Clemens Apprich (PhD) is assistant professor in Media Studies at the University of Groningen and permanent fellow at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. He is also an associated member of the Digital Democracies Group at Simon Fraser University, of the Global Emergent Media Lab at Concordia University, and of the Research College at Potsdam University. His current research deals with filter algorithms and their application in data analysis as well as machine learning methods. Apprich is the author of Technotopia: A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017), and together with Wendy Chun, Hito Steyerl, and Florian Cramer, co-authored Pattern Discrimination (University of Minnesota Press/meson press, 2019).