Mark Boulos is an artist-filmmaker living and working in Amsterdam. During 2010, his work has been exhibited at the 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, in the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art’s Morality exhibition, and in a solo exhibition at AR-GE Kunst Galerie Museum in Bozen-Bolzano. In 2008, Boulos participated in the Biennale of Sydney and had his first solo show at the Docking Station in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.  His work has also been shown at the 2nd Biennale of Thessaloniki, the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, the Swiss Art Awards, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Bloomberg Space, the Hayward Gallery, the Barbican Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Norwich Gallery, UK.  Boulos is the recipient of awards from the Netherlands Film Fonds, the Fonds BKVB, Film London, the British Documentary Film Foundation and the Arts Council England.  He has received support for his exhibitions from Pro Helvitia and the Mondriaan Foundation.  Born in Boston, USA in 1975, Boulos received his BA in Philosophy from Swarthmore College and Deep Springs College (USA), his MA from the National Film and Television School (England), and held a Fulbright Scholarship at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.

Juan A. Gaitán is the Senior Curator at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. Gaitán has curated many exhibitions internationally, especially in Canada, Colombia and The Netherlands. He has published monographic texts on several contemporary artists and is currently writing on freedom of expression and post-democratic politics. He has organised five exhibitions under the general theme of ‘Morality’, the leitmotiv of Witte de With’s 2009/10 programme. (2012)

Molly Macdonald’s research interests are in Hegel and his French reception, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis. She has an article forthcoming in the spring edition of Parallax on the concept-metaphor of ‘suturing’ in the work of Gayatri Spivak and is at work on a monograph on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and the psychoanalytic theory of André Green and Christopher Bollas, with a focus on concepts Force, binding, intersubjectivity and ‘thirdness’. Dr. Macdonald currently teaches philosophy and literature at Queen Mary, University of London, where she completed her PhD in Philosophy in December 2008. She holds a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University and an MA in Modernism from the University of East Anglia. (2012)

Philippe-Alain Michaud is the Film Curator at the Musée national d’art moderne-Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris. He is the author of Aby Warburg et l’image en movement (Paris, 1998; English version: Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion, New York, 2004), Le peuple des images (Paris, 2002), Sketches. Histoire de l’art, cinema (Paris, 2006). He has curated the exhibitions Comme le rêve, le dessin (Paris, Musée du Louvre-Centre Pompidou, 2002),  Le mouvement des images (Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2006), Electric Nights (Moscow, Musée de la photographie, 2010), Brancusi, photo, film (Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2011), Magic Carpets (Rome, Villa Medicis, 2012). (2012)

Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).