BMCC & THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY

Bertie Ferdman is a contemporary performance scholar whose publications include Off Sites (SIU Press, 2018), Critical Companion to Performance Art, (Bloomsbury Press, 2020), and Curating Dramaturgies (Routledge, 2021) co-edited with Peter Eckersall. Her writing has appeared in Theater, TDR, PAJ, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, and Performance Research. Bertie is Professor of Theater at BMCC and The Graduate Center, CUNY, and guest teaches at Columbia’s School of the Arts.

THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY

Peter Eckersall is the Sidney E. Cohn Professor in Theatre at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His publications include Dramaturgy to Make Visible: The Legacies of New Dramaturgy for Politics and Performance in Our Times (Routledge 2024), The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics (ed. with Helena Grehan, Routledge 2019), and New Media Dramaturgy (co-authored with Helena Grehan and Ed Scheer, Palgrave 2017).

NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Dr. Julia Stoyanovich is Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and of Data Science, and Director of the Center for Responsible AI at NYU. Her goal is to make “responsible AI” synonymous with “AI”. In addition to academic research, she engages in technology policy, has been teaching responsible AI to students, practitioners and the public.

CORNELL TECH

Michael Byrne is Creative Lead for Tech, Arts and Culture at Cornell University’s technology campus, Cornell Tech, and is passionate about the collisions between dance, history, education, and immersive applications. He is a Research Associate of the Digital Life Initiative, and co-leads the Milstein Summer Program in Technology and Humanity.

NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance. Luke is the director of the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Todd Bryant is an award-winning creative technologist and educator who works across independent art installations, commercial activations, and academia as the Director of Production for NYU Tandon @ The Yard and as an Adjunct Professor in the Integrated Design & Media Program at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering.