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Kim Zumpfe is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who lives and works in Los Angeles. Exhibitions and Performances include Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Gallery TPW (Toronto), Bangkok Biennial’s MAHA Pavilion, 4Ground Midwest Land Art Biennial, Diverseworks (Houston), MOCA Geffen, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Audain Art Gallery (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver), MexiCali Biennial, CSUF Grand Central Art Center (Santa Ana), Human Resources Los Angeles, Culver Center for the Arts (Riverside), and Torrance Art Museum. Recognitions include a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, Franconia Sculpture Park’s Mid-Career Fellowship, CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts best in international feminist art and scholarship, and Artforum’s Critics’ Picks. Zumpfe also co-produces Voidwave, a radio program that features experimental sound works by femme, queer, and non-conforming artists.  Zumpfe holds an MFA in Art with a Critical Theory Emphasis from UC Irvine, is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Southern California, and a Visiting Associate Professor in MassArt’s Graduate Program.  https://kimzumpfe.com/

Zumpfe engages with socio-spatial architectures through a multidisciplinary practice that includes installation, sculpture, performance, documentation practices, and experimental writing. Individual and collaborative projects explore how class, queerness, and race are embodied in infrastructures and designed environments. Structures and installations can be understood in flexible ways as resting places, elsewhere-locations, and stages to be interacted with. People can touch, listen, smell, sit on, sit in, and experience. Performative actions often takes the form of traveling through streets, navigating historical sites, and observing roadside plants, buildings, trees, construction sites, land divisions, and other visual and audible materials embedded in larger economies and living systems. These explorative performances can be seen through photography, video, and materials such as dirt, sand, plants, and found discarded items. These materials are integrated projects to point to larger questions about place and placement in living systems, with a consideration of territories that can constitute and extend beyond specific locations through various media forms. How the body senses and integrates within these complex location-based and media-infused environments remains an open inquiry. Zumpfe’s projects addresses class divisions embedded in ownership and land use, alongside destabilized concepts of home and belonging. Reconfiguring relationships to these spaces propose a future of expansive interiors and outer social bodies that can transcend perceived and material limits.

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Luke Quezada is a media artist and designer from Los Angeles, California, with a background in interaction design and a passion for new technologies. He currently develops interactive scientific visualizations for quantum computing and specializes in large-scale photogrammetric reconstructions. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, where he develops curriculum for interaction design and rapid prototyping. Luke's work is diverse, from developing scientific figures on new methods of semiconductor fabrication (ACS Photonics, 2025) to designing the interactive and media-rich elements of the exhibition Sacrifice Zones: Los Angeles' at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (2024). Luke has looked at the world through a viewfinder since he was old enough to hold a camera. Today, his creative practice remains centered on the image, even though photography is no longer his primary medium. Questions of representation, reproduction, remix, and reinterpretation are constants in Luke’s work. Whether he is visualizing quantum architectures or designing an aquaponics system, Luke is interested in making complex ideas more tangible through experimental applications of new technologies. lukequezada.com