Philip Tinari is Director and Chief Executive of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art. Since 2011, he has led its transformation from a founder-driven private museum into China’s leading independent contemporary art institution, presenting a wide range of exhibitions and programs to more than one million annual visitors across four venues in Beijing, Shanghai, Beidaihe and Yixing. 

Cao Fei (born in 1978 in Guangzhou) is an internationally renowned Chinese contemporary artist currently living and working in Beijing. She mixes social commentary, popular aesthetics, references to surrealism, and documentary conventions in her films and installations. Her works reflect on the rapid and developmental changes that are occurring in Chinese society today.

Dr. Clémentine Deliss works across the borders of contemporary art, curatorial practice, and publishing. She is Curator at Large at KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels, where she is curating the Metabolic Museum-University (mm-u.online) with secondary collections from Belgian museums. She is KANAL-Guest Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and holds an honorary Global Humanities Professorship in History of Art from the University of Cambridge.

London-based Malaysian Chinese artist Lawrence Lek unites filmmaking, video games, and electronic soundscapes in a singular cinematic universe. He is known for advancing the concept of Sinofuturism with immersive installations that explore spiritual and existential themes through the lens of science fiction. Featuring a recurring cast of wandering characters, his works are noted for their dreamlike narratives, evocative imagery, and preoccupation with technology. 

Dana Awartani engages in critical and contemporary reinterpretations of the forms, techniques, concepts and spatial constructs that shape Arab culture. Steeped in a multitude of historical references, especially Islamic and Middle Eastern art-making traditions, Dana's practice straddles continuity and innovation, aesthetic experimentation and social relevance.

Kyle Chayka is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, where he writes a column on technology and culture titled Infinite Scroll. He is the author of The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, published in 2020, and Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture, published in 2024. Kyle has contributed to publications including the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, and The New Republic. He co-founded the publications Study Hall and Dirt.

Elena Filipovic (born in 1972) joined the Kunstmuseum in April 2024 after more than nine years as director and curator of Kunsthalle Basel, where she has organised over seventy exhibitions, and following her tenure as senior curator of WIELS, Brussels from 2008 to 2014. She was curator of the Croatian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale of Art in 2022 and was co-curator, with Adam Szymczyk, of When things cast no shadow, the 5th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2008. 

Zanele Muholi is a visual activist, humanitarian and art practitioner whose work documents and celebrates the lives of Black LGBTQIA+ communities. Born in Umlazi, Durban and now residing in Cape Town, Muholi completed an MFA at Ryerson University in Toronto (2009). Beginning in 2006, they responded to the continuing discrimination and violence faced by South Africa’s LGBTQIA+ community by photographing Black lesbian and transgender individuals.

Olaf Blanke is the founding director of the Center for Neuroprosthetics and holds the Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Cognitive Neuroprosthetics at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He directs the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience at EPFL and is Professor of Neurology at the University Hospital of Geneva. Olaf's research focuses on the neuroscience of consciousness and embodiment, human augmentation and personalised medicine.

Claudia Comte is an artist based in Bennwil, Switzerland. Her work is defined by her interest in the memory of materials and by a careful observation of how the hand relates to different technologies. Claudia studied at the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2004-2007, followed by a Masters of Art in Science of Education at Haute Ecole Pédagogique, Visual Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland in 2008-2010.

Yuk Hui is currently Professor of Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he holds the Chair of Human Conditions. Yuk studied Computer Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, wrote his PhD thesis under the supervision of the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020) at Goldsmiths College London and obtained his Habilitation in Philosophy from Leuphana University Lüneburg.

Wang Tuo currently lives and works in Beijing. Through various media, including film, performance, painting, and writing, he interweaves art history, cultural archives, literature, and mythology to construct narratives that blur the boundaries of time and space. Drawing upon perspectives from intellectual history and political philosophy, Wang Tuo examines the complex entanglements between the disruptions of modernity in China and East Asia.