Nadim Julien Samman has written for international publications like The Art Newspaper, Contemporary, Erotic Review, and Naked Punch. In March 2007, he co-organized the inauguration of The London Festival of Europe, where he chaired the symposium, Europe: Land of the Setting Sun, which discussed exhibitions of Chinese contemporary art in the UK. Samman has also curated Being Beauteous, held at London’s White Space Gallery,  from April 19th to June 2nd, 2007. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Post-Socialist Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. His specialisation includes analysis of contemporary Chinese and Russian art.

Andrew Maerkle is Deputy Editor of ArtAsiaPacific, and Contributing Editor to the online art publication, Artkrush. He supervises ArtAsiaPacific’s creative projects such as Building Asia Brick by Brick, an exhibition of custom LEGO models, made by leading architects from the Asia-Pacific region, which is produced in collaboration with the New York-based, non-profit, People’s Architecture Foundation. The exhibition is currently touring China with the Get it Louder! festival. Maerkle is also involved with Artists on Art, a weekly series of talks by artists, in partnership with New York’s Rubin Museum of Art.

Karen Smith moved to Beijing in 1993 to be close to the contemporary Chinese art scene: she is a writer, critic, and curator, specializing in China’s new art. In January 2006, she published Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China, (Scalo, Zurich). She was recently involved in curating The Real Thing at the Tate Liverpool. She is currently working on a second book about the evolution of the art scene through the 1990s. In 2005, Karen was appointed to the advisory board of OCT Contemporary Art Terminal in Shenzhen, affiliated with the He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen.

Jeannine Tang is an art historian and critic born in Singapore and based in London. She writes about contemporary art, culture, and politics for various publications, including Theory, Culture & Society: Annual Review, Afterimage, and The Art Book.  She is currently working on a doctoral dissertation at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, on the politics of North American conceptualism and the Cold War. She has contributed to exhibition catalogues on Southeast Asian and Singaporean artists. Tang’s research interests include conceptual and post-conceptual art practices, curation, institutional critiques, as well as feminisms and their legacies.

Lucien Harris is a journalist working for The Art Newspaper in London. He reports on news about cultural heritage and writes on art-related issues in countries ranging from Iraq to China. He has covered the Indian art market for the past four years. His doctoral thesis, on the British collecting of Indian art in the 18th and 19th centuries was completed at the University of Sussex. He has travelled extensively in Europe and Asia

Ingrid Dudek has been the Assistant Vice-President and Asso-ciate Specialist for Asian Contemporary Art at Christie’s, New York, since July 2006. She has spent several years in Beijing as both a Fulbright fellow and also as the manager of the CourtYard Gallery, a Contemporary Chinese art gallery. Dudek holds a B.A. degree in Art History from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.A. degree in Anthropology from New York University.