Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices

Cornelia Sollfrank (PhD) is an artist, researcher and writer, living in Berlin. Recurring subjects in her artistic and academic work in and about digital cultures are artistic infrastructures, new forms of (political) self-organization, critical authorship, aesthetics of the commons, and techno-feminist practice and theory. Her projects net.art generator—a web-based art-producing "machine"—and Female Extension have earned her a reputation as a pioneer of net art. Recent open access publications include The Beautiful Warriors: Technofeminist Practice in the 21st Century, Aesthetics of the Commons, and Fix My Code with Winnie Soon.

Felix Stalder is a professor teaching Digital Culture at the Zurich University of the Arts. His work focuses on the intersection of cultural, political and technological dynamics, in particular new modes of commons-based production, copyright, datafication, and transformation of subjectivity. He is the author/editor of numerous books, including Deep Search: The Politics of Search Beyond Google (2009), Digital Solidarity (2014), Digital Condition (2018), Aesthetics of the Commons (2021), Digital Unconscious (2021) and From Commons to NFTS (2022).