David Cross is an artist and Reader at the University of the Arts, London.
Informing his research, practice and teaching is a critical engagement with the relationship between visual culture and the contested ideal of sustainable development.
David believes that in addition to producing aesthetic experiences, a key function of contemporary art is to test concepts, assumptions and boundaries.
Yet, while such testing is necessary, it is not sufficient: art practice should expand the ability to envision alternative possibilities, and to choose from amongst them as an act of free will.
As an artist, David has collaborated with Matthew Cornford since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1991. Because Cornford & Cross respond to the intrinsic problems of particular contexts and situations, each of their projects has been different in form and content. A wide range of people have helped to realize their projects, which aim to stimulate discussion and debate on issues of public concern, including environment, development and social justice.


Marina Landia is a video and performance artist based in Berlin and London.    The main focus of her artistic work is the exploration and critical evaluation of major economic and political trends. She is working at the point of intersection between art and other disciplines. By involving people with different professional backgrounds in structured artistic processes, she generates situations of encounter and intensive mutual feedback between different social subsystems. The aim is to enable critical reflections on the interplay between different interests and forces defining the current condition of our society. Her ongoing “Enjoy Business” series was recently shown at Palais de Tokyo and La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, and in Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Marina Landia is a lecturer at the Institute for Art in Context Berlin. 


Michael Marcovici  is an Austrian conceptual artist and designer. His works make statements regarding politics, science and technology, social topics and style. His output includes media works of ironic content, lithe furniture designs, and abstract hi-tech sculptures. His formative years were spent as a financial analyst and outdoor sportsman. Michael was also active as a software developer and inventor. He holds international patents for climbing equipment, bicycle gears, trading systems and electronic payment systems. In 2001, he started a business on eBay that eventually became the world's largest power-selling enterprise on eBay, a company with 80 employees and a turnover of 20 million euros which went bankrupt in 2005. In parallel to his artistic work, Michael is currently the manager of the Domain Developers Fund, an investment fund investing in domain names.

Steven Grainger is a Glasgow based artist concerned with political and economic systems and the ways they are administered by those who shape them. Manifestations of these ideas have included performative action, text based works as well as sculptural objects, often incorporating found objects. Meaning is often built around language and physical presence simultaneously, embracing the complexity of human connections and the state of being concurrently invested in ourselves and investing in others.       

Karl Thorbergsson is an Icelandic performance artist and theater maker currently based in Berlin. In his recent work he has focused on the role and power of the individual in a global vs. local political and financial systems with special interest in climate change. Based on ideas of audience reception and performative participation, he engages audience into the exploration of complex issues of our time in a personal and ironic way. Karl is a founder and artistic director of the theater collective “16 Lovers”, an active solo-performer, and has taught conceptual performance making and theory at  university level.