Contributors

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.  

Tiffany Malakooti  

Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman professor of government and professor of anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University and the director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research in Kampala. He is the author of several books including Citizen and Subject, When Victims Become Killers, and Good Muslim, Bad Muslim.  

Maral is an Iranian-American producer and DJ who lives in Los Angeles. Her recordings include the single “On Your Way ft. Panda Bear” (2021), Push (Leaving Records, 2020), and the mixtape Mahur Club (2019). She is the host of the show “Time Away” on Dublab. Website

Ari Marcopoulos Website

Danny Marcus is a PhD candidate in art history at the University of California, Berkeley, whose writings on Occupy have appeared in October and the n+1 Occupy! Gazette.  

Hedia Maron is a filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. Her first feature documentary, Before Us, about her strange and beautiful family, is currently in production. Website

Mars89 is a Tokyo-based musician and DJ. His work ranges from guttural club tracks to unsettling ambient collections, and has involved collaborations with Patrick Savile and Jun Takahashi. A member of Tokyo’s activist community, Mars89 has spearheaded “protest raves” throughout the city.  

Nicky Marsh is a professor of Twentieth Century Literary Studies at University of Southampton in the UK. She works on cultural representations of finance and money and is cocurator of the national touring exhibition “Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present,” coeditor of Literature and Globalization, and author of Money, Finance, and Speculation in Recent British Fiction.  

Russell Martin is an artist and writer in London. Working with group dialogue as a medium, he creates one-off events that are not recorded or exhibited. Website

Alice Marwick is an assistant professor of communication and media studies and the director of the McGannon Center at Fordham University. Her work investigates online identity and consumer culture through the lenses of privacy, surveillance, consumption, and celebrity. Her first book, Status Update: Celebrity and Attention in Web 2.0 (Yale University Press, 2013), is a multiyear ethnography of the San Francisco tech industry.  

Masks is a New York-based duo comprised of Alexis Georgopoulos and Max Ravitz. The group’s sound is made almost exclusively with analog synthesizers and drum machines and digests the history of electronic dance music, from Detroit to Chicago, cosmic to Italo.  

Rachel Mason is a sculptor and musician. She has composed 8 full length albums and 5 operas. Her work has been shown at Park Avenue Armory, Empac Performance Center in Troy, Kunsthalle Zurich, Swiss Institute, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Art in General, Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art. She will be releasing two albums in 2012 on Shatter Your Leaves Records.  Website

Rebecca Matalon is a curator based in Los Angeles where she works at the Museum of Contemporary Art and co-runs the nonprofit project space JOAN.  

Harry Mathews is the author of six novels and several collections of poetry; his most recent publications are The Human Country: New and Collected Stories, The Case of the Persevering Maltese: Collected Essays, Oulipo Compendium (edited with Alastair Brotchie), and My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973. Website

Mary Mattingly creates sculptural ecosystems in urban spaces. She is currently working on Pull, a two-part sculpture for the International Havana Biennial with the Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. She is also building an underwater bridge in Des Moines, Iowa.  

Bill Maurer is a cultural anthropologist who conducts research on law, property, money and finance, focusing on the technological infrastructures and social relations of exchange and payment. He is a professor at University of California Irvine, where he is the founding director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion. He is the author of Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands (1997), Pious Property: Islamic Mortgages in the United States (2006), and Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason (2005). Website

Nick Mauss is an artist based in New York. His exhibition “Perforations” is on view at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis until November 15, 2011. Release of the LP compilation Crystal Flowers on Dial Records forthcoming. Website

Andrew Maxwell is a linguist and taxonomist working on machine learning and classification problems at Google. A self-described “friend of the poets,” he's edited several little magazines, including the Germ and Double Change, and programs reading and lecture series in the Los Angeles area, most recently as co-director of the Poetic Research Bureau. Website

Sean McCann is a professor of English at Wesleyan University. He is the author of A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism (Duke University Press, 2000). His essays have appeared in American Quarterly, the Common Review, ELH, Radical History Review, Twentieth-Century Literature, Studies in American Fiction, the Yale Journal of Criticism, and several edited volumes.  

Tom McCarthy is the author of three novels, including Remainder and C, and one nonfiction title, Tintin and the Secret of Literature. He is also founder and General Secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde network of writers, philosophers, and artists whose work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Tate Britain, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.  

