Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is Distinguished Professor of the Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Alex is the producer of the feature films The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1997) and The Owls (Dunye, 2010). She has directed the feature documentaries SCALE: Measuring Might in the Media Age (2008), Video Remains (2005), Dear Gabe (2003), Women of Vision: 18 Histories in Feminist Film and Video (1998), and the shorts RELEASED: 5 Short Videos about Women and Prison (2000) and Naming Prairie (2001), a Sundance Film Festival, 2002, official selection. All played in festivals and enjoyed community-based distribution. She is the author of AIDS TV (Duke, 1995); AIDS and the Distribution of Crises, with Jih-Fei Cheng and Nishant Shahani (Duke, 2020); We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production, with Theodore Kerr (Duke University Press, 2022); and scores of articles and videos about AIDS.

Mev Luna is a research-based artist whose practice spans performance, film, new media, and text. Through an autoethnographic methodology, their work considers issues of institutional access, incarceration, and how images of marginalized groups are circulated and controlled. Recent exhibitions include the international solo “Warped Terrain” at laNao Galería, Mexico City. Luna’s time-based works have premiered at SFMOMA and Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, The Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, and Kino Moviemento in Berlin. Their practice has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Art Matters Foundation, New York Council on the Arts, Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence at The New School, Queer|Art, and by residencies including MASS MoCA, Cobertizo (Mexico), Chicago Artists Coalition, SOMA Summer Program, and Shandaken: Storm King. 

Shwe Ye Shoon Myat is a graduate of the MA program in History of Design and Curatorial Studies at The New School and holds a BS in Biology with a minor in Psychology from the New York Institute of Technology. She is part of the archive and curatorial team at Josefina Bailleres and curates with Project.A.Art Group, serving as a dramaturg and curator for performance and visual art projects. Her interdisciplinary background spanning the sciences, curation, and design history informs her approach to storytelling and public engagement. Shwe has worked on projects that explore questions of gender, womanhood, existence, movement, and the complexities of lived experiences.

Chloe Buergenthal is a design historian and amateur ceramicist focusing on accessibility and engagement across curatorial and educational spaces. They are an MA candidate in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies program at Parsons School of Design and have held roles at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, R & Company, The FLAG Art Foundation, the Design + Construction Department at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the world famous dishware store Fishs Eddy. Their research engages with American arts and crafts, sloppy aesthetics, cuteness, and popular culture while exploring the power of the hand and purposeful deskilling in relation to capitalism, queerness, politics of care, embodied resistance, and the history of craft.

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