Paul Elliman is a London-based artist and designer. His work, often using typography and the human voice, as well as forms of audio signage that utilize both, has been exhibited at London’s Tate Modern, New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Anyang Public Art Project in Korea, and is included in collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (New York). Recent group exhibitions include If I When My..., Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan; Unmonumental, New Museum, New York; Word Event, Kunsthalle Basel; Around Max Bill, Swiss Cultural Centre, Paris; The World Is All That Is The Case, Hudson Franklin Gallery, New York; and Platform 2009, Seoul. During 2009, Elliman was an artist in residency at IASPIS in Stockholm, and for the spring semester of 2010 he will take up a temporary appointment as the first Elaine L Jacobs Endowed Chair in Visual Arts at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. He has taught in the Yale School of Art since 1997, and is a thesis supervisor for Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem, Netherlands.

Maximilian Goldfarb, based in Hudson, New York, works with improvised electronics, radio transmissions and performances often concerned with emergency situations and the fragile margins between safety and danger. The project Jumpkit involves a list of essential components, tools and food useful in preparing for any unexpected or dangerous circumstances. His recent work utilizes the Mobile49, a retrofit emergency communications vehicle conceived for area-specific mobile broadcast, and specializing in occupying interstices of the radio spectrum. Deep Cycle, a long term project during which the M49 will become permanently embedded into the landscape as a radio emergency field station, is included in the recent Transmission Arts issue of Performance Art Journal (MIT Press). Goldfarb is affiliated with WGXC.org, a community-run media project in the Hudson Valley, NY. Trained as a police radio dispatcher, he is a member of the Amateur Radio Relay League, and co-instigator of The Incident Report Viewing Station.

Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist and engineer whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. Jeremijenko's projects have been exhibited by several museums and galleries, including the MASSMoCA, the Whitney Museum, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt. Her research centers on structures of participation in the production of knowledge and information, and the political and social possibilities (and limitations) of information and emerging technologies—mostly through public experiments. Jeremijenko’s permanent installation OOZ, Inc (...for the birds), on the roof of Postmasters Gallery in New York, provides infrastructure and facilities for high-density bird cohabitation in an environmental experiment in interaction with the New York City bird population. A 1999 Rockefeller Fellow, Jeremijenko is the director of the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic at NYU, an Associate Professor in the Visual Art Dept., and has affiliated faculty appointments in Computer Science and Environmental Studies.

Dr. Arline Bronzaft is Professor Emerita of the City University of New York and Chair of the Noise Committee as part of the Mayor's Council on the Environment of New York City. She has given testimony on the hazards of noise to government and health organizations and has served as an expert witness in court cases. Dr. Bronzaft frequently lectures on noise in the United States and abroad and has been interviewed in the media internationally. She also advises anti-noise organizations in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom and has served as an advisor to public officials locally and nationally. Among Dr. Bronzaft's academic and professional honors: Senator of Phi Beta Kappa, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Hunter Hall of Fame Honoree, Recipient of a Certificate of Appreciation from Region 2 of the United States Environmental Protection Agency for her achievements in the protection of the environment.

Raviv Ganchrow’s work focuses on interrelations between sound and space, aspects of which are explored through sound installations, writing and the development of sound forming technologies such as Wave Field Synthesis. His work addresses an ambiguous status of sound that is at once material-spatial as well as phenomena-event. Recent installations directly engage the everyday acoustic environment, plumbing notions of 'place' that are constructed by way of frequency interdependencies between sound, location and listener. Ganchrow completed his architectural studies at the Cooper Union, New York and received a second degree from the Institute of Sonology at The Royal Conservatory, The Hague. He has been teaching architectural design in the graduate program at TU Delft, and is currently a faculty member at the Institute of Sonology, The Hague.

Laura Kurgan teaches architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she is Director of Visual Studies and the Director of the Spatial Information Design Lab (SIDL). SIDL is currently collaborating with the Justice Mapping Center on a project called “Graphical Innovations in Justice Mapping” in selected states—Arizona, Kansas, Los Angeles County, Louisiana, New York, and Rhode Island. She has followed the declassification of satellite imagery and GPS technology in a series of research projects across the significant political events of the last decade. This work, which has been exhibited internationally, is collected in You Are Here: Post-Military Technology and the New Landscape of Satellite Images, forthcoming from Zone Books.

Lázaro Valiente is a musician and sound artist based in Mexico City. He describes his first band as a collection of everyday objects from home, including children's toys, a hair dryer and other electrical devices, plus guitars, xylophones, voices and water. Lázaro Valiente has played live on public transport, made musical interventions in other kinds of public spaces by incorporating the sounds found there, as well as appearing at international music festivals including Coachella, Lollapalooza, and SXSW. Police Car Quartet, a small scale symphony of sirens developed in collaboration with the Mexico City Police Department, is the first of a series of musical happenings dealing with the control of traffic in public space – others to include Tamal-Car Orchestra, muchos Mexican barrel organs, and visual concerts at red lights, along with a sequence of public radio interventions. Police Car Quartet was performed as a concert at Mexico City's Bellas Artes Palace, and was the subject of a recent artist talk by Valiente at Flux Factory, called How To Make Music With Police Cars and Get Away With It.