Lizzi Bougatsos is a visual artist and experimental musician based in New York City. Her practice traverses sculpture, performance, photography, and dance, while her ethereal, shamanistic vocal style has been described as an act of healing or an assault of sound in space. Recent solo exhibitions include Idolize the Burn: An Ode to Performance at TRAMPS, New York (2023), and Stage Exit at Galerie Molitor, Berlin (2024). She has collaborated with artists including Lonnie Holley, Kim Gordon, Rob Pruitt, Sadie Laska, and Rita Ackermann, including a performance with I.U.D. at Gropius Bau, Berlin (2024) and for Kim Gordon at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (2025). Her work has been included in both solo and group exhibitions at Museo MACRO, Rome; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Performance Space, New York; São Paulo Biennial; Hauser & Wirth, New York; American Fine Arts, Co., New York; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; Air de Paris, Romainville; and the 2008 Whitney Biennial, New York. Her works are part of the permanent collections of the Brant Foundation, Greenwich and New York; the Dikeou Collection, Denver; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Bougatsos is the frontwoman of the renowned downtown New York City band Gang Gang Dance, which has remained a fixture in the music scene for over two decades. The band led the 8/8/08 BOADRUM, a collaboration with the legendary band Boredoms, in which she sang with 88 drummers. She currently performs with her noise outfit I.U.D., as well as solo.

Neil Burke is a graphic designer, musician, and artist based in Philadelphia. In 1989, he studied graphic design and page layout at the Center for the Media Arts, New York, during the era of paste-up boards, T-squares, X-Acto blades, and rubber cement. Active in the New York City punk scene, he has appeared on numerous records by underground bands, including Life’s Blood, Born Against, Men’s Recovery Project, Sinking Body, and Landed. In the 1990s, he toured with Men’s Recovery Project across the United States, Alaska, and Japan, and collaborated with Sam McPheeters and Vermiform Records on album covers, posters, and merchandise. In 1995, he founded Monoroid, an audio, design, and screen-printing business. Since 1999, his work has been exhibited in galleries in Berlin, Miami, New York, Providence, Philadelphia, Washington, and San Francisco.

Tom Darksmith is multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco. He has been producing crude audio collage and similarly rudimentary line drawings since the early 2000s. He has released music with experimental music labels including Hanson, Chocolate Monk and No Rent, as well as his own Mom Costume imprint. Darksmith’s vaguely musical and often claustrophobic sound work is largely built around “domestic recordings,” reflecting the anxiety and isolation of personal experience. Working in the visual field, Darksmith’s portraits explore the psychological tensions experienced in human relationships.

CF (Christopher Forgues) is an electronic musician and visual artist based in Brooklyn. He is known for his unique approach to sound collage and noise music, as well as his experimental comics under the moniker, CF. His work frequently explores themes related to technology, communication, and the human experience, utilizing handmade devices and unconventional methods. Forgues is well known for his devotion to electronic craft under numerous aliases and collaborations over the past decades, including Kites, Daily Life, Mark Lord, emerging from the fertile early 2000s underground music scenes of Providence, Rhode Island. He is also known for his graphic novel series Powr Mastrs, and his work has appeared in numerous comics anthologies including Kramers Ergot and The Best American Comics, as well as publications such as The New York Times.

Kim Gordon works across disciplines, including art, design, writing, fashion, music, and film and video, both as an actress and director. Gordon studied at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles in the late 1970s and has continued to work as an artist since. Recent solo exhibitions include the survey exhibition Object of Projection, gnration, Braga (2025), The Substation, Melbourne, and Brisbane Powerhouse, Queensland (2024); RUMORS, O-Town House, Los Angeles (2024); Kim Gordon for Design Office: Is this on the approved playlist, JUBG, Cologne (2022); Kim Gordon for Design Office feat. In-House Photography by Josephine Pryde at the Museum im Bellpark, Kriens (2022); The Bonfire, 303 Gallery, New York (2020); She bites her tender mind, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2019); and Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2019).

Dan Greenwood is an artist based in Western Massachusetts. His project Diagram A has been active in various noise scenes since the 1990s. Utilizing salvaged materials and electronic components, Greenwood creates instruments for performances and recordings with a hand-crafted intention. He graduated with an MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2025, where he received his bachelor’s degree twenty years earlier. His most recent work has expanded into the creation of autonomous sonic sculptures, combining influences from Catholic reliquaries and introductory electronic circuits from SAIC classrooms. His work appears in David Novak’s Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (MIT Press). Solo and collaborative recordings of Diagram A have been released by Bill Nace’s label Open Mouth Records, as well as Love Earth Music, Feeding Tube Records, Self Abuse Records, and RRRecords.

