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Brooke Babbington

Brooke Babington is an independent art writer and student at the Victorian College of the Arts, currently based in Melbourne.

Emma Bugden

Emma Bugden is the Director of Artspace, Auckland. She is a former curatorial director of Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Manukau City, and curator at City Gallery Wellington.

Brian Castro

Brian Castro is the author of nine novels including the multi award-winning Double-Wolf and Shanghai Dancing. He has also published a volume of essays. His latest novel is The Bath Fugues. He is currently the Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide.

Matt Coyle

Matt Coyle is an artist based in Hobart, Tasmania, whose graphic novel Worry Doll was published by the United Kingdom's Mam Tor Publishing in 2007. He is represented by Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne, and Criterion Gallery, Hobart.

Hou Hanru

Hou Hanru is a critic and curator based in Paris and San Francisco, where he is Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and also Chair of Exhibition and Museum Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. He is Curator of the 10th Biennale de Lyon, ‘The Spectacle of the Everyday’.

Yuko Hasegawa

Yuko Hasegawa is Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT). She is also a professor of the Department of Art Science, Tama Art University in Tokyo. Her recent projects are 'Ryoji Ikeda +/- (the infinite between 0 and 1)' and 'Neo Tropicalia'.

Fiona Hile

Fiona Hile has written for The Age, The Monthly and Inside Film. She is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne.

D.J.Huppatz

D. J. Huppatz is the Program Coordinator of the Interior Design program at Swinburne University’s Faculty of Design in Melbourne. His teaching, research and writing focus predominantly on design and architectural history, particularly modernism in Asian design and contemporary interiors. He maintains a regular blog, Critical Cities, for extended discussions of contemporary design, architecture and literature.

Robert Leonard

Robert Leonard is Director of the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. He was previously a curator in New Zealand, at the National Art Gallery, Wellington; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Dunedin Public Art Gallery; and Auckland Art Gallery; as well as director of Auckland’s Artspace.

Beth McKillop

Beth McKillop is Director of Collections and Keeper of the Asian department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She visited North Korea in March 2001 and May 2002 as part of a United Kingdom cultural delegation.

Kevin Murray

Kevin Murray is Adjunct Professor at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Research Fellow at University of Melbourne and Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University. He is online editor of The Journal of Modern Craft and maintains www.craftunbound.net/.

Nikos Papastergiadis

Nikos Papastergiadis is Professor at the School of Culture & Communication at the University of Melbourne.

Suhanya Raffel

Suhanya Raffel is Manager Curatorial, Asian and Pacific Art at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. She has worked with contemporary art projects in the United Kingdom and South Asia, and writes and lectures regularly in Australia and internationally. She has been a member of the curatorial team for the Asia-Pacific Triennial project since 1996, and is lead curator for APT6.

Claire Roberts

Claire Roberts is Senior Curator, Asian Arts and Design, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, and a Research Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Lynne Seear

Lynne Seear is the Queensland Art Gallery's Deputy Director, Curatorial and Collection Development. Lynne also has extensive experience in publishing and has overseen the development and publication of several major books and exhibition catalogues, including Brought to Light: Australian Art 1850-1965 and Brought to Light II: Contemporary Australian Art 1966-2006.

Zara Stanhope

Zara Stanhope is a curator and writer in the visual arts, and is currently working with John Meade and National Exhibitions Touring Support Victoria on 'Objects to Live By: The Art of John Meade'. She is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Ariella Yedgar

Ariella Yedgar is a curator, writer and editor based in London. Exhibitions include ‘Moon Absinthe’, Rotterdam; publications include Radical Nature – Art and Architecture for a Changing Plant 1969–2009, published by Koenig Books and Barbican Art Gallery.

Stephen Zagala

Stephen Zagala, Curator at the Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, is a writer and curator with training in art history, philosophy and anthropology. Over the past decade he has worked closely with the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Port Vila, advising on various art projects and consulting with Indigenous communities on heritage issues.