Soenke Zehle, media theorist, writes, teaches, and enjoys engagement in collaborative research on anticipation, collective intelligence design, open technologies, documentary aesthetics. Co-founder of xm:lab - Experimental Media Lab at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, associate researcher at Ubiquitous Media Technologies Lab (German Research Center
for Artificial Intelligence), co-founder and co-managing director of K8 Institut für strategische Ästhetik gGmbH. He is currently involved in the new EIT Culture + Creativity as interim Action Program Director (Strategic Objective 3 "Creation" / "Market Connector").