Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and activist. His recent books: Organization after Social Media (with Ned Rossiter, 2018), Sad by Design (2019), Stuck on the Platform (2022) and Extinction Internet (2022). He studied political science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and received his PhD from the University of Melbourne.
Denise Thwaites is a curator, writer and researcher specialising in contemporary cultural economies, who is currently Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Canberra. Denise was awarded her PhD in Aesthetics through The University of New South Wales (Australia) and l’Université Paris 8, Vincennes – Saint-Denis (France), before joining UNSW iCinema Research Centre as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She has worked in the contemporary arts sector at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Australia Council for the Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and has curated independent projects for cultural organisations across Australia and internationally. Her research harnesses poetic, experimental and collaborative modes of working to destabilise political, cultural and economic imaginaries.