Georgia Kotretsos, is a visual artist, researched and founder/publisher of THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY, Arts & Culture Research Lab Observatorium.

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Cameron Bell is the Director of Civic Engagement at Hellenic American University. He is also an independent risk consultant and research fellow at the Institute for International Relations (IDIS), Athens, Greece. He teaches university courses on the contemporary politics of the Eastern Mediterranean, political risk management (ESG) and corporate disinformation. From 2018 - 2020, Cameron was associate director at Veracity, a risk advisory firm, where he provided private equity clients with transaction due diligence in the EMEA region. Prior to Veracity, Cameron was a visiting fellow at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, where he conducted field research on energy infrastructure and subsequently presented his work in Iraq, Israel, and Egypt. Previously, Cameron was associate at Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC Group) and focused on project delivery and digital transformation. From 2009 - 2011, Cameron worked at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, for former Secretary of State Dr. Rice, as aide and lead researcher on international politics and security, in the service of two books. Cameron holds a Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford (Balliol College), and a Bachelor of Arts with honors, also from Stanford University. He teaches in the Social Sciences and Business programs at Hellenic American University and is a doctoral candidate at Panteion University in the Department of International, European, and Area Studies. In Athens, Cameron supports several civil-society and non-profit organizations in capacity-building efforts and is active in developing international educational partnerships.

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Dr Marianna Tsionki is an art theorist and curator working at the intersection of contemporary art, ecology and technology. She is Associate Professor and University Curator at Leeds Arts University. She holds a PhD in Curatorial Studies from Manchester School of Art and an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths University of London. Her curatorial projects and writing address issues of climate change, ecotechnology, global ecologies of resource exploitation and humanity’s post-industrial relationship with nature, decolonial eco-visualities, local ecological knowledge and eco-feminism. Marianna has contributed essays to several edited volumes, exhibition catalogues, peer-reviewed journals with a forthcoming edited volume, We Live Like Trees Inside the Footsteps of Our Ancestors (K. Verlag, 2025, coedited with Mariana Cunha). Among others, she curated Liminal Ecologies (Tranzit, Bratislava, 2025, co-curated with Mariana Cunha), The School of Mutants (Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds, 2024), Kyriaki Goni: Networks of Trust (SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, 2022), Marwa Arsanios: Who is Afraid of Ideology? (Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds, 2022), Meteorological Mobilities (Apexart, New York City, 2020).

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Maja Ćirić is an independent curator and art critic. After the digital turn in 2020, she became more involved in phygital (physical + digital) projects, conferences and exhibitions in the hybrid field of art + science + tech. She also curates in the metaverse. She currently works as an art consultant envisioning the art institutions of the future. Historically speaking, she was the curator of the 20th Biennial of Art in Pančevo, Serbia, the curator of Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennale, in Tirana (2017), and has been both the curator (2007) and the commissioner (2013) of the Serbian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Maja holds a PhD in Art Theory (Thesis: "Institutional Critique and Curating") from the University of Arts in Belgrade. Her speaking engagements, among others, were at MAC VAL (2017), Centre Pompidou (2018), and MNAC Bucharest (2018), AICA Serbia Conference (2021), Zlin Digital Exhibition Design Conference (2021), Interact Conference on Human- Computer Interaction (2021) and IKT Conference (2021), AICA Conference (2022). She contributed to Flash Art, Obieg, Artforum, Artmargins Online, Arts of the Working Class, springerin, Third Text. Her areas of expertise from day one span from the geopolitical and the curatorial through curating as a practice of institutional critique. She sits on the Board of Advisors to The Telos Society, Arts & Culture Research Lab Observatorium in Athens, Greece and the Editorial Board of The Large Glass published by MoCA, Skopje.

Marita Pappa is a Greek interdisciplinary artist and researcher exploring the relationship between the body, time and public space as well as reflect on conditions of rupture and survival. Combining historical research, fieldwork, and participatory projects, her site-specific installations and interventions weave together poetry, politics, and place through sculpture, text, sound, and image-making. She holds a Fine Art degree from the Glasgow School of Art and an MFA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in London. She has received support from the Neon Organisation, the Schilizzi Foundation, and the Leverhulme Trust. From 2022 to 2024, she coordinated F.E.I.N.A.R.T., the first EU-funded network supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for the development and production of social engaged art in Europe. In 2024, she received a Fulbright Artist Grant to join The New School examining public space in post-pandemic New York City.

The Provinces' vision is to provide a space for the ongoing redefinition through photography of the term "provinces" - "provincial", providing the basis for a dialogue between the centre and the periphery that is free of stereotypical prejudices. Moreover, to facilitate as many people as possible to have access to the tools needed to speak through the photographic language about their lives and their natural and cultural environment. The aims of The Provinces are: To collect photographic projects that capture and interpret the Greek periphery (provinces) by documenting its natural and cultural environment and highlighting its cultural and social characteristics. To create an archive (with documentary material) that could support in the future the visual anthropology of a geographical and cultural entity. To promote the photographic works online through The Provinces website and social media, through exhibitions (in museums, international photo festivals, etc.) and publications. To support and enhance the production of photographic projects by photographers working and residing mainly in cities of the Greek periphery through educational activities and art residencies programs. To contribute to the communication and networking of photographers (centre - periphery).

Eleni Mouzakiti is a visual artist, educator for Art Photography Practice, and curator of photographic exhibitions and publications. She studied German Language and Literature at the University of Athens, FU Berlin and Ruprecht-Karl University of Heidelberg. Eleni holds an MA in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths College, University of London and a PhD in Arts and Humanities with a specialization in Photography as an Art Practice from Derby University, UK.

Eleni was a fellow of the Greek State Scholarship Foundation, the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and the DAAD -German Academic Exchange Service.

Her photographic work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and festivals internationally

Her works belong to the collection of the Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, USA, the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Greece), the State Museum of Contemporary Art (Greece), the ACG Art Collection and other private collections.

Committed to long term projects, in her work she focuses on human ecology issues, on 'absorptive' behaviour in the public realm, leisure time geography, landscape as a Fantasy of [not] belonging, memory and history.

She is a founding member of The Provinces, a platform for photographers that collects and promotes photographic projects that deal with the Greek periphery.

Kostas Ioannidis is Associate Professor of Theory and Criticism at the Athens School of Fine Arts. His essays have appeared in numerous scholarly volumes and journals. His publications include the books Contemporary Greek Photography (Σύγχρονη Ελληνική Φωτογραφία, futura & Thessaloniki Museum of Phtography, 2008) and Three at Sea (Τρεις εν Πλω, MIET, 2018) a book he co- authored with Emmanouela Kantzia. More recently he published the book An “exquisitely hybrid art”: poetics of photography in the late 19th and early 20th century (Μια “Υπερόχως Νόθος Τέχνη”: Ποιητικές της Φωτογραφίας. Τέλη 19ου- αρχές 20ού αιώνα, futura, 2019) with which he was awarded the State Award for Essay and Criticism (2020). Ηis book Works of art, people and ideas: Greece - U.S.A. and the Cold War (Έργα τέχνης, άνθρωποι και ιδέες: Ελλάδα - Η.Π.Α. και Ψυχρός Πόλεμος) will be published soon. Kostas Ioannidis is one of the founding members of "The Provinces" platform.