Allora and Calzadilla
Rulan Tangen is the Artistic Director/Choreographer of DANCING EARTH - Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (www.dancingearth.org). A lifelong dancer, she has worked in theater, feature and independent film, television, educational settings, and for health and wellness initiatives in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Europe, and the USA including with Native youth on various reservations and urban settings. She is committed to sharing dance as a primal force for cultural and individual expression, and healing on a personal, social and environmental level. Dancing Earth is a long-envisioned dream of Tangen’s, springing to life in 2004 as an inspirational array of Indigenous intertribal contemporary dance artists under her leadership. Recently named by Dance Magazine as “One of the Top 25 to Watch” Tangen balances a commitment to share dances with her inspiring home community of Santa Fe, with regional, national, and international presentations.

Amy Balkin
Amy Balkin studied at Stanford University and is now based in San Francisco. Her work focuses on how people create, interact, and impact the social and material landscapes they inhabit. She was one of three artists who collaborated on the self-guided audio tour, Invisible 5. Through I-5, the artists along with the organizations Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, and Pond: Art, activism, and ideas, investigated the stories of people and communities fighting for environmental justice along the I-5 corridor between San Francisco and L.A. She also created two environmentally charged projects, Public Smog and This is the Public Domain. Balkin’s ultimate goal is to create a physical shared space with society.

Mel Chin
Was born in Houston in 1951 to Chinese parents, and raised in a predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhood. He received a BA from the Peabody College in 1975. He is a conceptual visual artist who is motivated by political, cultural, and social circumstances. Chin’s work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, landscapes, and natural environments.

Monika Bravo
Filmmaker, Photographer, and Installation Artist, Monika Bravo, was born in Bogota, Colombia in 1964. Since 1994 she has been living and working in Brooklyn, NY. In her work, she utilizes imagery, sound, industrial materials, and technology to create illusions of recognizable landscapes and environments that examine the notion of space/time as a measure of reality. Her films, video installations and photographic work have been widely shown, recent solo shows include venues like Ciocca Arte Contemporanea in Milan, SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico, Mullerdechiara, Berlin and Dechiaragallery, NY, Tyler Gallery at Temple University in Philadelphia, and Lehman Gallery at Lehman College in the Bronx. She has participated in numerous group shows at venues that include The New Museum of Contemporary Art and El Museo del Barrio in NY, Untitled Space in New Haven CT, Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico, Sala RG in Caracas, Museo de las Americas in San Juan de Puerto Rico, AboutStudio/AboutCafe in Bangkok and Espacio La Rebeca in Bogota. She is a recipient of the Electronic Media & Film Award from the New York State Council on the Arts, both in 2000 & 2002 and has been part of art-in-residency programs at the Santa Fe Art Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the LMCC World Views at the World Trade Center in New York City.

Bravo works with ideas of the tangible and the intangible, examining the notion of perception by questioning whether the world we live in, is but a mental construction. Her artistic practice is used as a tool to decipher her own existence during its process for she believes that people and events are hieroglyphs to be decoded. By using technology, she creates devices and/or situations where she can question her physicality in relationship to the mental, emotional and spiritual fields. You can learn more about Monika Bravo at her website http://www.monikabravo.com/

Agnes Denes
Agnes Denes has had over 325 solo and group exhibitions on four continents, including three Venice Biennales (1978, 1980, 2001). She has written four books, and holds a doctorate in fine arts. She has made monumental artworks, which have shown globally. In 1982 she created one of the best-known environmental art projects called Wheatfield – A Confrontation. Denes is a pioneer in both environmental and conceptual art.

Chris Drury
Chris Drury has exhibited widely, made outdoor site-specific works around the world, and has three permanent outdoor installations in the US. His work seeks to explore the intersections between nature and culture, the inner and outer, the microcosmic and macrocosmic. Drury works extensively with other disciplines, particularly science and medicine, looking at systems in the body and on the planet. His work has taken him to many places in the world – last year he spent two months working in Antarctica, investigating the science being carried out on the ice.

Free Soil
Free Soil is an international hybrid collaboration of artists, activists, researchers, and gardeners who develop and support art practices and projects that foster positive change for the urban and natural environment. Free Soil takes a participatory role in environmental transformation. The current members are Amy Franceschini, Corinne Matesich, Nis Romer, Stijn Schiffeleers, Joni Taylor, and Marthe Van Dessel. The Free Soil website is a public resource for learning and exchange of ideas, one of the first of its kind.

