Lucas Blalock is a photographer working at the intersection of new media and post-conceptual art. Exhibition highlights include An Enormous Oar at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and Ocean of Images: 2015 New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art. Blalock is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Bard College, a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, and the author of Why Must the Mounted Messenger Be Mounted?

Julia Rommel (b. 1980, in Salisbury, MD) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Solo exhibitions include Burnt Toast, Standard (Oslo), Oslo (2025); Massimo de Carlo Pièce Unique, Paris (2024); Staples, Bureau, New York, (2024); Two Italians, Six Lifeguards, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; and many more. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo; among others.

Chloe Stagaman is a Brooklyn-based curator and writer. Since 2022, she has been the Director of Programs at the Brooklyn Rail, where she organizes the journal’s weekday conversation series The New Social Environment.