Normal’s website (or here for normalblog).

Alita Edgar is a recent graduate of the Historic Preservation program

in the Graduate Center for Urban Planning and the Environment at Pratt

Institute in Brooklyn. She is also a member of Ars Subterranea, a

creative preservation group, and has a special interest in shrinking

cities and the fate of New Orleans.

http://keyring.wordpress.com/

Shuli Sadé documents industrial ruins and architectural sites around the world. Her work focuses on time and space in transit. Much of her images capture construction and demolition as metaphore for the cycle of life. She received her B.F.A. from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem in 1976. Shortly thereafter, she settled in New York, studying at the School of Visual Arts. She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts visual arts fellowship.

Represented by Kolok Gallery in North Adams, Reeves Contemporary Gallery in Chelsea, NY and Spheirs Gallery in Hanover NH. www.sadestudio.com

Neil Freeman is an artist and web designer. He is the Webmaster of
Rhizome, and an occasional contributor to the Believer. He studied
art and mathematics at Oberlin College and is the founder and sole
contributor to fakeisthenewreal.org, a website with maps and
timelines. He was born and raised on the West Side of Chicago and
lives in Brooklyn.

Ruth Stanford received an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005 and a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. She also holds BS and MS degrees in Zoology and worked as an endangered species ecologist prior to beginning a career in art. Before joining the faculty of the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in Atlanta,, Stanford served as an adjunct professor at Chatham College and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and the University of St. Francis in Illinois.

Ruth Stanford’s art practice revolves around installation and site-specific sculpture with particular media chosen in service to concept. Her work draws from and expands on personal reflection to create broader metaphors relevant to the world at large. Much of her work explores history and notions of presence/absence, permanence/impermanence, fiction/reality, conscious/unconscious. She views each element of a particular work as an individual data point referencing a complex phylogeny of personal and collective experience.

In 2004, Stanford received an award for Outstanding Student Achievement in Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center. In 2005, she received a $28,000 Creative Heights Artist Residency Grant from the Heinz Endowments to work in partnership with the Mattress Factory, a nationally prominent installation art venue in Pittsburgh, PA.

You can read more about Ruth’s work at:

http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=ShowExhibition&eid=70&c=Past

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06168/698949-30.stm

http://www.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/20030921herel3.asp

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04108/302115.stm

http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20030419cemetery6.asp

http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20040120jfk0120fnp5.asp