordinates a national project on science, technology, and the empire and has participated in several other projects concerning the history of Portuguese science and technology. She is a founding member of STEP (Science and Technology in the European Periphery) and of INES (International Network on Engineering Studies) and a member of “Tensions of Europe: Technology and the Making of Twentieth Century Europe.” She served for three years as an officer on the SHOT (Society for the History of Technology) executive committee. By participating in the Anthropocene Campus, Maria Paula hopes to explore new conceptual and methodological frameworks that are useful to her research on the relationship between technology, engineers, and colonial territories, adopting new perspectives concerning environmental changes. She is also looking for new avenues to be explored by her research center in projects to come.

Judith Dobler studied visual communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam and in Rio de Janeiro on an annual scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD). In 2012, she completed a Master’s program at the Academy of Art and Design in Basel with the thesis “The sketch: the act of drawing as epistemic process.” She is currently a doctoral candidate at the German Research Foundation (DFG) research training center Visibility and Visualization: Hybrid Forms of Pictorial Knowledge at Potsdam University, investigating the epistemic potentials of collaborative drawing practices. Judith has also worked as an independent designer and artist in Berlin, Munich, and Basel and has led workshops, lectures, and seminars on drawing in Germany and abroad.

Frank Drewnick is leading a research group in the Particle Chemistry Department at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz. His research interests focus on various aspects of anthropogenic aerosol sources: source characteristics, transport and transformation of particles, and impact of emission sources on local air quality. For this purpose, a mobile aerosol research laboratory was developed in his group, which allows measurement of particle concentration and composition as well as of trace gases in real time. Before joining the MPI for Chemistry, Frank Drewnick worked at State University of New York in Albany, NY, USA from 2001 until 2002 where he performed early work on on-line aerosol mass spectrometry to investigate the urban aerosol in New York City. He received his PhD in 2000 at University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart on the development of an aerosol mass spectrometer.

Melissa Dubbin is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She works in collaboration with artist Aaron S. Davidson; since they began working together in 1998, they have co-authored a body of work and have produced forms, objects, images, and experiences that incorporate the mediums of photography, video, sound, performance, installation, drawing, sculpture, and artists books. Recent solo exhibitions include: Treize, Paris (2014); Audio Visual Arts (AVA), New York (2013); Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway (2012); and Nýló, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (2012). Recent group exhibitions include: Some Artists’ Artists at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (2014); The Artist’s Institute, New York (2014); Art of Its Own Making, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St Louis (2014); The String and the Mirror, Lisa Cooley, New York (2013); Alchemical, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York (2013); and Sound Spill, Zabludowicz Collection, New York (2013). Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and art centers and has been funded by grants and residencies from several organizations and institutions; and it is held in several private and public collections. Melissa is a graduate of the Master’s program of experimentation in art and politics at Sciences Po, Paris (SPEAP), founded and directed by Bruno Latour. She also holds a BA in moving image arts from the College of Santa Fe, where she studied with media theorist Gene Youngblood and worked closely on productions with artists Steina and Woody Vasulka and Morton Subotnick. For ten years she produced live events and films for Pierre Huyghe. She was recently a co-researcher for the exhibition Anthropocene Monument at Les Abattoirs in Toulouse, France.

Fawad Durrani is an expert on climate change, migration, and displacement at Greenpeace. Previously, he worked for various international NGOs in Afghanistan. He aims to increase the awareness of the link between climate change, conflict, and displacement and advocate for the rights of people most affected by the impacts of climate change.

Keller Easterling is an architect, writer, and professor at Yale University. Her book, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), examines global infrastructure as a medium of polity. Another book, Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), considers building removal, or how to put the development machine into reverse. Other books include: Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 1999).

Anna Echterhölter is Professor of History of Science at the University of Vienna. She was a visiting professor at Technical University, Berlin, and the Institute of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt University of Berlin and held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (2008, 2015), and the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC (2016). Echterhölter is a co-founder of Ilinx magazine. Research topics include economic exchange and metrology, standardization and colonialism, the history of quantification, and the political metallurgy of copper.

David Edgerton is Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology and a professor of modern British history at King’s College London. After teaching at the University of Manchester, he became the founding director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College London (1993–2003), and moved along with the centre to King’s College London in August 2013. He is the author of many works, including The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 (2007), which argues for and exemplifies new ways of thinking about the material constitution of modernity.

Matt Edgeworth is Honorary Visiting Fellow in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester, UK.  He works as field archaeologist in a commercial environment, excavating sites of a wide range of different periods. Current research interests include urban stratigraphy, archaeology of rivers, and ecological aspects of archaeological evidence. His books include Fluid Pasts: Archaeology of Flow (2011). As a longstanding member of the Anthropocene Working Group, Matt has written extensively on the importance of studying anthropogenic ground—its strata, artifacts, and novel materials—in reaching a fuller understanding of the Anthropocene.

Paul N. Edwards is professor in the interdisciplinary School of Information and the Department of History at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the history, politics, and culture of information technologies and infrastructures. Paul is the author of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010) and co-editor of Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2001), as well as contributing to other books and numerous articles. Before joining the University of Michigan, he taught at Stanford University and Cornell University. He has held visiting positions at Sciences Po, Paris; Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; the University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa; and the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has been a Carnegie Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow. Paul’s current research concerns the history and future of knowledge infrastructures, as well as further work on the history of climate science and other large-scale information infrastructures.

Bryan T. Edwards is dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane, where he oversees 34 departments and programs in fields from the social sciences, humanities, and fine and performing arts. Prior to moving to Tulane in July 2018, he was the Crown Professor in Middle East Studies and Professor of English at Northwestern. There he was the founding director of the Program in Middle East and North African Studies, which grew under his direction from a small faculty working group to an internationally recognized program. His research examines the ways in which contemporary American culture circulates globally, particularly the Middle East and North Africa, where he has done extensive research. His books include Morocco Bound: Disorienting America’s Maghreb (2005), Globalizing American Studies (2010), and most recently, After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East (2016. A speaker of four languages, he is an advocate for renewed approaches to language learning and served on the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Language Commission.

Florike Egmond is a cultural historian and researcher at the University of Leiden. Her research concentrates on the European history of Renaissance natural history (as well as medicine and pharmacology), with a special emphasis on the combination of visual and textual information in botany and zoology, the European exchange networks of experts in these fields, naturalia in the history of collecting, styles of patronage by both individuals and institutions (such as courts and universities), and the contribution of non-university trained experts to the formation of natural history as a discipline during the period 1530–1630.

Erle Ellis is professor of geography and environmental systems and director of the Laboratory for Anthropogenic Landscape Ecology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he teaches environmental science, landscape ecology and biogeochemistry. A plant biologist by training, he investigates in his research the ecology of human landscapes at local and global scales with the aim of informing the sustainable stewardship of the biosphere in the Anthropocene. Recent projects include the global mapping of human ecology (anthromes), online tools for global synthesis of local knowledge (GLOBE), and inexpensive user-deployed tools for mapping landscapes in 3D (Ecosynth).

Daniel Emanuelsson is a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) post-doctoral research associate working in the Ice Dynamics and Palaeoclimate team. As a central part of multinational teams and frontier research collaborations, he has gained extensive experience in several disciplines. Emanuelsson works with the water stable isotope record from the Palmer ice core from the Antarctic Peninsula. The Palmer isotopes capture regional Antarctic Peninsula climate variability and his research demonstrates a linkage between Palmer ice core proxies and melt on the Larsen ice shelves. He has also taken images of the ice core using a line scanner in the BAS freezer. His research interests lie within the areas of climate dynamics, palaeoclimatology, climate variability, tropical and mid-latitude teleconnections with polar regions, atmosphere and sea-ice interactions, observational data comparison with models, data analysis, experimental design, laser spectroscopy, water stable isotopes, continuous flow analysis (CFA), and field campaigns.

Katie Englemeyer is a Summer Site Worker at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Illinois.

Lois Epstein is Arctic Program Director at the Wilderness Society an American land conservation non-profit. A licensed engineer, she has served on a number of federal advisory committees, including a National Academy of Sciences committee studying oil and gas regulations, and, for twelve years, a committee focusing on oil pipeline safety. Epstein holds a Master of Civil Engineering with a specialization in environmental engineering and science from Stanford University, California.

Elena Esposito is Professor of Sociology at Bielefeld University and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (I). She has published many works on the theory of social systems, media theory, memory theory, and the sociology of financial markets. Her current research projects focus on a sociology of algorithms. Esposito’s recent publications include The Future of Futures: The Time of Money in Financing and Society (2011), “Artificial Communication? The Production of Contingency by Algorithms” (Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2017), “Algorithmic Memory and the Right to Be Forgotten on the Web” (Big Data & Society, 2017), and “The Structures of Uncertainty: Performativity and Unpredictability in Economic Operations (Economy and Society, 2013).

Valeria Facchin is a producer, cultural strategist, and independent researcher based in London. With a focus on visual studies, biology, and AI, her work explores the relationship between bodies, technologies, and future ecosystems. She has held curatorial positions at Fiorucci Art Trust (UK), the Science Museum (UK), Somerset House (UK), and La Biennale (IT). She is the co-founder of W21 | Women 21st Century.

Ian Fairchild is a geoscientist with broad interests in the geochemistry of the Earth’s surface, climate change and Quaternary and Neoproterozoic earth history. He employs this breadth of knowledge in research and public outreach including geo-conservation in the West Midlands. He is equally at home in the field and the laboratory with a wealth of experience in glacial environments, caves, rock successions and at national and international geochemical research facilities.

Ian Fairchild has research interests in the following areas: Speleothems and Climate Change, especially the development of palaeoclimate proxies and the understanding of karst processes including their hydrology; glaciation and carbonates in deep time; aqueous Geochemistry in relation to weathering reactions and hydrology in glacial and riverine environments, and experimental studies of mineral-water interactions.

Daniel Falb is a philosopher and writer based in Berlin. He acquired a PhD in philosophy with a thesis on the notion of collectivity at Freie Universität, Berlin in 2012 and has published three volumes of poetry with Berlin-based publisher kookbooks: Die Räumung Dieser Parks(2003), BANCOR (2009), and CEK (2015). Apart from poetry, his work focuses mostly on geo-philosophy, radical ecology, and poetics. The collaborative poetry anthology Helm aus Phlox appeared in 2011 (with A. Cotten, H. Jackson, S. Popp, M. Rinck, published in Berlin by Merve). Recent works include essays on aesthetics published in “Poesie und Begriff” (edited by A. Avanessian et al., Diaphanes, 2014) and “Art in the Periphery of the Center” (edited by U. Wuggenig et al., Sternberg, 2015).

Aurélien Faravelon is curious about the transformations technology brings to the fabric of our lives. He is especially concerned with the rise of sharing economies and intermediation platforms. Currently, Aurélien is a postdoctorate researcher at INRIA in France. He has a background in philosophy and computer science. He holds a PhD in privacy management.

Eberhard Faust received a PhD in the humanities from Heidelberg University, after which he studied geoecology and environmental sciences, specializing in meteorology and hydrology. He joined Munich Re in 1997 as an expert on windstorm modeling and climate risks. Following a stint at Deutsche Rück in Düsseldorf, where he designed and programmed a winter storm risk model, he returned to Munich Re in 2004 as head of Climate Risks Research. He is the co-author of numerous risk-related studies on climate variability, climate change, and natural hazards. For the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, published in April 2014, he worked as one of the lead authors on the impacts of climate change, adaptation, and vulnerability.

Kristiane Fehrs is part of a collective comprising a group of master students from the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University. Prior to beginning the program she studied Metropolitan Culture at HafenCity University Hamburg. In her Master studies she has been focusing on human-environment entanglements as well as on feminist movements, viewing both topics in connection to the German reunification process after 1989.

Sarah Felix is part of a collective comprising a group of master students from the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University. Prior to beginning the program she studied Cultural Studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau. She is interested in the politics of exhibiting, especially with regard to the role and the representation of research processes. Her bachelor thesis inquired power relations in knowledge production in the context of ethnographic museums and the so-called hobbyist scene. In her current work, she focuses on practices of conservation in the context of natural heritage in Berlin.

Thomas Feuerstein is an artist who lives in Vienna. His practice has a wide range of reference points, from art and cultural history, philosophy, literature, science, and economic theory and the economy, to the newest media and network theories, current scientific debates, belief systems, and even science fiction. In his art, Feuerstein intertwines ancient Greek thought with today’s technologized world while simultaneously including controversial sociopolitical questions. Most recently, his work was exhibited at Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Kunstverein Heilbronn; Chronus Art Center, Shanghai; and 401contemporary, Berlin.

Barbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł is Assistant Professor in the Biogeochemistry Unit Research at the Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She is an environmental geochemist, interested in the impact of human activities on the release, transport, and deposition of elements in different compartments of the earth, especially peatlands, and strives to explain observed changes in a holistic way, considering local, regional, and global variables. Her research proves the utility of peatlands as valuable records of anthropogenic signals. Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł is currently a leader of the EARTH-Anthropocene project, where, together with her co-authors, she is investigating sources and patterns of deposition of long range transported chemical and mineralogical markers using peatlands located in the Northern Hemisphere. She is also co-principal investigator of IGSP 732 (International Geoscience Programme): LANGUAGE of the Anthropocene (Lessons in anthropogenic impact: a knowledge network of geological signals to unite and assess global evidence of the Anthropocene).

Tülin Fidan is part of a collective comprising a group of master students from the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University. Prior to beginning the program Tülin Fidan studied Cultural Studies and Public Health at the University of Bremen. In her studies she focuses on human-environment relations and urban anthropology, especially multispecies studies with a feminist perspective taken from Science and Technology Studies. Further interests are modes of governance and criminalization in the context of law and justice using an intersectional approach.

Roberto Forin is a program coordinator at the Mixed Migration Centre in Geneva. Previously, he has worked in the anti-trafficking field and the humanitarian sector. Forin has conducted field research on the exploitation of migrant workers in the agricultural sector in Southern Italy.

Tom Fox is a designer and researcher, working across architecture, urbanism, and environmentalism. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association, London, and Oxford Brookes University, and currently works for Territorial Agency in London.

Susanne Franco is Associate Professor at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she teaches Dance, Theatre, and Performance Studies. She is currently the PI of the international research project “Memory in Motion: Re-Membering Dance History” (2019–⁠22). Her publications include Moving Spaces: Rewriting Museology Through Practice (with Gabriella Giannachi, 2021), Dance Discourses: Keywords in Dance Research (2007), The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Memory (forthcoming with Marina Nordera), and On Reenactment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools (forthcoming with Cristina Baldacci). She also works as a curator for various Italian institutions.

An interest in Cuban politics and African Diaspora culture within Latin America Dr. Denise Frazier to New Orleans where she received an MA and PhD in Latin American Studies at Tulane University. Frazier’s graduate studies in Cuba and Brazil aligned with her interest in contemporary music, specifically hip hop, and public performance. Frazier frequently plays violin with performance organizations and musicians around the city, including Les Cenelles and The Ramshackle Revival, and she is a company member of Goat in the Road Productions. Frazier is the Assistant Director of the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University.

Gayle J. Fritz is an American paleoethnobotanist and a world expert on ancient crops. She is Professor emerita at the Anthropology Department of Washington University in St. Louis and head of the Paleoethnobotany Lab. Her work focuses on crops other than maize, such as chenopodium and amaranth, and emphasizes the importance of direct radiocarbon dating when establishing the models of early agriculture. She also proposes a diversity of pathways from hunting-gathering to agriculture, highly dependent on regional variations and the intricacies of local cultures, and explores the role of women in early societies, often challenging a big chief model of hierarchical dominance. Her research interests include grain amaranth, chenopod, maygrass, tobacco, and hickory nuts.

Sabine Fuss heads a working group on natural resource management at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in Berlin, and holds a guest affiliation at the Ecosystems Services and Management Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. An economist by background, her PhD thesis was concerned with decision making under uncertainty with applications to investment and climate policy in the energy sector. Sabine’s research interests now focus on the role of bioenergy (and specifically negative emissions) in climate change mitigation, and the interactions this has with other land-based mitigation options such as REDD+ and (non-climate) objectives such as food and water security and development. In addition, she believes that we need more research on policy instruments, not only forward-looking but also ex post assessments to learn from experience.

Jennifer Gabrys is Reader in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project, “Citizen Sense.” Her publications include Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics (University of Michigan Press, 2011); and Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).

Gyorgyi Galik is a London-based xdesigner (experimental design) and researcher. Her practice focuses on voluntary social change, and more specifically on how we can transform socio-ecological systems and our collective relationship toward the environmental commons, to address and respond to contemporary social and environmental challenges. With PAN Studio and Tom Armitage, she was nominated in the digital category of the Design Museum’s Design of the Year 2014 award in London. She has worked frequently in collaboration and in cross-disciplinary teams in labs and design studios, including: Superflux (London), Baltan Laboratories (Eindhoven), Kin Design & Research (London), Sackler Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum (London), PAN Studio (London), Elmsly Arts Limited (London), Designswarm (London), Natalie Jeremijenko and the Environmental Health Clinic (New York), Hexagram-Concordia Research Lab (Montreal), CECI (Montreal), Szövetség’39 Association of Artists and Architects (Budapest), and Kitchen Budapest Art & Tech Lab (Budapest). Gyorgyi is a PhD candidate in innovation design engineering at the Royal College of Art, London. She is an associate lecturer in contexts in design and communication on the Graphic Communication Design Programme at Central Saint Martins College, University of the Arts, London. Gyorgyi graduated with a Master’s degree in design management from Budapest’s Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in June 2010. She earned in parallel an MA as a designer in visual communication arts, with a specialization in video art. Her interdisciplinary approach allowed her to study a variety of subjects: art history, dramaturgy, visual studies, art and technology, design, creative writing, media and communication theory, art analysis, environmental psychology, anthropology, human ecology, and design for social change, among others. She has participated in numerous conferences and workshops in Europe and North America.

Francisco Javier Fernández Gallardo (or Fran Gallardo) is an artist, engineer, and cultural “thingker” whose background includes studies in biochemistry, computing, and spatial systems engineering. He is an active member of the Environmental Art Activism movement, and his work primarily explores the ecology of interfaces between social, environmental, and technological systems. He develops culturally embedded systems, critically speculating on the place of technology and science in ecology. He is a PhD candidate at the School of Geography and the New Media Art and Technology Lab, both at Queen Mary University of London.

Alexander R. Galloway is a writer and computer programmer working on issues in philosophy, technology, and theories of mediation. He is the author of several books on digital media and critical theory, including The Interface Effect (2012). His collaboration with Eugene Thacker and McKenzie Wark, Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation, was published in 2013. With Jason E. Smith, Galloway co-translated the Tiqqun book Introduction to Civil War (2010). For ten years, he worked with RSG on Carnivore, Kriegspiel, and other software projects. Galloway’s most recent book is Laruelle: Against the Digital, a monograph on the work of François Laruelle (2014).

Agnieszka Gałuszka is Full Professor at the Institute of Chemistry, of the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce. She has completed her PhD and DSc degrees at the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Environmental Management, of the University of Wrocław in 2002 and 2008, respectively. Her research interests are environmental geochemistry and biogeochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry, trace element geochemistry, and green analytical chemistry. She has published 47 papers in scientific journals from the JCR database and is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology.

Elaine Gan is art director of Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) and a fellow in architecture and environmental structures at the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her research explores multispecies temporalities as technologies of coordination, by focusing on rice and its companions. Her practice combines art, environmental anthropology, and science studies. Recent activities include a curatorial project at Kunsthal Aarhus titled “DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking,” collaborative research with AURA and Matsutake Worlds Research Group, exhibitions with media collective World of Matter, and writing on art and political ecology. She is co-editor of the book, with Anna Tsing, Nils Bubandt, and Heather Swanson Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (Island Press, 2016).

Giulia Gandolfi is a PHD student in Ca Foscari of Venice and in Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne of Paris. She studied at University of Bologna and she has researched in Paris, thanks to a scholarship, for a year at ENS of Paris. She graduated at University of Bologna with a thesis on Georges Canguilhem under the supervisor of Professor M. Iofrida (University of Bologna) and Professor S. Roux (ENS Paris). Her PHD project focuses on the biological Normativity in Canguilhem’s philosophy.  

Dr. Oliver Gantner is research associate for Resource Strategy at Augsburg University. He conducts projects related to resource efficiency, life-cycle assessment and environmental strategies. Within his thesis on the criticality assessment of phosphorus he works both on the methodical refinement of the raw materials criticality assessment and the strategic aspects of world phosphate mines, phosphate rock by-products, phosphorus and industrial phosphates.

Johan Gärdebo is a historian researching knowledge about, and adaptation to, climate change. His current work focuses on historical infrastructures for environmental data observation as well as contemporary industrial transitions towards a fossil-free society. Gärdebo’s monograph dissertation Environing Technology: Swedish Satellite Remote Sensing in the Making of Environment 1969–2001 (2021) is the first full-length study working with the concept of environing technologies.

Tia Simone Gardner is an artist, educator, and Black feminist scholar from Fairfield, Alabama. Her practice is grounded in interdisciplinary strategies that activate ideas of ritual, iconoclasm, and geography. UnVessel is her second iteration of a floating camera obscura, the first created in 2019 in Houston, Texas for CounterCurrent, a performance art festival. Gardner received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 and is currently working on a photographic/writing project with her mother that juxtaposes questions of biopolitics, Black Southern familial memory, and geology with vignettes of extractive capitalism. She is currently a resident of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She lives today in Tulsa, Oklahoma, tomorrow in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Nell Gehrke grew up running over the tops of hay bales and skipping rocks across rivers in southern Minnesota. She carried the love she had for her childhood pastimes into her undergraduate education. Nell is pursuing a major in Environmental Studies from Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was a student on the Fall 2018 River Semester journey (infamous for the bad weather experienced), during which she explored the topic of the decolonization of food systems and the relationship between food systems and urban settlement along the river. While paddling the river as part of the Anthropocene River Journey, she hopes to study the public’s perception of the Mississippi and in particular their sense of connection or disconnection with it. In the summer of 2019 she participated in intensive field research of public perceptions of sources and the extent of water pollution in the Red Cedar River watershed. After finishing her undergraduate studies, Nell hopes to continue on to graduate school in environmental studies or public policy.

