F. John Beech, Coated Drawing/Harrison Place, Brooklyn (detail), 2008
Aluminum enamel on inkjet print
11 x 8 ½ inches

B. Hybrid Dumpster Drawing #9 (detail), 1997
Black and white RC phototgraphs, tape
9 2∕3 x 13 2∕3 inches
Courtesy the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York

Kelly Baum is the Locks Curatorial Fellow for Contemporary Art at Princeton University Art Museum.

John Beech is an English-born artist living and working in Brooklyn. His work is in museum collections in the United States and Europe, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst (Reutlingen) and Albright Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), where his drawings will be on view this summer as part of the exhibition Works on Paper: The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection. Beech is represented by Peter Blum Gallery (New York).

Sutapa Biswas is a London-based artist whose drawing, painting, film and video works have been exhibited internationally at venues including Tate Modern (London), Whitechapel Art Gallery (London) and Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College (Portland). She is currently a Reader at the Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts, London. Biswas is represented by Galeria Nara Roesler (São Paulo).

Beth Campbell is a New York-based artist represented by Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery (New York). She has created projects for the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Public Art Fund, and was included in the 6th Mercosul Biennial (Porto Alegre). Previous group shows include the Brooklyn Museum of Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Andrea Rosen and White Columns (New York), Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), The Drawing Room (London) and The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs). Her work is included in several collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA and the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection at the New Museum.

Annette DiMeo Carlozzi is Curator of American & Contemporary Art and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research organization involved in exploring, examining and understanding land and landscape issues. The Center, based in Culver City, employs a variety of methods to pursue its mission, engaging in research, classification, extrapolation and exhibition. Since its inception in 1994, the CLUI has produced over thirty exhibitions—on- and off-site—and published ten books on the utilization of terrestrial and geographic resources.

Molly Dilworth is an artist and curator who lives and works in Brooklyn. Dilworth has exhibited nationally and internationally, including Deitch Projects, Participant Inc., ExitArt, X-Girl and Artists Space (New York), BM Suma Contemporary Art Center (Istanbul) and the Melbourne Art Center. In 2006, Dilworth curated the interactive exhibition The Great American Store(age) at DUMBO and The Searchers at the Elizabeth Foundation Gallery (New York).

Bree Edwards is an independent curator and video producer living in Los Angeles. She was Program Manager at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston in 2006–07, during which she organized The Center for Land Use Interpretation residency.

Simon Evans is a British artist based in Berlin. Recent solo shows include How to get about at the Aspen Art Museum, The Bulletin Board at White Columns (New York) and In the Country of Uncles ay Jack Hanley Gallery (San Francisco). Evans’ work has recently appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including Learn to Read at Tate Modern (London), All About Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art at Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Cosmologies at James Cohan Gallery (New York) and the 27th São Paulo Biennial.

Boris Groys is an art critic, philosopher and an internationally acclaimed expert on late Soviet postmodern art and literature, as well as on the Russian avant-garde, French poststructuralism and modern Russian philosophy. Groys is Professor of Philosophy and Art Theory at the Academy for Design in Karlsruhe and Global Professor at New York University. He is the author of many books, including Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment (Afterall Books, 2006) and Art Power (MIT Press, 2008).

Jason Hill is a doctoral candidate in art history at the University of Southern California and a frequent contributor to Art Lies. He is a recent recipient of a Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art.

Ben Judson is a freelance writer and web designer living in San Antonio. His writing has appeared in Art Lies, The Texas Observer, The San Antonio Current, ...might be good, NeoAztlan and other publications. In addition, Judson runs Emvergeoning.com, a contemporary arts and culture blog.

Kurt Mueller is a writer and artist based in Austin.

Stephanie Snyder is the John and Anne Hauberg Director and Curator of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College (Portland). She is the curator of Suddenly! (forthcoming 2009); I want to show you somewhere (2007); Marc Joseph, New and Used (2007); Sutapa Biswas, Birdsong (2006, with inIVA); Mona Hatoum (2005); and Snapshot Chronicles: the Rise of the American Photo Album (2005, with Barbara Levine). In addition, Snyder has written texts for PLAZM, the back room anthology (edited by Matthew Stadler) and Artweek, and was the recipient of a 2007 Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Getty Foundation.