The Sound of Contagion Project Contributors
Robert Laidlow is a composer and researcher based in the UK. Robert's music has been commissioned and performed across the globe and broadcast on television and radio. His compositions blur the boundary between science and music and are often the result of close interdisciplinary collaboration.
Robert is the PRiSM Researcher in Artificial Intelligence in association with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - a relationship that has recently resulted in several new works exploring intelligent technology.
Chelsea Haith is a researcher and writer based in the UK and South Africa. She works on Speculative Fictions and urban inequalities, developing theory at the intersection of social science and literature. She has experience in publishing, journalism and gender studies, and teaches critical theory, literature and speculative imaginaries in Higher Education.
She is an alumni of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation and her research interests are inflected by a passion for inclusive, diverse representation and collaboration.
Wenzel Mehnert is a researcher and theorist based in Berlin. He works in the department for time-based media at the professorship of Prof. Ingen-Housz at UdK and researches, writes and teaches experimental methods of future studies at the intersection of science and art.
In his research and teaching, Wenzel focuses on the intersection between Speculative Fictions, and the assessment of New and Emerging Science and Technologies (e.g. A.I., SynBio, Internet of Things, etc.).
This project is funded by the Minderoo AI Challenge Fund.
