Eszter Polonyi is a historian of art, media, and science working on the interdisciplinary project sponsored by the Slovenian National Research Agency “The Photo of a Black Hole: Physics meets Photography” (ARIS J7-60121, 2025-2027). She migrated from New York to Slovenia in 2020 and has since been researching, teaching, and managing state- and EU-level projects in the fields of art theory, art and science studies, and the history of film and photography at a range of institutions in the Adriatic. University of Nova Gorica, Assistant Professor in Cultural History, Rector’s Cabinet (2022-4), Research Center for the Humanities and School for Humanities (2020-22). Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana and Museum of Contemporary Art, Metelkova, curator (2023-23). Pratt Institute, Visiting Assistant Professor History of Art and Design Department (2017-20). Columbia University, Core Curriculum Lecturer (2017-20). Eszter received her PhD in the History of Art from Columbia University (2017), MPhil (2011), MA (2009), an MA from the Courtauld Institute Of Art (2006), and her BA from Wellesley College. Her research has been supported by the Slovenian National Research Agency, COST, the Mellon foundation, SSRC DPDF, Pepsico, DAAD, AHRC (UK), the Hungarian Ministry of Education, Pell Grant, and several other private funding agencies for the arts.

Sašo Grozdanov is an associate professor of physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Ljubljana and at the Higgs Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh. He received his BA from Harvard University, his MA from Cambridge University and his PhD from Oxford University. After his studies, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leiden and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His broad interest is to discover the laws that govern physics using theoretical and mathematical methods ranging from low to high energies: from hydrodynamics to quantum field theory, gravity and black holes, and string theory. His work has focused heavily on studying the dynamics of hot collective states that behave like liquids and plasmas. An example of such a state is the quark-gluon plasma that filled the early universe and can now be created in particle accelerators.

Zsuzsanna Szegedi-Varga is an interdisciplinary artist and visual theorist. She received her MFA in Studio Art and Critical Theory from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Low Residency Program, mentor Gregg Bordowitz. Working between Eastern Europe and North America, Szegedi-Varga approaches art as research and technological critique, using her practice to examine how visibility is organized and how its limits can be studied through what is missing. https://zsuzsanna.com/

Jaka Železnikar is an author, poet, and programmer whose work spans diverse forms of language-based and digital art. Active since 1994, he is recognized as one of the pioneers of Slovene and international net art and online electronic literature. Železnikar’s work has been widely published and exhibited, contributing significantly to the development of digital literary and artistic practices. https://jaka.org/