John West
John West makes things with words, code, and music. He is an MFA candidate in Nonfiction Writing at Bennington College and works as a data journalist at the Laboratory for Social Machines at the MIT Media Lab.
Artists
Galen Beebe
Galen Beebe is a Boston-based writer and maker whose work been published by Full Stop, Hypocrite Reader, Patient Sounds, Hound, Satellite Press, and Bello Collective. She holds an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
A writer, vocalist and sound artist, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of TwERK (Belladonna, 2013). She was born and raised in Harlem.
Yoshiko Chuma
Yoshiko Chuma (conceptual artist, choreographer/artistic director of The School of Hard Knocks) has been a firebrand in the post-modern dance scene of New York City since the 1980s, has been consistently producing thought-provoking work that is neither dance nor theater nor film nor any other pre-determined category. She is an artist on her own journey. A path that has taken her to over 40 “out of the way” countries and collected over 2000 artists, thinkers and collaborators of every genre since establishing her company The School of Hard Knocks in New York City in 1980.
Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson is a performance artist, composer, and writer whose work explores a remarkable range of media and subject matter.
Ben Fama
Ben Fama is the author of Fantasy (UDP 2015). His writing has appeared in The Believer, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Jubilat, Lit, Joyland and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. In 2016 he was a participating artist in MoMA ps1’s GreaterNY. He is the co-founder of Wonder, and lives in New York City.
Katherine Hubbard
Katherine Hubbard is an interdisciplinary artist living in New York. Hubbard’s most recent solo exhibition bring your own lights, and performance by the same name was presented at The Kitchen, NY in the fall of 2016, after which she participated in the artists residency program at The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX. Hubbard’s work has been exhibited at Company Gallery, NY; MoMA PS1, NY; Recess, NY; The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY; Higher Pictures, NY; Murray Guy, NY and the Museum of Arts and Design, NY. Her solo and collaborative performances have been presented at MoMA PS1, NY; Judd Foundation, NY; Participant Inc., NY; c.off, Stockholm, Sweden; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Hubbard received an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and holds part time teaching positions at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Parsons School of Design, The Cooper Union, the International Center of Photography at Bard as well as the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Additional information can be found at http://katherinehubbard.com
Thomas J. Lax
Thomas J. Lax was appointed Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 2014. For the previous seven years, he worked at The Studio Museum in Harlem, where he organized over a dozen exhibitions as well as numerous screenings, performances and public programs. In 2015, Thomas was awarded the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.
Anna Craycroft
Anna Craycroft is an artist mining the fields of education, cinema, psychology, literature and art history to examine our cultural models for fostering individuality. Her current exhibitions include a major new commission from the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston as part of the exhibition, The Artist’s Museum, and Tuning the Room a solo exhibition at Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles. Previous solo exhibitions include Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland Oregon, the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin Texas, Tracy Williams Ltd, NYC. Two-person exhibitions include Redcat Gallery, Los Angeles, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, and the Fundacio Miro, Barcelona. Notable group exhibitions include Champs Elysees at Palais de Tokyo Paris, France, and PS1’s Greater New York 2005. She has also received commissions for public sculpture from Art in General, Socrates Sculpture Park NYC, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center NYC, and Den Haag Sculptuur, the Hague Netherlands.
Banjela Davis
Banjela Davis is a queer black producer, curator, and androgyne from NYC. She is the H.B.I.C. at Legends, Statements & Stars!, a multimedia platform highlighting the personal testimony and creative spirit of the QTPOC community through talk series, showcases, street journalism, and zines. Banjela has presented at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, La MaMa, Gallery Aferro (Newark), Dixon Place, JACK, and Brooklyn Public Library. Banjela got her B.A. in Art History from City College (CUNY), which she attended as her alter-ego Zach Frater.
Das Mannequin
Das Mannequin a.k.a. Kaimi Glover is a Jamaican-American visual artist born and raised in Brooklyn. He graduated from High School for International Studies and went on to receive his BA in Mass Communications from Virginia State University. Das Mannequin fuses digital and traditional media to showcase black aesthetic, black pride, and black subject matter. You can find this warm, eccentric soul posting on IG, drawing on the subway, and casually gagging the boys and girls of America with collaborator Banjela Davis.
Jackie Wang
Jackie Wang is s a student of the dream state, black studies scholar, prison abolitionist, poet, filmmaker, performer, trauma monster, and PhD candidate at Harvard University in African and African American Studies. She is the author of Carceral Capitalism (Semiotexte / MIT Press), a number of punk zines including On Being Hard Femme, and a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (Capricious). In her most recent work she has been researching the bail bonds industry and the history of risk assessment in criminal justice. Find her @LoneberryWang and Loneberry.tumblr.com.