Contributors

Becca Abbe Becca Abbe is Triple Canopy's web producer. She works on independent projects as a graphic designer and programmer under the name Cdxs LLC. Website

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance (2021), Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (2019), and the essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (2017), and the poetry collection A Fortune for Your Disaster (2019). He is the host of the podcast Object of Sound. Website

Michele Abeles lives and works in New York. Her work has appeared in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; White Columns, New York, MoMA PS1 as well as “ReMap3” in Athens. She received an MFA in photography from Yale University (2007) and a Rema Hort Mann Visual Arts grant (2010). In April of 2013 she will present her second solo exhibition at 47 Canal, New York. Website

Louis Abelman is a filmmaker living in Brooklyn. Website

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a journalist based in Brooklyn and the author of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen (Columbia Global Reports, 2015). Her writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, New York Magazine, the London Review of Books, the Nation, and other publications. Her forthcoming book, The Hidden Globe (Riverhead, 2024), explores the areas where the rules of capital trump the sovereignty of nations.  

Abraham Adams is an artist based in New England. His books include Before (Inpatient Press, 2016) and Nothing in MoMA (Sternberg Press, forth. 2017, with an introduction by David Joselit). He is the founder of Time Farm. Website

Anthony Adcock  

Etel Adnan is a Lebanese-born poet, essayist, and visual artist. Her published works include the novel Sitt-Marie Rose, the long poem The Arab Apocalypse, and the series of letters Of Cities & Women (Letters to Fawwaz). Her artwork has been exhibited worldwide, at venues such as documenta 13 in Kassel and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco.  

Vahram Aghasyan is an artist living and working in Armenia. His work has been shown at the Tenth International Istanbul Biennial; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, in Helsinki; the First Contemporary Art Biennale of Thessaloniki; and the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art. Website

Rosa Aiello is an artist and writer. Her work has been exhibited and screened at the Modern Institute, Glasgow; the Showroom, London; and SculptureCenter, New York.  

Rahel Aima is a writer and critic based in Brooklyn, the Special Projects editor at New Inquiry and former founding editor of THE STATE. She is currently working on a book about color and futurity. Website

Eda Akaltun is a London-based artist from Istanbul. Her work has been published in the Telegraph, Laurence King Publishing, Creative Review, Time Out, and Cent. In 2009, she was short-listed for a V&A Illustration Award. She is a founding contributor to Nobrow, a new illustration-publishing venture based in East London. Website

Yelena Akhtiorskaya is currently at work on a novel and a collection of stories. She lives in New York City. Website

Azra Akšamija is a Sarajevo-born artist and architectural historian and is currently an assistant professor at MIT’s program in art, culture, and technology. Akšamija’s work investigates the ability of art and architecture to facilitate transformative mediation in cultural and political conflicts, and in so doing provide a framework for researching, analyzing, and intervening in contested situations and places. Her recent projects have focused on the representation of Islamic identities in the West, spatial mediation of identity politics, and cultural pedagogy through art and architecture. Website

Sophia Al-Maria is based in Doha, Qatar, where she is a contributing editor of Bidoun magazine and Gulf Collection Curator at the soon-to-be-opened-and-renamed Arab Museum of Modern Art. She is currently writing a book for Harper Perennial entitled Dune Coon or Al-Amerikiya, depending on her mood at deadline. Website

Kristen Alfaro is a PhD student in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. Her research on the development of Anthology Film Archives has been published in The Moving Image, the Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. She has also contributed to n+1.  

Gini Alhadeff is the author of The Sun at Midday: Tales of a Mediterranean Family and Diary of a Djinn, and editor and translator of the anthology My Poems Won’t Change the World by Patrizia Cavalli.  

Yasi Alipour is an Iranian artist, a professional folder, a logic enthusiast, an overthinker, and sometimes a writer based in New York. Having recently received her MFA from Columbia University, she now wonders about free education, politics and possibilities of despair, the place of civil society in a global world with declining democracies, and the failure of modernity as historical heritage.  

Gwen Allen is a writer, researcher, and assistant professor of art history at San Francisco State University. Her book Artists’ Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art was published by MIT Press in March. Website

Michael Almereyda is a filmmaker living in New York and Los Angeles. His films include Another Girl Another Planet, Nadja, Hamlet, William Eggleston in the Real World, and Paradise. Website

Zakaria Almoutlak is a sculptor living in Brussels, Belgium. From childhood until the Syrian revolution began in 2011, Almoutlak worked with his father in an atelier in Homs, sculpting in the Palmyrene and Roman traditions as well as taking part in the family business of trading antiquities. Almoutlak was involved in the Syrian revolution as a media activist and imprisoned twice by the Assad regime. After suffering an injury during a bombing in his home city, Almoutlak left for Europe and, in 2018, received refugee status. He is a volunteer for several organizations that work with refugees in Belgium and a board member of the Brussels-based nonprofit Refugees Are Not Alone (RANA). His first artwork presented in Belgium was a sculpture of the priest of Palmyra for the Meli Melo Festival in 2017. With Karthik Pandian and Andros Zins-Browne, he has been a key collaborator in Atlas Unlimited, an ongoing series of exhibitions in Brussels, Antwerp, Chicago, and New York. He currently runs Almoutlak, an import/export atelier that sells works by Syrian artisans.  

Hilton Als is a writer and theater critic at the New Yorker. He was formerly a writer and picture editor at the Village Voice and editor-at-large at Vibe. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2017, and a Guggenheim fellowship in 2000. His latest book, White Girls, was published by McSweeney’s in 2013.  

Anna Altman is a writer, editor, and translator based in New York and previously Triple Canopy’s editorial and production coordinator. Her writing has appeared in Frieze, Art in America, and Art Asia Pacific, among others. Website

Florencia Alvarado is a photographer, artist, and designer living and working in Caracas, Venezuela. Her work focuses on artist publications and the contemporary languages of photography.  

Ambergris is a band conducting spelunking tours into fluorescent lagoons of narrative imagination. Citing influences from Gilbert and Sullivan to Flipper, Ambergris has performed its “Anti-Matter Cabaret” in locations such as the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Issue Project Room in New York, and the Fumetto Festival in Lucern, Switzerland. Website

Andrea Ancira es escritora e investigadora independiente. Le interesa analizar las prácticas artísticas experimentales contemporáneas y su papel en la configuración de identidades, sensibilidades y discursos sociales. Explora estos fenómenos desde el marxismo, la historia de la cultura y la política contemporáneas, el feminismo, los estudios decoloniales, entre otros. Actualmente es Coordinadora editorial de Buró–Buró y curadora asociada del Centro de la Imagen para la exposición del cineasta experimental Teo Hernández. Website

Graham Anderson is a painter and sculptor based in Queens, New York City. Website

Shane Anderson is the author of Soft Passer (Mindmade Books) and Études des Gottnarrenmaschinen (Broken Dimanche Books). Among other places, his poems, texts and translations have been published in 6x6, Asymptote, Edit, Plinth, Natalie Czech’s Il Pleut series and Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament (Skira Rizzoli). In 2016, he curated the festival HERE! HERE! THERE! @ the ilb at the Berlinerfestspiele and in 2017 he will be a participant in the Skulptur Projekte Münster’s Kur und Kür. Currently, he is working on a book-length essay entitled “Strength in Numbers; or, Learning Hope From Sports.” He lives in Berlin.  

Mário de Andrade (1893–1945) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, critic, musicologist, and folklorist. Known as the “Pope of Brazilian modernism,” he remains one of the most influential figures in Brazilian culture. He served as the first director of São Paulo’s Department of Culture and founded the Brazilian Society of Ethnography and Folklore with Dina Lévi-Strauss, dedicating himself to the preservation of Brazilian cultural heritage until his death in 1945. Andrade wrote numerous studies on regional folk music, traditions, and language, alongside art and literary criticism, as well as eight volumes of poetry, three short-story collections, and three novels. His novel Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character (1928) is the culmination of his explorations of avant-garde poetics and the spirit of the Brazilian people.  

Nathalie Anglès is cofounder and executive director of Residency Unlimited, a New York-based nonprofit arts organization that fosters customised residencies for artists and curators through strategic partnerships with collaborating institutions. From 2000 until 2008, she was the director of Location One’s international residency program. In 2008 she received the title of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government.  

Andy Antippas is a former professor of English literature and has been director of Barrister’s Gallery in New Orleans since 1978. Website

Cory Arcangel  

José Arnaud-Bello is an artist with a background in architecture whose research-based work focuses on processes that are reciprocal and determined by multiple actors, such as the relationship between material conditions and culture, the tension between architecture and landscape, and the dependencies between art and discourse. Following their interest in play as a mode of thought and communication, he and Mateo Riestra founded Lupe Toys, which designs toys that promote intuitive learning about the wonders of nature.  

Ratik Asokan is a writer and editor. Originally from Mumbai, India, he is presently based in New York, where he works as an assistant editor at the Baffler.  

Mario Aspland is a freelance photographer in Gómez Palacio, Mexico. Website

Astrom/Zimmer is a Zurich-based design studio. Anthon Astrom and Lukas Zimmer began working together in 2007, when they initiated the Café Society Project, which investigates frameworks for reading, writing, and organizing information on-screen and in print. In 2011, they founded Astrom/Zimmer studio, which works in research, design, and software development. In the past five years, Astrom and Zimmer have won the Swiss Federal Design Award twice, among other accolades. Website

Anthony Auerbach  

David Auerbach lives in New York with several thousand books. He is a writer and software engineer. Website

Simone Aughterlony is an artist based in Zurich and Berlin who predominantly works in dance and performance. She has collaborated with Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, Forced Entertainment and Jorge León, and Phil Hayes, among others. In 2015, León and Aughterlony devised Uni * Form, which premiered at Zuercher Theater Spektakel and is currently touring in Europe. In the same year, she was awarded the Swiss Dance Award for outstanding female performer. She is currently collaborating with Jen Rosenblit on the project Everything Fits in the Room, commissioned by HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Haus der Kulturen der Welt.  

Julie Ault is an artist, writer, and curator who has developed a model of creative research that engages with an ever growing circle of artists, writers, scholars, activists, and communities. These collaborations have led to countless exhibitions, books, and other projects. Her most recent projects include cocurating with Roni Horn a three-part exhibition of the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, which was on view in 2016 at Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Massimo De Carlo, Milan; and Hauser & Wirth, London. For the 2014 Whitney Biennial, she organized “Afterlife: a constellation,” which took the archives of artists David Wojnarowicz (1954–1992) and Martin Wong (1946–1999) as its starting point and was later presented at Galerie Buchholz, New York. With Martin Beck, Nikola Dietrich, Heinz Peter Knes, Jason Simon, Scott Cameron Weaver, and Danh Vō, Ault curated the project Tell It To My Heart for Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Culturgest, Lisbon; and Artists Space, New York, 2013–14. Ault is the editor of FC: Two Cabins by JB (A.R.T. Press, 2011), which extends and analyzes a long-term project of filmmaker James Benning. She contributed an essay to Martin Wong: Human Instamatic (Black Dog Publishing, 2016), published on the occasion of an exhibition of Wong’s work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Her writing will be included in a publication on the work of David Wojnarowicz, to be published in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Whitney Museum in 2018. Currently, Ault is researching a two-part exhibition on the work of artist Nancy Spero. Ault is a cofounder of the New York-based collective Group Material, active from 1979 to 1996, and teaches periodically in the Art and Social Practice program at Portland State University.  

Rachel Aviv is a writer based in Brooklyn and a former Triple Canopy contributing editor. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, the Nation, and the New York Times Magazine. Website

Lobregat Balaguer is a writer and graphic designer. She has exhibited artwork at Singapore Art Museum, Casa Asia Madrid, Galeria H2O, Ayala Museum, New York University, Hangar, and La Capella; she has lectured at MAD Museum, AIGA NY, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Printed Matter, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Bennington College, Ateneo de Manila, and University of the Philippines, Diliman. In 2010, she founded the Office of Culture and Design, an autonomous platform for artists, writers, designers, and social practice projects in the developing world (primarily the Philippines). In 2013, the OCD opened a design studio and publishing arm called Hardworking Goodlooking, through which it publishes the results of its experiments (and those of others) in print and other media.  

Anand Balakrishnan  

Gopal Balakrishnan is a political theorist and the author of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt and the essay “Speculations on the Stationary State.”  

Taylor Baldwin is an artist living in Richmond, Virginia, and a former Triple Canopy contributing editor. His work deals with life in the desert, the specter of imminent catastrophe, and the subtle touches of geology, primarily through sculptural installation, drawing, and video. Website

Jesse Ball is the author of Samedi the Deafness (Vintage, 2007), The Way Through Doors (Vintage, 2009), and March Book (Grove, 2004). In 2008, he won the Plimpton Prize for a novella, The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp & Carr. Website

BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) is a multi-arts center located in Brooklyn, New York. Website

Bidisha Banerjee is based in San Francisco and Kolkata. She is working on a book about the life, death, and afterlives of the Ganga. Website

Mary Jo Bang  

Ari Banias is a poet based in Oakland. His books are A Symmetry (2021) and Anybody (2016), both from W. W. Norton. Website

My Barbarian is a collective consisting of Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade, founded in Los Angeles in 2000. My Barbarian’s interdisciplinary performance, video, music and installation projects use fantasy, humor, camp, and clashing aesthetic sensibilities to playfully reenact artistic, political, social, and historical situations. Website

Alisa Baremboym is an artist based in New York, USA. In 2014, her work was included in the Taipei Biennial, Taiwan; Hessel Museum Bard CCS, Annandale-on-Hudson; UCCA, Beijing; Beaux-arts de Paris, Paris; Fridericianum, Kassel; MoMA PS1, Queens; Sculpture Center, Long Island City as well as in numerous other group exhibitions.  

Anne Barliant is a poet, critic, and scholar and a lecturer at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight.  

Claire Barliant is a Brooklyn-based writer whose writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Afterall, Artforum, and Modern Painters. Website

John Barlow is a British writer. His work spans literary fiction, travelogue, crime fiction, and, most recently, dystopian adventure for young readers. He currently lives in Spain. Website

Reed Barrow  

Stephen Bartell  

Shumon Basar  

Morgan Bassichis is a performer who has been called “a tall child or, well, a big bird” by the Nation and “fiercely hilarious” by the New Yorker. Recent shows include Nibbling the Hand that Feeds Me (Whitney Museum, NYC, 2019), Klezmer for Beginners (with Ethan Philbrick, Abrons Arts Center, New York City, 2019), Damned If You Duet (the Kitchen, New York City, 2018), More Protest Songs! (Danspace Project, New York City, 2018), and The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions: The Musical (with TM Davy, DonChristian Jones, Michi Ilona Osato, and Una Aya Osato at the New Museum, New York City, 2017). They live in New York City.  

Martina Batan is director at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Her interests as a collector and independent curator include outsider and self-taught art. Website

Joshua Bauchner is a researcher and writer living in Brooklyn. Website

Erica Baum lives and works in New York. She has had solo exhibitions at Bureau, New York; Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin; and Circuit, Lausanne. Past group exhibitions include “Subject, Index,” at Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden. Her work will be included in the upcoming group exhibition “Postscript: Writing after Conceptual Art,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, and the 2012 São Paulo Bienal. Her work was included in the book Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, edited by T. J. Demos (Phaidon Press, 2006). Her artist’s books include Dog Ear (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011), with essays by Kenneth Goldsmith and Beatrice Gross, Sightings (onestar press, 2011), and Bbabaubaumbaudevin (Regency Arts Press, 2012). Website

Muharem Bazdulj was born in 1977 in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina (formerly Yugoslavia). He has published several novels and award-winning short story collections, including Druga knjiga (2000), which was translated into English and published as The Second Book in 2005 by Northwestern University Press. Bazdulj’s work has been featured in international anthologies such as The Wall In My Head, published on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Best European Fiction 2012, published by Dalkey Archive Press and edited by Aleksandar Hemon. His short stories and essays have appeared in World Literature Today, Creative Nonfiction, Habitus, and Absinthe, among other literary reviews.  

Kurt Beals is a PhD student in German at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on modern German literature, translation, and critical theory. His translation of Anja Utler's engulfenkindle was published by Burning Deck in 2010. His translation of Regina Ullmann's short-story collection The Country Road is forthcoming from New Directions. Website

Thomas Beard is a founder and director of Light Industry. Website

Kevin Beasley is a Virginia-born visual and sound artist. In 2013, he was an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. His work has been at the Queens Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, among other venues, and was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.  

Colin Beattie Website

Richard Beck is a senior writer at n+1 and the author of We Believe the Children (Public Books, 2015). His second book, a cultural history of the war on terror, is forthcoming from Crown.  

Martin Beck ’s recent exhibitions and projects include “Presentation” at 47 Canal in New York and “the particular way in which a thing exists” at Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, (2012), contributions to the 29th São Paulo and the 4th Bucharest Biennales (2010), and “Panel 2—‘Nothing better than a touch of ecology and catastrophe to unite the social classes….’” at Gasworks in London (2008) and at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia University, New York (2009). Beck is the author of an Exhibit viewed played populated (2005), About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe (2007), and the editor of The Aspen Complex (2012). Website

Priscilla Becker  

Michael Bell-Smith is an artist and musician based in Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited and screened internationally, at venues including MoMA PS1, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, and the Museum of the Moving Image, New York City; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the 2008 Liverpool Biennial; the 5th Seoul International Media Biennale; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and Tate Liverpool. His work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, and the New York Times. As a member of the punk band Professor Murder, Bell-Smith performed throughout the US and Europe.  

Zoe Beloff is an artist living in New York. Her work has been featured in international exhibitions and screenings at venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Freud Dream Museum (St. Petersburg), and the Pompidou Center (Paris). Beloff has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation. She teaches at Queens College. Website

Sadie Benning came to prominence as an artist in the 1990s. Benning’s early work combines video, performance, and music to explore gender and sexuality through their representation in popular media and culture. Through Benning’s recent work, which combines painting, sculpture, and photography to create alternatingly abstract and iconographic images, Benning confronts the distinctions that give way to power, particularly as it relates to systems of belief. Benning’s work is held in many museum collections and was recently included in “Greater New York,” MoMA PS1; “Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age,” Museum Brandhorst, Munich and MuMOK, Vienna; “The Carnegie International,” Carnegie Museum of Art, and “Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault,” Kunstmuseum Basel and Artists Space. This fall, Benning will mount solo exhibitions at Kaufmann Repetto, Milan; the Renaissance Society, Chicago; and Air de Paris, Paris.  

