Benjamin Rosenthal (b.1984, New York, NY, Lives and Works in Kansas City, Missouri) has had work exhibited internationally in such venues/festivals as the Stuttgarter Filmwinter (Stuttgart, Germany), Cairo Video Festival (Cairo, Egypt), SIMULTAN Festival (Timișoara, Romania), High Concept Labs at Mana Contemporary (Chicago, IL), ESPACIO ENTER: Festival International Creatividad, Innovacíon y Cultural Digital (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain), FILE Electronic Language International Festival (São Paulo, Brazil), Locomoción Festival de Animacion (Mexico City, Mexico), the LINOLEUM Festival of Contemporary Animation and Media Art (Kyiv, Ukraine), and SIGGRAPH Asia (Bangkok, Thailand), among others. His work across media explores what he theorizes as queer “technosexuality” and challenges the supremacy of physical contact in a technocultural age.
Christine Cheung is a Canadian artist living in Berlin. Her works range from paintings, drawings to installations, and collective works, often dealing with personal/collective memory, the perceived mythology of places and emptiness. Often, the work tries to exemplify the act of letting go, or something quite like it. She has shown internationally, including as part of the permanent collection of the Sørlandet Art Museum (Norway) and at LeRoy Neiman Gallery (USA). She has been featured on CBC Radio, The Globe and Mail and Kunst magazine. She has had solo shows at the Trondheim Kunstmuseum in Trondheim (Norway) and Glenbow Museum (Canada), among others.
emily brandt (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based writer and artist of Sicilian, Polish and Ukrainian descent. She’s the author of FALSEHOOD, as well as three poetry chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in many journals including BOMB, Fence, LitHub, The Recluse, and Michigan Quarterly Review, and anthologies. She’s been in residence at Saltonstall Arts Colony and Poets House. Emily is a co-founding editor of No, Dear and curator of the LINEAGE reading series at Wendy’s Subway.
Eva Davidova explores behavior, ecological disaster, and the political implications of technology through performative works rooted in the absurd. She works with the human gesture and expression as a way to “mix” with, and disrupt technologies, and use the failures in these technologies to reclaim them. Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, the UVP at Everson Museum, the AKG Buffalo Art Museum, MACBA Barcelona, CAAC Sevilla, La Regenta, ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks, Instituto Cervantes, and the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC.
Hanae Utamura is a Japanese interdisciplinary artist and educator based in New York and Tokyo. Utamura works in various media including video, performance, painting, and sculpture. Her work seeks to connect people and earth, using the physical body as conduit, with special attention to the tensions and negotiations between human and non-human. She has performed and exhibited extensively around the world, including Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and the Asian Art Biennial at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. She participated in numerous residencies including Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center (2021), Art Omi (2018/2020), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (2015), Akademie Schloss Solitude (2014) and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Changdong Art Studio (2013). She has received awards from bodies including the US-Japan Friendship Program, the Japanese Ministry of Culture, and UNESCO.
Jillian McDonald is a Canadian artist living in Brooklyn and Troy, New York. In her work she explores horror film, landscapes, and imagined relationships with celebrities. Solo shows and projects include the Esker Foundation in Calgary, Lilith Performance Studio in Sweden, Air Circulation in New York, Centre Clark in Montréal, and Hallwalls in Buffalo. Her work was featured in group exhibitions at The Edith Russ Haus for Media Art in Germany, The International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Venezuela, The Sundance Film Festival in Utah, La Biennale de Montréal, and The New Media Gallery in British Columbia. She received grants from The Canada Council for Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. Residencies include the Arctic Circle hosted by The Farm in Svalbard, The Glenfiddich Canadian Art Prize in Scotland, Banff Center for the Arts in Canada, and Harvestworks in New York. In 2025 she is in residence at Sporobole and La Bande Vidéo in Québec.
