Yasumasa Morimura is a contemporary Japanese performance and appropriation artist whose work encompasses photography, film, and live performance. He is known for his reinterpretation of recognizable artworks and figures from art history, history, and mass media through his adoption of personas that transcend national, ethnic, gendered, and racial boundaries. Across his photographic and performative series, Morimura's works explore a number of interconnected themes, including: the nature of identity and its ability to undergo change, postcolonialism, authorship, and the Western view of Japan – and Asia, more broadly – as feminine.
Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci is a contemporary art centre sited in Viale della Repubblica in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. The centre is devoted to exhibiting art produced during the past few decades. It houses a Museum of Contemporary Art, a Centre of Information and Documentation of visual arts and an education department.
Guillaume Bottazzi is a French visual artist.
Marco Bolognesi is an artist working in a variety of media such as drawing and painting, cinema, photo- and videography.
Gusmano Cesaretti is a self-taught Italian photographer and artist born in Porcari (Lucca), Italy to Bruno Cesaretti and Delfa Cesaretti. He has also worked in films as a producer and visual consultant. He is one of the first photographers to document the East Los Angeles street culture, and has produced photojournalistic works in locations around the world including North, Central, and South America, Southeast Asia, China, Africa, and the Midwest.
Helidon Gjergji is a contemporary artist who works in various media.
Amnon Barzel is an internationally known art curator and author.
Nuclear art was an artistic approach developed by some artists and painters, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Kiwao Nomura is a Japanese poet, writer, critic, and lecturer. He is considered one of the driving forces behind contemporary Japanese poetry.
Mery Godigna Collet is a Venezuelan artist, writer, philanthropist and environmental advocate living in Austin, Texas.
ni_ka is a Japanese poet and new media artist. She gained prominence in the 2010s for inventing new kinds of poetry using digital technology: monitor poetry (monita-shi), designed for computer screens and making use of thousands of emoji, animated GIFs, and other forms of computer graphics, and AR Poetry (AR-shi), made using augmented reality.
Marco Scotini is an Italian curator, writer and art critic based in Milan, where he is artistic director of the FM Center for Contemporary Art and Head of the Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies Department at NABA.
Michele Niccolai is a sculptor born in Livorno. He spent his youth in Cecina. He learned to sculpt and fire clay using his garndfather's furnace.
Jane de Almeida, born in Para de Minas, Brazil, is a researcher, director, artist, curator and theoretician.
Marcos Chaves is a Brazilian contemporary artist.
Marisa Volpi was an Italian art historian and writer.
Armando Lulaj is an artist, playwright, filmmaker, and film producer, living and working in Tirana, Albania. His work “constantly negotiates the borders between economical power, fictional democracy and social disparity in a global context.” Lulaj is the founder of DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art. Lulaj has been called “one of the most prominent Albanian artists of his generation.” Since 2022, Lulaj is a member of the art collective Manifesto.
Joseph Maida is an artist, writer and educator. Best known for his photography, Maida's work is a visual representation of the intersections between identity and culture. Maida's most significant projects include New Natives; Things R Queer; and Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal ________-Americans. Maida earned an MFA from Yale University in 2001 and currently serves as chair of the BFA Photography and Video Department at School of Visual Arts (SVA).
DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art is a contemporary art center and independent film production center based in Tirana, Albania. D.C.C.A defines itself as "nexus of academics, activists, architects, artists, imaginary and real collectives, critics, curators, journalists, translators, etc., that seek to shine a light on these practices but also offer the necessary tools to imagine alternative futures and strategies of resistance to the status quo."
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei is a Dutch publisher, translator, curator, journalist, and philologist. He received an MA in general linguistics from Leiden University, an MMus from the ArtScience department at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, a PhD from the division Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School, and a PhD from the Centre for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen. Van Gerven Oei is currently director/CFO of open access press punctum books and director/CEO of open metadata platform Thoth Open Metadata.
