Josh Rios is faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches courses in visual critical studies and research-based practice. As a media artist, writer, and educator his projects deal with the histories, archives, and futurities of Latinx subjectivity and US/Mexico relations as understood through globalization and neocoloniality. Recent projects and presentations have been featured at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), the Blue Star Contemporary (San Antonio), Konsthall C (Stockholm), The School of Visual Art (New York), DiverseWorks (Houston), The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park), The Luminary (St. Louis), the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Biennial (Calgary, Canada), The ICA at MECA (Portland), and the Sullivan Galleries at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago). Upcoming work will be featured at The Vincent Price Art Museum (Los Angeles). Additionally, Rios has recently chaired two College Art Association panels, one in 2019 titled, “Latinx Sounds: Auditory Technologies of Resistance and Aural Practices of Transformation,” and another in 2020 titled, “Re-Working Labor: Art, Work, and Working Art,” which examined the changing nature of labor and its relationship to creativity. In 2019 Rios was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute for the Truth and Reconciliation Residency. In 2020 Rios was a cohort member of an international artist exchange program with Brazil for the residency, Close the There. Rios is currently a cohort member of the year-long residency program, Re:place, sponsored by Co-prosperity (Chicago).

Anthony Romero is a Boston-based artist, writer, and organizer committed to documenting and supporting artists and communities of color. Recent projects and performances have been featured at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), the Blue Star Contemporary (San Antonio), and the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Biennial (Calgary, Canada). Publications include The Social Practice That Is Race, coauthored with Dan S. Wang, and the exhibition catalogue Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements, of which he was the editor. He is Professor of the Practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston.

Matt Joynt is a Chicago-based composer and artist whose work engages the multivalent political histories of sound, sonic archives, and sound as site. His composition projects for film have premiered at Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, IFC New York, SXSW Film Festival, and The Gene Siskel Film Center and have been featured extensively in media work for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and PBS Independent Lens. Collaborative projects - as a member of InCUBATE and with Josh Rios and Anthony Romero - have been exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Smart Museum of Art (Chicago), Luminary Arts (St. Louis), Autzen Gallery at Portland State University (Portland), The Devos Museum at Northern Michigan University (Marquette) and Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts (Chicago). “The Siren and Social Space: an Essay in Fourteen Stanzas”, written with Josh Rios, was published in the third issue of ON Journal, Rules and Spatial Justice from The Design Studio for Social Intervention, Boston.