Pendleton Ward created the television cartoon series Adventure Time (2010–). He is (I . . . I’m writing this) currently watching Blender tutorials on YouTube in pursuit of producing his own indie virtual-reality games. I (me . . . Pen) live in Los Angeles. (All illustrations by Pendleton Ward.)

Terre Thaemlitz is a multimedia producer, writer, public speaker, educator, audio remixer, and DJ based in Japan; she is also the owner of Comatonse Recordings. Her work combines a critical look at gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity, and race with an ongoing analysis of the socioeconomics of commercial media production. He has released more than fifteen solo albums, as well as numerous twelve-inch singles and video works. Her writings on music and culture have been published internationally in a number of books, academic journals, and magazines. As a speaker on issues of nonessentialist

The work of New York–based Serbian artist Ivana Bašić was included in “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016” at the Whitney Museum of American Art this past fall and “Without a Body” at Andrea Rosen Gallery in January. In 2016 she had shows at Annka Kultys Gallery in London, Nina Johnson in Miami, and Nogueras Blanchard in Barcelona. Bašić has upcoming solo exhibitions at New York’s Marlborough Contemporary and Signal in Brooklyn.

Sol Calero is a Venezuelan-born artist living in Berlin. She recently mounted solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria and Art Basel. Forthcoming exhibitions include Preis der Nationalgalerie at Hamburger Bahnhof, Future Generation Art Prize at the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev, and the Folkestone Triennial in Kent, UK. Calero is a codirector of the project space Kinderhook & Caracas in Berlin and a founder of the television platform Conglomerate.

Richard Kennedy is an artist working in New York. In 2016 he presented the operas Comeuppance and Black Rage at Brooklyn’s Signal and the ballet BOTH at Artists Space in Manhattan. In February he curated the daylong festival “Index” at Knockdown Center in Queens and this month’s Sunday Session, “FROM.UNDER.ABOVE.,” at MoMA PS1, also in Queens. Kennedy is currently an artist in residence at POWRPLNT in Brooklyn.

Japanese designer Jun Takahashi founded clothing brand Undercover in 1990. A progenitor of the now-global streetwear movement, Undercover showed for the first time at Tokyo Fashion Week in 1994 and debuted in Europe at Paris Fashion Week in 2002. Numerous and wide-ranging collaborations include collections with Nike and Supreme; Undercover’s first comprehensive book was published by Rizzoli this past summer.

Women’s History Museum is an NYC-based multisensory clothing project by Amanda McGowan and Mattie Barringer. They presented their most recent collection, “Frauveldt,” at the Ukrainian National Home in New York in September; for their fourth season, WHM will further investigate the categories of clothing and women throughout time.

Founded by Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson, Emma Burgess-Olson (aka Umfang), and Christine McCharen-Tran in 2014, Discwoman is a New York–based collective and booking agency that showcases woman-identified and genderqueer DJs and producers. Discwoman has organized events in some fifteen cities, working with more than 150 DJs and producers to date.

Nikolas Gambaroff is an artist based in New York and Los Angeles. A show of his collaborative work with Ei Arakawa will open this November at Galerie Meyer Kainer in Vienna.

Carsten Nicolai is an artist based in Berlin who works in music, visual art, and science. He has participated in major international exhibitions such as Documenta 10 and the 49th and 50th Venice Biennales, and his works have been shown worldwide in solo and group exhibitions. Under the pseudonym Alva Noto, Nicolai co-scored Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest film, The Revenant (2015).

Rivka Galchen is a writer based in New York. She is the author of the novel Atmospheric Disturbances (Picador, 2008) and the short-story collection American Innovations: Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014). Her most recent book is Little Labors (New Directions, 2016), a miscellany about babies and literature.

Los Angeles–based artist Peter Shire is a member of the Memphis Group of designers. He has recently mounted presentations of his sculpture, furniture, and ceramics at New Galerie in Paris and Peres Projects in Berlin, and in September he will open solo exhibitions of his work at the Jewish Museum and Derek Eller Gallery, both in New York.