Matthew Porterfield is a filmmaker living and working in Baltimore. He participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2012 Biennial with Putty Hill (2010), which was recently acquired, along with his first feature, Hamilton (2006), by New York’s Museum of Modern Art. His new film, I Used to Be Darker, premiered at Sundance and will be released this fall by Strand.

Norwegian architect Kjetil Trædal Thorsen is a founding principal of Snøhetta, an Oslo- and New York–based practice that has designed such renowned structures as the Oslo Opera House and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. Current projects include the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion in New York; the International Center of Cave Art at Lascaux IV in Montignac, France; the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s 235,000-square-foot expansion.

An artist and member of the International Taoist Taichi Society, Abraham Cruzvillegas lives and works in Mexico City. In the past year, he participated in Documenta 13 in Kassel, won the Fifth Yanghyun Prize in Seoul, and presented a solo show at Mexico City’s Museo Experimental El Eco. On March 23, he opens “The Autoconstrucción Suites,” a major exhibition of this long-running project at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

GRANT SINGER is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His most recent movie, IRL, will be released this spring.

Arthur and Marilouise Kroker are writers and lecturers in the areas of technology and culture and together edit the influential electronic journal CTheory. Arthur’s most recent book, Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway, was published last year by the University of Minnesota Press.

Jonathan Horowitz is an artist based in New York. This fall, his exhibition “Your Land/My Land: Election ’12” is being presented concurrently at seven museums across America. “We the People,” an exhibition he curated with Alison Gingeras and Anna McCarthy for the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, remains on view in New York through November 9.

Following their first major solo exhibition in the US, at REDCAT in Los Angeles this past summer, artists Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda are currently preparing a show to open at Francesca Pia Gallery, Zurich, in 2013. They live and work in Berlin.

A lecturer at the City College of New York, Patterson Beckwith is a photographer and founding member of Art Club 2000, a collaborative started in 1992 by Colin de Land. Currently at work on a new series of analog “special effects” photographs, he is now editing versions of Cash from Chaos and Unicorns & Rainbows—his mid-’90s public-access TV shows made with Alex Bag—for distribution by Electronic Arts Intermix. His book Bananas for Moholy-Nagy was published in 2010 by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Adriana Lara is an artist based in Mexico City and a member of the production agency Perros Negros. Currently in residence at Beta-Local in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Lara is at work editing issue 10 of the journal Pazmaker, while preparing a fall solo show at the Kunsthalle Basel. This June, Perros Negros will present an exhibition at the Basel gallery New Jerseyy.

Hank Willis Thomas is an artist based in New York and Paris. His collaborative project Question Bridge: Black Males premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and is currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Oakland Museum of California, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City, and Chastain Arts Center in Atlanta.

Loretta Fahrenholz is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Berlin and New York. Last fall, she had shows at sotoso.org in Brussels and at Reena Spaulings Fine Art in New York, where she presented Implosion, 2011. Other recent films include Haust, 2010, and Que Bárbara, 2011. She is currently shooting a new video-based work featuring the German actor and horror-movie director Ulli Lommel.

Maya Lin is a New York–based artist whose body of work encompasses studio art, Earthworks, architectural projects, and memorials. In 2009 she installed Stormking Wavefield, a permanent, site-specific Earthwork for the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, NY. More recently, she has begun work on a biomedical-research facility for Novartis in Cambridge, MA. On February 11, a survey of her work opens at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.