Morehshin Allahyari (Persian: مورهشیناللهیاری‎; b. 1985) is an Iranian-Kurdish media artist, activist, and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She uses computer modeling, 3D scanning, and digital fabrication techniques to explore the intersection of art and activism. Her work has been part of exhibitions, festivals, and workshops worldwide, with venues including the New Museum, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Venice Biennale di Architectura, and Museum für Angewandte Kunst. She is the recipient of The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2019), The Sundance Institute New Frontier International Fellowship, and the leading global thinkers award by Foreign Policy magazine (2016). Her 3D Additivist Manifesto video is in the collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and she has recently been awarded major commissions by The Shed, Rhizome, New Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Liverpool Biennale, and FACT.

Noah Angell (b. 1980, US, lives in London) works through orally transmitted forms such as storytelling and song. He produces time-based works, including films, oral histories, and lecture-performances that encompass folkloric and working-class forms of knowledge, privileging modes of experience, and continuities that often evade historical records. Recent projects include For the Good Wind at The Polar Museum in Tromsø, Norway, and Ghost Stories of the British Museum, an ongoing project garnering media attention worldwide. His first feature-length documentary film on acapella singer Connie B. Steadman, formerly of the Badgett Sisters, will be released in 2021. Previous exhibitions and performance of his work have taken place at The Freud Museum, London; Camden Art Center, London, CCA, Derry, University of California Riverside, CA, and Duke University, Durham, NC, among other venues. 

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature at Brown University, a film essayist, and curator of archives and exhibitions. Her books include: Potential History – Unlearning Imperialism (Verso, 2019), Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (Verso, 2012), The Civil Contract of Photography (Zone Books, 2008), and From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950 (Pluto Press 2011). Her films include Un-documented: Undoing Imperial Plunder (2019), Civil Alliances, Palestine, 47-48 (2012). Recent exhibitions include Errata at the Tapiès Foundation, Barcelona (2019) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2020); and Enough! The Natural Violence of New World Order at the F/Stop photography festival, Leipzig (2016).

Stephanie Dinkins is a transmedia artist and professor at Stony Brook University, where she holds the Kusama Endowed Chair in Art. Dinkins’ art practice employs lens-based practices, emerging technologies, and community engagement to confront questions of bias in AI, data sovereignty and social equity. She exhibits and publicly advocates for inclusive AI at a broad spectrum of venues and is particularly driven to work with communities of color to co-create more equitable, values-grounded artificially intelligent ecosystems. Dinkins is Artist in Residence at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, a Creative Capital Grantee 2019, as well as a 2018/19 Soros Equality Fellow, and a Data and Society Research Institute Fellow. Recent exhibitions include Feminist Data Visualization, Atlanta Contemporary (2020); Design for Different Futures, Walker Art Museum (2020-21), and Uncanny Valley, De Young Museum, San Francisco (2020-21).

Kristan Kennedy is a curator, artist, and educator. She is currently the Artistic Director / Curator of Visual Art at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). Recent exhibitions include Flat Fix, Halsey McKay Gallery, New York; Other Colors, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland; Eyes, Ditch Projects, OR; Sunday, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL; Kristan Kennedy Meets a Clock, Soloway, New York; Sleeper, OO, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, and Tomorrow, Tomorrow, CANADA, New York. Kennedy is represented by Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR. She was the recipient of the Bonnie Bronson Fellowship in 2018 and is currently serving on the Board of Trustees for the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. 

Aram Lee (b. 1986, Seoul) lives and works in Amsterdam. As an artist, her research-driven practice revolves around reinterpreting materials found within institutions, often seeking to relocate their role and purpose through performative events, film and video installations. Her work has been shown and performed at, among other venues, De Appel, Amsterdam; Framer Framed, Amsterdam; Tetterode, Amsterdam; Zuiderseemuseum, Einkuizen; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and the Bienal de arte textil contemporanea, Guimares, Portugal. Recent artist's books include From Pluto to Pyeongyang and Back, Post Ghost Bust, Charles Nyples Lab (2019), and Landscape with Bear (2019). She was an artist in residence at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, NL in 2018-19, and at the Goethe Institute, Marseille in 2019.

Christine Miller (b. 1990, New York, NY, she/her) is a conceptual artist and curator currently based in Portland, OR. Her work centers around racial imagery, products, and histories while simultaneously reframing her own cultural identity. In addition to her own work, Christine’s curatorial practice centers on bringing underrepresented contemporary artists to the front of the Portland art community and beyond. Miller holds BA from Hunter College (2013), and an AA in Textile Surface Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology (2016). She has been the recipient of various artist grants along with participating in select artist talks and grant panels. Miller is currently working on her curated magazine Black Playground - which features the work of ten Portland based artist and plans to continue expanding her portfolio of art publications.

Dutch artist Melvin Moti (b. 1977) primarily makes 35mm films, often shown in conjunction with photography, objects, and artist books. His work examines neurological, scientific and historic processes in relation to visual culture. Moti’s recent solo exhibitions include Museum De Pont (Tilburg, The Netherlands), Art Sonje (Seoul), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), EMPAC (New York), Pavilion (Leeds, UK), Harburger Kunstverein (Germany), CAC Vilnius (Lithuania), Madam (Luxembourg), Wiels (Brussels), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), and MMK, the Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt. His work has been featured in the Triennale di Milano 2019, the 16th Istanbul Biennial, Yokohama Triennale 2014 and the 55th Venice Biennale, 2013. His first feature film Dreamlife had its premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020. 

Lorraine O’Grady (b.1934) combines strategies related to humanist studies on gender, the politics of diaspora and identity, and reflections on aesthetics by using a variety of mediums that include performance, photo installation, moving media, and photomontage. A native of Boston, MA, and a daughter of Caribbean immigrant parents, she served as an intelligence analyst for the US government, a literary and commercial translator, and rock music critic before turning to visual arts in the late 1970s. An active voice in the alternative New York art world, her work addressed feminist concerns and tackled cultural perspectives underrepresented in early feminism. She lives and works in New York, where a major retrospective of her work will take place at the Brooklyn Museum in 2021.

Itziar Okariz (b. 1965, San Sebastian, Spain) lives and works in Bilbao. Her work questions the production of signs that define us, including the regulatory functions of language and normative behavior in public space. Perforated By, her two-person exhibition with Sergio Prego represented Spain at the 58th Venice Biennale 2019. Recent solo exhibitions include Las statues, Fundacion Oteiza, Alzuza (2020), Tabakalera, San Sebastian (2018); Kunsthaus Baselland (2017); and CA2M, Madrid (2017). Her is currently participating in the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2020), with other recent performances at Art Parcours ArtBasel, at BOZAR in Brussels, as well as such venues as MACBA Museum, Barcelona, and the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid.