Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. Paglen’s work has had one-person exhibitions at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Fondazione Prada, Milan; the Barbican Centre, London; Vienna Secession, Vienna; and Protocinema Istanbul; and participated in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and numerous other venues.

KJ Abudu is a curator, writer, and scholar-critic based between New York, London, and Lagos. Informed by anti/post/de-colonial critique, African philosophy, and black radical thought, his writings and exhibitions focus on critical art and discursive practices that respond to the world-historical conditions produced by racial/colonial capitalist modernity.

Lauren Cornell is the Artistic Director of the Hessel Museum, Center for Curatorial Studies , Bard College (CCS Bard). From 2017 to 2025, she served as Chief Curator and Director of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Studies at CCS Bard, where she oversaw the graduate curriculum and guided the trajectories of more than 100 students, now alumni.

Anton Vidokle is an artist and Founding Director of e-flux.

Vincent Worms is the president and co-founder of KADIST, a contemporary art non-profit organization with global programs, including in Paris and San Francisco. In honor of Kadist, he was awarded the insignia of Chevalier in the French “Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” in 2011.

Sandra Terdjman is a curator and advisor in arts and philanthropy. She supports the role of arts and culture in society as a founding member of different successful organisations like KADIST (Paris/San Francisco) an exhibition and residency program based on an international collection, COUNCIL (together with Grégory Castéra), an organisation that favors multidisciplinary projects at the crossroads between arts, sciences, and civil society, and more recently, AFIELD.