A quarterly recognition of exceptional peer reviewers in our network for their in-depth and deeply constructive feedback on papers under consideration for publication: Jeanine Breaker, Katherine Buse, Ryan Conrath, Yijun Sun, and Fernando Martín Velazco.

Jeanine Breaker’s artwork has been extensively exhibited and collected by US, EU, and UK galleries and museums including the Tate Print and Drawing Collection. She was awarded consecutive art, science and technology research grants and fellowships for a decade in the UK including from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Council, Leverhulme and Wellcome Trusts. She has taught the anatomy and perception of human movement for three decades in US universities, and lectured and published internationally including at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and the Royal College of Art, University of the Arts, National Gallery and Science Museum in London. She has been awarded artist-in-residencies in ten countries from Europe to Australia.

Katherine Buse is assistant professor of Cinema and Media Studies and the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization at the University of Chicago. She writes and teaches about digital media, technoscience, science fiction, and the environment. Her book in progress, Speculative Planetology: Science, Culture and the Building of Model Worlds, explores how the scientific work of modeling planets is inextricable from the culture and aesthetics of science fictional world building. Katherine is also involved in video game design that engages questions of science, technology and the environment: most recently, she is a founding member of the Degrowth Game Design Project (DeGDP), working to rethink the role of game design in imagining environmental futures. In 2022, as part of UC Davis’ ModLab, Katherine was a narrative and graphic designer for a new, narrative campaign mode for the citizen science game Foldit.

Ryan Conrath's work as a teacher, scholar, and producer is informed by an international and often non-industrial conception of cinema. His research focuses on experimental film/video and international art cinema, and pivots on questions of collective politics, embodiment, and ecology. His book, Between Images: Montage and the Problem of Relation (Oxford University Press, 2023) looks at the politics and aesthetics of editing in experimental and expanded cinematic practices. Alongside his scholarly activity, he is also a producer, having acted in various capacities (director, performer, cinematographer) on a range of film productions. He is also active as a programmer and curator, and has organized museum exhibitions and screening programs on topics including the history of color film processes, Indigenous cinema, poetry and film, and postwar cinematic montage. Previously, he served as a managing editor at the pioneering online journal InVisible Culture, and currently serves as Associate Editor of Literature/Film Quarterly at Salisbury University.

Yijun Sun is a PhD Candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an incoming Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies at the University of Richmond. Her research encompasses media theories and the histories of technology and culture, with her current book project focusing on media vessels. Yijun has published her work in journals such as Cultural Critique and Convergence, among other venues. She has also been a fellow at the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center Media of Cooperation at the University of Siegen.

Fernando Martín Velazco is a multidisciplinary artist and storyteller, and the captain of Stultifera Navis, an artistic research platform. His work focuses on expanded arts and performative literature based on research in wild areas. He has written for cultural publications in Mexico and international journals like Media N-Journal and Leonardo. He has participated in artist residencies in Mexico, Austria, Saudi Arabia, and the USA, including the Djerassi program. He authored "Viajera del Noroeste" (2022), a transmedia project about gray whales, and created “Abintestato de Gumongo” (2023-2024), a live and digital arts show intertwining AI with the rituals and storytelling of the extinct nomadic peoples of Baja California's Central Desert. In 2023, he began "Tinnitus," an underwater soundscape storytelling project.