Graduation Project Supervisor - Special Issue Supervisor
Cristina Cochior is a researcher and designer. She is a member of the everyday technology collective Varia, as well as part of the tutor team in the Hacking department of the Willem de Kooning Academie and in the Experimental Publishing department of the Piet Zwart Institute. Her work revolves around situated software, and poetics and politics of computational logic, with a focus on digital knowledge organisation and transmission. Together with other members of Varia, she works on collective, non-extractive digital infrastructures. With Jara Rocha and Karl Moubarak, she is currently part of a research group around digital discomfort. Recent projects she’s been part of include VLTK - Vernacular Language Toolkit, Digital Solidarity Networks, and Bots as Digital Infrapunctures.
Lídia Pereira [PT] is an artist and researcher whose work focuses on the political economy of the internet, algorithmic governance and labour in and around corporate social networks. She is currently a candidate in the PhDArts programme of the Leiden University Academy of Creative and Performing Arts and the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague where she is investigating the uses of videogames as feminist tactical media.
amy pickles is an artist and loosely formed educator. In her work, she experiments with ways to hold onto, and consider, pervasive colonial infrastructures we are a part of. In our work, redistribution - of knowledge, tools, finances - and collaboration are ways to refuse individual ownership.
Recent collective organising includes the co-curation of 'On Coloniality', a pedagogical programme for a.pass, and assisting the reading group That Might be Right, both based in Brussels, BE.
She co-facilitates the workshop series Performance Lab and Read & Repair in Varia, a collective of which she is a part of. She teaches at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Autonomous Practices, and recently collaboratively made a film about beekeeping in a shared studio garden in Rotterdam West.
Steve Rushton is a writer and editor based in Rotterdam. Rushton’s publications include *Experience, Memory, Re-enactment*, 2005 (co-editor); *The Milgram Re-enactment*, 2003 (contributing editor) *Masters of Reality* (2011). He has written essays and stories for numerous artists’ publications. He has collaborated with a number of artists and writers, including Rod Dickinson, Thomson & Craighead, Everything Editorial and Dexter Sinister. He is a co-founder of the research group Signal:Noise (2010-12), which investigated the prevalence of notions of feedback in contemporary culture. His ongoing project, a wiki entitled *The Fabulous Loop de Loop, a cybernetic discourse as read through seven feedback machines* (2020-present), builds on these interests
