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Marion von Osten is an artist, researcher and exhibition maker. She is a founding member of the Center for Post-colonial Knowledge and Culture (CPKC) and kleines postfordistisches Drama (kpD) in Berlin as well as of the media collective Labor k3000 Zürich. Since 2012, she is Visiting Professor at CCC Master, HEAD Geneva and the Master for Arts in Public Spheres (MAPS), HSLU Lucerne. She is currently doing a PhD in Fine Arts candidate at Malmö Art Academy, Lund University.

Doreen Mende is a curator and theorist. Recent research projects include KP Brehmer Real Capital – Production (2014, Raven Row, London); Travelling Communiqué (2014/13, Museum of Yugoslav History in Belgrade, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin), Double Bound Economies (2013/12, Halle 14 in Leipzig, centre de la photographie in Geneva, ETH in Zurich, Thomas Fischer Galerie in Berlin), KP Brehmer: A Test Extending Beyond the Action (2011, CAAC, Sevilla), Candida Höfer: Projects Done (2009/10, CAAC in Sevilla, MARCO in Vigo), Not Right But Wrong (2007, JET, Berlin), Ear Appeal (2006, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna). Project-based collaborations in Ramallah, Beirut, Addis Ababa and Tehran. Mende is co-editor of e-flux journal 59 Harun Farocki (2014), resident of the blog for Manifesta Journal (2013/14) and editor-in-chief of the publication series Displayer at University of Arts and Design/ ZKM Karlsruhe (2006–09). PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge, Goldsmiths, University of London. Associate faculty member of the Dutch Art Institute. Mende is Head and Professor of the CCC Research Master Programme and the CCC PhD-Forum at HEAD–Genève. In 2015, she became part of the founding-group of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin. Mende lives in Berlin and Geneva.

Pierre Hazan (born in Alexandria, Egypt, lives in Geneva) teaches at the Geneva School for Art and Design (HEAD) and the University of Neuchatel. He is a special advisor on Transitional Justice issues for the Centre of Humanitarian Dialogue (Geneva).

Kodwo Eshun is an artist and theorist based in London. He is co-founder of The Otolith Group whose recent works have been presented in solo exhibitions at Serralves, Porto and Bergen Kunsthall and group exhibitions such as The Anthropocene Project. A Report, Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Cut to Swipe, Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2010, The Otolith Group was nominated for The Turner Prize. Eshun is the author of Dan Graham: Rock My Religion (2012) and More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (1998). He is coeditor of World 3 (2014), The Militant Image: A Cine-Geography: Third Text 108 (2011), Harun Farocki: Against What? Against Whom? (2009), A Long Time Between Suns (2009) and The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective (2007). Eshun is a Lecturer in Aural and Visual Cultures at the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, and Visiting Professor for Theory Fiction at HEAD Geneva.

Yann Chateigné Tytelman studied literature, history of art, archaeology, has been mentored by a famous museum director, learned by collaborating with artists, collectively curated in Barcelona, Eindhoven and London, solitarily wrote for local and international publications, obliquely lectured in Brussels, Vilnjus, Zürich, researched psychedelia, the occult, technologies, taught curating, history, cultural theory, lead a museum program in Bordeaux, founded a publishing house in Paris and serves as Dean of Visual Arts Department at HEAD – Genève.

Isabelle Benoît is Director for International Development of Tempora/Museum of Europe in Brussel; further professional experience includes university teaching, research work and collaborations with the National Swiss Museum; International Red Cross/Red Crescent Museum, Geneva; the Polish National Museum of The Second World War in Gdansk.

Ursula Biemann is an artist, author, and video essayist based in Zurich, Switzerland. Her artistic practice is strongly research oriented and involves fieldwork in remote locations where she investigates climate change and the ecologies of oil and water, as in the recent projects Deep Weather (2013) Forest Law (2014) and Subatlantic (2015). Her earlier work focused on geographies of mobility, e.g. in the widely exhibited Sahara Chronicle on clandestine migration networks. Her video installations are exhibited worldwide in museums and at international art biennials in Liverpool, Sharjah, Shanghai, Sevilla, Istanbul, Montreal, Venice and Sao Paulo. She had comprehensive solo exhibitions at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Bildmuseet Umea, Lentos Museum Linz and Helmhaus Zurich. Biemann is cofounder of the collaborative World of Matter project. Biemann has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York (1988). She received a doctor honoris causa in Humanities by the Swedish University Umea and the Prix Meret Oppenheim, the Swiss Grand Award for Art. www.geobodies.org

Gilad Ben-Nun (born in Jerusalem, lives in Frankfurt am Main) teaches Global Studies and refugee and migration history at the University of Leipzig (Germany) and at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies of the University of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).

Nabil Ahmed is an artist, writer and researcher. More recently he has participated in the Taipei Biennale (2012), Cuenca Biennale (2014) and has exhibited at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and Kunstraum Niederoesterreich. He has written for the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), Third Text, Volume, Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth among others. He is co-founder of Call & Response, a sound art organization based in London. He is a fellow (2015-16) at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. He holds a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He teaches at the School of Architecture, London Metropolitan University.