Ashim Ahluwalia (*1972, Bombay) studied Film at Bard College in New York State. In 1999, Ahluwalia set up Film Republic, dedicated to producing Indian independent cinema outside the traditional Bollywood system. A year later, Ahluwalia completed Thin Air, a documentary that followed the lives of three magicians against the backdrop of contemporary Bombay.

Working primarily with the mediums of photography and video, Maha Maamoun often starts from generic visual representations of Cairo to explore how these intersect with, and are negotiated by, personal experiences.

Florian Cramer, reader at Creating 010 & Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University of Applied Science, The Netherlands, last publication: Anti-Media, NAi Publishers, 2013

Dr. Jussi Parikka is a media theorist and Reader at Winchester School of Art, UK. His books and articles have analysed accidents and dark sides of network culture as well as digital audiovisual culture.