Albertazzi, Liliana holds a PhD in Art History. She teaches at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Bourges. She has written numerous texts and curated exhibitions dedicated to contemporary art and the historical avant-guard.

Azara, Pedro, has a doctorate in architecture and is professor of aesthetics at the Technical School of Architecture in Barcelona. He has published several books among which most outstanding are De la fealdad del arte moderno, Anagrama, 1990; Imagen de lo invisible, Anagrama, Barcelona, 1992; La imagen y el olvido, Siruela, Madrid, 1995; El ojo y la sombra, Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, January 2002. His work as exhibition curator includes significant shows such as Casas del alma, Centro de Cultura Conemporánea de Barcelona, 1997; La última mirada, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, 1998; La Fundación de la ciudad, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, 2000; Diosas. La imagen femenina en el Mediterráneo antiguo, Museo de Historia de la Ciudad, Barcelona, 2000. The most outstanding grants, honorable mentions and awards he has received are the CIRIT Grant from the Catalonian government to finance studies at the Andover School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, 1992; Senior Getty Grant from the Getty Foundation (Los Angeles), 1998; finalist in the XVIII and XX Anagram Essay Prizes; and ACCA Award 2001 for the exhibition Diosas.

Barrios, José Luis, after obtaining his MA in Philosophy specialised in aesthetics and art theory, he was awarded with a grant from the FONCA (Mexico) in the area of multidiciplinarity studies. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Art History at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico and preparing a theses on the value of revulsion and morbidity in contemporary art. He has published numerous essays on the phenomenology of art and on Mexican cultural politics.

Brea, José Luis is Professor of Aesthetics and Modern Art Theory at the Philosophy Department of the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. He is also Director of the web site aleph as well as the magazines arts.zin and Acción Paralela. As an independent art critic he has collaborated with several national and international magazines -Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art and Parkett among others. He has organized numerous exhibitions as well as written numerous essays and books, such as the following: El punto ciego: El arte español de los años 90, Kunstraum Innsbruck-Ed. Univ. Salamanca, Innsbruck/Salamanca, 1999; Un ruido secreto: El arte de la era póstuma de la cultura, Mestizo, Murcia, 1996; Nuevas Estrategias Alegóricas, Tecnos, Madrid, 1991; Las Auras Frías, Anagrama, Barcelona, 1991; and Before and After the Enthusiasm: Spanish Art 1972-92, SDU Publishers, The Hague, 1989.

Bruckner, Pascal (Paris, 1948), is both Philosopher and writer. He holds a PhD in Philosophy and Letters and has been guest instructor at The University of California in San Diego (1986) and New York University (1987-1995). Since 1987 he has also collaborated with Le Nouvel Observateur. With Alain Finkielkraut he has written Le nouveau desordre amoreaux and Au coin de la rue, l´aventure. The author has written solo Le devin enfant, Lunes de fiel (in which the film by Roman Polanski was based on) and Les voleurs de beute, as well as several essays such as La mélancolie démocratique, La tentation de l’innocence (Medicis Prize1995) and L’euphorie perpétuelle: Essai sur le devoir de bonheur (2000).

Debroise, Olivier (Jerusalem, 1952) Besides being one of the best-known critics and curators in México, Debroise has published three novel (the latest being Crónica de las destrucciones, which won the Colima Prize in 1998). He has directed the film Un banquete en Tetlapayac (Primer Cuadro, 2000) which has been showing in several film festivals around the world. Among his many curatorial experiences the better known are El corazón sangrante / The Bleeding Heart (with Elisabeth Sussman and Matthew Teitelbaum). The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, Ms, 1991; InSITE97, A Binational Exhibition of Site-Specific Installations. San Diego-Tijuana, 1997 (with Sally Yard, Jessica Bradley and Ivo Mesquita), and Retrato de una década. David Alfaro Siqueiros 1930-1940, Museo Nacional de Arte, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Houston Fine Arts Museum,  y The Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1996. His book Mexican Suite, Photography in Mexico will be published shortly by the University of Texas at Austin. A completely revised edition of Figuras en el trópico o la invención del arte mexicano will be published by Era in 2001. As a founding member and director of Curare, Espacio Crítico para las Artes between 1993 and 1997, Debroise has played a pivotal role in the investigation about Mexico’s integration into the global culture during the nineties.

Duarte, Paulo Sergio art critic and teacher of art history, is Coordenador Geral de Estudos Culturais da Universidade Candido Mendes, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a Senior Lecturer in twentieth century art , history and theory, at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, at Rio de Janeiro. He was director of the Instituto Nacional de Artes Plásticas da Fundação Nacional de Arte, Director General del Paço Imperial do Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, Vice-Secretário de Estado de Educação do Rio de Janeiro. He has wrote many texts and essays on modern and contemporary art.

