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.

Anke Freimund, born in 1970 in Steyr, Austria, lives in Vienna. She received an education as a handicraft painter and restorer before beginning her studies in architecture at the Technical University of Vienna in 1991. From 1991 to 1997, she worked in various architectural studios in Vienna and was a member of the Students Department from 1995 to 1997. In 2005, she received her diploma from the Department for Art and Design at the Technical University of Vienna. Since 2006, she has worked at the studio of Roger Karré in Vienna.

Alexander Dworschak, born in 1968 in Baden, Austria, lives in Vienna. He received an education as a handicraft painter and restorer and began working at Oskar Putz Farbkonzepte in 1990. In 1991, he began studying architecture at the Technical University of Vienna. From 1991 to 1997, he worked in various architectural studios in Vienna and was a member of the Students Department from 1995 to 1997.

Julien Diehn, born in 1975 in Berlin, Germany, lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He studied Stage Design at the Institute for Media Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2004, and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, in 2002.

Dr. Sandra Manninger is an architect, researcher, and educator. Born and educated in Austria, she co-founded SPAN Architecture with Matias del Campo in 2003. Her award-winning projects have been published and exhibited internationally, including at La Biennale di Venezia, MAK, and Autodesk Pier 1, and have been included in the permanent collections of the FRAC, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, and the Albertina in Vienna. Sandra Manninger has taught internationally at the TU Vienna, University for Applied Arts, DIA Bauhaus in Dessau, UPenn, Tongji and Tsinghua Universities, the University of Michigan, and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Architecture. Currently, she serves as Associate Professor at the architecture department of NYIT.

Matias del Campo is an architect, designer, and theorist, currently serving as director of the MS ACT program (Architecture, Computational Technology) and as associate professor at New York Institute of Technology. He co-founded SPAN in Vienna in 2003 with Sandra Manninger, establishing a practice renowned for its integration of contemporary technologies in architectural production. SPAN's award-winning designs are shaped by the intersection of computational methodologies and philosophical interrogations, a conceptual framework they describe as "design ecology." del Campo's innovative contributions have been recognized through prestigious awards, including the Accelerate@CERN fellowship and the AIA Studio Prize. His pioneering work in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in architecture design has yielded multiple accolades, including the ACADIA Innovative Research Award of Excellence. His work is part of the permanent collections of notable institutions such as the FRAC Orleans, the MAK in Vienna, the Luciano Benetton Collection in Treviso, the Pinakothek Munich, the Albertina, and multiple private collections. He has authored several books on AI and architecture such as "Neural Architecture" (ORO), "Diffusions" (Wiley), "Machine Hallucinations" (Wiley) and "Artificial Intelligence and Architecture" (Wiley).

Nine Budde finished her MFA for public art and new artistic strategies at Bauhaus University Weimar and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Since the end of the 90’s she produces social- and site-specific photographies, videos, performances and installations. The artist won numerous resdincies and art prices, such as MAK-Schindler Residency in Los Angeles and Villa Romana Price in Florence. Her work is nationally and internationally shown.

Nine Budde lives and works in Berlin.