Kostis Velonis lives and works in Athens/Greece. He holds an MRes in humanities and cultural studies from the London Consortium (Birkbeck College, ICA, AA), London/Great Britain. Furthermore, he studied Esthétiques et Technologies des Arts at Université Paris 8 (D.E.A), Paris/France, and earned his PhD from the Department of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens.

Kamen Stoyanov is an artist based in Vienna and Sofia, working across film, video, performance, installation, painting, and drawing. He studied painting at the National Art Academy in Sofia, visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and film directing at New Bulgarian University. In 2024, he premiered his first feature film, "Zvesda," which debuted at the 29th Sofia International Film Festival in March 2025. His short experimental film, "Up and Through," won 'Best Experimental Film' at the Dumbo Film Festival in 2020 and was nominated for Best Experimental Film at the Long Story Shorts Festival in Bucharest.

Johannes Schweiger (*1973) is an artist and designer based in Vienna, Austria. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Mechthild Weber studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She received the MAK-Schindler scholarship and gained experience in stage design and architectural practices. Since 2010 she has been working with Querkraft architects in Vienna on a wide range of projects in multiple scales throughout all planning phases. She was part of the research team at Conceptual Joining.

Moritz Heimrath studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2010. He is currently a partner at Bollinger+Grohmann ZT GmbH and part of the developer team of Karamba3D, an inter- active parametric finite-element plugin for Grasshopper.

Lukas Allner is an architect and researcher. Since 2020, he has been co-directing Circular Strategies together with Prof. Karin Raith, a field in teaching and research at the IoA that addresses the future-oriented use of resources in architecture.

Lasse Schmidt Hansen (b. 1978 Albertslund, Denmark) studied at the State College of Fine Arts with Tobias Rehberger from 2003 until 2006. Selected exhibitions include Galerie Reinhard Hauff; Grazer Kunstverein, Graz; Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main; and Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York. He is represented by Galerie Reinhard Hauff in Stuttgart. Lasse Schmidt Hansen lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany.

Christoph Eppacher is a London based architect and researcher and principal of CEPP studio. His work combines an interest in digital design techniques together with event driven architectural scenarios. He was working for architectural practices in Berlin, Paris and London, including J Mayer H, Francois Roche – R&Sie(n), Plasma Studio and Zaha Hadid Architects. For many years he collaborated with Architect Alex Graef on various international competitions.

Shima Roshanzamir is an architect and urban designer whose work spans both academic and professional spheres. She earned her Ph.D. in architecture in 2015, focusing on "subjective deterritorialization," under the mentorship of Wolf Prix and Sanford Kwinter. She also holds a Master of Urban Design from the Applied Art University of Vienna and a Master of Sustainable Architecture from the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST).

Morteza Farhdian Dehkordi holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Art University of Isfahan and a master’s degree in urban design from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, which he completed with distinction. He has received several awards, including a selected project at the Architecture Biennale in Beijing in 2010 and the MAK-Schindler Scholarship in 2011.

Johann Lurf (born in 1982) was educated as a film director at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. He is known as an experimental filmmaker who cannot easily be subsumed under one style or category.

Borjana Ventzislavova (borjana.net) born in Sofia (Bulgaria), based in Vienna (Austria), moving in-between cultures, languages and contexts I’m interested in traveling through time and in the exploration of the complex play between past and present, individual and society, between modern and ancient concepts, relationships, medias, materials, techniques and energies. In my cross-disciplinary works in the fields of film/video, installation, photography, performative and new media art, I analyse stereotypical roles and models of representations and the impact of political and social power structures and control mechanisms on our existence. I am mainly interested in the processes of mobility and crossing of socio-geographical, cultural and psychological borders and how to deal with the complexity of communication and translation. I often blur the boundaries between documentary and fiction in order to question the status quo and to test the line between personal and collective, social, political and artistic, in the context of current events and history. Focusing on documentary and narrative structures and constructions, I exchange roles and identities, mix stages and situations, different styles, texts and sounds into cases and stories.

My works have been exhibited internationally in numerous solo and group shows as well as at media art and film festivals such as National Gallery Sofia, Kunstforum Wien, Belvedere 21, MAK Vienna, MAK Los Angeles, Lentos Linz, Salzburger Kunstverein, Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, Museum of Modern Art - Esterházy Foundation, MUSA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sofia City Art Gallery, Landesgalerie Linz, Essl Museum, k/haus, quartier21, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Austrian Cultural Forum Washigton DC and London, ICA London, ICA Sofia, Art Today Plovdiv, Hunt gallery, St. Louis, US, Cologne Conference, IDFA, Diagonale, EMAF, transmediale, filmwinter Stuttgart, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Berwick Film and Media Arts Fest., Moscow Int. Filmfest., Int. Short Film Fest. Istanbul, Split Film Fest., etc.

