Robert Marinov is a PhD candidate in Communication Studies at Concordia University. His SSHRC-funded doctoral research focuses on the emergence of “digital twinning” in Canada and its links with artificial intelligence, investigating their implications for environmental sustainability, governmentality, and democratic politics. His work has been published in journals including the Canadian Journal of Political Science, the Canadian Journal of Communication, Communication Review, Politics & Policy, Futures, Imaginaries: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, and others. Robert is a Research Assistant with Abundant Intelligences.

Ceyda Yolgörmez is a Postdocoral Researcher at the Indigenous Futures Research Cluster, working in the Abundant Intelligences Research Program. Her PhD work brought together social theory and interactive technologies, such as large machine learning models or social robots, to consider how our conceptions of the social are changing. Her PhD dissertation proposes a framework for a sociology of machines that reimagines human-machine relations. Her research looks at playful and creative engagements with machines as a site to explore and experiment with human machine socialities, and is interested in methodologies that reveal and trouble the common-sensical way in which we understand such relations.