Sylvia Eckermann  is an artist based in Vienna (AT). Her work focuses on a discursive engagement with form and media that culminates in critical artistic reflections on our entanglement as individuals in current socio-economic situations. She works with various media including digital and physical environments, installations, videos, objects, and sculptures. She is the first recipient of the City of Vienna Award for Media Art (2014) and was recently awarded the Austrian State Prize for Media Art (2018). Link

Gerald Nestler is an artist and author who explores the “derivative condition” of contemporary social relations and its models, narratives, processes and fictions. In his artistic practice he combines theory and forms of conversation with video, installation, performance, text, sound and speech. Among his most recent publications are the special issue of Finance and Society on Art and Finance (ed. with Suhail Malik, 2016) and an essay for the Routledge Handbook to Critical Finance Studies (with Victoria Ivanova, forthcoming). He holds a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmith, University of London. Link

Maximilian Thoman lives and studies in Innsbruck and Vienna. He heads the media arts association mkt – Büro für intermedialen Kommunikationstransfer and is a member of the managing committee of p.m.k – platform mobile cultural initiatives. Besides his curatorial practice in exhibition projects and lecture series he is an editorial board member of the online journal continent. Link