Constanze Ruhm is an internationally renowned artist, filmmaker, author, and curator whose diverse practice transcends the boundaries between film, media art, and theoretical reflection. After studying Media Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the Institute for New Media at Städelschule Frankfurt am Main under Peter Weibel, she developed an internationally recognized artistic and theoretical practice.

Since 2006, she has held a professorship in Art and Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. As a curator, her significant projects include "FATE OF ALIEN MODES" at the Vienna Secession (2003) and "PUTTING REHEARSALS TO THE TEST" in Montreal (2016). Her works are regularly presented at renowned international festivals including the Berlinale, FID Marseille, Essay Film Festival London, Diagonale, and Viennale.

From a consistently feminist perspective, Ruhm examines the complex relationships between time-based media formats and representations of women. Her work deconstructs patriarchally shaped histories and theories, focusing particularly on rehearsal processes and casting formats as artistic procedures that question hegemonic forms of representation and develop alternative feminist performativities.

Ruhm develops innovative feminist strategies in dealing with found material to discover lost, excluded, and suppressed voices of women. Her works, situated between essay, fiction, and documentation, fundamentally question patriarchal narratives by extracting female film characters from male-dominated narrative structures and developing them into independent, complex subjects.

Film theorist Christa Blümlinger calls Ruhm's practice "film-related archive art" – an explicitly feminist approach that breaks up patriarchal correlations of cinema and media art. Ruhm is considered one of the most important representatives of critical, feministically grounded media art in the German-speaking world.

Anna Meyer was born in 1964 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and lives in Vienna, Austria. From 1983 to 1984, she attended the School of Design in Lucerne.

She has held several teaching positions, including a professorship at the Summer Academy in Salzburg from 2007 to 2008, and a lectureship in Painting/Digital Realities at the Lucerne University of Art from 2010 to 2012.

Marko Lulić lives and works in Vienna. He has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. His work deals intensively with topics such as architecture and modernism, the interweaving of ideology and aesthetics, and the contrast of bodies in flux with the motionlessness of monumental structures. In his artistic practice he makes use of a number of media including video, performance, photography and installation. In recent years he has also curated several exhibitions as part of his expanded artistic practice. For the past five years he has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Lulić’s work has been exhibited at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Kunsthalle Vienna; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; The Biennale of Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, Zurich; 12th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Biel / Bienne and the Frankfurter Kunstverein.

Gerry Ammann was born on April 18, 1962, in Bregenz, Austria. From 1984 to 1990, he studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in the master class of Bruno Gironcoli. In 1990, he received his diploma in sculpture. He lives and works in Vienna.

Noa Schiller is a professional photographer, born in 1968 in Hungary, now living in Budapest. She graduated from The Hungarian Journalist School. Working on personal and commissioned projects and she has worked as a photographer and picture editor since 1993. Since 1994, she got several prizes, also in Hungarian Pressphoto Competition, stipends and scholarship programs internationally.

Martin Liebscher was born in 1964 in Naumburg/Saale, Germany. He lives and works in Berlin and Offenbach, Germany.

Liebscher's works are created through the digital processing of scanned photographs that he takes of himself using an automatic shutter release. The figures in his images are not digitally manipulated; they are photographs of a real person in action. In his Family Pictures series, Liebscher consistently works within a specific architectural or social environment. The titles of his works are simply the names of the sites he "invades" as an omnipresent protagonist.

Isa Rosenberger (1969, Salzburg, Austria) studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at: 2023 Bauhaus Dessau Foundation; Kunsthaus Graz. 2020 Camera Austria, Graz. 2019 Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna. 2014 Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles. 2011 Grazer Kunstverein. 2009 Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg. 2008 Secession Vienna. In 2008 she received the Otto Mauer Prize and in 2012 the Outstanding Artist Award for Video and Media Art.

Rosenberger's works are held in permanent collections at Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz; Collection of Wien Museum, Vienna; Collection of Dom Museum Wien, OM Contemporary; Artothek – Collection of the Austrian Culture Office; Fotosammlung des Bundes – Museum der Moderne Salzburg; GfZK Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig.

Helena Huneke (1967–2012) was a German artist and designer whose practice deftly moved between industrial design, installation, performance, and collaborative projects. Born in Münster and educated at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, Huneke's approach integrated theoretical and spatial inquiries with a deep engagement in contemporary art and design culture. She earned her diploma in industrial design in 1995, with a focus on interior architecture, furniture design, and theory.