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Flinder Zuyderhoff-Gray

is a creative producer with expertise in production, research and development, creative direction, concept and storytelling. Her work takes many shapes: exhibitions, installations, events, objects, publications, film and photography.  Her theoretical training is combined with technical knowledge of filmmaking, photography and design. This interdisciplinary approach is the culmination of many years working across creative industries including film, at galleries, tech start ups and in fashion. 

Coming from a rural area in Canada, she has leveraged languages to open opportunities to work in international contexts and form cross cultural partnerships. She places value on the dynamism of working with diverse international communities. Her work network extends through Europe, Canada, Mexico, The USA,  Africa and Oceania.

She works with artists, foundations and brands to produce high and low-fi projects across media with an ever expanding network. She is inspired by working on projects that foster social and environmental awareness, bridge divides and foster community. Her work includes topics such as oceans and climate change and female agism to more formal and technologically focused interventions. An important part of her practice, Flinder places emphasis on, is creating equitable and inspiring collaborations and believes how we work impacts the outcome of our projects.

Flinder is both an overachieving sporty socialite and a booky homebody. She is an avid cinephile, cyclist and cultural enthusiast and dabbles in cooking and community activism. 

Her reading list includes:

• Noopiming – a cure for white women
• Living the City
• And The New Yorker Fiction Podcast

Julie Solovyeva

is a cultural catalyst, strategist and programmer who believes that intersectional thinking powers innovation and builds more resilient communities. She has developed strategies for art organizations, global design, fashion, hospitality and lifestyle brands, flexed her neural networks with disruptor tech start-ups, dipped her toes into AI and transhumanism, pondered the future of sleep and architected a brand design system for the world’s first non-profit bank. 

She works through strategic challenges by way of interpretation, teasing out improbable connections and nuggets of insights where data, experience, intuition and imagination meet to form new meanings and foster sustainable, collective futures.

Having brought together international thought-leaders and transdisciplinary creatives through innovative programming, Julie strived to create dynamic settings for exchange and knowledge production. An empathetic, design-focused experience curator, she values the power of placemaking and experience to engender transformative change. 

When not tackling questions of global cultural shifts, Julie dives deep into emergent art practices by mentoring new media artists and burgeoning entrepreneurs at New Inc and dedicates her time to supporting the socially-engaged work of Creative Time.

She practices running for meditation, cycles for gender-equality with Nightcap Brooklyn, and helps the other kinds of cultures grow in her kitchen.

Some things she is currently contemplating:

• the possibility of a future where death has been cured;
• what AI dolls could be longing for;
• the advancement of a new metaverse, an always-online, persistent, spatial ‘second’ world, and how artists are ushering the way of new experience.