More Than Human Togetherness Talk

Carl Hayden Smith is the Founder of the Museum of Consciousness and a Professor of Media at the University of East London. Carl is focused on using both technological and biological means to study and modify the nature of consciousness, his research concentrates on the relationship between technology and the human condition.

Carl is developing ‘Hyperhumanism’ which reframes technology as a catalyst for developing our own innate human abilities. Another key area of Smith's research is Context Engineering, which emphasises the importance of designing appropriate contexts to enable consciousness research.

Raising over £10 million in research funding, he has given over 300 invited public lectures, conference presentations and keynotes in 40 countries and published more than 50 academic papers. 

His research interests also include Holotechnica, Embodied Cognition, Spatial Literacy, Umwelt Hacking and Sensory Augmentation.

Wassim Z. Alsindi is the creative director of 0xSalon, a counter-institutional collective critically engaging with technology through art and philosophy. His research practice is primarily concerned with the externalities of networked technologies. He holds a doctorate in experimental quantum physics, writes an editorial column at the MIT Computational Law Report and co-founded MIT’s Cryptoeconomic Systems journal. His recent writings have appeared in publications such as Spike Art Magazine, Weird Economies, 0xFolklore, In The Mesh, and the Philosophical Journal of Agorism, in addition to numerous creative works spanning experimental music, satirical theatre, speculative fiction, games, poetry, and machinic scripture. He has performed, lectured, and exhibited in over 30 countries, at venues including ZKM (DE), Unsound Festival (PL), Institute of Contemporary Arts (UK), Akademie der Künste (DE), CITY CITY Gallery (TH), Something Else (EG), AVTO (TR), and FIBER Festival (NL).

Günseli Yalcinkaya is a writer and researcher based in London. She is an External Research Affiliate at Moth Quantum.