Kris De Decker is the author of Low-tech Magazine, an online publication that refuses to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution. Since 2018, Low-tech Magazine runs on a self-hosted, solar powered server, and since 2019 it is also available in print. De Decker also wrote for the Demand Centre at Lancaster University (UK), which researches energy demand in relation to social practices, material infrastructures, and institutional arrangements.
Contributors 2020
Malte's professional background is in media-design and software engineering and he currently investigates various conceptions of sustainability as well as indicator-based sustainability assessment frameworks for the integration of process with life-cycle oriented perspectives. He considers collaborative research at the interface of data, information, conceptions and orientations of sustainability to be a challenge of outstanding relevance to advance socio-ecological transformations.
Malte Steiner (born 1970) is a German media artist, electronic musician and composer. He started creating electronic music and visual art around 1983, developing his own vision of the interdisciplinary Gesamtkunstwerk. Besides diverse music projects Steiner is also involved in several open source projects and has done lectures, radio features and workshops.
Mara works with networks and servers in all kind of settings, from telecom to feminist collectives support. She co-organises ad-hoc tech workshops and grassroots festivals, and writes about technology as an independent researcher.
Marloes de Valk (NL) is a software artist and writer in the post-despair stage of coping with the threat of global warming and being spied on by the devices surrounding her. Surprised by the obsessive dedication with which we, even post-Snowden, share intimate details about ourselves to an often not too clearly defined group of others, astounded by the deafening noise we generate while socializing with the technology around us, she is looking to better understand why.
Martin Nadal is an artist/creative coder based in Linz and studying the Interface Cultures program. In the past years he has produced a variety of art projects and taught workshops mainly related to money, blockchain and surveillance.
Mathieu Zurstrassen is a trained architect who from 2013 embraces the path of visual arts. In designing objects, he moves away from the projection of the drawing and focuses on the experimentation of construction.
I am moving from the field of audiovisual live performances and experimental film to forest
gardening, building livinglab and back. With a background in information science and coding,
I was among the founders and currently a curator of node9.org digital community server and
online gallery. My practice involves writing on online activism, digital curation or postmediality,
as part of creating networks based on trust in those fields. In the recent projects on the role of