Notes on Contributors
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paul chan is an artist based in New York.
chaw ei thein, a painter and conceptual and performance artist, takes a feminist approach to portray the contradictions and conflictions of her sociopolitical environment. The recipient of the Elizabeth J. McCormack and Jerome I. Aaron fellowship in connection with the Asian Cultural Council in New York, she has lectured and exhibited extensively in and outside of Myanmar.
melissa chiu is the director of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. She has authored and edited several books and catalogs on contemporary art, including Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader (2010), and has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the Museum of Modern Art and other universities and museums.
ethan cohen founded the Ethan Cohen gallery in 1987 as Art Waves/Ethan Cohen in SoHo, New York City. The first gallery to present the Chinese avant-garde of the 1980s to the United States, it introduced the works of now celebrated artists, including Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Gu Wenda, Wang Keping, and Qiu Zhijie.
jerome cohen is the senior American expert on East Asian law. As Director of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School from 1964–1979, he helped pioneer the introduction of East Asian legal systems and perspectives into American legal curricula.
holland cotter has been a staff art critic at the New York Times since 1998. In 2009, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for coverage that included articles on art in China. His subjects range from Italian Renaissance painting to street-based communal work by artist collectives. For the Times he has written widely about “non-Western” art and culture.
ricardo dominguez is a cofounder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), which developed virtual sit-in technologies in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico, in 1998. He is an associate professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego, a Hellman Fellow, and Principal/Principle Investigator at CALIT2 and the Performative Nano-Robotics Lab at SME, UCSD.
stephen duncombe is a professor of media and culture at New York University. He is the author or editor of six books, including Dream: Re-Imaging Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy (2007) and the Cultural Resistance Reader (2002). A life-long political activist, he is a cofounder and the current director of the Center for Artistic Activism. [End Page 223]
david freedberg is Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art and director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University. His work on psychological responses to art includes the books Iconoclasts and their Motives (1984) and The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response (1989).
boris groys is a philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist, and internationally acclaimed expert on late-Soviet postmodern art and literature and the Russian avant-garde. His most recent books are Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of the Media (2012) and Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment (2006).
agnes gund is president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art. A philanthropist, art collector, civic leader, and staunch supporter of education, women’s issues and environmental concerns, among other causes, she is founder/board chair of Studio in a School, chair of MoMA PS1, and cofounder of the Center for Curatorial Leadership.
nik kowsar is an award-winning Iranian-Canadian cartoonist residing in Washington, D.C. Imprisoned in 2000 for a cartoon he drew, he fled Iran in 2003. A founder of Toonistan.com and Khodnevis.org for citizen cartoonists and journalists, he is a board member of Cartoonists Rights Network International.
carin kuoni, director of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School for Public Engagement, is also a founding member of the artists’ collective REPOhistory. She is the editor of Energy Plan for the Western Man: Joseph Beuys in America (1990, 1993) and Words of Wisdom: A Curator’s Vade Mecum on Contemporary Art (2001).
elzbieta matynia is associate professor of sociology and liberal studies and director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies. Her book Performative Democracy (2009) explores a potential in political life that...