Lene Berg is a Norwegian artist and filmmaker currently based in Berlin. Her work includes films, installations, books and collages, and has been shown at, among other places, Whitechapel gallery in London, Art in General in New York as well as at the Sydney Biennale, The Taipei Biennale, Transmediale Berlin and Manifesta.  Website

Caroline Bergvall is a writer and artist of French-Norwegian origins and currently based in London. She works across art forms, media, and languages, and her projects alternate between books, audio pieces, collaborative performances, and language installations. For 2012-2013, Bergvall was awarded the Judith Wilson Fellowship in Poetry and Drama from the University of Cambridge. Her most recent book is Meddle English (Nightboat, 2011), and her DVD compilation Gh<>st Pieces: Four Language-Based Installations was just published by John Hansard Gallery. A new collection, Drift, will be released in April 2014 through Nightboat. Website

Susan Bernofsky  

Omar Berrada is a writer and translator, and the director of Dar al-Ma’mûn, a library and residency center for artists, scholars, and writers located on the outskirts of Marrakech. He is a core member of the bilingual poetry collective Double Change and of the intercultural arts organization Tamaas, and is currently living in Brooklyn.  

Caitlin Berrigan is an artist who works across performance, sculpture, text, new media and public interventions to articulate the intimate and uncanny dimensions of power and politics. Her work includes Spectrum of Inevitable Violence, a large-scale class-warfare food fight, and Lessons in Capitalism, which observes the language of finance and money through the eyes of children. Forthcoming work includes the artist book and exhibition Unfinished State, which deals with speculative fictions and real estate in Berlin and Beirut and will be published by Archive Books. She is a 2015–17 Schloss Solitude Fellow and teaches new media practice at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Website

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge published A Treatise on Stars and a new edition of Empathy in 2020. She lives in northern New Mexico.  

BFFA3AE is a New York-based artist group consisting of Daniel Chew, Micaela Durand, and Matthew Gaffney. The group was formed in 2007 as a surf-club blog to host a dialogue about the implications of the Internet on culture and life. Acknowledging the reach of the Internet into the physical world, the group has since expanded to include work in a variety of mediums, including film, performance, and installation. Website

Prashant Bhargava is a film director and designer. His latest feature film, Patang, a family drama set against the annual kite festival in Ahmedabad, India, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011. His short film Sangam premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004; it garnered several awards and distinctions and has been broadcast on the Sundance Channel and PBS. Bhargava is the recipient of a Copeland Fellowship from Amherst College and a Computer Arts Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Website

Lakpa Bhutia  

Klaus Biesenbach is director of MoMA PS1 and chief curator at large at the Museum of Modern Art.  

Wenzel Bilger is regional program director of the Goethe-Institut New York.  

Maya Binyam is a senior editor of Triple Canopy, an editor of the New Inquiry, and a lecturer in the New School’s Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, the New Inquiry, the Awl, Real Life, and elsewhere.  

Colby Bird Website

Rebecca Bird is a painter living in Brooklyn. She studied at the Cooper Union and Kanazawa College of Arts in Japan and sometimes works as an archaeological illustrator in Egypt. She is interested in stage tricks and nonbiological life, especially the kind that happens on paper. Website

Richard Birkett  

Claire Bishop is a British art historian and critic currently working as a professor of art history at the Graduate Center CUNY, New York. Her research addresses the impact of digital technologies on contemporary arts practices including dance and performance arts. She is a regular contributor to the journals Artforum and October.  

Philip Bither has been the Walker Art Center’s senior curator of performing arts since 1997. Before this, he served as the director of programming and the artistic director for the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vermont, and the associate director and music curator at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In 2009, he received the Fan Taylor Distinguished Service Award. Bither currently sits on federal, state, local, and national foundation arts panels, and he speaks and writes about the contemporary performing arts.  

Thordis Björnsdottir is an Icelandic poet and novelist and the author of Saga blau sumri (2007), I Felum Bakvid Gluggatjoldin (2007), and Ast og Appelsinur (2004). Website

Mary Walling Blackburn is an artist living in New York. Forthcoming work includes a pro-choice, photo-illustrated children's book for e-flux. She is the director of the Anhoek School, an educational experiment, and organizer of the Radical Citizenship Tutorials. Website

Gil Blank is a photographer and frequently writes about contemporary image making. Website

M Blash  

Sonya Blesofsky is a sculptor living and working in Brooklyn. She is an artist-in-residence at CUE Art Foundation in New York. She was formerly a resident at Dieu Donné, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Smack Mellon. She has exhibited at Transformer, in Washington, DC; Mixed Greens, in New York; and Patricia Sweetow, in San Francisco. Website

Ragna Bley is an artist living and working in Oslo, Norway. Her work has been exhibited at Hester, New York; Kunsthall Oslo; Frankfurt am Main, Berlin; Editorial in Vilnius; and the Vigeland Museum and 1857, both in Oslo. Website

Mel Bochner Born: 1940. Education: Carnegie Institute of Technology, BFA, 1962. Lives and works: New York City, since 1964. Website

Nuotama Bodomo is a Ghanaian writer and director. She grew up in Ghana, Norway, California, and Hong Kong before moving to New York to study film at Columbia University and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her short films Boneshaker (2013) and Afronauts (2014) both premiered at Sundance Film Festival and went on to screen at festivals including the Berlinale, Telluride, SXSW, and New Directors/New Films. Afronauts received five Grand Jury Prizes and will play at the Whitney Museum in the fall as part of “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016.” Bodomo most recently directed the short segment Everybody Dies! for the omnibus feature Collective:Unconscious (2016), which premiered at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival. It won Best Experimental Short at the 2016 BlackStar Film Festival.  

Scott Boggins  

Roberto Bolaño was a Chilean novelist and poet. He died in 2003 at the age of fifty. Website

Beau Bonnet is a digital artist and programmer living in Brooklyn, New York.  

The LA Review of Books is a nonprofit, multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine that combines the great American tradition of the serious book review with the evolving technologies of the Web. Website

Alice Boone is a PhD candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, specializing in the eighteenth century.  

Gregg Bordowitz is an artist, writer, and teacher. He is the author of The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986–2003 (MIT Press, 2004), General Idea: Imagevirus (Afterall Books, 2010), Volition (Printed Matter, Badlands Unlimited, 2010), and Glenn Ligon: Untitled (I Am a Man) (Afterall, 2018).  

Peter Born is a director, visual designer, and filmmaker.  

Amaranth Borsuk recently won the Slope Poetry prize for her collection Handiwork. She is also the author of the chapbook Tonal Saw (The Song Cave, 2010) and a collaborative work Excess Exhibit (ZG Press). Her poems, essays, and translations have been published widely in journals such as the New American Writing, Los Angeles Review, Denver Quarterly, FIELD, Black Warrior Review, Aufgabe, and ZYZZYVA, among many others. She has a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California, a post-doctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and begins teaching this fall at the University of Washington-Bothell. Her book Between Page and Screen is recently out from Siglio.  

Michelle Boulé is a Bessie Award-winning choreographer, performer, teacher, and certified BodyTalk practitioner based in Brooklyn, New York. Her choreographic work has been commissioned and presented by the Chocolate Factory, Danspace Project, the Met Breuer (with Okkyung Lee), River to River Festival, American Realness, Issue Project Room, Mount Tremper Arts Festival, Dance and Process at the Kitchen, Movement Research at Judson Church, and Center for Performance Research. She recently has received awards such as the NYFA Choreography Fellowship and Distinguished Legacy Award from the University of Illinois, and been a resident at MacDowell, Yaddo, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. As a performer, she has worked with Miguel Gutierrez, Bebe Miller, Deborah Hay, and John Jasperse, among others. She has been a visiting faculty member at Hollins University and the University of Illinois, as well as a guest teacher at dance institutions throughout North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. She currently is part of the teaching faculty at Movement Research and the New School/Eugene Lang College in New York. As a BodyTalk Practitioner, she has, for the past ten years, maintained a private clinical practice in New York and an online practice at MBodyRadiance.com.  

Effie Bowen  

Daniel Bozhkov is an artist based in New York. He is a recipient of the 2007 Chuck Close Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome and of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. His work has been widely exhibited internationally. He is represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York City. Website

Sandra Bradvić  

Beth Brandon is an artist living in Philadelphia and a former member of Space 1026. She creates installations involving wallpaper, books, apparel, temporary enclosures, and other printed and textile-based matter. Website

Kate Brandt is a multimedia artist and designer living and working in New York. She received a BA from Hampshire College, a MA in Art History and Criticism from Stony Brook University, and a MFA in film and video from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work is inspired by the ordinary and grandiloquent gestures found in every day performances. Her work has been shown nationally, including locations such as Milwaukee, Chicago, New York and Massachusetts.  

Ray Brassier is a philosopher and a translator of Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillassoux. A participant in the original Speculative Realism conference, he is author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction.  

Lev Bratishenko is a critic living in Montreal. He does research for exhibitions at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Website

Emmanuel Broadus is a freelance journalist based in Port-au-Prince and the United States. Website

Ari M. Brostoff is a senior editor at Jewish Currents and the author of Missing Time (n+1 books, 2022).  

DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a New York-based theorist, journalist, and curator. He produces digital audio and extended media as Speaker Music and is a representative of the Make Techno Black Again campaign. He has put out two albums with Planet Mu, most recently Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry (2020). His writing can be found in Afropunk, Artforum, and Hyperallergic. Primary Information will publish his book Assembling a Black Counter Culture in 2020.  

Franklin Bruno is the author of The Accordion Repertoire (poetry; Edge Books, 2012) and Armed Forces (criticism; Continuum, 2006). He is currently working on a book about bridges, middle eights, and breakdowns in popular music for Wesleyan University Press. His most recent album with the Human Hearts, Another, was released by Shrimper Records in 2012. He lives in Jackson Heights, Queens. Website

John L. Bryant is professor of English at Hofstra University. His most recent book is Melville Unfolding: Sexuality, Politics, and the Versions of Typee. He is the editor of the Modern Library's edition of Melville’s Tales, Poems, and Other Writings and, since 1990, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.  

Holly Jean Buck , a PhD student in environmental sociology and science and technology studies at Cornell University, is interested in how societies experience and retell the Anthropocene, the epoch in which human activity can be seen in geological strata. She researches how citizens and scientists understand climate engineering, and how it is portrayed in the media. Website

Federica Bueti  

Andreas Bunte  

Bureau  

Vitalik Buterin is a cofounder of Bitcoin Magazine and has contributed to Bitcoin as both a writer and a developer. He is the inventor and main developer of Ethereum, a next-generation smart-contract and decentralized-application platform. Website

BYCO is the first micro-financing site for design. BYCO allows anyone to submit projects and finance their designs, and then handles all the production, sales, and distribution. BYCO is a project of the design studio JF & SON. Website

Taylor Ho Bynum is a cornetist, composer, writer and educator. He has released albums with several jazz ensembles. As an educator, he has led ensembles at Northwestern University and was the director of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble at Dartmouth University. His writing on music can be found in the New Yorker.  

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Cabinet  

CAConrad is a poet and the son of white-trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author of A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: New (Soma)tics, The Book of Frank, Advanced Elvis Course, Deviant Propulsion, and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined.  

Kevin Cadena is a Colombian-American graphic designer, web developer, and educator based in Queens, New York. Website

Juan Caloca is an artist living in Mexico City and a founding member of Cooperativa Cráter Invertido and the collective Grupo (de). His work often concerns Mexican history and the ways in which it is remembered. His work has been exhibited at the 2016 Gwangju Biennale; Parque Galería, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC), Bikini Wax, and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, California; and Ivan Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Canada.  

Juan Caloca vive y trabaja en la ciudad de México. Es miembro fundador de la Cooperativa Cráter Invertido y del Colectivo Grupo (de). De manera frecuente utiliza la memoria y la historia de México como temática en su obra. Su obra se ha sido expuesta en Parque Galería, la Bienal de Gwanju 2016 (con Cráter Invertido), Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Bikini Wax, y el Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, en la Ciudad de México; así como en el Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; y la Ivan Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Canada.  

Maru Calva is a book designer living in Mexico City. Her work explores the boundaries and limits of the publication as a support for artistic practice. She is a founder of Aeromoto, a public library devoted to contemporary culture in Mexico City. Website

Jibz Cameron is a performance artist and actor living and working in NYC. Website

Natalie Campbell  

Duncan Campbell is an artist living in Glasgow. His films include Falls Burns Malone Fiddles (2003), o, Joan, no … (2006), and Bernadette (2008). His work has been shown at the Institute for Contemporary Art (London), Tate Britain, Hotel (London), Tramway (Glasgow), Kunstverein Munich, and Artists Space (New York City).  

Canal Street Research Association is a fictional office founded in an empty storefront on Canal Street, New York City’s counterfeit epicenter, in fall 2020. Through research, re-stagings, shadow economies, and vacancies, they delve into the cultural and material ecologies of Canal Street and its long history probing the limits of ownership and authorship. Website

Macgregor Card is a poet, translator, and bibliographer living in Jackson Heights, NYC. His first collection, Duties of an English Foreign Secretary, was the winner of the 2009 Fence Modern Poet Series. His chapbook, The Archers, was published by Song Cave. With Andrew Maxwell he was co-editor of The Germ: A Journal of Poetic Research, from 1997-2005, and is currently a co-curator of Brooklyn’s Private Line Reading Series. He teaches poetry at Pratt Institute and is an associate editor of the MLA International Bibliography.  

Austin Carder is a graduate student and translator based in Providence and Philadelphia. His research focuses on modernism, poetics, and critical theory.  

Chelsea Carey is a Chicago native who currently works as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Riverside. As a microbial ecologist, her research focuses on studying how microorganisms interact with each other and their environment.  

Gary Carrion-Murayari is an associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art; he co-curated 2010, the museum’s most recent biennial. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Flash Art, Domus, and The Huffington Post. Website

Anne Carson is a writer, classicist, and translator. Her books include Antigonick, Nox, Decreation, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos; Economy of the Unlost; Autobiography of Red; Plainwater: Essays and Poetry; Glass, Irony and God; and most recently Red Doc>.  

Lauren Carter is a Chicago-based sculptor and installation artist. She works in sound, film, and video.  

Alison Cartwright is based in Brooklyn. She pursues fine-art photo projects while juggling her commercial business, a temperamental bike lock, and pickling experiments. Website

Francesco Cavaliere is an artist and composer based in Berlin. He works with sound, materials, and space to explore diverse forms of esotericism through digital and analog technologies. Website

Centennial Gardens is the duo of the New York City-based musicians Dreamcrusher and King Vision Ultra. The group’s debut, SPLIT (PTP), was released in 2021. Dreamcrusher is a moniker of the musician and artist Luwayne Glass, who began the project in 2003 while living in Kansas as a means of self-discovery and release—and of addressing the experience of being queer and Black through various forms and personas, none of them static or stable. King Vision Ultra is an alias of the musician and artist GENG PTP, founder of the collective Purple Tape Pedigree, which releases music and publications as well as organizing community gatherings and actions. Since 2017, King Vision Ultra has produced music that deals with the relationship between memory, archives, self-actualization, and trauma. Website

José León Cerrillo is an artist living and working in Mexico City, and a contributing editor of Triple Canopy. He is represented by Andréhn-Schiptjenko Stockholm and by joségarcía ,mx in Mexico City and exhibits worldwide. Recent venues include the Okayama Art Summit Tokyo (2017), the Gwangju Biennale (2016), the New Museum Triennial (New York, 2015), and MoMA PS1 (New York, 2013). Website

Alejandro Cesarco is an artist whose work explores, through different formats and strategies, repetition, narrative, and the practices of reading and translating. He has recently presented solo exhibitions at Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin; Midway, Minneapolis; Parra Romero, Madrid; and Frac Île-de-France/Le Plateau, Paris. He is the director of Art Resources Transfer (A.R.T.), a nonprofit organization committed to activating the key components of the printed book: publication, distribution, and spaces of reading. He is represented by Murray Guy in New York, where “Loyalties and Betrayals” was on view in 2015. Website

CF is an artist living and working in Providence. His work has been published in Bookforum and Kramer’s Ergot. His Powr Mastrs series of graphic novels is published in the US by PictureBox books, and he has exhibited internationally, including Switzerland, Sweden, and Japan. Website

CFGNY (Concept Foreign Garments New York) is a New York-based collective and fashion label founded in 2016. CFGNY began as a dialogue between Tin Nguyen and Daniel Chew on the intersection of fashion, race, identity, and sexuality. CFGNY continually returns to the term “vaguely Asian”: an understanding of racial identity as a specific cultural experience, combined with the experience of being perceived as other. Rather than represent what it means to be “Asian” in the singular, CFGNY encourages the visualization of the countless ways of being in the plural.  

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2022 Biennial (New York City), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Renaissance Society (Chicago), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Vancouver Art Gallery, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), SITE Santa Fe, Ende Tymes Festival, and the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.). As a member of the group Postcommodity from 2009 to 2018, he co-created artworks that were presented at the Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, Carnegie International 57, and, in the case of the two-mile-long installation Repellent Fence (2015), on the border of the United States and Mexico. Since 2004, he has mentored over three hundred Native high school composers in the writing of new string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). Chacon won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2022 and is the recipient of awards and fellowships from United States Artists, Creative Capital, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, the American Academy Berlin, the Bemis Center, and the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. Website

Colby Chamberlain is contributing editor at Triple Canopy and a Lecturer at Columbia University. His scholarship and criticism focuses on intersections of art and other fields of professional practice, in particular the law. The recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, a Helena Rubinstein Fellowship at the Whitney Independent Study Program, he contributes to publications including Art in America, Artforum, Cabinet, and Parkett. Website

Wo Chan is a queer poet and drag performer. They are the author of the chapbook ORDER THE WORLD, MOM (Belladonna) and have received honors from the New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, Lambda Literary, and the Asian American Writers Workshop. As a standing member of the Brooklyn-based drag/burlesque collective Switch N’ Play, they have performed at venues including MOMA PS1, Joe’s Pub, National Sawdust, New York Live Arts, and BAM Fisher. Wo was born in Macau, China, and currently lives in New York, where they are an MFA Candidate in Poetry at New York University.  

Dawn Chan is a New York-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, Bookforum, the New York Times, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, and the Paris Review, among other publications. She frequently contributes to Artforum, where she was an editor from 2007 to 2018. She is the recipient of a 2018 Warhol Arts Writers Grant and a Thoma Foundation 2018 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art for an emerging arts writer. Chan has been a visiting scholar at New York University’s Center for Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement and visiting faculty at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies. She recently co-curated the exhibition “Phantom Plane: Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future” at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong. In 2012, she co-edited “Common Minds,” a Triple Canopy series on the contemporary infatuation with the brain. Website

Paul Chan is an artist and the founder of Badlands Unlimited.  

