Olga Kisseleva is an internationally renowned artist who grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine. She currently resides in Paris. Olga Kisseleva's work, positioned at the intersection of art and science, challenges viewers to rethink established notions about the world. She graduated from the Vera Mukhina Institute of Industrial Art in 1988 and later earned a Ph.D. from the St Petersburg University in 1996, than Habilitation from the Sorbonne in 2008. In the early 1990s, Kisseleva expanded her expertise by researching on video art and multimedia at the University of California and Columbia University in New York. Kisseleva approaches her artistic practice with the rigor of a scientist, incorporating methods from disciplines such as genetic biology, geophysics, and political and social sciences. Her process involves experimentation, analysis, and validation, adhering strictly to the scientific methods relevant to the domain she engages with. This fusion of scientific precision and artistic creativity forms the basis of her innovative hypotheses and projects. Kisseleva has received numerous prestigious awards, including the S+T+ARTS Grand Prize of the European Commission for Innovative Collaboration, the International ProArte Prize (Russia), the France-Stanford Award (USA), the Art & Innovation Award (Spain), the Pierre Scheffer Prize, and the Art & Science Award (France). Her works have been featured in major exhibitions at institutions such as the Modern Art Museum and Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), KIASMA (Helsinki, Finland), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain), Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain), the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), and the Louvre Museum (Paris, France). She has also participated in prominent biennials, including the Dakar Biennale (2002), Tirana Biennale (2003), Moscow Biennale (2011), Istanbul Biennial (2013), Berlin Biennale (2014), and Venice Biennale (2015). Kisseleva's works are part of the permanent collections of over 25 leading museums, including the Centre Pompidou and the Louis Vuitton Foundation (Paris, France), ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the National Center for Contemporary Art (Russia), the Getty Center (Los Angeles, USA), and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Since 2000, Kisseleva has been teaching contemporary art at the Sorbonne University in Paris. In 2007, she became the Head of the International Art & Science Institute and a member of the Sorbonne's High Scientific Committee. Since 2016, she has also served as the Director of the Art & Medium program at the Sorbonne, further solidifying her position as a leading figure in the integration of art and science.

Olga Zaslavskaya holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and is a co-founder and director of the International Alternative Culture Center (IACC/NAKKA) in Budapest, Hungary. She is also a co-founder of the international platform Arts, Science, Local and Indigenous Knowledge (ArtSLInK). Currently, she is actively developing ArtSLInK by promoting collaborative, research-driven creative projects in partnership with scholars from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, as well as representatives of Arctic Indigenous Peoples. At Central European University, Zaslavskaya led research-based cultural initiatives, including the three-year program Alternative Culture Beyond Borders: The Past and Present of the Arts and Media in the Context of Globalization and Teaching Spatial Turn in a Globalizing World. Recently, Zaslavskaya has focused on virtual representations of collaborative projects, utilizing transmedia digital formats. Examples include Domesticating Landscapes (2020) and Remote Roadscapes and Beyond (2022). She is involved in several National Science Foundation-funded projects, such as Arctic Cities: Measuring Urban Sustainability in Transition (MUST) and Frozen Commons: Change, Resilience, and Sustainability in the Arctic (both 2022–2026). Her other collaborations include Informal Roads: The Impact of Unofficial Transportation Routes on Remote Arctic Communities (NSF), and currently, she is affiliated with the International Art & Science Institute (France) and participates in the Belmont Forum Collaborative Research project, Biocultural Heritage in Arctic Cities as a Potential Resource for Climate Adaptation (ARCA) (2024–2026). As an independent curator, she has curated and participated in international exhibitions across Hungary, Russia, Canada, Kazakhstan, Austria, the USA, and Norway. Recent notable exhibitions include Terra: Kamchatka (Russia, 2019), Martian Taiga (Tromsø, Norway, 2022), Arctic InfraScapes (Vienna, Austria, 2023), and Arctic StoryWorlds: Frozen Matters (Bodø, Norway, 2024). Her research interests span transnational cultural history, alternative culture, cultural geography, cultural heritage, and transmedia storytelling. She has presented papers on topics such as Transmedia Storytelling in the PostDigital Age, Arctic Transmedia Storytelling: PostDigital/PostCovid Imaginaries, and ArtSLInK Methodology. Additionally, her recent work explores AI and text-to-image technologies and their implications for the arts and cultural representation. Forthcoming publications based on the work in the Arctic regions include Arctic InfraScapes: Mobilizing Arts, Science, Local, and Indigenous Knowledge to Understand Infrastructure Imaginaries (co-author V. Kuklina) in the special issue of “Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies” (2024).