## NOTE ON CONTRIBUTORS

LORENZO GINEPRINI is a research assistant (PhD) at the research training group Medienanthropologie ('Media Anthropology') at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Previously, he studied Philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Torino, the Freie Universität Berlin, and the Université Fribourg. His interdisciplinary dissertation project focuses on the operations of waste production, the media and techniques of its disappearance from the daily field of perception, and the artistic practices to bring it back into the sphere of the visible. The results of his research have been published in several journals, including Open Philosophy , Bildwelten des Wissens , and the International Lexicon of Aesthetics .

MAX LILJEFORS is Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University. His work focuses on the transformational and ameliorative dimension of the arts and of aesthetics and their potential for existential health. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of  Sciences  and  a  coordinator  of  the  collaboration  initiative Existential  Resilience:  Contemplation,  Aesthetics,  Compassion (ERiCi 2023-2025) at Lund University.

SØREN BRO POLD is PhD and Associate Professor of digital aesthetics. He has published on digital and media aesthetics focusing on the interface in its various forms, e.g., on electronic literature, net art, software art, creative software, urban interfaces, and digital culture. He took part in establishing the Digital Aesthetics Research Centre in 2002, in 2004 he co-organised the Read\_me festival on software art,  and  he  was  in  charge  of  the  research  project The Aesthetics of Interface Culture from 2004 to 2007 . Later, he was research manager in the Center for Digital Urban Living (2008-2012), part of the  interdisciplinary  research  centre  Participatory Information Technology, the research projects Literature Between Media , Translating Electronic Literature: A Transatlantic Program in Collaborative Digital Humanities , and Covid-19 and Electronic Literature . Currently, he is co-leader of the research programme Cultural Practices of Digital Technologies and PI of the forthcoming research project Human-AI  Collaboration:  Imaginaries, Interventions, Interfaces . Furthermore, he was chair of Electronic Literature  Organisation's conference Platform (Post?) Pandemic (2021). In relation to these research fields and groups, he has been active in establishing interface criticism as a research perspective, which discusses the role and the development of the interface for art, aesthetics, culture, and IT in several articles and books. Besides his research interests, he has taken part in university administration and -politics, e.g., as a member of study boards, research committees, academic council (2004-12) and member of the board of Aarhus University representing the scientific staff (2015-20).

DEVIKA SHARMA is Associate Professor of Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen. Her current work is dedicated to charting dominant Nordic cultures of feeling, and her book on privilege sensibility in Scandinavian public culture, The Predicament of Privilege , is forthcoming with University of Washington Press. As an editor at the Nordic journal K&K, Sharma has co-edited special issues on topics  such  as  affectivity,  cultural  critique,  guilt  and  shame  in Scandinavia, and sentimentality.

JUSSI PENTIKÄINEN is a doctoral student currently working on his PhD thesis in aesthetics at the University of Helsinki. His thesis will follow the development of the relationship between art and ethics in Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy.

DANIELA  AGOSTINHO is Associate Professor in Digital Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. She works in the fields of visual and digital culture, artistic and curatorial research, with a focus on colonial archives and artistic responses to war and imperial histories. At Aarhus University, she is co-director of the research unit Postcolonial Entanglements and the Center for Critical Data Practices. She is co-editor of the books (W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press, 2020), Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data (MIT Press, 2021), The Uncertain Image (Routledge, 2019), and Panic and Mourning: The Cultural Work of Trauma (Walter De Gruyter, 2012). She currently co-directs the network Reparative Encounters: a transcontinental network for artistic research and reparative practices .

JUSSI PARIKKA is Professor in Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus  University,  where  he  is  also  the  director  of  the  Digital Aesthetics Research Centre as well as the co-director of the new research program Environmental Media and Aesthetics . For the past five years he led the research project Operational Images and Visual Culture at the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, where he holds a  visiting  professor  position.  His  earlier  books  include Digital Contagions (Peter Lang, 2007/2016), Insect Media (University Of Minnesota Press, 2010), What is Media Archaeology? (Polity Press, 2012), A Geology of Media (University Of Minnesota Press, 2015), and The Lab Book (University  of  Minnesota  Press,  2022,  co-authored). Operational Images came out in 2023, and in 2024, the co-authored Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media was published. In addition, he has published several co-edited  volumes,  such  as Photography  Off  the  Scale (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Parikka's books have been translated into 12 languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Czech, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

ANDERS  ENGBERG-PEDERSEN is  Professor  of  Comparative Literature  at  the  University  of  Southern  Denmark,  Chair  of Humanities  at  the  Danish  Institute  for  Advanced  Studies,  and Director of the Nordic Humanities Center. He is the author of Empire of Chance: The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things (Harvard University Press, 2015), Martial Aesthetics: How War Became an Art Form (Stanford University Press, 2023, German translation 2024, Russian translation 2025), and he has edited and co-edited numerous volumes,  most  recently War  and  Literary  Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and War and Aesthetics: Art, Technology , and the Futures of Warfare (MIT Press, 2024). He also serves as editor of the book series Prisms: Humanities and War with MIT Press.

AURORA HOEL is Professor of media studies and visual culture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Hoel has published widely in the overlapping fields of media theory, science studies, and the philosophy of technology. Currently she investigates the generative roles of bodies and machines in knowledge and being, seeking to establish an eco-operational aesthetics. She is the PI of the research project Visualizing the Deep Sea in the Age of Climate Change (2023-2027), funded by the Research Council of Norway.

MAXIME BOIDY is  Lecturer  in  Visual  Studies  at  Gustave  Eiffel University, member of the Research Laboratory LISAA (EA 4120). His research work mainly deals with the intellectual history of visual knowledge and political iconography. He has published an introduction to visual studies in French entitled Les Études visuelles (Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2017) and co-edited the book Visions et visualités. Philosophie politique et culture visuelle (POLI Éditions, 2018, including French translations of W.J.T. Mitchell, Susan BuckMorss, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Griselda Pollock, Mary-Ann Doane, and John Rajchman). Among several articles translated into English, he has published ''I hate visual culture.' The controversial rise of visual studies and the disciplinary politics of the visible,' which has been translated  by  Julie  Patarin-Jossec  and  Susan  Hansen,  in Visual Studies , vol. 35, no. 4.

HAUKE OHLS , PhD, is Postdoc and research assistant at the Chair of Contemporary Art and Digital Image Cultures at the Institute of Art  History,  Rheinische  Friedrich-Wilhelms-  Universität  Bonn. Further,  he  conducted  research  and  taught  art  history  at  the Universities of Duisburg-Essen, Trier, and Aarhus. His research focuses on theoretical, sociological, and philosophical questions of modern and contemporary art, especially ecological aesthetics, discourses on object, materiality, and image as well as the relationship between art, economy, and neo-liberalism.