Olga is a cultural theorist, working across technology, philosophy and aesthetics. Her latest book, Ideal Subjects. The Abstract People of AI(2025) explores how data and artificial intelligence abstract people into new kinds of subjects. The questions of subjectivation in relation to art and technology have been central to her work. Her previous book, Bleak Joys. Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility (co-authored, 2019) explores aesthetics, ethics and ecology during times of multiple crises. This work traces connections between large scale systems such as ecologies, technical infrastructures or mechanisms of calculation and processes of subjectivation. Her first book Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (2012) conceptualises aesthetic and political engagements with technology at the dawn of the World Wide Web, proposing the concepts of organisational aesthetics and art platforms to understand collective art practices and art movements of the 1990s and early 2000s. This book is based on her work as a co-organiser of software art repository Runme.org and a co-curator of software art festivals (four editions of the Readme festival between 2002 and 2005 in Moscow, Helsinki, Aarhus and Dortmund) and other exhibitions. She edited or co-edited four Readme publications, the most significant of which is Readme. Software Arts and Cultures (Aarhus University Press, 2004). She is also the editor of Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Pain and Paradox in Computing (2014) and a co-founder and co-editor of Computational Culture, a Journal of Software Studies.

Born 1952, living in Frankfurt/Main, belongs to the most important exponents of the contemporary music and theatre scene. Graduated in sociology and music, he composed and created internationally celebrated music-theatre works, staged concerts, radio plays, sound- and video-installations, compositions for ensemble and orchestra (Surrogate Cities, A House of Call a.o. CD productions for ECM Records).
1999–2023 — Professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies and Centre for Media and Interactivity at Justus Liebig University Gießen. Artistic Director of Ruhrtriennale — International Festival of the Arts
2012–2014 — Anthology “Aesthetics of Absence”. Numerous international awards (Prix Italia, European Theatre Prize, International Ibsen Award, Grammy nominations a.o.)