Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes is a Seattle-based artist, writer, and designer. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MOCA (Los Angeles, CA), the Frye Art Museum (Seattle, WA), and most recently the Aichi Triennale in Japan. A founding member of the collective, Black Constellation, he has directed music videos for Sub Pop recording artists Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction, and Porter Ray. He was co-founder and creative director of pun(c)tuation, a prototypical mixed-use space in Seattle, WA. In 2014, Alley-Barnes received the Neddy Artist Award in Open Medium. READ MORE

Vânia Gala é coreógrafa e pesquisadora. É licenciada em dança pela E.D.D.C. (European Dance Development Center, 1999) Hogeschool voor Kunst - Arnhem, Holanda, com mestrado em coreografia, com distinção, pelo Conservatório de Música Trinity Laban. Vânia Gala é professora de dança na Universidade de Northampton. Desde 2015 é doutoranda na Universidade de Kingston, premiada com uma bolsa de estudos PASS. Em 2005 recebeu o prêmio de "Melhor Performance Feminina”. Em 2007 atuou no 1º Pavilhão Africano na Bienal de Veneza. Suas criações recentes incluem "Cooling Down Signs", uma comissão pan-europeia da Beyond Front@ realizada no Dance Week Festival (Croácia); D.I.D (Áustria); Front@ Festival (Eslovênia) e Bakelit (Hungria). As coreografias de Gala, assim como suas palestras sobre performance tratam de ações em torno das coisas invisíveis. Suas últimas intervenções performativas incluem a série give&take na Tate Modern, Londres. Vânia Gala tem textos publicados no catálogo do Pavilhão angolano da Bienal de… READ MORE

Maria Ader (b. 1984, Tallinn, Estonia) graduated from the Department of Arts, University of Tartu in 2008. She accomplished her studies at the East London College in 2009-2010 and completed a MA in Painting at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2011. Her artistic practice works on improvisation and pop tones. Maria’s large abstract paintings create a new sensorial space where traditions and contemporaneity embody a sense of timelessness. Inspired by urban environments (graffiti) as well as body art, her artworks becomes an act of creation where the potential of a new reality is released. READ MORE

Abel Shah is a collaboration between the artists Alexandra Bell (UK, 1993) and Giulia Shah (NL, 1987). Abel Shah's work is influenced by issues around taste, class, the artists experience of the ongoing privatization of space and their behaviour in urban environments. With an open and experimental research into a collaborative practice, Abel Shah's work manifests itself in multimedia installations concerning (re)presentation, the desire of things in a virtual and physical world and the structures of value. READ MORE

Maje Mellin (*1991, Germany) is a multimedia artist based in Germany, finished her Diploma of Freie Kunst at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Braunschweig in 2017. Her installations have been shown in different cities around Germany. This summer she is taking part of the PILOT Residencies Program from Fabrica de Pensule at Cluj-Napoca, Romania.  Mellin's works are like characters, having a polyphonic conversation about the thin line where the border between different dimensions of perception fade. They construct and dissolve meaning and narration at the same time. READ MORE

Enric Fort Ballester (b.1987, Spain) studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts San Carlos, Valencia, Spain e na Kunsthochschule für bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany. Currently lives and works in Germany. Drawing and perfomance are part of his artistic practice. In his work, Fort Ballester is interested in exploring new ways of acting by building up new situations, formulating different uses of established behaviours between individuals and institutions or between individuals and artefacts, built environment, etc. The ironical aspect of his practice is the means through which he formulates these meanings, as the use of humour becomes an addition or opens access to a reconstruction of established patterns. Enric Fort Ballester has been performing and exhibiting his work internationally in different performance festivals and venues. READ MORE

Rafa Fortez (Palma, 1955), lives and works in the Balearic Islands, Spain. Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (1983), Rafa Fortez is heir to a gestural and informal tradition of the second half of the twentieth century. Painter, engraver and sculptor, is considered one of the outstanding artists of the Spanish contemporary scene. His research brings anthropological and metaphysical references, always related to the events of his time. In his recent works, Fortez analyzes the digital impact on society and reflects around the ideology of comfort, questioning the necessity and limits of a growing technologization of life. His most recent exhibitions include: Cuando el pie encontró su cabeza, L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (2017); El tremolor de la máscara, museu d’art modern i contemporani, Palma de Mallorca (2015/2016); Embudo - S, L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (2014) e Alquimia existencial, Museo Estatal Ruso, San Petesburgo, Russia. His… READ MORE

Santipab Somboon, a recent graduate of MFA in Design and Tech program at Parsons, is a creative technologist based in New York whose diverse interests are concentrated around new forms of storytelling and nature-inspired art. His research embraces many domains such as virtual reality, physical computing, generative systems, and photogrammetry. READ MORE

Graduated in Psychology, Emília Guimarães Hardy studied Philosophy and has an MBA in Marketing. For many years she worked as an Educator. In the last few years she developed projects and worked as a screenwriter (for Maquina films) for fiction and documentaries and wrote several projects for theatre, too (Pausa Company). The pleasure of telling stories in a moving screen or in a stage always had her contribution as a trigger of the process in collective developments. “Then, other professionals go on with the stories”, as she uses to say. for MAQUINA - Osório, Caminhos da Escola, Somos o que Perdemos for PAUSA - Gravidade Zero, Um Diálogo com Machado. READ MORE

Cristina Ataíde lives and works in Lisbon. She is graduated in fine arts at Lisbon Fine Art School (Sculpture) and she attended Design Studies in the same art school. Head of the Sculpture and Design’s department in MadeIn, a Portuguese marble production company, between 1987 and 1996, working there with artists as Anish Kapoor, Michelangelo Pistolleto, Keit Sonnier, Matt Mullican. Invited teacher in Lusofona University, Lisbon between 1997 a 2012. Represented in the following collections as: CAM Collection, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Culturgest, Caixa Geral de Depósitos Collection, Lisbon; Novo Banco, Collection, Lisbon; António Cachola Collection, Elvas; Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon; PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon; City Museum Collection, Lisbon; Unión Fenosa Museum, La Coruña (ES); Afro Brasilien Museum Collection, São Paulo; Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Essaouira Collection, Maroc; Maison de l’Art Contemporain Asilah Collection, Maroc. www.cristinataide.com Artistic Residency: Wave Hill’s 2014 Winter Workspace Workshop: Drawing through Landscape, Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, New York;… READ MORE