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Ilona Brand
Ilona is a Minneapolis based mixed media artist, extrovert, teacher and technologist who sees his work as an opportunity to express and make meaning in a chaotic world. Ilona was formerly the Director of Tech at ,MoveOn.org, and brings experience in digital security adoption and practice from that role. He regularly supports local organizers and groups in thinking through digital security and technology questions.
These days he is particularly interested in the process of change both personally and collectively, and where our physical bodies intersect with our spiritual and digital ones.
Dri Chiu Tattersfield
Dri Chiu Tattersfield is an artist, researcher, and educator from Taipei, Taiwan experimenting towards worlds that can hold everyone they love. They are interested in zines as an accessible medium which expands who counts as a producer of knowledge, and games as a medium for practicing agency and new ways of being. Formerly a high school physics teacher, teaching and learning is central to their creative practice. Dri has taught at the Octavia Project Speculative Fiction Summer Institute and led zine- and game-making workshops at universities, high schools, museums, and community arts spaces. Their games have been featured at Queer East Festival and Now Play This. They are now a graduate student in geography at the University of Minnesota.
Lawra Clark
LAWRA SUITS CLARK is a videogames artist, designer, and educator living in New York, and a co-founder of Babycastles Gallery, dedicated to showcasing contemporary independent videogames and other media by marginalized creators. Lawra's personal work involves climate fiction, absurdist futures, death positivity, ambient play, and game mechanic as poetic device.
Bitter Kalli
Bitter Kalli (b. 1996) is a writer and land worker born in Brooklyn and based in Philly. They work across mediums including soil, seeds, and printed matter. Bitter is the author of the essay collection ,Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation ,(Amistad/HarperCollins 2025).
Bitter’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in ,BOMB Magazine,, ,Guernica Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail,, ,Arts.Black,, and ,Architectural Digest,, among others. They have received support from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and Columbia University. As a speaker and teaching artist, Bitter has worked with students at organizations including the School for Poetic Computation, the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Bitter is the founder of Star Apple Farm and Nursery, a project focused on increasing access to African and Asian diaspora heritage crops.
April Soetarman
April Soetarman (she/her) is an Indonesian-American artist and writer who creates public art, immersive installations, games, and weird side projects. Her interdisciplinary works play with the language of everyday objects and speculative institutions to explore systems, intimacies, and relationships. Her projects have been supported by the Seattle Art Museum, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and CultureHub, among others, as well as anonymously installed in dozens of public spaces across the country. April is also known for WeirdSideProjects.com, her previously-anonymous series of ongoing experiments in code, text, and street art. Her most notable projects include The Museum of Almost Realities (2017), The Department of Emotional Labor (2019, 2026), and The End of the Day (2020). April has a BA in architecture and music from UC Berkeley and was an Experiential Design Founding Fellow at Experience Institute.
Lee Beckwith
Lee 소라 Beckwith is sometimes an educator but always a learner. They currently teach high schoolers computer science, math, and creative writing on Lenape land (Bronx, NY). Their recent research centers on rethinking classroom power dynamics through curriculum negotiation. These days, they are thinking a lot about fractals and film scores.
Tina Horn
Tina Horn is the author of Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink — a book based on her long-running indie fetish podcast of the same name — and the sci-fi comic book series Safe Sex (SfSx). Her journalism on sexual subcultures has appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy, the Wondery podcast Operator, and in anthologies such as We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, which she coedited. Tina is known for the theatrical sensibility she brings to her BDSM workshops in feminist sex boutiques, university lectures on sex worker rights, as an emcee at kinky art shows, a panelist and moderator at writing conferences, and commentator in the media. Her work explores the narrative shapes of pervert experiences and the pornographic potential of pop culture. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence in Creative Nonfiction Writing, and is a LAMBDA Literary Fellow, an AVN nominee, and the recipient of two Feminist Porn Awards.
Maxine de las Pozas
Maxine de las Pozas is a music artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She has performed, published original music, and DJ’ed under the name Axine M since 2017. As Axine M, she was a 2024 Issue Project Room Artist in Residence. Maxine holds a master's degree in Music Technology from NYU Steinhardt, where she focused on the design of novel music controllers for live performance. Her thesis project was published in the proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2020) and International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2021). Maxine works as a Technical Director and Sound Engineer.
Hiba Ali
Dr. Hiba Ali is a digital artist, scholar, and professor of Performance,
Play and Design (University of California) whose visionary practice
moves across immersive digital environments, sculpture-based
installations, and performance. Based between Santa
Cruz and Berlin, Ali has emerged as a leading voice at the intersection
of contemporary art, technology, and embodied knowledge. Ali coined the
term ,digital somatics, to describe a pioneering artistic
methodology that brings together the body, mind, and spirit through game
design, worldbuilding, and narrative systems. Working with virtual
reality, 3D animation, augmented reality, and computational media, Ali
creates transformative digital worlds that function as portals for
healing, collective imagination, and radical futures.
