Bahareh Khoshooee is a multidisciplinary artist born in Tehran, Iran, in 1991, the year the Internet was made available for unrestricted commercial use. In her work, she explores the underlying tension between reality and fiction, confabulation and manipulation, false memories, and alternative facts. In 2019, she was an artist-in-resident at Baxter St. She attended Skowhegan School of Art and Painting in 2018. She received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of South Florida in 2017, her BA in Industrial Design from the University of Tehran in 2014. Khoshooee has presented her work at the Orlando Museum of Art (Orlando), NADA MIAMI 2018, Elsewhere (New York), Housing (New York), and Rawson Projects (New York). Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Artnet News, Vice, The Metro, and The Creators Project.

Nora N. Khan is a writer. She writes criticism on emerging issues within digital visual culture, experimental art and music practices, and philosophy of emerging technology. She is a professor at RISD, based in Digital + Media (D+M). She teaches graduate courses on technological criticism, thesis writing for artists and designers, and critical theory and artistic research, across D+M, Graphic Design, and Industrial Design.