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

In April, 2009 Bill Arning became director of the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, Texas, after having been the curator at MIT's List Visual Arts Center for nine years. Since joining the List Visual Arts Center in 2000 he has organized such critically acclaimed exhibitions as America Starts Here ... 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

Carol Becker is Dean of Faculty at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. From 1994 to 2007 Becker served as Senior Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received a BA from the State University of New York at Buffalo a... 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

Angelique Campens is an independent Belgian curator and writer, working for non-profit galleries and within public spaces. She curated Unknown Pleasures (2007) at the Stadtgalerie Bern, Switzerland. In 2004 she founded vzw Beeldend where she curated Zoo Logical Garden (2006), Artificial Landscape (... more

Mary Ceruti acts as SculptureCenter's Chief Curator and oversees all aspects of program, planning, and organizational development. She has organized numerous solo and group exhibitions of contemporary art and curated special projects and commissions by over fifty emerging and established artists. Be... more

Una Chaudhuri is Professor of English and Drama at New York University. She is the author of No Man’s Stage: A Semiotic Study of Jean Genet’s Plays, and Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama, editor of Rachel’s Brain and Other Storms: The Performance Scripts of Rachel Rosenthal, and co-edito... 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

Ricardo de Mambro Santos (São Paulo, Brazil) currently teaches History of Art (Renaissance and Baroque) at Willamette University. In the past, he taught courses on Art Criticism and Theories of Contemporary Art at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. More recently, as a Visiting Professor, he taugh... 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

David Dinnell is a filmmaker and film programmer currently based in Milwaukee. He has been the Film Programmer for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union Theatre for five seasons, from May 2007 through December 2009. He has curated film programs for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, ... more

Laura Donaldson has curated over thirty exhibitions, and has over ten years' experience working with artists and curators as a manager, director, and curator of non-profit and alternative exhibition spaces. Most recently she was the Director & Curator of the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center, 2003–... 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

Tarek Elhaik is a film/video curator and assistant professor in the department of Anthropology in Rice University. His Major interests are cosmopolitan modernisms, avant-garde media arts, media and visual anthropology, Latin America, Middle East. Film/Video curatorial activity include programs of ex... 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. The international biennial Festival involves nearly a hundred exhibitions of visual arts; music, da... 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

Ryan Griffis is an artist currently teaching new media art at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He often works under the name of the Temporary Travel Office, which attempts to investigate the potential of tourism as a critical activity. Towards these ends, he produces guided and self-g... 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

Alanna Heiss is the Director of AIR, Art International Radio. Operating online at www.ARTonAIR.org, AIR is an Internet radio station, free online audio archive for cultural programming, and arts center for the production of radio and audio art projects, music recording and project development across... 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.