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Jorrit is an independent researcher and policy advisor at Bureau Buitendienst. He works towards liveable, inclusive and sustainable cities by changing people's perception of their living environment and their relation to it. As an economic geographer, he is interested in how economic processes shape our physical and social environments. In his work, he focuses on alternative methods of citizen consultation, the just representation of residents and SMEs in local policy and tactical interventions to experiment with urban development.

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Ben-Dror is a multidisciplinary artist, inventor and designer interested in waste, somatics and multispecies entanglements. He recently turned a toy Lamborghini into a tele-presence robot which roamed around the city making friends. Adam studied fine arts at the University of Auckland, design at Victoria University Wellington and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

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“My daily life in Rotterdam is an important fuel for my work in which I connect with people I encounter in my direct surroundings. I’m interested in various social phenomena within the urban landscape, which I approach from a personal point of view and the view of the people I collaborate with. The focus in my work is to have a fearless open minded, critical but positive view on the world around me. To look at what connects us as human beings. Because we still have so much to learn from each other.

As a photographic artist I’m investigating the concept of neighborhood and community. I use photography in an intuitive way and as a direct tool to make contact with my surroundings, the people and objects that I encounter on a daily basis. My series of images I use in (audiovisual) installations and publications. More recently I have also experimented with making films.”

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Cheng works across art, self-organising communities and local ecologies. Since 2006 she has been researching and hosting workshops around everyday resourcefulness – creative making by non-specialists across the Asia-Pacific and Europe. Recently she has been attending to interspecies kinship in her local surroundings, unveiling micro-cosmos and intricate stories by simple means.

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Cheyenne Concepcion is a Filipino-American artist and designer whose work explores the politics of place across a wide range of media including installation, social practice, textile, design and public art. Materially experimental but conceptual at its core, Concepcion’s practice engages ideas of cultural memory, place-based activism, migration and often incorporates a public component. Recently, her objects, textile work and spatial interventions have focused on reclaiming and reinterpreting traditional craft and building practices from her homelands: the Philippines and North America.

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Chang’s works have won first prize of the Kaohsiung Awards (2019), were selected in Taoyuan International Art Award (2021), Taipei Art Awards (2020) and nominated for Taishin Arts Award (2019, 2020), have been presented in the National Art Exhibition (2017), and are part of the collection in the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and Art Bank Taiwan. He has been granted by various domestic and overseas foundations and institutes, commissioned by art and history museums, and his works have been exhibited and screened in museums, galleries, biennials and festivals across Taiwan and international art scenes.

The artist has participated in artist residency programs in Taiwan, Korea, Nepal, Norway, Finland and Denmark, and took part in the post-earthquake reconstruction and art program Solastalgia (NP, 2017), and The Arctic Circle (NO, 2017). He participated in Mediations Biennale (PL, 2018), as independent scholar in ICHSEA (KR, 2019), in PORT JOURNEYS annual meeting (TW, 2019), in collateral exhibition of Taiwan Biennial (TW, 2020), as visiting artist to Rinehart School of Sculpture, MICA (US, 2021), in Pan-Austro-Nesian Art Festival (TW, 2021), Biennale Jogja (ID, 2021) and SMIFest (ES, 2021).

Chang regards the ocean as a worldview diverse from the current terrestrial civilization of Anthropocene, and interprets various issues and phenomena in the contemporary context as a complex, macro-system and in forms of interconnected waters, currents and tides. Besides, he regards water as the medium penetrating everything from the inner to the outer worlds, to embody the unstable state of transition, flow and anti-subjectivity corresponding to his homeland Taiwan under subtropical monsoon climate.

His art practices deal with those rapid-changing environments like ship, island, water as well as port, and through textural and spatial processes of investigation, collection, interweave and reconstruction, in which he tries to unveil the universal experiences, tension and grey area between human, civilization and nature constantly shaping each other. His works are usually realized based on a core narrative text or by means of storytelling, and integrate with keen craftsmanship multiple forms and media. He was the co-founder of alternative art space Waley Art located in western Taipei.

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Diekema is an interdisciplinary artist that works in the field of art-based research, media-art and writing. He has a focus on social systems, behavior and urbanism. Since 2007 he has been involved in organizing creative communities in the field of temporary urban developments.

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James Enos is an artist and educator who produces post-narrative works that account for fragmented urban processes and imaginaries. He uses sculpture, drawings, and situational practice as a way to gauge how public culture responds to change. His work often addresses questions of time and culpability through the mark as a record (and, what may consequently radiate from it).

