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Giulia Bini, PhD, works at the intersection of visual art, media, science, and emerging technologies in curatorial practice, theory, and writing. She is head of program and curator for Enter the Hyper-Scientific, the newly established artist-in-residence program of the College of Humanities (CDH) at EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. Previously curator and producer at EPFL Pavilions (2018–21) and a member of the curatorial team of ZKM Center for Arts and Media| Karlsruhe (2014–17), she has curated and co-curated numerous collective exhibitions and solo presentations, among them Nature of Robotics. An Expanded Field (EP, 2021) and, as part of the project Beyond Matter, Spatial Affairs and S.A.Worlding (Ludwig Museum Budapest 2021). She has conducted research at the Whitechapel Gallery and RIBA, London, 2013, and at the Centre George Pompidou, Paris, 2014. She has collaborated with international institutions such as MAXXI Rome, as scientific associate on the exhibition and edited volume LOW FORM. Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2018). She regularly contributes to publications, including the catalogue The Dreamers, 58th October Salon, Belgrade Biennale 2021, or Beyond Matter, Within Space, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2023. She is co-curator of ARE YOU FOR REAL. Phase 2 from ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. She authored “Media Spazio Display. ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe | HFG Hochschule für Gestaltung” (Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2022) and is a lecturer at HEAD-Geneva Work.Master.

Fiamma Montezemolo is both an artist (MFA, San Francisco Art Institute) and an anthropologist (PhD, University Orientale of Naples). She is an established scholar in border studies and Professor in the Department of Cinema & Digital Media at the University of California, Davis. She has exhibited in various institutions among which: Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City (2019), Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (2019), Munich Jewish Museum, Germany (2019), La Galleria Nazionale, Roma (2019), Headlands Center for the Arts, California (2018), ASU Art Museum, Arizona (2019), Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco (2016), Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles (2014). She is represented by Magazzino gallery in Rome. She is widely published and the author of two monographs: on Zapatismo and on Chicano/a politics of representation, as well as co-author (with Rene’ Peralta and Heriberto Yepez) of Here is Tijuana (Blackdog Publishing, London, 2006) and co-editor (with Josh Kun) of Tijuana Dreaming, Life and Art at the Global border (Duke U. Press, 2012).

Aria Spinelli is an independent curator and a PostDoc Researcher at the University of Amsterdam. Her PhD has analysed relations of curatorial practice to social imagination and performativity. Her main area of research is the investigation of the relationship between art, activism and political theory. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in art history, visual arts and curatorial studies. Founding member of the artistic and curatorial collective Radical Intention, from 2018 to 2020 she was an associate researcher and member of the curatorial team of the project The Independent at the MAXXI – Museum of the XXI century for art (Rome). Between 2015 and 2020 she collaborated as an external curator at the Pistoletto Foundation (Biella) and BOZAR, Center for Fine Arts (Brussels). She has published many articles and she is the editor of the publication Shaping Desired Futures (NERO, 2018). Between 2009 and 2012 she was curator at the Isola Art Center (Milan).

Paul Goodwin is a curator, researcher and urban theorist based in London. Goodwin’s research and curatorial interests span the fields of transnational art, urbanism and curatorial practice with a focus on African diaspora art and visual cultures. He is the Co-Lead Investigator for a Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform. At a time when global instability and populist nationalisms threaten public cultures worldwide the project explores the potential for pedagogical and curatorial innovation with an international consortium of universities and museums including University of the Arts London, Carleton, Concordia, Heidelberg and Amsterdam Universities and Tate Modern, Dutch National Museum of World Cultures, National Gallery of Canada and State Museums Dresden. Goodwin’s recent curatorial projects include: W.E.B. DuBois: Charting Black Lives (House of Illustration, London, UK, Nov. 2019), We Will Walk: Art and Resistance from the American South (Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, Feb. 2020) and Untitled: Art on the Conditions of Our Time, Chapter 2 (touring, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK, May 2020) and Ben Jones: The Bigger Picture (198 Gallery, London, Sept 2022). Goodwin is Professor of Contemporary Art & Urbanism and Director of the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity & Nation (TrAIN) at University of the Arts London.

