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Evelina Hägglund (1992) is a visual artist from Stockholm. In 2018, she graduated from the A.V.A. – Academy of Visual Arts in Ljubljana, and is currently enrolled in postgraduate studies in art at Goldsmiths MFA, University of London. She has exhibited at various venues across Europe, including the Alva Gallery in Umeå (Sweden), NiNa in Warsaw (Poland), the Temporary Gallery in Cologne (Germany), the Kunstpodium T in Tilburg (Netherlands) and the 12 Star Gallery in London (UK). ). She has participated in the Land 404 art residencies in Sweden (2018), in the Lode Brick Factory in Latvia (2018) and in the DobraVaga gallery in Ljubljana (2017).

Domen Ograjenšek is a writer, art critic, and curator. He holds a degree in philosophy from the University in Ljubljana. Currently lives in Vienna.

Špela Petrič is a Slovenian new media artist with a background in the natural sciences. Her artistic practice combines biomedia and performativity to enact strange relations between bodies that reveal the underpinnings of our technological societies and propose alternatives. Petrič has received several awards, such as the White Aphroid for outstanding artistic achievement (Slovenia), the Bioart and Design Award (Netherlands), and an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica (Austria).

Blaž Miklavčič studied sculpture and contemporary art practices at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana. In his work, he mainly deals with the aesthetics of horror and analysis and production in the field of computer-generated images with an emphasis on the simulation of algorithmic life forms. He currently lives and works in Rotterdam.

Matt Colquhoun is a writer and photographer from Hull, East Yorkshire. He is the author of Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher and the editor of Fisher’s book Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures.

Simon Sellars is a writer and editor. His latest book, Applied Ballardianism: A Memoir from a Parallel Universe (Urbanomic, 2018), was described by The Guardian as “brilliantly written genre mashup, [..] a wonderfully original mix of cultural theory, literary exegesis, travelogue and psychopathological memoira.” Sellars also writes for websites, magazines, newspapers and magazines. Topics include digital culture, architecture, travel, urbanism, film, animation, music, sound design, and literature. He is the founder of the internationally acclaimed Australian festival of sound art Liquid Architecture. He lives in Melbourne.