Kara Hearn is an interdisciplinary performance-based video artist and the chair of the Film/Video Department at Pratt Institute. Her work has been screened, exhibited, and performed at MoMA, SFMOMA, The Bluecoat Gallery, ARQUIPÉLAGO Contemporary Art Center, Dallas Medianale, DiverseWorks, New Orleans Museum of Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, White Columns, Berkeley Art Museum, and Walker Art Center. Her work was featured in the book Double Act: Art and Comedy and has been selected twice as a “critic’s picks” on Artforum.com. Hearn has completed residencies at the Core Program in Houston and at Recess, EFA Project Space, and Wassaic Project in New York. Born in Oklahoma, Hearn currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Kerry Downey (b.1979, Ft. Lauderdale) is a genderqueer interdisciplinary artist and educator based in New York. Downey’s work explores the many ways we inhabit our bodies and experience forms of transformation. Downey's propensity for collaboration and conversation is animated by curiosity about others and a drive to explore relationships – social, psychological, historical and material. Their work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum (Flushing, NY); Bard CCS / Hessel Museum (Annandale, NY); Knockdown Center (Maspeth, NY); Kate Werble (New York, NY); Cooper Cole (Toronto, CA). Downey’s first major publication, “We collect together in a net,” was published by Wendy’s Subway in 2019. Downey is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant.
Leigh Davis is an artist and educator. Her work explores themes of grief, memory, and storytelling, delving into how these shared human experiences shape our understanding of identity. Over the past decade she has archived end-of-life experiences, shaping them into a body of work spanning lecture-performances, video essays, installations, and sculptures which aim to illuminate the emotional complexities of grief and the construction of beliefs regarding human consciousness. Inquiry into the ELE (2016-2019) premiered at BRIC Contemporary Art (Brooklyn). Her site-specific installations, Vigil (2020) and Feeling Tones (2023) featured at Green-Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn). Davis has created projects for Open Source Gallery (Brooklyn), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), EFA Project Space (New York), Oliver Art Center (Oakland), and the Kreeger Museum (DC). She has created performances for Morbid Anatomy Museum (Brooklyn) and Sound Scene at the Hirshhorn Museum (DC) A native of Pittsburgh, Davis is a Part-Time Associate Professor at Parsons School of Design, and divides her time between Brooklyn, NY, and Washington, DC.
Michelle Levy is a Brooklyn-based artist, storyteller, and arts organizer. She uses performance, imagery, text, and collective engagement to investigate the mediated space between life and fiction where identity is constructed. Levy has presented her work in venues across New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Krakow, Szczecin, Warsaw, and Prague. Her work and research have been supported by grants from New York State Council on the Arts; Asylum Arts; U.S. Embassy, Warsaw; the Trust for Mutual Understanding; CCNY Connor Travel Fund, and Czech Center New York. Recent residencies include Union Docs Early Production Lab (New York), POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw), Festivalt (Krakow), and MeetFactory (Prague).
Nung-Hsin Hu (胡農欣) is a Taiwanese-born interdisciplinary artist who interweaves time-based media, installation, performance, and artist’s books in her practice. Hu has exhibited internationally including in New York City, Los Angeles, Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Singapore, and Taiwan. Hu has received various grants, including the Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, and the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan International Exchange Grant. She has also participated in international residencies, including Casa das Caldeiras (São Paulo), the Arctic Circle Residency Program (Norway), SHIFT residency at EFA project space (New York), and 18th Street Art Center (Los Angeles). She has been an active member of the Temporary Files working group from season 2 to 4.
Rah Eleh is a video, net and performance artist. Rah's work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally at spaces including: Images Festival (Toronto), Museum London, Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa), Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, Massachusetts), Miami Art Basel, Nieuwe Vide (Haarlem, Netherlands), Pao Festival (Oslo, Norway), Kunst Am Spreeknie (Berlin, Germany), Kunsthaus Graz Museum (Graz, Austria), and Onassis Cultural Center (Athens, Greece). She has been the recipient of numerous awards including: Chalmers Arts Fellowship, finalist for Team Canada in Digital Arts, Conseil Des Arts et Des Lettres Du Quebec Research / Production grant for Digital Arts (2014) and Film (2015), and a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Rachel Stevens is an NYC-based artist and researcher working with social ecologies, critical geography and experimental media. Her work has been shown internationally at Socrates Sculpture Park, the Ex Church of San Francesco in Como Italy, ISEA in New Mexico, Pier 42 in Lower Manhattan and at a stream in Southwestern Vermont. Residencies include Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, iLand, Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva, Signal Culture and the Creative Ecologies and Decolonial Futures Residency in Chiapas, MX. Rachel writes about media art and visual culture, was an editor at Millennium Film Journal from 2018-2022 and teaches in the Hunter College IMA/MFA Program.
