Andrea Polli is an artist working at the intersection of art, science and technology, whose practice includes media installation, public interventions, curating and directing art and community projects and writing. She holds a doctorate in practice-led research from the University of Plymouth in the UK and her latest book is Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change and the Poles on Intellect Press.

Bridget Quinn is a wanderer from Austin Texas. Her recent work explores the places in-between; where paths cut through tiny urban forests and prairies and where accidental collaborations between strangers and wildlife span decades.

Alison Wilder: “I associate “play” with liberating myself from habitual tasks. Familiar processes, even loved ones, can easily seem like “work” if they’re pursued for practical reasons. Remembering to integrate new processes can reinvigorate familiar practices. Starting a work of art is ideally a practice in playing.”

Irwan Ahmett: I had a wonderful childhood. I spent most of my time playing with or without friends. I used to play with objects I found on the street, with situations around me, or using my body. To maintain the spirit of playing in my work I created a project called 'Urban Play', a concept of play which utilizes objects, situations, and performance. I believe that playing is something we cannot deny.

Naeun Jeon: I collect objects and texts familiar to everyone, then make stage-like-scenes that cover wide ranges of genres from traditional media to new: ceramic casting, wood, body movement sensor, LED.

Georgia Muenster is a curator, baker, way-finder, and organizer hailing from New York City, where she is a longstanding member and Curatorial Fellow of the arts collective Flux Factory. She received a BA in Art History from Bard College in 2008; she loves books, pie, and the endless exploration of the constructed urban environment.

Steven Lang / When I was four years old, I came across an open, unguarded can of deck paint and painted myself completely red. It has never really worn off.

Ann Armstrong: As an artist and architect I spend a lot of time thinking about how to translate conceptual ideas into physical reality. These ideas | creations take the form of murals, ephemeral street art, performance, sculpture, furniture, and lighting.

Carrie Schneider: My work includes Care House; a video, sound, and material installation in the house I grew up in, Hear Our Houston; public generated audio walking tours and dérives, and Sunblossom; an evolving skill share between local creatives and kids who are refugees from Burma. I also write about art and dance Argentine tango every chance I get.

Colin Bliss is a sculptor, tinkerer, writer and sometimes fake astronaut. Born and raised on the island of Manhattan, he now lives and makes work in Providence, RI. His personal work tends to explore the emotional lives of objects, and how those emotions coincide, or completely butt up against those of humans. His sculpture ranges from devastatingly permanent and heavy to fleeting and transient. For nearly a decade he has worked as a key member of a public art and education collective, making large, temporary, collaborative murals with tape, and using them as a tool for education.

Peter Maarseveen is a photographer/sculptor from Tasmania, Australia. He builds his own functional pinhole cameras out of discarded objects, using them to create series of photographs unique to the cameras themselves. He is currently experimenting with 'Anthotypes', a technique which uses plant materials as a photographic printing medium.

Amy Flaherty: My work calls for a "game like" mentality to re-create objects I miss or have lost. I try to use my limited skills and resources to create shapes that resemble things or people I love.

Brandy Bajalia is an artist based in sweet southern Birmingham, Alabama. She received her BFA from the University of Montevallo in painting and art history. Brandy's work is informed by language, natural patterns, immigrants, national geographic magazines, memory, disaster, ritual, and her grandmother’s stories. The concept that best applies to her work are revolving themes of the human condition, while posing questions that pertain to social class, the family unit, and the importance of physical memory.

Ashley Ivey is a designer and maker living in Tallahassee, Florida. She has a BFA in Art (design focus) from Florida State University. She apprenticed at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in 2008 where she learnt screen printing and wet felting processes, and fell head over heels for rhubarb pie. Ashley currently works as designer and media specialist for the College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance at Florida State University. In the fall, she will start a position with FSU's Facility for Arts Research where she will help with the development of its residency, education, and public outreach programs.

Aaron Finbloom is a philosopher, improviser and social structure experimenter. His artwork consists of interdisciplinary and intermedia investigations exploring different ways of structuring philosophical conversation.

Caro Clark hails from Rhode Island, lives in Maine, and is earning her MFA in fiction at the University of New Hampshire. She recently finished walking across Spain and feels very tired, leaving her with little to say about herself or her writing save for this rudimentary list: boats, lobstermen, a pack of squirrels collectively named Deb, dream space, goat friends, quinoa, brothers, the ocean, the water, the sea.

Michael Webster’s work focuses on the manifestations of status through historical memory and spatial politics. Michael has worked with architects, designers, social workers, historians, and educators, and he pursues knowledge that is generated between fields. Over the past three years, Michael has been part of a collaborative group investigating the concealed history of urban renewal in Greenville, NC. In 2010 he curated the geographically-contextual exhibition Countertransference at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Heidi Wiren Bartlett is an Interdisciplinary artist, teacher, amateur entomologist and taxidermist living and working in Nebraska. Bartlett investigates the potential of environments as conduits for performance and drawing. Paper, wood, animal artifacts, and architecture create the framework for her performances. She explores the line that runs through all things; revealing relationships between our body and its surroundings. Within this landscape she is interested in marks, light, movement, ritual and the dialog between our symbolic and animal selves.

Kristen DeGree lives in Iowa City, Iowa and is currently working towards a MFA in intermedia arts and printmaking. She was raised in North Dakota, where she developed an interest in landscapes, agriculture, and the quest for autonomy. She is interested in ferments: biotic, political, artistic and otherwise. Though she probably came to artmaking much earlier through the kitchen, she was officially drawn to art through printmaking: the collaborative environment of the print shop with its methods for spreading information cheaply and efficiently. Her love for print has more recently led to an intuitive shift towards video, sound, and social practice. She often works in collaboration with others, and is currently preoccupied by the language of the future.

Sair Goetz is a North Carolina artist who works primarily in installation, moving image, and painting, trying to make tangible the ephemeral connections in the spaces between people, ideas, and aesthetics. sarah looks for the visually delicious and the conceptually poetic and seeks to create intense immersive experiences. She received her undergraduate degree in making/ thinking/ looking/ feeling/ talking about the visual in space & time from Duke University. She plans to change the universe, or at least your vision of it.