Aarati Akkapeddi

Aarati Akkapeddi is a coder, interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). They work for The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network, where they create digital spaces and tools. In their creative practice, they combine archival material, code, machine learning, and analog techniques (photography & printmaking) to create artwork about intergenerational/collective memory. Their creative work has been supported by institutions such as Ada X, The Photographers' Gallery, The Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, ETOPIA Center for Art & Technology, and LES Printshop.

aarati.online

Alexandra Apsokardou

Athens, Greece

Bellu & Bellu

coming soon...

Birding the Future (Krista Caballero and Frank Ekeberg)

Krista Caballero and Frank Ekeberg started collaborating on Birding the Future in 2013 wanting to explore the implications of species extinction and environmental change and ways in which technology mediates interspecies encounters. The project has been presented internationally in exhibitions, festivals and conferences such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Dubai; Balance-Unbalance International Conferences in Australia and Arizona; the North American Ornithological Conference; RAY2018 in Germany; Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Biennial in Washington D.C.; and Futurescapes Symposium in Norway.

Caballero and Ekeberg were selected as 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows and are now Smithsonian Research Associates working with the National Museum of Natural History in the USA researching the cultural implications of bird species decline.

Angélica Chio

1966 Mexico City, Mexico. Visual Arts studies at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda in Mexico City. Postgraduate studies in Art in Context at the University of the Arts in Berlin and Spanish as a Foreign Language at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Numerous participations in group exhibitions, film and video festivals and national and international cooperative projects. Scholarship holder on various occasions from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes in Mexico and in 2023 from the Art Foundation K52 in Germany.

Jeremy Dennis

Jeremy Dennis (b. 1990) is a contemporary fine art photographer and a

tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY. In

his work, he explores indigenous identity, culture, and assimilation.

Dennis holds an MFA from Pennsylvania State University, State College,

PA, and a BA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University, NY. He

currently lives and works in Southampton, New York on the Shinnecock

Indian Reservation.

Ellen Driscoll

Ellen Driscoll’s work encompasses sculpture, drawing, and public art installation. Recent public installations include "Site Woven" for the Charles R. Jonas federal courthouse in Charlotte, NC, and  “CartOURgraphy” for the International High School and Middle College High School in Long Island City, NY. Earlier works include "Distant Mirrors" for the Providence River, RI,   “The Loophole of Retreat” at the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris,  and “As Above, So Below” for Grand Central Terminal, New York.  Ms. Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the Rhode Island Foundation, Anonymous Was a Woman, a Fine Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Outstanding Educator Award from the International Sculpture Center.  Her work is included in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of Art.  She is Visiting Professor of Sculpture at Bard College.

https://ellendriscoll.net/

Jeanno Gaussi

Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and grew up across Kabul, Delhi, and Berlin.

Using a narrative concept as a starting point, Jeanno Gaussi creates intimate installations about space and memory. Her work crosses a variety of media, including video, photography, objects, and texts.

A central theme of her practice is the exploration of the places where she has worked, traveled, and experienced meaningful encounters. Through these encounters, her work engages questions of remembrance, the search for identity, and the social and cultural processes associated with them.

Her work engages with mechanisms of remembrance, the search for identity, and the social and cultural processes associated with them.

She developed many of her installation projects during residencies in Pakistan (International Diasporic Artists Residency Karachi), Jordan (International Artist Workshop Shatana), Turkey, and Palestine (Al-Mamal Art Residency, Jerusalem) among others.

Gaussi has participated in numerous exhibitions, film festivals, and symposia, including the dOCUMENTA 13, the Havana Biennale, and TEDx Marrakesh.

She is a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre in Munich and received the Ann Wolff Foundation Scholarship 2023.

Jeanno Gaussi currently lives and works in Berlin and Munich, Germany.

Katerina Koukousaki

Athens, Greece

Djambawa Marawili

coming soon

Tuli Mekondjo

Tuli Mekondjo ( b. 1982, Kwanza- Sul, Angola)  is a self-taught Namibian artist who is the recipient of the prestigious DAAD Artist-in Berlin Program in 2022. Mekondjo was shortlisted for the Norval Sovereign Africa art prize 2022/2023. Tuli Mekondjo works with mixed  media including embroidery, photo transfer, resin and mahangu ( millet) grain- a Namibian  food staple. Drawing on colonial  and  war-time  photographic  archives, Mekondjo’s practice  explores Namibian history and identity politics.

Drawing on histories of change, loss and submission- particularly  when it comes to women- she stitches between past and present. She pays homage to her forebears, fertility and continuity, whist commenting on gendered struggle, intergenerational trauma, and displacement. In many resent work, the artist positions  herself in dialogue  with her ancestors, directly acknowledging their pain, whilst referencing  multiple African folklore traditions. Spirituality is an increasingly important element in her work, and Mekondjo extends her textured media into performance.

Mekondjo has exhibited in multiple exhibitions and fairs, including museum shows, in Namibia, South Africa, Germany, Cote d’Ivoire, France , USA, Hong Kong, UK, Belgium and Portugal. Her works are held  in multiple international collections.

