Sonja, Artemis, Greta, Bernard: Interview on S/CARE PACKAGES

John Tinnell is director of digital studies and associate professor of English at the University of Colorado Denver. He is the author of two books: The Philosopher of Palo Alto: Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things (Chicago, 2023), as well as Actionable Media: Digital Communication Beyond the Desktop (Oxford, 2018). His journal articles on media theory and the history of technology have appeared in Computational Culture, Fibreculture, Computers and Composition, Convergence, and Deleuze Studies. He has also written about contemporary digital culture for the Los Angeles Times and Boston Review.

Jon McKenzie is researcher, designer, and artist. He is Director of StudioLab, a critical design and media lab at Cornell University that connects researchers, designers, and organizations working in human rights, public health, and social and environmental justice. His books include Transmedia Knowledge for Liberal Arts and Community Engagement: A StudioLab Manifesto (2019) and Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance (2001). Trained in Fine Arts, English, and Performance Studies, Jon worked as a writer and UX designer in NYC in the dot.com era, and now heads StudioLab’s

Design and participatory-action research projects in the US and abroad. He is also founder and former director of DesignLab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and co-founder of the performance group McKenzie Stojnić. In addition to research, teaching, and consulting, Jon produces films, lecture performances, and other media. His work and that of StudioLab can be found at labster8.net.

Ana Vujanović (Berlin/Belgrade) is a cultural worker focused on bringing together critical theory and contemporary art. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre Studies and postgraduate diploma in Culture and Gender Studies. She was a guest professor at the Performance Studies Dpt. of the University Hamburg. Since 2016 she is a team member and mentor at SNDO, University of the Arts Amsterdam and since 2022 – a guest professor at HZT, University of the Arts Berlin. For many years, she was a member of the Belgrade-based collective TkH [Walking Theory] and editor-in-chief of the TkH Journal for Performing Arts Theory. She participates in artworks (performance, theatre, dance, and video/film), as a dramaturge and co-author, most recently documentary Landscapes of Resistance dir. by M. Popivoda (2021). She has published a number of articles and several books, most recently Toward a Transindividual Self: A Study in Social Dramaturgy, with B. Cvejic (Berlin: Archive, (2022) 2023).

Dan Ross completed his PhD on “Heidegger and the Political” at Monash University in 2002. His film The Ister, co-directed with David Barison and starring Bernard Stiegler, Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Hans-Jürgen Sybergerg, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2004, and later won awards at Montreal and Marseille. He is the author of Violent Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Towards a Metacosmics (Open Humanities Press, 2004). He has translated twelve books by Bernard Stiegler, most recently The Age of Disruption (Polity Press, 2019), Nanjing Lectures 2016–2019 (Open Humanities Press, 2020) and the collective volume Bifurcate: ‘There is No Alternative’ (Open Humanities Press, 2021), as well as dozens of articles, chapters, and lectures. He has written and lectured extensively on Stiegler’s work, including and especially at Yachay Tech, Ecuador, at Tongji University, Shanghai, and at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy.