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THE TEAM
RUNE SAUGMANN
PI, Researcher
Tampere University
rune.saugmann.andersen@tuni.fi
Rune Saugmann is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at Tampere University and an adjunct professor in Media and Communications studies at Helsinki University. Rune’s research revolves around how visual and digital dynamics reconfigures security politics. He has published widely on how videos participate in constituting security events, and how image-based open-source intelligence practice, art photography, and computer vision systems perform security politics. He has a strong interest in how computer vision becomes the basis for security knowledge used in policing and warfare including in autonomous weapons systems and seeks to build alternatives where computer vision empowers civilians.
Together with Juha Vuori, Rune edited the first edited volume dedicated to visual security, Visual Security Studies (Routledge 2018). His research and public databases are available at saugmann.tumblr.com. Rune is a member of the international committee for robot arms control.
VASILIS GALIS
Researcher
IT University of Copenhagen
vgal@itu.dk
Vasilis Galis is Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. He has conducted research on the digitalization of the welfare state, borders, and on law enforcement, informed by qualitative methods. Galis has led the projects Welfare after Digitalization and Critical Understanding of Predictive Policing. Galis research focuses on the social impact of digitalization in critical security infrastructures and sectors of the welfare state.
ALEX VEITCH
Filmmaker
RåFILM Filmmakers collective
veitch@rafilm.se
Alex Veitch is a filmmaker focusing on social and labour issues. He is co-founder of the film collective RåFILM based in Sweden. Over the past 25 years, he has worked with animations and made a number of award-winning documentaries that provide a unique insight into environments to which few are given access. The latest films are HAIYU - Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara about music in the struggle of independence and justice in Africa's last colony and the short documentary The Victory Train about the fantastic organizing on the local trains in the southern part of Sweden.
With the drive to make films available beyond the established locations Alex has explored alternative forms of screening: partly through a rolling bicycle cinema where the screening takes place with walking audiences, exhibiting "video ATMs" in workplaces and turning courtyards into neighboring cinemas.
TALAT BHAT
Filmmaker
RåFILM Filmmakers collective
talat@rafilm.se
Talat Bhat is a Swedish Kashmiri documentary filmmaker. Working and researching on new media technologies in conflict zones like occupied Kashmir by India & Pakistan. He is running the big independent webtv for Kashmir, JKTV. He has a Masters in Media Production from Coventry, UK.
BJÖRN KARLSSON
Post-doc researcher
IT University of Copenhagen
bjrk@itu.dk
Björn Karlsson is an ethnographic researcher of digitalized police work. In his PhD thesis, he investigated the POL-INTEL platform of the Danish police as part of a wider inquiry into data-driven, or predictive, policing. In his postdoctoral work within the UNDO project, Björn continues his interest in the transformation of law enforcement in the Nordics by investigating the police in Denmark and Sweden. In another life, Björn was a high school teacher of sociology and philosophy, and he continues to be highly interested in pedagogy and teaching alongside issues of politics, ontology and epistemology.
SAARA SÄRMÄ
Postdoctoral researcher
Tampere University
saara.sarma@tuni.fi
Dr. Saara Särmä is a feminist writer, part-time academic, sometime artist, and occasional activist. She is the creator of “Congrats, you have an all male panel!” and co-founder of the Feminist Think Tank Hattu, which is known for School of Daring and Cursing Soirées. Her doctoral dissertation (University of Tampere, 2014) focused on internet parody images and developed an art-based collage methodology for studying world politics, which her postdoctoral project (at Tampere University 2019-2023) Making Meaning out of Meme-making expanded. Academically, her main interests are politics of visuality, critical militarism studies, arts-based methods, and online misogyny, which she also addresses in her artistic practice.
YANNIS EFTHYMIOU
Software dev & researcher
Tampere University
ioannis.efthymiou@tuni.fi
Yannis Efthymiou is a PhD researcher at Tampere University, focusing on AI and computer vision technologies with a focus on counter-surveillance in urban settings. With experience as a full-stack engineer and data scientist, he has worked on projects ranging from web applications to machine learning. His expertise lies in human-computer interaction, social innovation, and the use of technology to address critical societal issues.
KRISTOFFER KRONANDER
Filmmaker
Pråmfilm
kristoffer@pramfilm.se
Kristoffer Kronander is an experienced film editor with over ten years of work in documentary film, short film, and television production. Originally from Östergötland, he has a strong sense of storytelling and rhythm within documentary narratives. He has previously edited films such as Ink, Blood and Socks (2023), Hackitat (2020), and The Antifascists (2017), as well as the SVT series Buy My Panties (2023).