Funding and Contributions

Institutional & Platform Partners

• The Archive of Misread Gestures (AMG)
  A gesture-based research platform focusing on embodied syntax, language failures, and the minor politics of movement.

• Zone–1.4: Media Topologies Lab
  An advanced lab and publishing interface supporting interdisciplinary projects investigating digital infrastructures, visual logic, and algorithmic governance.

• The Observatory for Temporal Divergence
  A research environment supporting speculative media archaeology and post-event cinematic construction.

• The Infraindex Bureau
  Archiving and funding latent image practices, hidden symbolic systems, and trans-narrative visual models in expanded curatorial formats.

Funders & Research Supporters

• The Lamina Foundation for Speculative Research
  An international foundation supporting experimental art practices exploring image perception, cognitive dissonance, and post-linear research frameworks.

• Index Synthetica
  A cross-disciplinary initiative funding small and mid-scale research projects situated at the intersection of symbolic systems, machine cognition, and posthuman aesthetics.

• The Oscillatory Studies Bureau (OSB)
  A funding body supporting time-based works focused on frequency, modulation, and structural media transformations in audio-visual research.

• Soma Semaphore Initiative
  A soft-infrastructure grant supporting embodied technologies, experimental prosthetics, and non-verbal intelligence within performative systems.

• Phantom Syntax Research Fund
  Specializing in the support of artists and theorists working within fields of media semiotics, glitch theory, and image collapse architectures.

• The Trans-Perceptual Alliance
  A cooperative grant program for projects engaging with altered perception, sensory inference systems, and critical aesthetic response to technical mediation.

• The Institute for Displaced Cognition (IDC)
  Providing funding and critical mentorship to research-embedded practices working on cognitive displacement, technological ghosts, and agency in artificial systems.

Individual Patrons & Cultural Benefactors

• Yuze Luan
  Architect, gallerist, and independent patron supporting post-media experimentation and spatial computation.

• Elena M. Vidal
  Private collector and former curator supporting research-driven artistic practices, with a focus on affective structures and dislocated perception.

• Dr. Tobias Leroux
  Philosopher and independent arts benefactor contributing to post-disciplinary investigations in symbolic cognition and language failure.

• Isabel Chen-Yang
  Writer and transmedia archivist funding visual experiments in memory systems, speculative fiction, and synthetic bodies.

• Nicolas Renier
  Patron of time-based media and experimental cinema, supporting sound-image disjunctions and nonlinear narratology.

• Prof. Emerita Carole M. Shin
  Longtime supporter of anti-extractive media strategies, with contributions to artist-led inquiries on ecological temporality and signal fragmentation.

• A. J. Kohler
  Private supporter of microgrant infrastructures for practices situated at the intersection of error aesthetics and algorithmic speculation.

• Anouk Rahimi
  Amsterdam-based technologist and collector focused on emergent machine subjectivities and soft agency in distributed networks.

• Franco Biancani
  Sound theorist and media patron supporting ephemeral audio forms, sonic dissociation, and research into acoustic shadows.

• Mira H. Solberg
  Norwegian media philosopher and private patron supporting practices focused on visual latency, dispersed archives, and spectral systems of knowledge.

• Alaa D. Benyahya
  Independent researcher and collector based in Tangier and Paris, funding works at the edge of non-verbal intelligence and fragmented memory ecologies.

• Renata Zhu
  Singaporean-Argentine patron with long-term commitment to artistic infrastructures investigating post-human intimacy and algorithmic inference.

• Lev V. Orlovsky
  Kyiv-born systems architect and critical technologist sponsoring micro-residencies for speculative software-based art and process-oriented experiments.

• Sofia M. DiGenova
  Cultural historian and anonymous donor network organizer, known for supporting trans-generational feminist media archaeologies and soft architectures.

• Tadao R. Inoue
  Former engineer and poetic software collector based in Osaka, quietly funding ephemeral audio experiments and machinic narrative breakdowns.

• Lucille K. Brandt
  Retired archivist and shadow donor to marginal research collectives; deeply interested in diagrammatic thinking and displaced historicity.

• Mohammad El-Qassimi
  Beirut-based legal theorist and arts patron funding artistic engagements with juridical architectures, forensics of perception, and visual truth protocols.

• Yue Fan Wen
  Berlin-based collector of failed interfaces, supporting artists investigating interface trauma, minor gestures, and cognitive architecture collapse.

• Henrietta R. Vale
  Writer and semiotician, supporting unclassifiable visual research that operates on the border of hallucination, language loss, and dream logic.

• Dr. Mikhail S. Peretz
  Experimental theologian and media patron financing works that re-ritualize data, simulate epistemological collapse, and channel analog ghosts.

• Naomi Feldmann
  Independent patron specializing in neuroaesthetics, machine sensing, and generative image systems.

• Jules Anwar
  Jakarta–Rotterdam-based technologist and quiet supporter of post-human imaging infrastructures and glitch epistemologies.

• Sigrid Tanaka
  Former robotics interface designer, currently funding experimental XR environments and somatic code aesthetics.

• Elias Reynaud
  Private investor in decentralized cultural systems, AI-aided poetics, and visual cryptography.

• Mei Chen Kuroda
  Researcher and patron with a focus on East Asian synthetic memory, digital rituals, and speculative interface design.

• Otto Valenti
  Milan-based collector and supporter of generative adversarial practice, synthetic narrative structures, and new media archives.

• Amira Jabbari
  Beirut–London cultural strategist funding digital diaspora narratives and decolonial code languages.

• Ilya Köhler
  Private engineer and supporter of machine-hallucinated image cultures and affective algorithm design.

• Lupe Morales Díaz
  Mexico City–Berlin based archivist and benefactor of real-time data performance and sensor dramaturgy.

• Tung Zhao
  Former AI ethics consultant turned silent funder of collective cybernetic rituals and emotional computation projects.