Jenny Irene Miller

Inupiaq, Sitŋasuaq – Nome, Alaska, United States
JENNY IRENE MILLER b. 1988; currently based in Dena'ina Ełnena – Anchorage, Alaska.

Jenny Irene Miller (she/her, they/them), Inupiaq, is an artist who works primarily with photography. She is originally from Nome, Alaska. Jenny holds an MFA in Art Studio, Photography, from the University of New Mexico, a BFA in Photomedia, and a BA in American Indian Studies, both from the University of Washington. She is a past Beaumont Newhall/Van Deren Coke Photography Fellow, SITE Santa Fe Scholar, Elizabeth Furber Fellow, and Fulbright Canada Killam Fellow.

Her work has been exhibited nationally at the Anchorage Museum, Portland Art Museum, SITE Santa Fe, Penumbra Foundation, Southampton Arts Center, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, and more. She has also exhibited internationally at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Canada and at the Incheon Open Port in South Korea, to name a few. Jenny is a recipient of awards from the Alaska Humanities Forum, National Geographic, Fulbright Canada, and a Fulbright Canada Killam Fellowship to Canada. Her work has been featured by Inuit Art Quarterly, the New York Times, National Geographic, Canadian Art, Fifth Wheel Press, Forum Magazine, and Lenscratch among others.

https://www.jennyirenemiller.com/

Nnenna Onuoha

Nnenna Onuoha is a Ghanaian-Nigerian researcher, filmmaker and artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her films and videos centre Afrodiasporic voices to explore monumental silences surrounding the histories and afterlives of colonialism across West Africa, Europe and the US, asking: how do we remember, which pasts do we choose to perform and why?  A second strand of her work focuses on archiving Black experience in the present to chronicle how, amidst all this, we practice care and repair for ourselves and each other. Her work has shown at the Galerie im Turm, the Kunsverein Hamburg, the Brückemuseum, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the Galerie im Körnerpark and alpha nova and galerie futura. Nnenna is currently a doctoral researcher in Media Anthropology at Harvard University and Global History at the University of Potsdam. She is also a 2023-4 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow.

Christina Rosi

Christina Rosi (b.1990, Sarande, Albania), is a visual artist who resides in Athens, Greece. She holds a degree in Marketing and is currently pursuing a BA at the Athens School of Fine Arts, she also participated in an Erasmus program at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. Her work has been featured in various group exhibitions and competitions both in Greece and abroad, including the Benaki Museum and Atopos cvc in Athens, the Photometria Festival in Ioannina, Greece, and Platform's Project and Vegan Life Festival in Athens. As an artist, Christina's research focuses on environmental concerns, identity, and ethnicity. She also explores the dynamics of tradition, memory, and folklore, experimenting with archival material and personal experiences to create new forms of artistic expression. She seeks to delve into themes of self-mythology, self-knowledge, and the interconnection between personal and collective structures.

By employing a multidisciplinary approach to art, Christina can utilize mediums such as painting, photography, video, and writing to create a unique and distinctive voice in the art world.

Laura Menchaca Ruiz

United States, Palestine

Laura Menchaca Ruiz is a visual anthropologist and media maker from the borderlands of the U.S. Southwest, currently residing in Bethlehem, Palestine. Her research and visual work are rooted in multi-sensory ethnography, epistemologies at “the margins,” feminist, gender and sexuality studies, decolonial approaches to space and place, and beauty as a method (see Saidiya Hartman, 2019 and Christina Sharpe, 2019). Laura is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Media Studies and the Division Head of Humanities and the Practicing Arts at Al-Quds Bard College; Co-Founder and Creative Director at Element Media; Co-Founder of the feminist filmmaking collective, Ethnocine; and a Producer for the Bad Feminists Making Films podcast. Her creative work celebrates the marks that people make on the world, highlighting the extraordinary in the ordinary, and her scholarship explores the reach for autonomy amidst marginalizing constraints. Her approach to all her work treasures the local, the small-scale, the personal, the eccentric, the intimate—whatever is made out of love and caring and respect.

Luz María Sánchez

Luz María Sánchez (MX) is a transdisciplinary artist exploring the political sphere of violence and power relations through multimedia constructs. Her artistic research extends to language as a technoscientific machine and builds upon environmental urgency. Sánchez has exhibited at Vincent Price Art Museum VPAM, Los Angeles; Galeria Metropolitana GAM, Mexico City; Piksel Festival, Bergen; Ars Electronica, Linz; MUAC, Mexico City; WRO Art Biennale, Wroclaw; and ZKM, Karlsruhe. She has authored five books, curated exhibitions and conferences on new media, and presented by invitation at leading institutions such as the School of the Art Institute Chicago, the University of the Arts London UAL, and ZKM Karlsruhe. Sánchez was awarded two consecutive Honorary Mentions from Prix Ars Electronica (2020 and 2021), grants from Visual Arts Norway [Kulturrådet], and the Mexican National System of Art Creators (SNCA). Sánchez is a member of the Samuel Beckett Society, serving in the Executive Committee 2019-2023. Her artworks are part of the Linda Pace Foundation Collection and the Museum of Contemporary Art MAC Bogotá, among others. Sánchez was Artist in Residence at the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute Chicago, ArtPace San Antonio and Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid).

https://luzmariasanchez.com/

Katharina Schnitzler

Katharina Schnitzler, born in Düsseldorf in 1963, is a Berlin-based artist and educator. She obtained a Master of Arts degree from UdK Berlin (1999-2003) and prior to that, she completed a diploma in Art Therapy and Pedagogy from FH Ottersberg (1995-1999).

