Bleeding into the Metaverse

SPUTNIKO! (Hiro Ozaki) is a multimedia artist and filmmaker creating works around the themes of technology, gender and feminism. Her work has been exhibited at the MoMA, Centre-Pompidou Metz, V&A, the Cooper Hewitt, Mori Art Museum, and she was awarded Vogue Japan Woman of the Year in 2013. SPUTNIKO! taught at the MIT Media Lab as an Assistant Professor and was the director of the Design Fiction Group from 2013 to 2017. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Tokyo University of Arts. Hiro has also been selected as a TED Fellow and gave her TED Fellow talk in TED 2019. She was also selected as one of the Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum and moderated sessions in Davos 2020. To date, she has had her works included in the permanent collections of museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK) and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Japan).

Amsterdam’s mayo is a musical multiped, whose path is rather unruly than unlogical. Her DJ sets, as well as her first releases, prove that she’s not easy to pigeonhole. With a focus on downtempo electronics, EBM and techno, she weaves together a wide array of musical styles.

affect lab is an award winning creative studio and research practice led by Dr. Natalie Dixon and Klasien van de Zandschulp. In collaboration with an international artistic network, we use design research, immersive storytelling and experimental field work to inspire a more inclusive future.

Babusi Nyoni is a Netherlands-based Zimbabwean creative technologist and social entrepreneur. He works at the intersection of emerging technology and culture. He advocates for underrepresented voices to lead the conversation on these topics, like his project Blackgirlhair.js, the first machine learning model that was trained to accurately identify black women’s hairstyles.

DIP is een vrije ruimte waar makers de ruimte krijgen om elke dinsdagavond nieuwe ideeën uit te proberen en te experimenteren. Een plek voor talentvolle organisaties, collectieven, kunstenaars, performers, makers, vrije vogels en uitvinders om een eigen invulling te geven aan de dinsdagavond van Paradiso.