Transformation Marathon

Participants
Artist and founder of Deep Lab;
Harlo Holmes, Director of Metadata
for the Freedom of the Press; Joana
Varon, Lawyer and researcher:
Internet Governance and Digital
Rights; Kate Crawford, Principal
Researcher, Microsoft Research and
Madeleine Varner, Artist, Carnegie
Mellon University.
Disobedient Films was established
in 2014 by artist-filmmakers
Katharine Round and Leah
Borromeo to disrupt traditional
linear documentary and extract
new angles and emotions around
factual narratives. Their projects
are disobedient in form and
content—aiming to create an active
form of storytelling which brings
the viewer into the experience.
Projects include London Recruits
for the V&A (in collaboration with
Jamie Perera and Gilbert Sinnott),
Space Not Spikes, as well as
cross-genre works for Amnesty,
Platform London, Al Jazeera,
and feature documentaries in
co-production with Dartmouth
Films and others.
Marcus du Sautoy is the
Simonyi Professor for the Public
Understanding of Science and
Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Oxford. He is author
of three books: The Music of the
Primes, Finding Moonshine and most
recently The Number Mysteries.
He has presented numerous radio
and TV series including a four-part
landmark TV series for the BBC
called The Story of Maths. He has
written and performed a new play
called X&Y which has been staged
in London’s Science Museum and
Glastonbury Festival. He received
an OBE for services to science in
the 2010 New Year’s Honours List.
Jimmie Durham is an artist, poet,
essayist and political activist.
Durham’s work has been widely
exhibited internationally and
selected solo exhibitions include:
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
and Fondazione Querini Stampalia,
Venice (both 2015); Parasol
Unit, London (2014); MACRO,
Rome and MuHKA–Museum of
Contemporary Art, Antwerp (both
2012); Portikus, Frankfurt (2010);
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville
de Paris (2009); Matt’s Gallery,
London (2006 and 1988); DAAD,
Berlin and Kunstverein Munich
(both 1998); ICA, London and Palais
des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (both
1993). In addition to his current
exhibition at Serpentine Galleries,
Durham has participated in the
Extinction Marathon: Visions of the
Future (2014), Garden Marathon
(2011); Poetry Marathon (2009) and
Manifesto Marathon (2008).
Francine Elena is a poet who lives
and works in London, having
graduated from Edinburgh University
in 2008. Her poems have been
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