Pamela Allara is Associate Professor of Emerita of Brandeis University. An art historian, she teaches courses in the history of women’s art, contemporary art, film, photography and visual culture. The author of a monograph on the American painter Alice Neel, (Pictures of People: Alice Neel’s America... more

Bill Arning is internationally known as a spirited curator, critic, essayist and educator in contemporary art and culture. Since joining the List Visual Arts Center in 2000 he has organized such critically acclaimed exhibitions as “AA Bronson’s Mirror Mirror”, 2002, an artistic response to AIDS toda... more

Marcus Bastos is author of the artist book recycling culture (NOEMA) and the e-book On Mobile Media (Net Arte FAPESP). He directed the short film free radicals, funded by Programa Petrobrás Cultural, and the interactive video Shapeless Interface, awarded in FIAT Mostra Brasil. He is editor of the on... more

UTE META BAUER is currently director and associate professor of the Visual Arts Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), having served as professor of Theory, Practice and Mediation of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1996 – 2006) and as founding director... more

Joline Blais is an artist, researcher, and Assistant Professor of New Media at UMaine. She previously directed Digital Media Studies at NY Polytechnic University and launched media studies in SCPS at New York University. A footsoldier in the battle between network and hierarchic culture, Jon Ippolit... more

J. Jelle Bouwhuis is an art historian and the Curator of Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, the project space of the Stedelijk Museum. He is member of the board of Expodium art space in Utrecht. As freelance writer he publishes in art magazines such as Metropolis M and for various art institutions i... more

Leonie Bradbury is a curator of contemporary art and currently serves as the Director ad interim of the Galleries and Visiting Artist program at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. She has organized exhibitions for the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, George Eastman House: International Muse... more

Dr. Elizabeth Cowie teaches Film Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury, in the UK.  She co-founded the feminist journal m/f, editing a selection from the journal with Parveen Adams as The Woman in Question.  She published Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis, in 1997.  Her recen... more

Alexander Del Re is a long-time scholar of Performance Art history, and since 1993, a performance artist presenting his work in 12 countries of America, Europe and Asia. Among others, he has performed at the following international performance art festivals: "Cleveland PAF '96" (Cleveland, USA), "Cu... more

Lisa Dorin received her BA in studio art and art history from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williamstown, MA, specializing in contemporary and video art. As Assistant Curator at the Williams College Museum of A... more

Nicholas Economos is an artist and educator living in rural Western New York. His art practice includes work in interactive media, sound, video, animation and prints. He is a Site Editor for Rhizome.org at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC. His awards include an Individual Artist Project Gr... more

Jane Farver has been director of the List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1999. She was formerly Director of Exhibitions at the Queens Museum in New York, where she was one of the organizers for Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, which toured n... more

George Fifield is a media arts curator, writer, teacher and artist. He is the founder and director of Boston Cyberarts Inc., a nonprofit arts organization which produces the Boston Cyberarts Festival. This international biennial Festival, next scheduled for April 22 to May 8, 2005, involves nearly a... more

Multimedia artist and philosopher. The Venice Biennial 1976, special guest at the Sao Paulo Biennial 1981, Documenta, Kassel 1977, 1982. Personal exhibitions at the Musée Galliéra, Paris 1976, MAC of Montreal, 1980, MAC of Mexico, 1983, MBNA of Buenos Aires 2003, Montevideo 2004, Santiago 2006, Pina... more

Gibbons' work in film and video is characterized by a time-honored approach - that of the artist's use of his own life as source material, a laboratory for self-observation and experimentation. Though his work is rooted in autobiography - according to critic J. Hoberman, Gibbons "invented a new ... more

Claudia Hart studied art history at NYU, completed her graduate studies at the Columbia University School of Architecture, and began her professional life as a critic, first as an editor at ID: the Magazine of International Design and then Artforum. She showed paintings at Pat Hearn Gallery in New Y... more

Colleen Heslin was born in Toronto and lives and works in Vancouver. She received her BFA in Photography from Emily Carr Institute in 2003. In 1999 she started The Crying Room, an independent Artist Run Center in Vancouver - this project began from the lack of exhibition space for emerging contemp... more

