Contributors

DJ Sabine ’s work focuses on the exposure and pleasures of African diasporic music, from house to Afrotech to Afrobeat to Haitian roots. Her creative projects include Brooklyn Mecca, Cumbancha, and Oyasound, which is working on an EP. Sabine is now a resident DJ for Fania Records’s Fania Collective. She’s played around the United States and the world and has participated in panel discussions and curated showcases such as Lakay Se Lakay: Home Is Home, a conversation series and party devoted to Haitian electronic artists. Sabine ultimately seeks to create new scholarship, through the African and Haitian diasporic lens, on music, culture, and spirituality.  

Georgia Sagri  

Julia Samuels  

Jay Sanders  

Sukhdev Sandhu directs the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture at New York University and is the author of Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night. He also writes for Bidoun, the Wire, the Guardian, and many other publications.  

Jon Santos is an artist living and working in New York City. He works in video, sound, performance, and sculpture. Recent performances and projects include Telegraph, at Storefront for Art and Architecture’s gala; The Last Weekend, with Peter Coffin; and Social Mirroring, at the New Museum. Jon is an adjunct faculty member at Pratt Institute and the principal of Common Space, a multidisciplinary design and art studio. He has exhibited widely in group exhibitions at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum (New York). Website

Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento is an artist, writer, teacher, and lawyer interested in the analysis of property and structures, in both tangible and intangible forms, through legal and cultural discourses and practices. Website

Aki Sasamoto works in sculpture, performance, video, and whichever other media she needs to get her ideas across. In her installation and performance works, Aki moves and talks inside the careful arrangements of sculpturally altered objects, activating the bizarre emotions that underlie daily life. Her works appear in galleries spaces, theaters, as well as odd sites. Those have included the Kitchen, SculptureCenter, Chocolate Factory Theater, the 2010 Whitney Biennial, and Greater New York 2010 at MoMA PS1 in New York City; National Museum of Art-Osaka and the 2008 Yokohama Triennale in Japan; the 2012 Gwangju Biennial, the 2016 Shanghai Biennale, and the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale. She has collaborated with musicians, choreographers, mathematicians, and scholars. She teaches sculpture at Yale University. She likes food.  

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Her most recent book is Expulsions: When Complexity Produces Elementary Brutalities (Harvard University Press, 2014). Website

Ognjen Šavija is a classically trained guitar player, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer, sound designer, and multimedia artist from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His discography includes three solo albums and nine albums with various groups. He also composes music for film, theater, and sound installations. He is one of founders and an active member of the Ambrosia Cultural Association, Sarajevo. Website

Kaneza Schaal is an artist based in New York City. She came up in the downtown experimental theater community, first working with the Wooster Group, then with other companies and artists including Elevator Repair Service, Richard Maxwell and New York City Players, Dean Moss, Claude Wampler, Jay Scheib, Jim Findlay, New York City Opera, and National Public Radio. This work brought her to over eighteen countries and venues including Centre Pompidou, Royal Lyceum Theater Edinburgh, REDCAT, the Whitney Museum, BAM, the Kitchen, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and MoMA. Website

Elizabeth Schambelan is a writer living in New York. She is working on a book about masculinity, fraternity culture, and feminism. Several essays from her book in progress have been published in n+1. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Bookforum.  

Erin Schell is a designer, illustrator, and graduate philosophy student living in Brooklyn, NY. Website

Nathan Schneider is a writer living in Brooklyn and an editor of the online magazine Killing the Buddha. Website

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Barry Schwabsky is the art critic of the Nation and a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and Artforum. Website

Mattathias Schwartz Website

Stefanie Schwarzwimmer is a Berlin-based artist and graphic designer. Recently, her work has been exhibited at Jeune Création (Paris), La Chaufferie (Paris), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Schwarzwimmer is interested in the life, death, circulation, and virality of images. She deals with the speculative potential of 3D renderings, creating computer-generated fictional moments that appear to be photographic and therefore evidentiary. She uses memories to build virtual interiors mixed with projections and elements of popular visual culture, which serve as stages for altered realities. Website

Peter Schwenger lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and doesn’t get out much. Website

Screen Slate  

Emily Segal is an artist and writer based in New York. She is a co-founder of the trend forecasting group K-HOLE and editor-at-large of Flash Art.  