Sunita Prasad (she/they) makes films, video art, and performances in Brooklyn NY. In the documentary field, Sunita is known for editing impactful feature docs such as Aftershock (Peabody and Sundance awards; Hulu), Storming Caesars Palace (BlackStar Shine Award), and The Ringleader (HBO). Their work as a director and video artist has screened in film festivals, galleries, and museums internationally and have been acclaimed by Art in America, Artnews and others. Sunita has been recognized as one of DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40, a Karen Schmeer Editing Fellow, and a Jerome Foundation Artist Fellow and has received grants from the Art Matters Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Warner Brothers Production Award. Their most recent film is a comedy about postpartum depression called Sleep Training and is in festivals now.
Tusia Dabrowska is an artist generating work at the intersection of collaboration, technology and storytelling. Her recent work shifts away from liveness and toward mediation and film. Tusia's mockumentary, My Imaginary Friends, received support from Asylum Arts (2021) and LABA NYC (2023). Her algorithmic video art “Dystopiany” was developed during one year residency at BRIC in Brooklyn (2022-23). Her first documentary short in production, “I No Longer Believe We Are Good People” received support from the Queens Arts Fund (2023), Puffin Foundation (2023), and CUNY’s Adjuncts’ Incubator (2025). She co-founded temp.files, a video publishing cooperative, online publication, streaming site, and remote residency. Tusia teaches courses in media production and video editing at NYU and CUNY.
viento izquierdo ugaz (b. 1992, Lima, Perú) [they/them] is an autistic trans/disciplinary artist, cultural organizer, poet & language justice worker. Through writing, photography, thread & moving image they address how the burden of imposed migration has woven its threads into the visual tapestry of their lineage. From personal portraiture to video poetry, their work also reveals the powerful essence of their queer and trans chosen family in an act of unapologetic resistance and tenderness. Recent group exhibitions include Un Estado de Gracia / A State of Grace, BAM, New York; Alchemies of Mutable Selfhood, Leslie Lohman Museum; Premio ICPNA Contemporanéo, Lima, Peru; as well as their first museum group exhibition ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21, El Museo del Barrio. viento lives in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, in Peru with their partner and two cats.
Christine Cheung is a Canadian artist living in Berlin. Her works range from paintings, drawings to installations, and collective works, often dealing with personal/collective memory, the perceived mythology of places and emptiness. Often, the work tries to exemplify the act of letting go, or something quite like it. She has shown internationally, including as part of the permanent collection of the Sørlandet Art Museum (Norway) and at LeRoy Neiman Gallery (USA). She has been featured on CBC Radio, The Globe and Mail and Kunst magazine. She has had solo shows at the Trondheim Kunstmuseum in Trondheim (Norway) and Glenbow Museum (Canada), among others.
emily brandt (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based writer and artist of Sicilian, Polish and Ukrainian descent. She’s the author of FALSEHOOD, as well as three poetry chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in many journals including BOMB, Fence, LitHub, The Recluse, and Michigan Quarterly Review, and anthologies. She’s been in residence at Saltonstall Arts Colony and Poets House. Emily is a co-founding editor of No, Dear and curator of the LINEAGE reading series at Wendy’s Subway.
Eva Davidova explores behavior, ecological disaster, and the political implications of technology through performative works rooted in the absurd. She works with the human gesture and expression as a way to “mix” with, and disrupt technologies, and use the failures in these technologies to reclaim them. Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, the UVP at Everson Museum, the AKG Buffalo Art Museum, MACBA Barcelona, CAAC Sevilla, La Regenta, ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks, Instituto Cervantes, and the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC.
