Simon Fujiwara was born in London in 1982, and spent his childhood moving between Japan, Europe, and Africa. He received a BA in architecture from Cambridge University in 2005 and earned an MFA from the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in 2008. Fujiwara’s practice is markedly performative and interdisciplinary in nature, calling upon diverse disciplines and mediums as a means to both research and reinvent his own multilayered autobiography.

Alan Cicmak was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1976. He studied Film and Video at Merz-Academy Stuttgart and Art and Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. He lives and works in Stuttgart and Vienna.

Born in Vienna in 1974. Lives and works in Vienna as a visual artist and as curator at the ZOOM Children's Museum.

Raimund Pleschberger's sculptural and photographic work focuses on the functioning of traditional forms of representation in different cultural and historical contexts.

Paul Peyrer-Heimstätt, born in 1978 in Salzburg, lives in Vienna. He studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Oona Peyrer-Heimstätt, born in 1980 in Salzburg, Austria, lives in Vienna. She studied Free, Applied, and Artistic Creation and Art and Communicative Praxis at the University of Applied Arts, as well as Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Vienna.

Manuela Mark is a Vienna-based artist. She studied Scenic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Visual Media/Transmedial Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 2008 she was awarded the MAK-Schindler Scholarship in Los Angeles, followed by studio residencies in Tokyo (2011) and Krumau (2015).

Mark’s work has been exhibited widely, with presentations at MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Kunst Raum Niederösterreich, Vienna; Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck; Tokyo Wondersite; and MMKK, Klagenfurt. She has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Artist Award (BMUKK, 2009) and the Tiroler Förderpreis für zeitgenössische Kunst (2008).

Eldine Heep is an architect and educator based in Vienna, Austria. In 2015, she founded an inter­disciplinary spatial design practice, focused on delivering customised architectural and creative solutions. Her interest in the broader intersections of art and design, as well as the possibilities of working at a more intimate scale, have shaped her approach to space making. She frequently collaborates with artists, curators, and designers to realise a wide range of projects, from architecture and interiors, to social and exhibition design.

James Paul Dallas is a writer and filmmaker based in New York City. He has produced high profile documentaries for CNN Films, Amazon Studios, YouTube Originals, Field of Vision, and the Luma Foundation. These films have screened at major international festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, San Francisco, Berlinale, Viennale, Visions du Reél, CPH:DOX, and New Directors/New Films.

His writing on film has been published in Artforum, BOMB, Brooklyn Magazine, Cinema Scope, Film Comment, Filmmaker Magazine, Interview Magazine, the Village Voice and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor for the art journal Extra Extra Magazine and he has curated film series for the Guggenheim Museum, Maysles Cinema, and UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art. He is a graduate of Cooper Union's School of Architecture.

Hank Schmidt in der Beek was born in 1978 in Munich, Germany. He lives and works as an artist in Berlin, where he has been based since 2006.

From 1999 to 2005, he studied Fine Arts at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main and, in 2003–2004, at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium.

He has received several awards and scholarships, including the Schindler Scholarship in Los Angeles (2008–2009), the Szpilman Award for Ephemeral Art (2009), and the Villa Waldberta Scholarship in Feldafing (2016).

Johann Neumeister, born on August 16, 1976, in Vienna, studied Sculpture and New Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Electroacoustic Composition and Computer Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts.

Andreas Quednau is a German architect, educator, and founding partner of SMAQ, a studio for architecture, urbanism, and research based in Berlin, which he co-directs with Sabine Müller.

SMAQ is a collaborative studio that operates in the field of architecture, urbanism and research. SMAQ was founded by the architects Sabine Müller and Andreas Quednau and is based in Berlin and Rotterdam. Both partners hold a Master’s Degree from Columbia

Sabine Müller is a founding partner of SMAQ, a studio for architecture, urbanism, and research based in Berlin, which she co-directs with Andreas Quednau.

SMAQ is a collaborative studio that operates in the field of architecture, urbanism and research.

