Claire Bishop (Associate Professor of Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY) is the author of Installation Art: A Critical History (2005) and the editor of Participation (2006) and 1968-1989: Political Upheaval and Artistic Change (2010). She was co-curator of the exhibition "Double Agent" at the London ICA and is co-curator of this year's PRELUDE festival at the Graduate Center (October 2011). She is a regular contributor to Artforum, and her forthcoming book, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship is forthcoming from Verso.

Katherine Carl is curator of the James Gallery and deputy director of the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center. Her other projects include School of Missing Studies. She was curator at The Drawing Center and has worked at Dia Art Foundation, ArtsLink, and The National Endowment for the Arts. Her co-edited books are Lost Highway Expedition Photobook (2007) and Evasions of Power (2011).

Lindsay Caplan is a doctoral student in Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY