A multifaceted perspective on the complexity of these issues is reached through the words of a diverse range of art practitioners and commentators, including acclaimed artists Lucy Orta, Callum Morton, Danae Stratou and the collective Postcommodity, international curators Hou Hanru, Cuauhtรฉmoc Medina, Ranjit Hoskote and Linda Marie Walker and art critics, academics, writers and theorists Jean Burgess, Paul Carter, Barbara Creed, Geert Lovink, Scott McQuire, Nikos Papastergiadis, Gerald Raunig and Jan Verwoert.
Nikos Papastergiadis (Australia) is a Professor in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and founderโwith Scott McQuireโof the Spatial Aesthetics research cluster. He is director of the Research Unit for Public Culture. He is project leader of the Australian Research Council Linkage Project, โLarge Screens and the Transnational Public Sphereโ, and chief investigator on the ARC Discovery Projects, the โSpatial Impact of Digital Technology on Contemporary Art and New Art Institutionsโ and โPublic Screens and the Transformation of Public Spaceโ. His major publications include, Spatial Aesthetics: Art, Place and the Everyday (2006), Empires, Ruins and Networks: The Transnational Agenda in Art (2005), Metaphor and Tension (2004), Complex Entanglements (2003), The Turbulence of Migration (2000), Dialogues in the Diasporas (1998) and Modernity as Exile (1992).
Victoria Lynn (Australia) is Director, TarraWarra Museum of Art, a position she took up in April 2012. As an independent curator and writer based in Melbourne, she was the Visual Arts Curator for the Adelaide Festival in 2010 and 2012 where she curated the inaugural Adelaide International: Apart, We are Together (2010) and Adelaide International: Restless (2012). With Nikos Papastergiadis in 2010 and 2012 she also co-convened Artistsโ Week, a four day international symposium on contemporary art. Exhibitions curated include: โAnimate Inanimateโ, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2013, โSonic Spheresโ, TarraWarra Biennial 2012, โThe Tricksterโ, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea 2010; โDouble Take, the Anne Landa Award for Video and New Mediaโ, 2009, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; โturbulenceโ, 3rd Auckland Triennial, 2007, New Zealand; โJulie Rrap: Body Doubleโ, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2007 and โRegarding Fear and Hopeโ, 2007, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.