Raqs Media Collective is a group of three media practitioners - Jeebesh Bagchi (New Delhi, 1965), Monica Narula (New Delhi, 1969) and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (New Delhi, 1968) - based in New Delhi. Raqs has presented work at most of the major international shows, from Documenta to the Venice Biennale. The members of Raqs were co-curators of Manifesta 7, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art which took place in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy in the summer of 2008.

　　Carol Yinghua Lu is an independent curator and art writer based in Beijing. She is the vice editor-in-chief of Contemporary Art & Investment magazine and a frequent contributor to a number of international art magazines such as Frieze, Contemporary, and Today Art.

　　Jan Verwoert is an art critic based in Berlin. He has been a tutor and leader of the Imagined Communities seminar at PZI since 2005. He is a contributing editor to Frieze magazine and also writes regularly about contemporary art for such art magazines as Afterall, Metropolis M, Springerin and artists’ catalogues.

　　Hal Foster is Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, he is an internationally renowned author of books on post-modernism in art. He later studied at Princeton and took a PhD at CUNY before becoming an instructor at the Whitney Program - an offshoot of the Whitney Museum. His landmark 1983 edited book The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture identified the end of the modern era and the arrival of postmodernism.

　　Martha Rosler is an artist that works in various media as well as writing about art and culture. Rosler’s work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere with recurrent concerns about the media and war as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to systems of transport. Her work has been seen in the Venice Biennale as well as many major international survey shows, including the Documenta exhibitions and several Whitney Biennials.

　　Gao Shiming is Associate Professor in the Department of Criticism and Art History as well as the Executive Director of the Center of Visual Cultural Research of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China. His subject is visual culture research, contemporary art studies and curatorial practice. Curatorial practice for Gao is a kind of critical-creative action. He believes in the contemporary significance of bringing together action and subjective knowledge. He also firmly believes in curatorial work as a form of ‘writing in practice’ within the dark room of history. Gao was co-curator of the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial – Farewell to Post-Colonialism, 2008.