Maia Chao is an interdisciplinary artist whose work—often playful and absurd—uses existing institutions and their systems as sites of social intervention and critique. Working across video, performance, installation, and social practice, she is dedicated to art that models counter-institutions, alternative spaces, and redistribution. She recently cofounded a socially engaged artwork at the RISD Museum called Look at Art. Get Paid, which will be installed at additional art institutions in 2018–19. Website

Maria Chavez is a sound artist who was born in Lima, Peru, and lives in New York. Her performances with turntables, sound sculptures, and installations are unified by her concern for accidents, coincidences, and failures. Her work combines the sounds etched in records with those produced by the interactions of needles and vinyl in various states of deterioration. Chavez has been a fellow at the Sound Practice Research Department at Goldsmiths, University of London and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and an artist in residence at CEC Artslink in St. Petersburg. She has presented and performed her work at numerous museums, universities, festivals, galleries, and clubs. Website

Howie Chen  

Ian Cheng is an artist based in New York. Website

Daria Chernysheva translates from Russian and French. Her projects have included children’s books, historical documents, and asylum dossiers. She completed her MA in Translation Studies at the University of Warwick and is currently a doctoral candidate in Creative Critical Writing at University College London. She received the 2019 French Voices Award for excellence in translation. Her work has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Comparative Drama, AzonaL, and Tether’s End.  

Ted Chiang is the author of Stories of Your Life and Others and The Lifecycle of Software Objects. He lives outside Seattle, Washington.  

Mel Chin has, for nearly five decades, created singular, idiosyncratic works that hinge on collaboration and manifest as actions, films, or objects, depending on the concept. Chin describes some works as “personal lamentations” and others as prototypes and experiments that engage “people in the process of being a ‘we.’” Turning toxic landfills, prime-time soap operas, and video games into venues for civic action, he has significantly expanded the bounds (and possibilities) of socially engaged art. Website

Bidita Choudhury is Triple Canopy’s production director. She is also an artist, musician, and the co-founder of B.A.N.C., a label and publication press based in New York and Washington, DC.  

Jesse Chun is a New York-based visual artist from Seoul, New York, Hong Kong, and Toronto.  

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied systems design engineering and English literature, which she combines and mutates in her work on digital media. She is the author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press, 2006), and Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT Press, 2011). She is the co-editor of a special issue of American Literature entitled New Media and American Literature; a special issue of Camera Obscura entitled Race and/as Technology; and the book New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (Routledge, 2015). She has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and a Wriston Fellow at Brown. Her latest book, Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media, will be published by MIT Press in May 2016.  

Jacob Ciocci is an artist and a founding member of Paper Rad.  

Patrick Clark is a freelance writer living in Queens, New York. Website

Joseph Clarke is an architecture critic living in Manhattan. He has taught at the University of Cincinnati and worked at the architecture firms of Eisenman Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Website

Jace Clayton is an artist focused on the intersection of sound, the use of technology in low-income communities, and public space. As DJ /rupture, Clayton has released a number of acclaimed albums.  

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Eileen Cohen is an intrepid collector of early conceptual art and counts Printed Matter and the Dia Art Foundation among her past board appointments. She also founded the nonprofit Art For Arts Sake, which commissioned several ambitious projects during the late 90s. Eileen has played a critical role in the success of Triple Canopy’s past benefits as an event co-chair. Currently, she also sits on the board of White Columns.  

Adam Cohen is a professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Physics at Harvard. His research focuses on controlling light-matter interactions in warm, wet, squishy environments.  

Joshua Cohen was born in New Jersey in 1980. He is the author of seven books, including Book of Numbers: A Novel, forthcoming in June. Website

Christopher Cole is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and assistant editor of Straight to Hell. He divides his time between New York City and western Massachusetts.  

Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. She has written articles on poetry, literary theory, queer theory, and contemporary culture. She is the editor of Extinction, published in 2012, as well as coeditor of the series “Critical Climate Change” and member of the advisory board of the Institute for Critical Climate Change. Website

Gene Coleman  

Gabriella Coleman holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she researches, writes, and teaches on computer hackers and digital activism. She is the author of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (2014) and Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (2012). Website

George Collins is currently setting thirty-three thousand years of environmental indicators to music. Website

Stuart Comer is Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Previously he was Curator: Film at Tate Modern, London where he oversaw film and video work for the Tate Collection and Displays, was cocurator for the opening season of The Tanks at Tate Modern, and organized an extensive program of screenings, performances, and events.  

Common Room was established in 2006 as a space for collaboration with a focus on the built environment. Website

Luciano Concheiro is a Mexican theorist. His most recent books include Against Time: Practical Philosophy of the Instant, which was first finalist in the 2016 Anagrama Essay Prize, and Invent the Possible: Mexican Contemporary Manifestos, a collection of sixty manifestos written by young Mexican writers, artists, chefs, academics, and activists. His work has been published in newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times and Nexos. He has an MPhil in sociology from Cambridge University and currently is a visiting fellow at the department of romance languages and literatures at Harvard University.  

Keith Connolly  

Matthew Connors is an artist based in Brooklyn. He has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Tokyo, Milan, Stockholm, and Madrid. His work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. He is an associate professor in the Photography Department at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston. Website

Matthew Coolidge  

Ben Coonley is an artist and an Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College.  

Eli Coplan is an artist and curator based in Portland. Eli has shown with Surplus Space in Portland, Black Box Festival in Seattle, and Chin’s Push in Los Angeles. With Jade Novarino, he organizes exhibitions in Portland under the moniker Conduit. He is also a member of RECESS, a multiform curatorial project born in Portland, now organized by artists, writers, and curators across the United States. He received a BA from Reed College in 2015. In the daytime he teaches art to second graders. Website

Corina Copp is the author of the poetry pamphlet Pro Magenta/Be Met (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), and is currently working on the three-part performance The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love—based on the work of Marguerite Duras—the first installment of which was presented in this year’s PRELUDE Festival. Website

Patrick Corcoran is a freelance writer living in Torreón, in northern Mexico. Website

Lauren Cornell is the curator of the 2015 triennial, digital projects, and Museum as Hub at the New Museum in New York. From 2005-2012, she served as adjunct curator at the New Museum and executive director of Rhizome, an organization dedicated to the creation, presentation and preservation of art engaged with technology.  

Lou Cornum is a writer, scholar, editor, and amateur mycologist living in New York and Connecticut. Currently, they are the Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in Native American Studies at Wesleyan University. Their writing on Indigenous art, literature, and cultural politics has appeared in the New Inquiry, Real Life, Canadian Art, Frieze, and Pinko: A Magazine of Gay Communism, among other publications. Born in Arizona, they are an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and come from a family of Diné and white settler backgrounds.  

Michael Corris Michael Corris began his career as a member of the collective Art & Language. He continues to pursue an integrated practice of writing, organizing exhibitions, making art and teaching. Recent exhibitions include The Dallas Biennale (April 2012) and The Heide Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia (August 2012); recent publications include Ad Reinhardt (2008) and Art, Word and Image: 2,000 Years of Visual/Textual Interaction (Reaktion Books, 2010). Since November 2009, Corris has held the post of Professor of Art and Chair of the Division of Art at the Meadows School of the Arts/SMU. Website

Luba Cortés is a Latinx, queer youth organizer at Make the Road New York, one of the city’s largest immigrant-rights organizations. Cortés, who is formerly undocumented, has organized around immigrant rights for years, advocating to change policies that lead to the mass deportation and incarceration of undocumented communities of color. Using a social-justice and intersectional lens, they help young people build leadership through immigrant experiences. They also work with LGBTQ issues, including as a recruitment co-chair for the Latino Institute at Creating Change. In June 2016, Cortés published an op-ed in the New York Times highlighting their mother’s struggle as an immigrant.  

Paula Court is a photographer based in New York.  

Daniel Gustav Cramer is a visual artist based in Berlin. Recent projects include Trilogy, Tales, and The Infinite Library. Website

Jordan Crandall is a media artist and theorist based in Los Angeles and an associate professor in the visual arts department at University of California, San Diego. Website

Mike Crane is an artist based in New York. His work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as Documenta 14 (Athens), Les Rencontres Internationales (Paris/Berlin), the Berlinale Forum Expanded, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), the Bronx Museum of Art (New York) and the Center for Contemporary Art Derry (Northern Ireland). Crane has been an artist in residence at the Banff Center in Alberta, Canada; Triangle Arts Association in Brooklyn; the Rupert Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania; and the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Crane was a 2014 apexart Franchise Exhibition winner for his artist screening series at Wattan TV. He was a 2016–2017 Smack Mellon fellow and a 2015 Creative Capital visual arts grantee.  

Anwyn Crawford  

Robyn Creswell teaches comparative literature at Yale University and is poetry editor of the Paris Review.  

Simon Critchley is chair of philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, and part-time professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, How to Stop Living and Start Worrying and Faith of the Faithless.  

John Crowley is the author of many novels and volumes of short fiction, including the famed fantasy novel Little, Big.  

Sarah Crowner is an artist and erstwhile set designer based in Brooklyn. Her recent solo exhibitions include shows at Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm; Catherine Bastide, Brussels; and Nicelle Beauchene in New York. She is currently working on an artist’s book to be published by Primary Information in September 2012 and her work will be included in an upcoming 2013 exhibition at the Walker Art center about new directions in painting. Website

Teddy Cruz is an architect and professor at the University of California, San Diego. Website

Chris Csikszentmihalyi is an artist working on technologies that rebalance power between citizens, governments, and corporations; he founded and directed the Center for Civic Media at MIT.  

Mary “Missy” Cummings is one of the Navy’s first female fighter pilots and director of the Humans and Autonomy Lab at Duke University.  

Robert Currie  

Charles Curtis  

Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy is a curator and writer. She was recently appointed director of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, a position she will assume on January 1, 2018. In the meantime, and since 2011, she works as the curator of contemporary art for Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, which has headquarters in Caracas and New York. Sofía is also a counselor for Fundación Alumnos47 in Mexico City.  

Keren Cytter spent her childhood in Israel and lives in Berlin. Her work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and at museums and galleries throughout Europe. Website

Catherine Czacki  

K. D. is an author of mystery novels.  

Werner Dafeldecker (born 1964, Vienna, Austria); lives and works in Berlin) draws on myriad influences—among them, European modern music, improvisation, graphic notation, Fluxus, minimalist and electroacoustic music, jazz, and field recordings—to investigate architecture, physics, photography, and film as audible experiences. The study of sound and structure are the center of his work as a composer, particularly as they relate to the technological development of electronic recording formats. Website

Kieran Daly is a writer and musician from Florida. Their recent publications include BGM MNAR (Futow) and 7 Closet Dramas (Gauss PDF). Past performances have been hosted by the Poetry Project, the Segue Reading Series, Poets Theater at SPT, and the Museum of Modern Art. Website

Dana Dart-McLean  

Rana Dasgupta is a British novelist and essayist. He is the author of the novels Tokyo Cancelled (2005) and Solo (2009), which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, as well as Capital (2014), a nonfiction account of the stupendous changes engulfing the city of Delhi as a result of globalization, which won the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award and the Prix Emile Guimet. Dasgupta’s essays and articles have appeared in Harper’s, Granta, New Statesman, Prospect, the Paris Review, the Guardian, and the New York Times, and his books have been translated into twenty-one languages. Dasgupta’s forthcoming book, After Nations (Viking, 2023), considers the future of global political organization.  

Gary Dauphin is a Los Angeles–based writer and editor whose work has appeared in Artforum, Bidoun, Essence, Interview, Lacanian Ink, TheRoot.com, Vibe, and the Village Voice, among other publications.  

Nancy Davenport is an artist living in New York. Her work has been shown at a number of galleries and museums including Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NY, the Liverpool Biennial, Sao Paulo Biennial. She recently opened a permanent installation at the Military History Museum in Dresden. Website

Moyra Davey is an artist and photographer. She lives and works in New York City. Website

Michael Davidson is a poet and professor emeritus of literature at the University of California, San Diego. He has written numerous books of poetry, the most recent of which is Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2013). His works of criticism include Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics (University of Chicago Press, 2003), Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (University of Michigan Press, 2008), and, most recently, Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic (Oxford University Press, 2019) .  

Adam Davies is a photographer whose work explores the edges of American urban and rural landscapes. He recently completed residencies at Yaddo and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and is currently a resident at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. He was born in the United Kingdom. Website

Clare Davies studies art history at the Institute of Fine Arts and divides her time between Cairo and New York. Website

Helga Davis starred in the 25th anniversary international tour of Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach; Wilson’s The Temptation of St. Anthony, with libretto and score by Bernice Johnson Reagon, of Sweet Honey in the Rock; Milton, by Katie Pearl and Lisa Damour; Elsewhere, with cellist Maya Beiser, with music by Missy Mazolli; and The Blue Planet, a multimedia theater piece written by Peter Greenaway and directed by Saskia Boddeke. She is the recipient of the BRIC Fireworks grant and completed her first full-length theater piece, Cassandra. Davis may also be heard on the new VIA Records release, Oceanic Verses, a multimedia opera work written for her by composer Paola Prestini. In Fall 2015, Davis performed in her fifth Next Wave festival at BAM, in Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) and Andrew Ondrejcak’s You Usa We All. She hosts a podcast, HELGA, on WQXR’s Q2, and was awarded an ASCAP Multimedia Award for hosting 24:33: twenty-four hours and thirty-three minutes of the playful and playable John Cage.  

Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven collections of short stories. Her translations include Proust’s Swann’s Way and Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of the 2013 Mann Booker International Prize. She is currently a professor and writer-in-residence at SUNY Albany.  

Arias Abbruzzi Davis is an artist studying at Columbia University. She is a former editorial and production assistant for Triple Canopy. Website

Tim Davis lives in Tivoli, New York, and teaches photography at Bard and Yale. He is the author of four books of photographs and two books of poems. His work is in the collections of the Guggenheim, Metropolitan, Whitney, Hirshhorn, Walker, High, and many other public institutions. Website

Abha Dawesar is a novelist and artist, the author of Family Values, That Summer in Paris and Babyji. Website

Dawuna is the alias of Ian Mugerwa Byenkya, a musician raised in Kenya and Virginia and now living in New York City. Dawuna’s first album, Glass Lit Dream (2020), was recorded in Mugerwa Byenkya’s apartment and self-released; after circulating online and being lauded by fans and critics, the record was remastered and rereleased by the London label O___o? to great acclaim. Dawuna has performed at Blank Forms, the Noguchi Museum, Performance Space New York, and Printed Matter, among other venues. Website

Geeta Dayal is an arts critic and journalist specializing in twentieth-century music, culture, and technology. She is the author of Another Green World, a book on Brian Eno (Bloomsbury, 2009), and is currently at work on a book on music.  

Aliana de la Guardia is a Cuban-American soprano vocalist, actor, educator, and producer. She is a co-founding artist and artistic director of Guerilla Opera, and has presented forty world premieres of operas. She has collaborated with American Lyric Theater, Beth Morrison Projects, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Dinosaur Annex, Enigma Chamber Opera, Ludovico Ensemble, Monadnock Music, New Gallery Concert Series, the PARMA Festival, Transient Canvas, and Winsor Music, among others. As a recording artist, she has been featured on Navona Records, Ravello Records, and BMOP Sound. Website

Sergio De La Pava is a public defender in New York City and author of the novels A Naked Singularity and Personae. Website

Constance DeJong is an artist, writer, and performer, who produces fiction, language- and image-based work for performance and theater, audio and video installations. She has permanent audio installations in Beacon, NY; London; and Seattle. DeJong has twice collaborated with Tony Oursler on live performances; was a collaborator on Super Vision, with The Builders Association & dbox (2005); librettist for the opera Satyagraha, with composer Philip Glass (1979). Her first book, Modern Love, was reissued by Primary Information and Ugly Duckling Presse in 2017. A series of audio works consisting of modified vintage radios programmed to play spoken word performances of new texts (2016–18) was exhibited at Art Basel, 601 Gallery, and the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. The multi-part work NightWriters includes a digital project published in Triple Canopy, as well as drawings and audio works exhibited at Bureau Gallery (2018).  

Samuel Delany is the author of science-fiction novels including Dhalgren and Babel-17.  

Alex Delinois  

Agnes Denes is a a pioneer of environmental art. She emerged as a leading conceptual artist in the 1960s and 70s, when she became known for large-scale, site-specific works devoted to sociopolitical and ecological concerns. Her works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and many other major institutions worldwide.  

Jen DeNike  

Lynnée Denise is an artist, scholar, and producer whose work reflects on underground cultural movements, the 1980s, migration studies, theories of escape, and electronic music of the African diaspora. Denise understands DJing as a research method and strategy for employing music to foster public dialogue; she coined the phrase “DJ scholarship” to shift the role of the DJ from a party purveyor to an archivist and cultural custodian of music with critical value. Her writing has been published by the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Black Scholar Journal, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and in anthologies including Women Who Rock and Outside the XY: Queer, Black, and Brown Masculinity. She has produced conferences on Michael Jackson with the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, on Prince with the Los Angeles Public Library, and on Aretha Franklin with UCLA’s Department of African-American Studies.  

Lisa Dent is an advocate for cultural workers and living artists. Her background includes work in film, theater and the visual arts as a curator, gallerist, writer, production designer and creative producer. Dent was most recently the director of resources & award programs at Creative Capital, leading the financial and advisory services programs and advising awardees regarding the full realization of their projects, providing strategic insight and connecting them to a wide range of internal and external resources. Previously, Dent served as the associate curator of contemporary art at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, held curatorial staff positions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and was a director at Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York. From 2004-08, Dent owned and managed Lisa Dent Gallery in San Francisco, where she presented the work of emerging and mid-career international artists. Dent received her BFA from Howard University, her MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in curatorial studies. She has served on several juries and committees and is currently a board member Triple Canopy.  

Descriptive Video Service is an American company that produces video description, which makes visual media, such as television programs and films more accessible to people who are visually impaired. Website

Helen DeWitt is author of The Last Samurai (2000) and, with Ilya Gridneff, coauthor of Your Name Here (2007). Website

Dignity Sister is an anonymous hobby artist based in Paris Berlin New York. Website

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Peter Dittmer is a multimedia artist who produces audio and video performances as well as sound objects and sound installations. He lives and works in Berlin.  

Katrina Dodson is a translator and writer. She is the translator of Clarice Lispector’s The Complete Stories (New Directions, 2015), which won the PEN Translation Prize. Her translation of Mário de Andrade Brazilian modernist classic, Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character (1928) will be published by New Directions in 2023. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, the Believer, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Dodson holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and teaches translation at Columbia University.  

Kate Dollenmayer  

Sandra Doller is founder and editor of 1913 a journal of forms and author of Chora and Oriflamme. Website

Jeff Dolven is the author of Scenes of Instruction (2007) and Speculative Music (2013). He teaches (mostly) Renaissance poetry and poetics at Princeton, and is an editor at large at Cabinet magazine.  

Donis is a Dominican-American DJ born and raised in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. Their DJ sets play with the rhythmic relationships between dance music of New York, Chicago, Detroit, New Jersey, and Baltimore, as well as music born out of the African diaspora.  

