Biographies

Séverine Dusollier

Severine Dusollier is Professor of Intellectual Property in the Law School of Sciences Po Paris and holds a Senior Chair at the Institut Universitaire de France. She is the director of the law school research centre, member of its doctoral committee and the Head of the Master in Innovation Law. From 2014-2019, she was the holder of an ERC (European Research Council) research grant on commons and inclusivity in property. Her current research interests are digital issues of copyright, the concept of authorship, contractual protection of authors and perf

Marloes de Valk

Marloes de Valk (NL) is a software artist and writer in the post-despair stage of coping with the threat of global warming and being spied on by the devices surrounding her. Surprised by the obsessive dedication with which we, even post-Snowden, share intimate details about ourselves to an often not too clearly defined group of others, astounded by the deafening noise we generate while socializing with the technology around us, she is looking to better understand why.

She is a PhD researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University, in collaboration with The Photographer's Gallery, looking into the material and social impact of the networked image on the climate crisis.

https://bleu255.com/~marloes

Andrea Francke

Andrea is a Peruvian social practice artist based in London since 2007. Her practice develops structures for being and thinking together (with collaborators and colleagues, or through publications and public gatherings). These exchanges manifest through a regular practice of writing, publishing, public speaking, podcasting, exhibiting and residencies, all undertaken collaboratively. Most of her projects are self-initiated, collaborative and cover extended periods of time.

After years of hosting public events and making things visible, I’m currently invested in invisibility, transparency, and developing administrative and pedagogical infrastructures as aesthetic strategies. I'm currently a BA Fine Arts Senior Lecturer at the Chelsea College of Fine Arts. Current projects include Ten Texts on Sculpture, an ongoing podcast with Matthew de Kersaint Girardeau that functions as a resource to explore reading with art students; FR&ND, a platform to develop and distribute board games developed by artists with Francis Patrick-Brady; and Future of the Left (FOTL), a collaboration with Ross Jardine exploring the political and aesthetic dimensions of administration and policy, through research and writing.

Selected past projects include The Piracy Project,a collaboration with Eva Weinmayr exploring the political and aesthetic potential created through book piracy, copying and other reproduction techniques; Invisible Spaces of Parenthood, a collaboration with Kim Dhillon focused on the politics of parenthood, motherhood, childcare, early years pedagogy and reproductive labour; and Evaluating the Gasworks Participation Programme, a FOTL project that designed an evaluation framework, and reporting mechanism, specific to the Gasworks Participation Programme.

I’m currently a Senior Lecturer at the Chelsea College of Arts BAFA. I’m also a member of the LUX board and a founding member of the Gasworks Participation Programme Evaluation board. My work has been exhibited or supported by the Serpentine, The Showroom, Gasworks, South London Gallery, Bluecoat Gallery, Grand Union, CCA Derry-Londonderry, Bisagra (Lima-PE), Bar Project (Barcelona-SP), The New York Art Bookfair, Filip and 221a (Vancouver- CA), Truth is Concrete (Graz -AT), Rum46 (Arhus-DK), Bergen Kunsthall (NW), and Munich Kunstverein (DW), among others. My writing has been featured in Control Magazine, Parse Journal, Studies in the Maternal and Rhizome, among others. I’ve been invited to teach as a visiting artist or lecturer at the Lunga School (Seyðisfjörður, Iceland), Cubbit Summer Programme, Kunstverein/ Akademieverein (Munich, DW), MA in Art and Social Practices at the CCA - California College of the Arts, BA Fine Arts at the Newcastle University, and the MA Fine Arts at the Rutland Academy/RUM 46 (Aarhus – DK), among others.

Dubravka Sekulić

Dubravka Sekulić is an architect, theorist and educator. Her research explores transformations of contemporary cities, at the nexus between the production of space, laws, and economy. She holds a PhD from gta the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zurich (CH) on the relationship between the Yugoslav construction industry and the Non-aligned Movement. She is a researcher for the project Curatorial Design: A place between and as a co-editor of the relational digital publication Total Reconstruction. She is the author of several books including Glotzt Nicht So Romantisch! On Extralegal Space in Belgrade (Jan van Eyck Academie, 2012), and most recently she collaborated with artist and filmmaker Ana Hušman on Don't Trace, Draw! (2020), a film that explored spatial legacy of the Yugoslav pedagogical reform.

Peggy Pierrot

Peggy Pierrot is an intellectual worker, teacher and independent researcher (on software, human sciences and popular cultures), writer, radio host living in Brussels, Belgium. She teaches media theory and speculative fiction at erg, école de recherche graphique and is co-editor of Curseurs, Numérique : repères critiques.