Caroline Bassett is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge. Publications include Furious, co-authored with Sarah Kember and Kate O’Riordan (Pluto, 2020), and Anti-Computing: Dissent and the Machine (Manchester University Press, 2022). Recent work includes ‘The Author, Poor Bastard; Writing, Creativity, AI’ in The AI and Literature Handbook (2024), and ‘The Cruel Optimism of Technological Dreams’ in Feminist AI (2024).
Nicole De Brabandere (PhD) is a visiting researcher at the Moving Image Research Lab, McGill University, and works at the intersection of media theory and practice. Current research develops analysis of the ethico-aesthetic generativities of AI. De Brabandere is the author of several peer-reviewed essays and is the editor of Media, Practice and Theory: tracking emergent thresholds of experience, Vernon Press 2022, a volume spanning topics such as machine-learning, VR, film studies, critical sensory experimentation and performative archiving.
Naja Grundtmann is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark and an investigator on the project The Aesthetics of Bio-machines and the Question of Life. Her main area of research is located at the intersection of aesthetics, machine learning technology, and visual culture. She obtained her PhD Convolutional Aesthetics: A Cultural and Philosophical Analysis of the Perceptual Logic of Machine Learning System from the University of Copenhagen, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies in 2022.
Kathrin Maurer (PhD; Dr.Phil.) is Professor of Culture and Technology at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense, DK). Her research focuses on bio-machines, surveillance technology, drones, and visual culture. She is the PI of the projects “The Aesthetics of Bio-Machines and the Question of Life” (The Velux Foundations, 2023-2027) and “Drone Imaginaries and Communities” (Independent Research Foundation Denmark, 2020-2023). She is also the leader of the University of Southern Denmark’s Center for Culture and Technology. She is the author of the monograph The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities (MIT Press, 2023), and she co-edited the collected volumes Drone Imaginaries: The Power of Remote Vision (Manchester University Press, 2020) and Visualizing War: Emotions, Technologies, Communities (Routledge, 2018). She also has a background in German studies and has published on 19th-century visual culture, historical prose, and travel literature.
Lea Laura N. Michelsen is postdoc in the research project New Visions with a sub-project called Aesthetics of Fake Faces. Based at Aarhus University (Denmark), she is part of the research center AIIM (Aesthetics of AI Images) and the explorative network AIsthesis (Network for Research in Aesthetics of AI Imagery). Recent publications are “Who Sees with Machines?“ (Electronic Book Review) and Biometrics and Its Resistance” (PUBLIC: Art, Culture, Ideas). She holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Culture from Aarhus University (The Art of (Dis)Appearing in an Age of Ubiquitous Biopolitical Surveillance, 2022). In 2019, she was a visiting researcher in the department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Earlier, she worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Gallery of Denmark.
Johan Lau Munkholm is a postdoctoral researcher employed in the research cluster Bio-Machines and the Question of Life at the Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark where he works on the relationship between technology and labour in contemporary society with a focus on its aesthetic mediation in literature and art. Generally, his work revolves around questions of platform power, digital technology, and contemporary capitalism with an emphasis on cultural and political theory as well as aesthetics. He received his Ph.d. degree from the University of Copenhagen in 2023.
Annie Ring is Associate Professor of German and Film at University College London. She is the author of the monographs After the Stasi (Bloomsbury, 2015), and The Lives of Others (BFI Film Classics, 2022) and co-editor of Architecture and Control (Brill, 2018), Uncertain Archives (The MIT Press, 2021) and Citational Media (Legenda/MHRA Visual Culture, 2025).
Henriette Steiner is Professor in the Section for Landscape and Planning – Society at the University of Copenhagen where she currently serves as Head of Section. Recent books include Tower to Tower (with Kristin Veel, MIT Press, 2020), Touch in the Time of Corona (with Kristin Veel, De Gruyter, 2021), and Untold Stories – Women Gender and Architecture in Denmark (with Jannie Bendsen and Svava Riesto, Strandberg Publishing, 2023). She is a recent recipient of a Monography Fellowship of the Carlsberg Foundation and together with Svava Riesto, she currently leads two research projects: on 1960s urban squatting and collaboration in architecture, respectively (funded by Augustinus Foundation and Realdania).
Thomas Storey is a researcher and writer focusing on the environmental humanities, eco-poetics, and digital cultures. He has a PhD from King’s College London, where his thesis was entitled ‘The Anthropocene Sublime: Immanence and Entanglement from Romanticism to Digitality’ – it will be published by Routledge in book form in 2026. He is based in Copenhagen.