Tiona Nekkia McClodden is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work explores and critiques issues at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and social commentary. Her interdisciplinary approach traverses documentary film, experimental video, sculpture, and sound installations. McClodden has exhibited and screened work at the Institute of Contemporary Art-Philadelphia, the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the Whitney Museum; MOCA LA; Art Toronto’s VERGE Video program; MCA Chicago; MoMA PS1; the Museum of Contemporary Art (Cleveland); Kansai Queer Film Festival in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan; and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; among others. Her work will be featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. McClodden has been awarded the 2018–19 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism at Bard College, the 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the 2016 Pew Fellowship in the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, among other awards. McClodden curated the traveling exhibitions A Recollection. + Predicated. featured within Julius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental, an interdisciplinary, retrospective project that examined the life, work, and resurgent influence of the composer and pianist. She lives and works in North Philadelphia, PA.  

James McCourt is the venerable author of Mawrdew Czgowchwz, the tale of the ultimate diva; Kaye Wayfaring in Avenged; Time Remaining, an AIDS lament; Delancey's Way, a Washington saga; Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake; Queer Street, the Rise and Fall of an American Culture; and Now Voyagers, Book One: The Night Sea Journey. "The Canticle of Skoozle" is a segment from his eventually forthcoming On Life So Far & The Pathetique. He lives in New York City, Washington, Dublin, and Crossmolina, County Mayo, with the novelist and renowned picture editor Vincent Virga. Website

Joseph McElroy is the author of nine novels, including Women and Men and Cannonball, as well as a forthcoming nonfiction book about water. Website

Maureen McHugh is a science-fiction and fantasy writer whose latest story collection, After the Apocalypse, was one of Publishers Weekly’s Ten Best Books of 2011.  

Yates McKee is an art critic and organizer with various Occupy projects including Strike Debt. His work has appeared in venues including October, Grey Room, the Nation, Waging Nonviolence, and Impasses of the Post-Global, a volume in the Critical Climate Change series. He is coeditor of the book Sensible Politics: The Visual Cultures of Nongovernmental Activism (Zone Books), as well as the magazine Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy.  

Damon McMahon is a musician based in Brooklyn. He performs under the name Amen Dunes, which in 2011 released Through Donkey Jaw (Sacred Bones Records).  

Rodney McMillian is a Los Angeles-based artist working primarily in painting, sculpture, and installation. His work has been shown in solo and group shows at Aspen Art Museum (Colorado), MASS MoCA (North Adams, Massachusetts), MoMA PS1 (New York City), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City), and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis).  

Mores McWreath  

Kirill Medvedev is a socialist, antifascist, and poet living in Moscow. Website

Matt Mehlan is an artist, musician, and producer based in Chicago, where he manages the Creative Audio Archive at Experimental Sound Studio and mixes and masters recordings at his STUUDIO. Mehlan leads the band Skeletons and runs the record label Shinkoyo. He has produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered releases by Zeena Parkins, Janka Nabay, Anthony Braxton, Joe McPhee, the Fly Girlz, Wet Ink Ensemble, and many others. He has performed around the world and released music on Shinkoyo, Ghostly International, Tomlab, Crammed Discs, and the Social Registry. For nine years, Mehlan worked at the experimental music institution Roulette, where he produced concerts, managed the archive, and made documentaries about musicians and artists for Roulette TV. Website

Matthew Mehlan is a musician, songwriter, composer, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY; he is also a cofounder of the record label Shinkoyo. Originally from Chicago, Mehlan studied Technology in Music and Related Arts at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Since 2003 he has been performing and recording with his band Skeletons, which has released albums on Shinkoyo, Ghostly International, Tomlab, Sockets, and Crammed Discs. Website

Rustam Mehta is an architect practicing in New Haven and teaching at Wesleyan University. Website

Clara Meister  

Mylo Mendez was operations coordinator at Triple Canopy. Ze publishes zines and pamphlets through a distro ze co-runs called We’re Hir, We’re Queer. Website

Camila Mercado is a designer and technologist based in New York. She was formerly the digital producer at Triple Canopy. She is co-founder of Software Studios, LLC, a digital printing studio based in Brooklyn.  

