QUARANTINE TIMES EDITORS:

Won Kim

Monday Editor

Won Kim is a multi disciplinary artist who is able to combine his long time passions into a thriving career that spans more than half of his life. Graffiti art was his first passion in life having grown up in Chicago and exposed to the colorful train line walls. This would ignite an excitement and an obsession to paint as much as he could that hold true to this day. Having honed his skills as a visual artist, he would attend many music events and concerts and immersed himself into the hip hop culture that dominated the underground in Chicago. This exposure to the culture would dominate much of his style and yearning to create. @revisecmw


Stephanie Manriquez

Tuesday Editor

Stephanie Manriquez is a Chicago-based writer, radio producer, journalist and teaching artist. Her work shed a light on social justice issues affecting Latino communities. Her extended collaboration with Contratiempo has allowed her to focus efforts on issues concerning Little Village and Pilsen’s immigrant community. She has been part of the Social Justice News Nexus Fellowship at Northwestern University, Medill School of Journalism, as a reporter and as a youth mentor. For Lumpen Radio, she produces and creates content for multiple programs such as "The Ponderers", "Contratiempo Radio." She also leads WLPN’s new Communities Amplified multilingual initiatives, for which she will train new Spanish speaking radio hosts this year. At Yollocalli Arts Reach, she leads the audio-radio journalism youth program and directs their weekly youth radio show, “Wattz Up!”

Jeremiah Chiu

Wednesday Editor

Jeremiah Chiu is Los Angeles-based creative director, conceptual artist, synthesist, and educator. From 2008-16 he served as co-founder and principal of Plural, an award-winning and internationally recognized design studio. His current practice, Some All None, is an extension of Plural—focused on merging art, music, and technology into new hybrid forms. He is a resident DJ at Dublab, a lecturer at Otis College of Art & Design and Art Center College of Design, and has exhibited/performed at The Getty Center, LACMA, and the MCA Chicago, amongst others. His music emphasizes his hybrid-interests—intersecting ambient, electronic, classical, pop, and experimental music into polyrhythmic melody, voice, and texture. someallnone.com


Mairead Case

Thursday Editor

Mairead Case is a writer, teacher, and editor in Denver and Chicago. She publishes widely, and wrote the novels TINY and SEE YOU IN THE MORNING (featherproof, 2020 and 2015), the poetry chapbook TENDERNESS (Meekling), and, with David Lasky, the forthcoming Georgetown Steam Plant Graphic Novel. Mairead holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD from the University of Denver. She teaches English: full-time to eighth graders, and part-time at the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the Denver Women’s Jail. Mairead is a Legal Observer with the NLG and volunteers for a community response team supporting queer and trans survivors of violence. Previously she lived in Chicago for a decade, where she worked and wrote for places like Punk Planet, Pitchfork, and the Poetry Foundation. maireadcase.com

Christy LeMaster

Friday Editor

Christy LeMaster is a Chicago-based moving-image programmer, educator, and producer interested in collectivity and collaborative processes. She founded Chicago microcinema The Nightingale and co-programmed an itinerant experimental doc series Run of Life. She worked as Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago organizing exhibitions and programs for the Commons, the museum’s site for art and civic engagement. She has been a movie critic on WBEZ and an editor of CINE-FILE.info and her writing has been published by INCITE, Brooklyn Rail, and Green Lantern Press. She currently teaches media theory at Columbia College Chicago.

Brandon Alvendia

Saturday Editor

Brandon Alvendia is a Chicago-based artist, independent curator, and educator. His interdisciplinary practice engages spatial and social architectures by creating platforms for experimentation, discussion and collaboration. He is the founder of multiple Chicago alternative spaces artLedge (2004-2007 w/ Caleb Lyons), BEN RUSSELL (2009-2011 with Ben Russell), The Storefront (2010-2014), and art-publishing house Silver Galleon Press (2008-present). Brandon attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA ‘03) and University of Illinois at Chicago (MFA ‘07). Currently on a DIY sabbatical until Fall 2020 (classes didn’t run) from SAIC and Columbia College, where he teaches Foundations, New Genres, and Professional Practices (whatever any of that means to parents).


Marc Fischer

Special Editor

Marc Fischer is the administrator of Public Collectors, an initiative formed in 2007. Public Collectors aims to encourage greater access and scholarship for marginal cultural materials, particularly those that museums ignore. Public Collectors’ work includes the Library Excavations publication series and web project, the Tumblr blog and publication series Hardcore Architecture about underground music in America, and Malachi Ritscher—a project about the late Chicago documentarian and activist, produced for the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Most recently Public Collectors has initiated the Courtroom Artist Residency. For this project Fischer brings artists to observe Criminal Court in Chicago followed by a discussion over a meal at Taqueria El Milagro in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. The conversations that happen after court, along with additional writings, have been turned into a publication series: The Courtroom Artist Residency Report. In addition to Public Collectors, Fischer is also a member of the group Temporary Services (founded in 1998) and a partner in its publishing imprint Half Letter Press (ongoing since 2008). Temporary Services and Half Letter Press have produced over 125 publications and Fischer has created nearly 45 publications under the Public Collectors imprint. He is based in Chicago.

