Yvette Brackman is a sculptor, filmmaker and writer, born in New York. Her recent projects include Common Knowledge, an ongoing project based in the Kola peninsula of Russia, Technically Sweet and an exhibition based on an unrealized Michelangelo Antonioni screenplay from 1976. She lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. www.yvettebrackman.info

Axel Rudolf Wegner Buljo is born in Bugøynes, Norway. He is a painter, collector, photographer and amateur biologist. He has photographed insects in his home municipality since the 1970s.

Geir Tore Holm lives and works in Oslo, Gildeskål and Tromsø. He has been interested in social relations and power structures, often related to his Sámi background; first discussing individual identity, connecting to a larger cosmos, then addressing difficulties in ethnic representations. From 2003 developing the long-term dialogue and ecology project Sørfinnset skole/ the nord land with his partner Søssa Jørgensen in collaboration with Kamin Lertchaiprasert and Rirkrit Tiravanija from Thailand. In 2006 he was engaged as Project Manager for developing the Tromsø Academy Of Fine Art, where he used to be a Visiting Professor. He is now a Research Fellow at the Oslo National Academy for the Arts.

Erkki Kurenniemi is a pioneer of electronic art in Finland, a former nuclear scientist who composed computer-based music and designed his own instruments at Helsinki University’s Department of Music in the early sixties. He was a pioneer of industrial automation at Rosenlew in the seventies, and an automation designer in Nokia’s cable division in the early eighties. The exploratory search for new species of user interfaces for musical instruments and the semi-automatic generation of music have been among Kurenniemi’s main goals in his career. Today Kurenniemi is devoted to the obsessive effort of recording his own life, preserving all his thoughts and observations, trivial objects, and a constant stream of images, continually recording an audio diary, making videotapes, and shooting 20,000 photographs a year. Thus creating a reconstruction of his life, a “virtual persona,” to be premiered in July, 2048. These days Kurenniemi works as an independent researcher, specializing in subjects such as artificial intelligence.

Mark Leckey is an artist based in London. He graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic in 1990. He is mainly working with collage art, music and video. Aspects of British culture has been the subject of many of Mark Leckey’s works, as one of his main areas is on the social, emotional, and spiritual fabric of contemporary British youth culture. He has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, while also contributed to numerous group shows international. He is currently professor of film studies at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main and was a founding member of the musical collectives Donateller and Jack too Jack. Mark Leckeys found art and found footage pieces span several videos, most notably Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) and Industrial Lights and Magic (2008), for which he won the 2008 Turner Prize.

Marysia Lewandowska is a Polish born, London based artist who has collaborated with Neil Cummings between 1995–2008. She is a co-author of many projects such as The Value of Things (Birkhauser, 2000), Give & Take (Victoria&Albert Museum, 2001), Capital (Tate Modern, 2001), Enthusiasm (CSW Zamek Ujazdowski Warsaw, Whitechapel Gallery London, Kunst Werke Berlin, Tapies Foundation Barcelona, 2004/06), Museum Futures (Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2008). Those projects, have explored the public function of archives, collections and exhibitions in an age characterized by relentless privatization. Her new project Tender Museum (Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, 2009) addressed the relationship between artist and critic through staging fictional radio broadcast. Her current interests engage with legitimacy of conversation as a site of the unacknowledged knowledge, including Women’s Audio Archive (CCS Bard College, NY, 2009/10). Our Radical Parents (Mossutställningar, Stockholm 2010) is planned as a film and a book based on a series of conversations exploring radical acts present in practices of everyday life, as well as questions of generational hand down. Museum Vocabularies (Calvert22 Foundation, London 2010) project traces the dissemination of cultural activities under communism. Double Act. 1917 is a recent commission for the Sámi Art Festival in Trondheim. Marysia is a Professor at Konstfack where in 2005 she established Timeline: Artists’ Film and Video Archive. // www.marysialewandowska.com // www.womensaudioarchive.org // www.enthusiastsarchive.net

Joar Nango is an architect and artist based in Oslo, Norway. Nango graduated with an MA in architecture from NTNU in Trondheim (2008), where he also has been involved in researching the subject of Saami architecture. He is currently editing and publishing Sámi Huksendáidda, a small fanzine that researches Saami architecture from different perspectives. He is inspired by the creative simplicity and DIY mentality that exists within northern rural environments. In addition to his projects in printed matter, he is also working collaboratively on projects that intersect art, design and architecture.

Peter Stoffel is a Geneva-based artist who works with painting, installation and various other media. He is one of the key figures behind the “Appenzell Biennial” founded in 2002. He founded “Planet22” in 1999 with artist Solvej Dufour Andersen, as a new art space in Geneve. In his sociopolitical reflexive work, Stoffel is the kind of artist who, through deconstruction of unidirectional modes of thinking, can pull off eminently pathos-laden questions of exploitation and exoticism without ever looking sensationalist, didactic or even heavy handed. Here his interest has been on public space and its connotations, functional and otherwise, playfully exploiting the normal use of specific architectures, functions, or symbols. Central to his works is questions of the communicational reality through exploration of themes like representation, identification, visibility and the unseen. Some of the most central questions are about insight as blindness.

Kristin Tårnesvik is an artist based in Bergen. Her focus of research has
developed from questioning ethnicity, geographic and national belonging
in the North, to investigate political ideology and hegemonic structures.
Focus in particular is upon the reciprocity between destruction and revolution,
vision and utopia, and acts of the individual within a political system.
She works with video, installation and photography. Tårnesvik is also a cofunder
of the artist-run space Knipsu in Bergen.

Morten Torgersrud works as an artist based in Kirkenes, Norway. Torgesrud situates his practice in the context of contemporary political configurations of the northern landscape such as Sápmi and Barents. Considering ontological and conceptual aspects of photography and space/place, his research aims at developing perspectives on photography through its relation to a political-economic landscape.