Sobia Ahmad is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the transcendental power of everyday experiences, objects, and rituals through photography, time-based media, and social practice. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her work has been reviewed in Al-Jazeera and The Washington Post, and exhibited at the Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY), Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco), the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Women Filmmakers Festival (Washington, D.C.), and Silver Eye Center for Photography (Pittsburgh, PA), among others.

Benny Shaffer is a filmmaker and curator whose projects explore the intersections of socially engaged art, media ecologies, and experimental cinema. His film and video works have been exhibited at various film festivals and art spaces in Asia, Europe, and North America. He received his PhD in Social Anthropology and Critical Media Practice from Harvard University, where he was a Film Study Center fellow and a member of the Sensory Ethnography Lab. He has served as the co-director of Revolutions Per Minute Festival in Boston, and as a board member of Pittsburgh Sound + Image.