Armin Linke is a photographer and filmmaker whose work analyzes the formation, the “Gestaltung” of our natural, technological, and urban environment, perceived as a diverse space of continuous interaction. His photographs and films function as tools to heighten awareness of different design strategies. Through working with his own archive as well as other media archives, Linke challenges the conventions of photographic practice, whereby the questions of how photography is installed and displayed become increasingly important. Through a
collective approach with artists, designers, architects, historians, and curators, narratives are procured on the level of multiple discourses. Linke was Research Affiliate at MIT Visual Arts Program Cambridge, Guest Professor at the IUAV Arts and Design University in Venice, and Professor of Photography at the Karlsruhe University for Arts and Design.

Peter Hanappe studied electronic engineering at the University of Ghent, Belgium. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on real-time music and sound environments at Ircam (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris). As a researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris he worked on new modes of content creation and distribution that involve the participation of (online) communities. His work currently focuses on projects in the domain of sustainability. Hanappe was involved in setting up a collective system for monitoring noise in urban environment (NoiseTube), and in building critical components for large-scale climate simulations in collaboration with the U.K. Met. Office. Most recently he founded the P2P Food Lab to experiment with new technologies for agroecology and community-based food systems.