Alina Schmuch (*1987) devises artist’s books and video installations. Her ongoing video series on water infrastructures explores the way landscapes, architecture, technology, and physical bodies intersect with visible and hidden infrastructures. Schmuch studied media art at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) and has been a fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. She was part of the Hydromedia artistic research project, the residency ALTERLIFE, and is currently participant of BPA // Berlin Program for Artists. Her work has featured in a variety of exhibitions and screenings, including at Urbane Künste Ruhr, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, the Akademie der Künste Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, Rupert in Vilnius, Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, PLATO in Ostrava, and the 15th Architecture Biennale in Venice. Among other awards she received the Award for Documentary Photography of the Wüstenrot Stiftung, the Bremen Award for Video Art and the Visual Arts work stipend of the Berlin Senate.

Anna Jermolaewa (b. 1970, Leningrad) works primarily in the mediums of photography, video, and installation. Her main interest is the analysis of functional structures of society and social systems in everyday life. She continually focuses on the basic conditions of human existence and the nature of man, capturing the relationship between the individual and the masses, freedom and restriction, power and powerlessness. Jermolaewa graduated from the University of Vienna in 1998, and the Vienna Art Academy in 2002. Since 2019, she has been a Professor for Experimental Art at University of Art and Design Linz, Austria. Anna Jermolaewa represented Austria at Biennale Arte 2024, and has had solo exhibitions throughout the country. Her works are part of various collections including the Stedelijk Museum, Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, MUMOK—Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Museum Startgalerie Artothek, Tyrolean State Museum, and the Vehbi Koc Foundation.

Octave Perrault is an architect. He is the founder of the architecture practice Zeroth. His work with the art collective åyr has been exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; MAK Center, Los Angeles; Berlin Biennale; and Venice Biennale. He has written for AA Files, Perspecta, Harvard Design Magazine, e-flux, and L’Uomo Vogue.

Luis Ortega Govela (1988) is a Mexican architect, writer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture London. He is the founder of Office LOG, a research-based design studio working across architecture, design and art. . He is theco-founder of ÅYR, an art collective which explores the complex evolution of the home and domesticity. The collective has exhibited internationally, including at theBritish Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale and at the 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art.

He is the author of GARAGE a book on the architecture and image of the garage published by MIT Press which has now been translated into Russian by Strelka. The book was also adapted into a documentary and was part of the CPH:DOX festival official selection. He was a recipient of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture Residency in 2017. He has lectured at the Architectural Association London, TU Delft, Garage Museum Moscow and The Royal College of Art. He is currently working on his third book. 

Alessandro Bava is an architect and art gallerist based in Milan, Italy, where he runs ‘BB’ a collaborative spatial practice with architect and PhD Fabrizio Ballabio and zaza’, a contemporary art gallery showing international and italian emerging artists with a focus on queer practices.
He graduated at the Architectural Association in London with Pier Vittorio Aureli and has worked for Vito Acconci in New York. Bava practiced as an artist with the collective åyr he co-founded in 2014, making installations and exhibitions in various institutions in Europe and the US, reflecting on the radical changes brought about by the 'sharing economy' to the domestic space.
After dissolving the collective in 2018 he returned to practicing and researching architecture with a focus on installations, exhibition design and curation, interiors and urban design, while publishing his research on the politics, poetics and technologies defining contemporary space in international magazines such as e-flux and Mousse.
He has been teaching at the Bartlett School of Architecture from 2019 to 2021, with a design studio focusing on digital design, automation, and robotic fabrication. Currently he teaches at NABA in Milan a masters course on interior design.
Bava is also the founder of the ecology magazine ECOCORE which began in 2010 and has received the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Serpentine Grant for emerging talent, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts Grants and the MAK Scholarship for art and architecture in Los Angeles.