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Bettina Katja Lange is a core member of SOAP, Some Online Architecture Practice, an artistic research collective that works at the intersection of new media and critical spatial practice. Lange is a German stage designer and visual media artist. SOAP has exhibited widely, including at Onassis Stegi in Athens, MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, the New Media Art Museum La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona, CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, ETH Zurich, the Goethe-Institut in Beijing, and The Segal Center in New York, among others.

SOAP has exhibited widely, including at Onassis Stegi in Athens, MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, the New Media Art Museum La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona, CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, ETH Zurich, the Goethe-Institut in Beijing, and The Segal Center in New York, among others.

Rebecca Merlić is a digital artist, architect and experimental filmmaker. Merlić's work is characterised by alternative societies and transgressions of socio-economic conventions as well as novel forms of artistic and architectural production using new technologies. She was awarded the Marianne.von.Willemer. 2020 - Prize for Digital Media, Ars Electronica Prix 2023 honorary mention and Content Vienna 2023. Merlić works as a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. As part of the DOMUM Vienna project, which was awarded the 2023 Theodor Körner Prize, she is researching the disappearance of café and coffee house architecture as nourishing social spaces in the contemporary cityscape.