Ganavya Doraiswamy is a vocalist who was born in New York City and raised in Tamil Nadu, India. Trained as an improviser, scholar, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist, she maintains a library of “spi/ritual” blueprints, offered to her by an intergenerational constellation of collaborators, that anchors her practice in pasts, presents, and futures. She spent much of her childhood on the pilgrimage trail, learning the storytelling art form of harikathā and singing poetry that critiques hierarchical social structures. She is a cofounder of the nonhierarchical We Have Voice Collective. She has graduate degrees in contemporary performance from Berklee College of Music; ethnomusicology from UCLA; and creative practice and critical inquiry from Harvard University. She has recently composed and sung for films, durational performances, operas, and installations. Website

Manal Al Dowayan was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and works out of her hometown, Dhahran. Her artworks are part of the permanent collections of the British Museum, the Jordanian National Museum of Fine Art, the Abdullatif Jamil Foundation, and the Delfina Foundation. Website

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Thomas Drake is a former senior executive of the National Security Agency (NSA) and whistleblower indicted under the Espionage Act. The charges were eventually dropped.  

Dreamcrusher is a moniker of the New York City-based musician and artist Luwayne Glass, who describes the project as “nihilist queer revolt musik.” Dreamcrusher’s work is at once personal and abstract, revealing and antagonistic; performances and recordings shift between genres while subjecting the characteristic elements—melodies, beats, instrumentation—to distortion until the point of transformation. Dreamcrusher has released dozens of recordings with labels such as PTP, Fire Talk, and Corpus, as well as on Bandcamp and other online platforms. Dreamcrusher is also a member of the duo Centennial Gardens with King Vision Ultra. Website

Brian Droitcour is a writer, critic, translator, and associate editor at Art in America.  

Johanna Drucker is the inaugural Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She has published and lectured widely on topics related to digital humanities and aesthetics, visual forms of knowledge production, book history and future designs, graphic design, historiography of the alphabet and writing, and contemporary art. Her most recent titles include Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (Harvard University Press, 2014), the jointly authored Digital_Humanities (MIT, 2012) with Anne Burdick, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp (just released in Italian translation, 2014); Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide (Pearson Prentice Hall) with Emily McVarish, and SpecLab: Projects in Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing (Chicago, 2009). In addition to her academic work, Drucker has produced artist’s books and projects that were the subject of a retrospective, Druckworks: 40 years of books and projects.  

Nancy Druckman joined Sotheby’s in 1973 and has directed Sotheby’s American Folk Art department since 1974. The most experienced Folk Art specialist in the auction industry, Ms Druckman has played a major role in the expansion of the market over the last quarter century.  

Lívia Drummond lives in Salvador, Brazil. She has a degree in history from the State University of Bahia and is currently pursuing her master’s degree in literature and culture at the Federal University of Bahia with a fellowship from CAPES. Website

Alexander Dumbadze is associate professor of Art History at George Washington University. His book Bas Jan Ader: Death Is Elsewhere was published by University of Chicago Press in May 2013. He co-edited and co-authored, with Suzanne Hudson, Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). In 2011 he received a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. He is a founder of both the Society of Contemporary Art Historians and the Contemporary Art Think Tank. Recent essays include “Spectacle and Death” in September 11 (MoMA PS1, 2011) and “Can You Hear the Lights?” in Art, History and the Senses: 1830 to the Present (Ashgate, 2010). Website

Donald Dunbar is the author of the chapbooks You Are So Pretty (Scantily Clad Press, 2009) and Click Click (Gold Wake Press, 2010), and of Eyelid Lick (Fence Books), which won the 2012 Fence Modern Poets Series. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he co-curates the reading series If Not For Kidnap and teaches poetry to future chefs at Oregon Culinary Institute.  

Maxmilion Dunbar is a moniker of musician, producer, and DJ Andrew Field-Pickering. Dunbar’s second album, House of Woo, was released in February by RVNG Intl.  

Andrew Durbin is the author of Mature Themes (Nightboat 2014) and the chapbook MacArthur Park (Kenning Editions 2015). His work has appeared in BOMB, Boston Review, Flash Art, Poetry London, Text Zur Kunst, and elsewhere. A contributing editor of Mousse, he co-edits the press Wonder and lives in New York. His first novel, Blonde Summer, is forthcoming from Nightboat in 2017. Website

Virginia Dwan  

Dynasty Handbag (a.k.a. Jibz Cameron) is a performance and video artist, musician, and actor. She lives and works in New York.  

Esther Dyson is chairman of EDventure Holdings and founder of Health Intervention Coordinating Council (HICCup). HICCup is an open-source initiative devoted to defining and testing a business model for investing in health (not health care) that will return profits to investors and health to the participants. From October 2008 to March 2009, she lived in Star City outside Moscow and trained as a backup cosmonaut.  

Keller Easterling is an architect, urbanist, and writer and an associate professor at the Yale School of Architecture. Her work has been widely published in journals such as Artforum, Domus, Grey Room, and Cabinet. Her work has been exhibited at the Rotterdam Biennale, the Queens Museum, and the Architectural League. Her latest book is Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005). Website

Alexandra Economou is a collector and curator. With her father George Economou, she advises and curates the George Economou Collection, a private collection located in Athens, Greece. Alexandra is a founding member of the Museum of Cycladic Art Young Patrons Committee, a museum located in Athens, as well as a partner at VIA Art Fund, which supports visionary initiatives in art. She currently serves on both the Director’s Circle and Development Committee of Chisenhale Gallery, London; Friends of Swiss Institute U.S. Committee; and the Tate Young Patrons committee, among others. Economou was a member of Triple Canopy’s Publishers Circle before joining the Board, in addition to having supported our annual benefit. In 2013, she earned an MA in Visual Arts Administration from NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.  

Adrienne Edwards is a curator, scholar, and writer of performance with a focus on artists of the African diaspora and the Global South. She is a PhD candidate in performance studies, the associate curator for Performa Inc., and curator-at-large for Third Streaming. Edwards’s curatorial projects include Rashid Johnson’s first live work, Dutchman, Dave McKenzie’s All the King’s horses…none of his men, and Clifford Owens’s Five Days Worth, among others.  

Brent Hayes Edwards  

Felipe Ehrenberg is a conceptual artist who was born in and recently returned to Mexico City. He began his artistic career as a painter and draughtsman, and his early mentors included muralist José Chávez Morado and avant-garde artist Mathias Goeritz. In the late 1960s he co-founded Beau Geste Press, which published the work of Fluxus artists. In the mid-1970s he was instrumental in the Grupos movement, which hinged on the production of alternative publications. In the 1980s Ehrenberg led self-publishing workshops for artists, students, and teachers in Mexico, giving them the tools to publish works that reflected the needs and interests of Mexico’s distinct regions; he established H2O Talleres de Comunicación, which helped create hundreds of community presses throughout Mexico. Many of Ehrenberg's recent works reflect the ways in which art is generated or consumed in digital, networked environments.  

Nina Sun Eidsheim is a professor of musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She’s the author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music, to be published by Duke University Press in early 2019.  

Tor Eigeland is a writer and photographer. His work has been published in Fortune, Time, Newsweek, Smithsonian Magazine, the New York Times, and Saudi Aramco World. He has also worked on eleven books with the National Geographic Society. Website

Lina Ekdahl is a poet and dramatist. Born in 1964, she lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. She has published eight poetry and children’s books, and has written for radio, magazines, and newspapers. In addition, she writes plays for both children and adults, poems for dance theaters, and librettos for choirs. She has given readings and performed her work around the world.  

Elevator Repair Service is a theater ensemble that was founded by director John Collins and a group of actors in 1991. At MoMA PS1, ERS presents a sneak preview of a new collaboration with installation artists Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen. They will playfully mine several of their past shows—including the acclaimed Gatz, a six-hour enactment of The Great Gatsby—and reimagine the material as it falls apart and reforms itself into unexpected new scenes. The work will feature Mike Iveson Jr., Vin Knight, Scott Shepherd, Susie Sokol, Victoria Vazquez, and Ben Williams. Website

Seth Erickson is a developer for Triple Canopy and the Software Curation Fellow at Penn State University Libraries. Website

Jaider Esbell was a Makuxi artist and activist from Brazil’s ​​Roraima state who died in 2021. His work has been exhibited at the 2022 Venice Biennale; the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo; and the 2021 São Paulo Biennial, among many other venues in and beyond Brazil. Website

Mark Essen makes video games. Since 2008, his work has been featured in group exhibitions at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto, Canada and Light Industry, Brooklyn. His work is currently on view at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Website

Jan Estep is an artist, writer, and educator. She explores the relationship between mind, behavior, and visual expression, with particular interest in the relationship between sensory experience and conceptual thought. She is an associate professor of art at the University of Minnesota. Website

Roe Ethridge is a photographer who has shown extensively in the United States and internationally. He was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2008, and in 2010 was in the New Photography show at MoMA and the “Les Recontres D’Arles Photography Show.” He was recently short-listed for the Deutsche-Börse Prize for Photography. Website

Megan Ewing is a lecturer in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her Ph.D. in German from Princeton University in 2017. Her work has appeared in Telephone Journal, the Journal of the Kafka Society of America, and Brain.  

John W. Fail is a former Web developer for Triple Canopy. Website

Falconworks Artists Group is a Red Hook-based organization for social change working in collaboration with Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory in Manhattan. Falconworks is led by artistic director Reg Flowers, a graduate of Yale’s theater program and 2006 recipient of the BAX10 Award for arts education. Website

Ryan Falkowitz is a photographer based in New York. Website

Michael Famighetti is an editor and writer. He's currently working on a relaunch and redesign of Aperture magazine. He has edited numerous photography books, including volumes by William Christenberry, Robert Adams, John Divola, Jonas Bendiksen, and a series based on the website Tiny Vices. His writing has appeared in Frieze, Bookforum, Aperture, and OjodePez, among other publications. Famighetti has degrees from Bard College and Columbia University, where he has also taught. He has served as a judge for the American Society of Magazine Editors National Magazine Awards and has been a guest reviewer and speaker at many international photography festivals and institutions, including the Bamako Biennial; Krakow PhotoMonth; GuatePhoto; Rhubarb Rhubarb, Birmingham, U.K.; Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires; Museet for Fotokunst, Odense; and Fotografiska, Stockholm. Website

Taraneh Fazeli is a former contributing editor of Triple Canopy. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.  

Silvia Federici , emerita professor of political philosophy and international studies at Hofstra University, is an activist, teacher, and writer whose most recent book is Revolution at Point Zero.  

Lizzie Feidelson is a dancer, writer, and former Triple Canopy contributing editor. Website

Jacqueline Feldman  

Fence is a biannual journal of poetry, fiction, art, and criticism that has a mission to redefine the terms of accessibility by publishing challenging writing distinguished by idiosyncrasy and intelligence rather than by allegiance with camps, schools, or cliques. Website

Peter Fend is an engineer, businessman and artist. His work has appeared at the Venice Biennale and Documenta IX. He has had solo exhibitions with Esther Schipper, Koln; Christian Nagel, Berlin; Anne de Villepoix, Paris; George Kargl, Vienna; American Fine Arts, New York and elsewhere. His project with Essex Street, New York, Uber Die Grenze has since traveled to the Fondazione Giuliani, Rome and the Gemeentemuseum at the Hague. Website

Waysatta Fernández is an artist living in Mexico City and a founding member of Cooperativa Cráter Invertido. She is focused on researching collaborative processes and the ways in which they relate to artistic strategies through editorial and working groups. She has participated in various collaborative projects such as Consultorio Informal de Desplazamiento a Ojos Cerrados (CIDOC), within the framework of Sofía Olascoaga’s Between Utopia and Failure; and Invasorix, a collaboration between Naomi Rincón Gallardo and Revista Cartucho, a magazine of the visual arts; and the audio seminar Psst Psst.  

Angela Ferraiolo is a writer and artist based in New York. She has written for RKO, H20 Productions, and Electronic Arts. Her experimental video work has screened internationally including the New York Film Festival, Australian Experimental Film Festival, Courtisane, ISEA, and the International Festival of Generative Art (Rome).  

Danyel Ferrari is an artist, writer, and curator based in Brooklyn. She received an MFA in Combined Media at Hunter College in 2012 and has completed coursework towards an MA in Visual Culture at NYU. She has exhibited in Turkey, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Ireland; most recently, her work was included in an exhibition at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York. Website

Keltie Ferris  

Ryan Ffrench is an Australian filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. Website

Yevgeniy Fiks is a Moscow-born, New York-based artist. His work deals with intersections between the histories of the twentieth century international leftist movements, American history, Modernism, and legacy of the Cold War. Website

Zlatan Filipović is an assistant professor of multimedia, film, and video art at the American University of Sharjah. He has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, where he created the school’s first video lab. He continues to organize workshops fostering interactive media production in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Website

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Tom Finkelpearl is the commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. In this role he oversees city funding for nonprofit arts organizations across the five boroughs and directs the cultural policy for the City of New York. Prior to his appointment by Mayor Bill de Blasio, commissioner Finkelpearl served as executive director of the Queens Museum for twelve years starting in 2002, overseeing an expansion that doubled the museum’s size and positioned the organization as a vibrant center for social engagement in nearby communities. He also held positions at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, working on the organization’s merger with the Museum of Modern Art, and served as director of the department of cultural affairs Percent for Art program. On the basis of his public art experience and additional research, he published a book, Dialogues in Public Art (MIT Press), in 2000. His second book, What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation (Duke University Press, 2013) examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He received a BA from Princeton University (1979) and an MFA from Hunter College (1983).  

Bryan Finoki is a writer and the author of Subtopia: A Field Guide to Military Urbanism. He is also the proprietor of the blog Subtopia. Website

Robert Fitterman  

Corrine Fitzpatrick is a writer based in Inverness, California. She teaches for the Low Residency MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  

Flaherty NYC is a seasonal screening series that presents innovative and groundbreaking films followed by discussions with the makers on aesthetics, the production process, and the challenges of the work. Flaherty NYC stands apart from other screening series in that it exposes audiences to filmmakers whose work deserve more attention as well as more discourse. Website

Jim Fletcher has worked with Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players for more than twelve years, most recently in Early Plays, a joint production with the Wooster Group. He is a member of the cast of Gatz, the Elevator Repair Service production based on The Great Gatsby, and has worked with Bernadette Corporation, Claire Fontaine, the English group Forced Entertainment (Sight is the Sense That Dying People Tend to Lose First, Quizoola!), and Sarah Michelson (Devotion). In 2012, he received an Obie award for sustained excellence of performance. Website

Adam Florin is a technology advisor to Triple Canopy. As an independent media technologist, he has built digital installations and creative tools for MoMA, e-flux, Cycling ’74, Levi’s, and Google, earning a South by Southwest Interactive award. He holds an MFA in experimental sound from CalArts, and is the creator of the music sequencer Patter. He lives and works in Oakland, CA. Website

Eve Fowler is a co­founder of Artist Curated Projects, and lives and works in Los Angeles. Her recent projects include two collaborations with Sam Gordon at Feature and Printed Matter in New York and a solo show at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Ten billboards related to her series “A Spectacle and Nothing Strange” will be included in LAND’s Manifest Destiny Billboard Project in 2014, appearing from Beaumont, Texas, to Houston.  

Dan Fox is coeditor at Frieze magazine and is based in New York City. Fox’s writing has appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues and in publications as diverse as Bulletins of The Serving Library, Dot Dot Dot, The Guardian, and Financial Times. He is a musician and codirector of the music label Junior Aspirin Records. His book Pretentiousness: Why It Matters was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2016.  

Sophia Le Fraga is a poet and visual artist. She is the author of The Anti-Plays (GaussPDF, 2015); literallydead (Spork, 2015); I RL, YOU RL (minuteBOOKS 2013, Troll Thread 2014); and I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET (KTBAFC, 2012).  

Hannah Frank  

Edwin Frank is the founding and present editor of the New York Review Books Classics series and the author of two books of poetry, The Further Adventures of Pinocchio and Stack.  

Sam Frank is a contributing editor of Triple Canopy. Website

Peter Frase is an editor of Jacobin and a PhD candidate in sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center.  

Matt Frassica is an independent radio and podcast producer based in Portland, Maine. He has produced and edited stories and episodes for Reveal, Freakonomics Radio, A Piece of Work, Here & Now, Studio 360, the Organist, and others. Currently, he is the senior producer of a forthcoming narrative series from Crooked Media. His own podcast, the Briny, tells sound-rich stories from the sea. Website

Kimmy Eliot Fung makes, writes, reads, sees, understands. Runs painting room, an atelier based in Brooklyn. Website

Marco Fusinato is an artist and musician living in Melbourne, Australia. He has exhibited and performed at the Sao Paulo Biennial, the Glasgow International Arts Festival, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, and the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, where his solo survey “The Color of the Sky Has Melted” was recently on view. Fusinato's primary focus is unconventional uses of the guitar and electronics. His record L’ Origine/Tema is forthcoming on Penultimate Press, (London). Website

Ellie Ga ’s work has been exhibited in New York at Bureau, the Swiss Institute, the Kitchen, and the New Museum; at Galerie du Jour in Paris and Hong Kong; at Konstmuseum in Malmö Sweden; and at Projekt 0047 in Oslo, Norway. She has performed at RISO-Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Sicility; Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin; Betonsalon, Paris; and in New York City at MoMA PS1. She is a founding editor of Ugly Duckling Presse. Website

William Gaddis (1922-1998) was the author of five novels, two of which won National Book Awards. He taught a course titled “Literature of Failure” at Bard College in 1979.  

Malik Gaines is an artist and writer based in New York. His essays have appeared in Art Journal, Women & Performance, and in numerous exhibition catalogues and arts publications. His book, Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left, traces a circulation of political ideas in performances of the 1960s and beyond. Since 2000, Gaines has performed and exhibited extensively with the group My Barbarian, whose work has been shown at MoMA, the New Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Kitchen, LACMA, MOCA LA, ICA Philadelphia, Toronto’s Power Plant, Amsterdam’s De Appel, Madrid’s El Matadero, Cairo’s Townhouse Gallery, and many others, and has been included in the Whitney Biennial, two Performa Biennials, the Montreal Biennial, and the Baltic Triennial. Gaines also makes performance and video work solo, and in other collaborations. He is assistant professor of Performance Studies in New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and holds a PhD in Theater Performance Studies from UCLA and an MFA in writing from CalArts.  

