Pauline Woolley
Pauline Woolley’s practice is concerned with sky, time, place and astronomy. She uses many different photographic practices to explore the human relationship to our home planet and deep time through the area of astronomy. She has collaborated on the long term project ‘Writing Skyscapes’ at NTU which explores the publics thoughts and feelings on the night sky. In 2025 she was awarded the Agnese N. Haury Visiting Scholar fellowship at the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona where she research the archival photographic glass plate archive of dendrochronology founder and astronomer A E Douglass and learnt more about the connection between solar activity and tree ring data.
Jess Holz
Jess Holz is an art–science practitioner who works with optical and electron microscopy to examine structures that fall outside normal human perception. She holds an MFA in Art + Technology from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and a BA of Arts with a minor in Neuroscience from Lawrence University. Combined with over eighteen years of experience in scientific imaging, she bridges the visual languages of research and creative practice. Jess currently works as an electron microscopy research fellow in a Boston University laboratory studying the neural circuitry underlying thought and emotion. Her scientific work directly informs her creative practice, which focuses on the differences between human perception and the images produced by scientific instruments. She uses scanning electron microscopy, photography, video, and installation to create work that addresses issues of scale, material properties, and visual interpretation. Her work has been featured in Plaxall Gallery in New York City, Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, and others. She has received the Frederick Layton Fellowship and the UW–Milwaukee Chancellor’s Award. By merging scientific methodology with artistic inquiry, Jess examines and communicates phenomena that lie beyond the reach of the naked eye.
Inês-Hermione Mulford
Inês-Hermione Mulford is a realist painter and botanical artist whose work focuses on anatomy, surgery, and bryophyte science. Based in Edinburgh, she holds an M.A. in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh and a B.A. in Painting from Edinburgh College of Art, where she also studied anatomy. Her research on drawing as a method of ethnographic participation, combined with time shadowing surgeons and working from cadavers, inspired her surgical paintings, which explore surgical craft and patient–robot relationships. Her botanical work reflects a long-standing interest in bryophytes (mosses, lichens, liverworts, and hornworts) and their often overlooked role in biodiversity. Through fieldwork, photography, and studio observation, she produces detailed macro-landscape drawings and paintings that reveal the complexity of these plant communities. She is the project artist for the Body Voyager permanent gallery at Surgeons’ Hall Museum in Edinburgh and has exhibited in the Society of Botanical Artists’ Plantae exhibition and the 2025 More Than Human show at Custom House Gallery. Her awards include the Society of Botanical Artists’ “Making a Mark” Award (2022) and the John Byrne Award (2022). As founder and director of the Art & Nature Collective, Inês-Hermione emphasizes cross-disciplinary approaches that deepen understanding of the natural world and humanity’s role within it.
Daniela Stubbs-Leví
Daniela Stubbs-Leví is a Peruvian artist and poet based in Paris whose work traces emotional and sonic geographies shaped by absence. Through installations, performances, and poetic scores, she maps the shifting boundaries between sound, memory, and place, treating listening as a technology capable of revealing what is felt rather than heard. Her practice engages inaudible vibrations, engraved texts, and astrophysical data to probe how loss reverberates across scales, from collapsing stars to unspoken languages, leaving traces long after its source has vanished. Stubbs-Leví’s projects often unfold as participatory rituals: a poem reimagined as the trajectory of a supernova, a silent space that summons interior voices, or a soundwalk that becomes a shared act of invocation. Central to her work is The Five Laws of Absence, an evolving cycle that weaves psychoanalytic ideas with NASA research and spatial acoustics to explore how memory becomes material. For her, listening is both poetic and political. It’s a means of honouring the unseen and resisting the erasures that shape collective experience.
Aroussiak Gabrielian, PH.D, FAAR
Aroussiak Gabrielian is an environmental designer and bioartist whose practice engages living organisms, natural systems, and atmospheric phenomena to explore multispecies relationships and ecological entanglements across scales. Her work seeks to expand our imagination, encouraging new ways of thinking about interactions with both human and non-human agents on the planet. Gabrielian has received numerous awards, including the Emerging Designer Award from the Design Futures Initiative, the Tomorrowland Projects Foundation Award through NYFA, Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Award, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Getty Center, SXSW, Ars Electronica, Science Gallery Detroit, Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, and the Eli & Edith Broad Museum Art Lab. She is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism at USC, Affiliate Faculty of Media Arts Practice, and Founding Director of the Landscape Futures Lab. Outside academia, she is a member of NEW INC, a trained futurist, and Founding Design Principal of foreground, a critical design agency.