Susan Sellers received a BFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. She went on to earn an MA in American Studies from Yale University, where her work explored mid-nineteenth-century labor practices in craft industries of printing and typesetting and the emergence of professionalized design practices. She has taught and lectured widely, and her articles have appeared in a number of journals including Eye, Design Issues, and Visible Language. She has held positions in several studios including Total Design and UNA in Amsterdam. Ms. Sellers is a founding partner at the design studio 2×4 in New York City and holds the position of Head of Design at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1997 and is currently senior critic in graphic design.  

Namwali Serpell is a writer and associate professor at UC Berkeley. She received a 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award. She was shortlisted twice for the Caine Prize for African Writing, and won in 2015 for her story “The Sack.” Her work has been published in the Believer, n+1, Callaloo, Tin House, McSweeney’s, the New Yorker, and several anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories 2009 and Africa39. Her first book of literary criticism, Seven Modes of Uncertainty, was published by Harvard University Press in 2014. Her first novel, The Old Drift, will be published by Hogarth Press in 2018.  

James Sham is an artist living in Richmond. He is pursuing an MFA in sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University. Website

Prageeta Sharma was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. Her collections of poetry include Bliss to Fill (2000), The Opening Question (2004), which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, Infamous Landscapes (2007), and Undergloom (2013). She has taught at the New School and Goddard College and is currently a professor in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Montana-Missoula, of which she has also served as director. She is the founder and president of the conference/board Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, and Literary Studies.  

Jeremy Shaw  

Adam Shecter has exhibited widely in New York (venues include D’Amelio Terras, BAMcinematek, Brooklyn Arts Council, Eyebeam, John Connelly Presents, and Deitch Projects), as well as in Miami, Boston and Paris. A graduate of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, he lives and works in Long Island City. Website

Kate Shepherd is an artist who lives and works in New York. Trained in both art and architecture, her oeuvre includes painting, sculpture, and site-specific land art. She is represented by Galerie Lelong (New York, Paris), Anthony Meier Fine Art (San Francisco), and Barbara Krakow Gallery (Boston) and has also exhibited with Galería Elvira González (Madrid) and Bartha Contemporary (London). Her work has been acquired by museums such as the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Phillips Collection; and the Seattle Art Museum. In 2014 Shepherd presented “Fwd: The Telephone Game,” an exhibition of recent work at Galerie Lelong, New York. Website

Cindy Sherman has been creating work since the mid 1970s, and was recently the subject of a major retrospective in 2012 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her work will be featured in several prominent group shows in 2014, at the Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth, Texas; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; me Collectors Room/Olbricht Foundation, Berlin; and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.  

Julia Sherman mines folk traditions, canonical art history, feminist theory, and a range of personal anxieties to create tableaus of fantasy, philosophy, and interrogation. She has published work in the Paris Review, the New York Times, Cabinet, and Hyperallergic. Website

Stuart Sherman (1945–2001) was an artist, performer, and writer. Website

Pak Sheung Chuen is an artist who lives and works in Hong Kong. His work often reflects on the contradictions and absurdities of everyday life in a poetic and humorous manner. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions; he represented Hong Kong in the 53rd Venice Biennale. From 2003 until 2007, his works were published in the newspaper Ming Pao on a nearly weekly basis. He is the author of ODD ONE IN: Hong Kong Diary and ODD ONE IN II: Invisible Travel.  

藝術家：白雙全 在香港生活及創作。2002年他畢業於香港中文大學藝術系，他的作品多發表於星期日《明報》的專欄(2003-2007)，從事攝影、繪畫及概念藝術創作，作品關於人與人與城市和自然之間的感通。他曾出版《單身看II：與視覺無關的旅行》和《單身看：香港生活雜記》。他曾參與多個國際展覽，2009年他代表香港參加第53屆威尼斯雙年展。2012年獲頒香港藝術發展獎最佳藝術家獎，及中國當代藝術獎 (CCAA) 最佳藝術家獎。  

Derica Shields is an independent writer, researcher, and cultural worker based in London. Her writing has appeared in Flash Art, Frieze, Girls Like Us, the Live Art Almanac, the New Inquiry, and Rookie, among other publications. She is the author of the forthcoming book Bad Practice (Book Works, 2021).  

