!Mediengruppe Bitnik (read - the not mediengruppe bitnik) live and work in Zurich/London. Using Hacking as an artistic strategy, their works re-contextualise the familiar to allow for new readings of established structures and mechanisms.
Contributors
Active online as a media artist, blogger, activist and programmer, aaajiao is the virtual persona of Shanghai- and Berlin- artist Xu Wenkai. Born in 1984—the title of George Orwell’s classic allegorical novel— and in one of China’s oldest cities, Xi’an, aaajiao’s art and works are marked by a strong dystopian awareness, literati spirits and sophistication. Many of aaajiao’s works speak to new thinkings, controversies and phenomenon around the Internet, with specific projects focusing on the processing of data, the blogsphere and China’s Great Fire Wall.
Abelardo Gil-Fournier is an artist and researcher whose work addresses the material interweaving between the contemporary image and the living surfaces of the planet. His practice is based on the elaboration of platforms -installations, devices and workshops- conceived as open mechanisms, where art, knowledge and politics intersect.
Ada (just Ada) is a medium and designer, a storyteller and maker of tiny websites. She dreams and builds houses made of cake to tell stories about living and leaving the internet as a bot.
Adio Dinika is a passionate researcher and advocate for equitable AI development and ethical labour practices in the digital age. With a background in political science, he has dedicated his academic journey to exploring the intersection of technology, society, and worker rights. As a Research fellow at the Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute, Adio's research focuses on the oft-overlooked contributions of data workers in the Global South, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Adnan Hadzi is currently working as resident researcher at the University of Malta. Adnan has been a regular at Deckspace Media Lab, for the last decade, a period over which he has developed his research at Goldsmiths, University of London, based on his work with Deptford. TV/Deckspace.TV. It is through Free and Open Source Software and technologies this research has a social impact. Currently Adnan is a participant researcher in the MAZI/CreekNet research collaboration with the boattr project.
Aglaia Petta always finds it really hard to name her doings but finds herself somewhere between artistic research, making and publishing. She is an architecture graduate and is currently finishing her MA in Experimental Publishing, at Piet Zwart Institute. Her work floats in between performative archives, counter-mapping practices, the politics of public space and activism. Coming from southern Europe, she has been interested in exploring how various border(land)s are manifested and (de)established especially in relation to migration.
Aileen Derieg is a translator and media activist focussing mainly on free software with an emphasis on autonomous cultural initiatives. After decades of translating in the cultural field she retired in 2018 and has since intensified her work with initiatives such as servus.at, AMRO, Eclectic Tech Carnival, among others. Soon after having closed the chapter of professional translation, Aileen spent two years living in and working with the hacktivist collective in Calafou, Spain, before returning to Linz, Austria, full time.
ala pecula is a project dedicated to sound exploration by an artist that in the past decade made sonic appearances on a Slovene music scene through various collaborations and experimental research of sound and video. In Autumn ala pecula will release her debut album at Kamizdat.