Twig Harper is a sound artist and performer based in Los Angeles. His work emerged from the Midwest noise underground in the 1990s through projects such as Nautical Almanac. Harper is the co-founder and operator of Baltimore’s Tarantula Hill collective, which he ran for two decades. He has spent decades pushing the limits of analog electronics, broken circuits, tape manipulation, and psychoacoustic experimentation.

Jeff Hartford is an artist and musician based in Western Massachusetts. In his visual practice, he produces abstract, improvisational textures and indeterminate images, often using sumi ink. He has spent extended periods working exclusively in notebooks with a No. 3 Rapidograph technical pen, self-publishing the resulting drawings in limited-edition zines. In 2024, he released his first book, Strobe Dose. In parallel with his visual work, Hartford has been making noise music in a nomadic and experimental manner for over thirty years.

Daniel Higgs is an artist, poet, and musician based in Japan. His work spans musical recordings, books of poetry, and visual collections of drawings, paintings, and collages. Higgs is best known as the sole lyricist and frontman of the band Lungfish, which has been active for over twenty-five years. In recent years, he has released several solo projects, including the record-and-book, Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot. On much of his solo work, Higgs employs a wide range of instruments, including acoustic and electric guitar, upright piano, banjo, and Jew’s harp, and typically records entirely at home on a cassette recorder. He is the author of The Fools Sermon, Warp of the Witch Rug and The Book of Antennae.

Cameron Jamie is an American artist based in Paris. Over the course of more than three decades, Jamie has developed a multi-faceted practice defined by cultural exploration and formal experimentation that resists categorizations. His work encompasses a wide range of artistic cross-disciplines, including drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, performance, filmmaking, music, and independent publishing. Jamie’s work has explored, investigated, and analyzed how the structures of mythology and rituals in popular and vernacular cultures are shaped and shared, and the extent to which they participate in the creation of individuals’ fictional worlds and fictional selves.

Jutta Koether lives and works in Berlin and New York. Since the 1980s, she has been developing an alternative genealogy and practice of painting that has decisively shaped the current understanding of the medium. She programmatically connects her painting to performance, music, and textual production, and works and has worked in collaborative projects with Reena Spaulings, Tom Verlaine, Steven Parrino, John Miller, Tony Conrad, and Kim Gordon, among others. Koether’s work was the subject of a comprehensive survey exhibition at the Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2018), and the Mudam, Luxembourg (2019). Other exhibitions of her work have been held at Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (2022); Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany (2019); Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland (2013); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2011); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (2009); and Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (2009). Her works are in the collections of international museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Berlin National Gallery; the Museum Brandhorst, Munich; the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Koether was Professor of Painting and Drawing at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts from 2010 to 2024. Previously, she taught at Columbia University; Cooper Union School of Art and the School of Visual Arts, New York; Bard College, New York; Yale University, New Haven; Universität der Künste, Berlin; and the Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Copenhagen, among others.

Lena Kolb is an artist and educator living and working in Philadelphia. She has been weaving for over a decade, learning through the generosity of her community and peers. Her studio practice engages painting on the threads of the loom, allowing images to be disrupted and reconfigured through the process of weaving. The subject matter does not follow a linear narrative; it is an accumulation of moments, like a diary or collage, expressed through color, texture, and form. She works on a four harness floor loom and uses dyes as paint. Kolb received a BS in Elementary and Special education and an MFA in Fibers and Material Studies. She teaches weaving at The Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, as well as in local community-focused spaces.

Bill Nace is a musician and artist based in Philadelphia. Over the years, he has collaborated with numerous musicians, including Michael Morley, Graham Lambkin, Sakina Abdou, Twig Harper, Jooklo Duo, Evan Parker, John Truscinski, Thurston Moore, Chris Corsano, Jake Meginsky, Jessica Rylan, Paul Flaherty, Wally Shoup, Aaron Dilloway, and Kim Gordon, with whom he regularly performs as one half of the duo Body/Head. His newest LP, Plays the 2-String Taishogoto, is forthcoming as a split release between Three Lobed Records and Open Mouth. Nace has been a featured musician at festivals such as ATP, Monticello; Colour Out of Space, Brighton, United Kingdom; Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, United Kingdom; International Festival Musique Actuelle, Victoriaville, Canada; and Homegrown, Boston. He has performed in a wide variety of venues, from the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Strasbourg, France, to The Stone, New York, to Bennington College, Vermont. Nace’s musical range has been described as “veering from sculptural, almost Remko-Scha-esque chime to Loren Connors-style elegance in only a few short moves” (Mimaroglu Music, 2010). In addition to Drag City and Three Lobed Records, his recordings appear on Ecstatic Peace!, Easthampton; Ultra Eczema, Belgium; Holidays, Italy; Throne Heap, Virginia; HP Cycle, Toronto; and on Nace’s own label, Open Mouth.