Gesa Geißler is an Associate Researcher and Lecturer for the Environmental Assessment and Planning Research Group at Technische Universität Berlin. Her areas of interest include environmental impact assessment, democratic decision-making and environmental planning. She wrote her Dissertation about the role of environmental assessment and planning in renewable energy diffusion in the US and Germany.

Bernhard Dionysius Geoghegan is a media theorist and historian of technology and is affiliated as senior lecturer in Media & Communications at Coventry University and visiting associate professor at Yale University. His research interests include digital media, visual culture studies, software studies, and theotechnics. His essays appear in journals including Critical Inquiry, The IEEE Annals on the History of Computing, Theory, Culture & Society, and Interaction Studies.

Melanie Gilligan, based in New York, works in video, performance, installation, and music. She studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London, and was a Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program, Manhattan. She regularly contributes to publications, such as Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, Mute, and Grey Room. Selected solo exhibitions include those at Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz (2016), de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (2015), De Hallen Haarlem and Casco, Utrecht (2014). She contributed to group shows at Trondheim kunstmuseum, Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2016), British Art Show 8, Leeds (2015), Dojima River Biennale, Osaka (2015), Fridericianum, Kassel (2015), and MoMA PS1, New York (2014).

Amber Ginsburg received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, and is a lecturer in the Division of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. She creates site-generated projects and social sculpture that insert historical scenarios into present-day situations. Her background in craft orients her projects towards the continuities and ruptures in material, social, and utopic histories. Always interested in history, more recently, she has been drawn to imagined futures, specifically a future that includes human survival. Looking to past feminist strategies, including collective action and equity politics, she works in large-scale sculptural forms that allow audiences a role in thinking through the making or completion of the work. She follows specific material lineages, sometimes a tree species, or porcelain, to map our varied and complex relationships. In doing so, she works in concert with objects as collaborators, agent-provocateurs, and narrative instigators. The boundary between human and nonhuman agency is pressing thinner. Her research-based multimedia installations have been shown internationally including: the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Soap Factory, Minneapolis; the Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh; World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea; KunstTREFFpunkt, Darmstadt, Germany; Artsonje, Seoul, Korea; Raid Projects, Los Angeles, California, and the Bristol Biennial, Bristol, UK.

Greta Gladney is the founder of the Renaissance Project, a nonprofit community development corporation based in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Johnny Golding is a philosopher and poet who is internationally renowned for her philosophy enactments, installations, and soundscape exhibitions. Golding’s research covers the entangled dimensionalities of radical matter, an intradisciplinary arena of art, philosophy, and the wild sciences set on the playing fields of electronic/digital poetics, the logics of sense, metamathematics, and modern physics. She is a research professor of philosophy and fine art at the Royal College of Art, London. Previous roles include Director of the Centre for Fine Art Research (CFAR) at Birmingham School of Art (2012–16); professor of philosophy in the visual arts and communication technologies at The University of Greenwich, London; and Director of the Institute for the Converging Arts and Sciences (ICAS) in London (2003–12). Golding is currently finishing her latest monograph, entitled Radical Matter: Wild Science, Philosophy and the Courage of Art.

Florian Goldmann studied fine arts with a focus on sculpture and new media in Edinburgh, Athens, and Berlin. He graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts in 2012 upon completion of the publication Flexible Signposts to Coded Territories (AKV Berlin, 2012), which analyzed the graffiti of soccer fans in Athens as a potential system of fluid signage. He is currently pursuing his PhD, investigating the utilization of models as means of representing, communicating, and commemorating catastrophic events, as well as predicting them. His analysis will deal with physical miniature models as well as with digital visualizations and animations. Since 2012, Florian has been working as part of the collective STRATAGRIDS.

Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on queer ecologies and decolonial theory and praxis. She is author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (2017) that examines five scenes of ruinous extractive capitalism and Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Américas (2018), a text of critical hope about the role of submerged art and solidarity in troubled times. She is also author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (2009), and co-editor with Herman Gray of Towards a Sociology of a Trace (2010). She is working on a new book, At the Sea’s Edge that considers colonial oceanic transits and the generative space between land and sea, as well as creative writing projects. She received the Pratt Institute Research Recognition Award (2021–2022) and the University of California, Santa Cruz Distinguished Alumni Award (2021–2022). She is Timothy C. Forbes and Anne S. Harrison University Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and teaches at the Brown Arts Institute.

L. Sasha Gora is a writer and cultural historian with a focus on food studies, contemporary art, and the environmental humanities. In 2020 she received a PhD from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich on the subject of Indigenous restaurants in the lands now called Canada. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley, a postdoctoral fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and a lecturer at the Rachel Carson Center. In 2022 she joins Delfina Foundation as a resident, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen as a fellow, and in 2023 will undertake a Labrador Current Foodways Residency with Fogo Island Arts. From the politics of serving wild game to figurative painting and feminism and from cookbooks by artists to shellfish and sustainability, her writing has been published by Gastronomica, BBC Travel, Eaten, C Magazine, The Preserve Journal, and others. Her first book—Culinary Claims—is forthcoming.

Anne Gough’s research interests intersect at the nexus of landscape transformations, experimental geography and power relations. Her questions center on historical and current multispecies – nature relationships in the Mediterranean. She is currently exploring freedom of movement, agency and access to landscapes through practice-based research for her PhD thesis (working title Who is Secure? Trespassing, traversing and bordering fortified landscapes) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. She is part of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, which is situated in the Division of the History of Science, Technology and Environment. She collaborates on the research theme Xenophobic Natures under the supervision of Nina Wormbs and Marco Armiero.

Her background is in critical approaches to food security and evolving struggles for food sovereignty. She lived in Beirut Lebanon for two years where she gained experience as a research assistant with the Institute of Palestine Studies and as an instructor at the American University of Beirut, working with Rami Zurayk and the research collective Thimar.

Anne is also a former contemporary dancer and was part of a series of dance film shorts created and shot in Lebanon. The goal of a reflexive research practice, one engaged with asking how the spaces of research are produced is a continual motivation for Anne and she looks forward to exploring this in the seminars and events of the Anthropocene Campus. Following from artist Alfredo Yaar, Anne is consumed with questions, practices and ideas about “the representation of geography and the intricacies of global relations”.

Ian Gray is pursuing a PhD in sociology at the University of California Los Angeles. His research focuses broadly on how environmental problems become economic problems. In particular, he is interested in how scientific knowledge about environmental change is apprehended, repurposed, and made “actionable” by commercial and economic actors. In his dissertation, he is looking at how efforts to calculate the physical impacts and costs of climate change are reconfiguring institutional relations in various administrative and economic sectors such as catastrophe insurance, public water management, and agricultural development. His analysis relies on blending approaches from STS, economic sociology, and organizational studies. From 2012–2015, Gray held the position of Research Fellow at the médialab of Sciences Po (Paris), where he managed a National Research Agency-funded project on the international politics of climate change adaptation. He holds a Masters in City Planning from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and graduated from Brown University with a BA in modern European intellectual history.

Lesley Green is professor of anthropology and the director of Environmental Humanities South, a research and graduate teaching initiative at the University of Cape Town. Her current work sets in dialogue post-colonial and decolonial thought with the post-humanities and science studies in Southern Africa, paying particular attention to questions of just environmental governance in a time of climate disorder. She is the editor of Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge (2013) and co-author of Knowing the Day, Knowing the World: Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology (2013). Her most recent book is titled Rock | Water | Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa (Duke University Press, 2020).

Philosopher, epistemologist, and historian of scientific and technological development, Jacques Grinevald is a fellow of the Geological Society of London and a member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy. His transdisciplinary research develops around the figures of the French military engineer Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, a pioneer of thermodynamics; the Russian and Soviet academician Vladimir Vernadsky, the creator of biogeochemistry and the modern concept of the biosphere; and the Romanian American economist and epistemologist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, the heterodox father of bioeconomics. As a close friend of Georgescu-Roegen and translator of his La Décroissance (Degrowth), Grinevald was honored by the 2015 Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Award in Unconventional Thinking. His pioneering publications include La Biosphère de l’Anthropocène: Pétrole et climat, la double menace. Repères transdisciplinaires (1824-2007) (2007).

Stéphane Grumbach is senior scientist at Inria, France and is a specialist of data systems. He initially worked on technical questions of information processing in the field of informatics, in particular complex data types, such as spatial, statistical, as well as biological data, and has designed a compression algorithm for DNA sequences. His interests have since evolved to more global questions related to the impact of digital systems on society. His research focuses mostly on the geopolitical implications of the digital, which triggers new imbalances and asymmetries between nations, and the emergence of a control society, while human societies are facing the challenges of a more constrained global environment. The contemporaneity of the awareness of the Anthropocene with the digital revolution, and the contrasting visions promoted in different regions of the world are at the heart of his research. After a long period in China, in 2014 he joined IXXI, the Complex Systems Institute at ENS Lyon, and works in collaboration with the Research Institute on Humanity and Nature, RIHN in Kyoto. He also teaches Digital Economy in SciencesPo Paris.

Emiliano Guaraldo is a researcher in environmental humanities. His research focuses on the visual culture of the Anthropocene, with special interest in the relationship between contemporary art and climate visualizations, environmental justice activist practices, critiques of extractivist politics and eco-media studies. He is one of the contributors of Venice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Guide (forthcoming).

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is Deputy Dean of the School of Law and a member of the Board of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Advancement of the Arts. His publications include What If Latin America Ruled the World? (2010) and Story of Death Foretold (2014). He also writes for El Espectador (Colombia) and is a regular contributor to the BBC World Service’s Nightwaves program, The Guardian, and Al-Jazeera.

Paz Guevara is a curator, cultural critic, and author who lives between Berlin and Latin America. She studied literature and linguistics at the Universidad de Chile, in Santiago, where she was assistant professor of literature theory (2001–04). Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the Kulturwissenschaft Institut, at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Paz has realized curatorial projects based on research and contingent problems, such as indigenous contemporary positions, strategies of cultural translation, and rewriting history. Paz was curator of the exhibition on cultural translation In Other Words: The Black Market of Translations—Negotiating Contemporary Cultures at NGBK and Kunstraum Kreuzberg in Berlin (2012); co-curator of the Latin American Pavilion at the 55th and 54th Venice Biennale (2013 and 2011); co-curator of the 1st Montevideo Biennial, in Uruguay (2013); co-curator of the 6th Curitiba Biennial, Brazil (2011); and curator of Comunidad Ficticia in Matucana 100, Santiago (2009), among others. During 2010-13, Paz researched in more than eighteen Latin American cities, as co-curator of the Goethe-Institut Latin American program, realizing new commissions, collaborative projects, and exhibitions at several art institutions on the continent. For the 7th Berlin Biennale in 2012, she conceived the workshop “Curating in Times of Need” for the “Young Curators’ Workshop,” a nine-day program of analysis and reflection on the artistic and curatorial contingent positions that emerge from political and cultural changes—from the Arab revolutions, through various Occupy movements, to the students’ protests in Chile—and the pressing need to imagine alternative civil societies utilizing the means of art. Currently, she is taking part as a researcher and author in a long-term project in the region of Patagonia (Chile), together with the artists Olaf Holzapfel and Sebastián Preece; this takes the Anthropocene thesis as a productive tool to denaturalize the modern and republican configuration of the space, its landscape, and architecture. The region has been described as a place of “pristine nature” in tourist and state discourse, although its rural space, architecture, and landscape were produced from the late nineteenth century onward within the framework of Chile’s republican colonization project in Patagonia. Moreover, the region has been described in traditional historiography as an “uninhabited” territory before this colonization, denying the indigenous population of Tehuelches, Chonos, and Alacalufes who had inhabited the area for 10,000 years but were then displaced and mostly exterminated by the colonial and modern reconfiguration of their space. (Further reading: Paz Guevara, Territory as Living Archive(Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile, 2014).

Lisa Gutermuth is program manager of the Ranking Digital Rights project. She was a project coordinator at Tactical Technology Collective, a digital rights organization based in Berlin, dedicated to the use of information for activism. She has primarily worked on digital security based projects such as, Security in-a-box, as well as projects using digital tools and open data for citizen-driven investigation and advocacy. Working with a range of different organizations over the years, her work has also touched on index creation, mapping, remote sensing, and data visualization. Gutermuth graduated from the University of New Hampshire, with bachelor’s degrees in international affairs and business administration, with a focus on international business and economics. She completed her master’s degree at Humboldt University in Berlin, in agricultural economics, where she wrote her thesis on the impact of satellite imagery application in agriculture.

Deborah Haaksman is a yoga teacher with an academic background in dramatic writing. While graduating from Universität der Künste Berlin, she discovered yoga. Years of thorough exploration followed, traveling as an assistant to her mentor Ana Forrest, educating people around the globe. Forrest Yoga unites ancient indigenous techniques of healing with new findings in body therapy, psychology and neuroanatomy. Haaksman is the co-founder of Earthwalking, a biennal festival and platform dedicated to transdisciplinary learning, sacred adventures, and collective questing for the great mystery within everyday life.

Fritz Habekuß is an editor with DIE ZEIT based in Hamburg and Berlin. In his work he covers the relationship between humans and nature, for his reportages he travels around the world. In 2020, he published his first book, the bestseller ÜBER LEBEN – Zukunftsfrage Artensterben: Wie wir die Ökokrise überwinden (with Dirk Steffens) at Penguin.

Elizabeth A. Hadly is the Paul S. & Billie Achilles Professor of Environmental Biology and Faculty Director of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve at Stanford University where she has been on the faculty since 1998. Hadly is a global change scientist who has spent more than 30 years studying the impacts of environmental change of the past, present, and future on biodiversity. Her research has taken her from Yellowstone National Park to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, from the Himalayas to the jungles of Rwanda, from the grassland steppe of Patagonia to the Kalahari Desert, and from the Arctic to the Antarctic in her ongoing efforts to understand and communicate about how people are changing the planet. Hadly seeks to reach outside the ivory tower on issues related to climate change, disease, pollution, extinction, habitat loss, and human population growth—all features of our human-dominated epoch, The Anthropocene.

Peter K. Haff is Emeritus Professor of Geology and Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences and in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, North Carolina. His research focuses on the role of technology in the Anthropocene, the new geologic epoch. Some themes of his work are that technology is a geologic phenomenon; that large-scale technology defines a new addition—the technosphere—to the classical spheres of air, water, rock, and biology; and that technology has not been created independently by humans but represents a quasi-autonomous force that shapes the modern human condition.

Irka Hajdas is a geochronologist using radiocarbon dating as a chronometer applied in climate research, environmental studies, archaeology, cultural heritage, and forensics. After completing master studies in nuclear physics at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, she gained her doctorate from ETH Zurich in 1993 and continued her research at the AMS radiocarbon laboratory at ETH Zurich. Currently a lecturer at the Geology Department, ETH Zurich, Hajdas is also involved in programs promoting science for schools. She has authored and co-authored peer-reviewed publications that reflect the interdisciplinary character of the radiocarbon dating method. She is a member of the European Geosciences Union, where she currently serves as the president of Climate Division. As a member of Radiocarbon community and of the European Association of Archeologists, Hajdas is involved in activities for the protection of cultural heritage. In 2015 she joined the Anthropocene Working Group, contributing her expertise on the “bomb peak radiocarbon” produced during the mid-twentieth-century nuclear tests.

Clémence Hallé is a doctoral student at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, in the Sciences, Arts, Creation, Research laboratory. Her thesis is on the aesthetic history of the Anthropocene. Supervised by the art historian Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen and the environmental historian Gregory Quenet, she tells the story of the geological hypothesis’ emergence into the worlds of the humanities and the arts through the curatorial politics of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s Anthropocene Project, which is the first pluridisciplinary research platform on the subject. Through her thesis, she is pursuing the research into ecological representation she has started under the supervision of Bruno Latour, first in political philosophy, then by taking his programme of experimentation in arts and politics as her field of study. Within this context, she notably wrote a report on an advance simulation of COP21 at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris Climat 2015: Make it Work, in the form of a theater play with SPEAP illustrator Anne-Sophie Milon. The research-creation method that Clemence experimented with Anne-Sophie for this play inspired the arts and sciences projects they have been developing since, such as the Vertigo of the Anthropocene (2019), a speculative map indexing the 110 names given to the geological hypothesis in every disciplines, or the solo Matters performed by the actor Duncan Evennou, which assembles and transforms the inaugural speeches of the Anthropocene Working Group on the stage of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s auditorium in 2014.

Olivier Hamant is a researcher at INRAE, France who studies the contribution of mechanical forces in shaping plants using cell biology, biophysics and modeling approaches. He notably revealed how plants use forces in their tissues to perceive and monitor their own growth and shape in a form of proprioception. From this work, a number of principles can be derived, notably relating to the question of robustness, i.e. the ability of plants to handle environmental fluctuations or their own variability in growth. Through the concept of suboptimality, he explores how living organisms usually favor long-term adaptability over short-term efficiency at all scales, from molecules in a cell to individuals in a population. This echoes many anthropocenic debates he is actively involved in, either through education (Anthropocene Curriculum Lyon) Lyon anthropocene campus) or art and science projects in the frame of the Michel Serres institute. In 2021 he will publish a book on suboptimality (Éditions Odile Jacob). In addition to his researcher position in Lyon, he is also associated with to Cambridge and Kumamoto universities. Hamant is the editor-in-chief of a new journal, Quantitative Plant Biology, which promotes systems thinking and citizen science in plant biology.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an artist, “private ear” and currently a fellow at the Vera list center for Art and politics at the New School, NYC. His audio investigations have been submitted as evidence in the UK immigration and asylum tribunal and most recently his work was part of the No More Forgotten Lives campaign for Defence for Children International. The artist’s forensic audio investigations are conducted as part of his research for Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, London, where he is also a PhD candidate. His solo exhibitions include, Earshot at Portikus Frankfurt (2016), تقيه (taqiyya) at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (2015), Tape Echo at Beirut in Cairo and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (2013).

Dr. Yongming Han is a full professor at the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). His research focuses on the use of biomass burning and fossil fuel markers to study environmental and climate change. Han has established dynamic links between wildfire and climate change, and investigated high-resolution atmospheric time-series in relation to the sedimentary records of black carbon (BC), combustion products, and other substances. Through his work he developed a thermal/optical method that enabled the separation of BC into two fractions (char and soot) and investigated their different roles in environmental pollution and climate change. He used the technique to distinguish between flaming and smoldering combustion in wildfire reconstructions and demonstrated clear glacial-interglacial cycles of flaming fires during the Quaternary. From the perspective of wildfire history, he proposed that wildfire provided macro-nutrients to marine biota that in turn affected atmospheric CO2. Han has been awarded 16 grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), CAS, and the Ministry of Science and Technology. He is currently leading a project on the Anthropocene in China funded by the NSFC.

Dehlia Hannah is a philosopher and curator, She holds a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University (2013), where she specialized in the philosophy of science and aesthetic theory. In collaboration with Dr Cynthia Selin, Dehlia’s new research and curatorial project “A Year Without a Winter” explores creative and practical responses to emerging climate futures at multiple locations worldwide. Her current book project, “Performative Experiments,” articulates the philosophical implications of an emerging genre of contemporary artwork that takes the form of scientific experiments. Dehlia is currently the Research Curator of the Synthesis Center at Arizona State University (ASU), where she leads a transdisciplinary research network centered on the theme of Atmosphere and Place. Drawing on her postdoctoral research on the aesthetics, phenomenology, and epistemologies of climate change, and artistic engagements with climate modeling, she initiated the Experiential Climate Modeling project at ASU in the fall of 2014 in collaboration with scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Prior to coming to ASU, Dehlia held postdoctoral fellowships at the Chemical Heritage Foundation’s Center for Contemporary History and Policy (2013) and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Center for 21st Century Studies (2013‒14). She writes about art and climate change, experimentation as performance, creative ethnography, and new

Mark Hansen is Professor of Literature and Visual Studies at Duke University, North Carolina. Crossing a host of disciplines, including literary studies, film and media, philosophy, science studies and cognitive neuroscience, he investigates the role of technology in human agency and social life. Exploring the meaning of the relentless technological exteriorization that characterizes the human as a form of life, his research pays particular attention to the key role played by visual art, literature, and cultural practices in brokering individual and collective adaptation to technology from the Industrial Revolution to the digital revolution.

Eva Hayward is Assistant Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She holds a PhD in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz and she has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; and University of Cincinnati. She held postdoctoral fellowships at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Her research focuses on aesthetics, environmental and science studies, and sexuality studies. She has recently published articles in Angelaki, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Cultural Anthropology, Parallax, differences, and Women’s Studies Quarterly.

Martin J. Head is a stratigrapher and Professor of Earth Sciences at Brock University, Ontario, and is a status-only full professor at the University of Toronto. He has a PhD from the University of Aberdeen and specializes in late Cenozoic dinoflagellate cysts, including their taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and use in paleoceanographic reconstructions. Head is currently Vice-Chair of the International Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS), having served as its Chair (2012–2020), and is Co-Convener of its Working Group on the Middle–Upper Pleistocene Subseries Boundary. He is concurrently a voting member of the SQS Working Group on the Anthropocene and of the International Subcommission on Stratigraphic Classification, and an advisory board member of the INQUA Stratigraphy and Chronology Commission (SACCOM).

Gabrielle Hecht is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where she also directs the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. She has written award-winning books such as Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (MIT Press and Wits University Press, 2012). Gabrielle serves as scientific advisor on the board of ANDRA, France’s national radioactive waste management agency, among others. More broadly, her scholarship addresses themes such as technopolitics, occupational and environmental health, labor, ontological politics, and nationalism, colonialism and post-coloniality. She is currently working on a book on technology and power in Africa, as well as a series of essays on radioactive and other forms of waste, tentatively titled “Toxic Tales from the African Anthropocene.”

Gerda Heck holds a Diploma in Educational Sciences and a PhD in Sociology. She is currently working as an assistant professor at the American University in Cairo. Her research focuses on migration and border regimes, urban studies, transnational migration, migrant networks, religion, and new concepts of citizenship. She has conducted research in Germany, Brazil, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Morocco, Turkey, and the US. In 2016, she conducted research in Turkey within the scope of Transit Migration 2: A Research Project on the De- and Re-Stabilizations of the European Border Regime. Recently she participated in the exhibition Chinafrika.under construction at GfZK Leipzig (2017).