Hanae Utamura is a Japanese interdisciplinary artist and educator based in New York and Tokyo. Utamura works in various media including video, performance, painting, and sculpture. Her work seeks to connect people and earth, using the physical body as conduit, with special attention to the tensions and negotiations between human and non-human. She has performed and exhibited extensively around the world, including Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and the Asian Art Biennial at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. She participated in numerous residencies including Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center (2021), Art Omi (2018/2020), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (2015), Akademie Schloss Solitude (2014) and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Changdong Art Studio (2013). She has received awards from bodies including the US-Japan Friendship Program, the Japanese Ministry of Culture, and UNESCO.
Jillian McDonald is a Canadian artist living in Brooklyn and Troy, New York. In her work she explores horror film, landscapes, and imagined relationships with celebrities. Solo shows and projects include the Esker Foundation in Calgary, Lilith Performance Studio in Sweden, Air Circulation in New York, Centre Clark in Montréal, and Hallwalls in Buffalo. Her work was featured in group exhibitions at The Edith Russ Haus for Media Art in Germany, The International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Venezuela, The Sundance Film Festival in Utah, La Biennale de Montréal, and The New Media Gallery in British Columbia. She received grants from The Canada Council for Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. Residencies include the Arctic Circle hosted by The Farm in Svalbard, The Glenfiddich Canadian Art Prize in Scotland, Banff Center for the Arts in Canada, and Harvestworks in New York. In 2025 she is in residence at Sporobole and La Bande Vidéo in Québec.
Kara Hearn is an interdisciplinary performance-based video artist and the chair of the Film/Video Department at Pratt Institute. Her work has been screened, exhibited, and performed at MoMA, SFMOMA, The Bluecoat Gallery, ARQUIPÉLAGO Contemporary Art Center, Dallas Medianale, DiverseWorks, New Orleans Museum of Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, White Columns, Berkeley Art Museum, and Walker Art Center. Her work was featured in the book Double Act: Art and Comedy and has been selected twice as a “critic’s picks” on Artforum.com. Hearn has completed residencies at the Core Program in Houston and at Recess, EFA Project Space, and Wassaic Project in New York. Born in Oklahoma, Hearn currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Kerry Downey (b.1979, Ft. Lauderdale) is a genderqueer interdisciplinary artist and educator based in New York. Downey’s work explores the many ways we inhabit our bodies and experience forms of transformation. Downey's propensity for collaboration and conversation is animated by curiosity about others and a drive to explore relationships – social, psychological, historical and material. Their work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum (Flushing, NY); Bard CCS / Hessel Museum (Annandale, NY); Knockdown Center (Maspeth, NY); Kate Werble (New York, NY); Cooper Cole (Toronto, CA). Downey’s first major publication, “We collect together in a net,” was published by Wendy’s Subway in 2019. Downey is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant.
Leigh Davis is an artist and educator. Her work explores themes of grief, memory, and storytelling, delving into how these shared human experiences shape our understanding of identity. Over the past decade she has archived end-of-life experiences, shaping them into a body of work spanning lecture-performances, video essays, installations, and sculptures which aim to illuminate the emotional complexities of grief and the construction of beliefs regarding human consciousness. Inquiry into the ELE (2016-2019) premiered at BRIC Contemporary Art (Brooklyn). Her site-specific installations, Vigil (2020) and Feeling Tones (2023) featured at Green-Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn). Davis has created projects for Open Source Gallery (Brooklyn), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), EFA Project Space (New York), Oliver Art Center (Oakland), and the Kreeger Museum (DC). She has created performances for Morbid Anatomy Museum (Brooklyn) and Sound Scene at the Hirshhorn Museum (DC) A native of Pittsburgh, Davis is a Part-Time Associate Professor at Parsons School of Design, and divides her time between Brooklyn, NY, and Washington, DC.
Michelle Levy is a Brooklyn-based artist, storyteller, and arts organizer. She uses performance, imagery, text, and collective engagement to investigate the mediated space between life and fiction where identity is constructed. Levy has presented her work in venues across New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Krakow, Szczecin, Warsaw, and Prague. Her work and research have been supported by grants from New York State Council on the Arts; Asylum Arts; U.S. Embassy, Warsaw; the Trust for Mutual Understanding; CCNY Connor Travel Fund, and Czech Center New York. Recent residencies include Union Docs Early Production Lab (New York), POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw), Festivalt (Krakow), and MeetFactory (Prague).