Dan Shiman lives in Marfa, Texas, serving as the archivist and programmer at the Chinati Foundation. A longtime record collector and DJ, Dan is also creator of Office Naps and the Exotica Project, two sites devoted to lost sounds and obscure vinyl. Website

Ara Shirinyan is the author of four books, most recently Your Country Is Great (Afghanistan–Guyana), from Futurepoem Books, and editor of Make Now Press. He codirects the Poetic Research Bureau and lives in Los Angeles. Website

Erin Shirreff is an artist based in New York City. Her work is in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Yale University Art Gallery; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. A monograph of her work was published in 2013. Website

Tiffany Sia an artist, filmmaker, writer, and founder of Speculative Place, a project space in Hong Kong. She is the author of Salty Wet 咸濕 (Inpatient Press, 2019) the book-length sequel, Too Salty Too Wet 更咸更濕 (Speculative Place, 2021), which serves as the basis for her exhibition “Slippery When Wet” at Artists Space. Sia is the director of the short, experimental film Never Rest/Unrest (2020), which has screened at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival and will have its North American premiere at MoMA Documentary Fortnight. She is also part of Home Cooking, an artist collective founded by Asad Raza, and contributes to the group’s performance and reading series Hell Is a Timeline.  

Siglio is an independent press in Los Angeles dedicated to publishing uncommon books that live at the intersection of art and literature. Siglio books defy categorization and ignite conversation: they are cross-disciplinary, hybrid works that subvert paradigms, reveal unexpected connections, rethink narrative forms, and thoroughly engage a reader’s imagination and intellect. Website

Amy Sillman is a painter living in New York. Her work has most recently been shown in a solo exhibition at Captiain Petzel (Berlin), and in the past at numerous galleries and museums including the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, D.C.) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York). Along with painting, Sillman writes occasional essays about art and other artists, draws comics, publishes a zine called The O.G., and teaches at Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Website

Peter Simensky  

Maxwell Simmer is a software engineer and a front-end developer for Triple Canopy. He is the cofounder of Version House and currently lives in Berlin, Germany. Website

Xaviera Simmons produces installations, sculptures, photographic, video and performative works. Selected solo projects and exhibitions scheduled for 2013–2014 include “Archive as Impetus” with the Museum of Modern Art (New York), “Underscore” at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Connecticut), and “Open” at David Castillo Gallery (Miami), in addition to many group exhibitions. Her works are included in major museum and private collections worldwide. Website

Joshua Simon  

Nolan Simon  

Audra Simpson is a political anthropologist who focuses on contextualizing the force and consequences of governance through time, space, and bodies. She is a Kahnawà:ke Mohawk. Her work is rooted in Indigenous polities in the United States and Canada, and her recent research is a genealogy of affective governance and extraction across those countries. Simpson is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (2014), which garnered multiple prizes and awards. She teaches at Columbia University. Website

Deane Simpson is an architect, urbanist, and professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. He is a former unit master at the Architectural Association, London, professor at BAS Bergen, associate at Diller + Scofidio, New York, and faculty member at the ETH Zürich. His research addresses contemporary urban and architectural phenomena such as the urban implications of demographic transformation, social and environmental sustainability challenges within urban and regional settings, the securitization of the public space, and the spatial conditions that align with the transformation of Scandinavian welfare systems. He is the author of Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society (Lars Müller, 2015), and coeditor of The City Between Freedom and Security (Birkhäuser, 2017) and the forthcoming Atlas of the Copenhagens (Ruby Press, 2018).  

Lorna Simpson is known for working in a wide range of mediums including photograph-and-text works, videos, drawings, collage and paintings that confront and challenge conventional views of culture, representation and memory. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Haus der Kunst, Munich among others, as well as significant international exhibitions such as the Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany, and the 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.  

