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Martin Zeilinger

martin.zeilinger@orpheusinstituut.be

Schotland

Senior research fellow

Martin Zeilinger (PhD Univ. of Toronto) is an Austrian researcher, curator, and creative practitioner. At Orpheus Instituut (Ghent/Belgium) he is a Senior Research Fellow in the Posthuman Music project (ERC Advanced Grant), and a member of the MetamusicX research cluster. Martin also serves as Reader in Computational Arts & Technology at Abertay University (Dundee/Scotland)

Much of Martin’s work focuses on artistic and critical experimentation with emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, and videogame technologies. This frames a broader interest in digital art, permacomputing, posthumanism, distributed agency, and critical theories of cultural ownership and intellectual property. As a curator, Martin currently co-organises Wet Tech, an experimental sound and moving image event series in Dundee.

His monograph Tactical Entanglements: AI Art, Creative Agency, and the Limits of Intellectual Property (meson press 2021, freely available under an Open Access license) integrates many of these interests and topics. He is also the author of Structures of Belonging (Aksioma Postscriptum Series, 2023), a shorter text that re-imagines blockchain technologies beyond digital property enclosures.

Martin’s critical writing has been translated into languages including Korean, French, Italian, Slovak, and Slovenian. It has appeared in many books, such as Curating Superintelligences: a Reader on AI and Future Curating (OHP 2026), Vectoral Agents: Power in the Age of Planetary Computation (INC 2025), the MoneyLab Reader Vol. 2 (INC 2018), Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain (Torque Editions 2017), and Sampling Media (OUP 2014). His writing has also been published in key journals including Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature Portfolio), Leonardo, Philosophy & Technology, Computer Music, Culture Machine, and Media Theory. As a critical commentator on contemporary art practices, he has published in magazines such as Spike Art Magazine and Outland.

Last but not least, Martin is a passionate cyclist, and for the last few years has been involved in establishing ‘critical cycling studies’ as an interdisciplinary research domain.