I

Danz CM, formerly known as Computer Magic, is a musician, producer, and composer. She is the founder, curator, and editor in chief of Synth History, an annual, independently published printed magazine, limited narrative podcast series, and website dedicated to synthesizers.

McKenzie Wark is a professor of culture and media at the New School. She is the author of, among other things, Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotext(e)) and Raving (Duke University Press). Life Story, a short film she made in conversation with Jessica...

Jacqueline Avila is an associate professor of musicology at the University of Texas, Austin, specializing in film-music studies, sound studies, and the intersections of identity, tradition, and modernity in the musical cultures and new media of Mexico, Latin America, and...

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the best-selling memoir In the Dream House and the short-story collection Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for a National Book Award. Her essays, fiction, poetry, and criticism have appeared...

Tayler Montague is a writer, curator, native New Yorker, and director of the award-winning short film In Sudden Darkness.

Jonathan R. Lack is a PhD candidate in Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa, the host of the anime history and review podcast Japanimation Station, and the author of the book 200 Reviews. You can read his work at...

Jennifer Padjemi is a journalist, writer, and cultural critic focusing on race, aesthetics, and gender representation. She has published two books in France, including Féminismes & Pop Culture (2021), and has hosted several podcast series.

Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and AIDS historian. Her twenty books include Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993, and the novels The Cosmopolitans and Maggie Terry. Her feature-film credits...

Domino Renee Perez is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She has published numerous books and articles on topics ranging from film and popular culture to folklore and young-adult fiction.

Cornelia Funke is a German storyteller and illustrator, published in more than forty languages. She lives in Volterra, Tuscany.