Nancy Adajania: Bombay-based cultural theorist, art critic and independent curator; educated in politics, social communications media and film; has written and lectured extensively on extended sculpture, new media, public art and transcultural art practice (including documenta XI, Kassel; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Transmediale, Berlin; Lottringer 13, Munich; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Kuenstlerhaus Wien, Vienna; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Soma Museum, Korea; Wuerttembergische Kunstverein, Stuttgart; The Danish Contemporary Art Foundation, Copenhagen; and BAK, Utrecht); Editor-in-Chief of Art India magazine

Wassan Al-Khudhairi: Director of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, since 2010, responsible for developing the newly established institution and managing the development of its new building; also oversees policy development, acquisitions and collections registration; as curator specialises in modern and contemporary art from the Arab world, with a particular emphasis on Iraq; has lived in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UK and the USA, where she worked at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York

Donald Brook: Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Flinders University, Adelaide; a former art critic of The Sydney Morning Herald and Nation Review; founder of the Tin Sheds Workshop in Sydney and the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide. He has been at various times an engineer, a sculptor and an art critic; his latest book The awful truth about what art wass published by Artlink in 2008

Justin Clemens: Melbourne based philosopher, translator, social critic, and poet. He is primarily known today for his work on Alain Badiou as an editor, translator, and scholar writing, speaking, and lecturing on the impact of Badiou's thought in this contemporary juncture; he now teaches in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne; currently Secretary of the Lacan Circle of Melbourne and art critic for the The Monthly. In his own published work, he writes extensively on psychoanalysis, contemporary European philosophy, and literature

Larissa Hjorth: Melbourne-based artist, digital ethnographer and senior lecturer in the Games Programs, School of Media & Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne; has been researching and publishing on gendered customising of mobile communication, gaming and virtual communities in the Asia-Pacific; has published widely on the topic in national and international journals such as Games and Culture, Convergence, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Continuum, ACCESS, Fibreculture and Southern Review; co-edited two Routledge anthologies–Gaming Cultures and Place in the Asia–Pacific region and Mobile technologies: from Telecommunication to Media, 2009

Yusaku Imamura: Director of the Tokyo Wonder Site (TWS), Institute of Contemporary Art and International Cultural Exchange, Tokyo; initiated and founded TWS in 2001 as a creative platform for the international exchange of young contemporary artists and deals with future-oriented topics such as climate change, biodiversity and the change in global value systems

Mami Kataoka: Tokyo-based curator and writer; Chief Curator, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo since 2003; from 2007-09 joined the curatorial team at the Hayward Gallery, London; during her tenure at the Mori Art Museum, curated Ozawa Tsuyoshi: Answer with Yes and No! (2004), All About Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art (2006), Ai Weiwei: According to What? (2009) and most recently Sensing Nature: Perception of Nature in Japan (2010)

Sunjung Kim: Seoul-based independent curator and Professor at the Korea National University of Arts; from 1993 to 2004 Chief Curator, Artsonje Center, Seoul; commissioner of the Korean Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, 2005; Artistic Director of the 6th Seoul International Media Art Biennale Media City Seoul 2010

Natalie King: Melbourne-based curator, writer and inaugural Director of Utopia @ Asialink; has curated exhibitions for numerous museums including the Singapore Art Museum; National Museum of Art, Osaka; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; correspondent for Flash Art International and contributes to Art Asia Pacific, Art and Australia, Artlink and Art Monthly; co-author of Thames & Hudson monograph on Chinese/Australian painter Guan Wei, with Hou Hanru

Chris Kraus: Filmmaker and author of Where Art Belongs (2011), I Love Dick, Video Green, Aliens & Anorexia and Torpor; co-editor of Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader; her films include Gravity & Grace, How To Shoot A Crime, and The Golden Bowl, or, Repression; founded the Semiotexte Native Agents imprint to publish fiction, mostly by women, as an analogue to French theories of subjectivity

