Julián Cordero is a game developer from Quito, Ecuador, now based in New York City. His latest project, despelote, is a slice-of-life adventure about childhood and the magical grip soccer held over the people of Quito in 2001. He’s passionate about finding new ways to capture the world and sees video games as the perfect vessel for that exploration.

Brian Droitcour is the director of Outland, a nonprofit that supports publishing, education, and public programs on digital art. As a critic and curator, he works to highlight how artists engage with contemporary culture through their use of emerging technologies.

Flan Falacci is an award-winning game designer, educator, and community organizer based in Brooklyn. Their practice revolves around the use of level design and repurposed models to manifest worlds of emotion and memory. Flan also collaborates under the name “Big Bag” with artists Rick Gillis, Julian Cordero, Kas Ghobadi, and Easton Self.

Julia Kaganskiy is an independent curator and strategist based in New York City with more than 16 years experience developing innovative cultural programs bridging art, science and technology. Her most recent exhibition, Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms is on view at the Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio, USA) through November 30, 2025. Kaganskiy was the founding Director of NEW INC at the New Museum, the first museum-led cultural incubator (2014-2018) and Global Editor of VICE Media’s The Creators Project (2010-2013). She has conceived and organized exhibitions for HEK (Basel), LAS Art Foundation (Berlin), Matadero Madrid, 180 The Strand (London), Borusan Contemporary (Istanbul), Science Gallery (Dublin), Eyebeam (New York City) and many others. She is the co-editor of Interspecies Future: A Primer (Distanz, 2024).

Team Rolfes is a pioneering virtual performance studio based in NYC, founded by directors Sam Rolfes and Andy Rolfes which pioneered real-time animation with VR puppets, motion-captured abstract avatars, and viscerally intense imagery derived directly from the nuances of human motion. Team Rolfes’ practice has expressed itself across a spectrum of formats, from livestream improvisational comedy, to live animation on stage, print design for fashion collections, album covers, and music videos for collaborators including Lady Gaga, Danny Elfman, Holly Herndon, Danny L Harle, Metallica, Amnesia Scanner, Lunice, Dezel Curry, Arca, Nike, Adult Swim, and music festivals across the world.

Xin Wang is a New York-based art historian and Curatorial Director at Pace Gallery. She has held curatorial and educational positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art, before completing Her PhD dissertation on Soviet Hauntology at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Publications such as “Asian Futurism and the Non-Other” have been widely circulated, translated and taught in university curriculums, and she received the Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writers Grant in 2021. She served as the curator of the 4th art and technology themed biennial program—titled “To Your Eternity”—at Beijing’s Today Art Museum in fall 2023. Upcoming publications include “Machine Envy” in the book Machine Decision is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence (Urbanomic and NYU Shanghai), and “Dance as Socialist World-Building” in Afterall Journal (issue 57).