Iain Sinclair has lived in Hackney since 1968. He is working on a book, That Red Rose Empire, woven from interviews with Hackney artists, writers, and local characters, due to be published by Hamish Hamilton this year. Website

Dexter Sinister is a design and publishing collaborative opened by David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey in 2006 as a “Just-in-Time Workshop & Occasional Bookstore” in a Ludlow Street basement in New York; they were later joined by Sarah Crowner. Dexter Sinister combines the characteristically distinct identities of designer, producer, publisher, and distributor. They propose a heteroclite counterpart to the dominant one-size-fits-all, Fordist, assembly-line style of print production and distribution. In contrast to the juggernaut of contemporary publishing and its economies of scale, the workshop “avoids waste by working on demand, utilizing local cheap machinery, considering alternate distribution strategies, and collapsing distinctions of editing, design, production, and distribution into one efficient activity.” Website

Nestor Siré lives and works between Havana and Camagüey, Cuba. He has participated in the Curitiba Biennial, the Havana Biennial, the Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Cuba, the Oberhausen International Festival of Short Film (Oberhausen, Germany), and the Asunción International Biennale (Asunción, Paraguay). Siré was the winner of the 2016 Visa for Creation from l’Institut Français. He has been awarded residencies by Dos Mares (Marseille, France) and the Ludwig Foundation and LASA (Havana). His works have been exhibited at the National Museum of Fine Arts (Havana), the Queens Museum (New York City), Rhizome (New York City), the New Museum (New York City), Hong-Gah Museum (Taipei), UNAM Museum of Contemporary Art (México City), and Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe (Argentina), among other venues.  

Nestor Siré vive y trabaja en La Habana. Ha participado en la Bienal de Gwangju, la Bienal de Curitiba, la Bienal de La Habana, el Festival Internacional de Cortometraje, y la Bienal Internacional de Asunción (Paraguay). Ha participado en residencias incluyendo Dos Mares en Marsella, Francia, y la Fundación Ludwig y LASA en La Habana (2016). Sus obras han sido exhibidas en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (La Habana), el Museo de Queens (Nueva York), Rhizome (Nueva York), el Museo Hong-Gah (Taipéi), el Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo de UNAM (Ciudad de Mexico), y el Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santa Fe (Santa Fe, Argentina). Desde 2016 ha colaborado con la artista Julia Weist en proyectos que investigan las redes de distribución de medios digitales offline.  

Skeletons is a New York-based avant-pop ensemble. The band’s sixth full-length record, Money, was recently released on Tomlab. Website

Josh Slater is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. Website

Buzz Slutzky is a nonbinary transgender Jewish visual artist, writer, and performer based in Brooklyn. They work across multiple disciplines, including drawing, video, and sculpture. Their work moves between autobiographical and historical content, and tends to be comedic. Buzz currently teaches video production at CUNY College of Staten Island and SUNY Purchase, and also studies performance at The Studio.  

Ada Smailbegović is a poet and critic. Her writing explores relations between poetics, natural history, affect, and animal studies. Smailbegović is the author of Avowal of What is Here (JackPine Press, 2009) and one of the founding members of The Organism for Poetic Research. She is currently completing a dissertation titled “Poetics of Liveliness: Natural Histories of Matter in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Poetry” in New York University’s Department of English.  

Christine Smallwood writes the “New Books” column for Harper’s Magazine. Her reviews, essays, and cultural journalism have been published in the New Yorker, Bookforum, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and many other publications. Her fiction has been published in the Paris Review and n+1. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Columbia University and is a core faculty member of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She is also a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. She is currently writing a collection of short stories. Website

Matt Sheridan Smith is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. He is represented by Hannah Hoffman Gallery, galeria kaufmann repetto, and mother’s tankstation.  

