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John Armstrong

John Armstrong is Philosopher-in-Residence at the Melbourne Business School and, until recently, the Inaugural Knowledge Transfer Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of The Intimate Philosophy of Art (2000), Conditions of Love (2002), The Secret Power of Beauty (2004), and Love Life Goethe: how to be happy in an imperfect world (2006) - all published by Penguin UK. His next book, The Promise of Civilisation, will be published early in 2009

Janine Barrand

Janine Barrand is the Manager of Collections & Research at the Arts Centre, Melbourne. She has worked in the performing arts and museums for over twenty years and has a special interest in popular music. Her most recent curatorial projects include ‘Kylie: The Exhibition’ (2005) and ‘Nick Cave: The Exhibition’ in 2007

Nick Cave

Nick Cave is a songwriter, musician and author, who has released many albums, both solo and collaboratively. His most recent album with the Bad Seeds, DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! is winner of the 2008 Mojo Best Album Award. His novel And the Ass Saw the Angel was first published in 1989. In 2008, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Monash University, Melbourne.

Edward Colless

Edward Colless is Head of Visual Art Theory and History at the School of Art in the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. He has taught art history, film studies, performance and art theory in a variety of tertiary institutions, and is a regular public speaker at arts events and conferences. Edward's critical writing has been widely published in journals, catalogues and books, within Australia and internationally.

Juliana Engberg

Juliana Engberg is Artistic Director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. She was visual arts curator for the Melbourne International Arts Festival from 2000 to 2005, and more recently, senior curatorial adviser for the Australian presentations at the 2007 Venice Biennale.

Jennifer Higgie

Jennifer Higgie is Co-Editor and Staff Writer of frieze magazine, and editor of the Artist's Joke (2007). She also wrote the screenplay for the feature film I Really Hate My Job (2007) and the novel Bedlam (2006)

Robert Leonard

Robert Leonard is Director of the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane, where Vernon Ah Kee's 'Cantchant' debuted in 2007. He was formerly a curator and gallery director in New Zealand. His shows include 'Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand Art' at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, in 1992, and 'Mixed-Up Childhood' at the Auckland Art Gallery in 2005.

Justin Paton

Justin Paton is Senior Curator at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu in Christchurch, New Zealand, where his projects this year have included 'Daniel Crooks:Everywhere Instantly', the 'Outer Spaces' program of public art, and 'Travelling Light: An Exhibition for Matariki'. His book 'How to Look at a Painting' (2006) has just been released in a hardback collector's edition.

Margie West AM

Margie West AM is Curatorial Consultant and Emeritus Curator of Aboriginal Art, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, and has over thirty years experience in museum curation and Indigenous art and cultural issues.