who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Marina Vishmidt
Queen Mary University, School of
Business and Management, 20
Lansdowne Drive, London, E8 3EG,
United Kingdom
Keywords labour, capital, capitalism,
Marx, feminism, materialism, finance,
speculation, realism, critical,
experimental, moving-image, value,
avant-garde, politics
Natasha Vita-More
University of Plymouth
Keywords biomedia, ethics and bias,
future studies, NBIC technologies,
transBioArt
Frans Vogelaar
Keywords urban, communication,
Marina Vishmidt is a writer based in London concentrating on art and
work. Currently conducting Ph.D. research at Queen Mary, University
of London on 'Speculation as a Mode of Production in Art and Capital',
recent research posts include a critic's residency at the FRAC Lorraine
and a fellowship at the Jan van Eyck Academie. She received her MA
at the Middlesex Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy
in 2004. She has co-edited Uncorporate Identity (2010) with
Metahaven, and Media Mutandis: Art, Technologies and Politics
(2006). She has written for artists' publications including Ruth
Buchanan, Chris Evans and Olivia Plender, and is a frequent
contributor to catalogues, edited collections and journals such as Mute,
Afterall, Texte zur Kunst, and Reartikulacija.
› The cultural logic of criticality, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 7.3, 253-269.
Natasha Vita-More is a Ph.D. candidate, Planetary Collegium and
University of Plymouth. Her research concerns human enhancement
and radical life extension. Vita-More’s design ‘Primo Posthuman’ has
been featured in , LAWeekly, The New York Times, U.S. News & World
Report, Net Business, Teleopolis and The Village Voice. She has
appeared in over 24 televised documentaries on human enhancement
and transhumanism, and is featured in 100 000 Ans de Beauté.
Currently, Vita-More is a fellow at the Institute for Ethics and
Emerging Technologies; a Visiting Scholar at 21st Century Medicine;
and Advisor to the Singularity University, the Board of Directors for
Humanity Plus, the Scientific Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, the
Alcor Foundation and Kenya SIYM International.
› Brave BioArt 2: shedding the bio, amassing the nano, and cultivating
posthuman life, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 5.3,
171-186.
› Aesthetics of the radically enhanced human, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of
Speculative Research, 8.2, 207-214.
› Epoch of plasticity: The metaverse as a vehicle for cognitive enhancement,
Metaverse Creativity, 1.1, 69-80.
Frans Vogelaar is Founder of Hybrid Space Lab (Amsterdam/Berlin), a
r&d and design practice focusing on the hybrid fields that are emerging
through the combination and fusion of environments, objects and
services in the information/communication age. Professor of Hybrid
Space at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and consultant to the
Dutch government on 'the use of space in the