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Maisa Imamovic is a researcher, web designer/developer, and experimental educator. In her research, she critically studies the role of a single user and user behaviors generated by code. In her practice, she is interested in building hybrid publishing formats and collectively built interfaces. Since 2019, Maisa has written code in collaboration with artists, collectives, and cultural institutions including Hackers&Designers, Ali Eslami, Marlies van Hak, Merel Smit, VEIN Agency, CalArts, LASP (Gerrit Rietveld Academie) and was published in Kajet, Simulacrum, Forum, TAAK, Real Review, NXS World, Metropolis M, Other Worlds. Her first book was published by the Institute of Network Cultures in 2022. She runs her own blog (Living Industry) at the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Arts where she is a senior researcher. She is a part of two self-organized collectives: timeis.capital in Amsterdam and RIP SPACE in Los Angeles. She recently obtained her MA degree in Aesthetics & Politics at the California Institute of the Arts. She is a teaching fellow in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of Arts and an adjunct professor in the Media Arts and Practice program at the University of Southern California.