“Internet is culture” was the answer Jeroen van Loon got when he asked a West-Papuan tribe member if he could explain internet. This anecdote has long formed the core of van Loon’s work. His fascination revolves around the (non-)impact of internet. He reveals, documents and visualises digital culture. Early work focussed on contemporary digital culture, recent work on it’s future: An Internet (2015) shows a prototype for a future internet based on binary smoke signals. Cellout.me (2015-2016) questions the value of big data and future ethics by offering his full genome – 380gb of personal DNA data – for sale, for one year.

Van Loon received a bachelor in Digital Media Design and a European Master of Media Arts. He gave two TEDx talks, was nominated for the Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award, won the European Youth Award and was awarded the KF Hein Art Grant. In 2015-2016 he presented An Internet and Cellout.me in his solo show ‘Beyond Data’ at the Central Museum in Utrecht, NL. www.jeroenvanloon.com

Agi Haines is an artist, designer and researcher whose focus is the human body as a fabric for design. Her work mainly centers around the impact of biomedical and healthcare technologies on the future human form.

After completing her masters in the Design Interactions department at the Royal College of Art, she now exhibits, talks, and teaches internationally whilst also studying for a PhD within an interdisciplinary research group called CogNovo. Working amongst various artists and scientists exploring creativity and cognition. Within this group she researches how design may raise worthy questions regarding the dissemination and representation of scientific research. Questioning particularly how our morbid curiosity for the viscera of life might affect the future of design—not only for the environment, but also for us as the sentient sacks of flesh within it. www.agihaines.com