Susan Schuppli is a researcher and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her fieldwork and documentary film practice is situated at the intersections between environmental struggles, climate science, and affected communities with a specific focus on the cryosphere. Investigations span legal analysis and public advocacy as well as theoretical reflection and creative exploration in order to understand how the transformations wrought by global burning are generating new forms of evidence. Granting agency to the more-than-human as as a material witness informs her attempts at expanding the fields of action and justice. Recent films include: ‘Moving Ice’, ‘Signals from Svalbard’, ‘Listening to Ice’, ‘Gondwana’, ‘Arctic Archipelago’ and ‘Ice Cores’. The Cold Cases (2021) investigations into the weaponisation of temperature were produced in collaboration with Forensic Architecture. Schuppli is the author of Material Witness: Forensics, Media, Evidence published by MIT Press in 2020.

Yazid Anani is the Head Curator and Director of the Public Programme at A. M. Qattan Foundation. He served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and the Master Program in Urban Planning and Landscape – Birzeit University, Palestine between 2007-2016. He chaired the Academic Council of the International Art Academy Palestine 2010 – 2012. He is part of several collectives, and projects such as Decolonizing Architecture, Ramallah Syndrome and has curated and co-curated several projects including: Outside the Archive, Subcontracted Nations, Zalet Lisan, The Facility, Weed Control, Palestine from Above and the 2nd- 6th editions of Cities Exhibition as well as other exhibition in Qalandiya International. Anani has lectured and published internationally on issues of architecture and urban transformations, colonial spaces and power relations, public art and public spaces and art education.

Ryvka Barnard has over a decade of experience campaigning against human rights abuses stemming from the military and security industry. She has a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies and is currently the Deputy Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the UK.

Vikki Bell is the current Head of the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She studied Social & Political Sciences at Cambridge and gained her PhD at Edinburgh University in 1992. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley, University of California, Yale University, University of Buenos Aires and the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oñati, Spain).

The author of four monographs, Bell’s work addresses questions of ethics, aesthetics, subjectivity and politics across the social sciences and theoretical humanities.

Michel Feher is a renowned philosopher and cultural theorist, and the founding editor of Zone Books. Feher has formerly been a professor or visiting lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure in Paris, UC Berkeley and Goldsmiths, University of London, where, in 2013, he delivered a series of lectures titled The Age of Appreciation: Lectures on the Neoliberal Condition. His Near Futures series explores the challenges borne of governmental and institutional responses to critical global events, addressed by journalists, scholars, political activists and artists across numerous genres and media.

Feher is also co-founder and president of Cette France-là, Paris, a monitoring group on French immigration policy.

Anselm Franke is a curator and writer based in Berlin. Since 2013 he has been Head of Visual Art and Film at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin.

Between 2010 and 2012, his project Animism was presented in different versions in Antwerp, Bern, Vienna , Berlin, and at e-flux, New York. Franke has edited numerous publications and regularly contributes articles to magazines such as Metropolis M, e-flux journal, and Parkett. He curated the 2012 Taipei Biennial, and, The Whole Earth at HKW with Diedrich Diederichsen in 2013, After Year Zero with Annett Busch, and Forensis (2014) with Eyal Weizman.

Matthew Fuller is an author and academic, and formerly the Director of Goldsmiths’ Centre for Cultural Studies. He writes on media theory, software, critical theory and contemporary fiction, exploring non-traditional uses of media as well as media power.

Fuller is also a media artist, and co-founded the MIT Press book series Software Studies.

Thomas Keenan teaches media theory, literature, and human rights at Bard College, where he directs the Human Rights Project and helped create the first undergraduate degree program in human rights in the United States. He is the author of Fables of Responsibility (1997) and, with Eyal Weizman, Mengele’s Skull (2012). He is co-editor, with Wendy Chun, of New Media, Old Media (2006, 2nd ed. 2015), and, with Tirdad Zolghadr, of The Human Snapshot (2013). Flood of Rights, co-edited with Suhail Malik and Tirdad Zolghadr, is forthcoming in 2016. He curated “Antiphotojournalism” with Carles Guerra (2010–11), and “Aid and Abet” (2011). He has served on the boards of a number of human rights organisations and journals, including WITNESS, Scholars at Risk, the Crimes of War Project, the Journal of Human Rights, and Humanity.

