Alternative Ecology: Redistributing the Sensible

Elena Soterakis explores themes of environmental degradation and our relationship with technology through painting, sculpture, and large-scale creative productions. 

She is a founding member and Director of Creative Productions of Beyond Earth, a women-led international artist collective that explores the frontiers of art, space, and biology. 

Soterakis is also the co-founder and director of BioBAT Art Space, a gallery dedicated to the intersection of science, art and technology in Brooklyn. 

She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art, and has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Museum of Art and Design Atlanta, and more.

Richelle Gribble Ellis is an expeditionary artist, curator, and analog astronaut. Richelle creates artworks made for international orbit, etched on satellites, suspended by Stratollite balloons and aboard rockets. 

As the Head of Creative Research for analog space missions via Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS), Sensoria Program, and Lunares Research Station, Ellis examines creativity beyond our world. Richelle's artistic ventures have taken her to glaciers near the North Pole to parabolic flights with ZeroG, into the Biosphere 2 and Analog Mars Missions with NASA Goddard, earning her accolades and residencies at renowned institutions such as Planet, Google Quantum AI, and the Karman Fellowship. 

Her work spans exhibitions from the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, with recent artworks on the surface of the Moon.

Chng Nai Wee is an ophthalmic surgeon and artist. His multidisciplinary works often synthesise art and medicine. 

As one of the first artists in Southeast Asia to experiment with multi-channel video works, he presented Sin of Apathy (1991) in See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia (2023–2024) at National Gallery Singapore. 

He has received the Dr Tan Tsze Chor Art Award, the National Art Council’s Young Artist Award and Honourable Mentions at the Singapore Art Awards. 

For his Market Forces series, Chng leverages on his financial knowledge as a charterholder of the CFA, CAIA, CMT, CFTe designations.