Participants

Mary Ellen Carroll's art traverses the disciplines of architecture/design and public policy, technology, writing, performance, and film.

Teddy Cruz is the director of the UCSD Cross-Border Initiative and principal in Estudio Teddy Cruz + Forman.

Performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and director of the international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.

Naima J. Keith is an internationally recognized curator specializing in American and international contemporary art.

Aaron Landsman constructs performances using people, language, space and time.

Sydney-based otherothers is a design organization that undertakes research, communication, competitions, curation, events, exhibitions, and installations.

Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist.

Scholar and social activist Andrew Ross' work explores labor, its organization, and the urban environment. Ross is also the author of Bird On Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City. 

Imre Szeman is the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta and director of the collaborative research project After Oil.