Jayson Musson is an artist, performer, writer, and filmmaker based in New York City. In January 2017, Musson premiered a new virtuality work, an astral memorial for victims of police violence, for New Museum and Rhizome’s First Look: Artists’ VR. His most well-known creation is Hennessy Youngman, a YouTube art critic who used hip-hop vernacular to critique the exclusionary language of art discourse, Other recent presentations include solo exhibitions at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, and Salon94, New York. Learn more: jaysonmusson.com.

Jonah Peretti is Founder and CEO of Buzzfeed. After co-founding The Huffington Post in 2005, Peretti launched BuzzFeed in 2006 as an experimental lab focused on tracking viral content and making things people wanted to share. Under Peretti’s leadership, BuzzFeed has grown to over 1000 employees, more than 200 million monthly unique visitors and 1.5 billion monthly video views, with writers creating shareable and entertaining content and reporters covering everything from politics to technology. Learn more: buzzfeed.com.

Founded in NYC in 2010, DIS is a collaborative project for artists, designers, stylists, and writers, primarily led by Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro. Evolving from an online, interactive magazine, DIS provides an horizontal exploration of fashion, art, culture, and the collaborative nature of the internet. The collective was a part of the New Museum Triennial Surround Audience curated by Lauren Cornell and Ryan Trecartin (2015), and most recently they curated the 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2016). Learn more: dismagazine.com.

Rachel Haot is a Managing Director at 1776, leading New York City strategy and operations. Prior to this, Haot was Chief Digital Officer and Deputy Secretary for Technology of New York State in 2014 and 2015. She served under former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg as Chief Digital Officer for the City of New York from 2011 to 2013. Earlier in her career, Haot was founder and CEO of GroundReport, a global news platform. Learn more: 1776.vc/newyorkcity.

Addie Wagenknecht is an American artist based in Europe. She has exhibited at MuseumsQuartier, Vienna; La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris; The Istanbul Modern; and Whitechapel Gallery, among others. Wagenknecht founded Deep Lab in 2014 with a Warhol Foundation Grant and is a member of the Free Art & Technology (F.A.T.) Lab. Wagenknecht also co-produced the open source laser cutter Lasersaur. Learn more: placesiveneverbeen.com.

Cindy Gallop started the ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty New York in 1998. She is the founder of IfWeRanTheWorld.com, co-action software that enables brands and consumers to implement the business model of the future: Shared Values + Shared Action = Shared Profit. She also founded www.makelovenotporn.com in 2009 and in 2013 launched social sex videosharing platform Makelovenotporn.tv. She is currently raising the world’s first and only sextech fund, alltheskyholdings.com. Learn more: @cindygallop.

Miao Ying was born in Shanghai, China. She currently resides in New York and Shanghai. Her work highlights attempts to discuss mainstream technology and contemporary consciousness and its impact on our daily live, along with the new modes of politics, aesthetics, and consciousness created during the representation of reality through technology. She deliberately applies a thread of humor to her works and address her Stockholm Syndrome-relationship with censorship and self-censorship in Chinese internet (Great Fire Wall). Learn more: thedeadpixelofmyeye.com.

Mehdi Yahyanejad is founder of Balatarin.com, a user-generated news website in Persian that played a crucial role in the pro-democracy movement in Iran in 2009. He is the co-founder of NetFreedom Pioneers, a nonprofit organization that provides access to digital information via satellite to regions of the world with limited internet access. He is researching and developing anti-censorship technologies. Learn more: netfreedompioneers.org.

Bunny Rogers is an artist and poet. She was born in Houston, Texas, and lives and works in Stockholm. Recent exhibitions include: Pure Fiction, curated by Julie Boukobza, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris (2016); We are All Traitors, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson (2016); wrjnger, Foundation de 11 Lijnen, Oudenberg (2016); and Columbine Cafeteria, Société, Berlin (2016). In summer 2017, Rogers will have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Learn more: meryn.ru.

Nozlee Samadzadeh is an engineer at Vox Media and an editor at The Morning News, where she produces the Tournament of Books. She studied computer science and art history at Yale, and has worked as an art journalist, small-scale organic farmer, and editor at the website Food52. Learn more: @nzle.

Moscow-born, German-based artist Olia Lialina has produced many influential works of net art: My Boyfriend Came Back from the War (1996), Agatha Appears (1997), First Real Net Art Gallery (1998), and Last Real Net Art Museum (2000), Online Newspapers (2004-2017) Summer (2013), best.effort.network (2015), Bear With Me (2017). She is a professor at Merz Akademie in Germany. Lialina writes on digital culture, net art, and web vernacular. She is an animated GIF model and co-founder of Geocities Research Institute. Learn more: art.teleportacia.org.

Mike Tyka is co-founder of the Google Artists and Machine Intelligence program. He studied Biochemistry at the University of Bristol and went on to work as a research fellow at the University of Washington, studying the structure and dynamics of protein molecules. He co-founded ATLSpace, an artist studio in Seattle, and has been creating metal and glass sculptures of protein molecules. In 2013, Mike went to Google to study neural networks, both artificial and natural. This work naturally spilled over to his artistic interests, exploring the possibilities of artificial neural networks for creating art. Learn more: miketyka.com.

Constant Dullaart‘s practice reflects on the broad cultural and social effects of communication and image processing technologies, from performatively distributing artificial social capital on social media to completing a staff-pick Kickstarter campaign for a hardware start-up called DulltechTM. His work includes websites, performances, routers, installations, startups, armies, and appropriated images, frequently juxtaposing or consolidating technically dichotomized presentation realms. Learn more: constantdullaart.com.

Chris Paik is a partner at Thrive Capital, a New York-based venture capital firm, where he invests in tech companies. In his time at Thrive, Paik has served on the boards of ClassPass, Flatiron School, Grailed, Patreon, Tictail, Twitch (acquired by Amazon), and Unity. He graduated from Harvard University, studying economics and psychology. Learn more: @cpaik.