David Kuper is a practising solicitor who is primarily responsible for legal oversight of all significant research and business collaboration contracts at Goldsmiths. David was previously a partner in a boutique West End law firm specialising in intellectual property and patent litigation, where he acted for clients both in the UK and internationally. Prior to training as a solicitor Kuper worked in IT and telecommunications, and in addition to his work at Goldsmiths.

Daniel Machover qualified as a solicitor in 1998 and is a partner and head of the civil litigation department at London law firm Hickman & Rose. He specialises in civil litigation on behalf of people who have suffered wrongs at the hands of the criminal justice system and has brought many successful claims against the Ministry of Justice, Home Office and police.

He has represented many families at inquests following contentious deaths and is a co-author of the Legal Action Group book ‘Inquests – A Practitioners Guide’ (2015, 3rd edition). He co-authors a regular inquest law update in Legal Action magazine. Daniel also works for victims of war crimes, torture and crimes against humanity, helping them seek prosecutions in the UK and elsewhere under the principle of universal criminal jurisdiction for such crimes. He is a trustee of Legal Action Worldwide, which helps gain access to justice for those who need it most in fragile and conflict-affected states. Daniel was chair of the INQUEST board for ten years until February 2022.

Suhail is the Programme Co-Director of the MFA Fine Art programme at Goldsmiths, University of London. 

Before her role as a senior adviser at Amnesty International, Joanne Mariner was the Human Rights Program Director at Hunter College, City University of New York, and before that, Director of the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program at Human Rights Watch.

Mariner is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and belongs to the board of advisors of the International Justice Resource Center and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism. She has taught at Georgetown Law Center and American University’s Washington College of Law and received the American Society of International Law’s Distinguished Woman in International Law award in 2005. She has written for the Guardian and Foreign Policy.

Mazen Masri is Senior Lecturer in Law at City, University of London. His areas of expertise are constitutional law and public international law and he is the author of The Dynamics of Exclusionary Constitutionalism: Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State (Hart Publishing, 2017). Mazen is a qualified lawyer, and had previously served as a legal advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s Negotiations Affairs Department.

Cuauhtémoc Medina is an art critic, curator and historian with a PhD in History and Theory of Art, University of Essex, and a BA in History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City. Since 1993 he has been a full-time researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, and between 2002 and 2008 was the first Associate Curator of Art, Latin American Collections at the Tate Modern. He is currently Chief Curator at the MUAC Museum in Mexico City.

Sina Najafi is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Cabinet Magazine, a Brooklyn-based art and culture quarterly which has featured the writings of Forensic Architecture’s director, Eyal Weizman.

Najafi is also a curator, and has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Rianna Jade Parker is a critic, historian, curator, and researcher based in South London where she studied her MA in Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is a founding member of interdisciplinary collective Thick/er Black Lines, whose work was exhibited in the landmark exhibition Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers (2018) at Somerset House, London.

Parker is a Contributing Editor of Frieze magazine and co-curated War Inna Babylon: The Community’s Struggle for Truths and Rights (2021) at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. She often undertakes research as an archivist of public histories, as well as developing cultural strategy for private and public bodies in the visual arts and heritage sector. Her first book ‘A Brief History of Black British Art’ was published by Tate and is represented by The Wiley Agency.

Laura Poitras is a filmmaker and journalist. Her film CITIZENFOUR won an Oscar for best documentary. Her reporting on NSA mass surveillance and Edward Snowden also received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The first film of her post-11 trilogy, My Country, My Country, documented the U.S. occupation of Iraq, and second film, The Oath, focused on Guantánamo Bay Prison and Al Qaeda. Her film Risk documents WikiLeaks and journalist Julian Assange. She is the recipient of many awards, including a MacArthur fellowship, Peabody award, Directors Guild of America, and BAFTA. She is the co-founder of Field of Vision and The Intercept. In 2015, she filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government to obtain information about why she was placed on a terrorist watchlist. 

Formerly a senior researcher for Amnesty International, where he covered Pakistan and the Gulf states, Mustafa Qadri penned Amnesty’s landmark recent report The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game, about migrant workers’ rights in Qatar ahead of the football world cup in 2022.

Also a former consultant at Human Rights Watch, Qadri now directs Equidem, a specialist human rights and labour rights consultancy. He holds a research fellowship at the Institute for Human Rights and Business, and was previously a freelance journalist, covering Pakistan for the Guardian and the Los Angeles Times, amongst others.

