Steven Henry Madoff, award-winning art critic, curator, poet, and educator has curated internationally and published widely over the last quarter of a century. He has served as Executive Editor of ARTnews magazine, is a Contributing Editor at Modern Painters and ARTnews, was President and Editorial Director of a division of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, lectures on contemporary art and education throughout the world, and has held the position of Senior Critic at Yale University’s School of Art. He is the founding Chair of the Masters in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His books include Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century) published by MIT Press; Pop Art: A Critical History, from University of California Press; and Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity, from Princeton University Press, among many others. His criticism and journalism have appeared regularly in such publications as the New York Times, Time, Artforum, Art in America, Art + Auction, Tate Etc., as well as ARTnews and Modern Painters. He is the author of monographic essays on such artists as Marina Abramovic, Rebecca Horn, Kimsooja, and Ann Hamilton, among many others. He has been a curator for the Venice Biennale and most recently directed a multi-platform program of exhibitions and events, “Host & Guest,” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including those from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets. He holds his Ph.D. from Stanford University and his B.A. from Columbia University, where he was the Butler Scholar in the Humanities. He is currently at work on a book concerning the history and theory of interdisciplinary art practices from Wagner to the present.

Over the past three decades, Ernesto Pujol has contributed essays, interviews, and images to numerous art books, catalogs, journals, and academic textbooks. Pujol is an artist writer, consumate educator, and social choreographer known for public group performances as meditative portraits of vulnerable communities and threatened ecosystems, within the context of the global crisis of democracy and climate change. Pujol designs immersive aesthetic experiences as cathartically transformative collective moments, carefully crafted with elements of walking, stillness, silence, listening, and minimal gestures. Pujol is the founder of "The Listening School", a series of pilgrim workshops on creating sustainable conscious culture reconnected to Nature. He is also the author of "Sited Body, Public Visions: silence, stillness & walking as Performance Practice" (2012), available "on-demand" through Shakespeare & Co. in-store publishing in New York and Philadelphia.