kennedy+swan (founded in 2013) comprises the work of the two artists Bianca Kennedy and Swan Collective. When working together, they explore the future of non-human intelligence and its impact on plants, animals, machines, and humans. These utopias are liberated from human supremacy, illuminating the ecological benefits of hybrid life forms, and addressing the twisted relationship between humans and biotechnology. kennedy+swan exhibit internationally in galleries, museums, and festivals. Exhibitions include the Lyon Biennial, Gropius Bau Berlin, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, CCBB Rio de Janeiro, and Sundance Film Festival. They were selected for a Studio Quantum residency from the Goethe-Institut in Ireland in 2023 and have been awarded a BIFOLD Residency for 2024/25. They live in Berlin.

 

Aljoscha Burchardt holds a PhD in computer linguistics and is a Principal Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) where he studies, among other things, the social aspects of AI.

Tereza Hendl is a philosopher, specialised in concerns of global health justice (University of Augsburg). She investigates concerns of oppression, refusal, justice, and solidarity, the ethics and epistemology of health technologies and interventions, and concerns of East-West hierarchies of knowledge. Some of her latest work explores European East-West inequalities and their effects on health and wellbeing, also accounting for the impact of the intertwined legacies of Russian and German imperialism on directly affected populations. She is the co-founder of Central and Eastern European Feminist Research Network and the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation, which are initiatives that amplify and (re)connect so far marginalised knowledges and contribute to epistemic reparations.