How Not To Be Heard: Steve Goodman & Bogna Konior

Bogna Konior is a researcher and strategist focused on emerging technologies. She works at the intersection of academic scholarship and applied frameworks, and is currently focused on designing recovery initiatives and strategic scenarios for postwar technological change in Ukraine. She is Polish, based between Ukraine and China, where she is Assistant Professor of Media Theory at NYU Shanghai’s Interactive Media department. Her forthcoming book with MIT Press draws on Eastern European intellectual history to reimagine the future of artificial intelligence. She is the author of The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (Polity Press, 2025), a short, experimental book at the intersection of research into extraterrestrial and artificial intelligence; and co-editor of Machine Decision Is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence (Urbanomic, 2025).

Steve Goodman (aka Kode9) is a musician, writer, and artist. He is the author of the book Sonic Warfare: sound, affect and the ecology of fear (MIT Press, 2009) and his forthcoming text, Notes on the Third Ear will be published in 2027 by Urbanomic Press. He co-edited the books Unsound: Undead (Urbanomic, 2019), Ø (Flatlines Press, 2021) and Sonic Faction: audio essay as method and medium (Urbanomic, 2024). He is the founder of the record labels Hyperdub and Flatlines, producer of five albums, numerous EPs, remixes, and DJ mix compilations. He has produced sound installations for the Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern (2018) and the "More than Human" exhibition (2019) on artificial intelligence at the Barbican in London, among others.