Rivka Galchen ’s most recent book is Little Labors, a miscellany about babies and literature. She is also the author of the short story collection American Innovations and the novel Atmospheric Disturbances, winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Website

Nikita Gale is an artist who lives in Los Angeles. Gale received an MFA in new genres at University of California, Los Angeles, in 2016. By engaging with materials that have properties that are simultaneously acoustic and protective, Gale examines the ways in which silence and noise function as political positions and conditions. Gale's work has recently been presented at the California African American Museum (Los Angeles) MoMA PS1 (New York), LACE (Los Angeles), the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin, 56 Henry (New York), the Bemis Center (Omaha), Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles), the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York), Rodeo Gallery (London), Martos Gallery (New York), and in “Made in L.A.” at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles). Gale’s work has been published or featured in the New York Times, Texte zur Kunst, Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Vogue, and Flash Art, among other publications. Gale currently serves on the Board of Directors for GREX, the West Coast affiliate of the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems. Website

John Gallaher  

Alexander R. Galloway is a writer and computer programer working on issues in philosophy, technology, and theories of mediation. He is a founding member of the software collective RSG and creator of the Carnivore and Kriegspiel projects. Currently associate professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, he is author or co-author of three books on media and cultural theory, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (MIT, 2004), Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (Minnesota, 2006), The Exploit: A Theory of Networks, written with Eugene Thacker (Minnesota, 2007). In 2010 he and Jason E. Smith translated Introduction to Civil War by the French group Tiqqun (Semiotext[e]). Recently, the Public School New York published French Theory Today: An Introduction to Possible Futures, a set of five pamphlets documenting Galloway's seminar conducted there in the fall of 2010.  

David Gatten  

Rami George is a multidisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia. His work has been exhibited or screened at the Institute for Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Anthology Film Archives (New York City), the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), and the Bahia Museum of Art (Salvador, Brazil).  

Keith Gessen is a cofounder of n+1 and the editor of It’s No Good: Poems, Essays, Actions by Kirill Medvedev, due out from n+1 and Ugly Duckling Presse in December 2012. Website

Daniela Gesundheit is a singer, songwriter, musician, composer, lyricist, and cantor living between Los Angeles and Toronto. She currently plays in the band Snowblink, a duo with Dan Goldman.  

Andrea Geyer is an artist living and working in New York. Website

Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, filmmaker. Her work looks at places, spaces and moments where social, political and cultural structures take on visible forms, and spans video, sound, installation, photography, performance, text and data. Ghani has exhibited and screened at the Guggenheim, MoMA, Met Breuer and Queens Museum in New York, and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the CCCB in Barcelona, the Rotterdam and CPH:DOX film festivals, the Sharjah and Liverpool Biennials, the Dhaka Art Summit, and dOCUMENTA (13) in Kabul and Kassel. Her writing recently has been published by e-flux journal, Frieze, and Foreign Policy, as well as in the books Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency and Cultural Production, Critical Writing Ensembles, Dissonant Archives, Social Medium: Artists Writing 2000–2015, and Utopian Pulse: Flares in the Darkroom. Ghani has received fellowships, awards, grants, and residencies from Creative Capital, Art Matters, the 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles, the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law, and the Center for Constitutional Rights, which gave her its inaugural Changemaker Storyteller award in 2017. Website

Rob Giampietro is a designer, writer, and principal at Project Projects. Website

Gabrielle Giattino  

Gabrielle Giattino is owner and director of Bureau, a gallery located on the Lower East Side. From 2002 to 2007, she served as curator of Swiss Institute and in 2006 was co-curator of “Repeat/Redux,” a screening and performance series at the Whitney Museum at Altria, along with Howie Chen and Jay Sanders. With Chen, she is also a founding director of Dispatch, an ongoing series of exhibitions, publications, and other artist projects. Giattino studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London where she received a masters degree in art history in 2001. Currently, she sits on the Art Basel selection committee.  

John Gibler is a journalist living in Mexico City. He has contributed to In These Times, Yes! Magazine, Colorlines, and the California Sunday Magazine, among other publications. He is the author of Una historia oral de la infamia (2016), To Die in Mexico: Dispatches From Inside the Drug War (2011), Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt (2009), 20 poemas para ser leídos en una balacera (2012), and Tzompaxtle: La fuga de un guerrillero (2012).  

Alan Gilbert is a poet, critic, and scholar and a lecturer at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight.  

Simone Gilges is a photographer and artist living in Berlin. Since 1995 she also realized numerous exhibitions with the collective Honey-Suckle Company. Website

US Girls (Meg Remy) has released two albums, Introducing and Go Grey, both on Siltbreeze, and singles and CD-Rs on Chocolate Monk, Not Not Fun, Hardscrabble Amateurs, Cherry Burger, and Atelier Ciseaux. Website

Lisa Gitelman is a media historian whose research concerns American book history, techniques of inscription, and the new media of yesterday and today. She is particularly concerned with tracing the patterns according to which new media become meaningful within and against the contexts of older media. Gitelman has just published Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents (Duke University Press), which focuses on the meaning of seemingly mundane documents—the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF—as they inhabit various media over time.  

Renee Gladman ’s most recent work of prose is The Ravickians, published this fall by Dorothy, a Publishing Project. She lives in Providence and teaches fiction and book arts at Brown University. Website

Robert Gober lives and works in New York, and is most recently the subject of a major retrospective, The Heart Is Not A Metaphor, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gober represented the United States at the 2001 Venice Biennale and has had one-person exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Serpentine Gallery, London; and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel. In 2007 his work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Schaulager, Basel.  

Beka Goedde is a printmaker and sculptor whose work explores the perception of change, duration, and the physical body in space. She is currently artist in residence at PS122 in New York City and an MFA candidate at Bard College. Website

Rainald Goetz is a German novelist. His first novel, Insane, was published in 1983. In 1998, Goetz wrote the internet diary Rubbish for Everyone, which was probably the first literary blog in Germany, and included entries on the world of media and consumerism. The blog was published in book form in 1999 and is part of This Morning, Goetz’s four-volume history of the present, along with Rave, Jeff Koons, Celebration, and Deconspiration. Goetz has been awarded numerous prizes, most notably the Georg Büchner Prize in 2015. He lives in Berlin.  

James Goggin is the design director at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and principal of Practise. Website

Steven Goldglit is the Managing Partner of Goldglit & Company, LLP and works directly with all clients. He is a board member or an advisor to the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation (Treasurer); Marina Abramovic Foundation (Treasurer); Faou Foundation (Treasurer); and Professional Advisors to the International Art Market NY, Inc. (PAIAM; President and Founding Board Member).  

Goldin+Senneby is a Stockholm-based artist subject established in 2004 by Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby. Goldin+Senneby often focuses on speculation and financial markets, and employs the practices that distinguish those markets. Their collaboration has also been shaped by the experience of disease, vulnerability, and caregiving, especially that of living with an autoimmune condition. Goldin+Senneby’s retrospective, “Standard Length of a Miracle,” was on view in 2016 at Tensta konsthall in Stockholm and in 2017 at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane. Goldin+Senneby has had solo exhibitions at e-flux, New York; CCA Derry-Londonderry; Kadist, Paris; and the Power Plant, Toronto, among other venues. In 2015, Triple Canopy published Headless, a detective novel, ghostwritten by K. D., that culminated Goldin+Senneby’s eight-year investigation of offshore finance and human sacrifice. In 2019, Triple Canopy published “Eternal Employment,” a listing for a never-ending job at a train station in Gothenburg, written by Lina Ekdahl as part of a project by Goldin+Senneby. Website

Vivien Goldman is a New York-based Londoner and a writer, musician, educator, and broadcaster. She’s the author of six books, most recently Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot (Omnibus, 2019). In 2016, Staubgold released Resolutionary, which compiles her music from the early 1980s. She’s currently working on a new album, Next Is Now, produced by Youth of Killing Joke. Goldman is an adjunct professor at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. NYU’s Fales Library acquired her archive as the Vivien Goldman Punk and Reggae Collection.  

Billy Gomberg is a musician and video artist living in Brooklyn. Website

Christian González-Rivera is senior researcher at the Center for an Urban Future and author of “The New Face of New York’s Seniors.”  

Hardworking Goodlooking was established in 2013 as a publishing hauz devoted to the decolonization of tropical aesthetics, vernacular artisanship, and the value of the invisible. It is composed of Clara Balaguer, a cultural worker in the Netherlands; Kristian Henson and Dante Carlos, graphic designers in the United States; and Czar Kristoff, an artist in the Philippines. HWGL is an offshoot of the Office of Culture and Design, a platform for cultural social practice that was founded in 2010, based in Parañaque City, and laid to rest in 2018.  

Matthew Shen Goodman is a Triple Canopy senior editor. He writes and makes music. Website

Ain Gordon  

Danny Gordon received an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2006. He has exhibited his photographs in solo exhibitions at Zach Feuer Gallery and Leo Koenig, Inc. in New York City and Claudia Groeflin Gallery in Zurich. He has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the CCS Museum at Bard College, and MoMA PS1. Gordon is the author of Portrait Studio and Flying Pictures. He lives and works in Brooklyn. Website

Vivian Gornick is an American critic, essayist, and memoirist. For many years she wrote for the Village Voice. She currently teaches writing at the New School.  

Alex Gourevitch is a political science professor at Brown University who writes about the environment, work, and economic freedom.  

David Graeber is an activist and professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of eight books, including Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, and, most recently, The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement. Website

Garrett Gray is an actor, educator, and mime from Savannah, Georgia, who currently resides in New York City. He grew up with a love for classical theater and clowning, which led him to the American Mime Theatre, founded by Paul J. Curtis in 1952. He was introduced to mime by the artistic director, Jean Barbour, and went on to become a member of the company. His theatrical roles include Ariel in “The Tempest” (Columbia Stages) and Bob in “American Buffalo” (Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre); he has appeared in films and television shows such as Bolden!, Necessary Roughness, “BULL,” and “Wu-Tang: An American Saga.” Website

Neil Greenberg has been drawing maps since he was in high school. He currently lives in Detroit, where he runs a transit system for students at the University of Michigan and schedules buses for Southeast Michigan’s Transit Authority. Website

Adam Greenfield is Senior Urban Fellow at LSE Cities; founder and managing director of design practice Urbanscale; and author, most recently, of Against the smart city.  

David Greenspan has had plays produced by the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, the Foundry, Target Margin, and Transport Group. Greenspan has also acted in premieres of works by Terrence McNally, David Adjmi, Sarah Ruhl, Adam Rapp, Mac Wellman, and Richard Foreman. For his writing and performance work, he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, Alpert Award, and five Obies.  

Karen Gregory is a lecturer in sociology at the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, City College of New York. Her research focuses on the entanglement of contemporary spirituality, precarity, entrepreneurialism, and digital media, with an emphasis on the role of the laboring body. She is a founder of CUNY’s Digital Labor Working Group, and her writing has appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Women and Performance, the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, and Visual Studies.  

Jane Gregory is from Tucson, Arizona. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently working towards a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in Berkeley, California. Her book My Enemies was released by The Song Cave in early 2013.  

Joe Grimm is a composer and performer based in Chicago. He has collaborated with Lucky Dragons, Glenn Branca, and Alvin Lucier, among others. His most recent record is Brain Cloud (Spekk). Website

James Grimmelmann is an associate professor at New York Law School and a member of its Institute for Information Law and Policy. He studies how the law governing the creation and use of computer software affects individual freedom and the distribution of wealth and power in society. He writes about intellectual property, virtual worlds, search engines, online privacy, and other topics in computer and Internet law. He blogs at the Laboratorium. Website

O Grivo is a duo of Brazilian audiovisual artists. O Grivo was formed in 1990 by Nelson Soares and Marcos Moreira, who live in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. An installation by the duo is currently on view as part of "Soundtracks" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. O Grivo's work has been included in the twenty-eighth São Paulo Biennial, the eighth Mercosul Biennial, and the ninth Sharjah Biennial, and exhibited and performed at Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo; Pivô, São Paulo; Museu Vale, Vila Velha, Brazil; and South London Gallery. O Grivo has collaborated with artists such as Cao Guimarães, Lucas Bambozzi, Rivane Neuenschwander, and Valeska Soares. Website

Jonah Groeneboer  

Prismatic Ground is a festival centered on experimental documentary. The inaugural edition took place in 2021, in partnership with Maysles Documentary Center and Screen Slate, with support from Canyon Cinema, Icarus Films, Video Data Bank, and Microscope Gallery. Website

Group Theory , a Brooklyn-based theater company, is Ben Vershbow and Dorit Avganim plus collaborators. Vershbow works at the New York Public Library running NYPL Labs, a digital skunkworks, devising ways to liberate archives and library data online. Avganim is an independent producer, working with artists such as Rainpan43, David/Ain Gordon, Tina Satter/Half Straddle, and the Debate Society, and is cofounder of Neighborhood Productions. Website

Regan Lin Grusy is Chief of Staff for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this past February. Previously, she was Associate Director for the New Museum (2006) and Director of Development for both LMCC (2005) and Exit Art (2003). Regan is also a member of Triple Canopy’s Outreach Committee.  

Elizabeth Gumport is working toward an MFA in fiction at Johns Hopkins. She lives with her gerbil, Henry. Website

Summer Guthery  

Nathan Gwynne  

Guangtian Ha is assistant professor of religion at Haverford College. He is the author of The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China (2022), and coeditor of Ethnographies of Islam in China (2020) and The Contest of the Fruits (2021). Website

Jiminie Ha is an independent designer and founder of W/—— project space in Chinatown. Website

Ben Hall  

Ilana Halperin is a New York– and Glasgow-based artist. Website

Ed Halter is a writer, curator, and director of Light Industry in Brooklyn. Website

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an artist and “private ear” who was born in Amman and lives in Dubai. His audio investigations, conducted with fellow researchers with Forensic Architecture, have been used as evidence at the UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and by organizations such as Amnesty International and Defense for Children International. Abu Hamdan received his PhD from Goldsmiths and is currently a fellow at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago. He has exhibited work at the Venice Biennale, the Gwangju Biennale, the Sharjah Biennial, Witte De With (Rotterdam), Tate Modern (London), Chisenhale Gallery (London), the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Portikus (Frankfurt), the Showroom (London), and Casco (Utrecht). His works are part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Guggenheim (New York), the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Centre Pompidou (Paris), and Tate Modern. Abu Hamdan has been awarded the 2019 Edvard Munch Art Award and the 2016 Nam June Paik Award. In 2019, Abu Hamdan shared the Turner Prize with three other artists, as part of a temporary collective. Website

Barbara Hammer is a visual artist working primarily in film and video. She has made over one hundred moving-image works in a career that spans fifty years. She is considered a pioneer of queer cinema. Retrospectives of her work have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Tate Modern, London; Jeu de Paume, Paris; the Toronto International Film Festival; among other institutions. She's received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2013), the Leo Award from the Flaherty Film Seminar (2008), the first Shirley Clarke Avant-Garde Filmmaker Award from New York Women in Film and Television (2006), among other honors. Her work was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 1985,1989, and 1993. In 2010, her book Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life was published by the Feminist Press at the City University of New York. In 2017, she launched the Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant, an annual award for self-identified lesbians making visionary moving-image art. Website

Laura Hanna is an organizer and filmmaker. She is co-founder and co-director of the Debt Collective, a membership-based economic justice organization. She serves as board president of Rolling Jubilee, a fund that has facilitated $33 million dollars of debt relief to people struggling with predatory debts, including medical debts and student loans. Hanna's background is in filmmaking. Prior to political organizing, she developed film and media strategies on behalf of those facing the death penalty. She has produced and directed films that have been screened and installed in museums in the U.S. and abroad. Website

James Hannaham  

Arshia Fatima Haq was born in Hyderabad, India, and is based in Los Angeles. She works in film, visual art, performance, and sound. She is currently exploring themes of embodiment and mysticism, particularly within the context of Sufism. She is the founder of Discostan, a collaborative decolonial project working with cultural production from South and West Asia and North Africa. Haq’s work has been presented at Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, the Station Museum of Contemporary Art (Houston), the Broad Museum (Los Angeles), the Toronto International Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), LAXART (Los Angeles), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), and the Pacific Film Archive. She hosts and produces monthly radio shows on Dublab and NTS and recently released an album of field recordings from Pakistan on the label Sublime Frequencies. She is the recipient of the California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship and the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant.  

Abdul Qadim Haqq is an American visual artist who was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Haqq’s artwork has been featured on countless seminal Detroit techno records, including those of Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Underground Resistance, Carl Craig, and Drexciya.  

Maya Harakawa is an art historian interested in feminist methodology and the study of artists’ books and publications. She is a PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center.  

Barry Harbaugh lives in Brooklyn. He was a research editor at the defunct Condé Nast Portfolio and has written for Wired. Website

Sylvia Hardy is an artist based in New York City. She studied anthropology and photography at Washington University in St. Louis and received her MFA from Parsons. She has exhibited at Gallery Tayuta, Tokyo; Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen; and Spazio Morris, Milan. Website

Ilana Harris-Babou is an artist whose work is grounded in the practice of video but includes sculpture and installation. Her work employs the aspirational tropes of popular culture, especially the language of cooking shows, music videos, and home-improvement television. She has exhibited work throughout the United States and Europe.  

Rachel Harrison lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include CCS Bard/Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson (2009); Portikus, Frankfurt (2009); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010); Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (2013); and S.M.A.K., Ghent (2013). Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam among many others. Website

Christian Hawkey  

Cori Hayden is associate professor and chair of the department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and former director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society. She is the author of When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico (Princeton University Press, 2003), and has written extensively on knowledge production, intellectual property, and postcolonial science studies, particularly in Latin America.  

Sharon Hayes investigates the relationship between history, politics, and speech. Her multidisciplinary approach borrows from theater, anthropology, and journalism, among other artistic and academic practices. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions such as the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Artists Space, New York; the Tate Modern, London; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; and the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin. Hayes’s work was the subject of a 2012 solo exhibition, “There’s So Much I Want to Say to You,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art. “In My Little Corner of the World, Anyone Would Love You,” a major new commission, was on view at Studio Voltaire, London, in 2016. Hayes is an associate professor of fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania.  

N. Katherine Hayles is professor of literature at Duke University and the author of How We Became Posthuman.  

Frank Heath is an artist living and working in New York. He has had solo exhibitions at Simone Subal Gallery, New York; Swiss Institute, New York; and Art Basel Statements, Basel. His work has been included in group exhibitions and screenings at the Kitchen, New York; International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Power Plant, Toronto; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the High Line, New York, among other venues.  

Heatsick is the solo moniker of Berlin-based musician Steven Warwick, also known as one half of Birds of Delay. Website

Hecuba Website

Mostafa Heddaya is a writer in New York and the coeditor of American Circus.  

Johanna Hedva is the author of the novel On Hell (Sator Press, 2018). Their fiction, essays, and poems have appeared in Asian American Literary Review, Black Warrior Review, Entropy, Mask Magazine, 3:AM, and elsewhere. Their work has been shown at Machine Project, Human Resources LA, the LA Architecture and Design Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon.  