Melanie Smith  

Michael Smith  

Genevieve Smith is a writer living in Brooklyn and a former Triple Canopy contributing editor. She is currently an assistant editor at Harper’s Magazine. Website

Patrick Smith is an artist living in Brooklyn. His interactive animations are collected at Vectorpark.com. Website

William S. Smith is the editor of Art in America. He is a founding editor of Triple Canopy and, since 2017, an editor emeritus. Website

Maria Sonevytsky is a PhD student in ethnomusicology at Columbia University and one half of the Brooklyn musical duo the Debutante Hour. She currently lives in Bakhchisaray, Crimea, but will soon relocate to the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains to continue her dissertation fieldwork. Website

The Song Cave is a publisher of books, chapbooks, and art editions. Website

Kathryn Sonnabend studied German and Architecture at Brown University and has lived in Boston, Providence, and Berlin. Website

Natasha Soobramanien is a writer based in Brussels. She is currently collaborating with Luke Williams, her co-writer/teacher, on a novel about two writers’ obsession with the island of Diego Garcia, to be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and Semiotext(e) in 2022. They have been serializing their first draft of the novel in various publications.  

Juan Pablo García Sossa works as JPGS and is a Colombia-born designer, researcher, and artist who is fascinated by the clash between emerging technologies and popular culture in tropical territories. His practice explores the development of cultures, visions, realities, and worlds through the use and appropriation of technologies from the tropics (as a region and a mindset). JPGS has worked with various research institutions and design studios; he is currently a member of SAVVY Contemporary's Laboratory of Form Ideas in Berlin and co-director of Estación Terrena, a space for art, research, and technology in Bogotá. JPGS was a Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future fellow at Eyebeam (New York City) in 2020. Website

Spectacle is a collectively run screening space in Brooklyn, established in 2010 and staffed entirely by volunteers. Before the pandemic, Spectacle was open seven days a week; for now it’s at stream.spectacletheater.com. Spectacle’s programming focuses on lost and forgotten films, and includes overlooked works, offbeat gems, contemporary art, radical polemics, live performance, and more.  

Anna Sperber is a dancer and choreographer based in Brooklyn. Website

Nancy Spero was a pioneer of feminist art. She was born in Cleveland in 1926 and died in New York City in 2009. Her work was shown in major exhibitions at Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2003); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1994); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1994); Museum of Modern Art, New York (1992); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1988). Website

Molly Springfield is an artist living in Washington, DC. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington. Website

Matthew Stadler Website

Zoe Stahl was the manager of readership development at Triple Canopy. She is also the co-creator of the podcast Leave a Message After the Tone.  

Jared Stanley is a poet, writer, and interdisciplinary artist, He is the author of three collections of poetry, Ears, The Weeds, and Book Made of Forest. Stanley has received Fellowships from the Center for Art + Environment and the Nevada Arts Council, and teaches writing and interdisciplinary art at Sierra Nevada College, where he co-directs the SNC Poetry Center. His collaborations with the public art group Unmanned Minerals and the Intermedia Artist Megan Berner include It Calls From the Creek and Surrender. Website

Holly Stanton is a New York–based curator and photographer. Website

Elizabeth Stark has taught at Stanford and Yale about the future of the Internet and is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Stanford’s StartX.  

Will Steacy was raised in Philadelphia and now resides in New York. His work has been shown in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions and has appeared in Harper’s, New York Magazine, the Paris Review, and Newsweek. Website

Jessie Stead  

Laura Steenberge  

Bob Stein is creator of the Criterion Collection of films, founder of the Voyager Company, an original advocate of cross-platform electronic publishing and most recently initiator and director of the Institute for the Future of the Book. He is currently developing a new digital-publishing company. Website

Avi Steinberg  

Jonathan Sterne is a professor and James McGill Chair in the Culture and Technology in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He is the author of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment (2021), MP3: The Meaning of a Format (2012), The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (2003), and numerous articles on media, technologies and the politics of culture. He is also the editor of The Sound Studies Reader (2012). He is currently working with Mara Mills on a book titled Tuning Time: Histories of Sound and Speed. Website

Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944) was an artist, poet, and designer. Website

C. S. Stevens is a freelance photographer based in London. Website

Susan Stewart is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities: Professor of English and serves as Director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton. Her most recent books of criticism are The Poet’s Freedom: A Notebook on Making (2011), The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics (2005), and Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (2002). Her most recent books of poetry are Red Rover (2008), Columbarium (2003), which won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle award, and The Forest (1995).  

Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and writer. She teaches New Media Art at University of Arts Berlin and has participated in the Venice Biennale, Documenta 12, the Shanghai Biennial, and Rotterdam Film Festival. An exhibition surveying her work was recently held at Artists Space in New York.  

Emily Stokes is articles editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine.  

Ulf Stolterfoht is a poet, essayist, and translator living in Berlin. The recipient of numerous awards, including the Peter-Huchel-Preis, his publications include four volumes of fachsprachen (the first of which, Lingos I–IX, was translated by Rosmarie Waldrop for Burning Deck), holzrauch über heslach (all Urs Engeler Editor), and neu-jerusalem (kookbooks, forthcoming). An editor of a book of cowboy poems (roughbooks), he has also translated Gertrude Stein, J. H. Prynne, and Tom Raworth into German. He has been a member of Das Weibchen since 1982, and his poems have been translated into numerous languages.  

Ben Street is a teacher, lecturer, and critic living in London. Website

Publication Studio is an experiment in sustainable publication. They print and bind books on demand, creating original work with artists and writers, books that both respond to the conversation of the moment and can endure. Publication Studio is a laboratory for publication in its fullest sense—not just the production of books, but the production of a public. This public, which is more than a market, is created through deliberate acts: the circulation of texts; discussions and gatherings in physical space; and the maintenance of a digital commons. Together these construct a space of conversation, a public space, which beckons a public into being. Website

Jonathon Sturgeon is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn. Formerly an editor at n+1, e-flux, and the American Reader, he is now the literary editor at Flavorwire.  

Anna Della Subin writes for publications such as the London Review of Books, the New York Times, and the White Review, among others. She is a contributing editor at Bidoun.  

Stefan Sulzer  

Sumi Ink Club is a Los Angeles–based collective founded in 2005 by Sarah Anderson and Luke Fischbeck. The group meets regularly to execute topsy-turvy, detailed, collaborative drawings using ink on paper. In each of its permutations, Sumi Ink Club uses group drawings as a means to open and fortify social interactions that bleed into everyday life. Sumi Ink Club is nonhierarchical: all ages, all humans, all styles. Website

Eve Sussman is a Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker who works collectively with Rufus Corporation. Sussman and the company have created Yuri’s Office (2009), The Rape of the Sabine Women (2006), 89 Seconds at Alcázar (2003). Their most recent work, whiteonwhite:algorithmicthriller, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and at Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York. Rufus Corporation’s work has been exhibited at museums and festivals worldwide. Website

Bayley Sweitzer is a filmmaker living and working in Brooklyn. His practice revolves around repurposing narrative film in order to convey radical political possibilities. His work has been shown at Lincoln Center (New York City), International Film Festival Rotterdam, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Museum of Modern Art (New York City), Tate Modern (London), Berlinale, Anthology Film Archives (New York City), Bozar (Brussels), Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Other Cinema (San Francisco) and Artists Space (New York City). Sweitzer is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award and has received commissions from the Park Avenue Armory (New York City), Gasworks (London), and Spike Island (Bristol).  

Cole Swensen  

Jessica Swensen has been a supervising attorney in the immigration practice at the Bronx Defenders since 2016. She began at the organization—which provides criminal defense, civil legal services, advocacy, and other forms of support to indigent Bronx residents—as an immigration staff attorney in 2013. She defended clients in removal proceedings, represented clients before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and advised noncitizen clients on immigration consequences of criminal contacts. While in law school at Boston College, she represented clients through the Immigration and Asylum Project, volunteered with the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, and was on the executive board of the National Lawyers Guild. She speaks Spanish.  

Martine Syms is a conceptual entrepreneur based in Los Angeles. She uses publishing, video, and performance to look at the making and reception of meaning in contemporary America. She currently runs DOMINICA, an imprint dedicated to exploring blackness as a topic, a reference, a marker, and an audience in visual culture. From 2007 to 2011 Syms directed Golden Age, a project space focused on printed matter. She has presented her work at universities and museums internationally.