Anouk Kruithof
Initiator, Creator, Producer

Anouk Kruithof is a visual artist with a trans-disciplinary approach, which encompasses photography, sculpture, installation, collage, video, websites and social & collaborative interventions. She leads a nomadic artist's life and moves back and forth between Brussels, Berlin, the Netherlands and Botopasi, Suriname. Before she has also lived in New York City and Mexico City.  These different environments have an important influence on her artistic practice, which encompasses photography, sculpture, installation, artist books, text, performance, video, animation, websites and social & collaborative interventions. Her work is exhibited worldwide, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate London, Museum Tinguely in Basel en in Centro de la Imagen Mexico City and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Niccolò Quaresima
Assistant

Niccolò Quaresima graduated in BA New Media at Milan’s ABA Brera, and obtained the Master in Photography and Visual Design at NABA. He was part of the duo F/Q and now works with CameraClubMilano, curated by Bruno Ceschel.

He is fascinated by the fluidity of the photographic medium which he uses to navigate social themes like sexuality, economical issues or drugs–related subcultures.

Peter van Langen
Designer Visual Identity + Website

Peter van Langen is an Art Director and Graphic Designer working at the intersection of music, culture and art. He is the founder of the graphic design practice Studio Peter van Langen. The studio’s output includes visual identities, record sleeves, exhibition design and book design.

“The visual identity of Universal Tongue is born out of the database of screenshots of the 1000 dance styles you find on this website and in the book. Each letter of the alphabet and the “#” contains the number of dance-style screenshots starting with that letter. These 27 new abstract identity visuals are created by extracting and combining thin stripes out of the screenshots. By doing this, the 1000 dance styles vibrate throughout the visual identity as a new dynamic, colourful visual language.”

Leva Maslinskaitė
Editor

Leva Maslinskaitė is an interdisciplinary artist based between Vilnius, Lithuania and The Netherlands. Her interest lies in co-creating with other species, such as microorganisms or fungi as well as organic and artificial processes to make temporary and mutating installations, sculptures, and other image-based works surrounding ecology. Currently, she is in the graduating year of her BA Photography studies at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.

Karoliina Pärnänen
Composer Soundtrack

Karoliina Pärnänen is a Finnish graphic designer, 3D artist, and DJ based in the Netherlands and Finland. She's interested in the ever-evolving relationship between humans, technology, and nature, which reflects both in her visual and sonic practice. She has a BA in Graphic Design from the Royal Academy of Arts, the Hague. Currently she works as an Art Director for Slush, one of the world's leading startup events.

Ula Kahul
Text Editor Dance-styles

Ula Kahul is a cultural anthropologist, researcher, producer and consultant for lens-based projects. She is a holder of BA degree in Sociology from the Jagiellonian University in Poland and of interdisciplinary MA joint-degree in Global Studies from the University of Freiburg in Germany, FLACSO in Argentina and Jawaharlal Nehru University in India. Her interests revolve around subjects of post-colonial narratives and visual representations in cross-media storytelling practises. She currently lives and works in Berlin.

Ivo van Stiphout
Video Installation Technician

Ivo van Stiphout started as a media artist and developed as an video installation specialist, conservation researcher and teacher.
He worked at Montevideo /Time based Arts (Nimk), is adviser for LI-MA and runs the Medialab at the post graduate course the Sandberg Institute. With his company Stations mm - Videoartlab he’s is supporting many artists and exhibition venues with his skills.

Ginta Vasermane
Chief Editor

Ginta Vasermane is an artist working in a variety of mediums including motion picture, multi-channel video installation, film, sculpture, and costume design. Ginta graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academy and Netherlands Film Academy,  has exhibited work at the European Media Art Festival Osnabrück (DE); Art Rotterdam(NL), Stockholm Independent Art Fair (SE), Latvian Contemporary Art Centre(LV) and Project space NEST(NL) among others.  She is a founder of video art platform VIDEO DRAMA.

Joep de Boer
Master Editor

Joep de Boer graduated from AKV | St. Joost Breda in 2016 with the short documentary Wat het is. He makes playful, poetic documentaries that originate from a fascination for philosophical themes that he tries to investigate in a small and personal manner in his films.

Justin Swinburne
Master Editor

Justin Swinburne (aka 18+ and jj18) has performed and exhibited extensively throughout Europe and North American at venues such as the 55th Venice Biennale, Frieze Projects London, Artists Space NYC and Berghain Berlin. He lives and works in Berlin.

Maciej Mądracki
Rough-Cut Editor

Maciej Mądracki makes short fiction films and video installations. He is also a composer of exhibitions and collaborates with MML Collective [CH-PL] and Moving Art Initiative F.L.O.A.T. [NL].

Koen Nutters
Music Editor

Koen Nutters is a musician, composer, and organizer of experimental music. He is part of many bands and ensembles such as: The Names, The Pitch, DNK Ensemble, And / In, and Post-Music. He lives in Amsterdam and occasionally likes to play dance music to groups of friendly people in small urban spaces under the names DJ MFK, Solid Gold, or Sad Mane DJ.

Ward Janssen
Anouk Kruithof’s stimulator to create Universal Tongue

Ward Janssen is an independent curator, writer and critic in the field of visual culture, digital culture, contemporary art and design. He curated exhibitions for Floriade Expo 2022, Pilot Museum M., Bureau Europa Maastricht, he was head of digital culture at Cinekid Festival Amsterdam, and curator at MOTI Museum Breda. He works with several artists on project development and fundraising and was an advisor for the Dutch Creative Industries Fund.