Casey Anderson (they / them) is designing and repurposing technologies to activate participatory practice, primarily involving explorations of sound, in diverse cultures and communities. Performances, exhibitions, and residencies include MOCA - Los Angeles (CA), ISSUE Project Room (NY), STEIM (NL), Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL), Mass MOCA (MA), The Walker Art Center (MN), and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (CA). Over the last two decades they have lead numerous initiatives at the intersection of arts programming and community organization, including hybrid web-journal/festivals (the Experimental Music Yearbook, with John P. Hastings and Scott Cazan), as well as community arts centers/venues like Trade School (with Arden Stern), the wulf., BETALEVEL, and Machine Project. As an educator they have taught at ArtCenter College of Design and UCLA. They currently live in Los Angeles, California, own and operate the organizational initiative a wave, and teach at KAOS Network.

https://www.caseyanderson.work/

Arden Stern is a scholar of U.S. visual culture and design history whose current research analyzes the labor history of graphic design in the United States and material histories of digital media. They currently teach in the department of Humanities and Sciences at ArtCenter College of Design, where they are a proud member of the ArtCenter Faculty Federation (AFT Local 5648). Arden has been the recipient of research fellowships from the Walter P. Reuther Library, Winterthur Library, and American Antiquarian Society, as well as of ArtCenter's Samsung-endowed Faculty Enrichment Grant and the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography Educator Grant. Arden has contributed to various publications, including Design and Culture, Design Issues, and Print, and are currently preparing a book manuscript that analyzes race and labor hierarchies in United States graphic design history.

https://www.typeandform.com/

Trade School is an organization centered on building worker power through creative experimentation and education. Our mission is to provide affordable, accessible space for workers across communities to gather, exhibit, play, perform, teach, and learn. Founded by two design educators (Arden Stern and Casey Anderson) indebted to the radical visions of labor activism and liberation movements past and present, it was previously based on Hahamog’na land in the unincorporated area now known as Altadena, California.