Jo Liu
Here’s the revised bio with two additional sentences added naturally: Jo Liu is an illustrator whose work explores the beauty and intricacy of nature and science. She blends traditional media, digital techniques, and photography, often capturing details invisible to the naked eye. She also creates pottery, combining sculptural forms with illustrative detail, and develops virtual reality illustrations that immerse viewers in interactive, otherworldly environments. Her interdisciplinary practice bridges tangible and digital realms, inviting audiences to explore the unseen and the imaginative in equal measure. Her academic path through Western University and the University of the Arts London helped shape her approach, and her graduate project earned Distinguished Merit in the 3×3 Student Show No.19. Through her work, Jo continues to bridge art and discovery, creating experiences that reveal the hidden intricacies of nature and science.
Christopher Hanusa
Christopher R. H. Hanusa is a mathematician and mathematical artist who teaches at Queens College, City University of New York. His creative work grows out of his research in algebraic and enumerative combinatorics, where he explores structures such as flow polytopes, lattice points, and Coxeter groups. Hanusa’s artwork often emerges from generative processes, blending chance with intentional design. Using computational tools, he transforms mathematical ideas into vivid 2D and 3D forms, including a line of jewelry inspired by concepts such as geometry, knots, and fractals. His pieces are first modeled digitally, then produced through 3D printing and hand assembly. Hanusa’s artwork has been exhibited internationally, featured in venues such as the Bridges Fashion Show and his jewelry can be found in museums and galleries across the United States.
Devika Sundar
Devika is an interdisciplinary artist and trained art psychotherapist based in Bangalore whose practice moves fluidly across collage, painting, printmaking, photography, assemblage, and installation. Her work explores art as a restorative and meditative space, addressing themes of invisibility, illness, memory, and impermanence within personal and collective experience. An Inlaks Fine Art Awardee (2020) and Prince Claus Seed Award recipient (2021), Devika has led and contributed to major projects including Bodies at Sea, an archival exhibition with the National Centre for Biological Sciences, and Unbound and Untethered, supported by the India Foundation for the Arts. She has exhibited widely, including solo shows at Blueprint12, Delhi, and Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, and participated in India Art Fair, Delhi Contemporary Art Week, and Serendipity Arts Festival. Trained in psychodynamic art therapy at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, Devika has worked extensively with children, adults, and survivors of trauma. She is the founder of Saya, a therapeutic art space and community open studio in Bangalore.
Jody “J.D.” Rasch
Jody “J.D.” Rasch is a writer, artist, social activist, and author whose work is fueled by a profound sense of awe at the hidden structures of the universe. He draws inspiration from quantum physics, relativity, biology and astronomy, which offer him a deeper framework for understanding existence. Rasch merges painting with scientific principles, working in three dimensions with aluminum mesh, armature wire, poured acrylic, and photographic techniques to evoke uncertainty, entanglement, and the dynamic randomness embedded in nature. His book The Silver Forestextends these interests into fiction, weaving scientific metaphors with mythic and psychological themes. Through this narrative work, he explores the same questions of interconnectedness and unseen forces that shape his visual art.
Dr. Barbara Mydlak
Barbara Mydlak is an artist-researcher based in Ghent, Belgium. She holds a PhD in the Arts from Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Fine Arts in Poznań, and a B.A. and M.A. in Visual Arts from the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, after earlier studies in archaeology at the University of Warsaw. Her work combines traditional crafts, new technologies, and scientific research. Using cellulose from discarded plants, organic remnants, and paper or textile residue, she creates handmade paper installations exploring scent, pigment, healing, defense mechanisms, and decomposition, often incorporating film, photography, and interactive elements. Informed by autobiographical memories, rituals, and experiences of loss, she uses fragile, perishable materials to reflect on transformation and cultural perceptions of death. Drawing on her archaeology background, she studies the conservation and breakdown of these materials as installations evolve. She teaches workshops internationally, including at Tsinghua University, TNNUA, and IHECS Brussels. Since 2022, she has operated a studio in Ghent through Nucleo Kunstenaars Ateliers and is developing CHRONICA, an interactive project with Yann Deval connecting traditional papermaking and augmented reality. She has exhibited in Belgium, Poland, China, Taiwan, and Italy, receiving awards including a Flanders’ Department of Culture, Youth & Media research grant (2024) and was a finalist in the COAL Prize (2023).