Estelle Blaschke is a photography historian. She holds a professorship for photographic media at the University of Basel and teaches photography history and theory at ECAL Lausanne. She received her doctorate from EHESS / Paris I Sorbonne and was a fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. From 2015 to 2020 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lausanne, and in 2017 a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California. She is the author of the book Banking on Images: The Bettmann Archive and Corbis (Spector Books, 2016) and a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Transbordeur. Photographie, Histoire, Société. In 2019, she edited the Photographie et technologies de l‘information (Transbordeur no.3), with Davide Nerini. 

Armin Linke is a photographer and filmmaker combining a range of contemporary image processing technologies to blur the border between fiction and reality. Linke indagates the formation—so called Gestaltung—of the natural, technological and urban environment in which we are living. Armin Linke ́s oeuvre—photographs and films—function as tools to become aware of the different design strategies. Through working with his own archive, as well as with other media archives, Linke challenges the conventions of photographic practice, whereby the questions of how photography is installed and displayed become increasingly important. In a collective approach with other artists, as well as with curators, designers, architects, historians, philosophers and scientists, the narratives of his works expand on the level of multiple discourses. Linke has served as a research affiliate at the MIT Visual Arts Program, guest professor at the IUAV Arts and Design University in Venice, and professor for photography at the Karlsruhe University for Arts and Design. Currently Armin Linke is guest professor at ISIA, Urbino (IT).