Judith Zoë Blijden, LLM, MA, is a lawyer and philosopher based in the Netherlands. She works at the intersection of research, policy, and art. She is the founder of Is This Art Maybe and the creator of The Digital Period, a philosophy project exploring the relationship between humans and technology.

In addition, she works as a senior legal consultant at Hooghiemstra & Partners, a consultancy focusing on data protection. Previously, she served as a board member at Bits of Freedom and worked at the Dutch think tank Kennisland and the Social Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER).

Geeske Janßen lives and works in Leipzig. She is a filmmaker and visual artist specializing in documentary and experimental film as well as photography. Her work explores the inaccessible aspects of everyday life: moments, places, and situations that often seem too small or supposedly unimportant to be noticed. She studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, as well as in Braunschweig and Valencia, and was a member of the Graduate School of Moving Image in Kassel. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and at festivals, including at the Kasseler Kunstverein, FOTOHAUS | PARISBERLIN in Arles, the Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, HALLE 14 in Leipzig, the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, as well as at the Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International and DOKfest Kassel. Among other honors, she received the award for best regional short film at the Lichter Filmfest, as well as grants from the Kunstfonds Foundation, the Greater Columbus Arts Council/ Ohio, the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, and the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki.

Prof. Joel Baumann is Professor of New Media at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. In the SENTIMENT project, he examines processes of self-disclosure in human-machine interaction from a critical-artistic perspective, with a particular focus on the societal and ethical implications of digital intimacy.

Prof. Baumann is known for his work at the intersection of research and artistic mediation. His curatorial practice—exemplified by projects such as Privacy Arena—employs exhibition formats as dialogical spaces in which scientific knowledge becomes sensually and emotionally accessible. These formats enable the translation of complex, interdisciplinary research into public discourse, fostering collective reflection and engagement.

Through the integration of arts-based methodologies into empirical research, Prof. Baumann advances new forms of knowledge production and transfer. His work contributes to the development of innovative mediation strategies that connect technology, ethics, and aesthetics, enabling broader societal understanding of digital transformation and its impact on human communication.

Laura Därr is an artistic research associate in New Media at Kunsthochschule Kassel and a member of the SENTIMENT project. Her artistic research focuses on algorithmic intervention, particularly within AI-based systems that autonomously structure and influence human interaction patterns. This theme formed the core of both her completed diploma thesis under Prof. Alba d'Urbano and her completed master's thesis under Prof. Joel Baumann and Prof. Dr. Johanna Schaffer.

Her practice employs critical making methodologies to interrogate the sociopolitical implications of automated decision-making processes, developing experimental frameworks that expose the hidden logics embedded within computational systems. Through interdisciplinary collaboration and speculative design approaches, her work contributes to emerging discourses on algorithmic agency and the democratization of technological literacy within contemporary art contexts.