Gloria Sutton
Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and serves on the executive committee of the Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies program at Northeastern University. A scholar of time-based media, Gloria was the inaugural editor of the College Art Association’s Art Journal Open and publishes and lectures widely on the intersection of art and image technologies. Supported by an award from the Terra Foundation, her book, The Experience Machine: Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome and Expanded Cinema (MIT Press) will be translated into French in 2021. A research affiliate in the Art Culture Technology Program at MIT, Gloria is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the MIT List Visual Arts Center and serves on the Board of Directors of Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA). She is working on a monograph on the video sculptures of Shigeko Kubota and a critical analysis of the rise of network culture in visual art entitled Pattern Recognition: Contemporary Art in the Age of Digitality.
Neda Moridpour
An artist, educator, organizer, and co-founder of two artist-activist collaboratives, LOUDER THAN WORDS and [P]Art Collective. Her practice crosses disciplines and boundaries to investigate cycles of violence that leads to dislocation, gender, and racial inequity while establishing dialogue and mobilizing communities. Through collaboration, her practice transforms the seemingly quotidian and mundane via visual and performative interventions, lens-based practices and bold public roundtables and discussions. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S., Iran, and China and is in the collection of the L.A. County Museum of Art, The Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Denver Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, and was recently exhibited in the Islamic Art Now II: Contemporary Art of the Middle East at the L.A. County Museum of Art (LACMA).
James McAnally
A independent curator and strategic critic based in St. Louis, MO. James McAnally is a co-founder and Executive Director of The Luminary, an expansive platform for art, thought, and action. McAnally also serves as the editor and co-founder of MARCH: a journal of art & strategy, was the editor and co-founder of Temporary Art Review, an international platform for contemporary art criticism that focused on artist-run and alternative spaces. He is the Artistic Director of Counterpublic 2023 and is a founding member of Common Field, a national network of independent art spaces and organizers.