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Lev Manovich (PhD) is one of the leading theorists of digital culture worldwide and a pioneer in applying data science to analyse contemporary culture. Manovich is the author and editor of 15 books, including Cultural Analytics, AI Aesthetics, Theories of Software Culture, Instagram and Contemporary Image, Software Takes Command, Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database and The Language of New Media

, which was described as “the most suggestive and broad-ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan”. He was included in the list of “25 People Shaping the Future of Design” in 2013 and the list of “50 Most Interesting People Building the Future” in 2014. Manovich is a Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and a Director of the Cultural Analytics Lab. The lab created projects for the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the New York Public Library, Google, and other clients. Manovich’s latest book Cultural Analytics was published by the MIT Press in fall 2020.

Alisa Maximova

is a junior research fellow at the Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities in the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. Alisa is a sociologist interested in studying culture and interaction in various contexts. She carries out research in the field of Museum Studies, investigating how people make sense of exhibitions, perceive museum objects (exhibits, texts, multimedia, technological devices), and interact with each other in museum space. She focuses on contemporary cultural practices and on new approaches to museum visiting that emphasize audience participation and agency. Her other research interests include ethnomethodology and science and technology studies, as well as memory studies.

Maria-Valeria Morris, PhD, is an anthropologist and folklorist based in Moscow, Russia. She graduated from the National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia and then from the Russian State University of the Humanities, Moscow, summa cum laude, is a research fellow at School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and an assistant professor at the Department of Cultural Studies and Social Communication in the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia. Her primary research interests are late medieval and early modern Irish folklore (specifically, mythological genealogies and rapparee/Jacobite parafolklore), contemporary Irish Republicanism and the semiotics of sequential art. She has translated both academic literature and fiction, most notably Do Not Say We Have Nothing

by Madeleine Thien. She teaches academic translation at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences and is also an illustrator and a comic book artist.

Jeremy Morris is a social anthropologist and an associate professor in Global Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Research interests include the ethnography of post-socialism, the political economy of everyday life, and the anthropology of heterogeneity. He does research in the fields of post-Soviet small towns, transformations of the working class, the political ecology of activism, and the informal economy. His recent works include: Everyday Post-Socialism: Working-Class Communities in the Russian Margins

. (Palgrave 2016), Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces: Practices, Institutions and Networks. / Morris, Jeremy; Polese, Abel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Galina Orlova is a senior research fellow at the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and its Consequences, the National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow. She is a social researcher with interests in nuclear urbanism, digital qualitative studies, science and technology studies, discourse analysis, and 20th century Russian history.

Marcus Owens is a San Francisco-based architect and urban historian. He is a founding partner of CAMO Design and holds a PhD in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning with an emphasis in Science and Technology Studies.