Beza Merid is an LSA Collegiate Fellow in the department of communication studies and a faculty affiliate in the science, technology, and society program at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Merid’s research examines how patients, caregivers, health institutions, and policy-makers communicate what it means to be a “responsible” patient. He is particularly interested in the role that illness narratives play in this communication, and in how these narratives are used in the context of health activism. Website

Andrea Merkx received her MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York. She has exhibited and performed at venues such as the Or Gallery, BC, Circuit, CH; the Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art, NY; Bureau, NY; Tidens Krav, NO; along with the Bowery Ballroom, Terminal 5, and Irving Plaza, NY. Since 2012 she has been working as part of Merkx&Gwynne, a collaborative framework for interdisciplinary experimentation in group-exhibition-cum-music-video-set production and opera.  

Joe Merrell works in a range of digital media. He is a member of the recently established collective Gramática parda, which includes several other Los Angeles– and New York–based artists. Merrell received his undergraduate degree in philosophy, Western literature, and history from Evergreen State College and a master’s degree in film from the California Institute of the Arts. Website

Adam Michaels is a founding principle of the New York-based design studio Project Projects, and the editor and designer of Inventory Books. Website

Sarah Michelson is a choreographer born in Manchester, England, and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Her works integrate movement, architectural space, sound, and the natural environment. She is interested in understanding how performers are influenced and how the aesthetics of dance change in specific historical and cultural contexts. In 2009, Michelson was honored with a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. She has also received a Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum Award (2009) for her work Devotion, Study #1 (2012), and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in Dance (2012). Michelson received a BA in literature from London University in 1984, a Performance Diploma from Trinity Laban in 1985, and an MFA from Mills College in 1991. She has served as the associate director of movement research, editor of Performance Journal, and as the associate curator of performance at the Kitchen.  

Troy Michie  

Dawn of Midi is an ensemble composed of Qasim Naqvi (percussion), Aakaash Israni (contrabass), and Amino Belyamani (piano). Based in Paris and New York, the group melds free jazz, minimalism, and musique concrète. Its debut album, First, was released this year by Accretions. Website

Victoria Miguel is a writer based in New York. Website

Radenko Milak is a painter and curator based in Banja Luka. In 2005 he co-founded the Protok Centre for Visual Communications, an alternative art space in Banja Luka that is active throughout Bosnia and the region. From 2008 until 2010 he was the director of SpaPort, an annual international art exhibition. He is currently a professor at the Faculty for Information Technology and Design in Banja Luka. Website

Mileece is a sonic artist whose interactive “ecoscapes” are generated from the electromagnetic emissions of plants and by handmade, sensor-based musical instruments.  

Mladen Miljanović is an artist working and living in Banja Luka. In 2007 he received the Zvono Award for best young artist in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has exhibited at the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Vienna), and Smack Mellon (New York). In addition to his performances, new-media productions, and research-based work, Miljanović deals with the social and therapeutic aspects of art by organizing workshops for the disabled. Website

Gregory R. Miller is a publisher, investment banker, and collector. He has been a managing director at Greenhill & Co. since 2004. Prior to joining Greenhill, he was a managing director at Credit Suisse, where he worked for fourteen years. Throughout his career, he has advised a wide range of consumer and professional media companies on more than a hundred merger and acquisition and capital raising transactions in all segments of the industry. An avid art collector, Miller also serves on the boards of New York-based nonprofits White Columns, Printed Matter, and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, and is a member of the Whitney Museum’s Painting & Sculpture Committee, the Tate’s North American Acquisitions Committee, and MoMA’s Committee on Museum Archives, Library, and Research. In 2004 Miller launched Gregory R. Miller & Co., a publisher of books about contemporary art, architecture, and design.  

Nicole Miller is an artist based in Southern California. Miller has been the recipient of the Rome Prize (2016); the William H. Johnson Prize (2015); the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant (2013); and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award (2012), among others.  

John Miller is an artist and writer based in New York and Berlin, and a professor of professional practice at Barnard.  

