DAVID SHAPIRO is the editor-in-chief of Museo. He teaches in the History of Art department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, has taught at Parsons New School for Design, and Pratt Institute, and has lectured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, and the Colosseum. Selected book publications include The Education of a Photographer, Individuals, and Jeff Wall: Selected Essays and Interviews. Shapiro’s drawings have been exhibited widely and have appeared in the pages of Vanity Fair, Interview, and The New York Times Style Magazine.

MIRIAM KATZ was recently awarded the 2008-2009 Kitchen Curatorial Fellowship. She organizes an ongoing studio visit series for Columbia University alumni and this fall she will curate an exhibition at MC Gallery. Katz works as a researcher and writer for Artforum and has served as a visiting critic at New York University, Parsons New School for Design, Smack Mellon, and Art Omi International Arts Center.

DAVID VELASCO is a critic and Managing Editor of Artforum.com. Recently, he has interviewed artist Jack Pierson for 032c, choreographer Sam Kim for the New York Foundation for the Arts, and photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya for his artist book Beloved Object and Amorous Subject. In the past year he has also contributed essays to catalogues for Paul P. and Daniele Buetti.

KRISTEN LORELLO is an Associate Director at the gallery Eleven Rivington. She was a 2006-07 Fulbright Fellow to Italy, where she researched contemporary art in Rome. She has written for Artnet and curated for the Rome-based archive Open Video Projects.

CHAD LAIRD is a professor in the History of Art department at the Fashion Institute of Technology. He is a frequent collaborator with transmission artist Tianna Kennedy, including recently for the “Sonic Fragments” symposium at Princeton University.

SHANA LINDSAY is a professor in the History of Art department at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her current research investigates the theme of sacrifice in contemporary art, and her dissertation for a PhD from CUNY’s Graduate Center treated self-referentiality in the work of Marcel Broodthaers.

GEOFFREY BATCHEN is a professor of Art History at CUNY’s Graduate Center and has taught at the University of New Mexico and the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of the books Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography; Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History; and Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance, the last of which accompanied his exhibition of vernacular photographs for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.