Florian Hecker works with synthetic sound, the listening process, and the audience’s auditory experience. Inhabiting the domains of performance, installation, and publication, Hecker’s projects explore postwar compositional modernity, audiology, and psychoacoustical knowledge. His recent work Inspection (Maida Vale Project, 2016) was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 as the broadcaster’s first ever live binaural broadcast. Recent major exhibitions and performances include Synopsis/Seriation, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 2018; Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese, Kunsthalle Wien, 2017; and Synopsis, Tramway, Glasgow, 2017. Hecker is Chancellor’s Fellow and Reader at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh.

Carola Hein is a professor of the history of architecture and urban planning in the Architecture Department at Delft University of Technology. She has published widely on topics in contemporary and historical architectural and urban planning, notably that of Europe and Japan. Her current research interests include transmission of architectural and urban ideas along international networks, focusing specifically on port cities, and the global architecture of oil. Her books include Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks (2011), Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan (2006), and The Capital of Europe: Architecture and Urban Planning for the European Union (2004).

Julian Henriques is the convener of the MA in Script Writing and Director of the Topology Research Unit in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. Prior to this, he ran the film and television department at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) at the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. His credits as a writer and director include the reggae musical feature film Babymother (1998) and as a sound artist, Knots & Donuts, exhibited at Tate Modern in 2011. Henriques researches street cultures and technologies and his publications include Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation, and Subjectivity (1998), Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing (2011), and Sonic Media (forthcoming).

Marc Herbst is an artist and co-editor of The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. He is also a researcher/PhD candidate at the Center for Cultural studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is researching how lives are lived and organized in radical collapses such as climate change, and how the world of stuff (including ideas and performances) help us work through this period, or not.

He has a broad and often collaborative practice, incorporating publications, performance, critical praxis, comic book drawing, and cultural organizing. Recent collaborations include the well-dressed fleecing of Londoners and the dumping of goods into the River Thames (with Cristina Ribas), an effort to graph the scope of human/human and human/natural relations in both the sensual and the actual through an open-called cartography project with both fictional and real cities (with the Llano Del Rio Collective).

Other recent and ongoing editorial, artistic, or publishing collaborations also include Murmarea (Barcelona), “The Squatting in Europe Collective” (SqEK), “The Field” (in London), the “Precarious Workers Brigade” (London), and the “Scottish Sculpture Workshop’s Sitting on Eggs ecological Artists and activists colloquium.”

The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest (www.joaap.org) is a 16 year-old Journal founded in Los Angeles at the intersection of fine art, anti-authoritarian activism, and media theory; it pretends to participate in the commons of ideas.

Néstor Herran is lecturer in the History of Science at Sorbonne University. His research focuses on the history of the physical sciences in the twentieth century, and more specifically on the history of nuclear science and technology, computer science, geophysics, and the environmental sciences in the Cold War. Former Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Strasbourg and assistant professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Néstor Herran has participated in several European research projects such as “TEUS, The Earth Under Surveillance. Climate Change, Geophysics and the Cold War Legacy” (2009-2014), “HoNESt: History of Nuclear Energy and Society” (2015-2018) and “SALTGIANT: Understanding the Mediterranean Salinity Crisis” (2018-2020). He is the author of one book and several articles in peer-reviewed journals. He will act as a scientific advisor for Work Package 7.

Samuel Hertz, composer and performer, received his MFA at Mills College, California, where he studied composition and electronic music with Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, and Maggi Payne. His work has been seen and heard at ACUD MACHT NEU (Berlin), Lake Studios (Berlin), Le Café Central (Brussels), Bains Connective/Ten Weyngaert (Brussels), ACRE Gallery/ACRE-TV (Chicago), ARTX (Long Beach), Jack Straw New Media Gallery (Seattle), Harvestworks (New York), Spectrum (New York), the Uncreativity Festival (Minneapolis), and WBEZ Radio (Chicago), among others. Recently, he composed a number of works for chamber ensemble, electroacoustic ensemble, and fixed media, focusing on spatialized sound and compositional psychoacoustics. Samuel has worked as a technical assistant to, and performed with, Morton Subotnick, Alvin Curran, and John Driscoll. He recently completed work on a 40.4 concert speaker system at The Lab in San Francisco, utilizing custom-programmed ambisonic encoding and decoding schemata, and he is currently working on a commission for electroacoustic solo performance from the Opus Centrum Ensemble (Bourges, France), as well as premiering new work at San Francisco’s Center for New Music. Samuel’s recent research focuses on the importance of nonlinearity in the event space of perception and music composition, working with compositional psychoacoustics within the framework of artificial sound environments. Engaged in the ideas of “embodied sound” and situating the body as a porous and generative agent between the poietic and aesthetic realms, his studies of the natural creative faculties of the body draw on diverse sources such as Victorian energetics, medieval conceptions of illness and melancholia, sonorous architectural spaces, and contemporary performance and dance scholarship.

Cyrus Hester’s interests and experience surround coupled human‒natural systems and political ecology, with particular attention currently being directed toward academic discourses on globalization and the Anthropocene. His expertise is principally on matters of environmental decision-making and anthropogenic metal fluxes in North America.

Dieter Hiller is geologist and oil industry professional. He has worked in the field of health, safety, and environment (HSE), and in particular environmental issues, for more than thirty years, much of that time in the oil industry. Hiller specializes in environmental management, and since 2012 has been a partner with Environmental Resources Management (ERM). Prior to this assignment, he held various positions with Schlumberger Limited, the world’s largest oilfield services company, in France, the US, and Canada.

Stephen Himson is a researcher at the University of Leicester. His PhD thesis was entitled “Are neobiota a biological and biostratigraphical marker of the Anthropocene?” He has undertaken field work in San Francisco Bay and has expertise in biostratigraphy and microfossil processing. As part of his PhD, he has assessed the biostratigraphic signature of a range of neobiotic species, including foraminifera, molluscs, and ostracods. These species have contributed to the fundamental reconfiguration of San Francisco Bay and often outnumber their native counterparts. Himson’s research has demonstrated the physical biostratigraphic record of these species in core successions across the Bay, allowing them to be correlated with each other. He has also been able to correlate these core sequences with other ecosystems around the world where the biostratigraphic record of neobiota has been demonstrated.

Richard Hindle is a designer, innovator, and educator. He teaches courses in ecological technology, planting design, and site design studios. Professor Hindle’s research focuses on technology in the urban and regional landscape with an emphasis on material processes, innovation, and patents. His current research explores innovation in landscape related technologies across a range of scales, from large-scale mappings of riverine and coastal patents to detailed historical studies on the antecedents of vegetated architectural systems. A recurring theme in Hindle’s work is the tandem history, and future, of technology, city and landscape. His writing and making explores environmental futurism as chronicled in patent documents and the potential of new technological narratives and material processes to reframe theory, practice, and the production of landscape. He is a published author with articles appearing in the Journal of the Patent Office Society (JPTOS), Journal of Landscape Architecture (JOLA), Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM), The Plan Journal, UC Berkeley’s Ground-Up Journal, and Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. In 2012 he received a Graham Foundation Award for the reconstruction of the “Vegetation-Bearing Architectonic Structure and Systems” and continues to explore the technological origins of other emergent technologies. Richard has worked as a consultant and designer, specializing in the design of advanced horticultural and building systems, from green roofs and facades to large-scale urban landscapes.

Sabine Höhler, physicist and historian of science, technology, and the environment, is an associate professor of science and technology studies at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. Her research addresses the cultural history of modern science and technology, the history of space and globalization, environmental history, and feminist science and technology studies. After her PhD on “Research and mythology in aviation: scientific ballooning in Germany, 1880–1910” (1999), she studied the oceanographical exploration of the deep sea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. As part of the interdisciplinary research project “Sustainable Development between Throughput and Symbolism” at Hamburg University, she began her research on technoscientific models for sustainable environments. She was an environmental history fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, scholar in residence at Deutsches Museum in Munich, research associate at the German Research Foundation (DFG) Graduate School “Topology of Technology” at Technical University of Darmstadt, and senior lecturer at the Chair for Science Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Her habilitation thesis (Darmstadt, 2010), “Spaceship earth: Envisioning human habitats in the environmental age,” explores sufficiency and efficiency ideals in closed life-support systems between 1960 and 1990. The study was published under the title Spaceship Earth in the Environmental Age, 1960-1990 by Pickering & Chatto (2015).

Erich Hörl is Full Professor of Media Culture at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM) at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He is also senior researcher at Leuphana’s Digital Culture Research Lab (DRCL). His research interests include the elaboration of a general ecology of media and technology as well as the description and critique of the process of cyberneticization. He is the contributing editor of Die technologische Bedingung: Beiträge zur Beschreibung der technischen Welt (Suhrkamp, 2011) and of Die Transformation des Humanen: Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte der Kybernetik (Suhrkamp, 2008). Among his articles is “A thousand ecologies: the process of cyberneticization and general ecology” in The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside(edited by Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke, Sternberg Press, 2013).

Eva Horn is a professor of modern German literature and cultural theory at the University of Vienna. She has taught in Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, and the US. Her areas of research include literary and cultural history from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, namely political theory, media theory, disaster imagination in the modern age, historical conceptions of climate, and, most recently, the Anthropocene. She is the founder and director of the Vienna Anthropocene Network. Eva Horn is the author of The Secret War: Treason, Espionage, and Modern Fiction (Northwestern University Press, 2013), The Future as Catastrophe (Columbia University Press, 2018), and together with Hannes Bergthaller: The Anthropocene – Key Issues for the Humanities (Routledge, 2020). She is currently working on a book manuscript on “Being in the air. A cultural theory of climate.”

Yuk Hui studied computer engineering, cultural theory, and philosophy at the University of Hong Kong and Goldsmiths, University of London, with a focus on philosophy of technology, especially the thoughts of Heidegger and Simondon. He is currently research associate at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM) of Leuphana University Lüneburg; previously, he was postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Research and Innovation of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He publishes on philosophy of media and technology in periodicals such as Metaphilosophy, Intellectica, Cahiers Simondon, and Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. He edited (with Andreas Broeckmann) 30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Art, science and theory (Meson Press, 2015), and his monograph On the Existence of Digital Objects is published by the University of Minnesota Press (2016).

Jack Humby is a chemist and works at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) as the Ice Chemistry Lab Manager, where his main responsibilities involve looking after precious ice core samples and maintaining and developing ice analysis laboratories.  In particular, he enjoys the role of developing and running BAS’ continuous flow analysis (CFA) system for high resolution analysis of ice cores. Prior to joining BAS in 2019, he worked in industry as a research and development chemist developing materials for applications including laser marking and transparent electroconductive materials for smart technology devices. He has an MSci in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham, which encompassed a research project on developing greener synthetic routes to drug molecules. He completed a PhD in materials chemistry at the University of Manchester, focusing on the selective adsorption and separation of greenhouse gases using microporous metal-organic framework (MOF) materials.

Hanna Husberg (born in Finland) is a Stockholm-based artist. She graduated from ENSB-A in Paris in 2007 and is currently a PhD in Practice candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Through a focus on the troubled atmosphere, her practice investigates how we perceive and relate to anthropogenic climate change. Recent projects include Human Meteorology (Galleri Mejan, Stockholm; Chateau de Chamarande, France), Being With (Systemique, CEEAC, Strasbourg), The World Indoors (St John’s Cathedral, Gdansk), The Free Sea (HIAP, Helsinki), and the curatorial project Contingent Movements Archive and Symposium; the latter was conceived together with Laura McLean for the inaugural Maldives Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, and further developed for the UNESCO-COAL exhibition Adapting in the Anthropocene at UNESCO, Paris. Hanna is also a participant in “Frontiers in Retreat,” a research platform in multidisciplinary approaches to ecology in contemporary art coordinated by HIAP, Helsinki, and the art&science network program “Hybrid Matters.”

Anna Frei, a.k.a. Fred Hystère, is an artist, sonic researcher, graphic designer, editor, DJ, and record store co-founder (OOR Records), who lives and works in Zürich. She* organizes experimental audio formats, concerts, and club nights, is part of several collaborative art projects, and works as a conceptrice* of publications and editions. As DJ Fred Hystère, she*’s searching for multilayered, emancipatory narratives within experimental DJ mixes and collaborates on performances and audio pieces. Since 2014, she* has co-operated and co-curated OOR Records/OOR Saloon, Zürich.

Diana Ihring is the Migration Assessment Manager @ REACH INITIATIVE a leading humanitarian initiative providing granular data, timely information, and in-depth analysis from contexts of crisis, disaster, and displacement. Diana’s works toward a better understanding of mobility, migration, and humanitarianism. She’s interested in protection, refugee studies, evidence-based humanitarian programming, and research.

Alexander Ilichevsky has been publishing newspaper articles, essays, and novels since the 1990s. His work has been honored with numerous prizes, including the Russian Booker Prize. He grew up in Azerbaijan, studied and taught theoretical physics in Moscow and then emigrated to California in the mid-1990s. He has lived in Jerusalem since 2013. Die Perser, the German translation of his multi-award-winning novel Pers, was published in 2016, followed by Jerusalem: Stadt der untergehenden Sonne [Jerusalem: City of the Setting Sun] in 2017.

Maya Indira Ganesh is a technology researcher and writer whose work investigates the social, cultural, and political implications of the “becoming-human” of machines, and vice versa. Maya spent over 15 years working at the intersection of gender justice, technology, and human rights with Indian and international NGOs. She is completing a PhD at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, about the re-shaping of ethics and accountability by the unstable ontologies of AI and autonomous systems that exist as engineering imaginaries, metaphors, and as material data infrastructures. In 2020 she had a Digital Futures Fellowship at Hivos, and a Junior Fellowship at the Berggruen Institute. Maya continues her association with feminist organisations as a member of the board of directors of Arrow, an Asia-Pacific policy advocacy organisation that works on sexuality and sexual and reproductive health and rights across the 22 countries in the region.

Ellie Irons is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn and Troy, New York. Working across media, from watercolor to re-wilding experiments, she combines social practice, ecology fieldwork, and embodied learning, contributing to a field she describes as critical ecosocial art. Recent work involves collaborations focused on spontaneous urban plants (weeds), with the co-founding of the Next Epoch Seed Library and the Environmental Performance Agency. Her work has been part of recent exhibitions on environmental art and activism, like The Department of Human and Natural Services at NURTUREArt in Brooklyn and Ecological Consciousness: Artist as Instigator at Wave Hill, The Bronx, New York. Her writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail and Landscape Architecture Futures (2015) and Inhabiting the Anthropocene blog (University of Oklahoma, 2017). She is a 2015 NYFA Fellow, a 2017 Asian Cultural Council Fellow, 2019 Eliza Moore Fellow, and 2019 Seed Box Artist in Residence. Irons received a BA from Scripps College in Los Angeles and an MFA from Hunter College, New York. She is pursuing a PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, focusing on how critical ecosocial art contributes to the struggle for multispecies solidarity in an age of climate chaos and mass extinction.

Bill Iseminger is the Assistant Site Manager at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site.

Victoria Ivanova researches, writes, curates, speaks, and consults on innovative approaches to policy, finance, and rights in the sphere of contemporary art and beyond. Having previously worked in the human rights field, Ivanova in 2010 co-founded a multidisciplinary cultural platform in Donetsk, Ukraine, which explored the intersections between activism, education, and artistic production. Today, her practice is largely informed by systems analysis and her interest in infrastructures as mechanisms for shaping and (re)producing socioeconomic and political realities. Ivanova holds an MSc in human rights from the London School of Economics and an MA in curatorial studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York. She is currently completing her PhD in cultural studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (12 March 1863 – 6 January 1945) was a Russian/Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and ofradiogeology. He was founder of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (now National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). His ideas of concerning the noosphere were an important contribution to Russian cosmism. He is most noted for his 1926 book The Biosphere in which he inadvertently worked to popularize Eduard Suess’ 1885 term biosphere by hypothesizing that life is the geological force that shapes the Earth. In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize.

Juliana A. Ivar do Sul has a PhD degree in Oceanography from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, and studies marine microplastics for 15 years. She has been involved in international research collaborations and has taken part in a number of interdisciplinary research projects in Europe, on oceanic islands in the South Atlantic, and Antarctica. As recognition of her research, she was invited in 2015 to contribute as the Plastic expert member within the Anthropocene Working Group. Her recent studies have focused particularly on the longevity of microplastics, and their potential as markers of the Anthropocene epoch. Ivar do Sul currently works at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Rostock, Germany, which is leading the GSSP candidature of the Baltic Sea to indicate the onset of the Anthropocene.

Daneeta Loretta Jackson is a native of Southeast Louisiana, a filmmaker, writer, activist and visual artist. She is one half of the creative partnership known as the ElekTrik Zoo with her longtime creative partner and transpland from Sweden, Patrick Jackson. The Jacksons are best known for their award-winning “Down the Road” films and writings that hone in on the experience of working class Louisianans, specifically children and the elderly. Their documentaries “Locked” and “Homeland/Wetland” center on water issues in the region where they tell local water stories that have a larger national and international context. They have received funding from the likes of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Magnifying Glass and the New Orleans Film Society.

Dr. S. Løchlann Jain Is associate professor of Anthropology at the Stanford Humanities Center. Jain completed a PhD in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Post-Doc at the University of British Columbia. Jain is the author of the widely reviewed book Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States. Jain’s most recent book, Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us, was published in 2013 and offers an analysis of cancer as an all-encompassing aspect of American culture. Malignant was awarded the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing and the Diana Forsythe Prize.

Michael Jakob is a fellow with the MCC research project “Public Economics for the Global Commons.” His research interests include: climate policy (especially in developing countries), economic growth and welfare, as well as infrastructure policy. Before joining MCC, he spent more than five years as a PhD student and postdoctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Michael has a PhD in economics from the Technical University of Berlin and degrees in physics, economics, and international relations from universities in Munich, St Gallen, and Geneva. Besides science, he is very much interested in methods to reflect on our joint responsibility for a sustainable approach to deal with global environmental change. In particular, he is curious to develop skills to better understand how, for example, literature and theater could help us have a public discourse on where we are heading as a society and how we can democratically agree on any course of action.

Tanya James is the Executive Director of Central City Renaissance Alliance, founder and Principal for Strategic Outcomes, and also co-lead for the Water Leaders Institute. She has more than fifteen years’ experience in nonprofit management, collaborative development, and capacity building. James served as Deputy Director at Central City Renaissance Alliance from 2009 and stepped into her current role in June 2015. She is responsible for adminis tration, planning, and program design. She holds a BS in Natural Sciences from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and an MA in Social Work from Southern University at New Orleans.

Pablo Jensen is the head of the Institut Rhônalpin des Systèmes Complexes (IXXI) at ENS-Lyon. As a physicist with a PhD in experimental condensed-matter physics, he worked on the modeling of nanostructure growth before turning to a practice more on the fringes of social and natural sciences. In an ongoing collaboration with Bruno Latour’s team at Sciences Po’s Médialab in Paris, he is exploring the use of social data to improve our knowledge of the social world. He has created an interdisciplinary program on the modeling of complex systems, gathering students from biology, computer science, mathematics, and physics. He serves as a national project manager on the interdisciplinarity between physics and social sciences at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He has published a science popularization book on the physicist’s view of materials and is a columnist for several magazines, including Le Monde diplomatique.

Elizabeth Johnson is Assistant Professor of Human Geography at Durham University. She is a writer, researcher, and educator studying how new ties between the biosciences and technological innovation are changing how we understand life in the context of environmental precarity. She writes on developing fields like biomimicry, biosensing, and biotechnology and their influence on how we inhabit our environment. Currently, she is researching the interface between marine science and policy with a focus on tensions between marine conservation and the emerging Blue Economy. The work examines how marine organisms and the materials extracted from them pass through, across, and into the different ecological and epistemological worlds to figure in the production of healthy publics, ecological futures, and promissory economies.

Timothy Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Georgia whose research focuses on the broad intersections between environmental history and business history. His dissertation “Growth Industry: The Political Economy of Fertilizer in America, 1865-1947,” examines how capital and politics “rewired” agricultural production to coalesce state power between the collapse of slavery and World War II. His research has received funding from the Social Science Research Council, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the Harvard History Project.

Benjamin Johnson completed his PhD in physics in 2010 at the Technische Universität Berlin with a thesis on thin layer solar cells investigated with X-ray spectroscopic methods. His later research focused on catalytic materials for alternative fuels. In 2015, he began research in the field of science history, investigating progress in science and technological innovation. His work has resulted in a detailed portrait of Fritz Haber’s discovery of ammonia synthesis in the first decade of the twentieth century (Making ammonia, Springer 2022). Continuing in the direction of scientific and technological development, Dr. Johnson is now applying these ideas to prospective technologies for the current energy transition. His approach combines the natural sciences with history and science communication to provide a roadmap for science-based governance.

Pierre de Jouvancourt is a PhD student in philosophy under the supervision of Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He holds three Master’s degrees in the fields of engineering (ENSEEIHT), political science (Sciences Po Paris), and philosophy (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). His current research deals with the emergence of the problem of the Anthropocene as an historical event. He examines how contemporary industrial societies came about along with the problem of the Anthropocene, expressed as a geological epoch that refers to the advent of the global environmental crisis. This research requires not only the analysis of environmental knowledge, but also the study of the emergence of the more general problem of the global environmental crisis, linked to what can be called industrial modernity. History of science and technology, environmental history, and STS are among the fields his framework of research involves.

Jérôme Kaiser obtained his PhD degree in natural sciences at the University of Bremen in 2006. His PhD focused on using lipid biomarkers to estimate sea surface temperature variability in the southeast Pacific over the last glacial/interglacial cycle. As a PhD student and postdoc, he visited renowned scientific institutes including the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the Pierre and Marie Curie University (LOCEAN, Paris VI). In 2010, Kaiser joined the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW) in Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany, where he installed a laboratory for the analysis of molecular biomarkers. As a sedimentologist and paleoclimatologist, he specializes in the development of molecular organic proxies and their application in sediment cores from lake, fjord, and marine systems for paleoenvironmental reconstructions. He has worked at locations including the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the South Pacific, as well as in lakes in Turkey, Germany and Poland.