Christoph Heemann is a German musician who is widely known for his involvement with music projects H.N.A.S., Mirror, and Mimir. Since the mid-'90s, Heemann has collaborated with an array of musicians and visual artists, including the Melvins, Nurse with Wound, Tony Conrad, Faust, Keiji Haino, Merzbow, and Current 93’s David Tibet. Website

Marwa Helal is a poet and journalist. Her work has appeared in Apogee, Hyperallergic, Poets & Writers, and elsewhere. She is the author of I AM MADE TO LEAVE I AM MADE TO RETURN (No, Dear/Small Anchor Press, 2017) and Invasive species (Nightboat Books, 2019). Helal is the winner of BOMB’s 2016 poetry contest and has been awarded fellowships from Poets House, Brooklyn Poets, and Cave Canem. She has presented her work at the Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Brooklyn Museum. Born in Al Mansurah, Egypt, Helal currently lives in Brooklyn.  

Adam Helms is a New York–based artist and a former Triple Canopy contributing editor. He is obsessive, a collector of ephemera, and a friend to all animals. Website

S*an D. Henry-Smith is an artist and writer working primarily in poetry, photography, and performance, engaging Black experimentalisms and collaborative practices. They have received awards and fellowships from the Fulbright Program, The Poetry Project, Poets House, Antenna/Paper Machine, and have read, performed, and exhibited at Basilica Soundscape, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and elsewhere. S*an’s words and photographs have appeared in Aperture PhotoBook Review, Apogee Journal, FACT, FLASH ART, Canadian Art, the New York Times, them, Triple Canopy, and across several book projects. They are the author of two chapbooks, Body Text and Flotsam Suite: A Strange & Precarious Life, or How We Chronicled the Little Disasters & I Won’t Leave the Dance Floor Til It’s Out of My System; as mouthfeel, they coauthored Consider the Tongue alongside Imani Elizabeth Jackson, which explores histories of aquatic labor and Black food through cooking, poetry, and ephemeral practices. Wild Peach is S*an’s first full-length collection.  

Amy Herzog is a scholar and critic who writes about sound, film, philosophy, pornography, and dioramas. Her most recent research project excavates the history of motion picture peepshow arcades in the late 1960 and early 1970s. She is Coordinator of the Film Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center and associate professor of media studies at Queens College.  

Sheila Heti is the author of five books: the story collection The Middle Stories; the novels Ticknor and How Should a Person Be?; a book for children titled We Need a Horse; and with Misha Glouberman, a book of spoken philosophy called The Chairs Are Where the People Go. She is the creator of the Trampoline Hall Lecture Series. She lives in Toronto. Website

Toby Heys produces music, sound, video, and Web projects as a member of Battery Operated and the KIT Collaboration. He runs the sound and video label Cocosolidciti and works in AUDiNT with Steve Goodman and Jon Cohrs. He is currently a resident at Eyebeam and an Arts and Humanities Research Council scholar finishing a PhD at John Moores University in England.  

Sean Higgins is a writer and critic living in Portland, Maine, and an editorial and production assistant for Triple Canopy. He writes an irregular column for the BOMBlog on sound, media, and sound art. His work has appeared in Deep Leap, Sounding the Virtual: Gilles Deleuze and the Theory and Philosophy of Music and The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature. Website

Matthew Higgs  

Hilda Hilst (1930–2004) is widely recognized as one of the most important lusophone authors of the twentieth century. Born in the state of São Paulo, Hilst obtained a law degree from the University of São Paulo in 1952 and, a few years later, moved to a small family estate; for the rest of her days, she lived in near seclusion and devoted herself to literature. Hilst published more than fifty works of poetry, fiction, and theater. Website

Antonia Hirsch is an artist living and working in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), The Power Plant (Toronto), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Tramway (Glasgow), and ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art (Karlsruhe). She is a contributing editor of Fillip. Website

Orra White Hitchcock (1796–1863) was a diarist and self-taught scientific illustrator of flora, fauna, fossils, and geological formations in Amherst, Massachusetts. Included in Issue 14 are charts she painted for classroom use. Website

Johan Hjerpe is a graphic designer and illustrator living in Stockholm. Website

James Hoff is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. He is also a founder and editor (along with Miriam Katzeff) of Primary Information, a nonprofit arts organization devoted to publishing artists’ books and publications by artists. Website

Dennis Hogan Dennis Hogan is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Brown University. His work focuses on decadent and aesthetic literature of the British and French fins de siècle and 1890s print cultures.  

Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, and archivist. She’s the author of Maafa (Fence Books, 2021) A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom (Birds, LLC, 2019); Hollywood Forever (Fence Books, 2016); Go Find Your Father/A Famous Blues (Ricochet Editions, 2014); Negro League Baseball (Fence Books, 2011); and The Black Saint and the Sinnerman, an LP composed of sound and speech that assimilates Charles Mingus’s classic 1963 album. She runs Afrosonics, an archive of jazz and everyday diaspora poetics, and Mythscience, an imprint that reissues work from the archive. She is currently working on a collection of essays, Love Is War for Miles, and a biography of the jazz singer Abbey Lincoln. She has received the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts, and a fellowship from the Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program.  

Karen Holmberg is an archaeologist specializing in volcanic regions who has taught at Brown and Stanford Universities. Website

Karl Holmqvist is an artist, poet, performer, and atypical activist. He works with various media and supports, creating installations, sound pieces, videos, performances, collages, and artist’s books. He has shown at Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin; Gaga Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; Marabouparken, Sundbyberg, Sweden; and the Fifty-Fourth Venice Biennale; and a collection of his writings was published in 2009 by BookWorks in London under the title What’s My Name? “You Beat Me” was recorded and mixed by Stefan Tcherepnin in New York, 2010. Website

Julia Holter  

Stewart Home is an English artist, filmmaker, writer, pamphleteer, art historian, activist, and internationally acclaimed author. Home’s writings include Pure Mania (Polygon, 1989), Defiant Pose (Peter Owen Publishers, 1991; Penny-Ante Editions, 2016), Slow Death (Serpent’s Tail, 1996), 69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess (Canongate, 2002), Tainted Love (Virgin Books, 2005), Memphis Underground (Snowbooks, 2007), and Mandy, Charlie & Mary-Jane (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013). Between 2007 and 2010, Home was the commissioning editor of Semina, a series of acclaimed experimental novels from London art publisher Book Works, to which he contributed Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie (2010). He was born and continues to reside in London.  

Ja Zou Hon  

Cathy Park Hong is a poet whose latest collection, Engine Empire, was published in 2012 by W.W. Norton. Her other collections include Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Translating Mo'um. Hong is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry, A Public Space, the Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Baffler, Boston Review, and the Nation, among other journals. Her writing on politics and her reviews have appeared in the Village Voice, the Guardian, Salon, Christian Science Monitor, and New York Times Magazine. She is the poetry editor of the New Republic and is an associate professor at Sarah Lawrence College. “Forecasts,” by Hong and artist Adam Shecter, was included in “Negative Infinity,” the fifteenth issue of Triple Canopy, published in 2011. Website

Sukjong Hong is a New York–based researcher and activist. Website

Ana Finel Honigman  

David Horvitz is a half-Japanese Californian artist who was born in Los Angeles. He has recently had solo exhibitions at Chert, Berlin; Yvon Lambert Librarie, Paris; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; the New Museum, New York; Jan Mot, Brussels; Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw; Statements, Art Basel; and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. Website

Christine Hou  

John Houck is an artist based in Los Angeles. He studied at UCLA and participated in the Whitney Independent Study and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work has been included in exhibitions at Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris; On Stellar Rays, New York; Art in General, New York; The Kitchen, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Website

Sheree Hovsepian is an Iranian-born artist who works in New York. Her work has appeared in exhibitions at the Drawing Center, New York; Higher Pictures, New York; Monique Meloche, Chicago; Halsey McKay, East Hampton. She received an MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2002). In the spring of 2019 she will present her second solo exhibition at Higher Pictures, New York. Website

Jaya Howey lives and works in Brooklyn. He received his MFA from Columbia University. His recent solo exhibitions include “Splendor in the Commons” at Armada (Milan, 2017), “Edifying Lines for Sensitive Readers” at Bureau (New York, 2016), “Stay in Bed” at Standard (OSLO) (2015), “Note to Self” at Bureau (New York, 2014). Howey has exhibited at numerous other venues including the Kitchen (New York), Team Gallery (New York), Night Gallery (Los Angeles), and Taxter & Spengemann (New York). Howey was a Chinati Foundation Artist in Residence in Marfa, Texas, in 2017, and will have a solo exhibition at Standard (OSLO) in the fall of 2018.  

Dan Hoy lives in Brooklyn, NY and is the author of the poetry collections Omegachurch (Solar Luxuriance, 2010), Polaroid (Wrath of Dynasty, 2010), and Glory Hole (Mal-O-Mar, 2009). He previously co-edited SOFT TARGETS (2006-2007), a magazine of art, philosophy, and literature, and currently contributes to the collective blog www.montevidayo.com. His personal site is www.thepinupstakes.com. Website

Sarah Hromack writes and works at the intersection of art, publications, technology, and institutions. She is the Director of Digital Media at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Website

Hua Hsu is a writer living in New York City. He is a staff writer at the New Yorker and an associate professor of English and director of the American Studies program at Vassar College. Hsu has contributed to Artforum, the Atlantic, Slate, the Wire, and Triple Canopy, among other publications, and has been a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center and the New America Foundation. In 2019, he co-curated “The Moon Represents My Heart,” an exhibition about music and Chinese-American life at the Museum of Chinese in America (New York City). He is the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific (Harvard University Press, 2016), and is working on a book about identity, grief, and listening to music with friends. Website

Eric Hu is a designer based in New York City and a partner at Nothing in Common, a design and technology studio in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in 2011 and his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2013. Previously Eric was the design director at digital agency OKFocus, leading branding and user interface projects for clients such as Nike, the Wolfsonian Museum, Soylent, Phillips, Tumblr, and Atlantic Records. Eric was honored as an Art Director’s Club Young Gun in 2010 and became the recipient of the Bradbury Thompson Memorial Prize in 2013.  

Zhou Hai Hua  

Wennie Huang  

A. B. Huber is a professor at NYU’s Gallatin School for Individualized Study whose current work is focused on the force and form of critique in times of war. Website

Jibade-Khalil Huffman is an artist and writer whose video and photo works use found, archival material and contemporary ephemera to address slippage in memory and language, particular to race and visibility. Lyrical strophes of text and densely-composed imagery produce objects of perpetual flux, indexed by accumulating layers which challenge normative symbolic and semiotic hierarchies. Through projection and repetition, Huffman’s work evokes the untranslatable, ruminating on the liminal qualities of singular experiences through narrative and graphic rhythms.  

Paul Hughes is a Web developer who sometimes develops Web things. Website

Hush Hush  

Susie Ibarra is a composer, percussionist, and educator who creates live and immersive music that explores rhythm, indigenous practices, and interactions with the natural world. She is cofounder of the digital music company Song of the Bird King, which emphasizes the cultural preservation of indigenous music and its ecology. Ibarra’s recent work includes Circadian Rhythms, commissioned by Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and We Float, commissioned by the Ecstatic Music Festival in New York. Ibarra is a faculty member at Bennington College, where she teaches percussion and performance at the Center for Advancement in Public Action.  

Mark Ibold  

Brenda Iijima is a poet and choreographer of the ecological research movement (Sm[Art]). She is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: Around Sea (2004), Animate, Inanimate Aims (2007), Subsistence Equipment (2008), Revv. You’ll—ution (2009), and If Not Metamorphic (2010). She edited eco language reader (2010), a collection of essays by poets on matters of ecological concern. Her collection Untimely Death is Driven Beyond the Horizon is forthcoming from 1913 Press this winter. She edits books of poetry for Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs in Brooklyn.  

Swiss Institute  

Electronic Arts Intermix is a nonprofit arts organization that is a leading international resource for video and media art. A pioneering advocate for media art and artists, EAI’s core program is the distribution and preservation of a major collection of over four thousand new and historical video works by artists. For fifty years, EAI has fostered the creation, exhibition, distribution and preservation of video art, and more recently, digital art projects. Website

The International Necronautical Society exists as both fiction and actuality. Website

Center for Land Use Interpretation Website

RVNG Intl. is a Brooklyn-based music institution that operates on few but heavily fortified principals, dealing with forward-reaching artists sometimes categorized as electronic, avant, free, fried, fucked, etc. RVNG Intl. was founded by Matt Werth in 2004 and has released records by Blondes, Holly Herndon, Julia Holter, and Mirror Mirror, among others. Website

Invisible Sports is a new project by improvisor and composer Aaron Moore. Drums, vocals, trumpet, and tapes are the basis of Moore’s instrumentation, though anything that makes a sound that can be manipulated, rhythmically or melodically, is of equal importance to him. Moore is a founding member of the British band Volcano the Bear, now in their fifteenth year together. Moore’s current musical projects include the New York–based Amolvacy (with Dave Nuss of the No-Neck Blues Band), a duo with Alan Courtis, and the Paris-based Textile Orchestra. Moore has played on more than twenty-five albums, performed across Europe and the United States, and collaborated with Jeremy Barnes, Tom Recchion, the Boredoms, Thierry Muller, Steve Mackay, Paul Dunmall, Michael Snow, and Mats Gustaffson, among others. Moore was born in Market Harborough, England, and now resides in Brooklyn. Website

Momo Ishiguro is Triple Canopy’s deputy director. She also makes pop music. Website

Iman Issa  

Lucy Ives is the author of many books of poetry and prose, including The Hermit (2016), the novella nineties (2013), and, most recently, the novel Impossible Views of the World (2017, published by Penguin Press. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Lapham’s Quarterly, Bomb, Conjunctions, The New Yorker, and Triple Canopy, where she was an editor for several years. Website

Imani Elizabeth Jackson is a poet with extradisciplinary leanings. Jackson’s writings appear in Gramma Weekly, Flag + Void, HOLD, and the Poetry Project newsletter. She has read and shown work at Threewalls, the Sunview Luncheonette, and other spaces in Berlin, Chicago, and New York. Jackson received her BA in religious studies from Reed College in 2014 and is an incoming MFA candidate in literary arts at Brown. She is also a codirector for the Chicago Art Book Fair.  

Matthew Day Jackson is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited at Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), and was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. His solo exhibition "Total Accomplishment" is currently on view at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. Website

Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker known for his overlapping practices as a film director (selected works: Love Is the Message; The Message Is Death; Smile; Until; Deshotten; Dreams Are Colder Than Death; Adrian Young); a cinematographer (with feature-film directors Haile Gerima, Julie Dash, Spike Lee, John Akomfrah, and Andrew Dosunmu); an internationally exhibiting visual artist; a principal member of the studio collective TNEG (along with Elissa Blount Moorhead and Malik Hassan Sayeed); a widely respected university lecturer; and an author of critical theory manifestos. In 2019, Jafa was awarded the Golden Lion prize at the 58th Venice Biennale.  

Sara Jaffe is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. Her first novel, Dryland, was published by Tin House in 2015, and her short fiction and criticism have appeared in Bomb, Noon, Fence, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Offing. She co-edited The Art of Touring (Yeti, 2009), an anthology of writing and visual art by musicians that draws on her experience in the post-punk band Erase Errata.  

Pravin Jain  

Lo Jan  

Ana Janevski is the associate curator in the department of media and performance art at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), where she recently co-organized the performance series Words in the World. She is also the editor of the MoMA Dance Series book on Boris Charmatz and coeditor of Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe, with Roxana Marconi and Ksenia Nouril. She collaborates with many artists and choreographers, including Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jérôme Bel, Yvonne Rainer, Rabih Mroué, Boris Charmatz & Musée de la danse, Simone Forti, Martha Rosler, Ralph Lemon, and Trajal Harrell. Prior to her work at MoMA, she was the curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland.  

Gabriela Jauregui is a writer, editor, and translator living in Mexico City. She is the author of Controlled Decay (Akashic Books/Black Goat Press, 2008), a collection of poems; Leash Seeks Lost Bitch (The Song Cave/Sexto Piso, 2015), a chapbook made in collaboration with artists Allison Katz and Camilla Wills; and a short story collection, La memoria de las cosas (Sexto Piso, 2015). Jauregui is co-founder of the publishing collective sur+. Website

Javelin is Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford. The group’s debut album, No Más, was released in 2010 by Luaka Bop. Website

Steffani Jemison is a visual artist and educator living in New York. Her recent work approaches privacy and opacity as strategies of abstraction and political resistance. She has exhibited and presented her work at Jeu de Paume (Paris), CAPC Bordeaux, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Whitney Museum (New York), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Mass MOCA (North Adams, Massachusetts), the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Drawing Center (New York), LAXART (Los Angeles), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art (Copenhagen). Her work is in the public collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Kadist Foundation. Jemison has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and an Arthur Levitt Jr. ’52 Artist-in-Residence at Williams College, and she has received awards from the Art Matters Foundation and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. She is an assistant professor in media at Rutgers University. Website

Travis Jeppesen is a novelist, poet, and art critic based in Berlin. His books include Victims (2003), Poems I Wrote While Watching TV (2006), Wolf at the Door (2007), and a collection of art criticism, Disorientations: Art on the Margins of the "Contemporary" (2008). Website

Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist, engineer, and associate professor of art and art education at New York University whose work emphasizes the intersection of environmental and health issues.  

Aisha Sasha John is a singing dancer. Her solo performance the aisha of oz premiered at the Whitney Museum in June 2017, and will close the MAI’s 2017/2018 season. Aisha is the author of I have to live. (M&S 2017), The Shining Material (BookThug 2011), and THOU (BookThug 2014)—finalist for both the Trillium and ReLit Poetry Awards. In addition to her solo work, she choreographed, performed and curated as a member of the performance collective WIVES (2015–2017). Her video work and text art have been exhibited in galleries (Doris McCarthy, Oakville Galleries) and was commissioned by Art Metropole as part of Let’s understand what it means to be here (together), a public art performance residency she designed and led. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph, and a BA in African Studies and Semiotics from the University of Toronto. She lives in Toronto.  

Paul John is a Printer Without a Press Fellow and educator at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York City. He is the director of Endless Editions and his works are in the collections of the MoMA Library, the New York Public Library, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  

D. H. Johnson is a stage and screen actor in New York City. Website

Ryan Johnson is a Brooklyn-based artist. His work has been exhibited in solo shows in New York at Guild & Greyshkul and Zach Feuer Gallery, and in Turin at Franco Soffiantino Arte Contemporanea; He was also included in MoMA PS1's Greater New York in 2005. Website

Joan Jonas is an artist whose video, drawing, performance, and sound work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (1979); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1983, 1994); Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany (2001); and Queens Museum of Art, New York (2004). She’s had solo exhibitions at venues such as the Stedelijk Museum (1994); Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles (2003); Pat Hearn Gallery, New York City (2003); Vienna State Opera, Vienna (2014–15); Tate Modern (2018); and has presented major performances at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1974); The Kitchen, New York (1975); San Francisco Museum of Art (1976); Kunstmuseum Bern (2004); and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2008). She is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Contemporary Art Television (CAT) Fund, among others, and has received awards from Anonymous Was a Woman, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Film Institute, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She lives and works in New York.  

