Edna Adan is a writer, researcher, and model based in New York. Her work as a model and her training in post-structuralist thought informs a personal conception of sight as a multi-sensory experience, placing fashion as trying to capture pictorial images in real-time.

Fiona Alison Duncan is a Canadian-American writer, artist, and organizer. Duncan’s debut novel, Exquisite Mariposa (Soft Skull Press, 2019), Exquisite Mariposa, was awarded a 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction and long-listed for The Golden Poppy Book Award in 2019. Writing at the intersection of art, fashion, and literature, Duncan has published her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in Affidavit, CURA., New York Magazine, PIN-UP, Spike, Sternberg Press’s Solution Series, Texte zur Kunst, Various Artists, The White Review, and elsewhere. Duncan is the founder of Hard to Read, a literary social practice centered around live events with select media broadcasts, bookselling, publishing, and exhibitions. Informed by intersectional feminist and queer history, Hard to Read privileges radical voices, interdisciplinary and intergenerational exchange, presence, and the sharing of time and space.

Wera Nowak is a Polish artist whose primary medium is photography. She works across personal and collaborative projects, merging documentary and conceptual approaches.

Patricia A. Tilburg is the James B. Duke Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. Her research and teaching explore questions of gender, sexuality, and culture in modern Europe—particularly in France—from the late 18th century through the mid-20th century. Tilburg examines how late capitalist French society represented and navigated cultural change by reworking traditional tropes of masculinity, femininity, labor, and taste. At Davidson, she teaches courses on modern European culture and society, including the history of the body, urban and consumer culture, European feminisms, and revolutionary and radical movements. Her second book, Working Girls: Sex, Taste, and Reform in the Parisian Garment Trades, 1880–1919 (Oxford University Press, 2019), analyzes representations of female garment workers in Paris within popular culture, social reform discourse, and labor activism from the 1880s to the interwar period. In addition to her scholarship in European history, Patricia Tilburg was a founding member and served as the inaugural chair of Davidson’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Department.

Women’s History Museum was founded by Mattie Barringer (b. 1990) and Amanda McGowan (b. 1990) in 2015 in New York City out of the desire to create novel and previously unseen images of beauty. The duo engages with fashion as a medium that has the potential to exist beyond regurgitative spectacle and the ability to change the fabric of reality. Since their genesis they have shown work in a combination of self-produced fashion shows and exhibitions. Their garments are dictated by meticulously sourced historical materials and close collaborations with other artists who often double as models in their fashion shows. In an effort to encompass the psychic reality of fashion and foster a creative community, they interrogate the idea of the museum and insist on alternative and inclusive methods of recording history. They opened their store at 244 Canal Street in 2023. Solo exhibitions include Grisette à l'enfer, Amant, New York (2025); Museum Manu, Company Gallery, New York (2025); Screens, Forde, Geneva (2024); The Massive Disposal of Experience, Company Gallery, New York and CCA, Berlin (2022); Women’s History Museum Biennale: Poupées Gonflables, Springsteen Gallery, Baltimore (2019); Her Bed Surrounded by Machines, LUMA Westbau, Zurich (2018); OTMA’s Body, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York (2018). Recent group shows include those at Emalin in London, England; Basement Roma in Rome, Italy; Rumpelstiltskin and the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York; Analog Gallery in Beacon, New York; Champ Lacombe in Biarritz, France; Fitzpatrick Gallery in Paris, France; Performance Space in New York, and the Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, Latvia.

Adriana Blidaru is a curator, writer, and cultural consultant, with experience designing and managing impactful exhibitions, public programs, and institutional events. She is Founder & Artistic Director of Living Content, a curatorial agency and registered 501©(3) in New York and Bucharest.

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.

Shanti Escalante De Mattei is a journalist and scholar based in Brooklyn. She is a former staff writer at ARTnews and is currently freelancing for outlets like WIRED, The Guardian, and The Art Newspaper. She is pursuing her PhD in Anthropology at NYU where her research focuses on crypto communities.

Yinka Elujoba is a Nigerian writer and art critic living in Brooklyn.

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).

Angie Sijun Lou’s stories have appeared in BOMB, FENCE, Joyland, and elsewhere.

Geoffrey Mak is the author of Mean Boys, an essay collection published by Bloomsbury in April 2024. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Guardian, Artforum, Frieze, The Nation, and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor at Spike. He co-runs the reading and performance series Writing on Raving, which released an anthology with O/R Books this year.

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.

Journey Streams is a writer, critic, and historian based in Brooklyn, NY.

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).

Simon Wu is a writer and artist. His first book is Dancing On My Own.