Moses Tinashe Kamanda has a first degree in animal science and a Master’s degree in ecology from the University of Zimbabwe. He has worked in the fields of GIS and remote sensing for natural resource management, change cover detection, range animal production, education for sustainable development, and quantitative ecology. His research interests focus on social ecological resilience, adaptive management of rangelands, and community-based natural resource management.

Valentina Karga is an artist and architect. Her work operates between art, design, research and architecture. It draws together elements of socially engaged practices and speculative experiments that question the existing social and physical infrastructures within the realms of energy, economy and sustainability. Her work has been exhibited internationally. Since 2018 she is a professor at Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK), Hamburg.

Gilly Karjevsky is an independent curator of critical spatial practice (Rendell) based in Berlin. She works at the intersection of ethics of care and the curatorial, looking at languages of practice, in relation to site and situation. 

She is a founding member of (soft agency) where she was curator for “Caring” (HKW, 2020), “Climate Care” (Floating University, 2019) and “Formats of Care” (UDK and Vienna Academy of Arts, 2019). She is Program lead at the Floating University where she is investigating a collaborative lexicon process – “Silent Conversation” (since 2018). She was curator of “Jardin Essentiel” for Parckdesign biennal (Brussels, 2016).  She has acted as curator for various artist residencies in municipal departments (Brussels, 2016, Holon 2014, Jerusalem, 2012). She is co-director of 72 Hour Urban Action, with editions in various European cities since 2010.

Gilly acts as jury for various boards among which the international artistic boards of Visible – the social practice prize from Fondazione Pistolleto, and the residency program at the ZK/U – Centre for Art and Urbanism in Berlin. She lectures on her practice internationally, and have given presentations and workshops at Central Saint Martins, UDK Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Harvard GSD, HKW, Strelka Institute, Queens museum and P.S.1 among many others. Gilly’s writings have been published in several readers, magazines, monographs and compilations, and she is editor of a forthcoming Arch+ publication summarizing a decade of 72HUA. 

Bernd Kasparek is a migration scholar and activist with a focus on border studies. He is a founding member of the Network for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies (kritnet) and a member of the managing board of the research association bordermonitoring.eu. Currently, he is completing his PhD project on the Europeanization of the border regime. He is the co-editor of Grenzregime: Diskurse, Praktiken, Institutionen in Europa (2010), a collection of texts concerned with the dynamics, actors, discourses, and practices of the European border regime, as well as the successor volume Grenzregime 3: Der lange Sommer der Migration (2016), on the so-called Summer of Migration in 2015. His most recent book is Europas Grenzen (2017).

Alder Keleman Saxena is an Assistant Research Professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, and holds a concurrent position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. An environmental anthropologist, her research has examined the relationships linking agricultural biodiversity to human food cultures in Mexico and Bolivia, drawing connections between locally specific ethnobotanical and biocultural practices and larger political-economic contexts. Her more recent research and writing explores the social and material implications of digital connectivity for geographically remote spaces. Alder is a co-editor of Feral Atlas: the More-Than-Human Anthropocene.

Jenny Kendler is an interdisciplinary artist, environmental activist and wild forager whose work asks us to de-center the human, making space for the radical, transformative otherness found on our biodiverse Earth. She received her BFA from MICA (2002) and her MFA from SAIC (2006). Kendler has exhibited at Storm King Art Center, MCA Chicago, The Eden Project, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Albright-Knox, MSU Broad Museum, California Academy of Sciences, the Chicago Biennial, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and has created public projects for locations from urban conservatories to remote deserts to tropical forests. Parallel to her art practice, she is an organizer for Extinction Rebellion Chicago, Board co-chair of artist residency ACRE, a member of artist collective Deep Time Chicago—and since 2014 has been the first Artist-in-Residence with environmental non-profit NRDC. Alongside an interdisciplinary team she was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for her community project Garden for a Changing Climate, and continues her work focused on climate change and extinction with an upcoming exhibition for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Luke Keogh is a curator and historian interested in the global movement of plants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In most of his work there are plants, environments and old things sprouting in some sort of wild garden. He has worked with collecting institutions around the world, including the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, the Deutsches Museum Munich, the Queensland Museum and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, and has received many awards and prizes for his work. He has curated 25 exhibitions and recently, On the Land won both the Museums and Galleries National Awards (MAGNA) and the Australian Museums and Galleries Awards Victoria (AMAGA). His book, The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World, published in 2020, was six years in the making and recently won the NSW Premier’s General History Prize.

Dr. Laleh Khalili is a professor in Middle Eastern Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She received her PhD from Columbia University. Her primary research areas are logistics and trade, infrastructure, policing and incarceration, gender, nationalism, political and social movements, refugees, and diasporas in the Middle East. Her commentary on Middle Eastern and Iranian affairs have been used in several newspapers. Khalili’s most recent book, Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies (Stanford 2013), drew on interviews with former detainees of Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and various Israeli detention camps and prisons. The book was the winner of the Susan Strange Best Book Prize of the British International Studies Association and the 2014 best book award of the International Political Sociology section of the ISA.

Jessika Khazrik was born between Baghdad and Beirut in 1991 and is currently based in Boston where she is pursuing a MSc in Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT. She studied Theater and Linguistics at the Lebanese University, and in 2012‒13 took part in the “Home Workspace Program” at Ashkal Alwan. Playing with performance, writing and exhibition, her interdisciplinary work investigates the correlation between truth and testimony. Her projects include “The Influence of Prostitution on Tourism” (2013), “Flying City in the Aerial Paths of Communication” (2013), “My Body If Only I Could See You” (2014), and the ongoing “Blue Barrel Grove” (2014‒) and “Abolish Language” (2015‒). She also collaborates with filmmakers, artists, and collectives as writer, actress, and translator, and organizes political parties. Her writing is published in the Bidayat Journal, Kohl Journal, Almodon, as well as other independent publications. In 2014 she launched the interdisciplinary platform “The Society of False Witnesses.” Through occupying disciplines in collaborations, writing, performance, cryptography, and learning, “The Society of False Witnesses” probes and plays with the spatial politics of exile, the underground, the internet, and the battlefield, and their epistemological repercussions on the performance and lexica of ignorance and knowledge. Their work includes the performance The First Repository (Beirut Art Center, Beirut, 2015), the dance performance Instead of a Turret on Top (ICA, Boston, 2015), the exhibition Content and Danger(Edgerton Center, Boston, 2015), the radio play I Hate the Past but It Seduces Me (The Lebanese Broadcasting Station, Beirut, 2016), and the sound essay D B B D (Forum Expanded, ADK, Berlin, 2016).

David is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. He is the founder and curator of JUNCTURE: Explorations in Art and Human Rights, a new initiative sponsored by the Law School, in cooperation with the Yale School of Art and University Art Gallery. JUNCTURE encompasses research collaborations with artists and writers, fellowships for Yale MFA students, a multidisciplinary graduate seminar, publications, public lectures, and a symposium. More information is available here: atjuncture.org. In the fall of 2015, David led a graduate seminar at Yale Law School, titled “Art and International Human Rights: Theory and Practice,” which enrolled students in law, fine arts, history, art history, and religious studies. The seminar doubled as a research platform for artists. Seminar students, organized into small teams, collaborated with visiting artists in a flexible, open-ended research process toward the creation of new work. David has worked as a graduate curatorial assistant at the Yale University Art Gallery and a law clerk at the Bombay High Court in India. He is a contributor to a book on the work of artist Jill Magid, forthcoming from Sternberg Press in 2016. David has also collaborated with Council, a Paris-based arts platform that stages multidisciplinary inquiries around the world. Prior to law school, he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He holds degrees in American Studies from Harvard University and Columbia University (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).

John Kim is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. A theorist and practitioner of new media, he has published widely, including a book Rupture of the Virtual (2016), journal articles, and other print publications. John has also exhibited interactive art, sculpture, video games, and software in galleries and festivals around the world, including MassMOCA, Massachusetts; Dia Center for the Arts, New York City; the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Istanbul; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Northern Spark arts festival, St. Paul. With his art design group, Futures North, John has created work at the intersection of environmental representation and data spatialization. Futures North recently created a public art sculpture about the anthropogenic history of the Mississippi River. John was involved in the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River project (2018-2019) and was fortunate to have the opportunity to canoe from the headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico.

Albertine Kimble is from Carlisle, Louisiana, where she has lived her whole life. She worked for the Plaquemines Parish Government for thirty years, in her last eight years she was the Local Coastal Programs Manager. She is now retired and is a member of the Plaquemines Parish Coastal Zone Advisory Board. She is quoted in numerous articles and media for her knowledge of the wetlands, and is featured in the film Last Call for the Bayou which screened at the New Orleans Film Festival on October 21, 2019. Kimble is a passionate advocate for saving and sustaining the wetlands, and spends her retirement enjoying the marsh, hunting and fishing.

Brian Kirkbride is a sound artist, composer, DJ and programmer based in Chicago whose cross-disciplinary practice integrates data, field recordings, synthesizers, software and found sound through conceptually-driven audio processing. His work investigates the re-contextualization of complex scientific/social systems through musical and other auditory representations—often within immersive environments. Kirkbride has collaborated on several large-scale sound art and data-driven installations, which have been exhibited at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, EXPO Chicago, the Lincoln Park Conservatory for Experimental Sound Studio and at Millennium Park for the Art Institute of Chicago. His film/video work has shown at Whitechapel Gallery (London), the Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA), Alchemy Film Festival (Hawick, Scotland), Biennial of Moving Images (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Montréal Underground Film Festival, Onion City Film Festival (Chicago, USA), Videoex Festival (Zurich, Switzerland), Kinodot Experimental Film Festival (St Petersburg, Russia), Video Art Miden (Kalamata, Greece), Nonplussed Ultra Film Festival (Los Angeles, USA), Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (Switzerland), Simultan Festival (Timisoara, Romania) and Fovea (Nice, France).

Since 2013, Jens Kirstein has worked as a scientific assistant at the Freie Universität Berlin. He was a PhD student at the International Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles, in cooperation with the Graduate Academy (fellowship) at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, where he worked on the timing of long-term carbonate mobilization in a limestone aquifer. He attained an MSc in geological sciences with the thesis “Incipient inversion of the middle Archean Moodies Basin, Barberton Supergroup, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa.”

Katrin Klingan is a literary scholar, curator, and producer of art and cultural projects. From 2003 to 2010 she was the artistic director of relations, an international art and cultural program initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, where she curated and produced projects in the fields of the visual arts, theatre, documentary film, television, contemporary history, architecture, and radio. Katrin Klingan was previously programming dramaturge at Wiener Festwochen. As head of the Department of Literature and Humanities at Haus der Kulturen der Welt since 2011, she was curator for the Anthropocene Project (2013-14), the four-year-program 100 Years of Now and the current program The New Alphabet. Her recent projects at HKW include Dangerous Conjunctures: Resituating Balibar/Wallerstein‘s “Race, Nation, Class” (2018) and the research endeavor The Technosphere Project 2015-19. Together with Christoph Rosol, Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, she is heading the Anthropocene Curriculum since 2013 with its current project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River (2018-19).

Alexander Klose is a cultural theorist and concept developer based in Berlin. His work focuses on the interplay between technologies of communication and transport and processes of social (re)formation. Between 2001 and 2009, he pursued an artistic and scientific research project on the principle of standardized containers and the rise of logistical thinking. Together with Bernd Hopfengärtner and Benjamin Steininger, Klose has been developing the speculative research project “Beauty of Oil.”

Emily Knudson graduated in Environmental Studies, Spanish, and English Literature at Augsburg University before receiving a Masters degree in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Granada in Spain and a dual degree in Women and Gender Studies and Modern, Post-colonial, and Comparative Literature at the University of Bologna. In January 2020 she starts a Fulbright Fellowship in Brazil. She is interested in the Anthropocene in relation to colonialism, connections between indigenous land and river dispossession in Latin America and in Minnesota, and the intersections of environmental destruction, colonialism, capitalism, and othered bodies. She is also interested in connecting ethnography work and literary/art journal submissions and looks forward to working with students on developing their own voices and sense of agency in relation to these issues.

Aidan Koch is an artist based in New York, whose multidisciplinary practice includes experimental graphic narratives. Her comics break down the medium to its minimal elements, tracing ambiguous visual and verbal fragments between the visible and absent, poetry and silence. Her works include recurring motifs, like artifacts from classical and ancient cultures, that move from Koch’s comics to her paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and textiles. In 2017, Koch created the Institute for Interspecies Art and Relations, where she mobilizes theory, ethics, and aesthetics in the production of knowledge about and public awareness of human-nonhuman relations. From her prolific career, the comic books The Whale (2010), The Blonde Woman (2012) and Impressions (2014) are among her best-know works, as well as multiple individual and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe.

Nile Koetting, is an artist who lives and works in Berlin. Influenced by the information age in which he grew up, Koetting works with a diverse range of media, including text, film, performance, sound, and installation focusing on the themes of resonance and sensing. After completing studies in media, sound art, in Tokyo and Helsinki, Koetting became active in video and installation work. His work has been presented at “Roppongi Crossing 2016” (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo), “New Sensorium” (ZKM, Karlsruhe), “Whistler” (Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo). In 2016, he will present his new installation piece at Maison Hermés in Tokyo. Koetting has also performed internationally with dance and theater companies such as Constanza Macras / Dorky Park, Saburo Teshigawara, and The Agency.

Nicole Koltick is an assistant professor in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University, Philadelphia. She is Founding Director of the Design Futures Lab at Westphal College, which is currently pursuing design research to stimulate debate on the potential implications of emerging technological and scientific developments within society. Koltick’s practice spans art, science, technology, design, and philosophy, and current work focuses on the philosophical, material, and relational implications of aesthetics as they intersect with emerging developments in computational creativity, artificially intelligent autonomous systems, robotics, and synthetic biological hybrids.

Nik Kosmas is an artist, personal trainer, and health expert who lives and works in Berlin. Originally a full-time artist as part of AIDS-3D, founded in 2006 with Daniel Keller, Kosmas now devotes himself to his fitness and nutrition businesses, which grew out of his artistic work. He is co-founder and resident expert on health and wellness for Maru Matcha, a Matcha tea distribution company in Berlin started in 2014.

Matthijs Kouw joined the Rathenau Instituut, The Hague, in March 2016. He holds an MA in Philosophy and an MSc in Science and Technology Studies from the University of Amsterdam as well as a PhD from Maastricht University. In his PhD thesis, Kouw describes how and to what extent reliance on models can introduce vulnerabilities through the assumptions, uncertainties, and blind spots concomitant with modeling practice. He was employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), during which time he acted as a member of the Dutch delegation for plenary sessions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Maya Kóvskaya (PhD UC Berkeley, 2009) has twenty years of experience living and doing research in China, and nearly a decade in India. She recently relocated to Chiang Mai to expand the ambit of her research to include Southeast Asia. She has authored, co-authored, edited, translated, and contributed to numerous books and articles on the intersection of the political and ecological with the performative, the semiotic, in visual and popular culture. Her work takes the form of “onto-epistemological” investigations into performative politics, and current research includes work on ecosemiosis and the Anthropocene, reading anthropogenic trophic cascades as indexical signs of relative multispecies un/sustainability, as well as political ecophilosophical research on “politics beyond the human and the multispecies polity.” She draws critically on Anthropocene studies; post-colonial, indigeneity, and critical race theory; multispecies and critical life studies; Western and Chinese political philosophy; Ordinary Language Philosophy; practice, performativity and speech act theory; linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistic pragmatics; Peircian semiotics; and new materialist, post-humanist philosophy of science to theorize performative and indexical forms of eco- and biosemiosis, and expand studies of political membership and entangled world-making beyond the human-centric. She recently conceptualized, curated and researched the Natchez Field Station as part of the year-long Mississippi. An Anthropocene River research program (2018-2019), organized by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, investigating the emergent etiologies of the Anthropocene in Natchez through linkages between human supremacism and white supremacism, ecocide and genocide, chattel slavery and the rise of the plantation model. She is also writing a book, entitled Anthropocene Altermodern:Vernacular Visual Cultures and Ecological Remediations in Indian Art, exploring competing conceptions of the human in relation to the natural world, as well as resistance to the Anthropocene, understood as a necropolitical excrescence of extractive colonial modernity. Maya is founder of the Amor Mundi Guerrilla Think Tank, and ARC Platform (Anthropocene Research & Curatorial Platform), curating workshops, symposia, salons, exhibitions, and multidisciplinary field meetings, and bringing together philosophers, artists, scientists, writers, humanities and social science scholars, legal scholars, and activists to build new knowledges and practices to confront the unfolding ecological catastrophe of the Anthropocene. She reaches Political, Social and Cultural Theory; Critical Anthropocene Studies; Science, Technology, and Society (STS);  and Performativity and Practice Theory at Chiang Mai University in the he Faculty of Social Science.Theory; Critical Anthropocene Studies; Science, Technology, and Society (STS);  and Performativity and Practice Theory at Chiang Mai University in the he Faculty of Social Science.

Matija Kralj is a filmmaker who studied sculpture and new media at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts. His films include a documentation of the work done by the humanitarian NGO Are You Syrious, which was screened in part at the Public Space: Fights and Fictions conference at Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2016). He worked as a video documentarian for the ACTOPOLIS project (2016–17) and is currently involved as a documentarian in the European projects The Route of Solidarity: Pathways Toward an Inclusive Europe and REFEST, which documents and tells the stories and routes of refugees through photography, visual arts, and poetry.

Jakob Kudsk Steensen is an artist and director working with environmental storytelling through 3D animation, sound, and immersive installations. He creates poetic interpretations of overlooked natural phenomena through collaborations with field biologists, composers, and writers. Projects are based on extensive fieldwork. Steensen was a finalist for the Future Generation Art Prize at the 2019 Venice Biennale. He received the Serpentine Augmented Architecture commission in 2019 to create his work The Deep Listener with Google Arts and Culture. He is the recipient of the best VR graphics for RE-ANIMATED (2019) at the Cinequest Festival for Technology and Cinema, the Prix du Jury (2019) at Les Rencontres Arles, the Webby Award: People’s Choice VR (2018), and the Games for Change Award: Most Innovative (2018), among others.

Lars Kulik studied biology, with a particular focus on the development of social behavior in monkeys. He was interested in seeing how the animals grew into their social systems and how they arrived at the social patterns typical of their species. It is commonly assumed that these patterns are fixed, but there are hints that they are much more flexible than we think. The question of what needs to occur for these social rules to change is one that is also hotly debated with regard to our human culture—and it seems increasingly important to find some answers to this question. For Lars, it is clear that the answers are achievable only through an interdisciplinary approach, and therefore he was very interested in participating in the Anthropocene Curriculum and in contributing his knowledge about our biological roots.

Michinobu Kuwae studied Quaternary sciences, mainly concentrating on micropaleontological studies using lake sediments, at the faculty of Science, Osaka City University and received his PhD in biology and geosciences from the same university in 2002. After several research fellowships in Ehime University, he is currently an associate professor at the Ehime’s Center for Marine Environmental Studies. He has dedicated much of his work to reconstructing past changes in fish populations during the Holocene, using an interdisciplinary approach that combines paleoceanography, biogeochemistry, and micropaleontology. He is particularly interested in the factors driving changes in algal and zooplankton productivity in the western North Pacific, and the response of Japanese sardine and anchovy to past changes in oceanic and climatic conditions, from multi-decadal to millennial time scales. Most recently, Kuwae and his colleagues have been using sedimentary ancient DNA to detect long-term population dynamics of marine and lake organisms.

Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer and theorist working with questions of social life and cultural agency, using sound, performance, text and sited constructions. He develops and presents artistic projects and performances within a range of international contexts, often working in public and with others. This leads to interventions and performative installations, archival work, and micro-actions aimed at the sphere of the (un)common and the unlikely. He is also an active lecturer working with institutions around the world addressing questions of auditory culture, sonic and spatial practices, the voice and the politics of listening. Since 2011 he works as a Professor at The Art Academy – Department of Contemporary Art, University of Bergen, Norway. Current research projects focus on citizen practices, sonic agency and auditory knowledge, and the aesthetics and politics of invisibility. As a sound artist his works have been presented in galleries and major exhibitions throughout the world (more recently Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen (2018), La Tabacalera, Madrid (2017), Documenta 14, Athens (2017), South London Gallery (2016)) and has various audio releases on international experimental labels, and regularly produces works for radio, notably Documenta / Savvy Funk, Berlin (2017), Radio Reina Sofia (2016), Kunstradio in Vienna (1999, 2001, 2007, 2009) and Deutschland Radio (2009). His latest book, Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance (Goldsmiths / MIT Press, London, 2018), asks the question of how current social and political crisis can be approached through sonic thought and imagination, and inquires on the possibilities of sound and listening as vehicles for resistance, citizenship and political action.

Nicole Labruto is a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the interdisciplinary Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society. Her research investigates the intersections of plants, energy, agricultural practice, and science in the global South through long-term ethnographic engagement with sugarcane bioenergy scientists in Brazil. She conducted 18 months of participant observation research in Brazilian sugarcane laboratories to ask how 500 years of sugarcane cultivation in the New World influences the practices and ideologies that are shaping new “green” energy sources and technologies within plant life itself. Other research projects include studies of energy generated from human waste using biodigesters, gender and re-use value in Brazilian and US waste worker recycling spaces, and historical analyses of ecologically-oriented concepts and practices, such as lifecycles and lifecycles analysis. Labruto’s graduate research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Fulbright Foundation, as well as MIT. She received an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the New School for Social Research and a BA in Anthropology and Philosophy from Mount Holyoke College.

Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson is a graduate student editorial assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and was managing editor of the special publication Anthropogenic Markers: Stratigraphy and Context (2022). He is writing a masters thesis in literary studies at the Freie Universität on “postmodern” anxieties of form as symptom of the mid-twentieth century history of novel materials. In the fall of 2022 he will begin doctoral study as a Whitney Environmental Humanities Fellow in the Film and Media Studies and Comparative Literature departments at Yale University.

Rebekka Ladewig is a cultural theory researcher and art historian. Before joining the Media Studies Department at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in 2014 she was a research associate at the Institute of Cultural History and Theory at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin, where she was a research associate and coordinator of the research group Pictograms at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory: Image Knowledge Gestaltung from 2012-14. She is co-founder and editor of the magazine ilinx. Berliner Beiträge zu Kulturwissenschaft and the book series ilinx-Kollaborationen at Fundus/PhiloFineArts, Hamburg. Currently she is working on the cultural technique of the bow and arrow and about the reception of Gestalt theory in the works of Kurt Goldstein, Michael Polanyi, and Marjorie Grene.

