Hyeyoon Kwon is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University. What began as a question about how to live well with her cat (Dodo) led her to study anthropology, eventually bringing them both to live in Houston. Her doctoral research takes Mount Jiri as its field site and asks what ecological restoration means, while exploring memories of landscape, more-than-human relations, and imaginaries of ecological futures.

Seyeon Kim studies art and anthropology and creates projects that move across the boundaries of art. She is drawn to fieldsites where the senses of engagement get activated. In her master’s research, she conducted fieldwork in a haenyeo (traditional female divers) village in Jeju Island, examining how haenyeo culture–transmitted through the body–is transformed and appropriated within the relationship between the haenyeo and the divers, and how it is carried on to the younger women.

Baek Changin works as a developer, researcher, and puzzle maker at AG Lab. As the eternal intern of Minguhong Manufacturing (which does not believe in eternity), he explores the possibility of naturally occurring violations while following the rules of language.

Injee Chung runs the graphic design studio Point to Line and serves as a visiting professor at the Korea National University of Arts, School of Visual Arts, Department of Design. With an interest in the formal possibilities of design, she explores how images are seen and understood, continuing her work through fundamental elements such as pixels, dots, and lines.