Soenke Zehle, media theorist, writes, teaches, curates, with a focus on collaborative arts-and technology research. Lecturer in Media Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Saar, he is also managing director of K8 Institut für strategische Aesthetik gGmbH, the academy’s non-profit company for think tank, transfer, and training activities, as well as an affiliate researcher at the Ubiquitous Media Technologies Lab of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Between 2012 and 2018, he also worked as managing director of the academy’s xm:lab – Experimental Media Lab.