Marina Vishmidt is a London-based writer, editor and critic occupied mainly with questions around art, labour and value. She is the author of "Speculation as a Mode of Production" (Brill, early 2016) and "A for Autonomy" (with Kerstin Stakemeier) (Textem, late 2014). She often works with artists and contributes to journals such as "Mute", "Afterall", "Texte zur Kunst", "Ephemera", "Kaleidoscope", "Parkett", and "OPEN!" She has authored chapters in "The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics ". She teaches Theory at the Dutch Art Institute, and has lectured at the University of the Arts, Berlin, Central Saint Martins, Goldsmiths, and the Royal Academies in Copenhagen and Stockholm. Vishmidt also has a long-term involvement with artists' moving image in critical and exhibition contexts such as feminist film distributor "Cinenova" and the free cinema "Full Unemployment Cinema".