Christiana Teufel is a Stuttgart based artist and graphic designer. In her artistic research, she works with photographic / cinematic techniques of deconstruction, montage, abstraction and poetry to trace cultural techniques such as collective memory. Together with Anne Pflug and Damaris Wurster she is curator and publisher of the Lowland magazine.  www.lowlandart.com   

Mary Finlayson is a San Francisco based artist and owner of Painted Mary. 

Art director, designer and sometimes-trying-hard-to-be-conceptual-artist who enjoys exploring all kinds of puzzling ideas, vibrant concepts and non-linear thoughts.

New Haven

At the intersection of fashion, photography, film, stagecraft, and design, artist Marina Fini creates hallucinatory, alternative worlds. Based in California, she collaborates with friends and artists alike in the staging of these otherworldly scenes, using colorful costumes and her own handmade, plexiglass jewelry to turn her photographic subjects into ethereal cyber goddesses. When asked how she builds these characters, Fini remarked, “there’s something about transforming someone into someone they wouldn’t normally be … that is, creating an extension of themselves that I see in them.” All of her characters exude a captivating power, like the whimsical and intangible figures seen through a psychedelic dream. By exploring alternative selves in familiar contexts – a convenience store, or the Californian seaside, for example – Fini explores how subjecthood is fluid, and how such creative “shape-shifting” can alter the way we perceive our immediate reality.