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Brian House is an artist who investigates the rhythms of human and nonhuman systems. His practice incorporates sound, custom technology, and multidisciplinary research, and he has worked with such varied subjects as geolocation surveillance and the communication strategies of urban rats. House has exhibited at MoMA, Los Angeles MOCA, Ars Electronica, ZKM, and Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, among others, and The New York Times Magazine, WIRED, The Guardian, and TIME’s annual “Best Inventions” issue have featured his work. He holds a PhD in Computer Music from Brown University and is Assistant Professor of Art at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

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Forest Kelley is an Assistant Professor at the School of Art and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky in Lexington (USA). His work reflects on introspective histories and systems/contexts that perpetuate social isolation. He has shown internationally at galleries including 1708 Gallery (Richmond, VA), Clamp Art (NYC), Filter Space (Chicago), Photo Is:Rael (Tel-Aviv), Rotterdam Photo (Rotterdam), and SF Camerawork (San Francisco). He was recognized with the 2020 Imagemaker Award by the Society for Photographic Education. In 2018, he contributed music to the Academy Award-nominated and Criterion Collection-selected documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening for which he received the award Best Music Score from the International Documentary Association.

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Michael Kress is a conceptual artist living in Hamburg/Germany. The focus of his work is semiotics and language as a formative moment in the construction of a media identity.

His examinations use different media, like video, drawing, writing, sound, and photography. For several years, Kress has been engaging in cultural politics. He had been chairman of FRISE/Hamburg and board member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund (German Association of Artists). In 2015, he initiated Hyper Cultural Passenger, global cooperation of artists and philosophers based on the river island of Hamburg Veddel. Kress designs connectivities with art as a collaborative aesthetic expreinvće. He aims at art to understand the global culture more as a source rather than a concept of identities for understanding the other as an author.

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Michael McFalls is a practicing artist, professor of art, and director of the visionary art environment, Pasaquan. McFalls received a BFA in Studio Art from the Columbus College of Art and Design (Ohio), and an MFA from the University of California, Davis. Before joining Columbus State University, he served as the Art Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Art at The University of Maine at Farmington. McFalls is a former Fulbright Scholar at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and has received numerous scholarships, grants, and awards for his artistic research, including the Pritzker Foundation Endowed Fellowship, the CSU Teaching Award, the College of the Arts Faculty Research Award, and the CCAD Distinguished Alumni Award. McFalls has participated in artist residencies at Sculpture Space, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the Australia National University. He has also been a visiting artist at Dartmouth College and Furman University. McFalls has had numerous solo exhibitions in national and international galleries and museums, and his artworks are held in many private and public collections.

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Nick Norwood’s poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Southwest Review, Western Humanities Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Daily, The Oxford American, the PBS NewsHour site Art Beat, U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated column American Life in Poetry, on NPR’s Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor, and elsewhere. He has published four full volumes—Eagle & Phenix (2019), Gravel and Hawk (2012, winner of the Hollis Summers Prize), A Palace for the Heart (2004), and The Soft Blare (2003)—and two limited edition books—Text (2016) and Wrestle (2007)—in collaboration with the artist and master printer Erika Adams. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, an International Merit Award in Poetry from Atlanta Review, a residency at the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming, and both a Tennessee Williams Scholarship and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His poem “powerhouse” was permanently installed in twelve-inch Corten steel on the Columbus RiverWalk as a public art piece by sculptor Mike McFalls in 2016. Nick is a professor of creative writing at Columbus State University and directs the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians in Columbus, Georgia, and Nyack, New York. He lives in a converted 19th-century cotton mill on the Chattahoochee River near the Port of Columbus.

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Vijay Rajkumar is an artist currently enrolled in the Master of Architecture program at MIT.

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Stephen Ramos is an urbanist. He is an associate professor in the College of Environment + Design at the University of Georgia. He is a founding editor of New Geographies (GSD/Harvard University Press) and an associate editor for Planning Perspectives. Books include Dubai Amplified: The Engineering of a Port Geography (Ashgate, 2010; Routledge, 2016) and Infrastructure Sustainability and Design (Routledge, 2012).

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Miku Sato works in Japan and the Netherlands. She completed her Master of Film and New Media Studies from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2019.

Her practice is based on her fieldwork of specific places, where she starts up a project delegating her intention to the local people she selects.

Through video, installation and participatory action, she develops a new way of composing storytelling, taking a different approach from journalism, shining a different light on the past and present, and retelling the stories of the world.

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Annie Simpson is a multi-/inter-/un-disciplined artist and writer working via site-/sight-based investigation to make photographs, videos, and interventions.

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Hồng-An Trương is an artist who uses photography, video, and sound to explore immigrant, refugee, and decolonial narratives and subjectivities. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Art in 2019-2020 and the Capp St. Artist in Residence at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in 2020. She is a MacDowell Residency Fellow for 2022. Hồng- n lives in Durham, North Carolina where she is an activist and a teacher. She is Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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Lien Truong’s practice blends painting techniques, materials and philosophies, and military, textile and art histories; creating hybrid forms interrogating the relationship between aesthetics and doctrine. Her work has shown in exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery; North Carolina Museum of Art; Station Museum of Contemporary Art; Weatherspoon Art Museum; Oakland Museum of California; and Art Hong Kong and Sea Focus, Singapore with Galerie Quynh. She is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.