Robin van den Akker is a cultural philosopher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and a researcher at TNO Information and Communication Technology. He has written and spoken extensively on everyday life and digital culture, social space and social time, architecture and the work of Henri Lefebvre. Robin and Timotheus Vermeulen are founding editors of Notes on Metamodernism. They are currently working on a monograph on the topic.
Nadine Feßler studied Comparative Literature, History of Art and American Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. She is a member of PhD-Programm ProLit and works as a research assistant at LMU Munich.
Hila Shachar is a writer, researcher and Honorary Research Fellow within the Department of English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia. She works as a writer for The Australian Ballet and Desktop Magazine, and a freelance writer for various other print and online publications. She can also be found on her own blog, le projet d’amour, which is part of her current research project. She has published several articles on film, feminism and nineteenth-century literature in various book collections, and is the author of the forthcoming book, Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature: Wuthering Heights and Company (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). This book is based on her doctoral thesis, which explores the screen adaptation and cultural legacy of classic literature from the 1930s to the present age.
Luke Turner is an artist and writer based in London. His work investigates the operations and oscillations of art, exploring notions of presence and excess within the visual realm. He completed a Masters in Photography at the Royal College of Art in 2010, and published a Metamodernist Manifesto the following year. His first solo show, Annunciations, was held at 18 HHG, London in 2011. Group exhibitions include Discussing Metamodernism, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin (2012); Transgression, Beers.Lambert, London (2011); The Outer Limits, James Freeman Gallery, London (2011); Let’s Go Home, S-KAI, Hamburg (2009) and Systems & Patterns, The Whitechapel Gallery, London (2008).
Timotheus Vermeulen is Assistant Professor in Cultural Theory at the Radboud University Nijmegen, where he also heads the Centre for New Aesthetics. He has written on contemporary aesthetics, art, film and television for amongst others The Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, Screen, Monu, Frieze, and various collections and catalogues, and has spoken anywhere from the Documenta to Frieze (for his CV, click here). He also acts as curatorial advisor, most recently for the Notes on Metamodernism shows at the Moscow Biennial and the MAD Museum New York, and the Discussing Metamodernism exhibition at Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin. Timotheus and Robin van den Akker are founding editors of Notes on Metamodernism. They are currently working on a monograph on the topic. See also his website: timotheusvermeulen.com.
