Al Hassan Elwan is an interdisciplinary designer and brand consultant from Cairo, Egypt, now based in Los Angeles. They hold a postgraduate degree in architecture and media studies from SCI-Arc. Elwan is the instigator and founder of POSTPOSTPOST, a brand that produces publications, films, and online cultural commentary. POSTPOSTPOST: Reflections on a New Avant-garde, the inaugural publication, features contributions from over 30 artists, writers, and academics, including Shumon Basar, Jack Self, Daniel Felstead, and Ana Viktoria Dzinic. Their solo writing has been published in RealReview, Dazed, and Do Not Research. Beyond POSTPOSTPOST, Elwan is the co-founder and creative director of pew. design bureau, a brand strategy and design firm with clients including Google, YouTube, and UN Women.
Günseli Yalcinkaya is a London-based writer, researcher, and critic, and an expert in youth and internet culture. She is contributing editor at Dazed magazine and the former host of Logged On, a podcast series that puts online trends under the microscope. Her ongoing practice of internet folklore shines a lens on emerging technologies and online culture with a particular focus on the myths and ideologies embedded within these systems.
Shumon Basar has been a strategic advisor for Ibraaz, shaping the inaugural public programme, and curating Ibrahim Mahama’s installation Parliament of Ghosts (2025-26). With two decades experience in the Gulf, other roles have included Commissioner of Art Dubai’s Global Art Forum; Public Programme Curator at Art Week Riyadh; Expert Advisory Group for the Royal Commission of AlUla; founding member of Fondazione Prada’s ‘Thought Council’; Co-founder at web3 startup Zien; and Public Programs Director at the Architectural Association. He is co-author of The Extreme Self and The Age of Earthquakes, both with Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist, and his books on the region include With/Without and Cities from Zero. Shumon has held editorial positions at the magazines TANK, Bidoun, 032c, Flash Art, and as Curator-in-residence at Zora Zine, where he produced a trilogy of pieces around his viral neologism, ‘Lorecore’.
