Chalet Comellas is an interdisciplinary artist who employs expanded forms of painting, sculpture, video, sound, and digital media to engage viewers visually and sonically.

She was born in Tampa, Florida and lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee. Her studio practice reflects a personal connection to the complex histories surrounding the Latin Diaspora and through experimental time-based frameworks, and the use of audio-visual archives, she illuminates the interplay between materiality, spirituality, and technology. Comellas holds an BFA in Studio Art from the University of Tampa and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Florida State University. She has taught lecture-based critical writing courses focused on contemporary art and the environment along with studio arts classes focused on time-based media. Comellas is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies including, top prize in the Digital Media Category at ArtFields 2018. She was a Visiting Artist-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University in 2020, and as an Assistant Professor at Florida State University, she was awarded as Faculty in Residence at the Facility for Arts Research, along with receiving several grants. Her artwork is in public and private collections including, Soho House Nashville, Nashville, TN; Vanderbilt University Library, Nashville TN; and Colorado College Special Collections Library, Colorado Springs, CO, and the City of Tampa Public Art Collection, Tampa, FL. Selected press includes BURNAWAY, Tampa Bay Times, Orlando Sentinel, Style Weekly, Art Spiel, Nashville Scene, and Number Inc. Magazine.

Clint Sleeper is a media artist, performer, and curator, whose research weaves through various topics concerning technology, overt activist positions, popular philosophy, and dark humor. He investigates the various ways that these topics overlap for us as we move through everyday life navigating complex political crises through clumsy interfaces, problematic devices, and faulty systems. Sleeper is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Florida State University where he teaches classes in digital media that consider the implications of new technologies. He received his BA in Studio Art from the University of Nevada Reno and his MFA in Contemporary Art from Simon Fraser University.

Comellas and Sleeper currently co-run Unrequited Leisure, a media focused curatorial project space they founded in Nashville, January of 2019. Artists selected for solo and group exhibitions at UL explore screen-based approaches to critical and topical investigations through video, code, and net-based art.