Caroline Sturdy Colls teaches in forensic archaeology, techniques in the identification of human remains and crime scene investigation, and is Research Lead of the Centre of Archaeology at Staffordshire University. She specialises in Holocaust studies, and her research focuses on the application of interdisciplinary approaches to the investigation of Holocaust landscapes – work which included the first archaeological surveys of the former extermination camp at Treblinka.

Sturdy Colls sits on the NWO Holocaust Archaeology Group, is a consultant for the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation and, as a practising forensic archaeologist, undertakes consultancy for UK police forces.

Former Deputy Director and Lead Researcher of Forensic Architecture (FA), Christina joined the FA team in 2014 and held a variety of roles, from leading investigations and overseeing research and the development of new methodologies, to setting up office structures. She was trained as an architect, and has taught a Diploma unit (MArch) at the Architectural Association (2018-2020). She was also a member of the Technology Advisory Board for the International Criminal Court (2018). Currently, Christina is a Lecturer of Forensic Architecture at the Centre for Research Architecture, at Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as pursuing her PhD at Aarhus University where her research focuses on biopolitics and imaging of the human body. She has received the Novo Nordisk Foundation Mads Øvlisen PhD Scholarship for Practice-based Artistic Research and is also a fellow at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, where she co-curated the Forensic Architecture exhibition Witnesses. She is a founding member and the chair of the board of Forensis and the co-founder and co-director of the Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens / FAIA.

Ines Weizman is Head of the PhD Programme at the School of Architecture, Royal College of Art. She is the founding director of the Centre for Documentary Architecture (CDA), an interdisciplinary research collective of architectural historians, filmmakers, and digital technologists.

Ines recently published Documentary Architecture/ Dissidence through Architecture, Arquitectura Documental/ Disidencia a Través de la Arquitectura, Santiago de Chile: ARQ Editiones (2020). In 2019 she published the edited anthology of essays on Bauhaus history as Dust & Data: Traces of the Bauhaus across 100 Years, Leizpig: Spector Books (2019). In 2014, she was editor of Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence, published by Routledge. Her book Before and After: Documenting the Architecture of Disaster, co-written with Eyal Weizman, was published in the same year by Strelka Press. Ines has also worked on exhibitions and installations such as Repeat Yourself: Loos, Law, and the Culture of the Copy, exhibited at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, as well as solo shows at the Architecture Centre in Vienna and the Buell Center at Columbia University, New York (2013). Other research and exhibition projects include: Celltexts: Books and Other Works Produced in Prison (2008, with Eyal Weizman), first exhibited at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. In 2019 together with the CDA she curated the exhibition The Matter of Data, which was shown in Weimar, Tel Aviv and Berlin (2020).

Nicole Wolf’s background is in anthropology and film, particularly focusing on the many varied forms that documentary work and political cinema can take. Her interests merge in thinking, writing, teaching, and curating with political cinemas as modes of critical and productive relations.

Wolf is also a member of Goldsmiths’ Research Ethics and Integrity Sub-Committee. The Sub-Committee provides support and advice to researchers and others within the College on matters relating to research integrity as well as ensuring that ethical issues associated with research projects have been appropriately considered, addressed, and approved before the projects begin.

Erhard Schüttpelz has been a professor of Media Studies at Universität Siegen since 2005. He completed his studies in German, English and Ethnology at Exeter, Oxford, and Cologne, and wrote his thesis in Bonn. He subsequently attended Columbia University on a Feodor-Lynen-Scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and was an academic researcher at the SFB ‘Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation’ at the Universität Köln. In 2003, he submitted his habilitation (post-doctoral dissertation) at the Universität Konstanz, where he was scientific coordinator at the research centre ‘Kulturtheorie und Theorie des politischen Imaginären’ and completed a research residency at the IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften) in Vienna.

His research focuses on postcolonial literature and media history of globalised modernity (habilitation treatise, Constance 2003: Die Moderne im Spiegel des Primitiven); history of science of media-theory and ethnology, linguistics and media-theory of rhetoric (dissertation, Bonn 1994: Figuren der Rede. Zur Theorie der rhetorischen Figur). He is the author of Die Moderne im Spiegel des Primitiven: Weltliteratur und Ethnologie (1870-1960) (2005) and editor of Akteur-Medien-Theorie (2013) and Trancemedien und Neue Medien um 1900: Ein anderer Blick auf die Moderne (2009), among others.