In 2023, Katharina Schnitzler participated in several solo exhibitions including "LUFTHOLEN" at Kunsthaus Potsdam with Ev Pommer, "INNEHALTEN" at Mianki.Gallery with Ev Pommer, and "AUF WUNDER WARTEN" at Alte Feuerwache Berlin with Ev Pommer. In 2022, she was involved in the project "AUFLÖSUNG" by H. Egger and T. Sterna at Documenta 15 in Kassel. In 2021, she exhibited "Look at the birds" with Edith Held at mianki.Gallery in Berlin and "Das Fenster, SYSTEMRELEVANTER DRUCKER" at G.A.S - station in Berlin. In 2020, she participated in "Look at the birds" with Edith Held during BERLIN ARTWEEK at Loft Pohl58 in Berlin.

Katharina Schnitzler has participated in various group exhibitions. In 2022, she exhibited at "Uferhallen Aktien" at nbk in Uferhallen Berlin during Art Week, as well as at "TROUBLED NATURE" at Kunst Haus Mitte in Berlin. She also showcased her work at "artKARLSRUHE" and "mianki & friends" at mianki.Gallery in Berlin. In 2021, she participated in "artKARLSRUHE" at mianki.Gallery. In 2020, she was part of the "40 in 40" exhibition at Museum Eberswalde in Eberswalde. She also exhibited at "POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair 2020," "mianki & friends," and "Zeichnungen" at mianki.Gallery in Berlin. Additionally, she showcased her work at "artKARLSRUHE" at mianki.Gallery.

Katharina Schnitzler observes, uncovers and questions assumed realities.

In her work, she overlays textures, layers of color, and text, and processes fabrics and newspaper photos. Often the background consists of countless layers. As the brushstroke is visible and pulled in different directions, structures, and patterns emerge. In doing so, Schnitzler emphasizes the materiality of her works, as the structures are reminiscent of cut-outs of fabric panels or embossed ornamental wallpaper. Often a sense of space is created. Although the background and foreground could each stand on their own, they communicate and harmonize with each other, depth of color meets abstract formal language. The essence of her work is the exploration of the "in-between". Paintings and drawings are created - installed, poetic, deep, witty, tightly interwoven, and at the same time brutal and beautiful.

Katerina Skordou

Katerina Skordou was born in Athens. After finishing the Empirikeio High School, she came to Athens where she finished the School of Paramedical Professions SBIE and worked at the hospital Biochemistry Laboratory respectively.She retired in 2010. In 2019 she got accepted at the Athens School of Fine Arts and started studying at the 11th painting workshop, currently in her 4th year.

Jean-Marc Superville Sovak

JEAN-MARC SUPERVILLE SOVAK is a multidisciplinary artist and teaching professional whose work is deeply rooted in the community around him. His current project, “a-Historical Landscapes” involves altering 19th-century landscape engravings to include images borrowed from contemporaneous Anti-Slavery publications. His public works include retracing speculative steps on the Underground Railroad at Wilderstein Historic Site and a memorial to Afro-Dutch pioneers in Rockland County. A graduate of Bard College (MFA Film/Video), Jean-Marc’s art has been exhibited at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, Manifesta 8 European Biennial, and ISCP in New York. Jean-Marc’s practice includes guest curating "We Wear the Mask: Race and Representation at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. Jean-Marc is a Museum Educator and Guide at the Dia Art Foundation, and has been a Visiting Artist/Lecturer at SUNY New Paltz, Ramapo College, Pratt Institute and Bard College, among numerous schools and universities.

http://www.supervillesovak.com/

Bently Spang

Tsitsistas/Suhtai Nation, Montana, United States

BENTLY SPANG is an independent multidisciplinary artist, educator, writer, curator and an enrolled member of the Tsitsistas/Suhtai Nation (a.k.a. Northern Cheyenne) in Montana, who works in mixed media sculpture, video, performance, photography and installation. His work confronts and confounds the persistent, romantic and inaccurate role crafted for Native people in the false narrative of ‘The West.’ He is in museum collections in the US and Europe and has exhibited at such venues as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian and the Nelson-Atkins Museum. He has an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in Art and Business from Eastern Montana College (a.k.a. MSU-Billings). He is a 2018 recipient of the Native Arts and Culture Foundation National Artist Fellowship.

http://www.bentlyspang.com/

Adina Sulumbekova

The American University of Central Asia (AUCA) Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Maritina Tselepi

Maritina Tselepi is a visual artist who lives and works in Athens. Her main artistic practice is video art and photographic installations, with themes such as contemporary urban subculture, the online world and the music scene. Her interests also include specialized research on cinema and the music scene. She studies at the School of Fine Arts and actively participates in group exhibitions.

