The head of CML and the senior researcher Dr. Johannes Bruder studies the speculative and imaginary aspects of infrastructures – sociological models, psychological mechanisms, and affective potentials encoded in infrastructural designs ranging from algorithmic systems to financial markets to pipelines. He is currently most interested in imaginaries of energy, the physical realities that these imaginaries install, and the management of energies, physical and affective. The latter involves an interest in structures of feeling and tactics of disaffection. He has contributed to Transmediale, the Anthropocene Curriculum, the Energy Show at Het Nieuwe Instituut, among others, and his writing has been published by Routledge, MIT Press, Open Humanities Press, Valiz, and MQUP. Johannes has a strong interest in experimenting with research methods, knowledge practices, alternative pedagogies and publication formats that unsettle disciplinary paradigms and render research in the humanities operational in real-world contexts.

Adrian Notz (*1977 in Zurich) is a curator. At the ETH Zurich he is currently lecturer and AI+Art curator, where he was also running the AI+Art Program at ETH AI Center from 2021 to 2024. In 2023 he was curator of the Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara and from 2020 – 2022 he was curator at the Tichy Ocean Foundation in Zürich. From 2012-2019 he led Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich as artistic director. He worked there first as a curatorial assistant (2004-2006) and as co-director (2006 -2012). From 2010 to 2015 he was head of the Department for Fine Arts at the School of Design in St. Gallen. Adrian has organised and curated numerous exhibitions, events, conferences, actions and interventions with international artists, activists and thinkers in Cabaret Voltaire as well as internationally around the globe.