Lee Weng Choy: Singapore-based art critic; until 2010 Director, Projects, Research & Publications, Osage Art Foundation, Singapore; Artistic Co-Director, The Substation Arts Centre 2000-09; has published widely on contemporary art, culture and Singapore including art journals such as Art AsiaPacific, Art Journal, Broadsheet, Artlink, focas (Forum On Contemporary Art & Society), Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Journal of Visual Culture, Positions East Asia Cultures Critique; has written numerous exhibition catalogue texts for 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery; Polypolis: Art from Asian Pacific Megacities, Hamburg; Cities on the Move, The Secession, Vienna; Flight Patterns, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; On Reason and Emotion, 2004 Biennale of Sydney; 2002 Gwangju Biennale

Carol Yinghua Lu: Beijing-based curator and writer; contributing editor for Frieze and co-founder and co-editor of Contemporary Art & Investment magazine; writes frequently for international art journals and magazines including e-flux journal, The Exhibitionist, Yishu and Tate; her texts on contemporary art have also appeared in many art catalogues, books, publications, and critical readers; from 2005-07 was the China researcher for Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong; from 2009-10 founder and Art Director of Suitcase Art Projects, a project space of Today Art Museum, Beijing

Brian Medlin: (1927-2004) Professor of Philosophy, Flinders University 1967-1988 (Emeritus 1988); in 1967 appointed Foundation Professor of Philosophy, Flinders University of South Australia-by this time, had published significant articles in several areas of philosophy, including the much anthologised 'Ultimate Principles and Ethical Egoism' and 'The Unexpected Examination'; leader of anti-Vietnam War protests in Adelaide

Deeksha Nath: New Delhi-based independent critic and curator; desk editor, Art AsiaPacific (New York) and ArtEast (Kolkata); has published widely and contributed essays to Voices of Change: 20 Indian Artists (2010) and Art and Visual Culture in India (1878-2008) (2008); former editor of the web journal http://www.craftrevivaltrust.org; previous curatorial assignments have been with the Tate Gallery, London and the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi

Ian North: Adelaide based artist; Adjunct Professor, SA School of Art and Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia; Adjunct Professor, Department of History and Politics, University of Adelaide; Curator of Paintings, Art Gallery of South Australia 1971–80; his interest in issues of place and identity segued into the developing field of bioaesthetics and led to him editing the book Visual Animals: Crossovers, Evolution and Aesthetics (CACSA) in 2007

Nikos Papastergiadis: Professor, Cultural Studies and Media & Communications, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne; recent books include Spatial Aesthetics: Art, Place and the Everyday (Rivers Oram Press, 2006)Metaphor+Tension: On Collaboration and its Discontents (Artspace Publications, 2004), The Turbulence of Migration (Polity Press, 2000), Dialogues in the Diasporas: Essays and Conversations on Cultural Identity (Rivers Oram Press, 1998); co-editor Empires, Ruins + Networks: The Transcultural Agenda in Art, with Scott McQuire (Melbourne University Press, 2005)

Joseph Redwood-Martinez: Istanbul based artist; his first book Event Statements, was published in March 2011 by Publication Studio; recent curatorial projects include Speculative Readings at Archive Kabinett, Berlin and One day, everything will be free... at SALT, Istanbul; member of the editorial board of ...ment, an online journal of contemporary culture, art, and politics; his writing has also appeared in Frieze

Alia Swastika: Jakarta-based curator, project manager and writer; from 2002-04 worked as Associate Editor for SURAT newsletter published by the Cemeti Art Foundation, which led to her curatorial debut at the Cemeti Art House, where she worked as an Artistic Manager from 2004-09; joined staff exchange programme in UfaFabrik, Berlin; since 2008 has been working for Ark Galerie in Jakarta; Curator, 2011 Jogja Biennale XI

Tan Boon Hui: Director Singapore Art Museum and organising secretariat of the Singapore Biennale 2011; previously Deputy Director of Programs, National Museum of Singapore