Digital PTSD: The Practice of Art and Its Impact on Digital Trauma 

Beatriz Colomina is an architecture historian, theorist, and curator. She is the founding director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University, the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture, and Director of Graduate studies in the School of Architecture.

Mark Wigley is Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia GSAPP. His most recent book is Konrad Wachsmann’s Television: Post-Architectural Transmissions (Sternberg Press, 2020).

Matteo Pasquinelli is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University in Venice where he is coordinating the ERC project AIMODELS. For Verso Books, he wrote the monograph The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (2023), from which this text has been excerpted.

Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker, moving-image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary. Her principal topics of interest are media, technology, and the global circulation of images. Through her writing practice, films, and performative lectures, Steyerl considers the status of the image in an increasingly global and technological world.

Grada Kilomba is a interdisciplinary artist and writer, born in Lisbon and living in Berlin. Her work draws on memory, trauma, race, gender, and the decolonization of knowledge. She is the author of Plantation Memories (2008) a compilation of episodes of everyday racism written in the form of short psychoanalytical stories; and the coeditor of Mythen, Masken und Subjekte (2005), an anthology on Critical Whiteness Studies. Her artworks have been presented internationally at the 10th Berlin Biennale; Documenta 14; the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo; Rauma Biennal Balticum; Art Basel; Frieze London; Cape Town Art Fair; and the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Marrakech, among others.

Bracha L. Ettinger is an Israeli painter, writer, psychoanalyst, and philosopher living and working in Paris and Tel Aviv.

Agnieszka Kurant (Łódź, Poland, 1978) is a conceptual artist investigating collective and nonhuman intelligences and the exploitations present in digital surveillance capitalism. Kurant is the recipient of the 2020 LACMA A+T Award and the 2019 Frontier Art Prize. She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including Crowd Crystal at Castello di Rivoli (2021-22), Uncomputables at Hannover Kunstverein (2023), Exformation at Sculpture Center (2013), and Errorism at Kunsthal Gent and Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź (2021). In 2015 she realized a commission for the façade of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and in 2021-22 a permanent commission for the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. In 2010 she co-represented Poland in the Polish Pavilion at the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture (with A. Wasilkowska). Kurant’s works were also exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Kitchen; the Pompidou Center and Palais de Tokyo in Paris; Istanbul Biennial; the SFMOMA; Kunsthalle Wien, Witte de With; Whitechapel Art Gallery; the De Young Museum; Moderna Museet; Villa Medici; Milano Triennale; Bonner Kunstverein; Kunstverein in Hamburg; Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw; Frieze Projects; Performa Biennial; and FRONT Triennial, Cleveland; among many other institutions. Kurant was an artist-in-residence at the Berggruen Institute (2019-2021) and a visiting artist at MIT CAST (2017-2020), and held a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institute (2018). Her work will be featured in the upcoming Sydney Biennial, and her upcoming solo exhibitions and projects include a solo show at Mudam Luxemburg, as well as commissions for the Pompidou Center, and for Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection in Paris. Kurant’s monograph Collective Intelligence, co-edited by Stefanie Hessler and Jenny Jaskey, will be published by Sternberg Press/ MIT Press in February 2024.

Chus Martínez is Head of the Institute Art Gender Nature of the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW and Associate Curator of the Ocean Space, Venice, a collaborative platform spearheaded by TBA21–Academy, as well as Curator at Large at the Vuslat Foundation in Istanbul. She is a board member of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) and serves on the advisory boards of numerous international art institutions, including Castello di Rivoli, Turin; de Appel, Amsterdam; and Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin.