Hamra Abbas' works span a wide range of media and artistic approaches. This not only includes sculpture and video but also painting, installations and fragile works made of paper. In her work, Abbas (born 1976 in Kuwait) often plays with widely accepted (Eastern and Western) traditions. In using culturally shaped images and iconographies and transferring them to new and truly contemporary artworks, the artist creates perspectives, which allow new perception of cultures, tradition and the exchange between them.

Hamra Abbas' works were shown at the 10th Istanbul Biennal in 2007, as well as at the Sydney Biennal 2006 and the Cetinje Biennal 2004. Her works were presented in galleries and on film festivals throughout Europe, Asia and North America, among others in ARTIUM, Vittoria, Spain, ifa gallery, Berlin and Arc Gallery, Chicago. In 2002 Abbas received a DAAD stipend. She studied at National College of Arts, Lahore before she came to Universität der Künste, Berlin, in 2004. Hamra Abbas currently lives and works in Islamabad and Boston.

The videos by Eli Cortiñas Hidalgo (born 1976 in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, lives and works in Cologne) are based on found footage, mainly material from feature movies, that she with virtuosity puts together to new, independent artworks, preferably presented as multichannel-installations. Cortiñas' works focus on interpersonal dependencies, the tension between longing and unfulfilled needs and the ambiguity of alleged security. Furthermore, Eli Cortiñas Hidalgo deals also with the medium of the classical paper collage. On cardboard, paper, wood or glass she mounts images, taken from magazines from the 60s and 70s, typographies, her own painting and writings and put them together to pictures that, often ironically, sometimes grotesquely, look into all kind of relationships between men and women. Stereotypes are taken up, cracked and put together again, so that every friend of traditional gender attributions will feel left dumbfounded.

From 2003 until 2008, Eli Cortiñas Hidalgo studied at Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne (her professors were Matthias Müller and Marcel Odenbach). Before this, she had studied at the European Film College, Ebeltoft, Denmark. In 2005, she received the promotion prize of the Große Kunstausstellung of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2008, she was nominated for the German Shortfilm prize for experimental film in Berlin. Her works were shown on many festivals and exhibtions, e.g. 2008 in Family Matters, Gallery NB8, Oslo, Zur Zeit, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, LUX Max Ophüls Price, Experimental Film / Video, Saarbrücken, Short Cuts Cologne, and MONITORING, exhibtion of media installations on the 25. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest in Kassel, Germany.

Freya Hattenberer (1978 born in Offenbach/Main, lives and works in Cologne) works mainly with her own body. Her performances which she records with the video camera, are usually based on simple test arrangements with which she thoroughly examines her existence as human being, her role as a woman and the challenges as an artist. These striking proofs of sometimes relentless self-analysis are presented as video installations which respond precisley to the space. Suddenly the viewers finds themselves in the position of the voyeur. However, their hence evoked expectations will be met in an altogether different way than anticipated.

From 2001 until 2006, Freya Hattenberger studied at Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne (her professors were Jürgen Klauke and Marcel Odenbach). Among other awards she received the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff-stipend for young artists (category Media Art) from North Rhine-Westphalia in 2008. 2005 she spent 6 months as stipendiary at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. In the last few years, Freya Hattenberger's work was widely shown in numerous group exhibitions and film festicals, e.g. 2007 on Videonale 11, Bonn, or 2006 on the Transmediale in Berlin. "Sirene" is currently also on view in the exhibition Video Performance - Models of Self-reflection in the Ausstellungshalle für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster.

K8 Hardy (born 1977 in Texas, lives and works in New York) works mainly in video and performance. 2001, she co-founded LTTR, a radical gender-queer, lesbian-feminist art collective and journal. In her videos, performances, photographs and installations she plays with female stereotypes and takes them ad absurdum. From this relentless critic images emerge that undermine the viewers' vision of female beauty but at the same time, they captivate with the intriguing presence of the artist who acts as her own model. The DIY-style of the images do not come to one's expectations of the conventional fashion aesthetics at all. Nor does the way the artist presents herself and performs in the most unusual positions in front of the camera. In so doing, Hardy makes very clear how much we are used to certain poses and looks, which are ultimately shaped by a heterosexual, namely men-look-at-women perception. Her works was shown in many exhibitions, such as Media Burn at Tate Modern in 2006.