Biographies
Geert-Jan van Bussel has studied medieval history, business administration, business
informatics and archival studies. He is a certified archivist. He is assistant professor at HvA
University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam. From 2012-2016, he was professor Digital Archiving
and Compliance at that university. He is, with Van Bussel Document Services, an independent
consultant, auditor and researcher. He is visiting lecturer at several universities in the Netherlands
and Europe. He was president of the Special Commission for Archives, a commission of the
Council of Culture, the most important advisory body on culture for the Dutch government. He is
a (keynote) speaker on many seminars and conferences, mostly on the effects and influence of
information processing and information management on people's work. He published extensively
on digital archiving, accountability, and Enterprise Information Management. In 2001, he has
been awarded the prestigious NMA Award, an award of excellence from the Dutch Association for
Information Management to acknowledge his merits for the Document-, Workflow- and Record
Management market.
Wolfgang Ernst is Full Professor for Media Theories in the Institute for Musicology and Media
Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin since 2003. Having been academically trained as a
historian (PhD) and classicist (Latin philology and Classical Archaeology) with an ongoing
interest in cultural tempor(e)alities, he grew into the emergent technology-oriented "German
school" of media studies and His academic focus has been on archival theory and museology,
before attending to media materialities. His current research covers media archaeology as method,
theory of technical storage, technologies of cultural transmission, micro-temporal media
aesthetics and their chronopoetic potentials, and sound analysis ("sonicity") from a media-
epistemological point of view.
Books in English: Digital Memory and the Archive (2013); Stirring in the Archives. Order from
Disorder Stirring in the Archives (2015); Chronopoetics. The temporal being and operativity of
technological media (2016); Sonic Time Machines. Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices and Implicit
Sonicity in Terms of Media Knowledge, Amsterdam (2016)
Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford,
where he is also the Director of the Digital Ethics Lab of the Oxford Internet Institute. Still in
Oxford, he is Distinguished Research Fellow of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics of the Faculty
of Philosophy, and Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy of the Department of
Computer Science. Outside Oxford, he is Faculty Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute (the national
institute for data science) and Chair of its Data Ethics Group; and Adjunct Professor
("Distinguished Scholar in Residence") of the Department of Economics, American University,
Washington D.C.
His research concerns primarily Information and Computer Ethics (aka Digital Ethics), the
Philosophy of Information, and the Philosophy of Technology. Other research interests include
Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic, and the History and Philosophy of Scepticism. He has published
over a 150 papers in these areas, in many anthologies and peer-reviewed journals. His works have
been translated into many languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek,
Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. His
lifetime project is a tetralogy (not his term) on the foundation of the philosophy of information,
called Principia Philosophiae Informationis.
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