Ania Malinowska is a cultural theorist, author, and professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Silesia in Poland. She has published widely on media semiotics and technologically constructed relationships. Valentina Peri is an art curator and cultural anthropologist with expertise in new media and digital art. She is associate director of the contemporary art gallery Galerie Charlot, with locations in Paris and Tel Aviv, and cofounder of SALOON Paris, an international network for women working in the art scene.