Dagmar Brunow

Dagmar Brunow is associate professor of film studies at Linnaeus University (SWE). Her research centers on archives and audiovisual heritage, cultural memory, documentary filmmaking as well as feminist and queer experimental filmmaking and video practice. Her research project The Lost Heritage (Swedish Science Council 2021–24) involves archive labs with film and video archives. Books: Remediating Transcultural Memory: Documentary Filmmaking as Archival Intervention (de Gruyter, 2015), Stuart Hall: Aktivismus, Pop & Politik [Stuart Hall: Activism, Pop & Politics] (ed., 2015), Queer Cinema (eds. with S. Dickel, 2018).

Meryem Choukri

Meryem Choukri is a PhD researcher at the Universities Warwick (UK) and Giessen (GER) working on resistant archives of Black and migrant feminist movements in Germany. She holds an MA in postcolonial culture and global policy from Goldsmiths University and is part of the bildungsLab*. Meryem works as a freelance educator and advisor on topics of intersectionality, empowerment, and colonialism. In Hamburg, she is part of the Diaspora Salon, a collective that creates spaces and stages for Black, migrant, and people of color, and hosts the podcast So Tasty with Susan Djahangard.

Kathrin Dreckmann

Kathrin Dreckmann is assistant professor at the Institut für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf. In addition to acoustic studies, her research focuses on pop culture and pop history between media art and music video.

Tiffany N. Florvil

Tiffany N. Florvil is an Associate Professor of 20th-century European Women’s and Gender History at the University of New Mexico. She specializes in the histories of post-1945 Europe, the African diaspora,Black internationalism, as well as gender and sexuality. She has published pieces in the Journal of Civil and Human Rights and The German Quarterly. Florvil has also coedited the volume Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories. Her recent manuscript Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement offers the first full-length study of the history of the Black German movement of the 1980s to the 2000s. She is on the Board of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH) and on the Advisory Board for the Black German Heritage and Research Association.

Marina Gržinić

Marina Gržinić is a philosopher and theoretician from Ljubljana. Since 1993 she has been employed at the Institute of Philosophy at the Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts (abbreviated ZRC-SAZU in Slovenian and SRC-SASA in English). She serves as a research advisor. Since 2003 she has also served as Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. Her work is directed towards a theory of ideology, theory of technology, biopolitics / necropolitics, video technology and transfeminism in connection with decoloniality. She is a video artist and has been working with Aina Šmid in video film production since 1982.

Angelika Gwozdz

Angelika Gwozdz studied art history and German (MA) at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf and is research associate at the Inter Media Art Instituten. In her master’s thesis Punk on Video: Selbstermächtigungen in den 1980er Jahren [Punk on Video: Self-empowerment in the 1980s] (2017), she studied the synergy effects between video art and early punk using works from the IMAI archive; it was published in Video Visionen [video visions] (2020, ed. Renate Buschmann and Jessica Nitsche). She works to counter discrimination and to make FLINTA* visible in punk and soccer.

Jack Halberstam

Jack Halberstam is professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University in New York. He conducts research in the fields of queer theory and gender studies, focusing on the presentation and representation of gender and sexuality. Books: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (1995), Female Masculinity (1998), In A Queer Time and Place (2005), The Queer Art of Failure (2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (2012), Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (2018), Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (2020).

Thomas Love

Thomas Love is a PhD candidate in art history at Northwestern University. His dissertation examines exoticism among queer subcultures in post-1960s West Germany, arguing that queer identity was constructed around representations of difference rooted in colonialism. His research has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Fulbright Program, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and fellowships in the Paris Program in Critical Theory and the Whitney ISP. His work has been published in Art in America and is forthcoming in the Art Institute Review.

Dirk Mate­jovski

Dirk Matejovski is a professor at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf (GER). Previously, he was managing director of the Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf. His main research interests are Acoustic Studies, the History and Theory of Media, Cultural and Media Techniques of Seriality, as well as Technology and Science Policy issues.

Angela McRobbie

Angela McRobbie FBA. Prof Emeritus at Goldsmiths University of London, Visiting Professor Coventry University Institute for Creative Cultures. Recent books include Feminism and the Politics of Resilience (2020), Be Creative (2016), The Aftermath of Feminism (2008), in German Top Girls (2010). Forthcoming Fashion as Creative Economy: Microenterprises in London, Berlin and Milan (2022). Forthcoming Critical Feminist Pedagogy: Cultural Studies Then and Now (2023). Angela lives in London and Berlin.

Wolfgang Müller

Wolfgang Müller, is an artist, musician, and author, lives in Berlin and part of the time Reykjavík. As he was beginning his studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin in 1980, he founded the postpunk band Die Tödliche Doris. As editor of Geniale Dilletanten for the Merve publishing house (1982), he coined that term for the subcultural art scene of the time. From 2001-2002, he was professor of experimental sculpture at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg. For his audio piece Séance Vocibus Avium, he received the Karl-Sczuka-Preis at the Musiktage in Donaueschingen in 2009. In the field of misunderstanding studies, which he founded, he is currently studying how misunderstandings occur.

Anne Niezgodka

Anne Niezgodka studied cultural and religious studies and gender studies in Marburg, Bochum, and Graz. Since 2013 she has been working at the archiv für alternatives schrifttum [archive for alternative writing], where she landed by mistake. She was so enthusiastic about the work there that she soon began pursuing archival studies in Potsdam so that she could call herself an archivist.