Adrian Lahoud is an architect and teacher working on concepts of scale and their architectural, urban, and geopolitical consequences. Currently he is leading the Master of Architecture (MArch) in urban design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and is an external thesis advisor on the MPhil “Projective Cities” program at the Architectural Association, London. He joined the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London in 2011 as director of the MA program and research fellow on the Forensic Architecture European Research Council project; prior to this he was director of postgraduate urban design at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he led a small, award-winning private practice. His doctoral research sets out a philosophical, scientific, and architectural history of scale as a problematique, using case studies of post-war urban planning, territorial governance, and climate modeling. He has written extensively on questions of spatial politics and urban conflict with a focus on the Arab world and Africa. In 2010 he guest edited a special issue of Architectural Design titled “Post-traumatic urbanism.” More recently, his work has been published in The Journal of Architecture, Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence, and New Geographies 5: The Mediterranean, and Performing Trauma. He exhibits and lectures internationally, most recently at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Tate Britain, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. He has been a guest critic at the Royal College of Art in London, at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Angewandte Vienna, and the Technical University of Berlin.

Michelle Lai is an urban farmer and forager who is interested in exploring community-driven innovation and community engagement practices. Lai is a member of TANAH, an interdisciplinary collective that playfully questions urban living via site-specific interventions within and around the city. Together with Saad Chinoy, Lai founded the Edible Makerspace in Singapore.

Roberto Lalli is a historian of modern physical sciences based at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His research interests range from the epistemic and social aspects of the practices of contrarian science, such as the anti-relativity movements, to the historical processes of consensus building around specific bodies of knowledge, including the evolution of refereeing practices. On the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of Einstein’s formulation of general relativity theory, he was also involved in several projects taking place in 2015 aimed at exploring understudied historiographical themes related to the renaissance of general relativity in the post-Second World War era, and additionally at bringing the theory to the general public through exhibitions and theatrical events. After having earned a PhD in international history at the University of Milan in 2011, he spent two years in Cambridge as postdoctoral fellow on the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Peter Lambertz wrote his PhD on the local dynamics of appropriation/approximation/re-creation of cultural materials and repertoires in a Congolese branch of a Japanese new religious movement (Église Messianique Mondiale) in Kinshasa.

Hannah Landecker is Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Society and Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Landecker’s work focuses on the social and historical study of biotechnology and life science, from 1900 to now. She studies the intersections of biology and technology, with a particular focus on cells and the in vitro conditions of life in research settings. She is currently working on a book called American Metabolism, which looks at transformations of the metabolic sciences wrought by the rise of epigenetics, microbiomics, cell signaling, and hormone biology. Her previous publications include Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies (2007) and articles on subjects ranging from antibiotic resistance to microcinematography.

Kira Lappé studied classical archaeology and ancient history at the University of Vienna as well as geographic information science at the University of Salzburg. She has worked on excavation sites dating from different periods in various countries and has participated in archaeological and historical projects at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna. Since 2018, she has been part of the interdisciplinary project The Anthropocene Surge, which aims to explore the growth of the Anthropocene signal in the urban environments of Vienna. Her current research work focuses on creating a 3D model of the anthropogenic sediments underlying Vienna, investigating the growth of anthropogenic influence.

Brian Larkin is Professor of Anthropology Barnard College, Columbia University and the author of Signal and Noise: Media Infrastructure and Urban Culture in Nigeria (Duke University Press, 2008).  With Lila Abu-Lughod and Faye Ginsburg he co-edited of Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (University of California Press, 2000).  Larkin’s research examines the introduction of media technologies – cinema, radio, digital media – into Nigeria and the religious, political, and cultural changes they bring about.  He has published widely on issues of technology and breakdown, piracy and intellectual property, the global circulation of cultural forms, infrastructure and urban space, sound studies, and Nigerian film (Nollywood).

Bruno Latour is now emeritus professor associated with the médialab and the Experimental Programme in Political Arts (SPEAP) of Sciences Po Paris. Since January 2018 he is fellow at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe for two years as well as professor at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. He is member of several academies and recipient of six honorary doctorates, as well as recipient of the Holberg Prize in 2013. He has written and edited more than twenty books and published more than one hundred and fifty articles.

Maximilian Lau is an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences, Geoengineering and Mining at the Technical University of Freiberg. His research and teaching spans biogeochemistry, earth system sciences and limnology. His projects explore the cycling of nutrients through inland water bodies such as lakes, reservoirs, streams, and wetlands, and the role of these systems in the global carbon cycle. He has undertaken research in boreal Sweden and Quebec, and within a range of temperate, tropical, and alpine environments, combining field-based observatory with modelling studies. He received a PhD in environmental chemistry from the University of Greifswald in 2016. Maximilian is a member of the global lake ecological observatory network (GLEON) and is an affiliate researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin.

Gregor Lax completed his thesis project “The ‘linear model of innovation’ in West Germany after World War II: A discourse analysis of the hierarchical relationship between the concepts of basic science and applied science” (2010–14) after being awarded a master’s degree in history, philosophy, and sociology of science from Bielefeld University and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (ÉHESS) in Paris (2008–10). Since 2014, he has been a research associate on the project “History of Atmospheric Chemistry and Biogeochemistry” at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC). Previously, he worked as a research associate on the “Facets of the History of the MPIC” project (MPIC, 2011–13) and in the History Department at Bielefeld University (2010–11), and as a student research fellow at the Flemish Government Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology. As well as having an interest in science, Gregor has studied music and is a jazz piano player.

Geneva Lebouf is an active tribal member with roles including the representative on the Native American Governor’s Counsel, Culture Camp Committee member, and on the membership committee of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe (PACIT) of Louisiana.

Jia-Hui Lee’s interest in odors leads him to study the anthropology, history, and science of olfaction. In thinking about smelling, Jia-Hui hopes to examine how critical understandings of queer theory, postcolonial, and science studies may help us understand sensory knowledges and experiences across species, time, and place. In particular, he is looking at human‒animal‒technical assemblages for biodetection, a practice that brings together humans and other animals to detect (usually by smell) threats to human lives, such as explosives and disease. Jia-Hui completed his Master’s degree as a Paul Williams Scholar in Politics and International Relations at the University of Cambridge, and his BA at Harvard University.

Sander van der Leeuw pioneered the application of the complex adaptive systems (CAS) approach to long-term human–environment dynamics. In the 1990s he led an interdisciplinary research project applying CAS to environmental problems spanning southern Europe—the first of its kind. In the 2000s, he co-directed a similar project on invention and innovation. He taught in Amsterdam, Leyden, Cambridge (UK), and Paris before becoming the founding director of Arizona State University’s interdisciplinary School of Human Evolution and Social Change. He is now a foundation professor in that school and in the School of Sustainability, and a director of ASU’s Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative. He is external professor of the Santa Fe Institute, and a corresponding member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2012, he was awarded the title “Champion of the Earth for Science and Innovation” by the United Nations Environment Programme.

Reinhold Leinfelder is presently based in Berlin (Humboldt University, 2006–12, Freie Universität Berlin since 2012), where he teaches and researches historical geology, sedimentary geology, invertebrate paleontology, geobiology, and science communication. His two special foci are the evolution, ecology, threats, and protection of coral reefs and oceans; and science communication and the interaction of culture and nature. He also is principal investigator on “The Anthropocene Kitchen” project at the Cluster of Excellence “Image, Knowledge, Gestaltung” at Humboldt University. Further institutional associations include natural history collections and museums. He has been director, then general director, of the Bavarian Natural History State Collections, and, from 2005 to 2010, he refurbished collections, research networks, exhibitions, and education at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin as the institution’s general director. Reinhold is a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Science and of the Advisory Council on Nature Conservation of the State of Berlin. He was a member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) from 2008 to early 2013. His current research interests focus on the concept of the Anthropocene, which combines natural, social, and cultural sciences, and the humanities to study the present state and future development of the Earth. He is an affiliated Carson Professor at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC), and assisted with the conceptualization and planning of the joint RCC-Deutsches Museum exhibition Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands(2014).

Stephanie LeMenager is a pioneer in the critical theory of petromodernity and a professor in the University of Oregon’s English Department. She co-founded the environmental humanities journal Resilience and has been a member of After Oil, a Canada-based research and public outreach collective, since the early 2010s. Her book Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (2014) sums up what it means to live in the age of hydrocarbons from a cultural theoretical position.

Katrina Burch is a philosopher, electronic musician, archaeologist, and sound artist. Performing under the name Yoneda Lemma, her complex harmonic layers dig into sound, shifting sonic elements from one fiction to another. She has exhibited her work at V4ULT, Berlin; Le Cube, Paris; and Tate Britain, London, among others. Burch has published with the Passive Collective, MIT Press, and Merve. She has collaborated recently with the collectives Laboria Cuboniks, d-n-e, LATRINE, INFRA, and Asounder.

Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research focuses on Marxist theories of aesthetics and culture, with a particular focus on the work of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. It deals with the poetics of science, European literary and visual modernism and avant-gardes, animation, color, and madness. Her books include Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry (Reaktion, 2005) and Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form (Reaktion, 2016), among others.

Boaz Levin is an artist, writer, occasional curator, and Co-founder of the Research Center for Proxy Politics in Berlin. He has presented his work internationally, most recently at the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; FIDMarseille; and School of Kyiv (Kyiv Biennial). Last Person Shooter (2014), co-directed with Adam Kaplan, was awarded the Ostrovsky Family Fund Award at the 2015 Jerusalem Film Festival. Regarding Spectatorship, an ongoing curatorial research project with Marianna Liosi, was shown at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, in 2015–16. Since October 2016, Levin has been a member of the Cultures of Critique research training group at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Most recently, Levin co-curated the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, in 2017.

Joshua Lewis is a research associate professor and Research Director at the Tulane ByWater Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. He has over a decade of research experience in New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta. He has previously held appointments at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology. Lewis’ research focuses on the role of water infrastructure in shaping ecological conditions in urban and other human-dominated environments. His research and community engagement seeks ecologically appropriate and socially equitable responses to water- and ecosystem-management dilemmas. He works closely with local governments, community organizations, and global partners to build interdisciplinary research programs. He currently leads an ecological monitoring program funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which investigates the ecological effects of large-scale green infrastructure in New Orleans.

George Lewis is Professor of American Music at Columbia University, New York, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Chicago, since 1971. Lewis’s work as composer, electronic performer, installation artist, and trombonist is documented on more than 150 recordings and has been presented by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Glasgow; Ensemble Dal Niente, Chicago; and International Contemporary Ensemble, New York and Chicago, among others. His book, A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (2008), received the American Book Award and the American Musicological Society’s Music in American Culture Award.

Li Li is a professor at the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS). His primary interest is climate change history across time-scales ranging from decades to millions of years. He is particularly concerned with how climate change and human activities will affect the eventual function of our earth system. After receiving his PhD in Quaternary geology in 1999, Li joined the State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology (LLGQ) and then the newly established IEECAS. Over the past 20 years, his work has ranged from the paleo-climate variation reconstruction with loess-paleosol-red clay sequences to global multi-scale monsoon dynamics. He is also the leader of a department responsible for international science and technological cooperation in IEECAS. In recent years, Li has contributed to spreading awareness of the Anthropocene concept in China through organizing the Anthropocene branch of the Geological Society of China, promoting research into Anthropocene markers, as well as the highlighting evidence of the Anthropocene’s impact upon various geomorphic units in China.

Susanna Lidström is a postdoctoral researcher at the Environmental Humanities Laboratory in the Division of History of Science, Technology, and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. She has a PhD in ecocriticism from King’s College London (2013) and MAs in modern English literature from University College Dublin (2007) and in comparative literature from Stockholm University (2006). Recent presentations include “Rising seas: facts, fictions and aquaria” at the workshop “Collecting the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change,” American Museum of National History, New York, October 2013 (with Anna Åberg), and at the conference “JPI CLIMATE Future Research Leaders Forum: Sustainable Transformations of Society in the Face of Climate Change: Promising Research Directions” in Oslo, June 2013. Susanna has conducted research visits to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, where she focused on literary nonfiction and marine environments (January–June 2015), and to the University of Cape Town as part of the project “Sustaining Future Urban Natures: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Contested Urban Ecologies” (October–November 2013).

Jacob Lindgren is a graphic designer, programmer and artist living in Chicago with an interest in the ways knowledge and visual language are circulated across and mediated by (hi)storytelling technologies. This usually happens through lectures, books, websites and other forms of publishing, and in conjunction with themes of self-organization and ecology.

Armin Linke is a photographer and filmmaker whose work is dedicated to documenting how humanity uses technologies and knowledge to transform the surface of the earth and adapt it to its needs. Through collaboration with other artists, researchers, and scientists, the narratives of his works address multiple discourses. His research on the Anthropocene and the natural, technological, and urban environment in which we live began with the Anthropocene Observatory project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and flowed into the exhibition Blind Sensorium (2019) in Matera. His works have been exhibited internationally at venues including Centre Pompidou, Paris, MAXXI, Rome, ZKM Karlsruhe, PAC Milan, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Centre de la photographie Genève, Matadero Madrid, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Taipei Biennial, and Istanbul Biennial. His installation Alpi won the special prize at the 2004 Venice Biennale of Architecture and Image Capital was awarded the Kubus. Sparda Art Prize in 2019. He is currently guest professor at ISIA Urbino, Arts at CERN guest artist and artist in residence at the Kunsthistorishes Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut.

Karen Litfin has been on the Political Science and Environmental Studies faculty at the University of Washington since 1991. Her books include Ozone Discourses: Science and Politics in Global Environmental Cooperation and The Greening of Sovereignty (1994). In her research and teaching, she endeavors to integrate the cognitive, emotive, and hands-on dimensions of sustainability. That commitment led her to write a book about her travels to ecovillages around the world: Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community (2014). Karen’s current research is on the pedagogical and practical value of contemplative practices for addressing global issues.

Lydia H. Liu is Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Her research interests include modern China, intercultural exchange, and the global transformation of the modern era. She writes about the international shift of words and theories as well as the evolution of writing, textuality, and media technology. Her contribution to this volume is an abridged and revised version of a book chapter from The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious (2010).

localStyle was founded in Amsterdam in 2000 by Marlena Novak and Jay Alan Yim. Their goal is to use the senses to trigger reassessment of existing situations, beginning in 2003 to address issues of climate change and resource extraction, and expanding since 2006 to focus on non-human others via themes as varied as the mating behavior of hermaphroditic marine flatworms, the sonification of electric fish from the Amazon, experimental Eurasian blackbird grammar, and the crisis facing coral reefs, whom they consider the voice of the Anthropocene. Their intermedia works—a practice that includes experimental 3D media, video, sound, interactive installations, live performance with electronics, audience participation, and site-specific sculpture—have been presented in museums, galleries, and alternative venues in more than forty cities worldwide. Festival presentations have included the National Art Museum of China’s (NAMOC) TransLife Triennial, STRP Festival, Visioni dal Futuro, Taipei Digital Art Festival, Ear Taxi Festival, Burning Man, and others.

Jonas Loh holds an MA in design interactions from the Royal College of Art, London, and a BA in interface design from the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam. As co-founder and designer at Studio NAND, Jonas directs various design projects spanning the fields of information visualization, interaction, and exhibition design. The non-client-oriented work of the studio reflects and discusses the impact of current and future technologies by creating design fictions based on technical props. Further, the studio is organizing workshops around topics such as DIY electronics and information visualization. The work of Studio NAND has been presented at exhibitions and public installations: for example, in the Siggraph Emerging Technologies exhibition in Los Angeles and at MoMA New York, V2 Rotterdam, the Venice Biennale, and Ars Electronica.

Herbert Lohner is an urban ecologist and consultant for nature conservation at BUND ‒ Friends of the Earth Germany ‒ in Berlin.

Giuseppe Longo is Research Director at the Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique (Emeritus) at the Cavaillès interdisciplinary center of Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (ENS). He was previously Research Director in mathematics, then in computer science, at ENS (1990–2012), and a professor of mathematical logic and computer science at the University of Pisa (1973–90). Longo spent three years in the US, including at the University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Carnegie Mellon University, as a researcher and visiting professor, and also spent several months at the University of Oxford and Utrecht University. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 papers and three books. He recently extended his research interests to include the epistemology of mathematics and theoretical biology.

Isaiah Lopaz is a transdisciplinary artist who works with photography, text, collage, and performance. Maintaining a socially engaged practice is essential to Lopaz who curates public conversations, facilitates workshops, writes about art and culture, lectures, and is a frequent media commentator. Themes and subjects central to his work include gender, race, sexuality, class, citizenship, Hoodoo, African and Afro-Diasporic histories, and cultures. Born into a working-class family in occupied Tongva territory in 1979, Lopaz is an African American of Geechee and Indigenous heritage. He identifies as queer and is currently a local of Berlin and Brussels.

Paulina Lopez has an international academic background and professional experience in the field of water, glaciers and climate change. After qualifying as a cartographer (Santiago, Chile), Lopez obtained a MSc in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (Toulouse, France), a MSc and a Ph.D. in Water Sciences (Montpellier, France) and a MA in International Relations (New Delhi, India). Currently, Lopez works at TERI – The Energy and Resources Institute, is a consultant in the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) – India and associate researcher in CSH. Her research focuses on water scarcity and the various political, socio-economic and environmental issues that emerge from it. Paulina addresses these problems from a multidisciplinary approach at the intersection of natural sciences and social sciences.

Chip Lord was trained as an architect and was a founding member of Ant Farm. Ant Farm worked at the radical fringe of architecture, producing inflatable structures, performative events, and nomadic design. A ferro-cement weekend house in Texas (House of the Century, 1973) won a Progressive Architecture design citation. In 1974 they built Cadillac Ranch, a work that is both public art and entropic sculpture. They also produced the video art classics Media Burn and The Eternal Frame in 1975. Chip works with video and video installations, often collaborating with other artists, including Easy Living with Mickey McGowan (1984) and Motorist, a feature-length video that was selected for the 1989 Whitney Biennial. His three-channel video sculpture Picture Windows (with McGowan) was commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and is in the collection of ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe. In 2005, a retrospective of his video work was shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arts Reina Sofía in Madrid. In 2011 he completed a public video-art piece for the Bradley Terminal at LAX Airport titled To & From LAX. He has produced a series of films about cities, including works made in Tokyo, Mexico City, Paris, San Francisco, and New York. New York Underwater is the latest work in this series, while Venice Underwater refers to both the aqua alta that Venice experiences periodically and the flood of tourists that seems to grow every year. The title also references the coming rise in sea levels.

Ivo Louro has a master’s degree in environmental engineering from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the New University of Lisbon, where his thesis was on “Environmental Dimensions of Advertising. Case study: LCA of an advertising campaign in the MUPI format.” He was affiliated as a research fellow with the National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (LNEG), where he worked on sustainable public procurement projects, and he also has experience with lifecycle assessments and the carbon footprints of products and services. Ivo is currently a research fellow at the Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology at the New University of Lisbon. He has become increasingly interested in the Anthropocene debate, namely in questions relating to the nature–culture dichotomy, consumer culture, planetary boundaries, and the safe operating space.

Wolfgang Lucht is co-chair of “Earth System Analysis,” one of four research domains at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). He is also the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in Sustainability Science at the Department of Geography at Humboldt University in Berlin. A physicist turned geo-ecologist and sustainability scientist, Wolfgang’s work addresses the future of the biosphere, the effects of climate and land-use change on global landscapes, the interaction between human societies and the Earth’s environment, sustainability, and Earth-system analysis. After his PhD in solar system physics (1993), he worked at the Department of Geography and Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University as a group leader contributing land surface science to NASA’s environmental monitoring sensor, MODIS. He has been leading PIK’s research groups on the global biosphere and on climate impacts and vulnerability. Among his active and previous functions are: membership of the European Space Science Committee; speaker of the German Climate Change Research Program (DEKLIM); member of the German National Committee on Global Change Research; and lead author on the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. He was recently appointed a member of the German Committee for Future Earth.

Jason Ludwig is a PhD student in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. His research interests converge around race and health, slow disaster, and possibilities for a radical politics of science and technology.

Sadie Luetmer works as a videographer and media maker based in Minneapolis. She completed an undergraduate in International Human Rights at the University of Minnesota and an MA in Sociology and Anthropology at the Central European University. Luetmer has spent the last three years making media in community with activists, artists, journalists, and researchers, exploring the strategic and cultural role of media in struggling for a more just world.

Jon Lund is a master woodworker, organic farmer, and environmental activist based in La Farge, WI. He has worked on creative projects for the Madison Children’s Museum, among many others.

Johannes Lundershausen is a political scientist and human geographer who is interested in how we can embrace global environmental change as a matter of concern. In the past, he has focused especially on the topic of climate change adaptation in the Global South—particularly in India and Tanzania. Having been trained in the UK, he is now a PhD researcher at the University of Tübingen in southern Germany, after a two-year break from academia. At Tübingen, he is thinking and writing about the multiple and ambiguous meanings of the Anthropocene and their impact on the broader sustainability discourse. He is particularly interested in the role that science plays in an Anthropocene society.

Francesco Luzzini (PhD, History of Science, University of Bari; BS/MS, Natural Sciences, University of Milan) is Affiliate Scholar in Department I of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG). His research focuses on natural philosophy, the Earth and environmental sciences, and medicine in early modern Europe, with forays into modern and contemporary contexts. He is Contributing Editor for the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science and Councilor for Earth Sciences History, the journal of the History of Earth Sciences Society. Among his previous positions, he was Mellon Fellow (2020) and Postdoctoral Fellow (2015–2016) at the University of Oklahoma, Visiting Fellow (2016) at MPIWG Berlin, and Research Fellow (2012, 2014) at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City. He taught history of biology, history of geology, and history of medicine at the universities of Milan and East Piedmont.

Dr. Donald MacKenzie is professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His work constitutes a crucial contribution to the field of Science and Technology Studies. MacKenzie’s current research is on the sociology of markets, focusing on automated trading, the use of mathematical models, and the evaluation and trading of bonds. MacKenzie has worked in the past on topics ranging from the sociology of nuclear weapons to the meaning of proof in the context of computer systems critical to safety or security.

