Geoff Cox has a research interest in software studies and contemporary aesthetics. He is Associate Professor and co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University, also Visiting Associate Professor at Aarhus University working the research project The Contemporary Condition. He co-runs a yearly workshop/publication in collaboration with transmediale festival in Berlin since 2012, is co-editor of the associated open access online journal APRJA. He is also co-editor of the open-access DATA browser book series published by Open Humanities Press and the co-author of Speaking Code: coding as aesthetic and political expression (MIT Press 2013). See Geoff’s full bio here:

Conceived by Stuart Brisley, Geoff Cox and Adrian Ward, The Museum of Ordure has since 2001 developed a collection reflecting its curator Rosse Yael Sirb’s obsession with ‘dirt: dung: excrement: anything unclean‘.

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Dragan Espenschied is a media artist, digital conservator and 8-bit musician living in New York. As an artist, Espenschied focuses on the historicisation of Digital Culture from the perspective of computer users. Together with net art pioneer Olia Lialina, he created a significant body of work about writing a culture-centric history of the networked age. Since 2011, they together have been restoring and analysing the deleted online community GeoCities. Espenschied worked with the transmediale festival’s archive and the Vilem Flusser Archive. Since April 2014, he is leading the Digital Conservation Program at Rhizome. See Dragan’s full bio here.

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Nastja Säde Rönkkö is an artist living in London and Helsinki. She works with video, performance, installation, participatory art, internet and text. Her projects investigate the relationship between the digital era, power, humanity and the future of our planet. She is particularly fascinated with how concepts such as love, slowness or affection can be silent yet radical ways to be and act in the world. Her practice dreams about the future and explores presence through politics and poetics of emotion. See Nastja’s full bio here.

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Annet Dekker is Assistant Professor Media Studies: Archival and Information Studies at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and Visiting Professor and co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University, UK.  Other recent publications include Lost and Living (in) Archives (2017). With Annette Wolfsberger, she is co-founder of aaaan.net. See Annet’s full bio here.

Her recent book, Collecting and Conserving Net Art: Moving Beyond Conventional Methods (2018) is a seminal work in the field of new media conservation and significant to the development of Networked art practice after digital preservation. We are delighted that Annet will participate in our ISEA2020 workshop to expand on the notion and method of ‘networks of care’ for the conservation of net art.

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