Anuj Vaidya is a media maker, curator, and educator. His work draws upon a wide range of forms including theater and performance, multi-media installation, social practice, curation, and artivism. Deeply invested in collaboration, he seeks to break down the divide between artist and audience by engaging spectators not only as content consumers but also as co-creators through participatory processes. His work pays attention to the material, social, and intellectual impacts of storytelling and media technologies. He is pursuing a PhD in performance studies at UC Davis.

Praba Pilar is an adjunct faculty member in the Critical Studies department at California College of the Arts. She holds a PhD in performance studies from UC Davis. Over the past two decades she has presented cultural productions integrating performance art, live work, digital works, video, electronic installations, radio programming, street theater, websites, and writing. These projects have traveled widely to museums, galleries, universities, performance festivals, conferences, public streets, political meetings, bookstores, bars, and radio airwaves around the world.
Vaidya and Pilar are founding members of Larval Rock Stars, a multi-modal conceptual project encompassing digital, textual, performance, sound, and video experimentation. They visit Berkeley in conjunction with the Townsend Center's Collaborative Research Seminar on “Rethinking Futures." The Fall 2024 seminar enables a group of faculty members and graduate students to collaboratively explore "the future" cross-culturally and across time, especially in light of the many existential threats now facing humanity — including environmental crisis, war, and democracy's sudden fragility.