Sayo':klʌ Kindness Williams

Oneida Nation of Wisconsin - Turtle Clan, United States

Sayo':klʌ began beading at the age of 8 years old, learning her craft from two men who were well known beaders in WI, Benjamin Cannon (Oneida Nation of WI) and Gerald Hawpetoss (Menominee Nation, WI/Smithsonian Fellow), both of whom taught her basic beadwork (tying knots, lazy stitch, daisy chain, and peyote stitches), life skills and cultural values/traditions- Be thankful, never give up, finish what you start, give away the first item you make-share, be a thankful, hand down to the next generation the good things you have been taught, share freely, do not be wasteful, and have patience.

As a young woman, Sayo':klʌ went to high school in Santa Fe, NM and was exposed to the beautiful southwestern Indigenous art, which motivated her to continue to practice her art.  Sayo':klʌ entered her first art show at age 16, the Institute of American Indian Arts- High School Art Show, in 1989-90 and took 1st in the beadwork category for a beaded lace collar. Sayo':klʌ sold her beadwork on SFIS campus and at powwows to be self-reliant.

From 2006-2017, Sayo':klʌ beaded as a full-time artist, focusing on powwow regalia making and beaded jewelry. Sayo':klʌ developed her craft- experimenting with contemporary pow wow designs and methods, for regalia making, which included modern supplies like rhinestone banding, crystals/gems, cabochons, etc- commonly used in the powwow circle to make dancers shine. She became known as a beadwork artist within Wisconsin, being sought after to create fully-beaded regalia for powwow dancers.

In 2016, Sayo':klʌ was called to Standing Rock to assist her uncle Harry Kindness, a Long Walker and support for Dennis Banks (AIM). During this time, Sayo':klʌ began creating a line of jewelry, for the movement, inspired by water protectors at Standing Rock. She called this line “Resistance Jewelry”. This line sold out at Standing Rock and continues to be in high demand. Resistance beadwork was about elevating Indigenous pride, the Indigenous Rights movement and honors the power of those images to create unity and identity.  Sayo':klʌ has been affiliated with the Indigenous Environmental Network since 1999 and has been a member of the Board of Directors for 15yrs.

Today, Sayo':klʌ continues to develop new beadwork art, which a focus on Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse/ Six Nations) designs, colors, history and teachings. She also enjoys sharing her art with others and teaching others the art of beadwork by promoting Indigenous identity, celebrating life, and encouraging the continuation of who we are as a living culture- as Indigenous Peoples of North America.

Keith S. Wilson

Keith S. Wilson is a game designer, an Affrilachian Poet, and a Cave Canem fellow. He is a recipient of an NEA Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and an Illinois Arts Council Agency Award, and has received both a Kenyon Review Fellowship and a Stegner Fellowship. Additionally, he has received fellowships or grants from Bread Loaf, Tin House, the MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, UCross, the Millay Colony, and James Merrill House, among others. Keith was a Gregory Djanikian Scholar, and his poetry has won the Rumi Prize and been anthologized in Best New Poets and Best of the Net. His book, Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (Copper Canyon), was recognized by the New York Times as a best new book of poetry.
;; re(context) ;; is a series of interactive texts (a digital chapbook) first created through a digital fellowship with Laboratory Spokane. Each piece investigates the fluidity of language—how, like water, language fills its container. And how we, as the keepers of language, cannot help but contextualize it through our physical experiences, even despite the ostensibly disembodied act of being online.

Elizabeth Withstandley

Elizabeth Withstandley is a research-based video installation artist that focuses on individuals and communities. She works by experimentation, research and data collection to create conceptually driven projects. Her work is rooted in conceptual art, taking the form of multi-channel video installations that explore contemporary culture through a loose narrative structure. The works question individuality, personal identity, morality, and purpose of life, while presenting a portrait of a person, a group of people, a specific culture or location.

She is from Cape Cod, Massachusetts and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.  She is one of the co-founders of Locust Projects, a not-for-profit art exhibition space, in Miami, FL and Prospect Art a not-for-profit in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Select past exhibitions include Antenna Gallery in New Orleans, LA , ATHICA: Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, GA, The Bass Museum, Miami, FL, MOCA North Miami, Snitzer Gallery, Miami, VisArts in Rockville, Maryland, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, The Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios, Israel, Cultural Center, Sao Paolo, Brazil.

http://www.withstandley.com

Saya Woolfalk

United States

SAYA WOOLFALK (Japan, 1979) is a New York based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions. With the multi-year projects No Place, The Empathics, and ChimaTEK, Woolfalk has created the world of the Empathics, a fictional race of women who are able to alter their genetic make-up and fuse with plants. With each body of work, Woolfalk continues to build the narrative of these women's lives, and questions the utopian possibilities of cultural hybridity.