James Hull is an artist, teacher and independent curator living in Boston. He founded the Green Street Gallery, an artist-run , non-profit subway station gallery in 1998. He teaches in the Sculpture Department at RISD and has lectured at the MFA, Boston, The ICA, MIT, MassArt, Cranbrook Academy and ... more

Marjory Jacobson, an independent curator living in Boston, is the author of Art and Business: The New Renaissance in Corporate Collection (1992) published by Thames & Hudson and Harvard Business School Press, and, forthcoming from Thames & Hudson, Eugenio Lopez and Jumex: A Model for 21st Century A... more

Susan Joyce established Fringe Exhibitions in 1999, working as independent curator producing professional exhibitions for museums, galleries and universities, with primary focus on contemporary art and electronic culture. Currently organizing traveling exhibition and performance events for Survival ... more

Caroline Seck Langill is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and independent curator living in Peterborough, Ontario. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate in Canadian Studies at Trent University, where she is looking at the contestation of the exhibitionary complex by artists working with technolo... more

Julie Lazar is Director of International Contemporary Arts Network in Glendale, California, and an independent curator. She was a founding curator of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles where she later served as Director of Experimental Programs until 2000. Among the range of artists with... more

Jesse Lerner is a documentary film and video maker based in Los Angeles. His books include "F is for Phony" (with Alex Juhasz) and "The Shock of Modernity". As a media arts curator, he has organized several exhibitions, including The Mexperimental Cinema, a traveling retrospective of 60 years of a... more

Natalie Loveless is an artist, theorist, and writer. Loveless' recent interactive installation and performance pieces examine the frameworks of representational practice, language, political mobility, and institutional critique. Her research interests include philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and v... more

Matthew Lyons is Assistant Curator at The Kitchen in New York City where he has organized exhibitions and performances by Discoteca Flaming Star, Christian Jankowski, Jutta Koether, Aki Onda, Jenny Perlin, and Peter Welz. He has co-curated group exhibitions including Dance Dance Revolution (2004) a... more

Our ideas of nature – varying over time, between and within cultures – and their ethical implications formed the basis for Deborah Mantle’s doctoral studies, and continue to absorb her as an educator and journalist. Currently living in Kyoto , the 39 year-old Briton spends much of her time exploring... more

Denise Markonish is the Gallery Director/Curator of Artspace, a non-profit contemporary exhibition space in New Haven, CT where she has recently curated the exhibition Territories which will travel to the Galerie fur Landschaftskunst in Hamburg, Germany this spring. She has a BA from Brandeis Univer... more

Daniel Incandela, Manager of New Media Projects (Indianapolis Museum of Art) Daniel Incandela is an innovator in the field of museum technology, developing artful approaches to digital content delivery that bridge the gap between art and its viewers. Always looking for the next big idea, his open-m... more

Heather McDougal homesteads in Northern California where she keeps chickens, bees, vegetables, and an ever-growing Cabinet of Curiosities. Her misbegotten MFA in sculpture, based mostly on a crtitique of humans' separation from their natural environment, transmogrified into a writing career after... more

Elizabeth K. Menon is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History at Purdue University. Dr. Menon has published on a variety of subjects concerning nineteenth and twentieth-century graphic arts and popular culture. Her articles have appeared in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Master Drawings, Nouve... more

Michael Minelli is an artist living in Los Angeles. His work examines the complex relationship between popular media discourse and the individual subject through objects, drawing, writing and photography. He was a member of the bands Bowery Electric and Jackson White and his video/performance works ... more

Dana Moser is a musician-composer and multimedia artist. His work has been performed/screened in numerous cities including Boston, San Francisco, New York, Ottowa, and Munich. He is a professor in the Studio for Interrelated Media at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. more

Francisco Nájera. (Guatemala) Has published about Latin American literature and art. Among his publications are “Ana María Rodas o la escritura del matriarcado.” Desde la zona abierta: Artículos críticos sobre la obra de Ana María Rodas. Ed. Aída Toledo (Editorial Palo de Hormigo, Guatemala 2004)... more

Tim Norris is a poet, writer, critic, curator and spoken word artist, who has presented nationally and overseas. He is professor in the graduate Digital Media Program at Northeastern University and lecturer in critical theory and visual studies at the Art Institute of Boston. His most recent work en... more

