Tatiana Kruvko is a cultural historian and a guest lecturer at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and the Russian State University for the Humanities. She studies film in the context of gender studies and posthumanism and is the author of the book A Capricious Reflection: Feminist Ideas on the Movie Screen.
Olga Shilyaeva is a playwright, game writer, and narrative designer nominated for the Golden Mask Award. She runs a Telegram channel on playwriting and video games, Dramas & Dragons.
Kamila Yusupova (Kami Usu) is a member of the art group Digital Sisters, media artist, VJ, and musician. She works with the aesthetics of algorithms, generative graphics, and sound art. She regularly performs electroacoustic and visual sets at GROUND Solyanka, Moscow Conservatory Center for Electroacoustic Music, DOM Cultural Center, the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, and Bumazhnaya Fabrika. Exhibitions and festivals include Intervals, NUR, PUSK, The Human and the Neural Networks: Who Creates Who? , My Mother Was a Computer, Living Topologies / Nonhuman Agents, Art & Science: Open Bodies. As part of the art group Digital Sisters she works with field recordings and DIY synthesizers to create sound and art projects.
Viktoria Samokhina (sseverachtoli) is a member of the art group Digital Sisters, media artist, VJ, and researcher. Her professional interests include sound art, derealization, synaesthesia and time. She has performed at Powerhouse, Vadim Sidur Museum, and Krasnokholmskaya Gallery. Exhibitions and festivals include Intervals, NUR, PUSK, Programmable Art, Zvuchit, Electric Dreams, k (Berlin). As part of Digital Sisters she works with digital and analog instruments, field recordings and DIY synthesizers to create sound and art projects.
Irina Margolina (online) is the co-curator of the program The Woman and the Movie Camera, and a film scholar. In 2015, she defended her MA thesis on color in European newsreels of the 1910s at the European University in St. Petersburg. She is studying color in Soviet film for her dissertation project at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She has written for Seance, Iskusstvo kino, and Cinema Routine among other journals. She teaches film history and theory in Russian-speaking film schools and runs the podcast Poryadok snov. She has translated into Russian Rachel Morley’s book Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema and Jurij Meden’s collection of essays Scratches and Glitches: Observations on Preserving and Exhibiting Cinema in the Early 21st Century. In 2022, her book on Jack Nicholson was published in the series Seance. Faces.
