Charlotte Klonk studied art history at the Universities of Hamburg and Cambridge. After completing her dissertation, she was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church College, Oxford University, and a lecturer at the University of Warwick. Since 2011, she has been professor of art history at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwean-born visual artist and educator. She is invested in elevating the work and practices of Black peoples past, present, and future through a conceptual approach to design, publishing, archiving practices, and institution building. Mutiti holds a diploma in Multimedia from the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA) and an MFA from the Yale School of Art, with a concentration in Graphic Design. Mutiti is the Director of Graduate Studies for Graphic Design at Yale School of Art. She has held academic positions at Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA), SUNY Purchase College and VCUart at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Sinthujan Varatharajah is a political geographer and essayist who researches and writes on statelessness, spatiality, and geographies of (im)power. In 2020, Varatharajah's exhibition "how to move an ark" was part of the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art." Varatharajah's first book "to all the places that lie behind us" will be published by Hanser Verlag in September 2022.

Since 2019, Clara Herrmann has been head of the JUNGE AKADEMIE, the international artist-in-residence programme of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, with residencies in Berlin (Germany) and Olevano (Italy). For the JUNGE AKADEMIE, she developed the programme Human Machine and initiated the project AI Anarchies with a fellowship programme, Autumn School and exhibition. She is a member of the advisory council of Gesellschaft für Künstlerische Forschung. Herrmann coordinated the Digital Solitude programme of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, from 2015-19, where she founded and curated the project Web Residencies with guest curators, including Morehshin Allahyari, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Nora O Murchú, and Mary Maggic. She was a research associate in the department for cultural management at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and is co-publisher of the anthology Der digitale Kulturbetrieb. Clara Herrmann studied literature, law and arts management in Berlin, London and Frankfurt (Oder).