She has exhibited at museums, galleries, and alternative spaces throughout Asia, Europe and the United States including solo exhibitions at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ (2012); the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (2014); the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (2014); SCAD Museum, Savannah, GA (2016); Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (2016); Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE (2016); the Mead Museum of Art, Amherst, MA (2017) and group shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; the Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA., the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among many others.

Works by the artist are in the collections of major institutions including, among others, the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Mead Art Museum, the Weatherspoon Art Museum; the Newark Museum; the Chrysler Museum of Art; and the Seattle Art Museum where her major multi-media installation, commissioned and acquired by the Museum, is on extended view. Solo exhibitions of works by Saya Woolfalk are also currently on view at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO (through September 1, 2019) and the Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI (through August 18, 2019).

Woolfalk is the recipient of numerous honors, awards, and commissions. She has delivered numerous public lectures at museums and universities throughout the United States including a recent TED X Talk. She is represented by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York and teaches in MFA program at Yale School of Art as well as in the BFA and MFA programs at Parsons: The New School for Design.

http://www.sayawoolfalk.com/

zhaoyuefan

zhaoyuefan was born in Wuhan, China and grew up in Beijing, China.
She has been working and living in Germany and Switzerland since 2016.

zhaoyuefan's artistic practice revolves around her experience of living as a legal alien in western countries ("why am I here"). Through video/sound installation, performance, writing, and prints/publishing, she interferes with daily life situations, de-/reconstructs existing objects and found images, digging into their contexts, uses lightness to touch on the visible and invisible boundaries shaped by language, culture, identities and collective memories. Her works are a series of translations, transformations and transpositions based on the transcultural context, leading to reflections on the western cultural hegemony and its profound influence in today's global especially East Asian societies.

Krista Caballero

Krista Caballero is an interdisciplinary artist exploring issues of agency, survival, and environmental change. Moving freely between traditional and emerging media, her work explores the messy and often surprising encounters between human, ecological, and technological landscapes. In 2010 she created Mapping Meaning, an ongoing project that brings together artists, scientists and scholars through experimental workshops, exhibitions, and transdisciplinary research.

Caballero was selected as a 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow and is now a Smithsonian Research Associate working with the National Museum of Natural History researching the cultural implications of bird species decline. She has also been awarded residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME; Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, MD; and Caldera Arts, OR. Her artwork has been presented nationally and internationally in exhibitions and festivals such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA); the North American Ornithological Conference; “Paradoxes in Video” at Mohsen Gallery in Tehran; EXTREME. ENVIRONMENTS / RAY2018 Photo Triennale in Germany; Balance-Unbalance International Festival in Queensland, Australia; “A New We” at Kunsthall Trondheim in Norway; Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Biennial, Washington D.C.; and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Caballero received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and is currently the Co-Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities (EH) and Artist in Residence at Bard College in New York.

https://kristacaballero.com/

Christian Ayne Crouch

Dr. Christian Ayne Crouch is associate professor of historical studies and director of American studies at Bard College and currently serves on the council of the Omohundro Institute. She is the author of the award-winning Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France (Cornell 2014). Her scholarship has considered topics in Atlantic military culture, French imperial legacies, intersections in Native and African-American history. Her current book project, Queen Victoria’s Captive: A Story of Ambition, Empire, and a Stolen Ethiopian Prince explores the human and material consequences of the 1868 Maqdala Campaign in Ethiopia in Atlantic context. This past year she also worked as the curatorial advisor for the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibit <em>Jeffrey Gibson: When Fire Is Applied to a Stone it Cracks.

https://ccs.bard.edu/people/2610-christian-ayne-crouch

Sasha Filatova

Sasha (Aleksandra) Filatova is an art practitioner and researcher who resides in both Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) and Tyre (Lebanon). She employs observation, participation, and comprehensive dialogue as her primary research methods. With a master's degree in Politics.Economic.Philosophy her specialization lies in political philosophy.

Sasha's research interests center around agency, leadership, and solidarity in those who are considered minority communities. Her research focuses on visual language, which she uses as a medium for studying communities, exploring their culture, and examining their language. She employs it to highlight the shared culture within social movements. Her research also focuses on the transnational impact of diaspora in the development of small towns in Kyrgyzstan, particularly exploring their role in local dynamics.

Sasha is deeply involved in curating art events and writing about artists from the Global South. Her affiliation with MoFa+ (Museum of Feminist and Queer Art) in Bishkek allows her to utilize visual language as a powerful tool for artistic expression.

In addition to her academic and artivist pursuits, she consults international and local organizations on knowledge management and uses visual language as a medium. She has worked on numerous consulting and research projects related to development, art and culture, policy development and implementation. Driven by her passion for knowledge sharing and distribution, Sasha actively collaborates with multiple art initiatives and institutions. She curates coherence projects such as the SМарт meetings, which further facilitate knowledge exchange and dissemination. She actively promotes collaboration among scholars and artists, emphasizing the exchange of knowledge and practices and exploring the role of visual language in knowledge production. 

Overall, Sasha Filatova is a dedicated activist, researcher, and art practitioner with a passion for exploring the visual language, understanding communities, and promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing among artists and scholars from the Global South and beyond. Utilizing art to comprehend social processes better and engage in discourse decolonization.

