Alexis Gideon (b. 1980) is a visual artist, composer, and performer best known for his innovative animated video operas and installations. Gideon’s novel category-defying work has been shown and performed in many prestigious institutions throughout the world including: Moderna Museet Stockholm, ICA Boston, MCA Chicago, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. As a Jewish descendent of Holocaust survivors, Gideon creates interdisciplinary works that examine alienation, subjugation and the human condition. The New Museum of Contemporary Art paired Gideon with renowned South African artist William Kentridge for a joint program in January 2013. His work is in the collections of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, the Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection in Miami, FL, The Benter Foundation in Pittsburgh, PA as well as a number of private collections.

Michael O'Neill (b. 1980) is a queer musician and performing artist, whose work delights in the fusion of genre and discipline. He is a founding member of the group MEN, a music/art collaborative project with JD Samson and Ginger Brooks Takahashi. MEN performed extensively across the world including performances at festivals such as Coachella and Lovebox (UK) and internationally renowned art museums such as SFMOMA, New Museum, Museo Tamayo, Andy Warhol Museum and PS1. Michael has performed with a number of other queer and indie-pop acts over the years including CRICKETS, The Ladybug Transistor, Air Waves, The Aislers Set and MAN ON MAN. He is a graduate of Hampshire College, where he created a full-scale theatrical production of his original rock opera as his thesis project.