Theresa Krenn studied Architecture at the TU Wien and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna between 1999 and 2005 (Diploma: Studio Eyal Weizman). She was a founding member of the architecture firm studio uek and currently works at the architecture firm studio ederkrenn in Vienna. Her team projects have won numerous awards: her winning entry for the architectural design competition Europan 9, Oase 22 [Oasis 22], was realized in 2013, and in 2015, was both nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award and won the Bauwelt Award „First Works“. The residential construction project Kohlenrutsche [Coal chutes], on the site of the Viennese Nordbahnhof [Northern Train Station], is a communal living project conceived in dialogue with residents and completed in 2019. Together with Benni Eder, Krenn received numerous scholarships and grants, such as the Artists and Architects in Residence Program scholarship of the MAK Center in Los Angeles in 2007, the Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Scholarship in 2007 and, together with Lorenzo De Chiffre and Benni Eder, the Hans Hollein Scholarship in 2019. Between 2010 and 2014, Theresa Krenn taught Urban Design at the TU Wien, and she has worked as a University Assistant in the Research Unit Building Construction and Design there since 2014.

Between 1996 and 2004, Bernhard Eder studied at the TU Innsbruck, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Prof. Nasrine Seraji, and the PUC Santiago de Chile. From 2009 to 2019, he worked as an assistant in the Research Department of Urban Planning and Design at the TU Vienna. Since 2019, he has held various teaching positions at the Institute of Urban Planning at the TU Vienna.

Zenita Komad was born in 1980 in Klagenfurt, Austria. In 2004–2005, she was an Artist in Residence at the International Artist’s House Villa Concordia in Bamberg, Germany. In 2006, she received a scholarship from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. In 2007, she was awarded the MAK Schindler Scholarship at the Mackey House in Los Angeles, USA. In 2010, she received a one-year grant from the Arts Council of Austria (BMUKK). In 2014, she was honored with the Award of Sponsorship for Innovations in Science and Art by the City of Vienna.

Gerhard Treml is an American/Austrian artist based in Vienna. His practice explores narrative strategies in order to appropriate, investigate, and reconfigure spatial relations basic to our construction of reality. His work relies on scripting, drawing, staged photography, and installation. He directed the collaborative art-based research program “Eden’s Edge” in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Christina Linortner is an architect and university lecturer based in Vienna and Graz. She studied at the TU Vienna, the Tu Delft and Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, London. She is currently working on her PhD focusing on architecture and learning in non-institutional contexts. Since 2014 she has been serving as a board member at the Austrian Society for Architecture. Together with Petra Petersson she co-edited the most recent Graz Architecture Magazine's issue: Beyond the institution. Transforming the Learning Environment in Architectural Education.

In 2005 Peles Duo (formerly Peles Empire) began their collaboration by opening an illegal bar in Frankfurt’s red light district. The space featured wallpaper made of A3 colour copies reproducing, nearly to scale, a room of the 19th Century Peleș Castle, located in the foothills of Romania’s Carpathian Mountains. Peleș Castle is an historicist castle as each room is a copy of a different architectural style, which appears to anticipate postmodernism nearly one hundred and twenty years before it started. The same act of copying or translation that birthed Peleș Castle carries over to the artist’s own approach to studio production. What is realised in three-dimensions for one exhibition becomes the two-dimensional source material for the next period of production. The transition of material from 3D to 2D is simultaneously the content and material for their work. The process becomes, temporarily, the work. The act of copying is more important than the copy itself. Peles Duo dissect and reshuffle the supposedly original meaning of somewhere, something or someone, in order to question what time and culture has made of it.

In 2005 Peles Duo (formerly Peles Empire) began their collaboration by opening an illegal bar in Frankfurt’s red light district. The space featured wallpaper made of A3 colour copies reproducing, nearly to scale, a room of the 19th Century Peleș Castle, located in the foothills of Romania’s Carpathian Mountains. Peleș Castle is an historicist castle as each room is a copy of a different architectural style, which appears to anticipate postmodernism nearly one hundred and twenty years before it started. The same act of copying or translation that birthed Peleș Castle carries over to the artist’s own approach to studio production. What is realised in three-dimensions for one exhibition becomes the two-dimensional source material for the next period of production. The transition of material from 3D to 2D is simultaneously the content and material for their work. The process becomes, temporarily, the work. The act of copying is more important than the copy itself. Peles Duo dissect and reshuffle the supposedly original meaning of somewhere, something or someone, in order to question what time and culture has made of it.

Marc J. Cohen studied at the University College London from 2002 to 2006. In 2005, he was a guest student at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Staedelschule) in Frankfurt. In 2006, he received a First Class Diploma from Leiths School of Food and Wine.