Allora & Calzadilla have had solo shows at institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2004), the Americas Society, New York (2003), and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan (2001). Major group exhibitions include Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, New York (2003), Common Wealth, Tate Modern, London (2003), How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2003), and Bienal de Sгo Paulo (1998).

Jennifer Allora holds an MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. Guillermo Calzadilla holds an MFA from Bard College and a BFA from the Escuela de Artes Plasticas, San Juan

Amy Franceschini holds an MFA from Stanford University. She co-founded the group Futurefarmers in 1995 and has had solo exhibitions at the Nelson Gallery at the University of California, Davis (2005) and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (1999). Major group exhibitions include the California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art (2004), National Design Triennial, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York (2003), Utopia Now, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco (2001), Tirana Biennale (2001), and the Transmediale New Media Art Festival, Berlin (2000).

Myriel Milicevic is completing her MA in Interactive Design at the Interactive Design Institute, Ivrea, Italy. She studied graphic design at the Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, and took courses at San Francisco State University. In 2004 she was the artist in residence at Futurefarmers. She has presented her work in a number of group exhibitions including Strangely Familiar: Unusual Objects in Everyday Life, AB+, Turin (2005), and at Filmwinter, Stuttgart (2002).

Nis Remer holds an MA in architecture and urban planning from the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, and has also studied at the Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, and the Jutland Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark. Major group exhibitions and projects include Staafetten, Esbjerg Museum of Fine Arts, Denmark (2004), Smoke on the Water, a temporary settlement in Tippen, Denmark (2004), and Stadtflur, Copenhagen (2002).
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Brennan McGaffey has had solo presentations of his projects at Lampo (2003), TBA Exhibition Space (1999), and RX Gallery (1996), all in Chicago. He has also participated in a number of group exhibitions and collaborations including Audio Relay (2002-ongoing), an autonomous, mobile radio station; Low Altitude Atmospheric and Civic Modifications (2001), a five-month project hosted by Temporary Services that consisted of mood-enhancing micro-modifications of Chicago's nearatmosphere environment; Active Music: A New Music Marathon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2000); and Wall Work, White Columns, New York (1998). McGaffey is the recipient of the Richard Driehaus Foundation Individual Artist's Grant (2001) and a Finalist Award from the Illinois Arts Council (2000).

JAM's most recent work includes personal power (2003-ongoing); sun/light (2002), during which public newspaper dispensers were rigged to distribute booklets with light-sensitive drawings and photographs; and transform/transport (2001), a visual demonstration of the collective capacity for people to generate electricity through daily activity. The artists' work has been seen in several group exhibitions, including Dragged City, Rincon, Puerto Rico (2004), I've got an Answer/I've got an Anthem, Portland, Oregon (2003), United Net-Works Mobile Archive Tour, Sweden (2003), and Save the Experimental Station, Chicago (2002). Together Fairbanks and Palmer cofounded Noon Solar, a portable power design company. They also collaborated with other artists to form Mess Hall, an experimental cultural center in Chicago.

Jane Palmer holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is also a founder of H.A.V.E. (Haitian Visual Arts Education), a nonprofit arts organization in St. Louis de Nord, Haiti.

Marianne Fairbanks received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Fifth Space, Kyoto (1998).

Brett Bloom received his MFA from the University of Chicago and is involved with the Chicago-based groups Temporary Services and the Department of Space and Land Reclamation. In addition, Bloom helps to run Groups and Spaces, an e-zine that functions as a platform for the collection and distribution of current and historical information on activist art.

Julio Castro is a founding member of Tercerunquinto, a group that has been internationally recognized for architectural interventions that are usually mobilized around the intersection of social and spatial concerns. Recently, Tercerunquinto built Sculpture at Monterrey's Outskirts (2002) for a marginalized, impoverished area of Monterrey, Mexico, with the intention of creating a new public space for community use. In 2004 the group was selected to receive a portion of Germany's largest monetary art prize, the blueOrange. Major group exhibitions include Dedicated to you, but you weren't listening, Power Plant Gallery, Toronto (2005), and MUCA ROMA, Mexico City (2004).

Rikke Luther and Cecilia Wendt are two of the founders of the Danish collective N55, which blurred boundaries between art and design. Major group exhibitions include The Interventionists, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2003), Living Inside the Grid, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2003), and the Venice Biennale (2001). www·learningsite·info