Participants
Invited Participants Include:
(more to be added)
Nicole Anand
The New School
participatory design, mixed-methods research, public innovation research [bio]
Shamell Bell
Dartmouth
ethnographic and performance studies, street dance activism, radical joy, #blacklivesmatter movement [bio]
Mike Bonin
Council member for the 11th District of the City of Los Angeles [bio]
Jeff Burke
UCLA
shaping digital technologies for story telling, new genre art installations, engineering-art [bio]
Allison Carruth
UCLA
literature & science, environmental narratives, critical food studies, artists/writers in US environmental and food justice movements; [bio]
Rachel Corbman
Wake Forest University
feminist and queer studies, history of US social movements, feminist and LGBTQ activism [bio]
Taylor M. Cruz
California State University, Fullerton
big data and health tech, politics of measuring social difference [bio]
Dana Cuff
UCLA
affordable housing, modernism, suburban studies, the politics of place, tech and space [bio]
Kate Elswit
University of London
dance, performance studies, practice + research, dance history, experimental practice, data [bio]
Lori Emerson
University of Colorado at Boulder
media archaeology, media theory, history of computing, labs, humanities infrastructure [bio]
Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
UCLA
media studies, visual culture, performance, contemporary art, and diaspora studies [bio]
Anne Gilliland
UCLA
archival studies, memory and diaspora, bureaucratic violence, politics of metadata [bio]
Kian Goh
UCLA
urban ecological design, spatial politics, social mobilization, climate change, global urbanization [bio]
David Theo Goldberg
UC Humanities Research Institute
political and critical theory,
race, gender, dread, social media racism, the humanities [bio]
Elizabeth Guffey
SUNY, Purchase
art and design history, material culture, critical disability studies, designing disability [bio]
Akhil Gupta
UCLA
contemporary capitalism, development, postcoloniality, globalization, and the state [bio]
Aimi Hamraie
Vanderbilt University
critical disability, race, and feminist studies, architectural history, and science and technology studies [bio]
Ursula Heise
UCLA
contemporary literature and environmental humanities, multispecies storyworlds and environments, terraforming for urbanists [bio]
Theo Henderson
education, community, unhoused [bio]
Natalie Jeremijenko
NYU
art, engineering, environmental health, mutualistic systems design, public socio-technological-ecological experimentation [bio]
Christopher Lee
UCLA
biochemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics, genome evolution, remix freedom [bio]
Maya Livio
University of Colorado
STS, environmental media studies, feminist theory, media art, media archaeology , critical creative practice [bio]
Victoria Marks
UCLA
choreography, film, disability and dance studies, politics of citizenship, action conversations, 10 questions [bio]
Tara McPherson
USC
cinema studies, race, gender, feminist technology studies, platforms for hate, designing for difference [bio]
Nick Mitchell
UCSC
critical race studies, women’s studies, academic labor conditions, university studies, complicity [bio]
Romi Ron Morrison
USC
artistic practice, critical data studies, black feminist praxis, cultural geography, social infrastructure, community technology [bio]
Harold Monbouquette
UCLA
biochemical engineering, microsensors for neurochemical signaling compounds, technology, engineering, medicine [bio]
Darci Niva
The Westside Coalition
housing, hunger, health, community service coordination, public education, and advocacy [bio]
Jane Nguyen
Ktown for All
homeless advocacy, social and community coordination, neighborhood activism [bio]
Veronica Paredes
UCLA
urban media spaces, feminist digital practices, critical race and media studies [bio]
Marisa Parham
Amherst College
English, digital media, infrastructure, racial and social configurations, care, innovation [bio]
Anne Pasek
University of Alberta
climate change, new media, feminism, gender studies, environmental humanities [bio]
Todd Presner
UCLA
European intellectual history, digital humanities, mapping, and cultural geography, Tech City, algorithmic ethos [bio]
Matt Ratto
University of Toronto
science and technology studies, critical making, critical theory, complicity, innovation [bio]
Dylan Reibling
multi-media direction, short films, documentaries, interactive installations [bio]
Roopika Risam
Salem State University
postcolonial and African diaspora studies, humanities knowledge infrastructures, digital humanities, insurgent academics [bio]
Sarah Roberts
UCLA
information studies, information work and workers, commercial content moderation of social media, Internet governance and policy [bio]
David Schaberg
UCLA
literary studies, comparative studies, ancient Chinese history and literature, the humanities [bio]
Nicholas Shapiro
UCLA
multidisciplinary environmental studies, chemical contamination and climate change [bio]
Pelle Snickars
Umeå University
media economy, cultural digitization, media history, algorithmic intervention [bio]
Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
interaction design, digital women’s health, critical-feminist design of intimate technologies, feminist technoscience [bio]
Sverker Sörlin
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
environmental history, research and innovation policy, the science politics of climate change, ‘the environment’ as a governable object [bio]