Earth Rising: Messages from the Pale Blue Dot

Emilia Álvarez is a multidisciplinary artist working with sculpture, drawing, performance, installation, video, sound, music, and technology. Her work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, clubs, and public spaces across Argentina, the UK, Japan, Mexico, and Switzerland. She has participated in residencies such as Gasworks (UK), Atelier Mondial (CH), both with URRA (ARG), and Kyoto Art Center (JP), and has received awards from Fondo Nacional de las Artes (ARG), Finnegans, Fundación Williams, British Council, MUTEK, among others.

Nayomi Apsara is a Sri Lankan writer and filmmaker whose work spans cinema, literature, and activism. She authored Throw Me Mountains. Her debut The Tea is Cold (2022) premiered at Busan International Short Film Festival and Jaffna International Cinema Festival.  Apsara was featured at the Galle Literary Festival, is an alumna of Busan Asian Film School and a Khoj fellow, New Delhi. She is currently working on her debut novel, Spiking my own drink, an exploration of politics, love, and resistance.

Max Cooper is an audio-visual pioneer and non-conformist with a PhD in Computational Biology which informs his explorations at the intersection of music, science and art. His multimedia collaborations with scientists, mathematicians, architects, coders, designers, directors and visual artists creates audio- visual performances, installations and films. Max tours internationally, presenting shows and experiences at landmarks including the Acropolis in Athens and performing at major music and arts festivals around the world. Max Cooper has collaborated with Zaha Hadid Architects, Dolby, L-Acoustics, 4DSOUND, Barbican Centre, The Babraham Institute and exhibited work at museums including the Pompidou Metz, V&A London, ZKM Karlsruhe, Museum Wave Seoul and The Science Museum London.

Evan Ifekoya is a spirit-led artist and dream architect exploring ancestry, belief and belonging through practices of self-archiving and blackness in abundance. Through their art, they hope to foster a deeper sense of connection and awareness, creating spaces where liberation and refuge are not just ideals but lived experiences. Ifekoya established the collectively run and QTIBPOC (queer, trans*, intersex, black and people of colour)-led Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) in 2018.

Michel Nieva is an Argentinian writer based in New York, where he teaches at NYU. Nominated among Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists in 2021 and a winner of the O. Henry Award in 2022, Nieva is the author of Dengue Boy (2025).

Porsha Olayiwola is an Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and the author of the collection, I Shimmer Sometimes, Too. She served as the third Poet Laureate for the city of Boston. Olayiwola is a 2020 Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow, and the assistant Professor of Poetry at Emerson College. Her work can be found in or forthcoming from Triquarterly Magazine, Black Warrior Review, The Boston Globe, Essence Magazine, Redivider, Split This Rock, The NBA and elsewhere.

Plumm is a vocalist, composer, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader hailing from South London, England, with a Welsh core. Plumm’s sound is dark, ethereal, alternative, trip-hop, electronic, eerie, improvisational and vocal-heavy. Her song, You Are The One Live, is the title track for Apple TV's new series Liaison. Catch her as Jamz Supernova’s ‘After Dark Discovery’ and Clash Magazine's 'one-to-watch'.

Sebastián Riffo Valdebenito is a visual artist and researcher based in Santiago, Chile. His experimental practice explores the relationships between contemporary art, archaeological heritage, and socio-natural disasters in Chile. Working across drawing, painting, video, and installation, he constructs dense visual languages using techniques like collage, frottage, and montage, articulating a poetics of rupture, memory, and affective landscapes.

Leo Robinson is a UK-based artist. His work explores speculative narratives, rituals and games through sculptural installation, sound, video and diagrammatical works. Robinson is represented by Tiwani Contemporary, and was recently awarded the Arts Foundation Futures Award for Visual Arts. Robinson has presented solo exhibitions at London Mithraeum, Indigo + Madder and Chapter Arts Centre and has undertaken residencies at GAS Foundation (NG) and Hospitalfield (UK).

Ofem Ubi is a poet and artist from Nigeria exploring the poetic through visual forms. Drawing prompts from experience, his work upholds a constant query on memory and its manifestations beyond the page. Ubi is a 2024 Prince Claus Seed Award recipient and GAS Foundation Alumni.