Sam Williams is an artist with a practice that intertwines moving-image, collage, choreography, sound and writing. His ongoing research focuses on multispecies entanglements, ecological systems, bodies-as-worlds and folk mythologies and how they propose possibilities for present and future ways of non-human-centric living. Sam is based in London, where he has been a resident of Somerset House Studios since 2019. He received his MA in Sculpture/Moving Image from the Royal College of Art (2016) and in 2021 was part of the Wysing Arts Centre Syllabus VI alternative education program. Sam has shown work at institutions including Chisenhale Gallery, Arnolfini, Siobhan Davies Dance, Somerset House and Studio Voltaire (UK), Atletika (LT); She Will (NO); Röda Sten Konsthall (SE); Kino Arsenal, Akademie der Kunst, Tanzhalle Wisenberg and B3 Biennale (DE) and in Autumn 2025 will have a solo exhibition in Santa Cruz, California. Sam has been artist in residence at Rupert (LT), PRAKSIS (NO), Hospitalfield (UK) and JOYA (ES). His work has been supported by Arts Council England and The Elephant Trust and in 2017 he received the Stuart Croft Foundation prize for Moving Image.

Nicole Seymour works at the intersection of environmental studies, queer theory, and affect studies. Her most recent books are Glitter, a public-facing cultural and environmental history of that substance (Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series), and Bad Environmentalism, which shows how artists and activists have employed playful modes to combat the gloom-and-doomism of mainstream environmentalism (University of Minnesota Press). She is currently Professor of English and Grad Advisor for Environmental Studies at Cal State Fullerton and is working on a new book project about the right-wing appropriation of camp aesthetics.

micha cárdenas, PhD, is an artist, author and Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Performance, Play & Design, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she directs the Critical Realities Studio. Her book Poetic Operations, Duke University Press (2022), proposes algorithmic analysis to develop a trans of color poetics. Poetic Operations was the co-winner of the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize in 2022 from the National Women’s Studies Association. cárdenas’s co-authored books The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (2012) and Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs (2010) were published by Atropos Press. She is a first generation Colombian American.