You can find her art review project on social media under hashtag #критикуюкакмогу

Fotini Gouseti

Fotini Gouseti (1974) is a visual artist and a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly, Greece. She holds a B.F.A. in Painting and a B.F.A. in Printmaking from the Athens School of Fine Arts (Greece); and an M.F.A. from the Dutch Art Institute (the Netherlands). Gouseti’s artistic practice and academic research explore the role of art in society. She is mainly interested in the ways society evolves on collective trauma and focuses on such issues as divided memory, gender, class and the local versus the Other.

Gouseti’s work explores the role of art in society. Since 2012, she has been working on the research- based project The Present as a Result of the Past (PRP). Additionally, in 2014 Gouseti initiated the public event Renkonto, an encounter of people from neighbouring countries with tense diplomatic relations. During the same year, she started the project The Least Wanted Travel the Most, an attempt to map different cases of migration in Europe. In 2020, in the context of the EU project Risk Change, she presented at MMSU_Rijeka a research-based work aimed at expanding decolonial thinking, entitled Mauro Fiumano.

Gwyneira Isaac

Dr. Gwyneira Isaac is a research anthropologist and curator of North American Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Her passion for museums and working with Native American communities began when training as a museum photographer, and she encountered a vast array of glass plate negatives, photographs and archives that documented the lives of Native Americans from the 19th century onwards. She realized that, up until that point, she had been deprived of access to this history as it had been largely absent from her text books. Since then, she has devoted herself to finding out anything she could about Native American culture—a journey that took her to graduate school at Oxford University, the Southwest region of the US to conduct fieldwork and, ultimately, to the National Museum of Natural History

Her main research focus is on how Native American communities tell their own histories, as described in her book Mediating Knowledges (2007), which tells the origin story of a tribal museum in Zuni, New Mexico. She is also interested in how different media, such as photography, exhibit models and now 3D printing, help us to understand how technology has shaped the depiction of humans and humanity over time. At the Smithsonian, she directs the Recovering Voices program that supports communities in accessing collections as part of their efforts to revitalize endangered languages and knowledge. Her current research projects include understanding Native American concepts of health and wellbeing, especially through cultural revitalization practices. 

https://naturalhistory.si.edu/staff/gwyneira-isaac

Greta de León

coming soon

Marta Ostajewska

Marta Ostajewska (º1980, Poland) performer and visual artist, PhD researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and at the University of Warsaw (Artes Liberales). Her M.A. in Multimedia Design was received from School of Arts in Ghent. She graduated also at the University of Lodz (Theory of literature). Her artistic activities were presented in several galleries and at the international theater’s stages: Croxhapox Gallery, Campo Victoria, Nieuwpoorttheater, NTGENT in Ghent, Rozentheater in Amsterdam, The Manhattan Gallery, Prexer, Factory of Art, Gallery Kobro, Posiadło Ksiezy Mlyn, Free Space Gallery in Lodz, Articule Gallery in Montreal, Industra Gallery in Brno. She has participated in many international projects, among others, in the artistic residency Human Hotel: Copenhagen in Denmark and in the international festivals (BIO50 in Ljubljana, RIAP2014 in Quebec City, Canada, PAB2015 in Bergen, Norway). She is co-chief editor of the artistic magazine Woof Woof Arf Arf. She publishes her artistic works and theoretical texts related to the modern art scene, site-specific art and performance art on the international stage.

http://www.martaostajewska.com/

Vivien Sansour

https://viviensansour.com/

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Dorothea Schöne

Dorothea Schöne is a Berlin-based art historian and curator, currently heading
Kunsthaus Dahlem as director and CEO. After receiving her Masters degree in Art History and Political Science at the University of Leipzig/ Germany in 2006, she was awarded a Fulbright Grant to pursue pre-doctoral research at the University of California, Riverside. From 2006-2009-10 she worked as a curatorial assistant at the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA). Schöne has been awarded grants by the German Academic Exchange Program, the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and in 2021 she received the Hans-and Lea-Grundig award for her art historical research and exhibition on artists defamed and persecuted during the NS-regime.

Bently Spang

Tsitsistas/Suhtai Nation, Montana, United States

BENTLY SPANG is an independent multidisciplinary artist, educator, writer, curator and an enrolled member of the Tsitsistas/Suhtai Nation (a.k.a. Northern Cheyenne) in Montana, who works in mixed media sculpture, video, performance, photography and installation. His work confronts and confounds the persistent, romantic and inaccurate role crafted for Native people in the false narrative of ‘The West.’ He is in museum collections in the US and Europe and has exhibited at such venues as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian and the Nelson-Atkins Museum. He has an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in Art and Business from Eastern Montana College (a.k.a. MSU-Billings). He is a 2018 recipient of the Native Arts and Culture Foundation National Artist Fellowship.

http://www.bentlyspang.com/

Kyunney Takasaeva (Künnei Takaahai in the Sakha language)

Kyunney Takasaeva (Kunnej Takaahaj in the Sakha language) is the coordinator of the Polish-Siberian research group at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales'' at the University of Warsaw. Her primary interest is the study of cultural anthropology – Including the societies and cultures of Siberia, Central Asia, and the Arctic. She is also interested in the identity of indigenous peoples and multiculturalism in Siberia and the United States in the context of modern neo-colonialism, post-colonialism, and decolonial studies. Her work also includes research regarding foreigners in the Siberian territories up to the 20th century.

