Bassem Saad is an artist and writer born on September 11. His work explores objects and economies that distribute violence, pleasure, welfare, and waste. Through time-based media, sculpture, and writing, he locates space and time for maneuvering within and beyond governance systems. Bassem’s solo and collaborative work has been screened and exhibited in different cities, and presented at Architectural Association (London), Harvard University VES (MA), Alserkal Avenue (Dubai), and through various online channels. His writing appears in Jadaliyya, Unbag, and The Funambulist, and he is a junior editor at FailedArchitecture. He was a web resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude ...

Olivia McKayla Ross is a Caribbean American video artist, programmer and poet from Queens, New York City. Her work is inspired by the relationship between electronic video and vanity—by deep fantasy, Instagram filters, glamour magic, mirrors and the fantasies and anxieties of video transmission: immersion, absorption, surveillance and control. She hopes her practice as a “cyber” doula will encourage her generation to nurture a critical relationship with technology—coining the term data trauma to describe the compounded effects of navigating digital infrastructures created to exploit, categorize, and discard personhood.

Romi Ron Morrison is an interdisciplinary designer, artist, and researcher working across new media, black feminist praxis, and cultural geography. Focusing on boundaries, social infrastructure, and community technology, their practice works to engage informal practices of knowing and representing space beyond modes of enclosure that capture land into property, people into subjects, and knowledge into data. From building open source platforms to upend the continued practice of solitary confinement to crafting community based archives to combat gentrification, their artistic practice investigates cartographies of ancestral intelligence, unassimilable data, algorithmic violence, and blackness.   They have been a collaborator with design teams ...