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Laura Herman is a PhD student at the Oxford Internet Institute, where she is exploring the intersection of art, design, technology, and creativity. She tells us about 'The Algorithmic Pedestal' - an exhibition created in collaboration with Fabienne Hess - and how algorithmic curation has reshaped our relationship with culture, but also could be influencing the human creative process itself.

Fabienne Hess is a Swiss artist based in London, who works with fabric and digital materials. She tells us about how she curated 鈥楾he Algorithmic Pedestal鈥� - and Exhibition created in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute to explore the differences between human and algorithmic curation, and uncover how our relationship with visual culture has been shaped by algorithmic platforms for more than a decade.

Maxim Zhestkov (b. 1985) is a digital artist based in London.聽

He merges his studies in architecture, sculpture, motion graphics, colour, and sound, to dramatise the intersection of the digital and the physical as a critical site for imagining the aesthetic possibilities and psychological implications of a 鈥減hygital鈥� reality.

Maxim Zhestkov鈥檚 work has been presented internationally in shows at major institutions, including Decentral Art Pavilion Venice (2022), Unit London (2021), Contemporary Istanbul (2021), MIT (2019), Modern Art Museum, Shanghai (2019), and the Hermitage Museum (2019).聽

He talks to us about how the algorithmic curation of online platforms influenced his artistic process, and the tension between attention, and intention, that comes with presenting artwork in the digital realm.

Saif Shahin is Assistant Professor of Digital Culture at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Communication Inquiry. His work focuses on critical data studies, digital culture, media and politics, and media sociology,聽
He tells us about 鈥楽ludge Content鈥� - an emerging trend of video on TikTok that appears to be the epitome of attention grabbing algorithmically driven content, and explains that no one knows where it came from, or what intention was behind its creation.