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Ursula Biemann is an artist, author, and video essayist based in Zurich, Switzerland. Her artistic practice is strongly research oriented and involves fieldwork in remote locations where she investigates climate change and the ecologies of oil and water, as in the recent projects Deep Weather (2013) Forest Law (2014) and Subatlantic (2015). Her earlier work focused on geographies of mobility, e.g. in the widely exhibited Sahara Chronicle on clandestine migration networks. Her video installations are exhibited worldwide in museums and at international art biennials in Liverpool, Sharjah, Shanghai, Sevilla, Istanbul, Montreal, Venice and Sao Paulo. She had comprehensive solo exhibitions at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Bildmuseet Umea, Lentos Museum Linz and Helmhaus Zurich. Biemann is cofounder of the collaborative World of Matter project. Biemann has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York (1988). She received a doctor honoris causa in Humanities by the Swedish University Umea and the Prix Meret Oppenheim, the Swiss Grand Award for Art. www.geobodies.org

Gilad Ben-Nun (born in Jerusalem, lives in Frankfurt am Main) teaches Global Studies and refugee and migration history at the University of Leipzig (Germany) and at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies of the University of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).

Nabil Ahmed is an artist, writer and researcher. More recently he has participated in the Taipei Biennale (2012), Cuenca Biennale (2014) and has exhibited at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and Kunstraum Niederoesterreich. He has written for the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), Third Text, Volume, Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth among others. He is co-founder of Call & Response, a sound art organization based in London. He is a fellow (2015-16) at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. He holds a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He teaches at the School of Architecture, London Metropolitan University.