Sareh Imani
Sareh Imani is an Iranian-born, multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Imani received an MFA in Painting from the University of Tehran and an MFA from the Parsons School of Design in New York. In her practice, Imani explores the ways of achieving resourcefulness, through care, mending, and healing in times of inadequacy. For the past 2 years, she has been making a series of videos that study the relation between virtual and visceral, borrowing from medical methodologies and exploring the reparative potentials of art and science, intimacy and distance, instructions and poetics.Imani has been exhibiting her work in group shows both in the US (New York, Austin), Europe (Venice, Gothenburg), and the Middle East (Tehran, Dubai). She is the recipient of the one-year A.I.R fellowship (2020), and the Skowhegan School of painting and sculpture scholarship in 2018. In addition, she participated in the MASS MoCA residency (2018), AIM program at the Bronx Museum (2018), BRIC Workspace Residency (2019), BRIC Media fellowship (2020), and NARS foundation (2020).
Piero Passacantando
Piero Passacantando (b. 1979 in Rome, Italy) is an interdisciplinary artist. His work moves between painting, food, music, photography and participatory workshops focusing on dialogue, conviviality, and empathy. Passacantando holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts and a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC. In addition, for the past 8 years, while he has been actively working as an artist, Piero has also been delivering training and elbow-to-elbow support for healthcare software, specializing in electronic medical records for in-patient, emergency room, and operating room systems. He currently lives and works between Porto Santo Stefano, Italy, and Casablanca, Morocco.
Adam Eckstrom
Adam Eckstrom is half of the artist collaborative, Ghost of a Dream, with Lauren Was. The collaborative’s work embodies the essence of opulence while being constructed of materials that typically end up in the trash. They mine popular culture searching for discarded materials that people use trying to reach their goals. Whether it is a Hollywood film that transports the viewer into a dream reality, a travel poster promising a luxurious vacation, or a lottery ticket that gives the possibility of a future full of rich decadence; they use these remnants to both re-create people’s dreams, and portray the dreamer. They have recently been included in exhibitions at the MAAM museum, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Crystal Bridges Museum, Telfair Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens Museum, Frist Center for Visual Arts, The Courtauld, and The Mint. Other recent solo exhibitions include CES Gallery, Smack Mellon, and 601Artspace. Ghost of a Dream has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue Magazine, Hyperallergic, BlouinArtinfo, ArtFCity, W Magazine, Interview Magazine, World of Interiors, VICE Art Talks as a documentary, and Southern Foodways alliance as a short film. To learn more about Adam and Ghost of a Dream's work, please visit their C.V. on their website.
Justus Harris
Justus Harris (he/they) is a healthcare design strategist, artist, educator, and the founder of MedSculp. MedSculp specializes in the development and consultation of data visualization, user experience, and patient communication strategies for healthcare institutions. Justus and MedSculp’s interactive health communication installations have been commissioned by the American Diabetes Association (Chicago, IL), the European Commission (Berlin, Germany), and The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC).
He is a Stanford Medicine X 2019 ePatient Scholar and guest teacher, and a 2018-2019 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow.
Justus's superpower is his community of peers in healthcare, technology, art, design. Microphones have never scared him and his engagements include speaking at Stanford University (San Francisco, CA), Livongo (Mountain View, CA), The Kennedy Center, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), and The Economic Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL). Most importantly Justus is a human being. Music is his primary go-to for healing, share your recommendations, please.
During Harris' 2014 Elsewhere Residency, he created Scenes from Sonship Past.
During Harris’ 2020 Elsewhere Cross-Sectors: HealthCare Residency, he created Sights of Change.