Joana MacLean is a microbiologist interested in future ecologies and areas of research that allow the involvement of other speculative methodologies. As a PhD student at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, she is currently working on microbial communities in anthropogenic landscapes and plastic-polluted grounds. Her scientific concept as a microbiologist is based on the assumption that organisms are strongly attached to their surrounding geology and evolve through an intimate dialog with the material properties found in the lively surroundings of their habitat. Since 2017, both her artistic and biological research has focused on plastic as a neo-geological material and as a (micro)biological habitat for bacteria and fungi. Using molecular techniques as well as imaging and poetry, she explores future strategies of survival in the terrestrial plastisphere.

Mahrizal currently works for the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) as Provincial Coordinator AgFor project in southeast Sulawesi in Indonesia. His work mainly relates to agroforestry, forestry, smallholder farmers, and community development. He also works closely with about two thousand smallholder farmers and stakeholders. Mahrizal holds Master’s degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Arkansas, and in applied economics from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Prior to his employment at ICRAF, Mahrizal worked as a researcher at the University of Arkansas, with a local nongovernmental organization, as a member of field staff with the Irish Red Cross, and as a program assistant at the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) and Care International. Currently, he is conducting research on wild tree domestication, cocoa and agroforestry, and species priority for smallholder farmers. Mahrizal has received several awards over the last six years, including a Fulbright scholarship and a 2011 Honor from Who’s Who among Students in American Universities and Colleges, and he was a champion of the Asian Young Leaders Climate Forum in 2008 (British Council).

Stefan Maier is an artist and composer. His compositions, installations, and performances, explore the prospect of multi-modal listening. Maier’s recent work examines emergent sound technologies and the modes of listening which they might suggest. His compositions have been presented by Vancouver New Music, Experimental Studio of Südwestrundfunk (SWR), and Nouvele Ensemble Moderne, Montreal. Among other venues, he has exhibited at Inter Arts Center Malmö, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, and Forecast Festival at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Antonia Majaca is a curator and research leader at the IZK Institute for Contemporary Art at the Graz University of Technology, where her work focuses on the emergent forms of art-based transdisciplinary investigation, cognitive mapping, and sharable knowledge forms. Her three-year project “The Incomputable,” on politics of irreducibility and epistemology of art in the age of algorithmic governmentality, funded by FWF, the Austrian National Science Fund, is currently being developed through an international research platform involving Graz University of Technology, Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Naples.

Chowra Makaremi is a tenured researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. Her research focuses on issues of security, migration control, the anthropology of law and the state, and processes of subjectivation at the margins. She completed a PhD in Anthropology at the Université de Montréal in 2010 based on an ethnography of border confinement for undocumented migrants in France. Her current research on delinquency courts in France reflects on the everyday experience of justice, policies of delinquency repression, punishment, and the moral economy of adjudication. She teaches at the University Paris Est-Créteil and is the author of Le cahier d’Azi: Au cœur de la révolution iranienne (2011).

Annapurna Mamidipudi recently completed her doctoral thesis and postdoctoral work at Maastricht University and is currently a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. She was trained as an engineer before she established and worked for over fifteen years at an NGO that supported vulnerable craft livelihoods. Her research interests include traditional craft in the contemporary world, particularly handloom weaving as embodied knowledge, and the politics of sustainable development. She participated in the Global Social Business Incubator program of Santa Clara University (2009) and was a visiting fellow at the University of Chicago’s Neubauer Collegium (2016).

Born in the small university town of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, Dariya Manova went to a foreign language high school. After learning German, English, and Russian there, she did a six-month school exchange in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. During her three-year bachelor’s degree in German literature and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin, she practiced her passion for literature and philosophy; both this, and her master’s degree were financed by a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship. Her BA thesis concentrated on the mixture of spatial theory, literature, and everyday journalism in Siegfried Kracauer’s texts for the Frankfurter Zeitung during the Weimar Republic. Her thesis, a four-month internship at the publishing house diaphanes, and also her teaching assistant position at Matala de Mazza’s chair for German literature, were all a great motivation to study for a master’s in literature. Organizing a student lecture series at the university and participating in both an international summer academy on the concept of minor utopias and a research colloquium acquainted Dariya with the Anthropocene discourse. It became central to her upcoming master’s thesis, whose main topics are energy resources (coal and oil) and infrastructure networks in the bestselling adventure novels of the German-Mexican writer B. Traven (1882–1969).

Barbara Marcel is an artist and filmmaker interested in the cultural roots of nature and the troubled heritage of colonial imagery. Marcel graduated in Film Studies in Rio de Janeiro, holds an MA from the Art in Context Institute at the Universität der Künste Berlin, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar as a research fellow of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Her work has been shown at the Berlinische Galerie; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Galeria Metropolitana, Santiago de Chile; Savvy Contemporary Berlin; Broad Art Museum, Michigan; CeNak – Zoological Museum Hamburg, Athens Biennale, among others.

Julia Mariko Jacoby is a historian of science with a special interest in environmental history. Her research focuses on the history of modern Japan and is informed by methods of global history. Currently, she pursues a PhD project on Disaster Preparedness in Japan and Global Transfer of Knowledge 1890-1970 at the University of Freiburg and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. In this research, she looks at the impact of natural disasters on Japanese society and the implementation of strategies against them, thereby tracing the development of the modern disaster preparedness system in Japan and situating it in the context of global expert knowledge production and the circulation of disaster related knowledge.

Dejan Marković is a visual artist, researcher, and coordinator of the project ‘The Incomputable,’ funded by the Austrian National Science Fund (FWF) and hosted at IZK Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz University of Technology. In long-term and transdisciplinary projects he brings together different media, formats, and working methods. By means of installative and discursive works he questions and casts light on complex artistic, social, and political relations.

Agata Marzecova has a long-standing interest in nature—both the geophysical realm and the cultural and historically changing understandings of what is natural. She works as a researcher at the Institute of Ecology at Tallinn University in Estonia, while completing her PhD thesis in paleoecology. In her work, she uses methods from analytical geochemistry to study lake sediments in order to understand the past environmental changes in lakes and their surrounding landscapes. Previously she has studied photography, exploring the intersections between nature, visual images, and arts. For example, influenced by G. Batchen’s book Burning with Desire, her BA thesis explored mutually constitutive histories of the photographic medium and the different ideas of nature. Also, she has recently contributed to a conference paper for Helsinki Photomedia 2014, which dealt with current institutional and curatorial framings of the “environmental crisis.”

D. A. Masolo is a native of Kenya and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. Professor Masolo teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, covering a wide range in the traditional Western and non-Western fields. Because of his international visibility and expertise in African philosophy, Professor Masolo travels widely in response to invitations to gives talks and to serve as external examiner for MA dissertations and PhD theses. His own work has been the focus of international philosophical symposia. His publications include Philosophy and Cultures (1981) co-edited with Henry Odera Oruka, African Philosophy in Search of Identity(1994), and African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry (2000) co-edited with the late Ivan Karp, then of Emory University in Atlanta. His latest book, Self and Community in a Changing World (2010), has received critical acclaim and was the focus of discussion in a 2014 special issue of the philosophy journal, Quest.

Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga is an associate professor of science, technology, and society at MIT. He is the first graduate of the University of Michigan’s Science, Technology and Society (STS) program and one of only a few African scholars trained in, and publishing at the intersection of African history and STS. He has published many articles and book chapters, including “Vermin Beings.” He is the author of Transient Workspaces: Technologies of everyday innovation in Zimbabwe (MIT Press, 2014), and has just finished his second book, tentatively entitled “What Does Science Mean from Africa? A view from Dzimbahwe,” and an edited volume entitled “What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?,” both of which are under review with MIT Press. His next two book projects focus on Chimurenga, Zimbabwe’s war of independence, as a laboratory in which the colonial state and the oppressed were agents in the convergence and blending of indigenous and incoming sciences, technologies, and innovations.

Chaz Maviyane-Davies has been described by the UK’s Designmagazine as “the guerrilla of graphic design.” For more than three decades the award-winning, controversial designer’s powerful work has taken on issues of consumerism, health, politics, social responsibility, the environment, and human rights. He has studied (an MA at the Central School of Art and Design in London) and worked in Britain, Japan, Malaysia, the US, and Zimbabwe, his country of origin. From 1983 until recently, he ran The Maviyane-Project, a renowned design studio in Harare, Zimbabwe. Due to adverse political conditions in his homeland and the confrontational nature of his work, Chaz moved to the USA in 2001, where he is currently a professor of design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. As well as being published in numerous books, international magazines, and newspapers, his work has been exhibited extensively and is included in several permanent collections at various galleries. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Jennifer McBride studies Archeology & Native American Studies at Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville (SIUE).

Francine M. G. McCarthy is Professor of Earth Sciences and also appointed to the Department of Biological Sciences and the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre at Brock University, Ontario. She is also Research Associate in Natural History at the Royal Ontario Museum and a voting member of the Anthropocene Working Group. Her research focuses on using microfossils to reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions (climate, hydrology, water quality, anthropogenic impact, food-web interactions), particularly in meromictic lakes which are excellent archives of continental environments. McCarthy’s work has primarily concentrated on lakes in eastern North America, the most iconic being Walden Pond, made famous by the naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau. She is leading the effort to investigate the potential of the varved sequence in the hydrologically unique Crawford Lake to define the Anthropocene. This venture has led McCarthy to explore the broader aspects of this topic, and to engage with artists and researchers in the social sciences and humanities as well as community members, including Indigenous leaders, in addition to her fellow natural and physical scientists. She is a voting member of the Anthropocene Working group, which explores formal definitions of the current human dominated geological epoch.

Saundi McClain-Kloeckener is a teacher at the St. Charles Community College and a member of the Native Women’s Care Circle, a prayer group in the Cahokia region. She teaches rock climbing and challenge courses and works as an educational consultant, community medical and social work navigator. McClain-Kloeckener is a traditional Native American Jingle dancer and participates in pow wows and cultural activities including water walks on the Mississippi and the Missouri River.

JR McNeill is Professor of History and University Professor at Georgetown University. He has held two Fulbright awards, and research fellowships from Guggenheim, MacArthur, and the Woodrow Wilson Center. His books include The Mountains of the Mediterranean (1992); Something New Under the Sun (2000), winner of two prizes, and listed by the London Times among the ten best science books ever written (despite not being a science book), and translated into nine languages; The Human Web (2003), translated into seven languages; and Mosquito Empires (2010), which won the Beveridge Prize from the AHA; and The Great Acceleration (2016). In 2010 he was awarded the Toynbee Prize for “academic and public contributions to humanity.” He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and former President of the American Society for Environmental History. In 2017 he was elected President of the American Historical Association.

Eden Medina is an associate professor of informatics and computing, affiliated associate professor of law, and adjunct associate professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research and teaching address the social, historical, and legal dimensions of our increasingly data-driven world, including the relationship of technology to human rights and free expression, the relationship between political innovation and technological innovation, and the ways that human and political values shape technological design. Medina’s writings also use science and technology as a way to broaden understandings of Latin American history and the geography of innovation. She is the author of Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile (2011) and the co-editor of Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America (2014).

Ben Mendelsohn is a PhD student in media, culture, and communication at New York University, where he focuses on urban infrastructure, ecology, and experimental film. He is co-directing a documentary about human earthmoving and the Anthropocene, and developing a dissertation project about coastal land reclamation in Lagos, Mumbai, and the Mississippi River Delta.

Margarida Mendes’s research explores the overlap between infrastructure, ecology, experimental film, and sound practices, investigating environmental transformations and their impact on societal structures and cultural production. She is interested in exploring alternative modes of education and political resilience through her curatorial practice and activism. She was part of the curatorial team of the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), and 4th Istanbul Design Biennial (2018). In 2019 she launched the exhibition series Plant Revolution! which explores different narratives of technological mediation of the interspecies encounter, and in  2016 she curated Matter Fictions, publishing a joint reader with Sternberg Press. She is consultant for environmental NGOs working on marine policy and deep sea mining and has directed several educational platforms, such as escuelita, an informal school at Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo – CA2M, Madrid; The Barber Shop project space in Lisbon dedicated to transdisciplinar research; and the ecological inquiry curatorial research platform The World In Which We Occur/Matter in Flux. She is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London and a frequent collaborator of the online channel for exploratory video and documentary reporting Inhabitants-tv.org.

Mekonnen Mesghena is a policy analyst and head of the Migration & Diversity department at the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, a think-tank affiliated with the German political party BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN. Mesghena’s work focuses on policies such as governance of migration, citizenship, social mobility, diversity and minorities’ participation in society and politics.

Germain Meulemans is currently doing a joint-PhD at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Liège, funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS-Belgium). His research focuses on how people collaborate with materials and nonhuman organisms in understanding, constructing, and maintaining soils in cities. From this starting point, he investigates the potential relations between knowing and making, or science and engineering in the Anthropocene. He is currently doing fieldwork in and around Paris with ecological engineers engaged in constructing soils from scratch. He is part of the “Knowing from the Inside” project (University of Aberdeen, funded by the European Research Council), and, for 2014, he was an invited PhD student at the newly created Paris Institute for Ecology and Environmental Science. Germain’s main research interests are “new materialisms,” ecological sciences, the anthropology of modernity, knowledge practices, and science fiction.

Since January 2013, Enrico Giustiniano Micheli has attended the PhD School in Anthropology and Epistemology of Complexity at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He holds a degree in physics with astrophysics (University of Trieste, graduated 2002) and two postgraduate qualifications—an MA in science communication (from SISSA, the International School for Advanced Studies, 2003–04), and a teacher training qualification (University of Trieste, 2007–08). During his nine years as a high school mathematics and physics teacher, he designed curricula for two different national education systems (Slovenia, 2003‒08, and Italy, 2008‒12) and various courses to give the students a challenging program that included their specific applicative needs and also frontier topics such as high-energy

Myriel Milićević is an artist, interaction designer, and professor in the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. She explores the hidden interconnections between people and their natural, social, and technical environments and inquires into spaces of impossibilities, the re-alignment of perspectives, and co-existence with other beings. These explorations are mostly of a participatory and collaborative nature, taking the form of practical-utopian models, processes, mappings and stories: turning a city’s energy leaks into power sources, drawing counter-cycles to the nitrogen spills in our landscapes, guiding butterflies to new meadows in the Rocky Mountains, planting and regrowing political systems, playing biopiracy through Crops & Robbers, telling tales with people in the hills of Thailand, or failing in the attempt to draw a river.

Sabine Minninger is a policy advisor on climate change with the Brot für die Welt aid agency, dealing with global warming and development issues. She has been following the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change process together with partner organizations in the Global South since 2008. While her main focus is on climate justice, adaptation and climate finance, Minninger is currently involved in addressing climate-induced loss and damages.

Robert Mitchell is the Marcello Lotti Professor of English and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory at Duke University. He is author of three monographs, including Bioart and the Vitality of Media (University of Washington Press, 2010) and Experimental Life: Vitalism in romantic science and literature (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), and co-author of the DVD-ROM Biofutures: Owning body parts and information (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). He is also co-editor of several essay collections, including Releasing the Image: From literature to new media (Stanford University Press, 2011), and co-editor of the book series “In Vivo: The cultural mediations of biomedical science” (University of Washington Press). He has published many articles in humanities, social science, and natural science journals, including Science, The American Journal of Bioethics, and Biosocieties.

Navjot Altaf Mohamedi has been engaged with installations and site-specific works that negotiate various disciplinary boundaries. The essence of her imagery comes out of her theoretical and methodological innovation, combined with deeply engaged readings of historical and contemporary art, film, and cultural theory. Navjot works with people from different disciplines and simultaneously since 1997 has been working in collaboration with indigenous artists and community members on ongoing “Nalpar” hand-pump sites and “Pilla Gudi” (temples for children)—public art projects in Chhattisgarh, Central India. Her methodology ascertains the interactive aspects of collaboration: the work emerges out of an extended dialogical interaction, and alters the conventional relationship between the participants/viewer and the work of art. “The process has helped me address my need for ‘aesthetic paradigms which stress the importance of perpetual reinvention and engaging into grounds on which one is not familiar’ … Gradually moving towards transdisciplinarity … making me realize the significance of transdisciplinary work whose nature is not merely to cross disciplinary boundaries but to rearrange our mental landscape.” Navjot has participated in national and international artists’ workshops and residencies, and has presented papers at seminars in India, Japan, Bangkok, the UK, USA, Canada, and Germany. She is one of the founder members of the center “Dialogue—Interactive Artists Association” in Kondagaon, and has been organizing seminars and discussions.

Wendi Moore O’Neal is a cultural worker, activist, facilitator, and educator, Wendi Moore-O’Neal works to connect the mission, vision, and values of social and economic justice groups with how everyday work gets done. She uses spiritually grounded practices, visual art, story circles, and song sharing as tools for growing inspiration and building democratic process. Born and raised in New Orleans, she has worked in local, regional and national organizations; but her heart’s work is rooted in the Deep South of the US, especially the kind of organizing that happens around kitchen tables and good food. In 1991, Wendi helped found one of the first documented out lesbian and bisexual women’s alliances at a historically Black college, Spelman, in Atlanta, GA– which continues to exist today as the group Afrekete. Some groups Wendi has worked with include: Black Youth Project 100, Amnesty International, Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children, Southerners on New Ground, The Highlander Research and Education Center, INCITE! Women of Color and Transpeople of Color Against Violence, and Junebug Productions’ Free Southern Theater Institute.

Gean Moreno is Director of the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at ICA Miami, and part of the institution’s curatorial team. He has organized exhibitions dedicated to the work of Hélio Oiticica, Terry Adkins, Shuvinai Ashoona, Larry Bell, Ettore Sottsass, and others. Moreno is also co-director of [NAME] Publications and the “Migrant Archives” initiative. He has contributed texts to various catalogues and publications, including e-flux journal, Kaleidoscope, and Art in America. He was on the Advisory Board of the 2017 Whitney Biennial and the 2018 Creative Time Summit. He edited Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art, an anthology that Verso released in 2019. He is currently Visiting Associate Professor at Florida International University.

I have just submitted my thesis of PhD in Environmental Science at the University of Ghana. My research project was about Climate Change and Food Security in my country Tanzania, the case of Western Bagamoyo. My PhD research project was primarily based on looking the extent to which climate change has influence on agricultural activities hence food security among the rural households. The main focus was looking food security beyond production in the context of climate change. Another important part of the project was to look at the non-climatic factors in relation to how they affect food security among rural communities. I used trans-disciplinary methodologies in my project, I used climate modelling and regression models as well as other quantitative and qualitative analysis to get my results. I am currently interested in looking forward to post-doctoral, fellowships in the field of Environmental Science in European countries in order to advance my career profession as a researcher.

Tadzio Müller is a political scientist, climate justice activist and translator living in Berlin where he works for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. His research focuses on strategies of social transformation in social movements working on questions of climate justice and the German ‘Energiewende.’

Janek Müller works as a project developer and artistic consultant for projects between science, art, and discourse. A dramaturge and event designer at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt since 2011, he has worked as a curator for the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Kunstfest Weimar, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, ACC Galerie Weimar, and Europäische Kulturhauptstadt Gera among others, and as a curatorial advisor for the Kulturstiftung des Bundes.

Finn is a doctoral student at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Humboldt University Berlin. He studied physics with a minor in philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona. Already during his studies, he developed a passion for interdisciplinary work between natural and social sciences that made him organize seminars on science-society interactions and interdisciplinary colloquia on the philosophy of economics. Currently, he works on mathematical modeling of human-nature interactions with a focus on land-use change in the Brazilian Amazon and the application of concepts from network and complexity science to questions of sustainable development and Earth system analysis.

Sam Muñoz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences with a cross-appointment in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. He obtained a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he was advised by Jack Williams, and then held a postdoctoral position in the Coastal Systems Group at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research uses geological, historical, and numerical approaches to understand environmental variability and its influence on people.

Michelle Murphy is a science and technology studies scholar whose research concerns feminist and decolonial approaches to environmental justice, reproduction, and data studies. Their current research focuses on the relationships between pollution, colonialism, and technoscience on the lower Great Lakes. At the University of Toronto, Murphy is Professor of History and Women & Gender Studies, a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Science & Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice, as well as Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit, which hosts an Indigenous Environmental Data Justice lab. They are Métis from Winnipeg. Murphy is the author of three books: Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty (2006), Seizing the Means of Reproduction (2012), and The Economization of Life (2017), all published by Duke University Press.

Tahani Nadim is a sociologist of science and junior professor for socio-cultural anthropology in the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in a joint appointment with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. She is a member of the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH). Her research focuses on the datafication of natures and its consequences. She heads the department ‚Humanities of nature’ at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.

Rita Natálio was born in Lisbon in 1983. She lives in Lisbon/Portugal and São Paulo/Brazil. She studied Choreographic Arts, holds a Master’s degree in Psychology and is currently preparing a double doctorate in Art Studies and Anthropology with an FCT scholarship. She has been working with writing, dramaturgy and performance, combining the creation of texts and shows with academic studies in anthropology and arts. Her poetry book Artesanato has been nominated for the prize “Prémios Novos 2016” and she published Human plants in 2017, together with (não)edições. She is primarily active in the fields of dramaturgy and accompaniment of artistic and research projects. Rita has assisted training/research projects around Real Time Composition, and has taught in the Choreographic Creation and Dance Research Training Program at Forum Dança in Lisbon. She collaborates in documentation projects connected with performing arts.

Astrida Neimanis is a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney and a Key Researcher with the Sydney Environment Institute. She is Associate Editor of the journal Environmental Humanities (Duke UP), Co-Founder of the Environmental Humanities Collaboratory at Linkoping University (SE), an Affiliated Researcher at LiU’s Posthumanities Hub (TEMA Gender), and Past President of the Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada (alecc.ca). Her research interests include posthuman feminisms, experimental writing methods, nature/culture, water, climate change, environmental humanities, environmental justice, embodiment, (bio)coloniality, biotechnologies, and feminist STS. She is particularly interested in the common and queer intersections of these things.

