Dorothy Albertini recently completed her MFA at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She works for Bard's satellite campuses in New York state prisons and curates a reading series at kmoca (the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art).

Avi Alpert is a writer and theorist living in New York City. His research of late has focused on Continental philosophy, inter-cultural contact, and the relationship between the two. He is currently a Helena Rubenstein Fellow in the Critical Theory section of the Whitney Museum's Independent Studies Program.

Steven Ausbury is an artist living in Brooklyn and Cairo, NY. His performance, visual art and media-based work has generally addressed the relationships between identity, language and space in everyday life. His work has been screened, performed and exhibited at the The New Museum, The Kitchen, Grey Art Gallery, The International Center of Photography, 303 Gallery, Barnsdall Artpark, Franklin Furnace, New Langton Arts, Banff Center for New Media, the Cannes Film Festival and Cinematexas among many other venues. His work is in the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum.  He holds a B.A. from Hampshire College, attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego.

Jonah Bokaer is an award-winning media artist and choreographer. A graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts, Bokaer was hired as a professional member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (2000- 2007) at the unprecedented age of 18, and remains the youngest dancer ever hired in the 55-year history of Cunningham's dance ensemble. Additionally, Bokaer has worked with John Jasperse (2004-2005), David Gordon (2005- 2006), Deborah Hay (2005), and has also interpreted the choreography of George Balanchine as restaged by Melissa Hayden.

Karen Cunningham is a Scottish artist usually based in Glasgow but currently living in Amsterdam as artists in residence for the Scottish Arts Council. Her art education started with studying for a degree in Photography at Edinburgh College of Art, she then attended Mayland Institute College of Art in Baltimore as an exchange student in 1997 and then studied on the MFA program at Glasgow School of Art between 2001-2003.
She is co-curator of 'The OPen Eye Club' - a series of one-off video/art events in Glasgow and
Future exhibitions include a 3-person show with Babak Ghazi (London) and Luca Frei (Sweden) as part of Glasgow International - April 2008.

Dorit Cypis, is an artist (MFA, Cal Arts, 1977) and a mediator (Masters of Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University, 2005). Since the 1980’s Dorit Cypis has employed strategies of photography, performance, installation, sculpture and social interaction to explore relationships between personal and social identity, questioning subjectivity in relation to corporeal, social, political and psychological spaces. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, International Center of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Orange County Museum, Walker Art Center, Musee d’Art Contemporain/Montreal, Musee des Beaux Arts/Bruxelles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Elaine Gan uses installation, performance, and digital media to study negotiations of power and movements of capital. Some of her works have taken visible form through the commitment of institutions such as New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Artists Space, Exit Art, and the New York Department of Cultural Affairs. Raised in Manila, Gan earned a degree in Architecture from Wellesley College, participated
in the Whitney Museum of American Art - Independent Study Program, and lives in New York City. "Fast Car" is part of an ongoing series about globalization and cultural sites.
http://www.ganstudio.com

Steven Lam is an artist and independent curator. Lam is currently a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and will premiere an exhibition co-curated with Angelique Campens and Erica Cooke in May 2008, entitled “For Reasons of State” at the Kitchen, NYC. He was the 2006-7 Lori Ledis Curatorial Fellow at Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn. Other exhibitions included ‘Spectral Evidence’ and ‘Eligible Traffic’ opens in early March in TX.
As an artist Lam has exhibited in several non-profit venues including the Bronx Museum of Art, New York; PS122 Gallery, New York; Eyebeam, NY; Art Interactive, MA; Diverseworks, TX; Produce Gallery, Tyler School of Art, PA; The Windtunnel at Art Center College of Art and Design, CA; Aljira: Center for Contemporary Art, NJ as well premiering video/choreographic work for various performance venues. His work and exhibitions have been reviewed in the New York Times, Artforum.com, Flash Art, Art Journal, among others. He received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine and currently teaches Art History and Theory at the School of Visual Arts.

Simon Leung lives in Los Angeles. His latest work include “POE,” a video exhibited at Wave Hill in fall 2007; “three boys pose for a camera none of them are looking into,” a small book of fiction (Nothing Moments Press 2007); and the essay, “The Look of Law,” which won the 2008 Art Journal Award. 2008 is also his eighth year of gainful employment at the University of California, Irvine.

