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Denise Helene Sumi is a PhD candiate at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures. Her research examines a set of cultural dynamics and political questions in a world replete with technological connections, engaging with media art history, network cultures, and relationality. She is interested in works that cultivate convivial and relational technologies, alongside intuitive and embodied ways of transmitting, knowing, and sensing. Her work centers on art practices and collective approaches that establish and sustain socially, environmentally, and ethically responsible and joyful ways of being with technology, fostering reciprocal, and regenerative relations of mutual care and curiosity among humans, non-humans, and more-than-humans. Projects she has been involved in include Future Narratives, A.K.T; Zemljani (Earthlings), Šumski univerzitet/Forest University; Encuentro entre Especies y Espectros, Museo de Arte Moderno Medellín; Intimate Assemblages: #1 Ecologies, Kevin Space; and REUSE >>REFUSE, NTS Radio/transmediale/Digital Solitude.