Gwyneira Isaac

Dr. Gwyneira Isaac is a research anthropologist and curator of North American Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Her passion for museums and working with Native American communities began when training as a museum photographer, and she encountered a vast array of glass plate negatives, photographs and archives that documented the lives of Native Americans from the 19th century onwards. She realized that, up until that point, she had been deprived of access to this history as it had been largely absent from her text books. Since then, she has devoted herself to finding out anything she could about Native American culture—a journey that took her to graduate school at Oxford University, the Southwest region of the US to conduct fieldwork and, ultimately, to the National Museum of Natural History

Her main research focus is on how Native American communities tell their own histories, as described in her book Mediating Knowledges (2007), which tells the origin story of a tribal museum in Zuni, New Mexico. She is also interested in how different media, such as photography, exhibit models and now 3D printing, help us to understand how technology has shaped the depiction of humans and humanity over time. At the Smithsonian, she directs the Recovering Voices program that supports communities in accessing collections as part of their efforts to revitalize endangered languages and knowledge. Her current research projects include understanding Native American concepts of health and wellbeing, especially through cultural revitalization practices. 

https://naturalhistory.si.edu/staff/gwyneira-isaac

Stanisław Kordasiewicz

(University of Warsaw) CoLing Coordinator

Stanisław Kordasiewicz graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw (2005) and obtained a PhD (2010). His current research interests include the protection of language, minority and indigenous rights. He worked (2016-2018) as an event coordinator in the Engaged Humanities project and is passionate about bridging the gap between universities, local communities and the general public. He organized the “In our own words” film festival, that was focussed on indigenous cultures and languages and recognized as an official event of the UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019.

Sylvia Ngo

(George Washington University) Project Liaison for Recovering Voices

Kyunney Takasaeva (Künnei Takaahai in the Sakha language)

Kyunney Takasaeva (Kunnej Takaahaj in the Sakha language) is the coordinator of the Polish-Siberian research group at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales'' at the University of Warsaw. Her primary interest is the study of cultural anthropology – Including the societies and cultures of Siberia, Central Asia, and the Arctic. She is also interested in the identity of indigenous peoples and multiculturalism in Siberia and the United States in the context of modern neo-colonialism, post-colonialism, and decolonial studies. Her work also includes research regarding foreigners in the Siberian territories up to the 20th century.

Tomasz Wicherkiewicz

(Language Policy & Minority Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)

Magdalena Guziejko

(University of Warsaw)

Maddie King

(Smithsonian Institution) Project Liaison for Recovering Voices

Jesse van Amelsvoort

(Modern European Literature, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Genner Llanes Ortiz

(Anthropology, Bishop University, Canada)

Marta Ostajewska

Marta Ostajewska (º1980, Poland) performer and visual artist, PhD researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and at the University of Warsaw (Artes Liberales). Her M.A. in Multimedia Design was received from School of Arts in Ghent. She graduated also at the University of Lodz (Theory of literature). Her artistic activities were presented in several galleries and at the international theater’s stages: Croxhapox Gallery, Campo Victoria, Nieuwpoorttheater, NTGENT in Ghent, Rozentheater in Amsterdam, The Manhattan Gallery, Prexer, Factory of Art, Gallery Kobro, Posiadło Ksiezy Mlyn, Free Space Gallery in Lodz, Articule Gallery in Montreal, Industra Gallery in Brno. She has participated in many international projects, among others, in the artistic residency Human Hotel: Copenhagen in Denmark and in the international festivals (BIO50 in Ljubljana, RIAP2014 in Quebec City, Canada, PAB2015 in Bergen, Norway). She is co-chief editor of the artistic magazine Woof Woof Arf Arf. She publishes her artistic works and theoretical texts related to the modern art scene, site-specific art and performance art on the international stage.

http://www.martaostajewska.com/

Omar Aguilar Sánchez

(Ñuu Savi/Mixtec) (Archaeology and Post-Colonial Digital Humanities, National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico)

Aarati Akkapeddi

Aarati Akkapeddi is a coder, interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). They work for The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network, where they create digital spaces and tools. In their creative practice, they combine archival material, code, machine learning, and analog techniques (photography & printmaking) to create artwork about intergenerational/collective memory. Their creative work has been supported by institutions such as Ada X, The Photographers' Gallery, The Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, ETOPIA Center for Art & Technology, and LES Printshop.

