Yunjoo Kwak is a visual artist and researcher based in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Her practice spans essay film, photography, digital montage, and archival work, developing through long-term, research-driven projects that examine architecture, migration, and historical trauma. A graduate of the Dutch Art Institute (MFA, 2011) and the Korean National University of Arts, she investigates how built environments mediate social relations, exclusion, and memory. Works such as Chronicle of Plan van Gool and The Defectors explore overlooked histories and institutional structures. Kwak has exhibited internationally and has been affiliated with Willem de Kooning Academy as a lecturer.

Geo Barcan is a Romanian filmmaker and visual artist based in Rotterdam whose practice spans moving image, installation, and text. Working across video essay, docu-fiction, and expanded cinema, she investigates how technological, ecological, and ideological systems shape lived experience. She thinks of her moving-image practice as a cinema of invisibility, where she captures and researches unseen yet hyper-present forces such as the internet, memory, industry, migration, ideology or changes that happened through long periods of time and that have become so obvious that their after-effects are almost untraceable. Since 2024, in collaboration with Edwin Mingard, she has been working on a long-term moving-image project based in Unst, the most northerly point of the UK where a community of people are living around the development site of the UK’s first vertical launch spaceport.

Bojan Fajfrić is an artist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. His practice spans video, film, photography, and archival research, and is centrally concerned with how moving image mediates collective and personal memory, speculative history, and political failure. His work engages the legacy of Yugoslav Black Wave cinema, particularly the legacy of socialist experience and the material consequences of conflict and urban transformation in Belgrade. He focuses on intimate histories and peripheral figures unfolding at the margins of larger events. He is an organizer and host of a community film club Plan C in Amsterdam.

Sudeep Dasgupta is a cultural theorist and media scholar whose work bridges film studies, literary analysis, and political philosophy. Engaging deeply with Jacques Rancière, Dasgupta examines aesthetics, spectatorship, and the politics of representation, especially in relation to cinema and visual culture. His research explores how artistic forms redistribute the sensible, foregrounding questions of democracy, subjectivity, and dissent. Dasgupta’s publications address migratory aesthetics, media archaeology, and the politics of representation across cinema, television, and contemporary art. He co-edited What’s Queer about Europe (2014) and edited Constellations of the Transnational (2007), reflecting his focus on transnational cultural processes. His research and teaching explore how aesthetic forms mediate displacement, temporality, and subjectivity within globalized cultural contexts.

Dr. phil. Baruch Gottlieb, trained as a filmmaker at Concordia University Montreal, is a practicing transdisciplinary artist specializing in embodied practices and methodologies, kunst am bau, art for public space, interactive and generative art, and sound art. He is currently lecturer in digital aesthetics at UdK Berlin and at FH Potsdam. He has a doctorate in digital aesthetics from the University of Arts Berlin and author of Most-Human Condition: A Treatise in Eco-Communism’ (Delere Press 2024), ’Gratitude for Technology’ (ATROPOS 2009), ‘A Political Economy of the Smallest Things’ (ATROPOS 2016), and Digital Materialism (Emerald 2018). Since 2017, he has been working as a curator at West Den Haag programming a wide range of activities and events, including exhibitions, discussion events, and schools.