Jaime Chu
Jaime Chu is an occasional critic and former art worker from Hong Kong. Working in book publishing and contemporary art between Hong Kong, Beijing, and New York, she was a contributing editor for Spike Art Magazine and her writing has appeared in The Nation and The Baffler, among other experimental publishing projects.
Peter Clift
Peter Clift is a marine geologist and geophysicist who presently holds a Royal Society-Wolfson research professorship at University College London. Clift grew up near London before attending the University of Oxford for his bachelor’s degree in Earth Sciences before transferring to the University of Edinburgh to complete his doctorate on the geology of Southern Greece. After this he remained in Edinburgh as a Royal Society of Edinburgh research fellow studying the tectonic evolution of the Southwest Pacific as well as starting his work in the Himalayas. After working for the Ocean Drilling Program at Texas A&M University he was appointed in 1995 to a research scientist position at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, USA. At this point he began to work on the South China Sea and the history of the Asian monsoon. In 2004 he was appointed Kilgour Professor of Geology at the University of Aberdeen, moving again in 2012 to Louisiana State University as the Charles T. McCord Professor of Petroleum Geology. In 2023, he returned to the UK to take up his present position at University College London. As well as fieldwork across south and central Asia, Clift has spent almost two years on research ships, most recently as chief scientist of a cruise to investigate the Arabian Sea. Clift is the author of more than 300 research publications as well as two books. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America and was awarded the Lyell medal by the Geological Society of London. In 2024 he was Jubilee Chair Professor of the Indian Academy of Sciences. In 2025 he was awarded a Chinese Academy of Science President’s International Fellowship. He is presently Editor-in-Chief of Geological Magazine.
Dr Jimmy Jiao
Dr Jimmy Jiao is a professor in Hydrogeology at the Department of Earth Sciences, the University of Hong Kong. He obtained his BEng and MEng in Hydrogeology from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) and PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK. He worked as Associate Editor (2002–2008) for Ground Water and Editor (2008–2015) of Hydrogeology Journal. He was the 2023 recipient of O.E. Meinzer Award, the Hydrogeology Division, Geological Society of America and the M King Hubbert Award of National Ground Water Association. Dr Jiao was elected Fellow of the Geological Society of London, the Geological Society of America, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He has published over 230 SCI journal papers and the book Coastal Hydrogeology.
Kwan Queenie Li
Kwan Queenie Li is a Hong Kong artist working across postcolonial, technopolitical, and ecological explorations. She has presented performance lectures at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Cambridge, and IdeasCity (NTU CCA/New Museum), with lens-based commissions from Videotage and Film London. A graduate of the Ruskin School of Art (Oxon) and MIT’s SMACT program, her forthcoming book, Weeds, will be published by MACK in Fall 2025.
Lucy Siyao Liu
Lucy Siyao Liu (b. Zhuhai, 1992) is an artist and designer based in New York. Her work explores systems devised to measure, comprehend and interpret ecology. Lucy is a cofounder and director of creative studio PROPS SUPPLY. Her work has been featured internationally in publications and exhibitions, such as Atlas of Anomalous AI (cosmogenesis), ‘Mud Muses — A Rant About Technology’ at Moderna Museet, Art in America, Pioneer Works, Chicago Architecture Biennale, Dutch Design Week, and China Academy of Fine Arts, among others. Lucy graduated from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught topics relating to drawing, design computation and machine learning at the MIT Art, Culture and Technology Program, The Cooper Union, RISD, Parsons School of Design, and various other institutions.
Gary Zhexi Zhang
Living and working between London and Shanghai, Gary Zhexi Zhang is a visual artist and writer whose work explores systemic connections between cosmology, technology, and the economy. In 2023 he recently published Catastrophe Time! (Strange Attractor Press, 2023), a collection of essays, interviews and fictions on finance and time, and is currently working on a book about multipolar technoculture. Dead Cat Bounce, an opera he created with Waste Paper Opera, premiered at Somerset House in 2022 and toured in 2024. In 2024, his solo exhibition, ‘METAMERS’, was presented at EPFL Pavilions and he exhibited in the 9th Asian Art Biennial, Taichung. He has worked as a Lecturer in Critical Studies at Goldsmiths MFA and a PhD external examiner at RCA in London, as well as an Adjunct Lecturer at Parsons School of Design in New York, where he also co-founded design studio Foreign Objects. Recently, he was an R&D fellow at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; and is the artist-in-residence at La Becque, Switzerland in 2025. His writing has appeared in e-flux Architecture, Frieze, ArtReview, and the MIT Journal of Design and Science, among others.
