Annet Dekker is a curator and researcher. Currently she is Assistant Professor Cultural Analysis and MA Coordinator Archival and Information Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and Visiting Professor and co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University. Previously she was Researcher Digital Preservation at Tate, London, core tutor at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and Fellow at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. She also worked as web curator for SKOR, was programme manager at Virtueel Platform and curator/head of exhibitions, education and artists in residence at the Netherlands Media Art institute. She publishes regularly in numerous collections and journals and is the editor of several volumes, among others, Documentation as Art (co-edited with Gabriella Giannachi, Routledge 2023) and Curating Digital Art. From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-Curating (Valiz 2021). Her monograph, Collecting and Conserving Net Art (Routledge 2018) is a seminal work in the field of digital art conservation.

Her early installations and video works have won the IDA Digital Art Award Academy Award Finalist (2006) and the Yokohama New Media Art Video Festival Nomination Award (2007). In 2020, she is the winner of the Hyundai Blue Prize China Young Curator Award for her cutting-edge research on space art and her distinctive curatorial achievements. She has been invited as the academic judge of the National Art Fund Project, the workshop instructor of the International Design Education Forum of Tsinghua University, and the academic guest of the Beijing Film Academy International New Media Art Triennial. She has planned and organized many large-scale new media and technology art festivals in China, Academic forum; leaded and participated in the establishment of multiple interdisciplinary laboratories.
 As a cosmic nomad born in Inner Mongolia, a creative curator and media researcher from new media art, She uses her curatorial creations to think about many issues, such as the recursion and compensation of subject perception in the sequence of time and space; the companionship of social innovation and public art; the relationship between human individual displacement and information dissemination, and the social & technical problems caused by it. Her studies involve film, contemporary art, technological art, etc.

Carly Whitaker, an independent curator, researcher, artist, and lecturer based in Johannesburg, received her PhD from the University of Reading (UK). Her research focuses ex- ploring networked curatorial methodologies in the South African context. She has exhibited in Johannesburg, Frei- burg, Casablanca, Miami, and Sao Paulo. Whitaker's work delves into the intricate interplay between communication, media, and technology, fostering dialogues and connections within the digital realm. Noteworthy curatorial projects in- clude Floating Reverie, a digital residency program, and Blue Ocean, an online digital project space initiated in 2022. She was previously the Curatorial Director of the TMRW Gallery in Johannesburg in 2021-2022, where she oversaw the production and exhibition of digital artwork in a work- shop context. Drawing from her extensive experience in lec- turing and research roles, Whitaker integrates design re- search practices into her own explorations, focusing on cul- tivating spaces for digital artists to expand their research and practices. www.carlywhitaker.co.za

Jekaterina Belakova is a creative technologist and transdisciplinary researcher. She is currently a media arts cultures scholar.