Bodies and the Industrial Complex

Alex Quicho is a theorist and research director in London. She has presented works internationally, including at Transmediale, Creamcake, and Espace Niemeyer. Her writing appears in Wired, Dazed, The White Review, and elsewhere. Alex lectures at Central Saint Martins and London College of Fashion. She is a research fellow at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures at Die Angewandte and in leadership of SYM, a think-tank for political narrative in the post-platform age. Previous institutional collaborations include Singapore Art Museum, Power Station of Art, Julia Stoschek Collection, Fondation Pernod-Ricard, Rennie Museum, and Nationalgalerie.

Vex Ashley is an independent porn producer and performer and founder of the Four Chambers project. With a background in analog photography, art school bullshit and digital sex online, Vex worked as a cam girl before beginning to make films as Four Chambers in 2013. Self-taught in cinematography with an emphasis on collaborative DIY practices, Four Chambers has spearheaded a new wave of creators making contemporary pornographic work from a new perspective with the aim to expand ideas about what porn can say, do and be. Four Chambers is part of the growing decentralisation from traditional industry practices. Independent, conceptual, creative, porn cinema. She speaks, writes and spends her time talking about making porn creatively and independently, sex as performance, authenticity and the self, art and pornography, technology and sex, camming and online censorship.