Maria Rogg, PhD candidate at the BioMe Project at the Department of Informatics and Media has a background in participatory design invested to widen public access to design methodology and spur social change. In her academic work, Maria continues to explore design as a critical and existential inquiry to question and speculate upon social imaginaries, knowledge politics and norms at the intersection of (art) activism and media technology. Within BioMe and her doctoral dissertation project “Twists of the Smart Body. Biohacking as Existential Practice” she traces how the ethical limits and potentials of biometric AI are fleshed out through biohacking as an existential media practice. In the vein of collaborative research, Maria investigates how biohackers twist biometrics to intervene alternative and more response-able AI futures.
