Aika Akhmetova
Aika Akhmetova (b. 1995 Almaty, Kazakhstan) is an interdisciplinary artist based between New York City and Almaty. Their practice consists of installation, video, and performance exploring intimate corners of being. Interweaving fading memories, kink, queerness and Central Asian traditions Akhmetova’s practice relies on performative action to leave traces of naughtiness behind in any form.
Akhmetova studied Painting at RISD and holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. They’ve had solo exhibitions at Ortega y Gasset Projects in 2023 and A.I.R. Gallery in 2021 and participated in numerous group shows across the US, Central Asia and Europe, including Fondazione Elpis in Milan, Smack Mellon, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Jewish Museum in NYC. Akhmetova was a 2025 artist in residence at FIAR and an AIM fellow at The Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2022 and an artist in residence at LMCC Arts Center on Governors Island in 2023. They work as a teaching artist at Harlem School of the Arts and a visiting instructor at Pratt Institute.
Brandon Follick
Brandon Follick is an actor, writer and stand-up comedian whose work has been featured in New York Magazine, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Overheard NY, Buzzfeed, Betches, and more. He writes for The Onion, The New Yorker, Reductress, and McSweeney’s. He contributed to the essay collection How To Stay Productive When the World is Ending, named one of Vulture’s Best Comedy Books of 2023.
He is a founding write/performer on Going Down with Ella Yurman and has performed in national and international comedy festivals, including New York Comedy Fest, Edinburgh Fringe, and Philly SketchFest. He organizes the DaF writing workshop in partnership with The Onion, teaches at Brooklyn Comedy Collective, and will be a guest faculty speaker at the 2026 Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop. His humor book was a finalist in 2024’s Yes, And Laughter Lab’s Program and he was a quarterfinalist for the 2024 Writers Guild Foundation’s Writers’ Access Program.
Camila Galaz
Camila Galaz is a multimedia artist, researcher, and editor based in New York. Her work explores underrepresented narratives in the history of technology and media through hybrid storytelling, media-making, and archival research, and has been supported by institutions such as the New Museum, Rhizome, MIT, National Communications Museum, and the Media Archaeology Lab. She co-hosted Our Friend the Computer (2021–2024), a podcast on alternative tech histories, and is a founding member of Superkilogirls, a research lab focused on gender, labor, and tech infrastructures. Since 2023 she has been a contributing editor of the Millennium Film Journal for experimental film and artist cinema.
Dr. Evilletown
Dr. Evilletown (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist working sound and visuals. Her work generally involves animation, nature footage, sculpture, movement, original sound, public art, and textile work. She explores themes of gender, personal injury, environmental stewardship, and future biological issues. Her videos and films have been projected in and onto theaters, gallery spaces, skyscrapers, small screens, roof tops, restaurants, sidewalks and sidewalks in Tampa, NYC, L.A., Austin, Portland, Seattle, London, and Kyoto. Most recently she received the NYFA / Queens Council for the Arts 2025 New Work Grant.
Juan “Wamoo” Alvarez
Juan Alvarez, aka Wamoo, is a Dominican-American audiovisual artist. He works at the intersection of visual art, music and performance. Taking shape as both video and self-produced music, he constructs experimental music videos using self-produced and found footage with aesthetics, characters, and cosplay to both regenerate and mold video game characters, early digital aesthetics and music into an immersive audiovisual experience. His latest work, Tranquilo (2019-2025), is a continual coming-of-age story, which is at the same time a process of assimilation, disruption and the noise in between. A story told through instances and interactions, contrasting the agency and control that gaming brings a child with the challenging lived experiences of immigration.
Wamoo has exhibited at The Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and FluxusMuseum, among others. He was a Spring 2025 resident at NARS Foundation and a 2025 Media Arts Fellow at En Foco Inc. He studied at SUNY Albany, earning a BA in philosophy and history.
Nate Dorr
Nate Dorr is a Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker interested in the complicated landscapes of the late Anthropocene. His projects investigate human-altered shorelines and post-industrial wildernesses, while seeking new ways to work with old media that better capture his subjects. He is a lapsed neuroscientist, sometimes curator, and a habitual wanderer of transitory pseudo-urban spaces. His films have shown in festivals around the world and all along the New York City coasts, from the Gowanus to Hunters Point South.