Cameron A. Granger
Cameron A. Granger is an artist from Cleveland, Ohio, and Sandra’s son. A Ohio enthusiast, he makes work about the power structures that shape our cities, and how we make our lives therein. He’s an alumni of Euclid Public Schools.
lee nok'si livingston
lee nok'si livingston is a writer, artist, and anarchist.
Yvonne Mpwo
Yvonne Mpwo is a Congolese-American curator based in New York whose work explores reclamation, indigeneity, and sovereignty through exhibitions that bridge digital and material worlds. She is the founder of bana’pwo, a nonprofit curatorial residency facilitating cross-cultural exchange between artists, researchers, and architects engaging with the cultural landscapes of the Congo, as well as its publishing arm, lóbí press. Working between New York and Congo, she develops projects that foreground spatial storytelling, counter-archives, and diasporic memory through technology and material practice. Yvonne holds a Master of Science from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), where she studied Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture, focusing on diasporic visuality, technological mediation, and curatorial refusal.
Alia ElKattan
Alia ElKattan is a researcher and creative technologist whose work examines the sociopolitical implications of online platforms and emerging technologies. She obtained her Ph.D. at NYU Politics, where her research focused on how the design of technology mediates the acquisition of political information, and how to motivate and safeguard responsible, healthy, and critical engagement with emerging technologies such as large language models and conversational agents. Her creative practice leverages play and interactive storytelling to demystify opaque technologies and expand public imaginaries of alternative technological futures. Alia is a grantee of the Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund and a two-time winner of Mozilla Foundation’s Creative Media Award for work on AI bias, data transparency, user choice in algorithmic feeds. When not writing code or papers, ElKattan can most often be found playing football (soccer), skateboarding, or making playlists.
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
Bio: Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste is a Richmond, VA-based artist, composer, and performer. Some of Toussaint-Baptiste’s fellowships and awards include the 2024/Inaugural Triple Canopy Fellow, Camargo Foundation Core Program Fellow, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Sound Artist-In-Residence, Bessie Award for Outstanding Music Composition and Sound Design, the Jerome Foundation Airspace Resident at Abrons Arts Center, Issue Project Room 2017 Artist-In-Residence, and the Rauschenberg Residency 381 Artist-In-Residence. Toussaint-Baptiste is an Assistant Professor in Sculpture & Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University and recently received a 2025 Creative Capital Award for the land-art project "There, Eyes Were Watching.”
Claire Hentschker
Claire Hentschker is a Brooklyn-based artist and creative technologist whose work takes materials from the beauty aisle, the grocery store, and the internet and turns them into sculpture, installation, and participatory experiences. She teaches at NYU's Integrated Digital Media program and co-founded LARPA, a DIY artist-run space in Bushwick dedicated to experimental digital culture, where she curates events like Small Batch: A Dataset Farmers Market, THE MOST EVIL COMPUTER EVER malware hackathon, and LARPlympics for real-time livestream manipulation.
Jamie Brew
Jamie Brew is a writer, musician and very computer programmer. He writes for The Onion, was the head writer of ClickHole and cofounded Botnik, an art tech group devoted to absurdly small language models. He co-hosts Robot Karaoke, a live comedy show where volunteers sing new lyrics extracted from bespoke text datasets.
Andrés Berman
Andres Berman is a New York based actor, director, and theater artist.
Fred Wordie
I'm Fred Wordie, an artist, writer, and co-funder of a Luddite Club who's playful work explores how we have embodied the values efficiency, rationality and frictionless, that are core to our Technological Society, and is attempting to reject them one spelling mistake, wrong turn and typewriter repair at a time.
Ellie Madsen
Ellie Madsen is a NYC-based researcher, engineer, and designer working at the intersection of media, computation, and the environment. Her research practice questions the spatial, aesthetic, and epistemic conditions of digital Earth representations, from geographic information systems to remote sensing foundation models. She is broadly interested in how computational infrastructures mediate physical and virtual environments. Ellie has worked as a software engineer, adjunct researcher, and environmental data analyst at a variety of institutions, including the Impacts Group at Columbia Climate School & NASA GISS, the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, and Pinterest. She maps, models, writes, visualizes, and programs, while maintaining a reflexive position informed by media theory, environmental justice, and critical data studies. Ellie holds degrees in Environmental Studies and Computer Science from Brown University and Computational Design Practices from Columbia University GSAPP, where her Master's thesis, Embedding Earth, was awarded the 2026 Writing Prize.
Flan Falacci
Flan Falacci is a game developer and artist whose work explores pacing, texture, emotion, and digitally mediated existence. They are a founding member of boshi's place, a collective and exhibition space in Brooklyn focusing on experimental games, and an adjunct professor at the NYU Game Center. Their work makes use of found assets like ripped models from other games, personal screenshots, and edits of popular music. Their work has been shown at festivals around the world, and nominated for the Independent Games Festival’s Nuovo Award and the AMAZE Festival’s Digital Moment Award.
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Bao Nguyen
Bao Nguyen is a performance and visual artist born in Vietnam and based in Baltimore. Their practice explores their connection with places that are overlooked, unregulated, and/or uncared for. .
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