James Bridle is a writer and artist working across technologies and disciplines. Their artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and on the internet. Their writing on literature, culture and networks has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wired, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Guardian, and the Observer. ‘New Dark Age’, their book about technology, knowledge, and the end of the future, was published by Verso (UK & US) in 2018, and they wrote and presented ‘New Ways of Seeing’ for BBC Radio 4 in 2019. They are currently working on a new book.
Regine Rapp is an art historian, curator and co-director ofArt Laboratory Berlin. She researches, curates and publishes on 21st century art interfacing with science and technology. Her research also focuses on modern and contemporary installation art, artist books and art and science collaborations. She taught art history at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle. She recently published ‘Hybrid Art. Kunst jenseits des Anthropozentrismus’ [Hybrid Art. Art beyond Anthropocentrism] (Kunstchronik, July 2020) and co-edited the book ‘Mind the Fungi’(TU Berlin University Press, December 2020).