Zeerak Ahmed / SLOWSPIN is a US-based Pakistani artist. She produces voice-based sculptures, meditative installations and uniquely fragile sound collages that explore notions of identity, memory and longing. Slowspin has a distinct sound practice grounded in Hindustaani classical vocal traditions, dream-folk, ambient and experimental electronic music. Poetry and melodies in her mother tongue(s)—Urdu, Farsi, Purbi and English—build new textural soundscapes.
Read MoreIole Alessandrini is an artist who was born and raised in Italy, and has been living in Seattle since 1994. She received her diploma in Fine Arts from the First State School of Fine Arts in Rome and earned two master’s degrees in Architecture: one from the University of La Sapienza in Rome and the other from the University of Washington in Seattle. It is the intersection between these two creative expressions – art and architecture – through which her work moves.
Read MoreSanford Biggers, an LA native working in NYC, creates artworks that integrate film, video, installation, sculpture, drawing, original music and performance.He intentionally complicates issues such as hip hop, Buddhism, politics, identity and art history in order to offer new perspectives and associations for established symbols. Through a multi-disciplinary formal process and a syncretic creative approach he makes works that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are conceptual.
Read MoreMaggie Buxton, MSc, PhD, is a transdisciplinary practitioner, creative entrepreneur and social innovator fascinated with portals and alternative realities. With thirty years of experience, she curates everything from international events to creative innovation labs and augmented reality installations.
Read MoreGrace Gloria Denis’ work converges agricultural research with interactive installation, incorporating edible material, sound, and image to propose a convivial and comestible approach to critical inquiry. Implementing the meal as both a medium and a pedagogical tool, her work refers to participatory action research models, engaging in collaborations with actors in local food systems.
Read MoreAnthony Dunne & Fiona Raby use design as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies.
Read MoreJoanna Ebenstein is a Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist, award winning curator, writer, photographer, producer, art director, designer, and public speaker. Her work explores the intersections of art and medicine, death and culture, the objective and subjective, the living and the inanimate.
Read MoreNola Farman studied sculpture at Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada, completing her MA and PhD at the University of Western Sydney. She is currently writing and producing artworks about the absurdity of contemporary life, using the art world as an exemplar.
Read MoreJason File is an artist and international lawyer based between London, UK and New York, NY, where he is a studio holder at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in Manhattan. He is a former United Nations war crimes prosecutor and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), Netherlands, who holds degrees in fine art from the Chelsea College of Arts, London, and the KABK. He also holds degrees in the humanities, social sciences, and law from Yale (1998), Oxford (2000) and Yale Law School (2004).
Read MoreLuca Forcucci is an artist, composer, and scholar exploring the relationships between the sonic, consciousness, perception, experience, memory, and the body. His research and artworks are regularly presented worldwide and have won numerous national and international awards in well regarded contexts.
Read MoreRenee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of poetry, prose, drawing and architecture.
Read MoreCarles Guerra (Amposta, 1965) holds a PhD from Universitat de Barcelona. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universitat de Barcelona and the Media Studies Department, The New School for Social Research. He has pursued a career in art criticism, teaching and research. His most recent profile has been associated with outstanding positions in the field of cultural management, cultural policies and curatorial activities.
Read MoreCarolyn Guertin is a scholar-practitioner of new media. She is a Senior Researcher in the Augmented Reality Lab at York University in Toronto and is a faculty member in the MFA and PhD programs at Transart Institute in Berlin, Germany.
Read MoreTia Halliday B.F.A, B.Ed, M.F.A, Ph.D. (Candidate) is an internationally recognized artist, currently residing in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Tia is also a tenured faculty member in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Calgary where she is active in both Graduate and Undergraduate programs.
Read MoreDon Handa is a curator living and working in Nairobi
Read MoreKate Hilliard is an artist, curator and educator. She is the Creative Director at The Orillia Centre for Arts + Culture, fostering programming and residency opportunities for artists across disciplines. Over the years she has cultivated a teaching practice in her own community and in several institutions, including The Stella Adler Studio of Acting in NYC.
Read MoreLAURA HICKS (she/they) is a queer feminist Canadian artist from Tkaronto (known as Toronto). Working as a choreographer, performer, and educator in the Frankfurt am Main area since 2013, she creates choreographic work for the stage, while also teaching in different contexts. Her interest is in sensory states, qualities and intensities explored through improvisation.
Read MoreDerek Holzer (1972) is an American instrument builder and sound artist based in Berlin DE, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, the relationship between sound + space, media archaeology and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has created scores of unique and experimental instruments, installations, and performances since 2002, as well as taught sound art workshops, across Europe, North and South America, and New Zealand.
Read MoreEstelle Hoy is a writer and academic based in Berlin. She completed her Phd in Contemporary Feminist Experimental Literature (New Narrative). She's lectured at The Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, Freie Universität Berlin, Goldsmiths, Bard College, Parsons Paris, The New School, Université Paris-Sorbonne and Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) Paris.
Read MorePhillis Ideal has exhibited nationally including exhibitions at major museums and galleries in San Francisco, Santa Fe and New York City. Her work has been exhibited and collected in many private and public collections such as the M. H. de Young Museum, the Oakland Museum of Fine Arts, the Newport Harbor Art Museum and the Fine Arts Museum of Santa Fe. She is currently represented by Rosenberg+Kaufman Fine Arts in New York City.
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