As feminist media artist, Angela Washko (she/her) tells complex and unconventional stories about the media we consume from unusual perspectives. She is the founder of the Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft, a long-term intervention within the popular online video game. She was recently awarded the Creative Capital Award, Indiecade’s Impact Award, and the Franklin Furnace Performance Fund. Washko’s work has been published in The New Yorker, Frieze Magazine, Time Magazine, The Guardian, ArtForum, The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, The New York Times, Rhizome, and many other journals. Her projects have been presented internationally at the Museum of the Moving Image (New York), the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Milan Design Triennale, the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki), the Hamburg PLAY Festival, and the Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, among others. Angela Washko is an associate professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University.

Alla Popp (no pronoun) is a digital media and performance artist from Kazan, Russia with a Diploma in State Administration and a Master in Transition Studies at JLU Giessen. Afterwards, Alla studied digital media and performance at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, Tongji University and Athens School of Fine Arts. For Alla’s academic and artistic work, Alla won various grants including Frankfurter Künstlerhilfe, Mosbach Stiftung, DAAD and STIBET, residencies in China, Greece, Japan and Rwanda. In 2015, together with Alexander Traka, they founded the technologically advanced interdisciplinary music and performance project BBB_.

Gloria Schulz is a digital artist from Hamburg. Gloria is a co-founder of Studio für unendliche Möglichkeiten. Gloria feels most at home in gray windows and, as a visual hacker, explores immersive illusory spaces.

Gloria’s artworks as a creative coder and performing artist are shown throughout various festivals and theatres in Germany and abroad.

Since the early noughties Bailey (CA) has ploughed a compelling, and often hilarious, road through the various developments of digital communications technologies. Ostensibly a satire on, and parody of, the practices and language of “new media,” the jocose surface of Bailey’s work hides an incisive exploration of the critical intersection between video, computing, performance, and the body.” (Morgan Quaintance, Rhizome) Recent projects include performances for Rhizome’s Seven on Seven in New York, The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and Tate Liverpool.

His work has been shown widely including recent solo shows at Transmediale in Berlin, and group shows Mediamatic in Amsterdam, Museums Quartier in Vienna and Balice Hertling in Paris. Recent commissions include projects for the Southbank Centre in London, FACT in Liverpool, Turner Contemporary in Margate UK, and The New Museum in New York. Bailey is represented by Pari Nadimi Gallery in Toronto.

Lauren McCarthy is an artist, programmer and social engineer based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn. In her work she examines the potential of technologies like social media to create positive social interaction. She makes software, performances, videos, and other things on the internet.

Lauren has exhibited at Ars Electronica, Conflux Festival, SIGGRAPH, LACMA, Onassis Cultural Center, IDFA DocLab, and the Japan Media Arts Festival, and worked on installations for the London Eye, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She holds an MFA from UCLA and a BS Computer Science and BS Art and Design from MIT.

She is an Assistant Professor at UCLA Design Media Arts. She was previously a resident at CMU STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Eyebeam, NYU ITP, and Ars Electronica / QUT TRANSMIT.