Rachel Rose (b. 1986) works across film, painting, sculpture, and drawing. Her practice addresses how the landscapes from which stories emerge affect how they are told, and reveals the surreality latent in everyday experience. She has presented solo exhibitions internationally, and her work is held in major public collections including the Tate Modern, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LUMA Foundation; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Dallas Museum of Art. Her debut feature film, The Last Day, stars Alicia Vikander and Wagner Moura.

Associate professor of visual culture at Montclair State University Charlotte Kent, PhD, is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail, and a contributor to assorted books on art and technology, including as co-editor of Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (Intellect Books, 2024), co-author of Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square (Monacelli Press, 2024), and editor of Generation to Generation (Vetro, 2026). She is the recipient of grants from NEH and Google Art + Machine Intelligence, with a forthcoming book on contemporary art and technoabsurdity. She is a member of the College Art Association’s Committee on Intellectual Property.