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From<p>Visnjic comes from the United Kingdom, and Plummer-Fernandez is of British/Colombian origin.</p>Dates of visit<p>15&ndash;17 May 2015</p>Purpose of visit<p>Visnjic and Plummer-Fernandez will deliver keynote speeches at the <a href="http://2015.fiberfestival.nl/" target="_blank">FIBER Festival</a> in Amsterdam, which begins on Friday 15 May. On the afternoon of Sunday 17 May, they will lead the <a href="http://tuinvanmachines.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/activities/selflearning-software-salon" target="_blank">Self-Learning Software Salon</a> at Het Nieuwe Instituut. They will take the audience on a safari through contemporary algorithmic culture, showing how learning algorithms penetrate our lives in all sorts of ways.</p>Bios<p>Filip Visnjic is editor-in-chief of the <a href="http://CreativeApplications.net" target="_blank">Creative Applications Network</a>, a leading digital art and culture blog, and editor of <a href="http://holo-magazine.com/2/" target="_blank">HOLO</a>, a magazine about art, science and technology. Artist and designer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez is a PhD student at <a href="http://www.gold.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Goldsmiths, University of London</a>, researching the sociocultural role of algorithms and how they, autonomous bots and computerisation increasingly penetrate our lives. In connection with his research, he maintains <a href="http://algopop.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Algopop</a>, a Tumblr page that documents algorithms&rsquo; influence on everyday life and how artists respond to it in their work.<br />&nbsp;</p>&nbsp;