Yvette Mutumba is co-founder and artistic director of the platform Contemporary And (C&). She is curator-at-large at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and lectures at the Institute of Art in Context at the University of Arts, Berlin. Yvette was part of the curatorial team of the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018) and Guest Professor for Global Discourses at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (2017-2018). From 2012 to 2016 she was curator at the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt a. M. She studied art history at Free University Berlin and holds a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London. Yvette was awarded “European Cultural Manager of the Year” in 2020, together with Julia Grosse.

Geocinema (Solveig Qu Suess, Asia Bazdyrieva) is a collective that explores the possibilities of a “planetary” notion of cinema. Their practice has been concerned with the understanding and sensing of the earth while being on the ground, enmeshed within vastly distributed processes of image and meaning making. Their work has been shown internationally, including their solo shows Making of Earths in Kunsthall Trondheim (2020) and Kahan Art Space Vienna (2022) and group shows such as Critical Zones at ZKM Karlsruhe (2020-21); Re-thinking Collectivity at Guangzhou Image Triennale; and Sensing Scale at Kunsthalle Münster (2021). They were 2018–19 Digital Earth Fellows and have been nominated for the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research (2020).

Maria Lind is a curator, writer and educator from Stockholm. She is currently serving as the counsellor of culture at the embassy of Sweden, Moscow. She was the director of Stockholm’s Tensta konsthall 2011-18, the artistic director of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, the director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2008-2010) and director of Iaspis in Stockholm (2005-2007). From 2002-2004 she was the director of Kunstverein München and in 1998, co-curator of Europe’s itinerant biennial, Manifesta 2 in Luxembourg. In 2015 she curated Future Light for the first Vienna Biennial, and in 2019 she co-curated the Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara. She has taught widely since the early 1990s, including as professor of artistic research at the Art Academy in Oslo 2015-18. Currently she is a lecturer at Konstfack’s CuratorLab. She has contributed widely to newspapers, magazines, catalogues and other publications. She is the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. In 2010 Selected Maria Lind Writing was published by Sternberg Press, and Seven Years: The Rematerialization Art from 2011 to 2017 appeared in the fall of 2019. In 2021, Konstringar: Vad gör samtidskonsten? was published by Natur & Kultur. Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden (2021) and The New Model (2020) are two publications reflecting long-term projects at Tensta konsthall, both published by the art center and Sternberg Press.

Saba Innab is a multidisciplinary practice of architect, artist, and urban researcher. Her practice spans across historical research, drawing, mapping, model-making, and spatial interventions. Innab explores suspended states between temporality and permanence, and is concerned with variable notions of dwelling and building and their political, spatial and poetic implications in language and architecture. In 2019, she co-founded OPPA (on/pre/post act), a research and architecture collective based mostly in Amman. Innab exhibitions include: Transition Exhibition, Berlin, 2021; 57th edition of Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, 2018; Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans, Frac Centre-Val de Loire, Orléans, 2017; Marrakech Biennial, Marrakech, 2016, and her recent solo exhibitions include: Station Point, ifa-Galerie, Berlin, 2019; Al Rahhalah, Marfa’, Beirut, 2016. Innab was a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin fellow for 2020- 2021.

Paz Guevara is a curator, researcher and author. Since 2015 she works at Haus der Kulturen der Welt – HKW in Berlin, where she collaborates on the long-term project Kanon-Fragen that questions dominant cultural narratives. In this context, she curated Afro-Sonic Mapping. Tracing Aural Histories via Sonic Transmigrations by artist and musician Satch Hoyt (2019) and co-curated Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War (2017-18). Currently, she is the curator of Transition Exhibition that confronts the colonial legacies of the Brücke-Museum collection in Berlin. In 2011 and 2013, she co-curated the Latin American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Guevara has conducted several conversations with cultural practitioners; most recently she published a conversation with Mapuche oralitor Elicura Chihuailaf (NIRIN NGAAY, Biennale of Sydney, 2020). She is also part of the curatorial ensemble at Archive independent publishing house and art space, where she co-curates the project Publishing Practices. Guevara lectures regularly on Exhibition Histories at the MA on Raumstrategien at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule in Berlin.