Salome Asega is an artist and researcher based in Brooklyn. Asega has participated in residencies and fellowships with Eyebeam, New Museum, The Laundromat Project, and Recess. She has exhibited at the Shanghai Biennale, MoMA, Carnegie Library, August Wilson Center, Knockdown Center, and more. She has also given presentations and lectures at Performa, eyeo, Brooklyn Museum, MIT Media Lab, NYU, and more. She is currently a Ford Foundation Technology Fellow landscaping new media artist and organization networks. She sits on the boards of National Performance Network and POWRPLNT, a youth digital art collaboratory. Asega received her MFA from Parsons at The New School in Design and Technology, where she teaches classes on speculative design and participatory design methodologies.
Websitesalome.zone
Instagram@computers_puting
Twitter @suhlomay
Nora Khan is a critic, an educator, and a curator. She is on the faculty of Rhode Island School of Design in Digital + Media and has two short books: Seeing, Naming, Knowing (The Brooklyn Rail, 2019), on machine vision, and with Steven Warwick, Fear Indexing the X-Files (Primary Information, 2017). Forthcoming this year is The Artificial and the Real, through Art Metropole. She is currently an editor of Forces of Art: Perspectives From a Changing World, alongside Serubiri Moses and Carin Kuoni.
Websitenoranahidkhan.com
Willa Köerner is a future-focused writer, editor, creative strategist, and space-maker. She directs The Strange Foundation, an internet-and-nature-infused space in New York’s Catskill Mountains, where she oversees their signature Decelerator residency program. Currently, she is a Cultural Futures Fellow with NEW INC and the New Museum, as well as a Contributing Tech Editor for the Pioneer Works Broadcast. In the past, she directed editorial initiatives at The Creative Independent and Kickstarter, and many years ago, she helped pioneer SFMOMA's award-winning digital engagement program. Recently, she's been working with organizations that are focused on reengineering the internet to better serve artists.
Websitewillakoerner.com
Instagram@willak
Twitter @willak
Rahel Aima is an art critic, writer, and editor based between Brooklyn and Dubai. She is currently an associate editor at Momus and was formerly the founding Editor-in-Chief of THE STATE, in addition to previous positions with Art Review Asia, The New Inquiry, Ibraaz, Brownbook, and Guernica. Her writing has appeared in 4Columns, Artforum, Art in America, ArtNews, Mousse, and The New Republic, among many others, and she has been profiled in Elle India and New York Magazine. Aima received a 2018 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in Short-Form Writing.
Websiterahelaima.com
Instagram@cnqmdi
Twitter @cnqmdi
Mindy Seu is a New York-based designer and researcher. She holds an M.Des from Harvard's Graduate School of Design and B.A. in Design Media Arts from University of California, Los Angeles. Formerly she was a fellow at Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and Internet Archive and a designer at 2×4 and the Museum of Modern Art. Seu has given talks at Barbican, Princeton, CalArts, Parsons, Pratt, and RISD, among others. Seu joined the faculty of Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and the Yale School of Art in 2019.
Websitemindyseu.com
Instagram@mindyseu
Twitter @mind_seu
Kathryn Yusoff is Professor of Inhuman Geography in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Her research examines how inhuman and nonorganic materialities have consequences for how we understand issues of environmental change, race, and subjectivity. Most recently, she is author of A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (University of Minnesota Press, 2018); SI on “Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene” (with Nigel Clark) in Theory Culture and Society; “Epochal Aesthetics” in e-flux; and “The Inhumanities” in The Annals of American Association of Geographers. Her forthcoming book, Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race, addresses the histories of geology and the gravities of race.
Websiteqmul.ac.uk
Kameelah Janan Rasheed grapples with the poetics, politics, and pleasures of the unfinished and uncontained. She is invested in Black storytelling technologies that invite us to consider ways of [un]learning that are interdisciplinary, interspecies, and interstellar. Engaging primarily with text, Rasheed works across different substrates and compositional fields. She works on the page, on walls, and in public space to create associative arrangements of letters, words, and shapes that invite an embodied and iterative reading process. She is the author of two artist books, An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations (Endless Editions, 2019) and No New Theories (Printed Matter, 2019).
Websitekameelahr.com
Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Russell holds an MRes with Distinction in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London with a focus in Visual Culture. Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual. Russell’s written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow, and a recipient of the 2021 Creative Capital Award. Her first book Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020) is published by Verso Books. Her second book, BLACK MEME, is forthcoming via Verso Books.
Websitelegacyrussell.com
Instagram@ellerustle
Twitter @legacyrussell
Taja Cheek is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, vocalist, and curator from Brooklyn. She works as Curatorial Assistant at MoMA PS1, where she organizes the ongoing Warm Up series and Sunday Sessions, among other programming. Prior to MoMA PS1, she has worked closely with artists to realize projects at institutions including Creative Time, The High Line, and Weeksville Heritage Center. She has been profiled in The Creative Independent, Interview Magazine, Teen Vogue, and The Village Voice. In 2017, Cheek released her self-titled debut LP as L’Rain.
Instagram@turrelljames
Twitter @lrain0000
Tommy Martinez is a New York City-based technologist and arts worker exploring algorithmic approaches to music-making, simulation, and manifestations of identity and history in electronic culture. He is currently the Director of Technology at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, where he facilitates support for artists producing experimental, socially engaged digital experiences. He has lectured on sound and electronic art at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, NYU, Parsons, Teachers College, Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Websitethomasjohnmartinez.com
