Viola Arduini is an Italian artist, researcher, and educator whose practice weaves together art, science, and storytelling. Moving fluidly between photography, biology, code, and writing, her work traces new connections between humans, technology, and the more-than-human world. Currently pursuing a PhD in Emergent Technologies and Media Art Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder, she builds on earlier studies in Documentary Photography (University of South Wales, UK) and Art & Ecology (University of New Mexico). Her projects have been shown in the US and Europe, and supported by fellowships and residencies including the Mellon Foundation Art & Ecology Fellowship, the Culture and Animal Foundation, and the Santa Fe Art Institute.

Esy Casey is a Fil-Am filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist whose work often reflects themes of migration and labor in the landscape. Her film A Movement Against the Transparency of the Stars of the Seas (2023) was nominated for Best Short by The International Documentary Association, won Best Short at the Mimesis Documentary Festival and screened in competition at IDFA and the Busan International Video Art Festival. Her directorial debut Jeepney (2015) was nationally broadcast on PBS, and she is the recipient of awards and fellowships from organizations including The New York State Council on the Arts, The Ford Foundation, The Flaherty Seminar, The New York Film Festival, MacDowell, Yaddo, The Center for Asian American Media, The Ms. Foundation, and The Princess Grace Foundation USA.

Sammy Seung-min Lee explores sculpture, bookbinding, and installation in her interdisciplinary practice. Rooted in a diasporic perspective shaped by migration and bicultural identity, her work explores how cultural traditions persist, adapt, and hybridize across time and place. Using hanji (Korean mulberry paper) and other found materials, Lee transforms traditional craft techniques into sculptural forms that examine themes of identity, displacement, and resilience.

Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Denver Botanic Gardens (2022), Emmanuel Art Gallery (Denver, 2021) and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (2014), with an upcoming solo at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver in 2026. She has participated in residencies at the Studios at MASS MoCA, Anderson Ranch, and RedLine Contemporary Art Center, among others. Notable highlights include a performative collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma during his Bach Project tour in 2018.

​Lee is a recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Fellowship (2023–24), fellowships from Ewha Womans University (2024–26), and Colorado Creative Industries. She is the founder and director of Collective SML | k, a Denver-based project space supporting Asian and Asian American artists through residencies and community programs.

Mars da Silva Saude works with time-based media involving subjects such as marginal histories, speculative fiction, the landscape, counterculture, radical politics, and text(s). Their moving image work has screened at venues and festivals including Open City Documentary Festival, Experiments in Cinema, FLEX Fest, Analogica, Mimesis Documentary Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Torino Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and artist-run labs and DIY project spaces internationally. Saude is a member of the Filmwerkplaats collective moving image lab in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as well as BEEF in Bristol, UK. A Portuguese national raised in California, they currently work in Aberystwyth, Wales, where they tend Labordy Ffilm Aber and collaborate with the artist and musican MK Lord on projects in sound.

rebecca shapass is an artist working across moving-image, photography, installation, and text. Her research-driven projects investigate and complicate archival practice and documentary form. Drawing on hauntological frameworks, she crafts nonlinear, sensory narratives privileging affect over explanation. Her work has been presented internationally at institutions and film festivals including Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA), Microscope Gallery (NYC), SKF/Konstnärshuset (Sweden), Antimatter [media art] (Canada), Mimesis Documentary Festival (Boulder, CO), and Motel/X Lisbon International Horror Festival.

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Sarah Biagini is a film artist/programmer/educator living in the Rocky mountains. She is currently lead programmer of Mimesis Documentary Festival in Boulder, CO. Before moving to Colorado she worked as an art administrator at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA and a negative cutting assistant in Seattle, WA, where she also co-programmed the Third Eye Cinema series at the Northwest Film Forum. She is a founding member of the organization Process Reversal, a non-profit dedicated to presenting workshops, screenings, and sharing resources for photochemical filmmaking. Sarah's own film work has screened in places like Uniondocs, Anthology Film Archives, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Short Film Festival Oberhausen.