Dubois, Philippe is professor of the Cinema and Audiovisual Department of Paris University III / Sorbonne Nouvelle, and teaching staff in the Communications Sciences Institute of the Lieja University of Belgium. His labor as an investigator is centered in photographic history and aesthetics, cinema and video. Among his books, we should emphasize L’Acte Photographique & autres essays, Nathan editions, Paris, 1990; Le cinema suspendu et la photographie tremblée, Jacques Chambon ed., 1993; and his collaboration in collective editions as Histoire de la photographie, Bordas ed., Paris, 1987.

Font, Doménec is an essayist and chair of Theory And History of Modern Cinema in the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. He has directed some seminaries about cinema, aesthetics and theory for several universities and cultural foundations. He is currently preparing an essay dedicated to the cartography of Modern film. His last published book is La última mirada. Testamentos fílmicos, La Mirada, Valencia, 2000.

García-Alix, Alberto is a photographer. He was awarded the 1999 National Prize for Photography in Spain and is member of the team of the magazine, El Canto de la Tripulación, and an expert on the history, culture and aesthetics of tattoos.

García Pino, Gonzalo is journalist and scriptwriter. He writes in El País, La Razón, El Europeo (Spain), Il Mattino and Itinerario (Italy) and in Liberation (France). His two last texts about photography have been published at the catalogues of Spanish Photographers, in the Centre of Conferences of the European Comittee of Brussels, and  the anthological exhibition of Alberto García-Alix (1977-1998). He has found and writes in the magazine El Canto de la Tripulación.

Gili, Marta (Barcelona, 1957) has been Director of the Photography Department of “la Caixa” Foundation, Barcelona, during the last eleven years. Between 1983 and 1988 has been part of the organizing committee of the festival “Primavera Fotográfica” that takes place in Barcelona. Furthermore, she has excelled professionally as member of the purchasing committee  of the Fonds Nationale d´Art Contemporain of the Ministry of Culture of France. As a curator it is worth mentioning her exhibitions of the work of Eugene Atget, Tracey Moffatt, Miguel Rio Branco and Gilliam Wearing, among many others.

Guardiola, Juan is an art writer and independent curator of several experimental cinema programs and video. He has collaborated in diverse publications like “Historia General del Cine” (1995); also –in collaboration with Nuria Enguita- he was the curator of the Juan Downey retrospective show, in 1997. In 1999, was responsible of the organization, in Valencia, of a film festival and the edition of the book John Waters: Príncipe Inmundo. Recently he curated the show Andy Warhol: Cinema, Video and Television, at Antoni Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona, in 2000.

Hentschel, Martin (1951)  holds a PhD in Arts from The Ruhr-Universität of Bochum. After his collaboration in the development of The Neues Museum Weserburg in Bremen and his task as curator of exhibitions for The Portikus Kunstverein, he became the Director of The Württembergischer Kunstmuseen  and he has been director of the Kunstmuseen in Krefeld since beginning of 2001. He has written  for the  periodicals Nike and Artforum, and published numerous critical pieces and catalogue essays on contemporary art.

Hernández Cava, Felipe is an art critic, curator of exhibitions and scriptwriter.

Hopkins, David is Senior Lecturer in twentieth century art, photography and theory at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, UK. He is the author of Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared (Oxford, 1998) and co-author of Marcel Duchamp (London, 1999). In 2000 he curated an exhibition of Weegee’s photographs at the Stills Gallery, Edinburgh. His latest book After Modern Art 1945-2000 is published by Oxford University Press as part of their Oxford History of Art series.

Jay, Paul is a writer, he was the first curator and director of the Musée Nicephore Nièpce, France, post that he held until his retirement.

Jiménez, Carlos teaches Theory and Contemporary Art History in the Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. He is also an art critic and independent curator. Author of the books Del espacio arquitectónico a la arquitectura como mercancía (1974), Travesía del ojo –poems- (1991), Extraños en el paraíso, Ojeadas al arte de los 80 y Los rostros de Medusa: studies about the rethoric of photography.

Livingstone, Marco is an art historian and independent curator based in London, and the author of many books on contemporary art and photography including David Hockney (1981), R.B. Kitaj (1985), Arthur Tress: Talisman (1986), Pop Art: A Continuing History (1990) and Jim Dine: The Alchemy of Images (1998). He has worked with Duane Michals on several occasions since 1984, when he organized a major travelling retrospective of his photographs in the UK. In 1997 he published The Essential Duane Michals (Thames and Hudson) and a year later he organised the exhibition Duane Michals: Words and Images for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Canada.

Marinas, Miguel teaches Sociology in the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. He researches into cultural and consumer sociology, fields on which he has published several papers. He is part of the editorial team in La Balsa de la Medusa and Intersubjetivo/Intrasubjetivo.

