Neil Kent teaches and carries out historical and social research at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Triumph of Light and Nature: Nordic Art 1740-1940 (1987).
Stefan Hertmans is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent. He has published novels, anthologies of short stories, essays on literature and philosophy, theatre texts and poetry.
Elaine Denby was an architect and a member of the RIBA and the Art Workers Guild.
Mark C. Taylor is the Cluett Professor of Humanities at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Bernard Comment, born in Switzerland, lives and works in Paris. He is the author of L’ombre de mémoire (1990), Roland Barthes, vers le neuter (1991) and Allées et venues (1992), which won the Prix Antigone in 1993.
Philippe Pons is the Tokyo correspondent for Le Monde. He is the author of many books, including From Edo to Tokyo: Memory and Modernity.
Peter Wollen is Professor of Film Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Bruce Bégout is lecturer in philosophy at the University of Picardie, Amiens, France.
Hans Belting is Professor of Art History and Media Theory at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany, and Visiting Professor at Columbia University, New York. He is the author of Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art (1994).
Stephan Harrison is Senior Research Associate at the School of Geography, Oxford University.