(she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work often requires or implies the involvement of a human body to activate and realize the piece. The objects and installations she makes can be architectural, acoustic, kinetic. A person can be housed inside them, traverse the water in them. They can be worn or flipped through. They can be played or simply looked at but even in the looking, the body is imagined. Her work has been supported by Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, ApexArt International Research Fellowship and Blue Mountain Center among others. She has built site specific projects in New Mexico, St. Louis, and Florida. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Montreal, Houston, Seattle, Denver, St. Louis, and Albuquerque.

(he/his) Bill Nelson, by his own appraisal, is a "rusty old fixture planted along the margins of Denver’s art scene." His narrative paintings, sculptures and assemblages have appeared in numerous solo exhibitions, including “Curiosity,” “Strange People,” “ROBUTA,” “MORI,” and the recently presented “UNIDENTIFIED,” which explored the history of UFO activity in Colorado. Nelson’s acclaimed “Art Is Love” unearthed for public view the handmade plaster “bones” that renowned artist William Zorach (Feb. 28, 1889—Nov. 15, 1966) made and used to cast in bronze his “Pioneer Family,” once considered the most important unrealized sculpture in the world and now installed at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. For “Tender Machines,” Nelson’s assemblages, “Love Me Tender” and “The Pilot,” recall fond childhood memories of building mechanical gadgetry in his grandfather’s workshop—wondrous experiences that continue to inform his artwork to this day.

(he/him) From robots that hold protests, extruders that birth populations and machines that are designed for the dead to operate, Fernando Orellana has collaborated with automation for over twenty years to create transmedia artwork. As a machine designer, a technologist and a user, Orellana has blurred the line between himself and the machine in the creative process. The imagery and narrative that Orellana explores spans a spectrum that includes giving agency to automata, embraces the generatively made, celebrates the wonder of absurdity and is most often driven by the universes of his subconscious mind.

He has exhibited at a variety of regional, national and international venues, most recently at the Toledo Museum of Art, the Speed Art Museum, the Spring Break Art Show and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. He received a Master of Fine Art from The Ohio State University, a Bachelor of Fine Art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently an Associate Professor of Digital Art in the Visual Arts Department at Union College. He was born in El Salvador, San Salvador.

(they/them) LA Samuelson is an interdisciplinary artist working in contemporary performance, installation, and writing. Their work follows the transmission of feeling across objects, sites, and bodies, searching for new strategies to help us bear impermanence, attachments to living, and to one another. LA’s projects have been presented by MCA Denver, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, the Denver Art Museum, the Longmont Museum, and their current work is supported by the National Performance Network and the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. They hold an MFA in Dance from CU Boulder and currently teach contemporary performance practices at Hamilton College.