Sasha Bergstrom-Katz

Sasha Bergstrom-Katz is an artist and researcher working in the intersections between the history of science, psychology, cognitive sciences and perception studies through artistic, historical and affective methods. She is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD at Birkbeck, University of London in Psychosocial Studies and History and was a visiting researcher at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. She was also a resident fellow at BS-Projects (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Germany). She has exhibited at the Inter Arts Center (IAC), Malmö, Sweden; HBK, Braunschweig; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; In Lieu, Los Angeles, CA; AWHRHWAR, Los Angeles, CA; Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA and the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, among others and will take part in a forthcoming two-person exhibition at the Peltz Gallery, London in Februrary 2023.

Image 1: On the Subject of Tests: Stanford-Binet 2 (1973) Full Kit. Open., 2020, Digital Photograph

Image 2: On the Subject of Tests: Rehearsing the Examination, The Examination Table, 2021, Film Still

Image 3: On the Subject of Tests: Unpacking the Tests, 2: A conversation with Lamia Abukhadra, 2022, Film Still

Image 4: On the Subject of Tests: Desk as Archive, 2022, Installation view, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Germany

Sophia Efstathiou

Sophia Efstathiou is a philosopher of science working on the interfaces of science, art and everyday life. She is a senior researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) currently leading the Research Council of Norway project MEATigation: Towards sustainable meat-use in Norwegian food practices for climate mitigation (2020-2024). Efstathiou holds a Master of Physics degree in Mathematics and Physics (Warwick, 2000), an MA in Philosophy (UCSD, 2006) and PhD in Philosophy and Science Studies (UCSD, 2009) on The use of race as a variable in biomedical research. Her research has received EU, NSF, Max Planck and White funding and invited by the Athens Biennale (2012, 2018), Ars Electronica (2020) and Cornell Biennial (2020).

Charlie Harrison

Charlie Harrison is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art, neuropsychology and support. His methods and understanding have been shaped through collaborative research which has focussed on the historical development, values and deficiencies of standardised testing methods, leading to novel social science and arts and health research.

Through collaborations at University College London Institute of Neurology, Wellcome Trust and the charity Rare Dementia Support, since 2013 Charlie has developed a series of projects alongside neuropsychologists, motor neuroscientists and people living with neurodegenerative diseases. His work seeks to understand how testing situations may function to marginalise and exclude the people and beings that encounter them, and he has worked with artistic adaptations to tests that are used in the diagnosis of conditions affecting visual and spatial perception, movement and balance, language, semantics and behaviour.

In his wider studio practice, Charlie playfully builds on this learning toremodel everyday objects and environments, drawing attention to perceptual fragility through distortions of material and sensual codes. His sculptural works are usually poorly fabricated and often placed within unsuspecting public environments. Recently his projects have been engaging with water management, agricultural production and anthropomorphized microorganisms.

Image 1: Object Projections (Studies), Miliput epoxy putty. 2016

Image 2: Single Yellow Lines (Image of participant from UCL )

Image 3: the 'Neva', film installation at Jupiter Woods, London 2019

Image 4: Overground, cardboard, foam and paint. South London Garage, 2018

Ageliki Lefkaditou

Ageliki Lefkaditou is a historian of science, an award-winning science museum curator and documentary producer focusing on the art of natural world storytelling. She is a senior researcher at the University of Oslo, where she currently works on a Research Council of Norway funded project focusing on the history of intelligence testing. As a producer she is involved in two documentaries dealing with climate/nature crisis and human-animal relations, both supported by the Norwegian Film Institute. She has curated several science museum exhibitions, among which FOLK – From Racial types to DNA Sequences, winner of the 2018 British Society for the History of Science Great Exhibitions Prize.

Image 1: FOLK – From Racial types to DNA Sequences, 2018–2019, exhibition curator, photo: Håkon Bergseth / Teknisk Museum

Image 2: Blind Spot, 2019–2020, exhibition curator, photo: Håkon Bergseth / Teknisk Museum

Image 3: Klima2+, 2020, exhibition curator, photo: Håkon Bergseth / Teknisk Museum

Image 4: A Call from the Wild (in development), film still, producer, photo: Asgeir Helgestad

Mollie O’Leary

Mollie O’Leary is a poet from Massachusetts. She holds a BA in English and Philosophy from Kenyon College and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington, Seattle. Mollie’s chapbook The Forgetting Curve is forthcoming through Poetry Online’s offline.onl chapbook series. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Frontier Poetry, Poetry Online, Chestnut Review, and elsewhere. She has attended residencies in Mexico and Italy. Mollie reads submissions for GASHER journal.

Helene Sommer

Helene Sommer (b. 1978) is a Norwegian visual artist. She graduated from the National Art Academy in Oslo in 2003 and has since exhibited her work in galleries, museums and festivals. In her practice she is interested in the multiple levels of translation, interpretation and rhetorical devices that are involved in storytelling. Through video, collage, text and installation she wishes to question the way we understand and relate to our surroundings and its history. A common denominator has been an interest in overlooked perspectives within history and science. See www.helenesommer.net for more information about her work.

Image 1: "Liv laga bevisløse tilstander” (The Proofless States of Being), Video still, 2020. Ellestad/Sommer.

Image 2: "Dog days", video still, 2022 (in progress).

Image 3: "Dog days", video still, 2022 (in progress).

Sanna Sønstebø

Sanna Sønstebø is a conceptual artist currently residing in Oslo. She received her BA in Fine art at Leeds Arts University in Leeds, England 2018-2021. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals in Portugal, England, Russia and Norway. She is interested by how meaning is constructed in the everyday world. Her practice involves approaching mundane objects and situations as if they were new to her. Repetition, chance and language are of particular importance to her work, as are the philosophical strands of semiotics and etymology. Her work manifests through video, performance and installation, and lately has ventured out into the very everyday world Sønstebø creates her work from.

Hana Yoo

Hana Yoo is interested in investigating the collective anxiety and transcendental experiences, formulated from the natural-artificial process of reversing perspective. Working in film and multimedia installation, she engages with the allegory of nature and technological appropriation in the context of human-environment transformation and reconstructs them through storytelling. 

Yoo studied Media Art at the Berlin University of Arts and her previous grant awards include a film/video work grant from the Berlin Senate, work grant from the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, research grants from the Kunstfonds Bonn, Berlin Senate (Visual Arts), Stiftung Kulturwerk, and Arts Council Korea. Her works have been shown internationally at museums and festivals including the Fotomuseum (Winterthur, CH), European Media Art Festival (EMAF, DE), and Busan International Video Art Festival (Busan, KR) among others. In 2022, she was awarded the Berlin Art Prize.

Image 1: Installation view / Hysteric C, solo show, Diskurs Berlin, 2020

Image 2: Splendour in the grass, 2020, still

Image 3: Installation view/ Chambers, solo show,  Post territory Ujeongguk, 2021 / Photo: Byeonggon Shin

Image 4: Arbitrary Radius Circle, still, 2021