Stefan Riebel – http://www.hgb-leipzig.de/~riebel/WEB-SR/sr/zzz/2019-works-sr-mini.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0Ru1dBixIiGRZF46Qs4-UqeSZzv6T5C0X4gPUDTM3ymqYuSyuxw_aArdM

Stefan Riebel is a conceptual and media artist who investigates language on a meta level. Transformed into art, language becomes ornament, surfacing ambiguities and indistinctness inherent to the phenomenon. His conceptual art is characterized by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middle-class mentality in which recognition plays an important role. This work amplifies the astonishment of spectators by creating compositions or settings that use poetic images as they balance on the edge of recognition and alienation. His work explores the inabilities of communication, dialogue and the dissonance among form, content and the dysfunctions of language. Time and memory play a key role as the work comments on the everyday aesthetics of middle-class values. He often uses game tactics and play to transubstantiate everyday life and objects while responding directly to the surrounding environment. Riebel lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig. He’s a lecturer in media arts at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig. He founded the Institut fuer Alles Moegliche in 2010 and is the co-founder of numerous interactive arts spaces and projects, including “month of performance art” in Berlin and the Organisation for Ephemeral Arts in Leipzig.

Samantha Fields –samanthafields.net

Samantha Fields is currently a professor of art at California State University, Northridge and has taught for CSU Summer Arts many times. She has received numerous awards and recognition, including a prestigious City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Grant. She has an extensive exhibition history, including shows at The University Art Museum in Long Beach, The Museum o​f Art & History, Lancaster, Western Project, & Kim Light/LIGHTBOX Gallery in Los Angeles, Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, Melanee Cooper Gallery in Chicago, The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Solway Jones Gallery in Los Angeles, Dirt Gallery in Los Angeles, POST Gallery in Los Angeles, Domestic Setting Gallery in Mar Vista, California, Suzanne Hilberry Gallery in Detroit, Lemberg Gallery in Birmingham, Michigan, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art in Austin, Texas, and Galerie Enholm Englehorn in Vienna, Austria. She is represented by Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, California and E.C. Linà in Los Angeles, California. Her work has been collected by and exhibited at noted public institutions.  

As a professor at CSUN, she has served as associate chair of the Art Department, graduate coordinator and is currently the area coordinator for both Painting and Foundations. She has been the recipient of The Exceptional Service to Students Award and The MCCAMA Research and Creative Activity Award.

Karl Heinz – http://www.jeron.org

Karl Heinz Jeron is a lecturer for multimedia art at the University of Arts Berlin. Many of his exhibited works include “experimental electronics interventions.” For instance, his installation “Fresh Music for Rotten Vegetables” has been exhibited in Zurich, Osnabrueck, London and Berlin and draws attention to resource management: The artist asks for overripe fruit and vegetables in local markets that are usually sorted out and deemed unsalable for visual reasons. With this surplus disregarded by our affluent society, Jeron and his workshop participants, compose “Fresh Music for Rotten Vegetables.” The electronic devices built by the participants are controlled and fed by current generated by use of the collected vegetables. According to the state of the vegetables, the sound, the color of the sound, and the volume of the sound are varied. Thus, an improvised piece of music is created as a garnish. This work was inspired by the 1980 debut album of the California punk band Dead Kennedys called “Fresh Fruit for the Rotting Vegetables.” The lyrics express their critical attitude toward social inequality.

Veronika Reichl –​ veronikareichel.com

Veronik​a Reichl works as a filmmaker, writer and lecturer in Berlin. Her book and DVD “Sprachkino (Language Cinema)" is about the interface between abstract language and images. She is particularly interested in the aesthetic experience of thinking, the threshold between thinking and feeling and thinking through images and through movements, performances, and performative talks.