Xin Liu

Xin Liu (b. Xinjiang/China) is an artist and engineer, whose works range from performances, apparatus, installations to scientific experiments and academic papers. In her practice, Xin creates experiences and artifacts to measure and modify the distance and tension between personal, social and technological spaces. They are moments of re-organization, creating ripples in the fabric of subjectivities, common experiences and beliefs in a post-metaphysical world. She has an affinity towards science and technology while remaining vigilant about its idolatry. In the past five years, she is drawn to the illusory prospect of space exploration and the multicultural imaginative, dynamic cosmic views.

Xin is currently the Arts Curator in the Space Exploration Initiative in MIT Media Lab, a member of New INC in New Museum and a studio resident in Queens Museum. She is also an artist-in-residence in SETI Institute. She is recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including Forbes 30 under 30 Asia, the Van Lier Fellowship from Museum of Arts and Design, Sundance New Frontier Story Lab, Huayu Youth Award Finalist, Creative Capital On Our Radar, inaugural Europe ARTificial Intelligence Lab residency, inaugural ONX studio program (founded by New Museum and Onassis NY) and Pioneer Works Tech Residency. She has been commissioned by institutions including Abandon Normal Devices Festival (UK), Ars Electronica (Austria), Media Art Xploration Festival (US) and Onassis Foundation Enter Program. She is an advisor for LACMA Art+Tech Lab and a faculty member at The Terraforming, a new research program at Strelka Institute in 2020.

Lucia Monge

Lucia Monge is a Peruvian artist with a background in education and art+science collaborations. Her work explores the way humans position ourselves within the natural world and relate to other living beings, especially plants. For the past ten years she has organized Plantón Móvil, a yearly “walking forest” performance that leads to the creation of public green areas in different cities including Lima, London, Providence, Minneapolis, and New York. It has been featured in publications such as MoMA’s Uneven Growth and Global Performance Studies as well as in the popular press including BBC Radio, Elephant Magazine, among other. Monge has shown her work in South America, Europe, and the United States in settings that include the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP20), the Queens Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lima, and Whitechapel Gallery, among others. She has received an Eliza Moore Fellowship from the Oak Spring Garden Foundation and a Social Innovation Fellowship from Brown University, alongside grants from institutions such as the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, and the Municipality of Lima. She holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and has taught at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design.