Stella Brown

Sunday Editor, publishing content produced by the CO-PROSPERITY PROGRAMMING COUNCIL MEMBERS:

The Programming Council is an independent group of artists, curators, educators, arts administrators and organizers which meets regularly to generate and review proposals programming for the Co-Prosperity Sphere while advising on other Public Media Institute visual art projects . The council was formed by nomination from a founding group of members and currently comprises the following generous artists, who will be contributing creative responses to the COVID-19 crisis weekly for as long as it lasts, Alex Chitty, Lise Haller Baggesen, Naomi Hawksley, Manal Kara, Nicole Marroquin, David Nasca, Frank Peralta, Claire Pentecost, Anthony Stepter, Caleb Yono, Ahniya Butler, Salem Collo-Julin, Regin Igloria, Jesse Malmed, Ed Oh, Josh Rios, Gloria Talamantes, Felicia Holman .



PMI STAFF:

Edward Marszewski
QT Editor in Chief
PMI Founding Director, Board Member, Part-time Volunteer

Ed Marszewski is the Founding Director of the Public Media Institute, the non-profit organization that programs the Co-Prosperity Sphere, produces the annual Fall Festival and publishes Lumpen Magazine, Proximity Magazine, Mash Tun Journal, and other titles. He is the President of Marz Community Brewing Co. He also makes artwork from time to time, focusing on housing rights issues and gentrification.


Nicholas Wylie
QT Managing Editor
PMI Managing Director
Part-time Staff

Manages staff, visual art programs and exhibitions, nonprofit fundraising and advancement
Nicholas Wylie is an artist, organizer, and educator based in Chicago. From 2015-18 he served as Associate Director of Southern Exposure, a 45-year-old artist-run nonprofit Southern Exposure in San Francisco. Wylie received his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, did post-baccalaureate work in Art History at Northwestern University, and went to University of Illinois at Chicago for his MFA. In 2006 he co-founded Harold Arts, a Chicago-based non-profit arts organization with a residency in Ohio, and was its co-director until early 2010. He then co-founded ACRE (Artists' Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), a 501(c)3 with residency in rural Wisconsin and an extensive exhibitions program in Chicago. Wylie served as co-director of ACRE until moving to San Francisco to and joining its Board of Directors in 2015. Wylie was also Founding Artistic Director at Mana Contemporary Chicago, a large art center in Pilsen from 2012-15. He has taught artmaking and arts administration courses at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, and University of St Francis. Wylie's art practice, which incorporates video technology, performance, drawing, and queer futurity, has haunted galleries in Chicago and beyond for the past fifteen years. His work currently focuses on Elmer Ellsworth, dandy abolitionist and purported lover of Lincoln, who was first to die in the Civil War after taking down a giant Confederate flag. Lincoln wept.


Stella Brown
QT Contributing Editor

Buddy Artistic Director
PMI Part-time Staff
Curates and manages Buddy shop

Stella Brown is an artist, curator, and native Chicagoan. In the last 5 years she has presented her own artwork and curated a number of public exhibitions and programming events at venues including Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Comfort Station, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Goldfinch Gallery, Efrain Lopez Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Triumph, ACRE, Slow Pony Projects, and Shoot the Lobster. Since 2014 she has worked with the ACRE (Artist Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) Kitchen program as a cook and administrator. She is also an arts educator and works in Set Decoration on film productions. She received her BA from New York University in 2019 from the Gallatin School of Individualized and an MFA in Studio Art at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art & Art History.


Marina Resende Santos
QT Contributing Editor
PMI Assistant Director
Part-time staff

Works on artist and administrative communications, development, and publishing. Marina Resende Santos is an artist, writer and researcher based in Chicago. Her research centers on 20th-century cultural studies in the intersections of art, literature, urban studies and social theory. Marina obtained a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago, where she also studied art history, Germanic studies, and human rights. Marina brings her humanistic education and experience with a collective art organization to work on all sides of the administration of Public Media Institute, including development, programming, and writing about the arts for Lumpen magazine.


Jamie Trecker
QT Radio Editor and Contributing Editor
Lumpen Radio Station Manager
Co-Prosperity Sphere Operations Director
Part-Time Staff

Works on radio production and management, space operations and rentals, and music programming. Jamie Trecker is a journalist, author and radio producer based in Chicago. He has covered world sport, politics and culture for over 25 years for outlets such as ESPN, FOX Soccer, The Guardian, and the New York Times. In 2007 he published Love and Blood: At the World Cup With the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks. Jamie brings major broadcast network experience to his work in establishing and growing Lumpen Radio. His strong background in a range of musical cultures lends itself to curating and producing of the 50+ concerts held at Co-Prosperity Sphere each year.


Marian Frost
QT Webmaster
PMI Web Development and Technology Director
Buddy Operations Manager
Part-Time Staff

Works on website upkeep and development, communications, and technology innovation for PMI
Marian Frost studied at Corcoran College of Art + Design and graduated from the School of the Art Institute in 2010. She is interested in the intersection of Art, Technology and Visual Critical Studies.

Elise Barrington
QT & PMI Creative Production and Social Media Coordinator

Elise Barrington is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator. Elise hosts Karaoke on Marz and Lumpen Radio’s Karaoke Center, a Karaoke themed radio show where they ONLY play the karaoke versions of songs. Elise is the 2018 People’s Karaoke Champion of the World TM and is very humble about it.


Logan Bay
QT Radio Editor
Lumpen Radio Founder, Director
PMI Working Board Member - Volunteer

Works on radio curating, production, management, and expansion, accounting, corporate partnerships
Logan Bay completed his MFA in Design at Rangsit University in Thailand in 2014. As Managing Director of PMI 2015-18, he instituted the development of Lumpen Radio among other PMI initiatives. While living abroad, he was the recipient of the 2010 Franchise grant from Apexart, and continued working with Apexart to coordinating their outbound artist program to Bangkok. His activities as a curator and organizer have produced shows in New York, Chicago, Miami, and Bangkok.