About Mika Rottenberg Mika Rottenberg (b 1976, Buenos Aires) is a New York-based artist whose rigorous practice combines film, architectural installation, and sculpture to explore ideas of labor and the production of value in our contemporary hyper-capitalist world. Using traditions of both cinema and sculpture, she seeks out locations around the world where specific systems of production and commerce are in place, such as a pearl factory in China, and a Calexico border town. Through the editing process, and with footage from sets built in her studio, Rottenberg connects seemingly disparate processes and places to create elaborate and subversive visual narratives that are often situated within a theatrical installation made up of objects from the lush and bizarre parallel worlds in her videos. By weaving fact and fiction together, she highlights the inherent beauty and absurdity of our contemporary existence. Her current and recent solo exhibitions at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2022); the New Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and MOCA Toronto (2019-2022); and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark i2021). About Mahyad Tousi Mahyad Tousi (b 1973 in Portland, Oregon) is an Iranian-American multidisciplinary writer, producer, cinematographer, and director working across story formats, genres, and platforms; his projects span primetime television, independent films, virtual reality, and the visual arts. He is currently writing and producing 1001, a sci-fi adaptation of The Tales from a Thousand and One Nights. Tousi is the co-founder of BoomGen Studios, a film and television production company and founder of Starfish—a 10-year vision for a self-sustaining cultural ecosystem for BIPOC artists. He sits on the advisory board of MIT’s Center for Advanced Virtuality. Tousi currently lives in Los Angeles.