Felix Stalder (b. 1968, Basel, Switzerland) is Professor at the Zurich University of the Arts, where he teaches in the Department of Fine Arts ‘art:ifical studies’. His work focuses on the intersection of cultural, political, and technological dynamics, particularly new modes of commons-based production, copyright, datafication, artificial intelligence, and the transformation of subjectivity. Stalder is active not only as an academic but also as a cultural producer. He is a long-time moderator of <nettime>, a key nexus of critical net culture – initially for the email list, and now for its presence in the fediverse. He is a member of the World Information Institute and the Technopolitics Working Group, both based in Vienna. Stalder lives and works in Vienna and Zurich.