Marijn Bril

Marijn Bril is an independent curator and researcher based in Rotterdam. In her practice, she researches the overlapping fields of art and media studies. Through exhibitions, discursive programs, essays, and lectures, she explores topics such as systems, productivity, memes, artistic strategies, and knowledge production. Bril holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Excellence Master’s degree in Media Arts Cultures, awarded by the University for Continuing Education Krems (AT), Aalborg University (DK), and the University of Łódź (PL). She has curated programs for organisations such as IMPAKT Centre for Media Culture (Utrecht), the Contemporary Immersive Virtual Art Festival (Vienna) and The Wrong Biennale (online). Her talks and essays have been featured by, among others, V2_, Mister Motley, and the Institute of Network Cultures.

Elsa Ferreira

Elsa Ferreira is an independent journalist and editorial project manager based in Marseille. In her professional practice, she explores the overlapping fields of technology and culture. Through articles, editorial consulting, and conferences, she analyzes the impact of technology on society, follows new trends, and holds a special interest in counter-cultures. Ferreira is a graduate of law, with a specialization in Communication Law from Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II), and also holds a degree in journalism. She currently works as an Editorial Project Manager at L'ADN Studio and as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the "Rewilding Culture" project for Makery magazine, covering residencies at the intersection of arts and sciences across Europe. Her articles and analyses have appeared in a wide variety of media, including Libération, GQ, Society, Pour l'Éco, and KingKong.

Vera Zalutskaya

Vera Zalutskaya: contemporary art curator, writer and cultural manager. Co-editor-in-chief of BLOK Magazine (2021-2024), co-founder of MOST magazine ( with Ewa Borysiewicz and Katie Zazenski). President of the GESSEL Foundations for the National Museum & Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. Member of the Artistic Council of the Konrad and Paweł Jarodzki artist-in-residence programme. Since 2014 she has curated exhibitions and edited publications in Belarus, Denmark, Poland, Serbia and Croatia. She is one of the co-founders of the Identity Crisis Network platform. Between 2020-2022, she co-founded and co-led the artistic, curatorial and activist group ZA*Grupa (*Foreign artists living in Poland). A graduate of the European Humanities University in Vilnius and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Lives and works in Warsaw.

Kathryn (Katie) Zazenski

Kathryn (Katie) Zazenski: artist, curator, writer, editor and lecturer whose practice is centered around cultural production in independent, artist-led communities. Since 2018 she has been directing the Warsaw-based independent art space Stroboskop, where she has produced over 40 exhibitions as well as hosted numerous artist talks and lectures on contemporary art in East and Central Europe. In 2020, Zazenski began editing and writing for Blok Magazine where she was also producing the monthly column "Off-space Q + A", which functioned as an archive of artist-led spaces and projects of the CEE region. The column ran until November 2022, and in this time featured 28 unique spaces and remains one of the few resources documenting such projects in the region. In 2021, she assumed the role of co-editor-in-chief of the magazine alongside Vera Zalutskaya and Ewa Borysiewicz, which they stewarded until February 2024. The team formally resigned in April 2024 and together launched MOST magazine, as co-founders and co-editors-in-chief. In 2022, Zazenski also founded FRINGE Warszawa, an annual event that platforms artist-led, grassroots spaces and projects in Warsaw. Zazenski has held visiting lecturer positions in Europe and the US, including at the Art Academy of Latvia (LV), at Dartmouth College and Rutgers University (USA), and at the School of Form and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Poland). Zazenski received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art (USA) and is a two-time Fulbright Program scholar in Poland, where she has lived since 2015.

Ewa Borysiewicz

Ewa Borysiewicz: art historian, researcher, author of texts on art, ceramic artist, exhibition curator, and organizer of artistic events. She studied art history at the University of Warsaw and Freie Universität Berlin. She is the author of the book “Kinetic Vertigo,” which examines the political and emancipatory aspects of camera-less animation using the example of the works of Julian Józef Antonisz. From 2012 to 2019, she worked at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, responsible for visual arts programmes. From 2018 to 2022, she co-organized (together with the Stereo and Wschód galleries) “Friend of a Friend”, a gallery-share initiative in Warsaw. In 2024 she was awarded a curatorial residency by the Igor Zabel Association in Ljubljana. Curator of group and solo exhibitions. Author of catalogue texts and critical texts on art, published in Flash Art, art agenda/ e-flux Criticism, NERO, Camera Austria, SPIKE, Texte zur Kunst, Art Basel Stories, Przekrój, Vogue Polska, and ZNAK. From 2021 to 2024, together with Katie Zazenski and Vera Zalutskaya, she worked at BLOK magazine as one of its editors-in-chief. In 2024, together with Zazenski and Zalutskaya, she launched MOST Magazine, an online journal for Central and Eastern European art and culture. Her current research interests focus on neuroscience, consciousness theory, epistemology, narratology, and behavioral economics, as well as the use of video game aesthetics and mechanics in visual arts.