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Avi Alpert is a writer and theorist living in New York City. His research of late has focused on Continental philosophy, inter-cultural contact, and the relationship between the two. He was recently a Helena Rubenstein Fellow in the Critical Theory section of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program.

Kim Asbury is a Copenhagen based Danish artist who has been making art for a long time, especially in the areas of painting, photography and installation. From 1997 – 2001 he was involved with an artists run gallery called North Udstillingssted in Copenhagen, Denmark that exhibited mainly installation art.

Born in Long Island, Lindsay Benedict has been working in film, sound, performance, sewn text and photographic essay for years. Her work, often emotionally raw, resists a traditional narrative and sometimes is presented as a fragment, question, or gesture. She spent the last 7 years in Oakland before moving to New York to attend the Whitney Independent Studio program in 2007. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Williams College in Massachusetts and her MFA degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Benedict has recently shown at PS 122 in Manhattan, the Berkeley Art Museum, and in the Emergency Biennial; she has screened at the Detroit Museum of New Art (MONA), New Langton Arts in San Francisco, and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA. She is currently living in Bushwick.

Karlotta Blöndal is a visual artist based in Iceland. Her work has been individually presented at the Reykjavik Art Museum and included in group exhibitions such as at La Galerie Noisy-le-Sec Paris, Nordic Drawings (travelling exhibition) and KargART Video festival Istanbul. She is also publisher and co-editor of Sjónauki Art Magazine and on the board of The Living Art Museum Reykjavik. karlottablondal.blogspot.com
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Emil Madsen Brandt Studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Teheran’s University of Art (Dâneshgâh-e Honar). Mainly interested in investigating the cultural consequences of globalization. Member of the rap group Magoza Possen. www.magozapossen.com Born in 1947 and unable to believe the numbers,

Dion Farquhar is a poet and fiction writer who lives in Santa Cruz with the love of her life and their wonderful-terrible teenage twin sons. Formed by the Sixties and repudiating nothing, she still misses the old country of New York, her old friends, and off-off Broadway theatre. More recent poems in /New Verse News, //Fifteen Project, City Works, SLAB, Wheelhouse Magazine, Ep;phany, Otoliths,/ /AUGHT/, /Poems Niederngasse, /etc. Her poetry chapbook, /Cleaving/, won first prize at Poet’s Corner Press in 2007.

Alison Gerber is interested in public space and public life. Her work has for the past years focused on science, knowledge, and experience.
Gerber has made public projects and solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe. Her recent project Artists’ work classification can be found in libraries and through interlibrary loan worldwide.

Joshua Hart lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He recieved his BA from UC Berkeley in 2001and his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Art at Bard College in 2007.

Jesal Kapadia was born in Mumbai, India and currently lives in Brooklyn NY. She works in experimental video and digital print media. Her recent artistic projects include: ‘Ditto or the same as what has been said’ for the Guangzhou Triennial in China, ‘A vacant rectangle left blank for a work expressing modern feeling’, shown at the Rotunda Gallery, ‘The Laughing Club’, part of a traveling exhibit for the Dalai Lama Peace Project. Jesal has served as Art editor for Rethinking Marxism since 2003, and helped organize a number of inter-disciplinary activities and conferences for the journal. Since 2004, she has also been working collectively with members of the 16beavergroup.

Philipp Kleinmichel lives and works in Berlin. He has studied Art and Critical Theory, New German Literature, Philosophy and Media Art at University Freiburg, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe/ZKM and the Whitney Independent Study Program. Currently he is working on his dissertation about the Politics of Art at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe/ZKM.

Yahia Lababidi - poet & thinker – is the author of a book of aphorisms, Signposts to Elsewhere: www.janestreet.org/press Lababidi is also one of very few contemporary poets to be included in the encyclopedia of “The World’s Great Aphorists”

Lawrence Liang is an Indian legal researcher and lawyer of Chinese descent, based in the city of Bangalore, who is known for his legal campaigns on issues of public concern.

He is a founder of the Alternative Law Forum, and, as of 2006, has emerged as a prominent spokesperson against concepts like “intellectual property”.

Liang’s key areas of interest are law, popular culture and piracy. He has been working closely with Sarai, New Delhi on a joint research project Intellectual Property and the Knowledge/Culture Commons. Karl Lydén is a writer and critic. His most recent work includes the Swedish translation of Michel Foucault’s “Il faut défendre la société” (“Society Must Be Defended”). He lives in New York City, where he is a Helena Rubenstein Fellow of Critical Studies at the Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program.

George Monteleone creates time-based work that often draws from his background in experimental psychology and cognitive science. He is completing his MFA in art and technology studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, performs neuroimaging analysis at the University of Chicago, and is currently teaches at DePaul University.

Huong Ngo’s work questions how art can help deconstruct dominant social systems and allow for new economies of personal exchange and knowledge distribution. She was born in Hong Kong, received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
More information regarding Ngo and Monteleone’s collaboration may be found here.

Morgan O’Hara’s childhood and early adolescence in an international community in post-war Japan early established close relationships between east and west, creation and destruction, life and art. Live attention, contact between eye and subject and between pencil and paper are essential to her work. O’Hara generates abstract visual images from one of the most basic of human activities: movement of the hands of people at work. The practice requires connection, direct observation and LIVE TRANSMISSION.

Annika Ruth Persson translator and author, lives in Stockholm and Berlin. Has translated e.g. Hannah Arendt’s Between Past and Future into Swedish. Author of novels, as well as articles and essays in cultural magazines and art projects. Former editor of the magazine Ord & Bild, and during the 90’s book publisher at Anamma, Göteborg.

Jean-Marc Superville Sovak has been mistaken for Hispanic, South Asian, Gypsy/Roma, Middle Eastern and North African. Searching for exactly what it is he looks like, he made a video entitled “BROTHER?” which has shown at Shadow Festival 8, Amsterdam, Sao Paulo Short Film Festival, Brazil, and the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival. His drawings are currently on view at The Drawing Center Viewing Program and have been exhibited at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY. Having recently graduated from the Bard MFA program and suffered really only one major identity crisis, he is now, with his family, perfectly integrated in Brooklyn, New York, where he is designing hard-hats for Rastafarians.

Adam Trowbridge is a manner of speaking, focused on artistic research that fractures the intersection of sensation and cognition. Materially, his recent work has been in the form of theater, performance, computer-driven installation and video. He is attending the University of Illinois at Chicago as a MFA student in Electronic Visualization. He holds a BFA in painting and sculpture from the University of Central Florida, where he studied under sculptor Jóhann Eyfells. His work has been featured nationally and internationally including Anthology Film Archives, NYC; Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Ontario; Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ; MicroCineFest, Baltimore, MD; and Square Eyes Festival, The Netherlands.

Anna Vitale is from Detroit and lives in Ann Arbor. A freeform DJ at WCBN-FM Ann Arbor, she’s collaborated with poets and artists like Carla Harryman, Viki, and Chris Sollars. She teaches creative writing at Eastern Michigan University, has an MFA from Bard College, and co-edits the online audio journal textsound. Her work is forthcoming in Model Homes.

Ylva Westerlund was born in 1975 and holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy. Previous exhibitions include IASPIS and Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm. She lives and works in Malmö, Sweden.