Nadja Millner-Larsen is a writer living in New York. She is currently completing her PhD in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. She has recently taught at NYU and at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies. Website

Mara Mills is an associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, where she cofounded and codirects the Center for Disability Studies. She is the editor of Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality (Oxford University Press, 2020), and her book Hearing Loss and the History of Information Theory is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Mills is currently working with Jonathan Sterne on a book titled Tuning Time: Histories of Sound and Speed. Website

Joe Milutis is a writer and media artist and an assistant professor of interdisciplinary arts at the University of Washington, Bothell. He is the author of numerous multimedia essays and the book Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything. Website

Joiri Minaya was born in New York and raised in the Dominican Republic. She has participated in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Guttenberg Arts, Smack Mellon, the Bronx Museum’s AIM Program and the NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, Red Bull House of Art, the Lower East Side Printshop and Art Omi. She has been awarded a Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship as well as grants by Artadia, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation and the Nancy Graves Foundation. Minaya’s work is in the collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno and the Centro León Jiménes in the Dominican Republic.  

Margaret Mitsutani is a translator living in Japan. She has translated works by Kyōko Hayashi, Mitsuyo Kakuta, Yoko Tawada (for which she shared the National Book Award), and the Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburō Ōe.  

Sebastian Mlynarski  

Nour Mobarak is an artist who excavates violence and desire—the compulsions and glitches that exist in both people and nation-states. She works with voice, sculpture, sound, performance, writing, and video. She has performed at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles); LAXART (Los Angeles); Miguel Abreu Gallery (New York); Stadslimeit (Antwerp); Cambridge University (Cambridge); and the Getty Museum (Los Angeles), among other venues. Mobarak has published poems in journals such as F. R. David, the Claudius App, and the Salzburg Review. She has participated in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego); Miguel Abreu Gallery; LAXART; Cubitt Gallery (London); and Rodeo Gallery (London). In 2019, she released the album Father Fugue (Recital Program). Website

Isabelle Moffat is an independent scholar living in Berlin. She received her PhD from MIT in 2002. Website

Amir Mogharabi is an artist and the editor of Farimani, a new critical journal. His editorial and artistic practice derives from an interest in how progress is conceptualized historically and the various ways in which history can be rewritten when approached as invention. He lives in New York. Website

Naeem Mohaiemen is a writer and visual artist working in Dhaka and New York who explores the history of the international left and utopia.  

K. Silem Mohammad is the author of The Front (Roof Books, 2009), Breathalyzer (Edge Books, 2008), A Thousand Devils (Combo Books, 2004), and Deer Head Nation (Tougher Disguises, 2003). He teaches at Southern Oregon University. Website

Lara Mimosa Montes is a senior editor of Triple Canopy. Her poems and essays have appeared in Fence, BOMB, The Third Rail, Unbag, Jacket2, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in English from The CUNY Graduate Center. Her first book, The Somnambulist, was published by Horse Less Press in 2016, and her second book, Thresholes, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press. She was born in the Bronx.  

Mario Montez  

Thomas Moran is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and a practicing architect. Website

Saretta Morgan is the author of the chapbooks Feeling Upon Arrival (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) and room for a counter interior (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2017) as well as the full-length collection Plan Upon Arrival (Three Count Pour/Selva Oscura, 2020). Her most recent writing considers black migration to the Southwest, particularly as it relates to natural resource management, Indigenous histories and contemporary border policies. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Jerome Foundation, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others. Saretta is a poetry editor at Aster(ix) Journal as well as African American Review. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where she supports the immigration detention center visitation program Mariposas Sin Fronteras and the humanitarian aid initiatives of No More Deaths Phoenix. She teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.  

Ikue Mori is a New York-based artist who was born and raised in Japan. Her time as a drummer in the seminal no-wave band DNA established her as an early pioneer of noise music, and her evolving body of work continues to challenge conventions for musical expression across genres. Mori received the Distinctive Award for Prix Ars Electronics Digital Music category in 1999, and she has been commissioned to perform at numerous institutions including the Tate Modern, the Japan Society, Montalvo Arts Center, SWR German radio program, and the Sharjah Art Foundation in UAE. In addition to her solo work, Mori performs with various musicians and artists, including John Zorn and Joan Jonas.  

Evgeny Morozov is author of The Net Delusion and To Save Everything, Click Here.  

