Ilan Manouachis a postdoctoral scholar on Computational Creativityat the University of Liège, an affiliate scholar at Harvard metaLAB, and a member of Racliffe’s Institute for Climate Sound & Society. He is the author of over 25 comic books and the editor of Chimeras. Inventory of Synthetic Cognition, acollective glossary on AI, with 150 contributors exploring a variety of epistemic perspectives on artificial intelligence. He is an appointed expert on the comic book industry to the Belgian government and worked as a strategy consultant for the Onassis Foundation. He is the founder of comics research non-profit Echo Chamber (Expanded publishing: Creative Europe 2023-2025), and the founder of Topovoros Books, a Greekpublishing housespearheading translations of cornerstone essays in humanities. He is the co-creator of the cartoon AI-generator “The Neural Yorker,” and his work is the subject of a dedicated Routledge critical anthology. His latest book, Out Side, is a collaboration with K Allado-McDowell, founder of Google’s AMI program.

Sol Heo (허솔) is an MA student in the Interdisciplinary Program in Gender Studies at Seoul National University, South Korea. Her research in feminist media studies focuses on the affective dimensions of digital labor and feminist movements within digital culture and economy. With a focus on transnational perspectives, she also works on how racial and gendered boundaries are renegotiated in the current moment of global social media culture. Currently, she is working on her master’s thesis, which examines gendered, neoliberal subjectivities in the practice of affective labour among Korean youth working as fashion brands’ “supporters”. During her bachelor’s studies in Art & Technology and Gender Studies at Sogang University, she co-authored an article on the cultural politics of feminist comedy podcasts and the significance of podcast platforms as digital feminist spaces.

May Ee Wong is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research interests include critical conceptions of the built environment, feminist Science, Technology and Society (STS) studies, environmental humanities, and contemporary media and visual culture. She received her PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of California at Davis and is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data project at Aarhus University. She is researching into renewable energy landscapes as figures of ecological transition and working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation research that traces the cultural logics of planetary urban futures.

Paolo Patelli is a researcher and artist with a background in architecture and critical spatial practice. He is a postdoctoral researcher with the Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data project at Aarhus University. He engages with the materialities, scenes and atmospheres at the intersections of space and society, technologies and environments.

His interests include multi-modal and audiovisual methods to study how organisms are instrumentalized as sensors in methodologies of environmental monitoring, and the operationalization of more-than-human perception at the thresholds of organism and environment.