Sofian Audry (they/them) is an artist, scholar, Professor of Interactive Media within the School of Media at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) and Co-Director of the Hexagram Network for Research-Creation in Art, Culture and Technology. Their work explores the behavior of hybrid agents at the frontier of art, artificial intelligence, and artificial life, through artworks and writings. Audry’s book Art in the Age of Machine Learning examines machine learning art and its practice in art and music (MIT Press, 2021).

Writer, curator, and artist Emilie Trice (she/her) specializes in conceptual contemporary art and new media. Her writing has been published by The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Artforum, Artnet, Dazed Digital, Southwest Contemporary and other media outlets. She is currently based in Colorado.

Leilani Lynch (she/her) is Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Her curatorial practice champions experimentation and critical engagement with the most urgent ideas circulating today. Working collaboratively with artists, her exhibitions and programs analyze the human experience and are inclusive of diverse and wide-ranging audiences. Prior to joining MCA Denver, Leilani most recently served as Curator at The Bass, Miami Beach.

Joshua Ware (he/him) is an artist and writer who was born in Cleveland, OH. He lives in Denver, CO. For more information, visit www.joshua-ware.com or IG: @joshua.ware.

Kalliopi Monoyios (she/her) is one small human on Planet Earth. She creates art about plastic and American consumerism, curates exhibits with environmental and science-forward themes, and writes about science and connection. Her greatest joy is contemplating other mysterious Earthlings evolution has produced: lichen, moss, cephalopods, and nudibranchs, to name just a few.

Phillip Stearns (He/Him) is a Denver based electronic artist working with both physical and digital media. His practice uses media and technology to surface realities that reside just beyond our sense perceptions but are integral to our daily existence. His concept driven work is often the result of a dialogue with peculiarities of specific media and takes many forms including single channel video, multichannel audio, audio-visual performance, digital weavings, and immersive installations. Phillip earned his MFA in music from the California Institute of the Arts and has performed and exhibited work internationally in art festivals, museums, and galleries including Transfer Gallery, Tate Britain, Park Avenue Armory, NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, ELEKTRA BIAN, Transmediale, FILE, Festival de Arte Digital, Thoma Foundation, Denver Art Museum, Zhangzhou Museum of Art and Haus Der Elektronischen Künste.

Katie Wiegman (she/her) is a dancer and choreographer living in Denver. She is currently dancing for the environmentally-focused Alpine Artists Collective as well as presenting her own work combining dance, puppetry, and visual art. She is currently pursuing her master's degree in dance movement therapy, a form of somatic counseling, with the intention of using movement to foster psychological healing. Within the field of dance movement therapy, Katie is especially interested in working with underserved populations including children, non-verbal adults, and those experiencing chronic pain.

Theresa Clowes (she/her) is an artist and educator based in Denver. While her BFA and MFA are in Textiles, her work has always blurred the creative lines between sculpture, architecture, and craft. Her large sculptural work has been exhibited throughout Denver and, most recently, as a permanent public art collection at 1900 16th Street, Denver, CO. Theresa is represented by Walker Fine Arts, where she exhibits her more intimate oil painting and thread landscapes. She also has 25+ years of experience in education and is currently a professor in the Art Education department at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. theresaclowes.art & @theresaclowes

Kerrie Joy (she/her) is a poet, singer/songwriter, storyteller, educator, and revolutionary. She is based in Denver, CO where she channels her creativity through poetry, hip-hop, song, graphic design, and fashion. She is an organizer of ideas and a facilitator of critical thinking through art. Kerrie Joy has performed at Red Red Rocks, TEDx Mile High, City Winery DC, Atlanta, & Charlotte, the Denver Womxn’s March, Dazzle Denver, The Soiled Dove Underground and much more. In 2022 Kerrie Joy was named the Creative-in-Residence at the Denver Art Museum continuing to challenge herself as a master creator. In 2023 Kerrie Joy made history as the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Adams County, CO. She recently released her very first EP “Preachin’ To Myself” and is working on her next project, “Love, Me.” Stay tuned.

Learn more at www.kerriejoy.com.

Fred Glick (he/him) is a commercial real estate developer and urban planner working primarily on adaptive reuse projects in Denver’s urban core. Fred is the vice-chair of the Denver Planning Board and a member of the Lower Downtown Design Review Commission. Fred serves on the boards of the Denver Health Foundation and the Downtown Denver Partnership’s Denver Civic Ventures board, Planning and Urban Impact Committee and Urban Exploration Steering Committee. Fred has extensive non-profit board experience, having held leadership positions on the boards of RedLine Contemporary Art Center; the Academy of Urban Learning, a Denver charter school serving unhoused and at-risk students; his neighborhood organization, Clayton United; and the American International School of Johannesburg.

A Denver native, Fred spent twenty years abroad in Swaziland, South Africa, India, Egypt and the United Kingdom. Before leaving the U.S., Fred was an arts administrator for modern dance companies in New York City. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Colorado Denver.

Fred is married to journalist Donna Bryson and the couple have one child.