Joanna Zylinska is a writer, artist, curator and Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice at King’s College London, where she directs the Centre for the Ecologies of Attention and Perception. An advocate of ‘radical open-access’, she is a co-Director of Open Humanities Press and an editor of its MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW book series. Zylinska is an author of a number of books – including The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future Between the Eye and AI (MIT Press, 2023), AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams (Open Humanities Press, 2020) and The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). Her own art practice involves experimenting with different kinds of image-based media. Zylinska is currently researching perception and cognition as boundary zones between human and machine intelligence, while examining various narratives of collapse, be it on the level of AI models or planetary systems.
Michael Stead is Lecturer in Sustainable Design Futures at Lancaster University. His practice-led research explores the environmental, social, and economic opportunities and challenges emerging technologies including AI, IoT and Digital Fabrication pose for redressing climate change and engendering climate justice. As an investigator on UKRI research grants worth over £2.5m, Michael has been advancing approaches including More-than-Human-Design, Regenerative Design and Participatory Futuring in order to develop innovative design tools and strategies with local community partners, policymakers, and wider industry. He is the Design Council's Skills for Planet Regional Champion for the Northwest of England and a review board member the Association for Computing Machinery’s Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies.