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Aarati Akkapeddi

Aarati Akkapeddi is a coder, interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). They work for The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network, where they create digital spaces and tools. In their creative practice, they combine archival material, code, machine learning, and analog techniques (photography & printmaking) to create artwork about intergenerational/collective memory. Their creative work has been supported by institutions such as Ada X, The Photographers' Gallery, The Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, ETOPIA Center for Art & Technology, and LES Printshop.

aarati.online

Krista Caballero

Krista Caballero is an interdisciplinary artist exploring issues of agency, survival, and environmental change. Moving freely between traditional and emerging media, her work explores the messy and often surprising encounters between human, ecological, and technological landscapes. In 2010 she created Mapping Meaning, an ongoing project that brings together artists, scientists and scholars through experimental workshops, exhibitions, and transdisciplinary research.

Caballero was selected as a 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow and is now a Smithsonian Research Associate working with the National Museum of Natural History researching the cultural implications of bird species decline. She has also been awarded residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME; Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, MD; and Caldera Arts, OR. Her artwork has been presented nationally and internationally in exhibitions and festivals such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA); the North American Ornithological Conference; “Paradoxes in Video” at Mohsen Gallery in Tehran; EXTREME. ENVIRONMENTS / RAY2018 Photo Triennale in Germany; Balance-Unbalance International Festival in Queensland, Australia; “A New We” at Kunsthall Trondheim in Norway; Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Biennial, Washington D.C.; and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Caballero received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and is currently the Co-Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities (EH) and Artist in Residence at Bard College in New York.

https://kristacaballero.com/

Luisa Colón

(Bard College) EHCN Program Manager

Luisa Colón is the Program Manager for the OSI-funded Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (EHCN). In this role, she helps facilitate network operations and maintain meaningful collaborations among all EHCN partner institutions.

Prior to joining the Bard community, Luisa worked for various private and nonprofit organizations in the fields of international education and community development. She managed programming in Latin America for Amigos de las Américas and The New School and taught English as a Second Language in Thailand and New York. Her interests lie in the intersections of community-based development, international relations and international education. She appreciates the opportunities to learn and do more about meeting local and global challenges and to engage with diverse groups of people.

Luisa earned a BS in Business Administration with concentrations in International Management and Marketing from Boston University.

Emma Deutsch

(Bard College) EHCN Media Corps Intern

Anna Hallett Gutierrez

(Bard College) EHCN Program Coordinator

Anna Hallett Gutierrez is the Program Assistant for the OSUN-funded Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network and is the Coordinator for the Center of Experimental Humanities at Bard College. She is based at the Center for Experimental Humanities in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

A graduate of Bard College Conservatory of Music’s double-degree program, Ms. Hallett Gutierrez holds a BA in philosophy and a BM in violin performance.

Gwyneira Isaac

Dr. Gwyneira Isaac is a research anthropologist and curator of North American Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Her passion for museums and working with Native American communities began when training as a museum photographer, and she encountered a vast array of glass plate negatives, photographs and archives that documented the lives of Native Americans from the 19th century onwards. She realized that, up until that point, she had been deprived of access to this history as it had been largely absent from her text books. Since then, she has devoted herself to finding out anything she could about Native American culture—a journey that took her to graduate school at Oxford University, the Southwest region of the US to conduct fieldwork and, ultimately, to the National Museum of Natural History

Her main research focus is on how Native American communities tell their own histories, as described in her book Mediating Knowledges (2007), which tells the origin story of a tribal museum in Zuni, New Mexico. She is also interested in how different media, such as photography, exhibit models and now 3D printing, help us to understand how technology has shaped the depiction of humans and humanity over time. At the Smithsonian, she directs the Recovering Voices program that supports communities in accessing collections as part of their efforts to revitalize endangered languages and knowledge. Her current research projects include understanding Native American concepts of health and wellbeing, especially through cultural revitalization practices. 

https://naturalhistory.si.edu/staff/gwyneira-isaac

Maddie King

(Smithsonian Institution) Project Liaison for Recovering Voices

Luisa Colón

(Bard College) EHCN Program Manager

Luisa Colón is the Program Manager for the OSI-funded Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (EHCN). In this role, she helps facilitate network operations and maintain meaningful collaborations among all EHCN partner institutions.

Prior to joining the Bard community, Luisa worked for various private and nonprofit organizations in the fields of international education and community development. She managed programming in Latin America for Amigos de las Américas and The New School and taught English as a Second Language in Thailand and New York. Her interests lie in the intersections of community-based development, international relations and international education. She appreciates the opportunities to learn and do more about meeting local and global challenges and to engage with diverse groups of people.

Luisa earned a BS in Business Administration with concentrations in International Management and Marketing from Boston University.

Kaitlyn Cook

(Smithsonian Institution) Project Liaison for Recovering Voices (2022)

Maddie King

(Smithsonian Institution) Project Liaison for Recovering Voices

Stanisław Kordasiewicz

(University of Warsaw) CoLing Coordinator

Stanisław Kordasiewicz graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw (2005) and obtained a PhD (2010). His current research interests include the protection of language, minority and indigenous rights. He worked (2016-2018) as an event coordinator in the Engaged Humanities project and is passionate about bridging the gap between universities, local communities and the general public. He organized the “In our own words” film festival, that was focussed on indigenous cultures and languages and recognized as an official event of the UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019.