Eric Anglès is a translator, constantly negotiating between four languages: Portuguese, French, German and English.
His artistic and critical engagements are oriented towards the question: How is meaning produced by different groups of people as they interact with cultural objects? And more fundamentally, why this anxiety to produce meaning?

Clifford Borress works in Brooklyn and currently pursues a master's in photography at Bard College.

Joseph Bradshaw is the author of The Way Birds Become (Weather Press,
2007). His poems and reviews have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Cannibal, Cranky, Cultural Society, Denver Quarterly, MiPOesias, the tiny, and Zafusy. He currently lives in Iowa City, IA.

Mark Cooley is a new genre artist interested in exploring politics/economics, identity and visual rhetoric in American popular (and not so popular) culture. Mark's work has been shown internationally in online and offline venues such as Exit Art, Postmasters Gallery, Furtherfield.org and Rhizome.org. Documentation of Mark's work can be seen at his website at flawedart.net. Mark is an Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Technology at George Mason University.

Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson have worked collaboratively since 1998. Their projects are multi-disciplinary in nature and include practices in video, sculpture, sound, performance, and works on paper. Dubbin & Davidson have exhibited internationally at Sadler’s Wells, London; 2004 Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; E-Flux Video Rental; Espace Paul Ricard, Paris; and the New York/Québec Interlacé Festival. They have exhibited in the United States at museums, galleries, and art centers including SculptureCenter, New York; Gigantic Art Space, New York; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, New Mexico; The Museum of Art & Design, New York;  New Sound New York Festival.
Melissa Dubbin was born in 1976, in Las Cruces, New Mexico.  She graduated with honors in Moving Image Arts from College of Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Aaron S. Davidson was born in 1971, in Madison, Wisconsin. He received his degree in Photography from University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Davidson currently teaches at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Dubbin & Davidson live and work in Brooklyn, New York City.

Eric Gottesman is a collaborative artist working with photography and video. For the last seven years, he has been working on a project with Sudden Flowers Productions, a children's art collective in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that he helped found. Together, they have produced imagery that describes how the children's lives have been affected by poverty and disease. They have shown the work locally in English and Amharic and
recently toured a public exhibit around Ethiopia. Gottesman has exhibited and published his work from Ethiopia and from other projects in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North America. His most recent exhibits were at ESpace SD in Beirut, Lebanon, Al Riwaq Gallery in Manama, Bahrain and Gallery Wedat in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
http://www.ericgottesman.net/

Branden Koch Lives/works - Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from Bard College. His recent solo exhibitions include: Rowland Contemporary April 2007, Chicago IL; High Energy Constructs, LA, CA November 2006. He organizes the series "One Night Stand" They are temporary exhibitions in his Brooklyn apartment.

Reuben Lorch-Miller grew up in Washington State. He received an MFA in New Genres from San Francisco State University in 2001. He has been an artist-in-residence at The Headlands Center for The Arts (Sausalito, CA) and Medicine Factory (Memphis, TN). His work has been exhibited widely including venues in San Francisco, New York, Seattle and Lisbon. Using a variety of media, he integrates sculpture, installation, video, sound, painting, text and photography. The work often explores themes of power, fear, ambivalence and anti-heroics, typically placed within the context of cultural motifs, personal symbology and the landscape. He currently lives in New York City where he has only one cat and tries to grow vegetables on the roof.
http://www.lorch-miller.com

Matt McAlpin is a doctoral student in the English department at SUNY Stony Brook, more interested in freshman comp than anything else. His whole life, the big Other has been telling him to be the Master and a philosopher, he has recently come to the realization that he's a sophist and a pervert.
 
Kathleen Miller is a poet who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her
work has kindly been featured in publications such as Shampoo Magazine
and Bay Poetics Anthology, as well as "The Weather is Happening All Around Us," a chapbook from Delirium Press.
 
Kiki Petrosino is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Best New Poets 2006, Unpleasant Event Schedule, POOL, Forklift Ohio, and elsewhere.
She lives in Iowa City, where she is a Post-Graduate Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa.

André Spears is the author of Fragments from Mu (A Sequel) (First Intensity, 2007); his other works include Xo: A Tale for the New Atlantis (1983) and Letters from Mu (Part I), both of which are posted online at www.pangaeapress.com.

Christopher Stackhouse is the author of a collection of poems, Slip (Corollary Press, 2005) and co-author with poet/novelist/professor John Keene on the collaborative book Seismosis (1913 Press, 2006) which features Keene's text and Stackhouse's drawings. He is a contributing editor for Fence Magazine, a Cave Canem Writer Fellow, a 2005 Fellow in Poetry New York Foundation For The Arts, and a Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, M.F.A. Writing candidate.

David Samuel Stern uses photography to examine the relationship between vision and representation. He is originally from suburban Chicago and received an MFA in digital imaging & photography from Washington University in St. Louis. His work has been featured by the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City.
http://davidsamuelstern.com

Edwin Torres of sightsound bits, of lingua stretched, across beaches and billow, by brix and books, of folio beards, of nubile bards, the poPedology of ambient language, the functions of external circumstance, of spooked devil, dusting day, of unions, the shock, the worker, the roof, holy kid, kills rock star, foundation, for contemporary, among others, performance, and art, and nyfa, in restless residence, lmcc, co-editor of dvd, stevens thundrous zeitgimp, radio rattattat rip, ps1, dot org, live theater, nude yip, double double you, dot, dit, lingoblip.
 
Genya Turovskaya was born in Kiev, Ukraine and grew up in New York City. She is the author of Calendar (Ugly Duckling Presse 2002). And The Tides (Octopus Books 2007). Her poetry and translations from Russian have appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, 6x6, The Germ, Aufgabe, A Public Space, Octopus, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is the Associate Editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse, and teaches writing and literary translation at Pratt Institute and NYU.

Avinash Veeraraghavan Lives and works in Bangalore, India. He worked as a freelance graphic designer for several years before starting to make art work. His first project was a picture book titled 'I Love My India. Stories for a city.' His works have also been shown at Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore, GallerySKE, Bangalore, and Project88, Mumbai amongst few others.

Ruben Verdu has devoted himself to fictionalize and ridicule some of the most boring aspects of our contemporary living experience. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. After receiving his MFA from CalArts, he moved to New York to attend the Whitney Museum ISP. He now lives an works in Barcelona, Spain, where he has just finished exhibiting at the Centre d'Art Santa Mònica. He will be part of the upcoming LOOP'07 festival.
www.peepingmonster.com

Sreshta Rit Premnath lives and works in NYC. He received his MFA from Bard College and his BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art. His work has been shown in various galleries including Rotunda Gallery Brooklyn, Bose Pacia, NY; Islip Art Museum, LI; Gallery SKE, and Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, India; Spaces Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
He is the founder and editor of Shifter Magazine, as well as the founder of The Museum of Contextual Amputations.
www.circumscript.net

Pieter DeHeijde lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. He is known for his discreet text and image based interventions into Wikipedia and other public domain information sources. He is engaged in trying to understand the ways in which the notion of truth is performed, articulated and transformed in the public sphere. He is currently working on a book "The Rebirth of Myth in Contemporary Politics," to be published by Idelwilde Press in 2008.