Olga Zaslavskaya

Olga Zaslavskaya, Dr. is a co-founder and director of the International Alternative Culture Center (IACC/NAKKA) in Budapest, Hungary. She led several research-based cultural projects including three-year research and educational program Alternative Culture Beyond Borders: The Past and Present of the Arts and Media in the Context of Globalization and Teaching Spatial Turn in Globalizing World. She curated and co-curated exhibitions internationally (in Hungary, Russia, Canada, and Norway).

She is a co-founder of the international platform Arts, Science, Local and Indigenous Knowledge (ArtSLInK) and is currently involved in its development by promoting collaborative research-driven creative projects in cooperation with natural, social, and humanities scholars and representatives of Indigenous People of the Arctic. Her research interests include the theory and practices of transnational cultural history, alternative culture, transnational biographical studies, and cultural geography.

Max Sher

Born in St. Petersburg, raised in Siberia, and educated in Siberia and France, Max Sher started out as a photojournalist and then moved on into visual art, still also doing assignments for international print and online media. Sher is primarily interested in de-exoticizing/de-colonizing the representation of the post-Soviet built environment, architecture, and infrastructure and in investigating local histories. Sher's formative years spent in a Siberian industrial region informs his continued interest in how industries, infrastructures, and architecture influence the lives of communities and fragile ecosystems, including in Siberia and the Arctic (Murmansk, Yakutsk). His works were exhibited as part of solo and group shows both in Russia and internationally, including Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow Museum of Architecture, PERMM, National Museum of Art Yakutsk, Format Festival, and Noorderlicht. Currently, he lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Aleksandra Ianchenko

Aleksandra (ANISA) is an artist who works with different media including painting and drawings, site-specific performances and participatory installations. Currently, she is a third-year doctoral candidate at the joint program between Tallinn University, Estonia and Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. Her doctoral thesis is based on artistic research on the notion of atmosphere in relation to urban public transport. In particular, she looks at what kind of atmosphere/appeal different means of public transport have, as well as how the inclusion of art in any forms may contribute to the atmosphere on public transport stops and vehicles. Her doctoral research is embedded in the EU-funded project “Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities: Narrating, Experiencing, Contesting (PUTSPACE)”. In the project, Aleksandra is also responsible for curating the exhibition that unites artistic and academic approaches. This exhibition titled “Rabbits&Rails” has been recently open in Brussels, Belgium. 

Stanislav Podusenko

Artist, photographer, designer, independent curator and researcher. Graduated Institute of Architecture and Design at Altai State Technical University (Russia), majoring in architecture. He is a founder of the ephemeral OUT gallery and the multidisciplinary design studio reassembly. He actively participates in developing the Arts, Science, Local and Indigenous Knowledge (ArtSLInK) platform. As an ArtSLInK creative team member participates in Frozen Commons: Change, Resilience and Sustainability in the Arctic and Arctic Cities: Measuring Urban Sustainability in Transition (MUST). In 2021, he took part in an expedition in the Siberian boreal forest in the framework of the project Informal Roads: The Impact of Unofficial Transportation Routes on Remote Arctic Communities as an artist and photo documentalist. 

Recent international exhibitions include Memories: Dialogues of Memory (Kazakhstan, 2019), Urban ruins (Croatia, 2016), and the solo-exhibition Martian Taiga (Tromso. Norway 2022).

The main focus of his recent projects is the intersection of scientific knowledge and art. He specializes in 3D modeling, visualization, graphic, motion, and UX/UI design.