Rodolfo Cossovich is a media artist with an engineering background. His position as faculty of NYU Shanghai Interactive Media Arts has allowed him to explore and research different robotic applications, focusing on ways that machines present traits of living beings.
Read MoreMegan Curet is Puerto Rican American Bronx native performer, choreographer and educator. Her works draw on Afro-Latin rhythm and movement through mixed media, text and contemporary dance forms.
Read MoreAlexander (Sandy) Carson is a Canadian filmmaker whose work explores the intersections of collective practice and personal storytelling. He is on faculty at Yorkville University's Bachelor of Creative Arts program and has previously taught at Toronto Film School. Carson’s films have screened at events such as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Reykjavik International Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival, where he received the Golden Gate Award for New Visions in 2014. His critically acclaimed first feature film as writer/director, O, Brazen Age, was released in 2015, and he is currently in post-production on a new feature film, Alberta Number One, with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and Telefilm Canada. Carson's recent book chapter, "Quarantine Cinema: Teaching Film Directing during COVID-19" is collected in the anthology Teaching in the Post COVID-19 Era: World Education Dilemmas, Teaching Innovations and Solutions in the Age of Crisis (Springer, 2021).
Read MoreChukwu-Emeka Chikezie is an international development practitioner with a focus on African development with a growing interest in taking systemic, holistic approaches to understanding and addressing development challenges, while trying to uncover and unravel the multitude of embedded assumptions that define “development”. To this end, dialogue now sits at the heart of Chukwu-Emeka’s practice. He’s keen to explore what spaces and processes are most conducive to enable groups (communities, companies, nations) to find workable solutions when so much of what can no longer be taken for granted and that is now up for questioning.
Read MoreBorn in Washington, DC and raised in Bogotá, Colombia; Yvette Chaparro received her degree in Industrial Design from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. After moving to New York, she studied film and directed a documentary called “Designers on Design”. The film, which included interviews with some of the most influential designers of our time, was screened at the Tribeca Grand in New York and was shown around the world with the exhibit: “Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life” by the Walker Art Center.
Read MoreHadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish multimedia artist, healer and educator based in Los Angeles. She is the founder of Malchut, a mystical school teaching direct experience of God through heart centered spiritual traditions. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who works to build decolonial frameworks for worshiping God. She is an artist weaving the spiritual with the political and her artistic mediums include performance, movement, writing, weaving, sound and ritual.
Read MoreGina Dominique is a New York based artist-academic. In her work she explores concepts of abstraction, color, gender, and auto-theory. She exhibits nationally, has had more than one dozen solo shows, most recently, "Skin Deep- On Abstract Painting & the Nature of Beauty," at Stevenson University Greenspring Art Gallery (2023).
Read MoreJulianna Donadio started her ballet studies at the Academy of Dance Arts in New Jersey where she took multiple Royal Academy of Dance exams and passed with distinction. Afterward, Julianna went on to study year round at the Joffrey Ballet School New York, The School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center, and at the San Francisco Ballet School.
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