Mindaugas Gapševičius is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, technology, and biology. He studied at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and later completed an M.Phil. at Goldsmiths, University of London, followed by a PhD at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where he works as a research fellow. His work investigates the relationships between human creativity, non-human entities, and technological systems. He initiated and co-founded the media art platform Institutio Media and Berlin’s first community biolab.

Ursula Damm is a German artist and professor known for her work at the intersection of interactive digital art, urban space, and ecology. She holds the chair for Media Environments at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where her projects explore both nature and technological systems. Using contemporary technologies, her installations serve as mediators between the habitats of humans, animals, and plants. Alongside her public art installations, her work has been exhibited internationally at major media art exhibitions and festivals, including Ars Electronica.

Melissa Harrison is a Berlin-based researcher, architect, movement-artist, writer, editor, and facilitator working across critical spatial practices, commoning, and embodied experience. Her doctoral research at the NTUA explored spatial practices of commoning and pedagogies of (un)learning; she also holds an MA in Architecture from the University of Auckland. She is a member of the project space and association, where she co-initiated the project Common(s)Lab; a member of the Urban Commons Research Collective that co-edited the Urban Commons Handbook; and an editorial member of the publishing platform AoA.