Technology Now: Sonic Feminisms Part I

Artist biographies

• Amina Gichinga

  Amina Gichinga was born and lives in Newham, East London. She is a singer, teacher and stood as Take Back the City's GLA candidate for the City and East London Constituency in this year's Mayoral & London Assembly elections. For the last three years she has been a music leader and community organiser in Silvertown, working with deprived communities who face the impacts of London City Airport.

• Helen Hester

  Helen Hester is Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the University of West London, where she also serves as Head of Film and Media. She is a member of the international feminist working group Laboria Cuboniks. She is the author of Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex (SUNY Press, 2014), the co-editor of Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism (Ashgate, 2015) and Dea ex Machina (Merve, 2015). She has two texts forthcoming: After Work: What's Left and Who Cares? (with Nick Srnicek, Verso, 2017) and Xenofeminism (Polity, 2017).

• Eleni Ikoniadou

  Eleni Ikoniadou is a writer, researcher and practitioner specialising in sonic culture. She is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Kingston University and director of the Audio Culture Research Unit (ACRU). She is author of The Rhythmic Event (MIT Press, 2014), co-editor of Media After Kittler (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) and co-editor of the Media Philosophy series.

• Frances Morgan

  Frances Morgan is a writer. A contributing editor at The Wire magazine, she is currently researching electronic music histories at the Royal College of Art.