Olga Zaslavskaya

Dr. is a co-founder and director of the International Alternative Culture Center (IACC/NAKKA) in Budapest, Hungary. She has led several research-based cultural projects, including a three-year research and educational program titled "Alternative Culture Beyond Borders: The Past and Present of the Arts and Media in the Context of Globalization" and "Teaching Spatial Turn in a Globalizing World." She has curated and co-curated exhibitions internationally, including in Hungary, Russia, Canada, the US, and Norway. She is also 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 scholars from the natural and social sciences, humanities, and representatives of Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic. Her research interests include the theory and practices of transnational cultural history, cultural geography, transmedia and digital storytelling.

Max Sher

is a photographer and visual artist. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, he grew up in Siberia and lived in Moscow before moving to Berlin in 2021.  He started as a photojournalist and then moved on to art photography and installation. While working in Russia, Sher was primarily interested in de-exoticizing the representation of the post-Soviet built environment, architecture, and infrastructure, as well as in investigating local/problematic histories. His work was exhibited as part of solo and group shows both in Russia and internationally. As a photographer, Sher has worked on assignments for The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Le Monde, Libération, etc. He also has produced several artist books, including Palimpsests (2018), 245 

https://www.maxsher.com/ 

Aleksandra Ianchenko

is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher. She is currently completing her PhD at Tallinn University (Estonia) and Åbo Akademi University (Finland), focusing on her artistic research on the atmospheres of tramways. Her art-based research methods include on-site drawing, painting, and performing in public spaces. Aleksandra completed an MA in Fine Art in Irkutsk, Russia, and an MA in Art Management in Moscow and Berlin. Her projects are presented in both artistic and academic contexts, appearing at exhibitions and conferences.

https://www.sasha-art.com/  

Stanislav Podusenko

is a visual artist and photographer. He graduated from the Institute of Architecture and Design at Altai State Technical University (Barnaul, Russia), majoring in architecture. He is the founder and participant of the KUKOLKI group (2007–2008), the ephemeral OUT gallery (2020—), and the design studio reassembly, which focuses on graphic and motion design. He has participated in international exhibitions such as Urban Ruins (Croatia, 2016), Memories: Dialogues of Memory (Kazakhstan, 2019), The Art of Being (Vyksa, 2020), and the photo exhibition MARTIAN TAIGA (Norway, 2022). Additionally, he co-curated the exhibition TERRA: Kamchatka (2019). He took part in an expedition in the Siberian boreal forest as part of the project “Informal Roads: The Impact of Unofficial Transportation Routes on Remote Arctic Communities" (Baikal region, Russia) as an artist and photo documentalist

Beili Liu

 is a visual artist who creates material-and-process -driven, site-responsive installations and performances. Liu's current research focuses on the complex ecological, political, and environmental concerns facing the Circumpolar North and the urgency of the climate crisis. Liu has exhibited extensively across the globe. 

Born in Jilin, China, Beili Liu now lives and works in Austin, Texas. She is the Leslie Waggener Endowed Professor in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Liu has received numerous fellowships and awards, including the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2022-2024), the Pollock Prize for Creativity (2022), and the Fulbright Arctic Chair, Norway (2021-2022), among others. In 2018, Liu was honored by the Texas Legislature as the Texas State Artist in 3D medium. 

https://beililiu.com 

Instagram page: @beililiu

Olga Lo

is a traditional and digital artist who creates artworks focused on the harmony of natural and artificial worlds, their beauty, and the importance of their balanced coexistence. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including in Canada, Italy, France, Hungary, the UK, and Russia. Each of Olga’s solo exhibitions has been dedicated to research projects she conducted using her favorite art medium—watercolor. Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Olga now lives and works in Budapest, Hungary. She received her MFA degree from the State Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. As a new member of the ArtSLInK platform, she also explores the possibilities of artificial intelligence programs (DALL-E 3, MidJourney, ChatGPT) in connecting scientists with artistic methods to represent their research.

https://olgalo.com/

Instagram page: @artist_olga_lo

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Nikki Lindt

is a New York City-based interdisciplinary artist who grew up in the Netherlands and the US. She received her MFA from Yale University. Lindt works primarily in the mediums of painting, sound, and video on long-term projects focusing on environmental stewardship and people’s relationship to natural areas - from the Arctic Circle to the forests of New York City. She often works with ecologists, social scientists, philosophers, and others and is a part of several interdisciplinary research teams. Lindt’s work has been internationally exhibited as public artworks, in museums and galleries. Recent exhibitions include The United Nations in Rome, the Robischon Gallery, The Hudson River Museum in New York, the White Mountains Museum in New Hampshire, and a 2-year long public art piece in New York City’s Prospect Park.

https://www.nlindt.com