He maintains an active collage and poster-making practice and has recently been experimenting with loose mark-making in his drawings. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Rozz-Tox Gallery, Florence, MA; The Shoebox Gallery, Toronto; Soccer Club Club, Chicago; and Space 1026, Philadelphia.

John Olson is a visual artist, author, and musician based in Detroit. Active since 1992, Olson founded the art and music label American Tapes, releasing over 1,000 handmade recordings focused on experimental and underground work. Olson has been a member of the Michigan band Wolf Eyes since 1999. His visual practice includes drawing, printmaking, collage, and self-publishing, closely tied to DIY culture and noise music aesthetics. He studied Art Education, Religious Studies, and Printmaking at Michigan State University and Wayne State University. Olson’s work bridges sound and image, emphasizing process, intuition, and independent production.

Lauren Pakradooni is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in the Philadelphia area. She works across printmaking, sculpture, and sound, using material repetition, layering, and performance to examine relationships between natural systems and the built environment. Her printmaking practice centers on intaglio, relief, and repeat-pattern processes, employing layering, impression, and seriality to create complex surfaces that reference growth, erosion, and structural systems. Tether is her ongoing music project, merging cassette tape manipulation, voice, and analog electronics into experimental song structures. Pakradooni has presented solo exhibitions at The Print Center, Philadelphia; Monaco, Saint Louis; Peep Space, Tarrytown; Skylab, Columbus; IA&A at Hillyer, Washington, DC; the University of Texas at Austin; Space 1026, Philadelphia; and Cheymore Gallery, Tuxedo. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn; Planthouse Gallery, New York; and Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia. Over the past two decades, she has performed music at numerous venues both nationally and internationally. She has received residencies and awards from the Women’s Studio Workshop, The Wassaic Project, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar. She holds an MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from Hampshire College.

Dennis Tyfus is a piano virtuoso and artist based in Antwerp. His work is rooted in an unbridled drawing practice and a strong preference for language and words, though its appearance is always changing. The work is in constant motion. A key sculptural aspect of Tyfus’s practice lies in the careful and deliberate way he engages with the space his work occupies. His practice spans flyers and posters, drawings, paintings, and performances, as well as installations, sculptures, videos, vinyl records, concerts, T-shirts, magazines, books, and tattoos. Tyfus approaches his label Ultra Eczema, which to date comprises approximately 320 releases, as a means of integrating his influences and interests while also keeping track of his tangled artistic practice. He is represented by Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, and Rome, Italy; David Nolan Gallery, New York; and JUBG, Köln, Germany. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Middelheim Museum and M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art (both in Antwerp); S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium; Bozar, Brussels; CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France; São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil; Schloss Damtschach, Austria; Kunstschlager, Reykjavík, Iceland; and Mannheimer Kunstverein and Ludwigshafen, Germany. His work is also held in public collections, including those of M HKA and the Middelheim Museum.

Bedros Yeretzian lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo and collaborative exhibitions have taken place at P.E.O.P.L.E., Los Angeles; Diana, Milan; Ivory Tars, Glasgow; 100 Bell Towers, Montreal; Commercial Street, Los Angeles; and Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York.

Nate Young is a Detroit-based artist and musician who has worked in experimental electronic sound for over twenty years. In 1996, Young founded the legendary noise group Wolf Eyes. Both solo and as a member of Wolf Eyes, Young has toured internationally, released countless records, collaborated with Anthony Braxton and Marshall Allen, and inspired a generation of electronic musicians. His accomplishments include performing his compositions with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and creating Trip Metal Fest, a free annual experimental music festival in Detroit that ran from 2016 to 2018 and featured luminaries such as Morton Subotnick and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. In 2016, Young co-created the record label Lower Floor Music with John Olson, an imprint of Warp Records.

Alivia Zivich is an artist and gallerist working in Detroit. Zivich received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her work employs printmaking and other forms of technological mediation to process the extreme proliferation of images. Beyond producing art, Zivich engages in curatorial and collaborative practices to define a context for her own work and to intervene more broadly in the narrative of contemporary art. In 2005, she co-founded AA Records, an art and music label, with musician Nate Young (Wolf Eyes). In 2013, Zivich co-founded What Pipeline, an artist-run gallery in Detroit, with Daniel Sperry. The gallery presents an evolving, multigenerational program of artists and brings Detroit artists to a wider audience through off-site curatorial projects. Recent exhibitions of Zivich’s work include solo shows at Spaysky Fine Art Gallery LLC, Detroit, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; and group exhibitions at the Falstaff Project, El Paso; A Maior, Viseu, Portugal; Good Weather, Chicago; Francesca Pia, Zurich; and Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany.