Disnovation OrgDISNOVATION.ORG is a working group at the intersection of contemporary art, research and hacking. They develop situations of disruption, speculation and debate that question dominant techno-positivist ideologies, and stimulate post-growth narratives.They edited The Pirate Book an anthology on media piracy. They are currently research fellows at the University of California, Irvine. Inga Seidler is a curator, cultural producer, and researcher based in Berlin. She is the head of the Digital Solitude program. Her work addresses the issues and questions of making art with, or in response to, emerging technologies. It also considers the possible constellations of bodies, objects, and environments that move between the physical and digitals realms. She holds a masters degree from the Cultures of the Curatorial postgraduate study program at the Academy of Fine Arts (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst) in Leipzig, and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. Prior to her position at Solitude, Inga Seidler was a curator and producer at the transmediale festival for art and digital culture (2013-19). Dr. Alessandro Ludovico is Associate Professor in Art, Design and Media at the Winchester School of Art. He is a media theorist, editor and artist, and completed a PhD by Published Work in English and Media at the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. His publications include the monographs Post-Digital Print, The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894 (2012) and Suoni Futuri Digitali (Future Digital Sounds), (2000). He has co-edited the three volumes of The Mag.net Reader series (2005, 2007, 2008), and published articles and book chapters on new media art, experimental publishing and virtual identities. He's also chief editor since 1993 of Neural, critical digital culture magazine, and served as an advisor for the Documenta 12's Magazine Project. He is one of the authors of the award-winning and internationally exhibited trilogy of artworks Hacking Monopolism (Google Will Eat Itself, Amazon Noir, Face to Facebook). His research currently focuses on the relationship between traditional and digital publishing, on developing new forms of collaborative libraries and archives, on media art history and archeology, and on the evolution of software-driven portraiture. Read More Read Less