Emma Safir (b. 1990 NYC) is an artist who employs material exploration and manipulation of fabric through weaving techniques, smocking, lens-based media, rasterization, upholstery, among other methods. Her work functions as screen simulations, proxies and portals. Safir is interested in hierarchies of labor, especially in their relationship to gender and digitization. Safir holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Printmaking and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in Painting & Printmaking. She has exhibited recently at SHIN HAUS at Shin Gallery, Lyles & King, Pentimenti Gallery and TW Fine Art. She is currently an Artist in Residence at the Textiles Art Center in Brooklyn, and a participant in the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in Manhattan. Safir lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Luiza Dale is a graphic designer who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her work focuses on how live performance can remain, happen, or begin in print and digital reproductions. Dale teaches at Parsons School of Design and runs a small press called Quickbooks. She maintains an independent practice designing print publications, websites and identities, oftentimes alongside Laura Tolomelli and Tuan Quoc Pham. When working together, the trio goes by the name The Aliens. In 2020, Dale wrote INFORMATION—a play for the mobile phone that explores intimacy between physical and digital space. She received an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2021.