DISNOVATION.ORG is a group working at the intersection of contemporary art, research, and hacking. They develop situations of disruption, speculation, and debate as a way to question dominant techno-positivist ideologies and to stimulate post-growth narratives. Their practice includes artworks, curation, research, and the creation of publications (including “The Pirate Book,” an anthology on media piracy edited by the group). In 2018, they received a Design Trust Grant (Hong Kong) for a research project about China’s Shanzhai culture. They are visiting researchers at the University of California, Irvine, and the group currently includes three members: Maria Roszkowska, Nicolas Maigret, and Baruch Gottlieb.
DISNOVATION.ORG’s work has been presented internationally, including at Centre Pompidou (Paris), Transmediale (Berlin), the Museum of Art and Design (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), FILE (Sao Paulo), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Strelka Institute (Moscow), ISEA (Hong Kong), Elektra (Montreal), China Museum of Digital Arts (Beijing), and the Chaos Computer Congress (Hamburg). Their work has been featured in Forbes, Vice, Wired, Motherboard, Libération, Die Zeit, Arte TV, Next Nature, Hyperallergic, Le Temps, Neural.it, Digicult, Gizmodo, Seattle Weekly, torrentfreak.com, and Filmmaker Magazine, among others.
They have received many awards, including: Research Fellowship at ArTeC - University Paris 8 (2021-24); Fellowship at UCL Louvain, BE (2021-22); Fellowship at the University of California, Irvine (2019); The WRO Biennale Awards (Critics and Art Editors), Wroclaw (2019); Design Trust Grant, Hong Kong (2018); Fellowship at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam (2018-2020); Fellowship at UCL Louvain (2018); First Prize for Digital Arts from Arte Laguna (2016), and Award for Artistic Technology Research, Vienna (2015).
