Orit Halpern, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal (CA). Her work bridges the histories of science, computing, and cybernetics with design. She is currently working on two projects: the first is a history of the relationship between artificial intelligence, race, neo-liberal thought, and democracy; the second project examines extreme infrastructures and the idea of experimentation at planetary scales in design, science, and engineering. She is also the director of the Speculative Life Research Cluster and D4: The Disrupting Design Research Group, both are laboratories bridging the arts, environmental sciences, media, and the social sciences.

Tal Halpern is an author, illustrator, animator, and long-term survivor of the Tech-Industry. He is currently based out of Cambridge, MA.