Jake Chapman (Writer/Presenter) is a contemporary artist who makes iconoclastic sculpture, prints, films, writing and installations that examine, with searing wit and energy, contemporary politics, religion and morality. He has exhibited across the world, from the Serpentine Gallery to the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; from Tate Britain to PS Contemporary Art Center, New York. He was nominated for the Turner Prize as half of the Chapman Brothers.
Dr Isabel Millar (Contributor) is a philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist from London. Her book 'The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence' (2021) received acclaim from major figures in philosophy, psychoanalysis, film theory and contemporary art. She is an Associate Researcher at Newcastle University, Department of Philosophy and a Research Fellow at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies. She recently co-founded the UK's first critical theory think tank, the Institute of Symbolic Exchange. She appears regularly on TV, podcasts and other media.
Elfie Reigate (Chair) is preparing PhD research at Birkbeck, specialising in technological futures and digital humanities. Her research focuses on discourses surrounding imminent extinction, and the implications of a seemingly 'cancelled' future. They explore meta-theoretical ideas of progress and linearity. Elfie's work to date has centred on Accelerationist discourse, the use of violence in feminist strategy and Xenofeminism.
