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Ulrike Boskamp is an art historian based in Berlin, Germany. She is the director of a foundation for contemporary art in Northern Germany and has worked as an associate researcher and teacher at Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (DFK), Paris and Freie Universität Berlin. Her book on spying accusations against landscape artists, Gefährliche Bilder. Zeichnerinnen und Zeichner unter Spionageverdacht, came out in 2022. Her current research interests concern the interfaces between historic representations of space in the arts and the military, and specifically the visual media and the practices of military reconnaissance. She is one of the four founders of the Network Topographic Visual Media.

Tabea Braun studied sociology, cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Leipzig and art history at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. With a project on topographical drawing and collecting practices in the long 18th century, she is currently working on her PhD at the DFG Research Training Group Documentary Practices. Excess and Privation at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She is one of the four founders of the Network Topographic Visual Media.

Amrei Buchholz is Head of Department at the Architectural Archives of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany. After completing her PhD on the representation of space in Alexander of Humboldt’s work at University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany, she was an associate researcher at the University of Hamburg and at the University of Salzburg. Her current work focusses on the links between architectural and topographical representation as well as on collection practices of media that represent space. She is one of the four founders of the Network Topographic Visual Media.

Annette Kranen is an art historian specialised in the fields of mobility, topographic imagery and concepts of space and landscape in early modernity. Her current research focuses on the sacralisation of landscapes in the context of confessionalisation. She gained her doctoral degree from Freie Universität Berlin with a project on travelling artists in the Ottoman Empire in the late 17th and early 18th centuries (Historische Topographien. Bilder europäischer Reisender im Osmanischen Reich um 1700, Wilhelm Fink 2020). Since 2019, she has been teaching at the Institute of Art History of the University of Bern. She is one of the four founders of the Network Topographic Visual Media.

Lisa Cronjäger is a cultural and media historian in the fields of environmental history and the history of science. After completing her studies at Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Helsinki, she was an associate researcher at the University of Basel from 2017 to 2022. In her dissertation Periods of Rotation, she investigated 19^th-century forest cartography as a cultural technique whose goal was sustainability. In particular, she analyzed the strategies of representation and the role of forest maps in land-use conflicts. Since 2023, she is a scientific collaborator in the research project Operative TV. Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, Université de Lausanne, and is working on her post-doc project on Thought Collectives of Social Ecology in the 1970s.

Noemi Quagliati received a PhD from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in 2021 on the subject of landscape photography in WWI Germany. Over the last years, she has been a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Georgia, and at the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Deutsches Museum, where she has collaborated on modernizing the museum’s historical aviation section by investigating the topic of aerial photography. She has been offered research grants from the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research at RWTH Aachen University and is the recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship with the project Bird's-Eye Views of the Venetian Lagoon. Planetary Visions and Birdscapes of an Aquatic Ecosystem, which will begin in 2024 at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.