Ute Klissenbauer was born in Bolivia and grew up in Colombia, Ecuador and Liberia. She finished school in Düsseldorf, studied Political Philosophy at the Goethe University and Art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt a.M. and is now based in Berlin. Since 2003 she has been doing interdisciplinary investigations on the United Nations with a special focus on postcolonial and cosmopolitan perspectives.

Stefanie Ketzscher is a curator and archivist. She worked together with Diethard Kerbs on the research project Photography and History and was subsequently managing director of the Agentur für Bilder zur Zeitgeschichte (Agency for Images of Contemporary History). There she was in charge of the Photothek Willy Römer. After numerous curatorial projects e.g. at Deutsche Historisches Museum, she has been entrusted with the acquisition and digitization of the image holdings of the Photothek Willy Römer for the Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz since 2010.

Ines Schaber is an artist and writer who lives and works in Berlin, Los Angeles and Leipzig. In 2018/19 she published a series of five booklets about her work on archives, Notes on Archives (Archive Books / Camera Austria)­­ —a series of writings, cases studies, conversations and artistic works on image archives and the questions they pose.

Tom Holert is an independent scholar and curator. At HKW he organized the exhibitions Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, c. 1930 (with Anselm Franke), and Education Shock. Learning, Politics and Architecture in the 1960s and 1970s. He is co-founder of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin. Recent publications include Politics of Learning, Politics of Space. Architecture and the Education Shock of the 1960s and 1970s (2021) and ca. 1972. Gewalt – Identität – Methode (forthcoming).

Panos Aprahamian is a Beirut-based filmmaker and artist who works across different media to explore the various ways in which the past and the future haunt the present. Aprahamian holds an MA in Documentary Film from University of the Arts London (2015), where he studied as a Caspian Arts fellow, and a BFA in Moving Image from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (2008). He has participated in different film festivals and residencies around the world, including Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program (2017/18).

Astrid Zimmermann is a Berlin-based editor, cultural worker, and translator. She is the managing editor of the German edition of Jacobin magazine.

Paula Montecinos Oliva is a choreographer, sonic artist and researcher. She works with sound, bodies, vibrations and transduction aiming for spaces of relationality beyond the individual. Her research includes the experimentation with sonic technologies, written matter and somatic movement, creating hybrid formats of performances, concerts and installation. Current projects involve working with anarchival sonic processes as counter-narrative to hegemonic and monotonic worldviews.

Eduardo Molinari is an artist, professor and researcher in the Department of Visual Arts at the National University of the Arts (Universidad Nacional de las Artes, UNA), Buenos Aires. Walking as an aesthetic practice, research using artistic methods and tools, and cross-disciplinary collaborations are at the centre of his work. In 2001, he created the Walking Archive, an ongoing visual archive that explores the connections between art, history and land. In 2010, he formed La Darsena, an initiative for collective research and experimentation in art and activism, in collaboration with Azul Blaseotto.

Dragan Espenschied is a net artist, home computer folk musician, digital culture researcher and digital art preservation expert. Since 2014 he has led the digital preservation program at Rhizome, introducing a unified approach to web archiving, linked data, and structured emulation.

Mahan Moalemi is a writer and curator from Tehran. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. Looking into encounters between global visual cultures and critical future studies, his research probes the pseudo-discipline of Comparative Futurism. He is the co-editor of Ethnofuturisms (Merve Verlag, 2018) and his writings have appeared in numerous publications in and outside Iran.