Andris Brinkmanis is an art critic and curator, born in Riga and based in Milan. He is a Senior Lecturer and the Course Leader of BA in Painting and Visual Arts at NABA in Milan.

An American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and founder of the music group The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Newcombe

Political punk big-band (since 2010) Arkadiy Kots Band is into solidarity, political struggle and the idea of a communist society.

She is a fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation, for her work on challenging predatory practices around debt.

A Canadian-American documentary filmmaker, writer, activist and musician. She is a fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation, for her work on challenging predatory practices around debt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Taylor

Clive is a graphic designer based in Hackney and one half of This Ain’t Rock’n’Roll. Their work inspires change, most famously in the look and feel of the Extinction Rebellion and the Brixton Pound. This Ain’t Rock’n’Roll’s work has been exhibited and collected by the V&A, MOMA, British Museum amongst others.

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His latest book is CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM (with Rebecca Giblin) nonfiction about creative labor markets and monopoly. His latest novel is ATTACK SURFACE, a standalone adult sequel to LITTLE BROTHER. He is also the author HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about conspiracies and monopolies; and of RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults, a YA graphic novel called IN REAL LIFE; and young adult novels like HOMELAND, PIRATE CINEMA and LITTLE BROTHER. His first picture book was POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER (Aug 2020). In 2023/4, Tor Books will publish two more science fiction novels for adults: RED TEAM BLUES and THE LOST CAUSE; and Verso will publish THE INTERNET CON, a nonfiction book about monopoly and radical interoperability. He maintains a daily blog at Pluralistic.net. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

David Riff (born 1975) is a writer, artist and curator. He is a member of the work group Chto delat and was co-editor of the newspaper of the same name from 2003 to 2008. Riff currently works as contributing editor of the arts section of the online portal openspace.ru and teaches art history at the Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia in Moscow. He has published two monographs on late Soviet artists Vadim Sidur (2000) and Vladimir Yankilevsky (2002). More recently, he has written on post-Soviet contemporary art in publications such as Flash Art, documenta 12 magazines, Moscow Art Magazine, Rethinking Marxism, Springerin, and Third Text and contributed to the monograph Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor (2009). In addition Riff has worked extensively as a translator in the field of contemporary art and is active in artistic collaborations. Together with Dmitry Gutov he contributed to the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 with the long-term project The Karl Marx School of the English Language. Riff lives and works in Moscow and Berlin