Biographies
Simon Browne
An artist, researcher and self-proclaimed "contingent librarian", convenient shorthand for an ever-expanding list of actions he performs in his practice. He is a member of Varia and a graduate of XPUB, the Experimental Publishing Master Programme of the Piet Zwart Institute. Simon is the initiator of the bootleg library, a collection of republished texts and the readers collected around them. His work engages with the social dimension of publishing, free software and infrastructure that supports interpersonal knowledge-sharing networks.
Luke Murphy
Luke Murphy is a programmer based in Rotterdam, whose interests currently revolve around peer-to-peer systems, technology co-operatives, low-tech constraints, Do-It-With-Others approaches, counterfoil research and community organising. He is a proud member of Varia, Centre for Everyday Technology.
Lozana Rossenova
Lozana Rossenova is a researcher and designer based in Berlin. She recently completed a PhD degree at London South Bank University, in collaboration with Rhizome, working on a redesign of the ArtBase net art archive. Lozana is an active member of the Wikimedia community and is particularly interested in working with open-source and community-driven approaches to digital infrastructures, which organise, store and make knowledge, and different ways of knowing, accessible.
Pedro Sá Couto
Pedro Sá Couto is a media researcher and graphic designer from Porto, Portugal. His research focuses on surveillance in the realm of publishing, while questioning authorship, protecting users’ identity and revealing hidden processes required to subvert surveillance in physical and digital media.