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# Bios Preconference night
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**Clara Balaguer (PH)** is a cultural worker. From 2010 to 2018, she articulated cultural programming with rural and underserved communities in the Philippines through the Office of Culture and Design, a residency space and social practice platform. In 2015, she co-founded Hardworking Goodlooking, a cottage industry publishing hauz interested in horror vacui, thickening research on the post- (or de-)colonial vernacular, collectivizing authorship, and the value of the error. Currently, she coordinates the Social Practices course at Willem de Kooning Academy and teaches Experimental Publishing at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Frequently, she operates under collective or individual aliases that intimate her service in a given project, the latest of which is To Be Determined.
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**Padmini Ray Murray (IN)** is a researcher and creatorwho is passionate about transforming ways in which we make and share knowledge. In 2016, she co-created *Darshan Diversion*, a videogame about the Sabarimala issue and in 2017 built *Halt The Hate*, an interactive database ofcrimes against minorities in India for Amnesty India. She is currently based in Bengaluru where she has founded a not-for-profit organization called Design Beku, whichprovides design and digital collateral for NGOs and grass-roots organizations. She is visiting faculty at the SrishtiInstitute of Art, Design and Technology, where she launched India’s first-degree program in the digital humanities.
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**Morten Paul (DE)** is editor at the humanities publishing house August Verlag Berlin. Studied German Studies, Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the University of Konstanz and Goldsmiths College, London. In his PhD, he reconstructed the formation of the humanities program at the publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag and the consequentdevelopment of a so-called Suhrkamp culture in the West-German publishing sphere. Member of the Working Group on Periodical Research at Eurozine.
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**Nikola Richter (DE)** is a writer, journalist, and publisher who combines comprehensive knowledge of the cultural and literary sector with an interest in online media and a broader perspective on political and social issues. In 2013 she founded the publisher mikrotext for contemporary literatures such as essays, short stories, new journalism, and web writing. She is generally interested in current and future relationships between the web and the arts, in new artistic formats and topics of activist engagement.
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**Florian Cramer (NL)** is a reader in 21st Century Visual Culture/Autonomous Practices at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Netherlands. He is specialized in Autonomous Practices, which is focused on DIY artist-run initiatives and self-organization as contemporary art. He is involved in the research projects Critical Making and Making Public. |