Matt Lipps was born and raised in Northern California. He received his MFA from University of California, Irvine in 2004, and his BFA from California State University, Long Beach in 1998. He has been a part of such group exhibitions as Photography Unbound at the Robert V. Fullerton Museum, San Bernardino in 2006; The Libertine Society presents: The Nature of Excess at L2kontemporary Gallery, Los Angeles in 2006; Log Cabin, organized by Jeffrey Uslip at Artists Space, New York in 2005; Rendering Gender at Truman State University Art Gallery, Missouri in 2004; among others.

The collaborative husband/wife team of Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand have been working together over the past several years. Their work has been included in group exhibitions and screenings nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at the Butler Institute of American Art and the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia. Their work has recently been in group exhibitions at The Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Boston Center for the Arts and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. They were awarded the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Residency in New York City at The Woolworth Building in 2003, a residency at the Experimental Television Center in 2004 and 2005 and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Creativity Award in 2005.
http://www.maryandstephan.com

Chana Morgenstern was born and raised in Jerusalem and now resides in Providence where she is working on her PhD in Comparative Israeli and Palestinian Literature at Brown University. She has her MFA in fiction from Bard College and is working on an upcoming novel. Chana is co-founder of the innovative reading series and literary arts non-profit, Artifact . Recent fiction of hers can be read in On our Backs Magazine, Marjorie Wood Gallery, Tantalum, and Encyclopedia.

Megan Piontkowski lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of Montclair State University's BFA program in 2003 and of Brooklyn College's MFA program in 2006. Her work has been shown in New York, New Jersey, Toronto, Salzburg, Austria and the 2007 ArtNow fair in Miami, FL. Megan's current projects in process are a sculptural installation of stuffed fabric aloe and jade plants, and a series of gouache, watercolor and ink works on paper of her alter-e

C.Premnath has enjoyed working for over three decades in the field of audio communication. He currently assists in the Kaigal Education and Environment Programme.

Sreshta Premnath lives and works in New York City. He received his BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA from The Milton Avery Graduate School of Fine Art at Bard College. His work has been shown at Gallery SKE and Sumukha Gallery, in Bangalore (India), Rotunda Gallery, Art in General, Exit Art and Bose Pacia Gallery in New York City. He is currently a studio fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program. Sreshta is the founder and editor of Shifter.

Sudha Premnath received her PhD in Ecology, from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. She has worked in the 'Centre for Environment Education, Bangalore' and presently teaches Biology and Environmental Sciences at 'The Valley School', Bangalore. She is deeply concerned with ecological restoration, wilderness conservation and environment education.

She has established five schools for the children of the Tribal communities in Kaigal (AP), a seed bank and nursery for endangered tree species, and a livelihood programme for the community surrounding Kaigal village.

Sarah Ross is an artist whose works focus on myths of health, safety and cleanliness that surface in the physical and visual structures of everyday spaces. She teaches at various institutions including Illinois State University and an Illinois state prison, and works with C-U Books to Prisoners, and Education Justice Project, an initiative to provide higher education in Illinois prisons. Ross is the recipient of a grant from the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. She has exhibited work in Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, Chicago, Portland, Denmark and Romania.

Ann Stephenson is a poet whose recent work appears or is forthcoming in Coconut, Combo, Forklift, Sal Mimeo, and TYPO. In 2006 she published her chapbook, Wirework (Tent Editions). She recently completed her MFA at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and relocated from New York City to Atlanta, Georgia.

Anup Mathew Thomas is a photographer currently based in Kerala. His recent works explore the plural and syncretic nature of the state he grew up in. He had solo shows at GallerySKE, Bangalore and Gasworks Gallery, London in 2007.

Soyoung Yoon is a Ph.D. candidate in the Dept. of Art & Art History at Stanford University, writing her dissertation, tentatively titled: “The Anarchic Archive: Re- conceptualizations of Collage and Montage in Post-war Avant- garde Cinema.” The dissertation argues for a fundamental shift in the post-war model of collage/montage – a shift from a spatial to a temporal paradigm – specifically as the avant-garde’s response to a waning of affect of the image and consequently, the weakening of our relationship to history, our sense of historicity, within the cultural dynamics of postwar Europe and the United States. In her other work, she analyzes the psychological and social function of the image in terms of a critique of ideology informed by Marxist aesthetics, Lacanian psychoanalysis, feminist and post- colonial theory, and media theory. A recent critical studies fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program (2006 ~ 2007), she is currently a Visiting Professor at the Film Program, Conservatory of Theatre, Arts, and Film in SUNY Purchase College.