Claudia Benthien is professor at the Institute for German Language and Literature at Universität Hamburg. Her monographs include Skin: On the Cultural Border between Self and the World (Columbia UP, 2002), Barockes Schweigen. Rhetorik und Performativität des Sprachlosen im 17. Jahrhundert [Baroque Silence: Rhetoric and Performativity of the Speechless in the Seventeenth Century] (Fink, 2006), Tribunal der Blicke. Kulturtheorien von Scham und Schuld und die Tragödie um 1800 [Tribunal of the Gaze: Cultural Theories of Shame and Guilt and the Tragedy around 1800] (Böhlau, 2011), The Literariness of Media Art (co-authored; Routledge, 2019), and Public Poetry. Lyrik im urbanen Raum [Public Poetry. The Lyrik in Urban Space] (co-authored; De Gruyter, 2023). Among other grants, Dr. Benthien has held a DAAD Fellowship at Deutsches Haus, NYU, a senior fellowship at IFK, Vienna, the Nord LB/ Warburg-Wolfenbüttel-Fellowship of the Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel, and the Warburg Institute, London, and a research fellowship at MSH, Paris. She was a visiting scholar at Columbia University and has held visiting professorships at Rutgers University; the University of Washington, Seattle; the University of California, Berkeley; and Emory University. Claudia Benthien has received third-party funding for numerous individual and collaborative research projects, conducted at Universität Hamburg. Presently she is the principal investigator of the project Poetry in the Digital Age, funded through an Advanced Grant of the European Research Foundation (ERC).

Scott Rettberg is Director of the Center for Digital Narrative, a Norwegian Center of Research Excellence, and Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. Rettberg was a co-founder of the Electronic Literature Organization and was the project leader of the seven-nation HERA-Funded project ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice. He is the author/coauthor of novel-length works of electronic literature, combinatory poetry, and films including The Unknown, Kind of Blue, Implementation, Frequency, The Catastrophe Trilogy, Three Rails Live, Toxi•City, Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project, Republicans in Love, and others. Rettberg is the author of Electronic Literature (Polity, 2019), a comprehensive study of the histories and genres of electronic literature and winner of the N. Katherine Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature.

Jörg Piringer is member of the Institute for transacoustic research and also member of The vegetable orchestra. Master degree in computer science. Works as a freelance artist and researcher in the fields of electronic music, radio art, sound and visual electronic poetry, interactive collaborative systems, online communities, live performance, sound installation, computer games and video art.

Jana Horáková is an associate professor of new media art at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, Czech Republic, where she oversees the study programs Theory of Interactive Media (MA) and Digital Culture and Creative Industries (PhD). She specializes in local new media art history, robotic art, and innovative methodologies of new media art research and mediation. She has presented her research in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Finland, the USA, and Japan. She is the author of several papers, book chapters, and books on the cultural history of robotics, robotic art, software art, and new media art preservation strategies. For a number of years, she has been experimenting with cutting-edge applications of new media as research tools within research on the history and aesthetics of digital art, co-curated exhibitions, and led the interdisciplinary research project Media Art Live Archive.

Josef Šlerka works at the New Media Studies Department at Charles University in Prague. His research focuses primarily on social media data analysis, digital humanities, and media analysis. He is currently focused on using AI to bridge the gap between quantitative and qualitative methods.

András Cséfalvay is a visual artist and digital storyteller from Bratislava. He also serves as an associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. After studying painting and mathematics, he wrote a dissertation on the usefulness and reality of fiction. His work explores the relationship between culture and technology, and the political and ethical aspects of listening to non-dominant voices in interpreting the world. His latest projects investigate the relationship between astronomers and Indigenous peoples in the construction of the Mauna Kea telescope, the flight of dinosaurs as a survival technology after extinction, and the reclassification of the planet Pluto. He is a recipient of the Oskár Čepan Award for young visual artists and a co-founder of the Platform for Digital Art.

Matej Novotný co-leads the Digital Arts studio at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. He specializes in digital technologies, visualization, creative programming, and virtual environments. He studied mathematics and computer graphics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Comenius University in Bratislava. He has published research in the areas of interactive information visualization, virtual and augmented reality. He is a co-founder of VIS GRAVIS, a company working in the field of visual computing and interaction.

Karel Piorecký (* 1978). Literary scholar and researcher in the field of new media and artificial intelligence. He works in the Department of 20th‑Century and Contemporary Literature at the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His expertise lies in the history of modern Czech poetry and the interplay between literature and new media. He has published the monographs Czech Poetry in the Postmodern Situation (2011) and Czech Literature and New Media (2016). In collaboration with Zuzana Husárová, he co‑authored the monograph *The Culture of Neural Networks: Synthetic Literature and Art in (Not Only) the Czech and Slovak Context* (2024).

Zuzana Husárová is a Slovak poet, researcher, and scholar specializing in electronic literature, digital media, and intermedia performance. She is an Associate Professor of Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and an editor for the gender-focused magazine Glosolália. She has published four poetry books—liminal, lucent, amoeba, and Hypomnemata—as well as Výsledky vzniku (laureate of a national poetry prize), a book generated by the neural network Liza Gennart and co-created with Ľubomír Panák, and a bilingual Slovak-German collection Hyper (translated by Martina Lisa). She has co-edited two collective monographs on electronic literature research. Her theoretical book The Culture of Neural Networks, co-authored with Karel Piorecký, received the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism in Electronic Literature.