Nung-Hsin Hu (胡農欣) is a Taiwanese-born interdisciplinary artist who interweaves time-based media, installation, performance, and artist’s books in her practice. Hu has exhibited internationally including in New York City, Los Angeles, Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Singapore, and Taiwan. Hu has received various grants, including the Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, and the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan International Exchange Grant. She has also participated in international residencies, including Casa das Caldeiras (São Paulo), the Arctic Circle Residency Program (Norway), SHIFT residency at EFA project space (New York), and 18th Street Art Center (Los Angeles). She has been an active member of the Temporary Files working group from season 2 to 4.
Rah Eleh is a video, net and performance artist. Rah's work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally at spaces including: Images Festival (Toronto), Museum London, Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa), Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, Massachusetts), Miami Art Basel, Nieuwe Vide (Haarlem, Netherlands), Pao Festival (Oslo, Norway), Kunst Am Spreeknie (Berlin, Germany), Kunsthaus Graz Museum (Graz, Austria), and Onassis Cultural Center (Athens, Greece). She has been the recipient of numerous awards including: Chalmers Arts Fellowship, finalist for Team Canada in Digital Arts, Conseil Des Arts et Des Lettres Du Quebec Research / Production grant for Digital Arts (2014) and Film (2015), and a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Rachel Stevens is an NYC-based artist and researcher working with social ecologies, critical geography and experimental media. Her work has been shown internationally at Socrates Sculpture Park, the Ex Church of San Francesco in Como Italy, ISEA in New Mexico, Pier 42 in Lower Manhattan and at a stream in Southwestern Vermont. Residencies include Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, iLand, Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva, Signal Culture and the Creative Ecologies and Decolonial Futures Residency in Chiapas, MX. Rachel writes about media art and visual culture, was an editor at Millennium Film Journal from 2018-2022 and teaches in the Hunter College IMA/MFA Program.
Sunita Prasad (she/they) makes films, video art, and performances in Brooklyn NY. In the documentary field, Sunita is known for editing impactful feature docs such as Aftershock (Peabody and Sundance awards; Hulu), Storming Caesars Palace (BlackStar Shine Award), and The Ringleader (HBO). Their work as a director and video artist has screened in film festivals, galleries, and museums internationally and have been acclaimed by Art in America, Artnews and others. Sunita has been recognized as one of DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40, a Karen Schmeer Editing Fellow, and a Jerome Foundation Artist Fellow and has received grants from the Art Matters Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Warner Brothers Production Award. Their most recent film is a comedy about postpartum depression called Sleep Training and is in festivals now.
Tusia Dabrowska is an artist generating work at the intersection of collaboration, technology and storytelling. Her recent work shifts away from liveness and toward mediation and film. Tusia's mockumentary, My Imaginary Friends, received support from Asylum Arts (2021) and LABA NYC (2023). Her algorithmic video art “Dystopiany” was developed during one year residency at BRIC in Brooklyn (2022-23). Her first documentary short in production, “I No Longer Believe We Are Good People” received support from the Queens Arts Fund (2023), Puffin Foundation (2023), and CUNY’s Adjuncts’ Incubator (2025). She co-founded temp.files, a video publishing cooperative, online publication, streaming site, and remote residency. Tusia teaches courses in media production and video editing at NYU and CUNY.
viento izquierdo ugaz (b. 1992, Lima, Perú) [they/them] is an autistic trans/disciplinary artist, cultural organizer, poet & language justice worker. Through writing, photography, thread & moving image they address how the burden of imposed migration has woven its threads into the visual tapestry of their lineage. From personal portraiture to video poetry, their work also reveals the powerful essence of their queer and trans chosen family in an act of unapologetic resistance and tenderness. Recent group exhibitions include Un Estado de Gracia / A State of Grace, BAM, New York; Alchemies of Mutable Selfhood, Leslie Lohman Museum; Premio ICPNA Contemporanéo, Lima, Peru; as well as their first museum group exhibition ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21, El Museo del Barrio. viento lives in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, in Peru with their partner and two cats.