Meredith Morran is a writer and filmmaker based in New York. Website

Jacob Carpenter Morris grew up with a full view of the night sky in rural Vermont. He studied composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and has been recording and touring since moving to New York City in 2001. His composition “VWB 373: Theme for ‘De Tribus Impostoribus’” was assembled without the use of any digital editing. Website

Mösco  

Joseph Mosconi is a linguist based in Los Angeles. He is an editor of Area Sneaks, a journal of poetry and visual arts, and codirects the Poetic Research Bureau. His criticism can be found in the Fillip Review, The /n/oulipian Analects, and the liner notes to Golden Digest, a DVD release by Animal Charm. Website

Ceci Moss is a writer, musician, DJ, and curator. She plays bass in the band Cellular Chaos and records solo material as Mi Or and the Pedestals. She writes and edits the contemporary art and music blog A Million Keys and is senior editor for Rhizome. Moss also programs Radio Heart, a weekly show airing on East Village Radio. She is currently pursuing a PhD in comparative literature at New York University. Website

Fred Moten lives in New York City and is a professor of performance studies at New York University. He is the author of several books of criticism and poetry, including In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (2003), B Jenkins (2010), The Service Porch (2016), Black and Blur (2017), Stolen Life (2018), and The Universal Machine (2018). He is also the coauthor, with Stefano Harney, of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (2013) and A Poetics of the Undercommons (2016). Website

Shana Moulton is a video and performance artist based in New York.  

Horacio Castellanos Moya was born in 1957 in Honduras and grew up in El Salvador. He is the author of eleven novels, including Senselessness, The She-Devil in the Mirror, Tyrant Memory, and The Dream of My Return. He is now living in the United States. Website

Sam Moyer was born in Chicago, raised between Los Angeles and Hanover, Massachusetts, and presently lives and works in Brooklyn. Her work has been included in several shows in New York including Greater New York 2010, at MoMA PS1, and the current Public Art Fund show “Total Recall.” She is represented by Société in Berlin and Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York. Website

Nicholas Muellner is a photographer and writer based in West Danby, New York. His recent book projects, including The Amnesia Pavilions (2011) and The Photograph Commands Indifference (2009), explore the role of photography in autobiographical narrative. Website

Matt Mullican was born in 1951 and currently resides in Berlin. Working in performance, installation, digital technology, and sculpture, and employing tools ranging from hypnosis to cartography, Mullican seeks to develop a cosmological system based on his personal visual and symbolic vocabulary. His work has been exhibited extensively in the US and internationally. Website

Gwen Muren is the author of Glitch from Crater Press. She lives in Philadelphia and New York.  

Brooklyn Academy of Music is a multi-arts center located in Brooklyn, New York. For more than one hundred and fifty years, BAM has been the home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas—engaging both global and local communities. With world-renowned programming in theater, dance, music, opera, film, and much more, BAM showcases the work of emerging artists and innovative modern masters. Website

Ebecho Muslimova was born in Makhachkala, Russia, and lives and works in New York. Since 2011, her strikingly graphic drawings have spotlighted an alter ego named Fatebe, a grinning, portly figure minimally rendered in calligraphic black lines. Wide-eyed and naked, Fatebe finds herself in various impossible situations—a contortionist of voluminous proportions. Recently, Muslimova has introduced painting and color to her practice, and Fatebe’s essential attributes have developed in complexity. Muslimova has had solo exhibitions at Magenta Plains (New York), Room East (New York), and White Flag Projects (St. Louis). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Galerie Maria Bernheim (Zürich), Eva Presenhuber (Zürich), Tanya Leighton Gallery (Berlin), Ellis King (Dublin), and Signal (Brooklyn), among many other venues.  

Eileen Myles 's Inferno (a poet's novel) is just out from OR books. For the essay collection The Importance of Being Iceland (2009), she received a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation grant. Sorry, Tree (2007) is her most recent book of poems. In 2010, the Poetry Society of America awarded her the Shelley Prize. Website

Ulrike Müller engages relationships between form, bodies, and a concept of painting that is not restricted to brush and canvas. Her work moves between different contexts and publics, invites collaboration, and expands to other realms of production in processes of exploration and exchange. She studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program; she has been a coeditor of the queer feminist journal LTTR and organized “Herstory Inventory. 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists,” a collaborative project exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum and Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2012. She has had solo exhibitions at MUMOK and Kunstraum Lakeside in Austria (both in 2015) and participated in group exhibitions including the Whitney Biennial and “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon” at the New Museum (both in 2017). In 2018, she will participate in the Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.