Yuk Hui (許煜) studied Computer Engineering and Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong and at Goldsmiths College in London. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation of Centre Pompidou and is currently postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Digital Cultures of Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Hui publishes internationally on philosophy of technics and media, in periodicals such as Metaphilosophy, Cahiers Simondon, Parrhesia, Intellectica, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, etc. He is author of On the Existence of Digital Objects (University of Minnesota Press).

Andreas Broeckmann is art historian and curator, works at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana Universität of Lüneburg and heads the Leuphana Arts Program. He curated exhibitions and festivals in major European venues, incl. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Vanabbe Museum, and transmediale Berlin. He holds a PhD in Art History from University of East Anglia, Norwich/UK. Broeckmann publishes and lectures about the history of modern art, media theory, machine aesthetics, and digital culture. He is the editor of Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology (with G. Nadarajan, Weimar 2009).