Evelyn Kreutzer is a postdoctoral researcher and video essayist/filmmaker at the Università della Svizzera italiana. She is a co-leader of the SNSF-funded research group “The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies” in Lugano and Lucerne, Switzerland, in which she focuses on AI and its impact on audiovisual memory culture. Her written and videographic work has been published in journals like NECSUS, MSMI, [in]Transition, and The Cine-Files. Her monograph Televising Taste is forthcoming with Lever Press.

Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker and media researcher who has produced nearly 400 video essays exploring film and media. His award-winning Transformers: The Premake introduced the “desktop documentary” format. His work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Berlinale, and International Film Festival Rotterdam, as well as websites such as The New York Times and Mubi. He is the Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). He co-leads the Swiss National Science Foundation research project “The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies.” His new feature film “Afterlives” screened at BFI London Film Festival and DocLisboa International Film Festival.

Linn Spitz is a Zurich-based interdisciplinary digital artist with a background in Computer Science. She is focused on animation and experimental technology. Her work blends visual cinematic storytelling with hand-painted and computational processes.

Mayte Gómez Molina is a writer, researcher, and new media artist using writing as the backbone of a plural body of work grounded in digitally produced images, including 3D, VR, and digital cinema. Through these tools, she explores the body as a political subject, perception as a social agreement, and visibility and invisibility as sites of survival and resistance. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions and festivals such as the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, Tabakalera Donosti, Documenta Madrid, Festival de Sevilla, FILE São Paulo, MMMAD Festival, and the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech. Her poetry book Los Trabajos sin Hércules (No Labours for Hercules) was awarded the National Prize for Young Poetry of Spain in 2023. Her second poetry book, Circuito Cerrado de Vigilancia (Closed Surveillance Circuit), examines the frictions between analog bodies and digital spaces, questioning the obsolete binaries of natural and artificial. Her first novel, La boca llena de trigo (A Mouthful of Wheat) was published by Anagrama in March of 2026. She holds an MFA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, completed with a Fulbright scholarship. She is currently a PhD candidate in the MAKE/SENSE program at the FHNW in Basel (Switzerland), where she also teaches at the Academy of Art and Design, at the Institute of Art, Gender and Nature.

Rachel Maclean has spent over a decade showcasing her ground-breaking work in galleries, museums, film festivals and on television. Her multi-media work spans video, sculpture and print, blending the grotesque with the seductive and challenging audiences to confront uncomfortable social realities through a lens of absurdist satire.

She has exhibited her work widely, receiving critical acclaim in the spheres of film and visual art. Solo exhibitions include: Tate Britain and National Gallery, London; Arsenal Contemporary, New York; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, and Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany; KWM Art Center, Beijing; and HOME, Manchester. Her films have screened at major festivals including IFFR, Fantasia, Fantastic Fest and the BFI London Film Festival. She has screened work on the BBC, Channel 4 and Arte, and was awarded the prestigious Margaret Tait Award in 2013 and honourary mention at Pris Ars Electronica 2024.