John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog are architects and urbanists. They have established Territorial Agency, an independent organisation combining architecture, analysis, advocacy and action.
Their work focuses on the transformations of the relation between polities and space. Recent projects include the ‘Museum of Oil’, an initiative developed with Greenpeace to make the oil industry a thing of the past, exhibited at ZKM Karlsruhe in the ambit of Bruno Latour’s Reset Modernity! exhibition; ‘The Coast
 of Europe’ – a multi-year research on the urbanisation processes of the European project, and ‘North’ – an investigation in contemporary forms of geopolitics, sovereignty and resource exploitation in the Arctic.

Together with Armin Linke and Anselm Franke, Palmesino and Rönnskog have initiated the ‘Anthropocene Observatory’, a documentary practice combining photography, films, interviews, spatial analysis and exhibitions aimed at outlining the development of the Anthropocene thesis and since displayed in several museums and art galleries across the globe.
Palmesino and Rönnskog are directors of AA Territories Think Tank, a research centre at the AA Architectural Association in London, where they also teach Diploma Unit 4. Palmesino is research fellow at Goldsmiths, Centre for Research Architecture, London, and Rönnskog is a fellow at AHO, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design.

Beatriz Colomina is an architectural historian, theorist and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University.
Her exhibition ‘Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X’ has been displayed in several art institutions around the globe such as the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Museum of Design of Barcelona. Her publications include ‘Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media’ which was awarded the 1995 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects.

Keller Easterling is an American architect, urbanist, writer and professor at Yale University.
Author of several publications, her research and writing has been included in the 2014 Venice Biennale and exhibited at Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Architectural League in New York and the Rotterdam Biennale.

Franco Farinelli is a geographer, professor and president of Associazione dei Geografi Italiani (Italian Geographers Association). He taught in several institutions around the world, including the Université de Genève (Swiss), the University of California, Los Angeles (USA) and Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne.

Sarat Maharaj is a writer, researcher, curator and professor.
He received his PhD in Britain with a thesis on ‘The Dialectic of Modernism and Mass Culture: Studies in Post War British Art’, and – after twenty-five years teaching History & Theory of Art at Goldsmiths (UK) – he currently holds a personal professorship in Visual Art and Knowledge Systems Focused at Research at Lund University (Sweden). An internationally recognised researcher, he is renowned for his curatorial work for Documenta 11 and his specialist publications covering Marchel Duchamp, James Joyce and Richard Hamilton.

Mark Wigley is an architect, author, professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia GSAPP.
Besides publishing several books on the theory and practice of architecture (‘Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire’, ‘White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture’ and ‘The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida’s Haunt‘), in 2005 he co-founded Volume magazine with Rem Koolhaas (AMO, Rotterdam) and Ole Bouman (Archis, Amsterdam).
Curator of copious exhibitions, he was awarded the International Committee of Architectural Critics (C.I.C.A.) Triennial Award for Architectural Criticism (1990) and a Graham Foundation Grant (1997).

Trevor Paglen is an artist, author and experimental geographer whose work has been displayed in several art galleries and museums including Fondazione Prada (2016), the Warhol Museum (2007) and Diverse Works (2005).
His practice features a calculated mingling between social sciences, contemporary arts, investigative journalism and several other obscured and dispersed disciplines: while his chief concerns revolve around how to see and interpret today’s historical moment for developing the means to imagine alternative futures, Artforum reviewed his production as ‘emblematic of our era as that of the naked Vietnamese girl scorched by napalm was of its’. 
He is the author of five books and numerous articles on subjects such as state secrecy, the California prison system, the CIA’s practice of ‘extraordinary rendition’, military symbology, photography and visuality, and in 2014 he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for his investigations and studies as a ‘groundbreaking investigative artist’.

Adam Harvey is a Berlin-based artist exploring the realm of visual privacy, computer vision and security. After spending most of his professional formative years working primarily with photography, starting from 2013 he pushed his practice by undertaking a series of fresh new media such as computers’ facial recognition programs, biometric devices, surveillance cameras and drones.

Captain (Retired) Mauricio Gris is a former British Army Officer and Combat Camera Team Leader¹. Whilst enlisted, his main duties and responsibilities encompassed the direction, production and distribution of reports from regions scarcely accessible to conventional news agencies.
While in office, he started pushing the boundaries of adversarial media generation by taking alternative audio-visual devices to the battlefield with him: during a six-month long deployment in Afghanistan, for instance, he produced the first firefight ever recorded in 3D.
Since leaving the Army, Mauricio has freelanced as a news producer for BBC Newsnight. In 2015 he headed off to Syria to embed with foreign volunteer fighters joining the Syrian Kurdish Forces, and his coverage and chronicle turned into the Channel 4 documentary film ‘Frontline Fighting: The Brits Battling ISIS’.
Strongly fascinated by the effects a camera has in conflicts, Mauricio is currently working on a range of projects aimed at pushing the boundaries and limits of war coverage.

¹ Established during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, the CCT instituted the official British army’s own embedded media corps, while responding to the need to manage media during conflicts. The CCT was the natural and enhanced successor of the Army Film and Photographic Unit, a British armed forces’ subdivision established in 1941 at the request of Winston Churchill. Aimed at the recording of military events, it was disbanded five years later because of the high rate of human losses (almost 23%).

Vittorio Gallese is a cognitive neuroscientist whose researches and experimentations focus on the cognitive role of the motor system and embodied account of social cognition: instrumental in the discovery, together with his colleagues from the University of Parma, of mirror neurons and the elaboration of a theoretical model of social cognition – embodied simulation theory, he has been awarded the Grawemeyer Award for Psychology (2007), the Doctor Honoris Causa from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium, 2010) and the Arnold Pfeffer Prize for Neuropsychoanalysis (2010).
He currently teaches and lectures at the Department of Neuroscience of the University of Parma (Italy), at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study of the University of London (UK) and at the Department of History & Archaeology of Columbia University (USA).

Stacy Martin is a French actress who received critical acclaim for her interpretation of the younger version of Charlotte Gaingsbourg’s character Joe in Lars von Trier’s drama film ‘Nymphomaniac’.
Raised between France and Japan, she studied Media and Cultural Studies at the London College of Communication while attended classes on the Meisner technique at the Actors’ Temple (UK).
She has been nominated for a Bodil Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and has since appeared in Ben Wheatley’s 2015 film ‘High Rise’ and Matteo Garrone’s ‘Tale of Tales’.

Display is a multi-skilled design office based in Milan. Founded by Alessandro Barbieri, Andrea Bergamini, Michele Marchetti and Francis Needham it focuses on digital and printed identities, creative direction and exhibition design. Deeply involved in the experimentation with code, data visualisation, sound design, paper and alternative languages.