Rex Butler: Associate Professor, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland, Brisbane; current projects are a book on UnAustralian art (with ADS Donaldson) and a book on the"afterlife"of Colin McCahon (with laurence Simmons); author of A Secret History of Australian Art (2002) and Slavoj Zizek: live Theory (2005)

Sharon Chin: Kuala lumpur based artist and writer; writes regularly on art for local and international publications; co-founder and managing editor, ArTErI (www.arterimalaysia.com), a website dedicated to arts and culture in Malaysia and Southeast Asia
Joselina Cruz: Manila-based independent curator and writer; co-curator 2008 Singapore Biennale and a networking curator 2009 Jakarta Biennale; curated Creative Index, 2010, Nippon Foundation's Asian Public Intellectuals Fellowship, Manila; received her MA in Curating Contemporary Art, royal College of Art, london; previously curator, lopez Memorial Museum, Manila and Singapore Art Museum; has been a fellow for the Asian Public Intellectuals Program, 2010 and recently received a visitorship from the Mondriaan Foundation, Netherlands

Charlotte Day: Independent curator and writer based in Melbourne; Associate Curator, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne; curated (with Sarah Tutton) 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, NEW09, ACCA, TarraWarra Biennial, 2008, and Callum Morton's Valhalla, Venice Biennale 2007 and ricky Swallow's This Time Another year, Venice Biennale 2005
Patrick Flores: Professor, University of the Philippines Department of Art Studies, Manila; curator, Jorge Vargas Museum, Manila; adjunct curator, National Art Gallery Singapore; recently wrote Past Peripheral: Curation in Southeast Asia (2008) for the National University of Singapore Museum; co-curator, the Position Papers section of the Gwangju Biennale, 2008

Adam Geczy: Sydney based artist and writer; lectures at Sydney College of the Arts; has written for The Australian; co-editor (with Benjamin Genocchio) of What is Installation? (Sydney, Power Publications, 2001), and co-author (with Michael Carter) of reframing Art, (Sydney, NSW Press/Oxford, Berg, 2006)

Tony Godfrey: Singapore based writer and art historian; has published six books including Conceptual Art, (Phaidon, 1998) and Painting Today (Phaidon, 2009); has written for many magazines and exhibition catalogues since 1978; managedMAinContemporaryArtandDirectorofresearch,Sotheby'sInstitutelondon1991-2008;movedtoSingapore in 2009 where he is currently Director of research, Sotheby's Institute Singapore; currently writes for C Arts (Jakarta) and lEAP (Beijing)

Tessa Guazon: Assistant Professor of Art Studies, University of the Philippines-Diliman, Quezon City; her interests include contemporary public art practice in urban contexts, culture industries and cities, art criticism and curation; recent writing looks at artistic interventions in urban conditions

Lisa Havilah: Director, Carriageworks, Sydney; recently Director, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney; previously Assistant Director, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and liverpool regional Museum (1998–2004), and inaugural Co-Director of Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong (1995–98)

Agung Hujatnika: a.k.a Agung Hujatnikajennong, graduated Master Program Faculty of Art and Design, Bandung Institute ofTechnology, Indonesia, 2005; curatorial residency program in Australia 2002 and 2010, and Japan 2004; since 1999 has been curating exhibitions and contributing essays for various publications in Indonesia and internationally; Curator, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, since 2001; Curator 13th Jakarta Biennale: Fluid Zones, 2009

Reuben Keehan: Curator, Contemporary Asian Art, Queensland Art Gallery and formerly Curator, Artspace, Sydney, and Editor, Column; co-curator (with Mayumi Hirano) Intimacy, Koganecho Bazaar,yokohama 2010; co-programmer (with Blair French, David Elliot, Mike Kubeck et al.), Superdeluxe@Artspace, Biennale of Sydney, 2010; with Blair French convened"Spaces of Art"conference (2009), and published numerous volumes of contemporary art and cultural theory

 

Lee Weng Choy: Singapore-based Director of Projects, research and Publications, Osage Art Foundation; regular contributor to Broadsheet, his essays have also appeared in publications such as Forum On Contemporary Art & Society, and Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985; serves on the academic advisory board of the Asia Art Archive; President Singapore Section, International Association of Art Critics; from 2000 to 2009, he was artistic co-director of The Substation Arts Centre, Singapore

 

Victoria lynn: Independent curator and writer based in Melbourne; Visual Arts Curator, 2012 Adelaide Festival of Arts; curated the inaugural Adelaide International: Apart we are together, 2010 Adelaide Festival of Arts, and The Trickster, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea; Double Take: The Anne landa Award for Video and New Media, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2009; Turbulence, 3rd Auckland Triennial, New Zealand, 2007

Eva McGovern: Head of regional Programs, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala lumpur; previously independant curator and writer; has lectured on photography and contemporary Malaysian art history, Sotheby's Institute Singapore and lasalle College of the Arts Singapore; Contributing Editor C-Arts magazine, Singapore; writes broadly on contemporary art in Southeast Asia
Viviana Mejia: Singapore-based writer and curator from Colombia; has an MA, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Singapore, and MA (Modern and Contemporary Art History and Theory), los Andes University, Bogotá, Colombia; her research interests include "tropicality" in contemporary art and culture, a concept she describes as capturing what typical notions of the "tropical"; has contributed to a number of publications, such as Singapore Architect and Broadsheet

 

Matthew Ngui: Perth and Singapore based a visual artist; has exhibited in the Sao Paulo Biennale (1996), Venice Biennale (2001) and Gwangju Biennale (2002) and documenta X (1997); a major survey exhibition Points of View was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2007 and the National Museum of Singapore, Singapore Arts Festival in 2008; has served as a council member of the National Arts Council, Singapore, and on the Boards of the Singapore Art Museum and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

Alan Oei: Singapore based artist and curator working collaboratively to present new projects outside institutional spaces; his company, Salon Projects, has organised public hits such as Blackout and Open House, a sprawling art exhibition inside real life homes; opened Evil Empire, an artist project space, 2010; previously managed the Singapore Arts Show 2007; BA Art History, Columbia University, New york; Diploma, Fine Arts from lasalle College of the Arts

Trevor Smith: Curator of Contemporary Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; previously Curator in residence, Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Ny; Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New york City, 2003-06;basedinAustralia1992-2003whereheheldpositionswiththeBiennaleofSydney,CanberraContemporaryArt Space, and Art Gallery of Western Australia
russell Storer: Curator, Contemporary Asian Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; member curatorial team 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (2009-10); formerly curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Visiting Curator, documenta XII (2007) and a"Curatorial Comrade", 2008 Biennale of Sydney.; studied art history at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and at the University of Sydney, and has written on contemporary art for a range of Australian and international publications

 

Alia Swastika: Freelance curator Ark Galerie, Jakarta; associate editor for SUrAT newsletter 2002-04, a magazine for visual arts published by the Cemeti Art Foundation; then curator Cemeti Art House, yogyakarta; curated Manifesto of The New Aesthetic: Seven Artists From Indonesia, Institute Contemporary Arts Singapore, 2010

 

Adele Tan: Singapore based writer and Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, National Art Gallery Singapore; holds a PhD in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, london and was formerly Assistant Editor, Third Text
David Teh: Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore; co-director of Half Dozen artist-run initiative and Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney; member of Bangkok artists collective, As yet Unnamed; researches and publishes widely on contemporary art and visual culture in Southeast Asia