Paul DeMarinis has been making noises with wires, batteries and household appliances since the age of four. He has worked in the areas of interactive art, synthetic speech, noise, and obsolete or impossible media. He has presented his installations, performances, and artworks widely.

Louise Lawler is an artist based in New York City. Since the 1970s, Lawler has been making photographs that depict artworks in their everyday environments, removing the emphasis from the art object itself and focusing on the vantage points, framing devices, and sites of display that affect the reception of an artwork. Examples of Lawler's photographs include images of paintings hanging on the walls of a museum, paintings on the walls of an art collector's opulent home, artwork in the process of being installed in a gallery, and sculpture in a gallery being viewed by spectators.

Joseph Nechvatal is an American painter/writer/musician currently living in Paris. His book of essays Towards an Immersive Intelligence (2009) was published by Edgewise Press. He has also published three books with Punctum Press: Minóy (ed.) (2014), Destroyer of Naivetés (poetry, 2015), and Styling Sagaciousness (poetry, 2022). His book of art theory, Immersion Into Noise, was republished in 2022 in a second edition by Open Humanities Press. In 2025, Venus Voluptuous in the Loins of the Last God, his sequel novella to ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus©~Ñ~vibrator, even (1995/2023), was published by Orbis Tertius Press. His art exhibition Information Noise Saturation was presented at Magenta Plains in New York City in 2025.

Carol Parkinson is the former executive director of Harvestworks, the digital media arts center located in New York City. Since 1987, her focus has been on the development of experimental artworks that explore sound, data and other emerging technologies. Parkinson was the executive producer of the New York Electronic Art Festival (2007 - 2019), a festival of workshops, concert performances and exhibitions centered on art and technology. Parkinson’s educational background includes the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Skidmore College, and the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in New York City.

Claudia Gould has served as executive director of Shaker Museum since August 2025, guiding the institution into its next chapter of growth and public impact. A visionary leader and strategic planner, Gould’s career includes a transformative tenure at the Jewish Museum as well as influential leadership roles at ICA University of Pennsylvania and Artists Space. Recently described by the New York Times as a “powerful cultural hybridizer,” she is widely recognized for her iconoclastic, cross-disciplinary approach to exhibitions. Gould’s vision bridges historical and contemporary perspectives, honoring the past while advancing new ways of seeing. At Shaker Museum, Gould is leading the organization through a pivotal period, including the construction of a new flagship facility designed by Selldorf Architects in downtown Chatham, New York.

Ivana Dama is a sound artist and researcher holding an MFA from Yale University. She graduated from UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture with a degree in Design Media Arts and Digital Humanities. Her multidisciplinary work spans audio-video installations, robotics, web projects, and music performances, with a focus on inventions and technologies surrounding air raid sirens. Her current research explores the development of a tool that signals urgency for both social and ecological issues, tracing connections between the two as they often occur simultaneously. Her work has been featured in over thirty group shows, and she has presented solo exhibitions in Portland and Los Angeles. In addition to her artistic practice, she previously served as assistant director of the UCLA ArtSci Center and has been a visiting critic and professor in the Sound Art MFA program at Columbia University.