Felix Beer

Felix Beer is a researcher and strategist reimagining governance at the intersection of democracy and technology. His work examines how distributed networks can drive institutional renewal in the face of mounting planetary challenges. He is currently pursuing a Master of Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School as a James N. Schnitzler Fellow, where he focuses on designing high-risk/high-impact R&D environments that enable transformative governance experiments to scale from niche pockets to large-scale adoption.

At metaLab, Felix collaborates with Primavera De Filippi to explore Protocol Art, an emergent creative practice in which rule-bound systems—from conceptual instructions and generative logics to smart contracts and algorithms—become the artistic medium. Rather than focusing on fixed media outputs, this practice shifts creativity upstream into the design of protocols that shape and govern the production of their aesthetics.

Parallel to his academic work, Felix co-founded the SOAM Residency, a transdisciplinary program bringing together scientists, creatives, policymakers, and technologists to co-create speculative governance models for the network age. He is also an active member of Göksu Kunak’s award-winning performance collective, contributing to productions at venues including the Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Haus der Kunst (Munich), KØS Museum (Copenhagen), and PILEVNELI Gallery (Istanbul).