Soraya Nsingi

Soraya Nsingi is an undergraduate student intranscultural studies at the Heinrich-Heine-Universitätwith a focus on media and cultural studies. Herresearch deals with media analysis on film / tv andmusic videos through a postcolonial lens, with emphasison the African diaspora. She worked as a researchassistant at the institute of media and cultural sciencesand participated in this year’s Point of View 2.0 video essay competition of the Institute for Media andCultural Studies at Heinrich Heine University.

Jennifer Ramme

Jennifer Ramme is a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and the Collegium Polonicum in Słubice, as well as a member of the Viadrina Institute for European Studies (IFES). Her research focus is on critical, spatial, and aesthetic theoretical perspectives on the conflict of gender regimes. She has studied at the Art Academy in Poznań. As part of the Archiwum Niepokoju Spolecznego [Social Unrest Archive], she is documenting social dissent, movements, and protests.

Chris Regn

Chris Regn works as a conceptual artist, performer, and curator with research, shows, and videos, with the potential of delivery, media, and representation. Her interest in networks of women artists, mediating, exchanging experience often leads to research projects with interviews, festivals, and performative exhibitions. With Muda Mathis and Andrea Saemann, she organized productions such as the Performance Saga Interviews with women performers from the role model generation or the feminist Improvisatorium zu Feminismus in Basel. She has been active for many years at the bildwechsel archive in Hamburg.

Peter Rehberg

Peter Rehberg is Head of Collections at the Gay Museum in Berlin, where he also curates exhibitions, most recently 100 Objects: An Archive of Feelings and Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond. His research focuses on queer theory, visual and popular culture, and theories of the archive. He received his Ph.D. in German Literature from New York University and has held various positions at US universities, teaching and researching at Cornell, Northwestern and Brown. From 2011 to 2016, he was a DAAD professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent monograph is Hipster Porn: Queer Masculinities and Affective Sexualities in the Fanzine Butt (b_books 2018).

Linnea Semmerling

Linnea Semmerling studied art studies, cultural studies, and technology studies in Maastricht and Amsterdam. Her dissertation, Listening on Display: Exhibiting Sounding Artworks 1960s- now, was awarded the 2019 Media Art Histories Emerging Researcher Award. Semmerling has developed exhibitions for art institutions all over Europe (e.g., ZKM Karlsruhe, IKOB Eupen, Marta Herford, TENT Rotterdam) and regularly writes for academic publications, exhibition catalogues, and art magazines. Since 2020, she is the director of the Düsseldorf Inter Media Art Institute (IMAI).

Dirk Schulz

Dirk Schulz holds a doctorate in Anglophone studies and since 2012 is the managing director of GeStiK - Gender Studies in Cologne. His teaching, writing and research focus particularly on the potential of queer as a means of interrogating naturalised concepts of gender and sexuality. Since 2018 he is a speaker of the KEG (Conference of Institutions for Women's & Gender Studies in German-speaking Countries) as well as an editorial board member at the Open Gender Journal. Since 2021 he is also a member of Queering: Visuelle Kulturen & Intermedialität, a working group of the German Gender Studies Association. 

Marion Schulze

Marion Schulze holds an assistant professorship of gender research at the Center for Gender Studies at the Universität Basel. Schulze wrote the book Hardcore & Gender: Soziologische Einblicke in eine globale Subkultur [Sociological insights into a global subculture] and has since been working on the design and aesthetic of hardcore (punk).

Pinar Tuzcu

Pinar Tuzcu is a postdoc researcher in an interdisciplinary project entitled RE:coding Algorithmic Culture at the department of Sociology of Diversity at the University of Kassel (GER). Her works and teachings focus on post/migration, gender, and anticolonial thoughts and algorithmic justice. In 2017, she published her monograph Ich bin eine Kanackin. Decolonizing Popfeminism. Transcultural Perspectives on Lady Bitch Ray by transcript Verlag. She is also the co-editor of a recently published book entitled Migrantischer Feminismus in der Frauen:bewegung in Deutschland (1985-2000) [Migrant Feminism in the Women's Movement in Germany].

Elfi Vomberg

Elfi Vomberg studied musicology, sociology, and literature at the University of Cologne. She completed her dissertation at the Research Institute for Music Theatre at the University of Bayreuth with the thesis Wagner Societies and Wagnerians Today. She now works at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, where she heads the citizen science project #KultOrtDUS: The Media Cultural History of Düsseldorf as an Urban Research Field. Her research focuses on the culture, aesthetics, and history of acoustic media as well as on the field of archive and memory studies.

Maria Katharina Wiedlack

Maria Katharina Wiedlack is a post-doc researcher at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna. Her research interests are transnational American studies, queer and feminist theory, popular culture, postsocialist, decolonial, and disability studies. Her monograph Queer-Feminist Punk: An Anti-Social History was published in 2015 by the queer-feminist publisher Zaglossus. It analyses the diverse creative radical queer-feminist punk communities that emerged in North America in the late 1980s and continue to transform their respective cultural landscapes today.

Hermoine Zittlau

Hermoine Zittlau discovered the Punkhouse am Ku’Damm, West Berlin’s first punk club in 1978. In Sinnfilm [Sense Film], a Super-8 production by the Teufelsberger in 1981, she played the role of the sense murderer. The following year she met Nikolaus Utermöhlen and Wolfgang Müller, with whom she repeatedly collaborated for Die Tödliche Doris. Wolfgang Müller will publish her first book in December 2021: Aasgefüge–zeitversehrt: Das Wörterbuch von Hermoine Zittlau [Carrion Structure – Time-Wounded: The dictionary by Hermoine Zittlau]. It is an artist’s book and is appearing in the series of the Walther von Goethe Foundation.