Jon McKenzie is Dean’s Fellow for Media and Design and Visiting Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance and such essays as “Laurie Anderson for Dummies,” “Democracy’s Performance,” and “Global Feeling: (Almost) All You Need Is Love.” His work has been translated into a half-dozen languages. McKenzie’s StudioLab pedagogy combines seminar, studio, and lab activities to bring scholarship to communities and policy-makers. He also creates experimental videos and gives workshops on performative scholarship and transmedia knowledge. In 2013, HOBO Art Foundation and the New Theatre of Warsaw co-produced Disastronauts, an experimental theatre work with dance and Theremins based on Perform or Else and his video The Revelations of Dr. Kx4l3ndj3r. McKenzie is Centre for the Humanities SPRING Festival Fellow 2018, a fellowship generously sponsored by the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University.

Aneta Stojnic is a theoretician, artist and curator born in Belgrade, (Yugoslavia) and based in New York. Her work is characterized by a strong connection between art theory and practice. Her main areas of professional interest include performance and new media studies, decoliniality, psychoanalysis, gender studies, as well as artistic and theoretical practices that affirm critical thinking at the intersection of art, culture and politics. Currently, she is candidate at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, IPTAR in New York. Aneta Stojnić has published three books: a co-edited volume Regimes of Invisibility in Contemporary Art, Theory and Culture: Image, Racialization, History (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2017) and two single-authored volumes Theory of performance in digital art: towards a new political performance (Orion Art, Belgrade, 2015, in Serbian) and a monograph on Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic discourse Jacques Lacan (Orion Art, Belgrade, 2016, in Serbian).