I was granted many awards, grants and received a number of international scholarships. I received working scholarship for film 2023, the promotion award by the City of Vienna 2017, the Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Art 2013, Start Scholarship for Fine Art 2009, winner of Top Ten Nonfiction film Award at Cologne Film Festival 2006, Otto Prutscher Fonds Award 2006, Susmannstiftung Award 2005, recognitions at Art in Motion 2002, Los Angeles, Ars Electronica, 2002, Linz, CYNETart 2001, Dresden.

I was artist in residence in London (ACF), Rom (BKA), Newcastle (D6), Berkeley (CEC Artslink), Los Angeles (MAK Schindler), Chicago (BKA), Athens (Snehta), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (BKA), NYC (ISCP / BKA), CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Tokyo (Tokas) a.o.

My works are part of private and public collections.

Jae Rhim Lee is a visual artist, designer, and researcher whose work proposes unorthodox relationships between the mind/body/self and the built and natural environment. Jae Rhim’s work follows a research methodology which includes self-examination, transdisciplinary immersion and dialogue, and diy design, ultimately taking the form of living units, furniture, wearables, recycling systems, and personal and social interventions.

Florian Schafschetzy is a registered architect and a member of IG Architektur. He studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and completed his graduate studies under the tutelage of Wolf D. Prix. He has worked as project architect and design architect for Franz Sam, Vienna. He also worked for Coop Himmelb(l)au, Delugan & Meissl AA and Wolfgang Tschapeller. He was awarded a merit prize for Experimental Tendencies in 2004 and works he collaborated on were exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennial 2006. Florian was selected for the MAK Los Angeles Schindler residency 2011. In 2018, Florian co-founded Magazin, an exhibition space for contemporary architecture in Vienna.

Gregor Holzinger, born 1981, lives and works in Vienna, Austria; graduated in Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, studied Scenic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and was visiting student within a collaboration project at Institute of Applied Theatre Studies, University of Gießen, Germany. Several international cooperations, e. g. with Peter Sellars (Los Angeles), Lebbeus Woods (New York) and Lead Pencil Studio – Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo (Seattle, WA and Portland, OR).

Peter Fritzenwallner is well known for his unconventional performances, which consist of sculptural and installation elements made from simple materials. At first glance, his art provokes irritation, is not self-explanatory, it poses questions – and awakens the interest and curiosity of the audience. The audience’s reaction and participation make them part of the performance.

Eva Sommeregger is a Vienna-based architectural researcher employing both arts-based and theoretical methods. Through writing, curating and the development of experimental digital spaces, her practice explores under-examined spatial aspects of media culture, examining entangled power relations and bodily forms of resistance.

Dennis Loesch dissolves images into strips of information. His methodical process can be seen as an extension of geometric minimalism with a strong appreciation for pop-culture appropriation. The conceptual focus of Loesch is the interplay between digital data and physical object-hood, both de- and re-contextualizing contents from intimate and public sources. From 2000 to 2005, Loesch co-directed with Michael Riedel Oskar-von-Miller Strasse 16, an experimental art space in Frankfurt that re-staged cultural events. Dennis Loesch was trained in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in 2001-2006. In 2010, he was awarded the prestigious Schindler Stipendium from the MAK Center for Arts and Architecture, in Vienna.

Patrycja German was born in 1979 in Wroclaw, Poland. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany. She has received several grants and awards including the Schindler- Stipendium (Los Angeles); Artists and Architects in Residency Program of MAK (Vienna, 2010); HAP Grieshaber – Preis (2009); Saar- Ferngas – 1st Preis for Young Art (2008); and Kunststiftung Baden (Württemberg, 2007). Since 2002, she has been focusing on creating live performance and performance for the camera. Her work has been exhibited throughout Germany, Poland, and in Europe.

Ivan Niedermair was born in 1983 in Bressanone/Brixen, Italy. In 2003, he began his studies in architecture at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck, spending semesters in Vienna and at the IUAV in Venice. He has worked in Rome, Graz, and Johannesburg. In 2008, he won First Prize at the Bombay Sapphire Designer Class Competition Austria. His exhibitions include DMY Berlin (2009), the London Design Festival (2008), Galerie Museum Bozen (2008), and Architekturzentrum Wien (2006). From 2010 to 2011, he was awarded the MAK-Schindler Scholarship for the Artists and Architects in Residence Program in Los Angeles.