Kira Josefsson is a writer and translator working between Swedish and English. She’s on the editorial board for Glänta and part of the translations editorial team for Anomaly. Her in-progress translation of Pooneh Rohi’s debut novel Araben won a 2017 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant.  

David Joselit is the Carnegie Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. As a scholar and critic he has written about pivotal moments in modern art ranging from Dada to the emergence of globalization and new media. He is the author of Feedback: Television Against Democracy (MIT Press, 2007), Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910–1941 (October Books; MIT Press, 1998), and American Art Since 1945 (Thames and Hudson, 2003). He contributes regularly to Artforum and Art in America and is an editor of October. Website

Matico Josephson is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts. He lives in New York. Website

Jenn Joy  

Adela Jušić is an artist working in video, installation, and performance and living in Sarajevo. She is a founding member of the Crvena Association for Culture and Art. In 2010 she received the Zvono Award for best young artist in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her work has been exhibited at Manifesta 8, Kunstmuseum (Bonn, Germany), El Parqueadero (Bogotá, Colombia), Espace Appolonia (Strasbourg, France); the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, and Gallery P74 (Ljubljana). Website

Paige K. B. is an artist, writer, and erstwhile editor from Los Angeles. She has been an editor at Artforum and Garage, and her writing has been published in numerous magazines and books since 2013. Her recent exhibitions include an illegal installation at 13 East 31st Street and a legal one at the Canal Street Research Association, a space run by the group Shanzhai Lyric. She is currently assembling a body of work for Documenta 13.  

KADIST believes contemporary artists make an important contribution to a progressive society, their work addressing key issues of our time. A non-profit organization dedicated to exhibiting the work of artists represented in its collection, KADIST encourages this engagement and advocates for the relevance of contemporary art in our lives. Its programs develop collaborations with artists, curators and art organizations around the world, facilitating new connections across cultures. Local programs in KADIST’s hubs of Paris and San Francisco include exhibitions, public events, residencies and educational initiatives. Complemented by an active online network, they create vibrant conversations about contemporary art and ideas. Website

Howie Kahn has written for GQ and the New York Times, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn. Website

Craig Kalpakjian is an artist living in Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited extensively in the US and abroad. His most recent solo show took place at the Baukunst Galerie in Cologne, Germany, in the summer of 2007. Website

Rebecca Karl  

Dana Kash enjoys bright colors and white noise. Website

Jacob Kassay  

Angie Keefer is co-founder of The Serving Library, with David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey, a nonprofit artists' organization rooted in a body of work initiated by Dexter Sinister’s publication Dot Dot Dot, and dedicated to publishing and archiving in a continuous loop.  

Matt Keegan is an artist who lives and works in New York. He was the co-founding editor of North Drive Press (2003–2010), and is the co-founder of the forthcoming magazine ==, along with Susan Barber. An exhibition of Keegan's work is currently on view at D'Amelio Terras.  

Thomas Keenan is director of the Bard Human Rights Project.  

John Keene ’s most recent books include the short fiction collection Counternarratives (New Directions, 2015), which received a 2016 American Book Award, a 2016 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and in March 2017 the UK’s inaugural Republic of Consciousness Prize; the art book GRIND (ITI Press, 2016), an art-text collaboration with photographer Nicholas Muellner; and the poetry chapbook Playland (Seven Kitchens Press, 2016). He is also the translator of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer (Nightboat Books / A Bolha Editora, 2014), and other works of fiction and poetry. He chairs the department of African American and African Studies, and also teaches English and creative writing at Rutgers University–Newark.  

Thad Kellstadt  

Seth Kelly is an artist and curator. His artwork includes drawings, collages, sculptures, videos, and installations; recently he has also been giving performative lectures. Since receiving his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, Kelly has exhibited extensively in New York, at venues such as Artists Space and PS1. Website

Devin Kenny is an artist living in Houston. Born in 1987 and online since childhood, he has witnessed the shift from web 1.0 to the “social internet” of web 2.0 to today’s paradigm. His work is colored by this transition. Using sculpture, video, photography, text, performance, music, and painting, his practice engages questions of identity construction and the aesthetics developed in networks: from quilt codes allegedly used on the Underground Railroad to memes and viral media. Raised on the south side of Chicago, Kenny relocated to New York to study at Cooper Union. He has participated in the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the summer program at SOMA in Mexico City, the Whitney Independent Study Program, and the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. His performances have been presented at art and music venues in the United States and internationally, including Biquini Wax (Mexico City), Artspace Auckland, REDCAT (Los Angeles), MoMA PS1 (New York City), the Julia Stoschek Collection (Berlin), and the Glue Factory (Glasgow).  

Peter Kenny is Ruth Bigelow Wriston Curator of American Decorative Arts and Administrator of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A member of the curatorial staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1989, Peter Kenny writes and lectures extensively on American colonial and federal period furniture and craftsmen.  

Caitlin Keogh  

Peter Kerlin is a musician/artist/educator from Brooklyn. His ongoing musical projects include Minetta, Source of Yellow, Chris Forsyth's Ideal Heads, and Christmas Decorations. He is an adjunct professor in the Electronic Design and Multimedia Department at the City College of New York. Website

Theodore Kerr is a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based writer, artist, and organizer whose work focuses primarily on HIV/AIDS. He is a founding member of What Would an HIV Doula Do? Kerr earned his MA from Union Theological Seminary where he researched Christian Ethics and HIV. He teaches at The New School. Website

Jon Kessler is an artist living in New York. He teaches at Columbia's School of the Arts and plays guitar in the X-Patsys, the band he formed with Barbara Sukowa and Robert Longo. Website

Sarah Kessler is a media scholar and television critic who teaches in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Her book project, Anachronism Effects, focuses on the cultural politics of voice and ventriloquism in transatlantic popular culture. Website

Bo-Won Keum is a graphic designer who lives in New York. She is the associate designer at Triple Canopy. Website

Adam Khalil , a member of the Ojibway tribe, is a filmmaker and artist from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Khalil is a core contributor to the group New Red Order and a cofounder of COUSINS Collective. Khalil’s work has been exhibited and screened at the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), Sundance Film Festival, Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis), Lincoln Center (New York City), Tate Modern (London), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Toronto Biennial, and Whitney Biennial. Khalil is the recipient of fellowships and grants including the Creative Capital Award, Herb Alpert Award, Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellowship, Jerome Artist Fellowship, and Gates Millennium Scholarship.  

Nora Khan writes fiction and creative non-fiction about digital visual culture, artificial intelligence, electronic music, and games. Her writing has been published in 4Columns, Art in America, the California Sunday Magazine, the Village Voice, Rhizome, aCCeSsions, Conjunctions, and American Literary Review. Her criticism won a Thoma Foundation 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, awarded by the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation. Khan is a contributing editor at Rhizome and a research resident at Eyebeam. Website

Hassan Khan is an artist, musician, and writer based in Cairo. Website

Murad Khan Mumtaz is an artist currently based in Lahore, Pakistan, where he is an assistant professor at the National College of Art. He graduated from Columbia University on a Fulbright scholarship in 2010. He is represented by Tracy Williams Ltd. in New York. Website

Parag Khanna  

David Kim is a JD candidate at Yale Law School, where he is the curator of JUNCTURE, an initiative devoted to art and human rights. He collaborates with Council, a curatorial platform based in Paris. He has recently written about the work of the artist Jill Magid in The Proposal (Sternberg Press). Prior to law school, he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He holds degrees from Columbia University and Harvard University.  

Soo Kim is an artist based in Los Angeles. She is a Professor, Program Director, and Coordinator of the Critic in Residence program at Otis College of Art and Design. Website

Willis Kingery is a graphic designer based in New Haven. He is currently an MFA candidate at the Yale School of Art.  

KinoSaito is an art center in Verplanck, New York, that is rooted in the creation and practice of abstract art and committed to nurturing experimentation in every form and medium. By engaging artist and audience, painting and performance, learning and play, KinoSaito honors the spirit of its founding muse, Kikuo Saito, and furthers his vision for an interdisciplinary art of making and moving, free of borders and definitions. Website

Jacob Kirkegaard is a Berlin-based Danish artist who focuses on the scientific and aesthetic aspects of resonance, time, sound, and hearing. His installations, compositions, and performances deal with acoustic spaces and phenomena that usually remain imperceptible. He has presented his works at exhibitions and festivals around the world and has released five albums (mostly on the British label Touch). He is also a member of the sound-art collective freq_out. Website

Katie Kitamura is the author of the novels Intimacies (2021), which was on the long list for the National Book Award and named one of the top ten books of the year by the New York Times; A Separation (2017), which was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori, and The Longshot (2009) and Gone to the Forest (2013), which were finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. Kitamura is the recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and Santa Maddalena. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University. Her previous contributions to Triple Canopy include “LANGUAGE Inc.,” a leaked document that reveals the corporate privatization of public speech, and “Les Fleurs du terminal,” a reflection on Headless, the Goldin+Senneby murder-mystery. Website

Alexandra Kleeman is the author of the novels Something New Under the Sun (2021) and You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine (2015), as well as the short-story collection Intimations (2016). She is the recipient of the Rome Prize, Berlin Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowship, among other awards. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Zoetrope, Conjunctions, and Guernica, and her essays have appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, n+1, and the Guardian. Website

Molly Kleiman is Triple Canopy’s director, co-director of the Back Room, and part-time faculty at New York University’s Gallatin School. Website

Ish Klein is the author of the poetry books Moving Day (2011) and Union! (2009), published by Canarium Books. She lives in Amherst with Greg Purcell, where they produce a poetry podcast called Noslander. A compilation of her videos, entitled Success Window, has been released by Poor Claudia of Portland, Oregon. Website

Josh Kline had his first solo gallery exhibition at 47Canal in 2011. In 2014, his work “Skittles” was displayed along the High Line. In 2015, his installation “Freedom” was included in the New Museum Triennial, Surround Audience. In this work, Teletubbies stand in SWAT gear while a computerized version of Barack ’s 2008 Presidential inaugural address is played. The work gained widespread attention and acclaim from the press. In 2015, his piece “Cost of Living (Aleyda)” was included in America is Hard to See, the opening exhibition of the new Whitney Museum, which was composed entirely of works from the permanent collection.  

Jenni Knight likes to make messes with tactile ease in a gritty corner of the world. Don’t deny them their beauty! They try hard like arabesques. She is also an artist immersed in low-fidelity media, including lots of crap with peering eyes like hers that calls out from the street. Website

Melanie Claire Koch is the founder and editor in chief of the online arts & culture magazine Beekiller. She lives in New York and enjoys gothic novels, 1970s Italian horror films, sea monsters, and strange discoveries. Website

Wayne Koestenbaum has published thirteen books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Humiliation, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Hotel Theory, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen's Throat.  He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. Website

Lara Kohl is an interdisciplinary artist leading a transdisciplinary life in Brooklyn. Her work has been shown in galleries in the US and abroad. She teaches at Pratt Institute. Website

Anjuli Raza Kolb is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Williams College, where she teaches courses on colonial and postcolonial literature and theory. Her current book project, “Epidemics of Terror,” reconstructs the long-standing relationship between narratives and epistemologies of public health and the literature and discourse of anticolonial insurgency and terror from the late nineteenth century to the present.  

Jaffer Kolb is a New York-based designer and lecturer at Princeton University’s School of Architecture. His work is dedicated to finding new sites for architecture in political and material economies through experiments in preservation and form. Most recently, he was the 2015 Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan, and before that worked as a designer in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. His work has appeared in exhibitions internationally, and published in Wired, Blueprint, and Abitare, among others. In the past, he worked as a curator as well as a critic for a range of international publications.  

Peter Kolovos Website

Ann Komaromi  

Bill Kouligas is a Berlin-based sound artist and graphic designer. He has worked with Sudden Infant, Ralf Wehowsky, and Damo Suzuki, among others. He manages the electroacoustic noise label PAN, which will release a triple-LP set of the soundtracks of Frans Zwartjes this fa  

Deiara Kouto is a designer and researcher. She was born in the Italian part of Switzerland to Togolese and Ghanaian parents. She has been involved in several self-initiated projects and worked for various studios, including Filipp Mambretti Studio and Christophe Guberan Studio. For the 2019 Zurich Design Biennale, Kouto developed a parkour project for children with motor disabilities. She is currently studying approaches to the decolonization of the practice and teaching of design at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule. Concurrently, she is writing about the subject and working with Xartsplitter, an organization that resists racism and sexism.  

Jennifer Krasinski is a writer, critic and a senior editor at Artforum.  

Prem Krishnamurthy is a graphic designer, curator, and founding principle of New York-based design studio Project Projects. He is also the director/curator of P!, a multidisciplinary exhibition space in New York City’s Chinatown that experiments with conventions of display. Website

Rafil Kroll-Zaidi is an editor at Harper’s Magazine. Website

Barbara Kruger is a conceptual artist, designer, and writer who has been making art since the early 1960s. In 2014 Kruger's work was the subject of a major solo exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, and is part of several group shows at the Seattle Art Museum; Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Kruger currently resides in Los Angeles, CA where she serves on the faculty at UCLA.  

Benjamin Krusling is a writer and artist working in language, sound, and video, and the author of a book of poetry called Glaring (Wendy’s Subway, 2020).  

Annapurna Kumar is an animator and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She also works on sound design. Website

Aaron Kunin is the author of The Sore Throat and Other Poems. He lives in Los Angeles. Website

Benjamin Kunkel is a founding editor of n+1 and the author of the novel Indecision.  

Hari Kunzru is a British writer living in New York. He is the author of five novels, most recently Red Pill (2020) and White Tears (2017). His stories, articles, and essays have appeared in publications such as Wired, the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Times of India, and the New Statesman. His novels have been translated into twenty-one languages. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Public Library, and the American Academy in Berlin. Website

Ajay Kurian is an artist living and working in New York. He is often wrestling with whatever we take for granted, insisting that things can be otherwise.  

Rachel Kushner is author of the novels The Flamethrowers and Telex from Cuba (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize) and, most recently, a collection of stories called The Strange Case of Rachel K. She is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow.  

Miwon Kwon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in architectural history and theory from Princeton University. Kwon’s research and writings have engaged several disciplines including contemporary art, architecture, public art and urban studies. She was a founding coeditor and publisher of Documents, a journal of art, culture, and criticism (1992–2004), and serves on the advisory board of October. She is the author of One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity (MIT Press, 2002), as well as lengthy essays on the work of many contemporary artists, including Francis Alÿs, Michael Asher, Cai Guo-Qiang, Jimmie Durham, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Barbara Kruger, Christian Marclay, Ana Mendieta, Josiah McElheny, Christian Philipp Müller, Gabriel Orozco, Jorge Pardo, Richard Serra, James Turrell, and Do Ho Suh. In 2012, she coorganized a major historical exhibition entitled “Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974,” which was on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and traveled to Haus der Kunst in Münich, Germany. Website

Sowon Kwon is an artist based in New York City. She has had solo exhibitions at The Kitchen, Matrix/Berkeley Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art (Altria), and Gallery Simon in Seoul, Korea. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA Los Angeles, ICA Boston, the Queens Museum, Artists Space, the Drawing Center; and internationally at Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, Venezuela, the Gwangju Biennale, the Yokohama Triennale, and San Art in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, among others. She currently teaches in the MFA programs at Parsons New School and Vermont College of Fine Arts.  

L’Rain is the moniker of the Brooklyn-based musician Taja Cheek. She released her debut, self-titled album in 2017, and Fatigue (Mexican Summer) in 2021. Her work has been praised by the New York Times, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, Pitchfork, Artforum, Fader, and the Wire, among other publications. In recent years, she has played festivals around the world and toured with artists such as Animal Collective and Sharon Van Etten. Website

Kia LaBeija is an artist born and raised in New York City. Her work has been featured in Artforum, the Village Voice, VICE, and Dazed. She frequently speaks on the subject of HIV/AIDS and is an advocate for underrepresented communities—such as long-term survivors, minorities, women, and children—born with the virus. LaBeija’s works have been presented and exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Brooklyn Museum; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Museum of the City of New York; the Bronx Museum of the Arts; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and La MaMa Galleria. Her first solo show, “Fear is Only a Fraction of Love,” was at Royale Projects in Los Angeles in 2018.  

Joy Ladin is the Gottesman Chair in English at Yeshiva University, as well as the first (and still the only) openly transgender employee of an Orthodox Jewish institution. She has published nine books of poetry; a memoir of gender transition, the National Jewish Book Award finalist Through the Door of Life; and the Lambda Literary and Triangle Award finalist The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective. She hosts the online conversation series Containing Multitudes. She serves on the board of Keshet, an organization devoted to full LGTBQ inclusion in the Jewish world. Website

Christy Lange is a Berlin-based writer and associate editor of Frieze. Website

Ingrid Langston is a graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts living in Brooklyn. Website

Andres Laracuente is a New York–based artist working primarily with moving image, performance, sculpture, and photography. Website

Brian Larkin is an associate professor of anthropology at Barnard College. He is the author of Signal and Noise: Media Infrastructure and Urban Culture in Nigeria (2008) and, with Lila Abu-Lughod and Faye Ginsburg, co-editor of Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (2000). Larkin’s research focuses on the ethnography and history of media in Nigeria. He has published widely on issues of globalization, piracy and intellectual property, and Nigerian films (Nollywood) in such journals as Public Culture, Africa, Social Text, and Cahiers d’Études africaines. Larkin is currently working on a book, provisionally titled Secular Machines: Media and the Materiality of Islamic Revival, which analyzes the role of media in the rise of new Islamic movements in Nigeria. Website

Liz Magic Laser is a Brooklyn-based artist working primarily in video and performance. Her work plays with power and performativity. She has had solo shows at Kunstverein Göttingen (Germany), Mercer Union (Toronto), Wilfried Lentz (Rotterdam), Various Small Fires (Los Angeles), Paula Cooper Gallery (New York City), and DiverseWorks (Houston).  

John Latta wrote The Everyday in a period of one hundred days, one section per day. He is the author of Rubbing Torsos (Ithaca House, 1979) and Breeze (Notre Dame University Press, 2003). He writes regularly at Isola di Rifiuti. Website

Heidi Lau is a founding member of An/other NY and an artist who works with ceramics, drawing, video, hauntology, and Taoist traditions.  