Montejo Navas, Adolfo is poet, art critic and translator. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, since 1993, where he writes in many cultural publications of Spain and Brazil. He is the author of the books Poems (Rio, 1996) and Inscripciones (Madrid, 1999). As translator his most important works are the editions of the books Poemas de Alvaro Campos / Fernando Pessoa (Madrid, 1998) and Nueva poesía brasileña, 1960-2000 (Madrid, 2001). He has been curated many exhibitions about visual poetry.

Olivares, Rosa is the editor and director of EXIT.

Prado, Celia was born in Vigo (Spain) in 1956. She has been living and working in Stockholm (Sweden) since 1978. She obtained her degree in Graphics and Printing in 1988. After that, she exhibited her work from 1988 to 1991. Since 1989 Celia Prado has been active as an art instructor, teaching at the Royal Academy of Arts during the year 1990-1991, besides other academic activities. She is co-founder, Senior Curator and Member of the Advisory Board of Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm. Among her curatorial activities it is worth mentioning her exhibits of Julie Opie, Diana Thater, Tracey Moffatt, Eva Koch and Ma Liuming.

Ramírez, Juan Antonio is a lecturer on History of Art at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, author of several books on art and architecture, some of them translated into several languages, such as Duchamp. Love and Death, Even and The Metaphor of the Beehive. His articles are frequently published in different newspapers and art magazines.

Reyes Palma, Francisco is a historian and researcher at the CENIDIAP-INBA and is a founding member of CURARE. He has collaborated in numerous curatorial projects an exhibition catalogues. He is the author of diverse papers that investigate museums, education and artistic organizations in Mexico. He has also written monographic works on Leopoldo Méndez, Pablo O’Higgins, Diego Rivera, Mathias Goeritz, David Alfaro Siquieros and José Clemente Orozco. Among his most recent publications Julio Galán: El juego de las profanaciones (CONACULTA) and Mariana Yampolsky: Imagen-Memoria (Centro de la Imagen) should be noted.

San Martín, Francisco Javier is a critic and art historian. He teaches Theory and History of XXth Century Art at the Fine Arts Department in the Universidad del País Vasco. He has curated numerous exhibitions and collaborates regularly in different publications devoted to contemporary art. He is author of seven books on XXth Century Art, among them La mirada nerviosa, about Italian Futurism, a monograph on Piero Manzoni and No Artista, a study on the work of Marcel Duchamp.

Smet, Catherine de in an autor and editor. She has published with the Centre d’Art Imprimé Jean-Marc Bustamante’s Lumières (1994) and 9 Installations by Jessica Stockholder (1998). As a writer she has been particularly interested in the printed dimension of art and architecture on which she has published several essays. She’s a PhD candidate with a theses about Le Corbusier’s books.

Soto Caba, Victoria has a doctorate in History and she is professor of Art History at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, author of several studies on ephemeral art (Catafalcos Reales del Barroco Españo. Un estudio de arquitectura efímera, Madrid, Aula Abierta, 1991) and others related to the world of festivals. She has published diverse chapters and articles on the history of the garden (“Jardines de la Ilustración y el Romanticismo en España” as an epilogue of the book by Adrian Von Buttlar, Jardines del Clacisismo y el Romanticismo. El jardín paisajista, Madrid, Nerea, 1993 or “Narciso Pascual y Colomer, el marqués de Salamanca y los jardines madrileños del periodo isabelino” in El Palacio del Marqués de Salamanca, Madrid, Argentaria Foundation, 1994) and on the relations between gardens and literature.

Vidal Estévez, Manuel is a professor of Audiovisual Narrative and Film Analysis in the Séptima Ars school of film and television. Critic, screenplay writer and film producer. As a critic he has collaborated with Blanco y Negro, Reseña, Creación, Contracampo and Nosferatu, as well as various books by groups of authors, among them Cine español:ida y vuelta (1975), Los años que conmovieron al cinema, las rupturas del 68 (1988), Diccionario del cine español and Historia general del cine, edited by Cátedra. He is author of monographs on Akira Kurosawa (1992) and Carl Theodor Dreyer. He is a film consultant for several TV channels. As film director he has produced, among others, Días inolvidables (1981) and Una bola de nieve en el infierno.

Weegee -Arthur H. Fellig- Weegee by Weegee: An Autobiography, New York, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1961. Inquire into the artists index.

Wenders, Wim is a Cinema director, scriptwriter, photographer and writer. He has published diverse books of photography, cinema, including his own films, like Written in the West (Schirmer & Mossel, München, 1987), La memoria de las imágenes (Ed. de la Mirada, Valencia, 2000), Buena Vista Social Club (Schirmer & Mossel, München, 1999) and Once (DAP, New York, 2001). Inquire into the artists index.