Mette-Marie Zacher Sørensen is associate professor at Aarhus University and a member of the AIIM (Aesthetics of AI Images) research center. Her research focuses on aesthetics, multimodality, and digital culture, with particular attention to the relationships between art, technology, and sensory perception. Recent publications include “Deepfake Face-swap Animations and Affect” in Human Perception and Digital Information Technologies: Animation, the Body and Affect (Bristol University Press) and “Disjunctive Pronouns: On Multimodal Analysis of Digital Poetry” in Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics.
Kristin Veel is professor in Aesthetic Technology Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focusses on the intricate interplay between digital technologies and everyday life, exploring datafication, invisibility, and uncertainty across media, literature, and lived experience. Publications with Henriette Steiner include the monograph Tower to Tower: Architecture and Digital Culture (MIT Press, 2020).
Joanna Zylinska is a writer, artist, curator, and Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice at King’s College London. She is an author of a number of books, including The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future Between the Eye and AI (MIT Press, 2023) and AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams (Open Humanities Press, 2020). Her art practice involves experimenting with different kinds of image-based media.
Contributing Reviewers
Peter Baker is a Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies in the Division of Literature and Languages at the University of Stirling. His interests include Iberian experiences of modernity and colonialism from the perspective of cultural studies and critical theory, especially where these questions intersect with notions of class, race and gender. He guest-edited, with Pedro Aguilera-Mellado and Gabriela Méndez Cota, Vol 22 of Culture Machine, Anthropocene Infrapolitics, and co-authored, with Maddalena Cerrato, the article Between Futurology and Extinction: A Transautographic Experiment in Two Turns (2023).
Andrzej (AJ) Baginski (he/they) is Assistant Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He holds a degree in Comparative Literature from UCI and his book manuscript is titled Fictions of Proximity: Environments of Fantasy Along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Baginski’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Latin@ Literatures, Culture Machine, Chasquí, Humanística, the Yearbook of Comparative Literature and Liminalities. For Vol 22 of Culture Machine, Anthropocene Infrapolitics, Baginski wrote the article From Correlation to Corroboration: When the Weather Makes Sense of Death (2023).
Svea Braeunert is a scholar of art and media based in Berlin. Her work in visual and digital culture analyzes topics at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, such as drone warfare, terrorism, borders and migration, and environmental rights. Currently, she is Interim Professor of Media Studies/Media Theory at the University of Potsdam.
Maddalena Cerrato is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Michel Foucault’s Practical Philosophy: A Critique of Subjectivation Processes (SUNY 2025) and many articles about infrapolitics, nationalism, topology, and autography. Her current book project is titled Against Order: Infrapolitics, Autography, and Matrianarchy.
Andreas Graae is Assistant Professor and Head of Research at the Institute for Military Technology, Royal Danish Defence College. He holds a PhD in cultural/war studies from University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on emerging and disruptive technologies and the future(s) of warfare, in particular how artificial intelligence, drones, and autonomous systems change military organizations, cultures and battlefields. He is author of a number of publications on technology and late modern warfare, including the book Drone Imaginaries: The Power of Remote Vision (Manchester University Press, 2021) as well as chapters and articles on big data surveillance, politics of drone warfare, swarming and the future of robotic warfare.
Lila Lee-Morrison is a writer, scholar and art historian. Her research interests are situated at the intersection of media aesthetics, visual culture, and surveillance studies with a specific emphasis on algorithmic and machinic modes of perception. She has published with MIT Press, Artforum, Liverpool University Press, and Brill Publishing.
Sebastián Lomelí Bravo is a professor of Philosophy specializing in Aesthetics at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His research focuses on environmental aesthetics and art involving biotechnologies and digital media. His academic interests also encompass image theory, ontology, and the philosophy of technology. He is the author of Prototipos. Procesos de investigación artística sobre tecnología y vida (2025). He has published several articles on environmental aesthetics, the Anthropocene, and technological forms of attunement with the non-human. In addition, he is a founding member of Arte+Ciencia, an interdisciplinary group dedicated to research and artistic production. Through this collective, he has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions addressing transgenics, ecology, and the intersections between nature and artificiality.
Gabriela Méndez Cota is a full-time faculty member in the Department of Philosophy of Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, where she also contributes to the PhD in Critical Gender Studies. Her research explores the cultural, political and infrapolitical dimensions of new media and technologies. Her first book was Disrupting Maize: Food, Biotechnology and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). In English, her work has appeared in new formations, Media Theory, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Política Común, and the Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identities. Her work in both English and Spanish can also be accessed through her profile in Knowledge Commons. Between 2019 and 2021 Gabriela led a practice-based educational initiative on critical/feminist/intersectional perspectives of open access, which included a collaboration with the COPIM project Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University, UK, and resulted in a collectively written experimental book titled Ecological Rewriting. Situated Engagements with the Chernobyl Herbarium (Open Humanities Press, 2023).