Sara Nelson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where her dissertation combines critical political economy, science studies, and ecology to explore how and why scientists, policymakers, and private investors are working to make ecosystems function as natural capital. Through archival research, interviews, and ethnographic research, she seeks to understand how and why ecosystems have come to be understood as providers of “services”—such as flood mitigation, carbon sequestration, or even aesthetic pleasure—and how investment in ecosystem services is becoming a corporate strategy. How is the emerging ecosystem service economy being built, and how is the value of nature being negotiated and redefined through ecosystem services-based research and policy? What types of labor underpin the ecosystem service economy? What are the implications for environmental politics as ecosystems are reinvented (discursively and materially) as “resilient” infrastructure for climate change adaptation? Sara has participated in recent conferences and workshops, including: the Society for 21st Century Studies conference, “Anthropocene Feminism,” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 10–12, 2014, where she presented the paper “The labor of social-ecological reproduction: consolidating the ecosystem service economy”; “Dimensions of Political Ecology” conference, University of Kentucky-Lexington, February 27 to March 1, 2014, at which she took part in the session “Breaking Ground in Political Ecology”; the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April 9–13, 2013—she was a discussant on the session “Re-evaluating the Anthropocene, Resituating Anthropos: Politics of the Anthropocene II” and co-organized with Garnet Kindervater the panel “Resilience and Critical Practice”; the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts workshop on the theme “Postnatural,” Notre Dame, Indiana, October 3–5, 2013, where she presented the paper “Service ecologies: rent and finance beyond the knowledge economy”; and Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, February 24–28, 2012, with the paper “Adapting to climate change: from resilience to ‘transformability’.”

Angi Nend sets up scenarios and what he calls “performative facilities” using a wide variety of formats and media including installations, lecture-performances, live action role-playing games, happenings, interventions, and concerts. Alongside his self-organized and more ephemeral environments, his works have been shown at institutions such as Substitut, Berlin; De Appel, Amsterdam; and Connecting Space, Hong Kong. Nend was recently invited to present a scenario for the durational concert Social Dissonance by Mattin, at Documenta 14 in Kassel.

Gerald Nestler is an artist and writer who combines theory and post-disciplinary conversation with video, installation, performance, text, code, graphics, sound, and speech. He explores what he calls the derivative condition of contemporary social relations and its paradigmatic financial models, operations, processes, narratives, and fictions. He is currently working on an “aesthetics of resolution” that maps counterfictions and counterimaginations for “renegade activism,” which revolves around the demonstration as a combined artistic, technological, social, and political practice. Nestler holds a practice-based PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Sybille Neumeyer is an interdependent artist whose work focuses on polyphonic narration, more-than-human ecologies, bio-cultural diversity, and environmental issues. Her practice addresses the multiplicity of ways of relating—to the world and each other—through various media, including moving image, installation, narrative cartographies, as well as participatory formats, often created in dialogue and collaboration with a diverse range of knowledge holders. Her current projects are interested in the interstices of media(ted) ecologies, more-than-human-sensing, and modes of re-membering, and how these might recalibrate ways of being in dialogue with the world. Neumeyer’s work has been shown internationally and her projects have been supported by institutions and artist residencies including Akademie Schloss Solitude, ARCUS Project, Wellcome Trust, ZKM, IASS Potsdam, and MARKK – Museum am Rothenbaum. She is a member of interdisciplinary research collectives such as textîles and collection<>ecologies and is currently a fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie. 

In 2006, Marta Niepytalska graduated from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, where she studied American cultural studies. She is currently working on her PhD thesis, entitled “An Eco-Biography of the Salton Sea,” supervised by Christof Mauch of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. This study will identify and examine cultural and ecological transformations of the Salton Sea, in order to provide an extensive biography. Since the Salton Sea is a man-made lake, the various concepts related to the Anthropocene are highly relevant.

Daniel Niles is a human-environmental geographer (with a PhD from Clark University) at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) in Kyoto, Japan. He is interested in what people mean, and the landscapes they envision, when they talk about “sustainable agriculture.” He has served as visiting researcher at the National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka, Japan) in 2008, and as assistant (2009) and associate (2014) professor at RIHN. Publications include “Slow Places, Fast Movements and the Making of Contemporary Rurality” (in Critical Food Issues: Society, culture and ethics, Praeger Press, 2009).

Marlena Novak is an Associate Professor, Adjunct at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in the Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation; in 2018 she received the Marion Kryczka Excellence in Teaching Award. Prior to that, she served as Associate Director of Northwestern’s Animate Arts Program, and has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois Chicago and visiting professor at the University of New Mexico. She has been a visiting artist at the University of Chicago, Cleveland Institute of Art, Amsterdams Instituut voor Schilderkunst, Pädagogische Hochschule (St. Gallen, Switzerland), and a resident at the Creativity and Cognition Research Studios (Loughborough, UK). She has received grants from the Arts Council of Great Britain, Illinois Arts Council, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, and the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. She was educated at Carnegie-Mellon and Northwestern Universities. Her work is included in public (the Corcoran in Washington, DC and the Mondriaanhuis in Amersfoort in The Netherlands) and private collections in Europe and the USA, and has been presented extensively in solo and group exhibitions in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. In 2018 she was an artist in residence in Krems, Austria.

For over two decades, Patrick Nunnally’s work has focused on understanding and enhancing the connections that people and communities have with places they value. Nunnally is an environmental historian by training, and is broadly experienced in gathering interdisciplinary teams to examine Mississippi River-related subjects. As a teacher, program designer, researcher, and practitioner, Nunnally has integrated knowledge drawn from social and natural sciences with artistic forms of community expression. His work at the University of Minnesota has emphasized community engagement in teaching and program development, and emerging use of social media to share knowledge across disparate academic disciplines and professional practices.

Abbéy Odunlami Ph.D. is a theoretician and curator specializing in contemporary urban history and visual culture. He lectures on urbanism and critical theory in the Contemporary Practices & Photography Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Odunlami’s research analyzes the socio-political nature of contemporary urban society through investigating the impact of art and various forms of cultural production, hierarchical structures within conspicuous consumption practices, and postcolonial globality. Through this work, he examines the interdependencies which form the set of conditions that inform the built environment.

Uche Okpara is currently a PhD research student in environmental sustainability at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, and an assistant lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nigeria. He was a doctoral research fellow on the Social Science Research Council’s “Next Generation” doctoral program (2013–14) and completed his MSc in natural resources and sustainable environmental management at the University of Greenwich, UK (2010), following a Bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from the University of Nigeria. Among Uche’s awards are a Travel grant in May 2014 by the United States Social Science Research Council to present a research paper at the International Climate Change Adaptation Conference in Fortaleza, Brazil, and in February 2013 he won the 2013 African College/University of Leeds Field Research Support bursary for Africa Sustainable Agriculture Research. Conference presentations include: “Does contextual vulnerability matter in climate change and conflict discourses?,” International Conference on Climate, Land Use and Conflict in Northern Africa, Lubeck, Germany (September, 2014); “Rethinking land and security relations under climate change,” Caux Dialogue on Land, Lives and Peace, Caux, Switzerland (July 2014); “Conflicts about water in Lake Chad: are environmental, vulnerability and security issues linked?,” 3rd International Climate Change Adaptation Conference, Fortaleza, Brazil (May 2014); “The role of university education in adapting Nigerian agriculture to climate change,” 1st International Conference on Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Agricultural Management in Nigeria (August 2011); and “Measuring climate change in the Arctic: narratives from agricultural economics perspectives,” Workshop on Applied Meteorology and Climatology at the Natural Resources Institute, School of Science, University of Greenwich (December 2009).

Lissette Olivares is a transmedia storyteller who is committed to speculative feminism, eco-social justice, and activist futures. Since 2003, she has worked in a collaborative transnational platform devoted to arts activist research known as Sin Kabeza Productions (Headless Productions). Currently, Sin Kabeza Productions is developing a range of projects dedicated to a serious engagement with multispecies communities through a research platform focusing on “Speculative Design and Architecture for a Post-Anthropos and Towards a Post-Anthropocene”; Sin Kabeza Productions are working on this as research fellows in residence at Terreform ONE, a socio-ecologic nonprofit organization operating out of Brooklyn’s innovative New Lab.

Julian Oliver is a critical engineer and artist based in Berlin. His work and lectures have been presented at many international museums, galleries, electronic art events, and conferences, including Tate Modern, London; Transmediale, Berlin; Chaos Computer Congress, Berlin; Ars Electronica, Linz; and Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo. Oliver has received several awards, most notably the distinguished Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project Newstweek (with Daniil Vasiliev). He is an advocate of free and open source software and a supporter of and contributor to initiatives that reinforce rights of privacy and anonymity in networked and other technologically mediated domains.

Pietro Daniel Omodeo is a cultural historian of science and a professor of historical epistemology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His research focuses on science, philosophy, and literature in early modernity, as well as on historical epistemology. He has been working on the ontological and epistemological premises of medieval and early modern natural philosophy and science up to the rise of mechanic visions of the world. Moreover, he has been investigating the history of cosmology and physics, in particular, post-Copernican astronomy, mechanics, and physico-mathematics. His inquiry into the history of science expands on the wide cultural interconnections of early scientific debates as well as on their socio-institutional embedment. His work on historical epistemology focuses on political epistemology along Gramscian lines of investigation. It comprises a critical assessment of the agendas underlying the historiography of science. His publications include Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance: Reception, Legacy, Transformation (2014), and Political Epistemology: The Problem of Ideology in Science Studies (2019).

Michael Orr is Communications Director at the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) in Baton Rouge, a community based not-for-profit organization that is determined to provide support to individuals and communities facing environmental problems in the state of Louisiana. He earned a BA from Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, and joined LEAN after years of working in the for-profit sector.

Marylee Orr is Executive Director of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) in Baton Rouge, a community based not-for-profit organization that is committed to resolving the environmental struggles of Louisiana. Orr began her advocacy work in 1984 when she organized a group called “Mothers Against Air Pollution.” Through the perspective of a concerned parent, Orr became educated about the air quality problems facing Baton Rouge and the impacts they could have on sensitive populations. This engagement also opened her eyes to the injustices faced by minority communities within Louisiana’s industrial corridor. Since 1986, when Orr co-founded LEAN, her work over three decades has focused on using environmental challenges as an empowerment opportunity to not only solve health and safety issues but also address the fundamental imbalances facing minority communities across Louisiana. Her work has been widely recognized and repeatedly awarded.

Philipp Oswalt has been a professor in architectural theory and design at the University of Kassel since 2006. Before he founded his office in Berlin, in 1998, he worked for the Office for Metropolitan Archi- tecture (OMA)/Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam. As visiting professor, he has been teaching design at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität (BTU) Cottbus. He is co-founder of the European project “Urban Catalyst,” an interdisciplinary platform addressing the radical processes of transformation in cities and landscapes; co-initiated the “ZwischenPalastNutzung”; was co-director of “Volkspalast 2004” at Palast der Republik in Berlin; and curated “Shrinking Cities,” an interdisciplinary project at the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. As both author and editor, he has worked for the architectural magazine Arch+ and has published widely on urban planning and architecture.

Liv Østmo is one of the founders and current Dean of the Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Kautokeino, Norway, where she researches and lectures on the subject of multicultural understanding. For the last eight years, Østmo has worked with traditional Sámi knowledge and she is currently working on putting the finishing touches on a methodology book about the documentation of this knowledge.

James P. M. Syvitski is Executive Director of the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS) at the University of Colorado Boulder. From 2011 to 2016, he chaired the International Council for Science’s International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), which provides essential scientific leadership and knowledge of the Earth system to help guide society toward a sustainable pathway during rapid global change. His specialty is the global flux of water and sediment (river and ocean borne) and its trends in the Anthropocene. He works at the forefront of computational geosciences, including sediment transport, land-ocean interactions, and Earth-surface dynamics.

José Augusto Pádua is Full Professor of Brazilian Environmental History at the Institute of History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and co-directs the Laboratory of History and Nature. He holds a BA in History, a M.Sc and a PhD in Political Science and a post-doctoral fellowship in History.  From 2010 to 2015, he was President of the Brazilian Association of Research and Graduate Studies on Environment and Society. He was a fellow of the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society (Munich).  He was part of the team that designed the Museum of Tomorrow (Rio de Janeiro, 2016) and he is still a member of its scientific board. As expert in Environmental History and Politics he delivers lectures, courses and participates in field work in more than 40 countries. He publishes regularly in Brazil and abroad. His most recent works are J. A. Pádua, J. Soluri and C. Leal, eds., A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America, New York: Berghahn, 2018 and J. A. Pádua, “Brazil in the history of the Anthropocene” in Liz-Rejane Issberner, Philippe Léna, eds., Brazil in the Anthropocene Conflicts between predatory development and environmental policies, New York: Routledge, 2017.

Amela Parcic is an artist and designer whose research interests include transdisciplinary practice, ephemeral architectures, and the politics of belonging. She holds a Masters Degree in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and a BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute, New York. Originally from Serbia, she has lived and exhibited work in Croatia, Chile, Czech Republic, Germany, and the Netherlands. In New York City, she was a mentee in the New York Immigrant Artist Project and a long-term art resident at Flux Factory in Queens. Amela is currently teaching introductory design courses in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University St.Louis. For Field Station 3: Anthropocene Vernacular, she is organizing the installation of a central hub space at the Luminary on Cherokee Street in St. Louis.

Luciana Parisi is a reader in Cultural Theory, Chair of the PhD program at the Department of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, and co-director of the Digital Culture Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on cybernetics, information theory and computation, complexity and evolutionary theories and the technocapitalist investment in artificial intelligence, biotechnology and nanotechnology. Her books include Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (2004) and Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space (2013). She is currently researching the history of automation and the philosophical consequences of logical thinking in machines.

Andy Parker is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, where his research focuses on the governance and politics of solar geoengineering. Before joining the IASS in August 2014, he spent two years as a research fellow in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and four years as a senior policy advisor at the Royal Society. Leading the Society’s policy work on climate change and energy, he was in charge of the production of the report Geoengineering the Climate: Science, governance and uncertainty (The Royal Society, 2009), and project director for the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI). He was also a member of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s expert working group on geoengineering, and as the lead coordinator of SRMGI he has run geoengineering outreach meetings around Asia and Africa. Previously, Andy researched and wrote on human security for the Canadian government and worked in home energy efficiency. He has an MSc in international policy analysis from the University of Bath and a BSc in psychology from the University of Warwick (both UK).

Dr. Lisa Parks is professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, and previously worked as professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara (1998-2016). An interdisciplinary scholar rooted in the humanities, Parks’ research is focused in three areas: satellite technologies and global media cultures; critical studies of media infrastructures; and media, militarization and surveillance. Parks is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Duke UP, 2005) and Coverage: Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror (forthcoming). She is also co-editor with Nicole Starosielski of the award-winning book Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures (U of Illinois, 2015).

Andrea León Parra is a second-year PhD student at the School of Environmental and Rural Studies at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. Her doctoral work deals with changes in Colombian landscapes generated by human activities, and how they may lead to new configurations in terms of the composition, structure, and function of ecosystems. Andrea is a biologist who graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and she has an MSc in biology from the same university. She specializes in ferns, and through her research into this plant group she has proposed and developed projects in taxonomy, systematics, and ecology in different types of natural ecosystem in the Andean and Amazon regions of Colombia.

Heather Parrish is a multi-disciplinary visual artist with an ongoing interest in the mutually creative relationship between inhabitant and environment. Through printmaking, experimental photography, video projection and installation she explores the notion of ‘boundary’ as a porous composite of interior/exterior negotiations. She has exhibited work in multiple group and juried shows, including solo shows at the Snite Museum of Art, Krasl Art Center, and ArtLink Gallery. She has exhibited internationally in Turkey, Japan, and Spain, and given lectures and taught workshops in the United States and abroad. Collaboration is growing aspect of her creative work, including projects with scientists, geographers, geologists, choreographers, filmmakers, poets, and activists. She received an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Notre Dame, and BA in Kinesiology from the University of Texas at Austin. While in Austin she worked as a professional printmaker at Flatbed Press. Parrish held a position as Visiting Professor of Printmaking at University of Notre Dame, Indiana from 2016 to 2018. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Printmaking at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Swan Parsons, a.k.a. Swan the Storyteller, is a hip hop and indie film producer who has recently started to produce audio documentaries. She is currently finishing her thesis about marijuana use in a rural community in the U.S. Midwest. Parson’s work focuses on telling the stories of marginalized populations that run contrary to the mythologies about life in America.

Prasannan Parthasarathi received a PhD in economics from Harvard and is Professor of South Asian History at Boston College. He is the author of The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800 (Cambridge, 2001), The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles (Oxford, 2009), and Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence 1600-1850 (Cambridge, 2011), which received the Jerry Bentley Book Prize of the World History Association and was named a Choicemagazine outstanding academic title. He is now working on a study of agriculture and the environment in nineteenth-century South India. His articles have appeared in Past and Present, the Journal of Social History, Modern Asian Studies, and International Labor and Working Class History. He is a Senior Editor of International Labor and Working Class History and served on the editorial board of the American Historical Review.

Matteo Pasquinelli (MA, Bologna; PhD, London) is assistant professor at the Pratt Institute New York, and from 2016 visiting professor in Media Theory at the University of Arts, Karlsruhe. He wrote the book Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons (2008) and curated the anthology Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas (2015), among others. In Berlin at NGBK he co-curated the exhibition The Ultimate Capital is the Sun and at the Academie der Künste, the symposium “The Metabolism of the Social Brain.”

Andrea Pavoni completed a PhD that explores the relationship between law, space, and control in the contemporary city. At the moment, he is working on a geography project in Glasgow, while trying to combine theoretical interests with precarious existence.

Claire Pentecost is an artist and writer whose poetic and inductive drawings, sculpture and installations test and celebrate the conditions that bound and define life itself. Her projects often address the contested line between the natural and the artificial, focusing for many years on food, agriculture, bio-engineering, and anthropogenic changes in the indivisible living entity that animates our planet. Since 2006 she has worked with Brian Holmes, 16Beaver and many others organizing Continental Drift, a series of seminars to articulate the interlocking scales of our existence in the logic of globalization. She is also a founding member of Deep Time Chicago, dedicated to cultural change in the Anthropocene. A sample of Pentecost’s exhibition venues include dOCUMENTA(13); Whitechapel Gallery; the 13th Istanbul Biennial; Nottingham Contemporary; the DePaul Art Museum; the Third Mongolian Land Art Biennial; Sursock Museum, Beirut; Times Museum, Guangzhou. Institutions inviting her to lecture include MIT; CalArts; RISD; Northwestern University; Rice University; The University of Virginia; Creative Time Summit and many others. She is represented by Higher Pictures, New York, and is Professor Emeritus at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).

Godofredo Pereira is an architect and researcher based in London. His research “The Underground Frontier” investigates political and territorial conflicts within the planetary race for underground resources. He holds a Master of Architecture (MArch) from the Bartlett School of Architecture and a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London. He teaches the “Ecologies of Existence” design studio at the Royal College of Arts, London. He is the coordinator of history and theory at the MArch Urban Design program at the Bartlett School of Architecture, where he developed the “Axiomatic Earth” design studio. He is the editor of the book Savage Objects (2012).

Mahé Perrette works on a PhD at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. His work was initially motivated by using the past to help project the future, using probabilities and ensemble climate simulations. He then looked more specifically into probabilistic sea-level projections, both at global and regional. More recently, he has been working on the Greenland ice sheet, which is a major contributor to future sea level rise, yet up to how much exactly remains poorly constrained, due to the limited understanding of dynamic processes at its margins and interactions with the ocean. In order to better characterize uncertainties associated with future Greenland contribution to sea level rise, he has been developing a numerical model as well as data analysis tools for its outlet glaciers and fjord system, featuring ice / ocean interactions in a topographically complex, fine-scale environment.

Dominique Pestre is a professor at the École des haute études en sciences sociales in Paris. His research focuses on the history of scientific and technological practices and, more broadly, on the social and political history of science. He has written about science and knowledge production in the West, and especially about the Cold War and the neoliberal turn of the last decades. Trained as a physicist, he is also the author of several publications on the history of physics in twentieth-century France, and co-author of a history of the European center for nuclear research.

Helge Peters is a DPhil student in geography and the environment investigating agent-based modeling from a science perspective.

Sydney Petersen is a printmaker and painter in Minneapolis. They received a BA in Studio Art from Macalester College in 2019 where they are currently completing a painting apprenticeship.

Jesse Peterson is a PhD fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden and is part of a Marie Curie Innovative Training Network in Environmental Humanities. His research has developed around the relationships between water, waste, and wasteland, particularly framed within a discard studies approach and methodology (follow-the-thing). Jesse has an MFA in poetry and translation and a MSc in environmental humanities, and has worked in land conservation and management in the United States and Ecuador. He has taught writing and founded and edits an environmental humanities literary arts journal called saltfront.

Joseph Pfender is a doctoral student at NYU in Historical Musicology. He also holds a B.Mus. in Music Theory/Composition and a B.A. in English Literature from Lawrence University. Mr. Pfender has active research interests in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, theory of orchestration, and philosophical hermeneutics. He has presented his scholarship in conjunction with the Metropolitan Opera, and for the University of Athens.

Roopali Phadke is Professor of Environmental Studies at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her teaching and research focus on water, energy and climate policy, citizen science, and community based research. She is currently leading a multiyear US National Science Foundation study titled “Mining Futures”. She also directed a NOAA funded project on diversity and deliberation in urban climate adaptation called Ready & Resilient, which received a 2016 award from the Climate Adaptation Partnership and a 2018 Minnesota Campus Compact Presidents’ Award. Dr. Phadke was also one of co-organizers of the U.S. portion of WorldWide Views on Climate and Energy project, sponsored by the Danish Board of Technology to provide citizen input into the UN Climate Summit.

Jahnavi Phalkey was appointed Founding Director of Science Gallery Bengaluru in November 2018. Previously she was faculty at King’s College London. She started her academic career at the University of Heidelberg, following which she was based at Georgia Tech-Lorraine, France, and Imperial College London. She was later Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (the Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin). She also was external curator to the Science Museum London, and has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Jahnavi is the author of Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India and has co- edited Science of Giants: China and India in the Twentieth Century. She holds a doctoral degree in history of science and technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

Thao Phan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization and the Program Coordinator for the Science and Society Network at Deakin University. She is a feminist STS researcher who analyzes the technologization of gender and race in algorithmic culture.