C. Lavender is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in New Jersey. Previously working primarily with plunderphonics, she now focuses on sound and performance as a whole. Her performances vary in instrumentation, length and intensity in accordance with the way in which intuition and mood reflect the atmosphere a given space. Lavender has performed at the Voice of the Valley festival in West Virginia, the International Noise Conference in Miami, and the NY Eye & Ear Fest. Website

Louise Lawler was the subject of a recent retrospective, “Adjusted,” at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. This past summer Metro Pictures, New York presented “No Drones,” an exhibition of the artist’s most recent work. Lawler will present a solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers, Berlin in November. Her work will also be featured in several prominent group shows at Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe, Hamburg; La Panacée, Paris; Grimaldi Forum, Monaco; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde.  

Stephon Lawrence is a writer and artist, born and based in Brooklyn. She is an MFA candidate in Writing and Activisms at Pratt Institute and is co-founder and an editor of The Felt, a journal of otherworldly poetics. She has a forthcoming chapbook with Horseless Press, NERVS.  

Gil Lawson was born in San Diego in 1990. His writing has been published by n+1, The Millions, The Quietus, and Imperial Matters, among others.  

Thomas J. Lax is the associate curator of media and performance art at MoMA, a position he’s held since 2014. At the Museum, he has organized or co-organized projects including Steffani Jemison: Promise Machine, Greater New York 2015, Maria Hassabi: PLASTIC, Projects: Neïl Beloufa, and Modern Dance: Ralph Lemon, among others. He is currently working on a major project on the legacy of Judson Dance Theater. Previously he worked at the Studio Museum in Harlem for seven years, on exhibitions such as Kalup Linzy: If It Don’t Fit, VideoStudio, Fore, and When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South. Thomas writes regularly for a variety of publications and is a faculty member at the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts. He is also on the advisory committees of Contemporary And, the Laundromat Project, Recess, Vera List Center for Arts and Politics, among others. Thomas holds degrees from Brown University and Columbia University and in 2015 was awarded the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.  

Carolyn Lazard is a Philadelphia-based artist working across video, sound, sculpture, and performance. They have screened and exhibited work at Essex Street Gallery (New York City), Anthology Film Archives (New York City), the Kitchen (New York City), the New Museum (New York City), Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio), Camden Art Centre (UK), Kunsthal Aarhus (Denmark), and the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam). They have published writing in the Brooklyn Rail and Mousse Magazine. Website

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Fran Lebowitz is a writer whose career began as a columnist for Andy Warhol’s Interview. Public Speaking, a documentary about Lebowitz by Martin Scorsese, aired on HBO in 2010. She is the author of several books, including Metropolitan Life (1978), Social Studies (1981), The Fran Lebowitz Reader (1994), and Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas (1994).  

Alex Taek-Gwang Lee is a professor at Kyung Hee University. He received an MA in philosophy from University of Warwick and a PhD in cultural theory from University of Sheffield. His publications include Theory After Althusser, Futurism, The Obscene Fantasy of Korean Culture, and Nationalism as a Sublime Object. He has been an editorial member of journals such as English Language and Literature, Journal of Theory and Criticism, Journal of Literature and Cinema, and the Gwangju Biennale’s journal, NOON. In 2013, he organized The Idea of Communism conference in Seoul with Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek and co-edited, with Žižek, The Idea of Communism 3.  

Edward Lee is a professor of law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he is the director of the Program in International Copyright Law. Lee's research focuses on the ways in which the Internet, technological development, and globalization challenge existing legal paradigms. He is the author of The Fight for the Future: How People Defeated Hollywood and Saved the Internet—For Now (2013). Website

Okkyung Lee is a New York-based artist and South Korea native. Her work blurs genre boundaries and pushes the limits of contemporary cello performance techniques. She has released more than twenty albums and, since 2010, has been developing a site-specific duo project with dancer and choreographer Michelle Boulé. Lee was awarded the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in 2015 and received a grant from Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2010.  

Jessica Y Lee is a documentarian and the video producer of Triple Canopy. She is currently director of art, production and digital media at Icarus Films, web editor at Cineaste, and a freelance video producer for art institutions such as the Whitney Museum of Art. Website

Margaret Lee is an artist who, in 2009, founded the exhibition space 179 Canal, New York, which has since evolved into 47 Canal, operated in collaboration with Oliver Newton. Lee’s past curatorial projects and exhibitions have been hosted by White Columns, X-Initiative, and Performa ’09, among other venues. Her first solo show took place at Jack Hanley Gallery in 2011. This fall, her work will be included in the exhibition New Pictures of Common Objects, curated by Christopher Lew, at MoMA PS1. Website

Susanne Leeb is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she is working on a project on abstraction and the critique of modernity, and a guest professor of art history at the Art Academy in Nuremberg. She is also the co-publisher of PoLYpeN and a regular contributor to Texte zur Kunst. Website

Lynn Hershman Leeson is an artist and filmmaker who uses pioneering technologies to investigate the real and the virtual.  

Claire Lehmann is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn. Formerly an editor at Cabinet, she has contributed to catalogues for the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and publications including Artforum and Parkett. She co-curated Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New at the Museum of Modern Art, and is co-editor and co-author of a monograph on artist’s books, forthcoming from Phaidon.  

Andrew Leland is a writer, editor, and audio producer. His book about the strangeness, difficulty, and occasional joy of going blind is forthcoming from Penguin Press. He hosts and produces the Organist, an arts-and-culture podcast from KCRW and the Believer, where he is an editor. He lives in Massachusetts. Website

Ralph Lemon is a choreographer, writer, and visual artist. He currently serves as the artistic director of Cross Performance, an organization dedicated to the creation of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary performance and presentation.  

Zoe Leonard is a New York–based artist who works with photography, sculpture, and installation. Recent exhibitions include those at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York; Dia at the Hispanic Society, New York; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; and Documenta 12. She is co-chair of the graduate program in photography, Bard College. She has an upcoming solo show in 2012 at the Camden Arts Centre, London. Website

Chris Leong is a founding partner of Leong Leong. He received his Master of Architecture from Princeton University and his Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Berkeley. As partner at Leong Leong, he has overseen the direction of multiple mixed-use projects including the Anita May Rosenstein Campus of the Los Angeles LGBT Center and the AAFE Center for Community and Entrepreneurship. He has also served as the co-chair of the New Practices Committee at the AIA Center for Architecture. Chris is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Leong Leong is the recipient of the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices Award, the AIA New York New Practices Award, and has been recognized as a Design Vanguard by Architectural Record.  

Timothy Leonido is a writer and musician who lives in New York.  

Alex Lesy is a graphic designer living in Brooklyn. He is design director at Bookforum and senior designer at Artforum. Website

Per-Oskar Leu is an artist based in Oslo. In 2013, he participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has exhibited at Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt; Johan Berggren Gallery and Malmö Art Museum, Malmö; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; EVA International Biennial, Limerick; and 1/9 Unosunove, Rome, where he showed his most recent collaborative project, “Benjamin Tiven c/o Per-Oskar Leu—an alternate correspondence.” Website

David Levine is an artist and writer based in New York. Recent solo exhibitions and performances include “Some of the People, All of the Time” at the Brooklyn Museum; Light Matter at Fondation Cartier (Paris); “Bystanders” at Gallery TPW (Toronto); and Private Moment with Creative Time in New York. He won an OBIE in 2013 for his performance installation Habit and is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. His writing has appeared in n+1, Triple Canopy, Cabinet, Frieze, Parkett, and Theater. Best Behavior (53rd State Press), an anthology of his writings on theater and performance, will be published this fall, as will the artist's book A Discourse on Method (Shonni Enelow). Levine is a professor of the practice of performance, theater, and media at Harvard University. Website

Rachel Levitsky ’s first full-length volume, Under the Sun, was published by Futurepoem books in 2003; subsequent works include Neighbor and The Story of My Accident Is Ours. She is the founder and co-director of Belladonna*, an event and publication series of feminist avant-garde poetics. Website

Bridget Lewis  

Alvin Li is a writer and contributing editor of Frieze. He is based in Shanghai, China. His writing on contemporary art and culture has appeared in Frieze, Artforum, Mousse, and Art-Agenda, among others. Li is the cofounder of CINEMQ, an unrefined, Shanghai-based queer collective known for hopping around clubs to screen curated content from around the world, with a focus on Chinese and East Asian independent queer film productions. CINEMQ also publishes weekly articles and organizes parties.  

Anny Li is a writer and editor based in New York. She currently works at Snøhetta, an integrated architecture and landscape design studio, where she writes, edits, and manages publications.  

Lichens is Rob Lowe. His most recent record is Omns (Kranky). He lives in Brooklyn. Website

Justin Lieberman is an artist based in Brooklyn. Website

Min Lieskovsky  

Glenn Ligon is a New York–based artist. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Camden Arts Centre, London; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Power Plant, Toronto, among other venues. A major retrospective of his work, Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 2011 and traveled nationally. Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, a curatorial project organized with Nottingham Contemporary and Tate Liverpool, opened in 2015. Ligon was also included in the 2015 Venice Biennale. His awards and honors include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the Studio Museum’s Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and many more in the United States and abroad. Ligon earned his BA from Wesleyan University and participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.  

Michelle Lim is a studio art major at New York University. Website

Lana Lin is an artist, filmmaker, and writer based in New York City. She is the author of Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer (2017). She has made a number of films that fall into the capacious category of experimental, critical, and creative nonfiction, some of which are archived here. She collaborates on research-based multidisciplinary projects with H. Lan Thao Lam as Lin + Lam. She teaches in the school of media studies at the New School. Website

Tan Lin is the author, most recently, of 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking: and Insomnia and the Aunt. The recipient of a Getty Distinguished Scholar Grant and a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writing Grant to complete a book on the writings of Andy Warhol, he is also working on a novel called Our Feelings Were Made by Hand. Website

Kelly Link coedits Small Beer Press and has written three collections of fantastic short stories, most recently Pretty Monsters.  

Jen Liu is a visual artist working in performance, video, painting, and installation. She studied at the California Institute of the Arts and at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. She has presented work at The Sculpture Center, On Stellar Rays, and Issue Project Room, New York; the Aspen Museum of Art; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; MUSAC, Leon; Royal Academy and ICA in London; Kunsthaus Zurich; and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. In 2013 Liu's installation Melon Mysticism for Everyone, was affixed to the Manhattan Bridge in New York. She was included in the 2014 Shanghai Biennial. Liu lives and works in New York.  

Lucy Siyao Liu is an artist and architectural designer based in New York. Her work addresses representational techniques and the disjunctions that occur in imaging technologies, with an emphasis on exploring systems of nature through drawings and animations. She is the creator and coeditor of PROPS PAPER, a weekly newspaper on image research. She teaches drawing for the Department of Architecture and for the Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) Program at MIT. Lately, she has been drawing clouds.  

Alex Logsdail is the international director of the London- and Manhattan-based Lisson Gallery where he works closely with artists such as Carmen Herrera and Dan Graham, and a younger generation which includes Allora & Calzadilla, Pedro Reyes, and Haroon Mirza, among others. In addition to Lisson, Logsdail has worked previously at Deitch Projects and Team Gallery, both in New York, among other organizations. He is currently a member of the Whitney Museum’s Performance Committee and was previously a member of the Publishers Circle before joining the Board, in addition to having regularly supported Triple Canopy’s annual benefit.  

Tim Lokiec is a painter based in Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited at de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Saatchi Gallery, London, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York and Oliver Kamm 5BE, New York. He received his MFA from Columbia University.  

Paloma Contreras Lomas explora distintos vestigios de la masculinizada política mexicana, buscando huir de tácticas panfletarias, utiliza la caricatura política como método de producción y pensamiento. Trabaja por escrito, dibujo, instalación y video. Es miembro activo del colectivo Biquini Wax, además de ser bañista honoraria en el grupo de estudios sub-críticos y curatoriales latinoamericanos Los Yacusi. Su trabajo se ha exhibido en la Ciudad de México en Museo de Arte Moderno de México; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo; Alumnos47; Ladrón Galería; Museo Numismático; y en Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Kirkland Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge. Ha editado de manera independiente distintas publicaciones como Sin Valor (2015); El Instituto para el estudio del Fascismo (2017); Fanzine Menstrual día uno y día dos (2016); y Las Botas de Hule precioso (2016). Ha publicado en libros como Manifiestos (Random House, 2017) y en el Blog de Crítica. Es escritora fantasma en su blog de escritura Lirio Cobra. Website

Gareth Long is an artist based in New York. He holds a BA in visual studies and classical civilizations from the University of Toronto and an MFA from Yale University. Recent solo exhibitions include those at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; Kate Werble Gallery, New York; Michael Benevento, Los Angeles; and Torri, Paris. Website

Jordan Lord is a writer and video artist, studying at Columbia University. He is also a former editorial and production assistant for Triple Canopy. Website

Christian Lorentzen is an editor of the London Review of Books.  

Marie Lorenz is an artist whose project The Tide and Current Taxi ferries passengers through the waterways of New York.  

Laurence Lowe is a writer based in Brooklyn and a former editor of Triple Canopy. His work has appeared in the New Republic, GQ, the New York Times, n+1, and Metropolis M. Website

Glenn Lowry is an American art historian and has served as the director of the Museum of Modern Art since 1995. Lowery was born in New York City and raised in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He received his BA from Williams College and MA (1978) and PhD (1982) in the history of art from Harvard University, with honorary degrees from the College of William and Mary and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Lowry lectures and writes in support of contemporary art, on the role of museums in society, and on other topics related to his research interests. He is a member of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s board of trustees, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the steering committee for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and a resident member of the American Philosophical Society. He also serves on the advisory council of the department of art history and archaeology at Columbia University. In 2004, the French government honored Lowry with the title of Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.  

Mina Loy (1882–1966) was a writer, artist, actor, and lamp designer. Website

LSDXOXO is a New York-based DJ and producer. The Fader has described LSDXOXO’s work as “deliciously confrontational.” His recent releases include the mixtapes Fuck Marry Kill (GHE20G0TH1K, 2016) and Whorecore (2014), which was selected by Fact as one of the top fifty albums of the year. LSDXOXO has garnered attention for his wild manipulations of mainstream sounds, which often apply sex-positive narratives to pop culture. He’s currently working on his debut LP, which will be released by GHE20G0TH1K.  

Derek Lucci  

Luca Lum is a Singapore-based artist and writer. Her work has been featured in LUMA/Westbau (Zurich); the Hong Kong-based literary journal Cha; and the Yale Literary Magazine. She is currently working with the National University of Singapore Museum on CONCRETE ISLAND, a program that explores Singapore’s limits and excesses through publications, an experimental literature class and reading workshop, a mobile cinema program, bus tours, and exhibitions.  

Joe Luna lives in Brighton, UK, where he runs the Hi Zero reading series and edits Hi Zero magazine. Crater Press published the letterpress fold Google Song in November 2011; his poems have appeared in, among others, Poems, Written Between October and December 2010 (Grasp Press), The Claudius App (online), Better than Language: An Anthology of New Modernist Poetries (Ganzfeld Press), FRIENDS (Critical Documents), The Cambridge Literary Review, Sous les Pavés, Damn the Cæsars, Lana Turner, and The Death and Life of American Cities. A booklet, LVRSLVRSLVRSLVRS, was privately distributed in 2010; the .pdf epic FAILCORE is still public. A new book, ASTROTURF, is forthcoming.  

Israel Lund Website

Anna Lundh is a visual artist, born in Sweden and based in Stockhom and New York. Lundh’s work investigates cultural phenomena, social agreements, technology, and language and takes the form of video, text, installation, and various experiments. In recent years she has participated in residency programs such as LMCC Workspace and Flux Factory, New York, and Omi International Arts Center, Ghent; and shown her work at Bonniers Konsthall, Haninge Konsthall, Kalmar Konstmuseum, and Norrköpings Konstmuseum in Sweden and X-Initiative (Rhizome), Marian Spore, Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte, and Apexart in New York. Website

Matthew Lusk is an artist based in Brooklyn. Website

Irene Lusztig is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. Website

Christopher Lyon is an art writer and editor living in Brooklyn. He is editor in chief of Prestel Publishing. Website

Steve Macfarlane is a filmmaker, writer, and film programmer based in Ridgewood, Queens. He began volunteering at Spectacle in 2011 and has since organized screenings at the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture (NMAAHC) among other venues. His book No Accidents: The Films and World of Nancy Meyers is being released in 2021 by Topos Press. He is from Seattle.  

Caolan Madden has an MFA in poetry from Johns Hopkins and is a PhD candidate in English at Rutgers University. She lives in Brooklyn. Website

Gerardo Madera is a designer and the production associate for Triple Canopy. Website

Sara Magenheimer lives and works in Brooklyn. Language, music/sound, and objects comprise a large part of her video-based art practice. From 2004 to 2010 Magenheimer formed two bands, Flying and WOOM, which toured across the US and internationally and released five records. Magenheimer received an MFA from Bard College and has screened video work and performed at Berkeley Art Museum, Canada Gallery, MoMA PS1, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Issue Project Room.  

Jill Magid is an artist and writer living in Brooklyn. She has had solo exhibitions at, among other venues, Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Berkeley Museum of Art, California; Tate Liverpool; and the Security and Intelligence Agency of the Netherlands. Magid is also the author of four novellas. She has received awards from the Fonds Voor Beeldende Kunsten and the Netherland-American Foundation Fellowship Fulbright Grant, and is a 2013–15 fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.  

Michael Magnan is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist and DJ. He has held numerous residencies at parties such as Mr. Black, Vandam at Greenhouse, and, most recently, ElevenEleven. Presently he is working on a house music production project in collaboration with the artist Physical Therapy, under the name Fatherhood.  

Azar Mahmoudian is a curator and educator based in Tehran. She is part of a collective that, between 2010 and 2015, ran kaf, an independent space focusing on discursive and educational programs on art and theory in Tehran. She is assistant curator of the eleventh Gwangju Biennale.  

Maureen Mahon is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor in the department of music at New York University. She is the author of Right To Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race (Duke University Press, 2004), as well as articles on music and African-American cultural studies that have appeared in academic journals, EbonyJet.com, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum website. She was the Chief Academic Advisor for “Soundtrack of America,” commissioned by the artist Steve McQueen for the opening in 2019 of the Shed (New York). She received a 2013–14 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to research Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll, which is forthcoming from Duke University Press.  

Tony Maimone is a Brooklyn-based composer and musician. He embraces the language of Morton Feldman, the chance of improvisation, and the obscurity afforded by a brief bio. He plays in the band And the Wiremen and was a founding member of Pere Ubu. Website

Umber Majeed is a multidisciplinary visual artist based between New York, USA, and Lahore, Pakistan. Her writing, performance, and animation work engage with familial archives to explore the specifics of Pakistani state and urban infrastructures through a feminist lens. Currently, Majeed is Keyholder Resident at the Lower East Side Printshop in New York.