Marisa S. Olson is a San Francisco-based artist and Editor and Curator at large for Rhizome.org. She’s written for Flash Art, Art on Paper, Afterimage, Wired, Mute, Artweek, Surface, Planet, the San Francisco Chronicle, and several other publications. She has also introduced artists’ monographs and ... more

Saul Ostrow is Dean of Visual Arts and Technologies at The Cleveland Institute of Art. Before accepting this position in 2003, he was Associate Professor of Art and Art History and Director of the Center of Visual Arts and Culture and Coordinator for the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Master Artists ... more

Christiane Paul is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Director of Intelligent Agent (http://www.intelligentagent.com), a service organization and information resource dedicated to digital art. She has written extensively on new media, net art, inform... more

Andrew Perchuk is Head of Contemporary Programs and Research at the Getty Research Institute. He is a former Getty Fellow and a Luce/ACLS Fellow. He was formerly editor at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Curator at the Alternative Museum, New York. He is the co-editor of The Masculine Mas... more

Adriana Rios is a curator from Medellin, Colombia. She is curator at the Ateneo Porfirio Barba Jacob, a cultural center in Medellin, Colombia and is curator at the Cerro Nutibara Galley in Medellin as well. As an independent curator Adriana has curated exhibitions at Axiom Gallery in conjunction ... more

Julie Rodrigues Widholm is Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. She is currently organizing two major exhibitions—MCA EXPOSED: Defining Moments in Photography, 1967-2007, and Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City. Widholm Rodrigues has curated solo exh... more

Meg Rotzel a founder, former director (2002-2006) and currently co-curator of the Public Art Incubator of the Berwick Research Institute. She is also Curatorial Associate at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT where she coordinates Fellow and Visiting Artist programs. Since graduating with... more

Roland Smart is a Boston based curator, artist, designer, and critic. His work has been shown extensively in New England, he recently curated BOOM BOX: The Art of Sound at the BCA as part of the visiting curators program, and he continues to curate independently at other area galleries. His artwork ... more

Elizabeth A.T. Smith is James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She has curated such exhibitions as Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective; Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s and Blueprints for Modern Living: History and L... more

Currently a freelance writer and the Programming and Marketing Associate at McColl Center for Visual Art, North Carolina, Terri C. Smith has curated over seventy exhibitions in her thirteen years as an arts professional. Prior to her position at McColl Center, Smith was the Curator of Modern and Co... more

Corey Michael Smithson is a bearded multi-media artist who looks great in heels and fishnet stockings.  Born in Ellensburg, WA, on 2/12/74, he has lived in Washington, Wyoming, Colorado, Washington (again) New York, Washington (again, again), New York (again), Tennessee, Massachusetts, and New York ... more

Jean-Luc Soret is the artistic director and co-founder of the @rt Outsiders International Festival that was launched in 2000 at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (European House of Photography) in Paris. This annual show devoted to digital art and to cutting-edge creation revolves around them... more

Jed Speare is an artist and arts manager working in a variety of media and settings. Initially trained in music composition, he has presented time-based works in sound, video, and performance extensively, in addition to conceptual and installation works, nationally and internationally. Jed was Di... more

Jeff Stark is the publisher of Nonsense NYC, a weekly email list and discriminating resource for independent art, weird events, strange happenings, unique parties, and senseless culture in New York City. He also works with Brooklyn art collective the Madagascar Institute and is a member of Dark Pa... more

I have been active as a composer and performer of electronic music since 1992. My music utilizes the qualities inherent to cassette tape and tape players; namely hiss, the roll of tape across play heads, the crackle of dirt caught inside old players, play speed altered manually by pressure from my f... more

Marcia Tanner is a San Francisco Bay Area-based independent curator and writer with a special interest in artists who work with science and technology. Her most recent curatorial project -- Brides of Frankenstein, an exhibition of work by women artists who use contemporary technologies to animate sy... more

Sybil Wendler is a freelance writer and researcher for the Department of Contemporary Art at the San Diego Museum of Art. Her philosophical musings are nurtured and expanded by a bicultural upbringing that necessitates a constant reshuffling of the idea of belonging, of home, of identity. Ensconced ... more