Daniel Phiffer is a programmer and artist based in Brooklyn. Dan draws on many years of working professionally with cultural institutions, most recently at the New Yorker magazine and the Museum of Modern Art, and for clients including the Asia Society, the New York Times, the National Museum of American History, and KCET public television. Dan’s art projects often use computer networks as a raw material, and have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and SFMOMA.

Andrew Pickering is internationally known as a leader in the field of science and technology studies. He is the author of Constructing Quarks: A sociological history of particle physics, The Mangle of Practice: Time, agency and science, and Kybernetik und Neue Ontologien, and he is the editor of several collections of research essays, including Science as Practice and Culture and (with Keith Guzik) The Mangle in Practice: Science, society and becoming. He has written on topics as diverse as post-Second World War particle physics; mathematics, science, and industry in the nineteenth century; and science, technology, and warfare in and since the Second World War. His most recent book, The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of another future (2010), analyzes cybernetics as a distinctive form of life spanning brain science, psychiatry, robotics, the theory of complex systems, management, politics, the arts, education, spirituality, and the 1960s counterculture, and argues that cybernetics offers a promising alternative to currently hegemonic cultural formations. Growing out of his work on cybernetics, Andrew’s current research focuses on art, agency, the environment, and traditional Chinese philosophy. Andrew has held fellowships at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Princeton University, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and, most recently, Institutes for Advanced Study at the Universities of Durham, Konstanz, and Bauhaus (Weimar). With PhDs in physics (London) and science studies (Edinburgh), he moved from Britain to the United States in 1984, and for many years was professor of Sociology and director of an interdisciplinary science, technology, and society graduate program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, before moving to the University of Exeter in 2007.

Karen Pinkus is Professor of Romance and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. She is also a faculty fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Ithaca. Author of numerous publications in literary studies, Italian studies, critical theory, and environmental humanities, Pinkus is also Editor of the journal Diacritics. In her latest book, Fuel (2016), Pinkus thinks about issues crucial to climate change by arguing for a separation of fuel from energy as a system of power. Currently she is working on a book entitled Down There: The Subsurface in the Time of Climate Change, which sits between critical theory, literature, and geology.

Daniela Pinto holds a doctoral degree in microbiology from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. With the support of a Marie Curie IEF, in 2014 she joined the Ludwig- Maximilians University Munich where she designed synthetic genetic circuits using transcription factors. In 2016 she joined the Technical University Dresden, where she is now a postdoctoral researcher. In the summer of 2018, she spent 3 months at the University of Copenhagen, where she studied the evolution of alternative σ factors under the support of an EMBO short-term fellowship. Her current research interests span several aspects of alternative σ factor biology: their diversity, activation mechanisms, evolution and synthetic biology applications. She is now planning to study the evolution of signal transduction systems and their role in the evolution of cognitive behavior in bacteria. Over the last 8 years, Daniela has published 14 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and is the first author in 10 of them. She is since 2018, a member of the basal cognition group, a group of international scientists that aims at tracing the biological mechanisms necessary for cognition, from bacteria to higher animals.

Pierre du Plessis is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a PhD student with Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene project. He is currently completing his dissertation year of fieldwork in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana. du Plessis’ research explores the liveliness of Kalahari Desert landscapes through an attention to the Kalahari Desert Truffle, its plant symbionts, and contemporary gathering practices of the people who collect these organisms. Focusing on these relationships, his research seeks to elaborate on the liveliness of landscapes as involving dynamic interactions between many entities. Plant and fungi movement, and the ways in which diverse forms of life come together, are central to this study. Despite often being treated as immobile and static, plants and fungi move, even if perhaps at a slower pace than people or animals, forging tracks and trails in the landscapes they inhabit. Others converge on and follow these tracks, people among them. These tracks, confluences, and mergings ­– which he refers to as vegetal gatherings to signify the relations of plantlife and gathering practices –provide the entry point for this study of lively Kalahari landscapes and its forms of life.

Lucy Powell, born in 1972, is a British artist who has been based in Berlin since 1995. Working mainly in video and text, her practice is an ontological inquiry that focuses on language (specifically the English language) and nonhuman intelligence. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Inventing Measurement, Korean Cultural Centre, London; We, Animals—Biographies / We, Animals—Scenarios, Meinblau, Berlin; Screening Nature, Whitechapel Gallery, London; The Animal Gaze Returned, SIA, Sheffield; Amateurism, Kunstverein Heidelberg; The Worldly House (archive), dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel; and Shooting Animals, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage. In 2011 she co-founded the Satellite Salon, a roaming forum for art/science conversations based in Berlin, which in 2014 started a cooperation with the University of Kassel, the Salon Universitas.

Prajal Pradhan received a Bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering from Tribhuwan University (Nepal, 2006) and an MSc in environmental management from the University of Kiel (Germany, 2009). He is currently a PhD student at the University of Potsdam and is working as a junior researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). The working title of his thesis is “The future food demand and supply under global change.” His main fields of scientific interest include ecosystem services, food security, closing yield gaps, closing nutrient loops, sustainability science, sustainable transitions, sustainable agriculture, climate change impacts, climate change adaptation, and global change research.

Riddhima Puri is a Geosciences Masters student at the École Normale Supérieure, where she has been exploring sciences of the universe, Earth, and the environment from natural and social sciences perspectives. Growing up in New Delhi, the capital of India and one of the busiest cities in the world, she became motivated to confront and study humans’ interaction with their environment, particularly their surrounding atmosphere. She is aiming towards specializing in atmospheric sciences and meteorology. She has interned at the Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (2017) and National Physical Laboratory (2018) in Delhi and was part of EUREC4A, the international field campaign, to study the Northwest Tropical Atlantic (2020). She has also worked on simulating exoplanetary atmospheres at the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço in Portugal (2021). Her recent time at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (2021-22) was aimed at developing skills to communicate better between natural sciences and the humanities.

Susanne Quehenberger works mainly as a freelance designer and restaurateur and is an urban gardening activist. She studied graphic design in Vienna and has a BA and MA in cultural studies from Humboldt University, Berlin (2006–13).

Killian Quigley is a research fellow at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU and honorary postdoctoral fellow at the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney. He is the author of Reading Underwater Wreckage: An Encrusting Ocean (forthcoming), the co-editor of The Aesthetics of the Undersea, and the author of numerous articles and book chapters, most recently “The Pelagic Picturesque,” in A Cultural History of the Sea in the Age of Enlightenment (ed. Jonathan Lamb). He is an associate with the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South research network.

Zelal Zülfiye Rahmanali is an architect and researcher who focuses on cities, governance, and urban transformation strategies. She studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and undertook her postgraduate degree at ITU on the architectural design MS program with a thesis on “informal architectures” entitled “Emergence of the subject: Dialogues between architecture and the user.” Currently she is a PhD candidate at Yıldız Technical University on the architectural history and theory program, where she is researching the subject of “Architecture as a dispositif: economy, politics and architecture” and focuses on urban transformations driven by liberal and neoliberal policies and the relationship between urbanism and economic crisis. In 2005 she founded her own architectural office and was placed in several architectural design- and construction project competitions relating to educational campuses. She received first prize in the Turkish Ministry of National Education’s (MEB) Malatya Fırıncı Educational Campus competition. Since 2010, she has worked in and taught design studios and architectural history classes at Maltepe University’s Department of Architecture in Istanbul.

Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. His work engages social theories of capitalism, technology studies and postcolonial studies, holding a special interest in the global political economy of biomedicine, with a comparative focus on the United States and India. He is the author of Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life (2006) and Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine (2017).

Barbara Rauch is an artist practitioner and research academic. She is a Digital Futures Initiative hire, in a tenure- position at OCAD University, Toronto in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Graduate Studies. Rauch is the Graduate Program Director for the Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Art, Media & Design (IAMD). She is the Director for the Data Materialization Lab and PI for the e_Motion Research Project. As a researcher within the Digital Media Research and Innovation Institute, she investigates the development of emotion with the facilitation of data analysis, using advanced technology in 3D printing, sculpting and analysis.

A Mississippi native, Treasure Shields Redmond is a published poet, master educator, community arts organizer, and successful entrepreneur. Treasure was raised in the federal housing projects, and went on to be signed to M.C. Hammer’s label as a hip hop artist, and writer. She is the author of chop: a collection of kwansabas for fannie lou hamer (2015). Her doctoral research focuses on the recorded performances of foundational Black Women poets, and the ways they deployed sound to impact the canon and justice movements. Treasure centers collaboration in her personal arts practice and as an organizing principle. As such, she has co-founded a funding collective forBlack artists called The Black Skillet, and a podcast that centers voices of color called Who Raised You? Treasure is the founder of Feminine Pronoun Consultants, LLC, and Get The Acceptance Letter Academy.

Patricia Reed is an artist, writer and designer. Her work addresses social transformations of coexistence at planetary dimensions, focusing on the interactions between world-models and practices of inhabitation. Recent essays appeared in Chimeras (2022) and Geognostics (2022). Reed is a co-author of the Xenofeminist Manifesto (2015) written as Laboria Cuboniks. A Spanish compilation of Reed’s writings will be published in 2022.

Hugo Reinert is a senior researcher and occasional lecturer at Tallinn University, Estonia. His research to date spans a number of fields in environmental and nonhuman anthropology—including projects on reindeer pastoralism, environmental volunteering, climate policy, land-use conflicts, and transnational bird conservation. He is particularly interested in the potential of anthropology to critically rework inherited vocabularies and develop novel modes of description. His current project explores the emergence of sacrifice zones in the European Arctic, focusing on the intensification of prospective mining activity in indigenous areas of the region. The project uses sacrifice as a theoretical lens to explore notions of value, damage, loss, and obligation across a set of complex, multiply constituted, and highly contested landscapes.

Armin Reller is Professor for Resource Strategy in Augsburg, Germany. His research focuses on the synthesis and properties of functional materials relevant for energy and environment technologies, and more specifically on the ecological and socioeconomic impacts of exploring and applying strategic resources. A former professor of solid-state chemistry at the Institute of Physics, he now serves as chair of the Environmental Science Center (ESC), is a member of the board of the Application Center for Materials and Science (AMU), and is chair of the graduate school “Resource Strategy Concepts for Sustainable Energy Systems” at the University of Augsburg. He received his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, was a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge University, conducted research at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and was professor at the Institute of Inorganic and Applied Chemistry at the University of Hamburg. He coordinates the research program “Solar Chemistry /Hydrogen/Regenerative Energy Carriers” for the Swiss Office of Energy in Bern. He publishes widely, including in journals such as Gaia: Ökologische Perspektiven in Natur-, Geistes- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften (oekom verlag). He has recently been appointed as expert of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences as well as a member of the Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) in Berlin.

Jürgen Renn’s research focuses on the long-term evolution of knowledge in consideration of the historical dynamics that led to the global changes encapsulated by the concept of the Anthropocene. In almost three decades as Director at theMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, his numerous research projects have opened up new approaches, especially in the digital humanities. As Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, he investigates, together with his team, the structural changes in the technosphere that have given rise to the Anthropocene. His central research topics include the history of science from antiquity to the 21st century, the history of the globalization of knowledge, the role of knowledge in global change processes, and the recent history of scientific institutions, particularly the Max Planck Society from its foundation to the present day. His additional research interests include the history of architectural knowledge and the circulation of knowledge between Arabic and Latin language areas, as well as between Europe and China. Based on his research, he has developed a theory of knowledge evolution that incorporates both cognitive dynamics and social contexts. Jürgen Renn has actively promoted the communication of scientific knowledge through numerous exhibitions, newspaper articles, television reports, and interviews. Additionally, he is deeply engaged in sustainability discussions at the intersection of science and politics.

Maik Renner works as PostDoc at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany. Trained as hydrologist he assessed the skill of hydrological forecasts of the River Rhine, jointly working at the interface between research, consulting and river board authorities. During his doctorate at the meteorological department of TU Dresden and the Research Centre for Environment, Leipzig, Germany he showed that there are different signatures of climate and land-cover change in water and energy cycling, highlighting hot spots of change in hydrological functioning due to forest damage (Mountain catchments in Central Eastern Europe) or by intensification of agriculture (Corn belt in the US). Currently, he is working with Axel Kleidon on the thermodynamic limits of energy conversion processes at the earth surface interacting with the lower atmosphere. Recent publications show how these limits contribute to our understanding of water and energy cycling and thus enable the prediction of the hydro-climatic impacts of global change from first principles.

Maria Rentetzi is Professor and chair of Science, Technology and Gender studies at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She works at the intersection of science and technology studies, nuclear diplomacy, and gender. Her research focuses on two intertwined areas of inquiry: the investigation of the politically and historically situated character of technoscience and the critical examination of gender as a major analytic category in technoscientific endeavors. She is an ERC Con grantee and an affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, previously a guest professor at the TU Berlin, Silverman Professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel, and professor at the National Technical University of Athens. Through her ERC project she currently leads the development of what she calls “The Diplomatic Studies of Science.” Rentetzi is also corresponding member of the International Academy of History of Science, member of Academia-Net (nominated by Austrian Science Fund as an excellent female researcher), council member of the IUHPST/DHST, and founding member and treasurer of the Association of ERC Grantees.

Christopher Reznich is currently studying for a master’s degree in landscape architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He already has a MSc in conservation from the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan (2013) and a BSc in architecture (2012).

Walmeri Ribeiro has a doctorate in communication and semiotics from PUC-SP (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo), and a Master’s degree in arts from the University of Campinas in Brazil (UNICAMP). She is coordinator and professor on the postgraduate (MA) program at the Universidade Federal do Ceará, and adjunct professor on the cinema and audiovisual course, working in the field of actors’ direction, cinema production, and contemporary art. Walmeri has written Poéticas do Ator no Cinema Brasileiro (Intermeios, 2014), co-edited Das Artes e Seus Territórios Sensíveis (Intermeios, 2014), and has published many articles in national and international magazines. Her academic and artistic production focuses on the relationships between performance and audiovisual work. Since 2010, a theme of her research has been the relationships between arts, politics, the city, and nature. The following works have resulted from her projects: the video installation Performance Deserts (2013); video installation Unfoldings (Berlin, 2012); interactive installation Beco da Poeira (Fortaleza, 2010–11); interactive installation Praça da Bandeira(Rio de Janeiro, 2010); performance Expanded Territories (Fortaleza, 2014). In 2010, along with Cesar Baio and Fernanda Gomes, she participated in the “Invisible Horizons” artistic research residency, and in 2013 she was involved in “LAB < Other Places, Formats and Practices in Performance >” in collaboration with the German artists Nathalie Fari, Milena Kipfmüller and, Paula Hildebrandt, and the Brazilian artists Pablo Assumpção and Solon Ribeiro.

Aaron Richmond is an interdisciplinary artist and PhD candidate in the History and Theory of Architecture program at McGill University. His doctoral project addresses the medicalization of Modern art and architecture within the French periodical L’Esprit nouveau (1920 to 1925). Prior to studying at McGill, Aaron received a BA from the University of King’s College, an MPHIL from the University of Cambridge, and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He was the recipient of the 2015 Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship, the 2016 Robert Motherwell Fellowship (both awarded through the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA) and was the 2017-2018 P. Lantz Artist in Residence at McGill University. His doctoral work is supported by grants from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec and the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship. His art critical writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail and e-flux.

Daniel Richter is Professor of Soils and Forest Ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Richter’s research and teaching links soils with ecosystems and the wider environment, most recently Earth scientists’ Critical Zone. He focuses on how humanity is transforming Earth’s soils from natural to human-natural systems, specifically how land-uses alter soil processes and properties on time scales of decades, centuries, and millennia. He is an active member of the International Commission on Stratigraphy’s Working Group on the Anthropocene. Richter has written in the peer-reviewed literature about all of these projects, and in November 2014 his soils research at the Calhoun and his soils teaching were featured in Science magazine.

Giulia Rispoli is an Assistant Professor in History of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy), and a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (MPIWG).

Her research interests include the history and epistemology of systems thinking in the 20th century—in particular, Alexander Bogdanov’s Tektology as an alternative to the general systems theory and cybernetics—and their declination and convergence with biosphere theories and Earth System sciences.

Giulia Rispoli’s current research funded by the Rita Levi Montalcini Programme, is titled “Planetary Genealogies, Historicizing the Anthropocene.” It contributes to the study and evaluation of the historical, epistemological and scientific foundations of the Anthropocene, a term that indicates a new geological epoch characterized by the global impact of human activities on the planet. In particular, she studies and reconstructs the genealogies of two notions—the “biosphere-geosphere” and the “Earth system”—and how they help reveal different ways in which our planet was conceived and represented in the twentieth century in relation to human influence, and how visions of the global Earth became an object of global politics.

Before joining Ca’ Foscari, Giulia Rispoli was a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle and at the Centre Alexander Koyré in Paris, and taught at Indiana University, Bloomington, at the Cohn Institute of Tel Aviv University, and at the Osteuropa-Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Manuel Rivera was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany. He studied sociology, philosophy, and Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the National University of Buenos Aires (UBA). After receiving his Diploma with a thesis on environmental awareness, he served as a project officer for the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE), Berlin, and, temporarily, for the European Network of Environmental Councils (EEAC), Brussels, until 2007. In the following years he worked as an actor at several German municipal theaters, before returning to sustainability issues by joining IASS in March 2011. Here, he has been working on issues as different as urban studies, Latin American alternatives to development, the German energy transition, or the idea of Nature in the Anthropocene. He assumed the co-lead of the Economics & Culture program in May 2015.

Libby Robin holds a guest professorship in the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. Her research interests include environmental history, museum studies, the history of science, ecological humanities, world history, and the history of nature conservation. Her PhD in the history of science (Melbourne, 1994) focused on the rise of ecological consciousness in Australia. Currently, she holds a chair in environmental history at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University and is senior research fellow at the National Museum of Australia. She convenes the Australian and New Zealand Environmental History Network and is vice-president of the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations, based in North Carolina, and a member of the Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE) collective. Recent international invitations include the University of Chicago (“The History and Politics of the Anthropocene,” 2013), Harvard University Forum on Changing Climate (2012), the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (“History and Sustainability,” 2010), the University of Wisconsin, Madison (“Cultures, Histories, Environments” initiative, 2011), and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (international congress in Canberra on Anthropocene humanities, 2012). Libby is a prize-winning author and editor of twelve books, including The Future of Nature: Documents of global change (co-edited with Sverker Sörlin and Paul Warde, Yale University Press, 2013). New work includes “Museums and the Anthropocene,” to be published as Collecting the Future (co-edited with Jennifer Newell and Kirsten Wehner, Routledge Environmental Humanities series, forthcoming).

Alex Martinis Roe is a current fellow of the Graduate School at the University of the Arts, Berlin. She holds a PhD in fine art from Monash University, Australia, which developed feminist artistic methodologies that attempt to contribute to a collective politics of difference. Her current work focuses on the genealogical relationship between the practice of new feminist materialism and sexual difference feminisms, seeking to foster specific and productive relations between different generations. This involves developing research and storytelling methodologies, which employ nonlinear understandings of time, respond to the specific practices of different communities, experiment with the dispositives of discursive encounter, and imagine how these entanglements can inform new political practices. In addition to her current research projects, “To Become Two” and “Our Future Network,” she is exploring these methodological concerns in collaboration with theorist Melanie Sehgal within the framework of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). Recent exhibitions and events include: “Once I wrote the story of her life, because by then I knew it by heart,” Rongwrong, Amsterdam (2014); “Manifestos Show: Act I, Inessential Fathers,” Archive Kabinett and Berlin Art Week (2014); “Affirmative Practices,” HKW, Berlin (2014); “Making Room: Spaces of Anticipation,” ar/ge Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano (2014); “A Story from Circolo della rosa,” Archive Kabinett, Berlin (2014); “Wahala,” SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2013); “NEW13,” Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2013); “Collective Biographies,” Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin (2012); “Post-planning,” Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (2012); “Non-writing Histories,” Artspace, Sydney (2012); “Genealogies: Frameworks for Exchange,” Pallas Projects, Dublin (2011); “HaVE A LoOk! Have a Look! FormContent,” London (2010). In December 2014, as part of If I Can’t Dance’s performance days, she presented “Their desire rang through the halls and into the tower,” commissioned by Casco—Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht.

Moritz Roemer is currently doing their master’s degree at the Institute for European Ethnography at Humboldt University Berlin. They have previously studied Social Sciences at Humboldt University and Peking University with a focus on the state and governmentality, queer and post-colonial perspectives as well as Necropolitics. Their bachelor thesis questioned how authenticity is constituted in asylum interviews of LGBTQ applicants. The project “Problematizing Heat” is part of a joint student research project called “Overflows of the Anthropocene” which is supervised by Prof. Dr. Ignacio Farías. Further interests include sexuality and gender, particularly sexual health, political geography and feminist technoscience. 

Eleonora Rohland is Professor for Entangled History in the Americas and director of the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Bielefeld University. Rohland was trained as an environmental historian at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She received her PhD from the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany, in 2014 and was a doctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI) from 2008-2014. Rohland is the author of two books, Sharing the Risk. Fire, Climate and Disaster. Swiss Re 1864-1906 (Lancaster: 2011) and Changes in the Air: Hurricanes in New Orleans, 1718 to the Present, 2019. With her third book project, tentatively entitled Encountering the Tropics and Transforming Unfamiliar Environments in the Caribbean, 1494 to 1804, her research focus moves geographically from the U.S. Gulf Coast into the Caribbean, specifically to Hispaniola and Jamaica.

Sophia Roosth is an anthropologist who writes about contemporary life and earth sciences. She is the author of Synthetic: How Life Got Made (2017), an ethnography of synthetic biologists that documents the profound shifts biology has undergone in the post-genomic age. Her next book, The Quick and the Dead, will offer a historically and ethnographically informed travelogue into the worlds of contemporary geobiologists, scientists seeking ancient microbial life-forms fossilized in stone. She has published widely in journals including Critical Inquiry, Representations, differences, American Anthropologist, Science, and Grey Room, as well as in popular publications such as Slate, The Los Angeles Review of Books, American Scientist, e-flux, and Aeon. Roosth is Associate Professor at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is a Max Planck Society Sabbatical Award Laureate, and her work has also been supported by a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, as well as fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.