Mhamad Safa is a musician, architect and researcher who lives in London and Beirut. He graduated from the Centre for Research Architecture and is currently a doctoral candidate in the international law program at the University of Westminster. Safa’s work is centered on multiscale spatial conditions and sound compositions. It explores intersections with the sound legacies of traditional and subcultural practices, as well as environments of conflict and violence, which are often transformed and undone by geographic and technoscientific uncertainties. He communicates these auditory explorations by combining sound design, microsampling, algorithmic sound technology, psychoacoustics, field recordings and their graphic interpretations. Besides composing music for films and sound installations, he has contributed to multiple publications and musical compilations. Safa has exhibited individual and collaborative artworks and performances at the Goethe-Institut Libanon, the Arab Center for Architecture, Ashkal Alwan, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Centre for Research Architecture and the Sharjah Architecture Triennial.

Reem Shadid, a collaborating editor at Infrasonica, is a curator and researcher who studies the emancipatory possibilities of artistic practice and the ways in which art intersects with political and socioeconomic forms. She is the producer and host of Listening with Reem Shadid on Radio Alhara, a weekly listening session with artists, researchers and curators who work at the intersections of sound, visual and literary production. From 2006 to 2020, she held various positions at the Sharjah Art Foundation, including subdirector.

Julio García Murillo is a curator and art historian. He has a Bachelor’s in Philosophy from La Salle University and a Master’s in Art History with a focus on Curatorial Studies from the UNAM. He forms part of the criticism collective Los Yacusis: Sub-Critical Studies Group, as well as the artist collective Museum of Modern Mars. He was the Visual Arts Coordinator at the Tlatelolco University Cultural Center from 2013 to 2018 and academic curator of the University Museum of Contemporary Art at the UNAM, where he currently works as Subdirector of Public Programs.