Marietta Kesting is a media, art and cultural theorist and currently works at the ICI in Berlin and heads the FWF project: Don't Wake Up! Future Dreaming in the Arts: At the Intersection of Aesthetics, Decolonization and Technology at the Music and Arts University, Vienna. She was a junior-professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and a lecturer at the Institute for Arts and Media at the University of Potsdam. Her work focuses on immersion, post-colonialism and media; artificial intelligence; documentary methods, archives and artistic interventions. Publications include: Human after Man ed. together with S. Witzgall, diaphanes: Zurich, Berlin 2022, and forthcoming (spring 2025): Breaking and Making Models ed. together with C. Holzhey & C. Peppel, ICI Press: Berlin.