Martin Zeilinger, courtesy of the Author
The seventh edition of the Milan Machinima Festival features an international jury panel comprising four esteemed members, including the notable addition of Martin Zeilinger.
Martin is an Austrian researcher and curator currently based in Dundee, Scotland, where he works as Senior Lecturer in Computational Arts and Technology at Abertay University. His work focuses on artistic and activist experiments with emerging technologies (primarily blockchain and AI), intellectual property issues in contemporary art, and aspects of experimental videogame culture.
In 2021, Martin published the monograph Tactical Entanglements: AI Art, Creative Agency, and the Limits of Intellectual Property with meson press, which is freely available under an Open Access license. More recently, he released Structures of Belonging as part of Aksioma’s Postscriptum Series (2023), to begin re-imagining blockchain technologies beyond digital property enclosures. Martin co-curated the seminal Vector Festival (Toronto) from 2014 to 2020, and was lead organiser of the 2018 MoneyLab symposium (London).
His writing about art and technology has been featured in books including Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain and the MoneyLab Reader 2, in journals such as Leonardo, Philosophy & Technology, Culture Machine, and Media Theory, and in art magazines including Spike Art Magazine and Outland.