Robert Mitchell is Professor of English at Duke University. He is author of Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era: Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity (2006), Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism, co-authored with Catherine Waldby (2006), Bioart and the Vitality of Media (2010), Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature (2013), Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics Between Romanticism and Liberalism (2021), and The Smartness Mandate (2023), co-authored with Orit Halpern. His current research focuses on relationships among biopolitics, the logic of populations, and the arts, with an emphasis on applications of artificial intelligence and theories of computer-assisted learning.
Cristina Moreiras-Menor is Kathleen M. Canning Collegiate of Spanish and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the intersections of cultural critique, political theory, and psychoanalysis with film, literature, and visual arts. She is the author of Cultura herida: Literatura y cine en la España democrática and La estela del tiempo: Historicidad e imagen en el cine español contemporáneo.
Lotte Philipsen (PhD) is associate professor with the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is director of AIIM – Centre for Aesthetics of AI Images, PI of NEW VISIONS: Image cultures in the era of AI, and PI of AIsthesis – network for research on the aesthetics of AI imagery. Recent publications include “Deep Art History: Inferences between ‘Google Arts & Culture’ and Art Museums” (2024, Critical Digital Art History, eds: Dahlgren & Wasielewski), and “Democratization and generative AI image creation: aesthetics, citizenship, and practices” (with Herrie, Maleve, and Staunæs, 2024, AI & Society).
Adam R. Rosenthal is Associate Professor of French and Global Studies at Texas A&M University. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Emory University in 2014. His first book, Poetics and the Gift: Reading Poetry from Homer to Derrida (Edinburgh University Press 2022), traces the expansive role of gifts and gift-giving in Western poetry, while his second book, Prosthetic Immortalities: Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life (University of Minnesota Press 2024), asks how philosophical, poetic, and religious tropes of immortality inform biological and transhuman notions of immortal and indefinite life. He has published essays in SubStance, Poetics Today, Oxford Literary Review, and MLN, is an Associate Editor for the journal Derrida Today, and leads the “Humanities and Anthropocene Initiative” for Texas A&M’s Glasscock Center for Humanities Research.
Pat Treusch is assistant professor in Humanities with a focus on human centered IT, located at the Department of Design, Media and Educational Science (IDMU) in Kolding and at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) in Odense, both South Danish University (SDU). Pat researches transforming human-machine relations from a perspective of feminist science and technology studies (FSTS) with a special interest in human robot interaction (HRI). Her interdisciplinary research is invested in not only raising but also addressing time-critical questions of shaping our digitized, AI-driven tech presents and futures from a critical perspective. Her expertise encompasses in-depth analysis of everyday tech lab practices, of socially powerful visions of tech futures, and of user-tech interfaces, as well as becoming a ‘tech practitioner’ herself, including the work on tools for interdisciplinary and intersectoral research and design as for example her book on robotic knitting (2020) displays.
Teresa M. Vilarós is Professor at Texas A&M University (Global Languages and Cultures). Her many publications focus on modern/contemporary visual, lit, and cultural studies, the environment, the Anthropocene, and psychoanalysis. Vilaros’ seminal book El mono del desencanto: Una crítica cultural de la transición española came out in a second, extended edition in 2018. She is currently working on a book, “Des/Ocupación, o la práctica de la seducción consumerista.” Taking Spain as a case study, she discusses how the raging destruction of all things brought up by the Anthropocene was fueled in the second part of the twentieth century in the West by a spectacular politics of mass seduction.
Ilios Willemars is Assistant Professor in Cultural Analysis and Literary Studies at Leiden University. Ilios works on placeholders, replacement, contagion, insurance, immunity, infrastructure, islands, data, the work of Franz Kafka, and animals that commit suicide. Recent publication: The political life of placeholders: poetics of sacrifice in digital video art (UCP press, 2025).
Félix Zamora-Gómez is a researcher, educator and curator working in the fields of contemporary visual culture. architecture, and film. He is Program Coordinator for Engagement at the University of Michigan’s Art Initiative where he designs and implements programs for arts integration in the curriculum to expand arts learning. In his research, he explores visual culture as it relates to the production historicity in Spain with a special focus on the 20th century through contemporary art practices and exhibitions. His research has been recently published in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, and in the books Cartografias in/justas: Representaciones culturales del espacio urbano y rural en la España contemporánea (2024) and La ex-critura de Juan Benet (2024).