Argot Chen (b. 1994) is a Taiwanese-American new media artist and hybrid writer who surfaces political critiques through unexpected mediums. Their work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at CtrlZ.AI in Barcelona and University of the Arts London. They have been awarded grants from the Sussman Foundation and the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and named a finalist for Eyebeam Rapid Response Grant and the Periplus Fellowship. They studied painting at Princeton University.

Jennifer Moore (The Well Of Sound/DJ Freequeensee) is a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in the Northwest. I sense no difference between art and existence. In this way I am an artist, as I believe we all are. I create as a practice of freedom. I translate life into sound, image and movement, to affect and accept its direction, path, and quality. In pursuit of inner vision and my own feeling tone of love, I work daily to allow creation and possibility to flow through me. I find sway and fluidity in the interplay between medium, with a focus in poetry, music composition, production, and sonic meditation. I practice liberation through process, and believe sharing to be an integral part of growth and healing. Love as modality is necessary. Love is all there is, so long as we have the courage to give and receive.

Rose Ansari (she/her) is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist and creative technologist. She attended Alzahra University of Tehran for her Bachelor of Fine Arts. Currently, she is a Master of Fine Arts student in Art & Technology / Sound Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.

Rose’s current research-based art exploration delves into Cyborg and post-human theories, distortion, and telecommunication through sensory experience in laboratory processes. Fueled by a fascination with unreal fantasy and immersive environments, she is inspired by sci-fi and futuristic concepts, biology, and machines. She integrates technology and cognitive sciences with poetry to unravel the complexities of the human unconscious and emotions. Her projects have been shown nationally and internationally.

Livia Glascock is a digital artist that enjoys experimenting with video, sculpture, poetry, and sound. She looks to explore ideas such as collective memory, biological remembrance, and generational trauma through animation and collage. She hopes that her art evokes emotions that remind us of moments where we feel our humanity deep in our bones.

Gloria Regonesi is a filmmaker and educator active across Italy, Germany, and the UK. Her work spans documentary and experimental film, frequently focusing on the emotional resonance of spaces and the socio-cultural implications thereof. A dedicated advocate for sustainable documentary filmmaking, she promotes ethical practices that ensure equitable treatment for both workers and subjects. She also employs filmmaking as a research tool, particularly within the field of architecture, where she both practices and teaches its methodological applications.

Ariana Simpson is an experimental interdisciplinary poet and writer, traversing poetry and the intersectional through a convergence of visual and audio forms that has both fragmented and stretched her out in galvanizing ways. Her curiosity has recently expanded into video poetry, namely in 2023 when she reimagined her poem, “My Home Is (⠍⠽⠀⠓⠕⠍⠑⠀⠊⠎)”, initially published in Burrow Press’ online journal BP Review, for Cadence Video Poetry Festival, becoming the recipient of the Video by Poets Award for her film. She has been published in various zines and lit journals and her film work has been showcased in Indie Film Bazaar, the “Across Landscape and Language” program at Frye Art Museum, and received an Honorable Mention from Midwest Poetry Festival after creating a new film through her artist-in-residency with Cadence in 2024.

Rana San is an intermedia artist, curator, and community builder pondering hyper visibility, bodily autonomy, and immigrant liminality. Her creative and curatorial practice centers experimental and analog approaches to storytelling through film, writing, and movement presented on screen and stage. Based between Seattle and Istanbul, she co-directs Cadence Video Poetry Festival and is a co-curator of Good Symptom: A Serial Anthology of Time-Based Disturbances. Rana has recently presented work at Engauge Experimental Film Festival (WA), Experiments in Cinema (NM), and Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival (MX).

Chelsea Werner-Jatzke is an author, filmmaker, and curator exploring the liminal spaces of the literary arts. Her interest in how words are experienced has resulted in gallery installations, classical music performances, broadsides, karaoke, and video poetry. She is co-director of Cadence Video Poetry Festival, co-curator of Good Symptom: A Serial Anthology of Time-Based Disturbances (The 3rd Thing), and a community board member for the Seattle City of Literature. Chelsea was recently published in Tri-Quarterly and featured in Local Sightings Film Festival (WA), Aorta Poetry Film Festival (NZ), and Festival Fotogenia (MX).