Andy Goldsworthy
Born in Cheshire, England in 1956, Andy Goldsworthy now lives in Scotland. His father, F. Allin Goldsworthy, was a professor at the University of Leeds who taught applied mathematics. At age 13 he began working on farms as a laborer, which would go on to influence his interests in land art. He studied at Bradford College of Art and Preston Polytechnic, now known as the University of Central Lancashire. As site specific land art, Goldsworthy uses natural and found objects to create ephemeral and permanent structures.

Steve Lambert
Steve Lambert is the founder of Anti-Advertising Agency, and the lead developer of Add-Art. He has collaborated with the Yes Men, Graffiti Research Lab, and many other artists. His work has been rewarded numerous awards, including from the California Arts Council, Prix Ars Electronica, and from the Adbusters Media Foundation. Lambert wants his work to reach people outside of the gallery in engaging and fun ways. There is humor in his work as it questions the various power structures in our daily lives.

Eve Andrée Laramée
Based in Brooklyn, Eve Andree Laramee is an artist and educator. She is a professor of Interdisciplinary Sculpture at Maryland Institute College of Art, and has taught at several institutions, New York University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to name a few. She works in sculpture, installation, and works on paper to interpret the relationships between art, science, and nature. Laramee has exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe, including the Venice Biennale; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the High Museum of Art; and the Museum of New Mexico.

Steve Peters
Steve Peters is a composer and sound artist based in Seattle, Washington. Using field recordings, found/natural objects, electronics, various musical instruments, and spoken text, Peters creates music and sounds. His works are site-specific and complex. He has also worked as a producer, curator, and writer. He is the director of Nonsequitur and oversees the Wayward Music Series at the Chapel Performance Space in Seattle.

Postcommodity
Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary arts collective. Established in 2007, its members are Raven Chacon (Navajo); Kade L. Twist (Cherokee); Steven Yazzie (Laguna/Navajo); and Nathan Young (Deleware/Kiowa/Pawnee). The collective has also partnered with other artists on projects. Site-specific, conceptual, and ephemeral, their work challenges social, political, and economical processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies using Indigenous narrative. Their medium in which they work is limitless, and is chosen to work specifically in a given project or expression.

Aviva Rahmani
Aviva Rahmani is an ecological artist whose 40-year career span has primarily focused on social and environmental engagement. She has been featured in 30 solo and 50 group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Influenced by classical studies, activism, city planning, and science, her recent work explores solutions for urban and rural water degradation in large landscapes. Through Virtual Concerts, and more recently, Virtual Concerts II, weekly audio performances hosted by Rahmani, she addresses the local impact of global warming at real sites internationally. Rahmani also addressed this through her project, In Cities and Oceans of If, where she located ecological acupuncture points to effect healing change.

Brooke Singer
Working across media and disciplines, Brooke Singer creates platforms for local knowledge to connect, inform and conflict with official data descriptions. She engages technoscience as an artist, educator, nonspecialist and collaborator. Her work lives "on" and "off" line in the form of websites, workshops, photographs, maps, installations and performances that involves public participation in pursuit of social change. She is Associate Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York, a fellow at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center and co-founder of the art, technology and activist group Preemptive Media. The collective was established in 2007 to function as a vehicle for artists to work outside of their individual art practices exploring innovative and collaborative scenarios resulting in work that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.

Kim Stringfellow
Based in Joshua Tree, CA, Kim Stringfellow is an artist and educator. She received an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. She teaches multimedia and photography at San Diego State University as an associate professor. Stringfellow is one of three artists who collaborated on Invisible-5. In her work she incorporates writing, digital media, photography, video, audio, installation, mapping, and locative media to address historical, ecological, and activist issues related to land use and the built environment. Other hybrid documentary projects include Greetings from the Salton Sea (2000-2005) and Jackrabbit Homestead (2009).

Patricia Watts
Patricia Watts received an MA in Exhibition Design/Museum Studies from California State University, Fullerton, and was the Chief Curator at the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa, California from 2005-2008. She founded Ecoartspace in 1997 and was joined by curator Amy Lipton in 1999. Ecoartspace is an organization that addresses environmental issues through the visual arts. It provides business owners, government officials, art collectors, public administrators, private organizations, museums, galleries, educators, artists, and scientists to a full range of services.