Nina Katchadourian's work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video, and sound, and often involves whimsical insertions into everyday scenarios, interacting with nature or maps.

Introduced by Allan Sekula, The Forgotten Space is an essayistic documentary that follows container cargo aboard ships, barges, trains, and trucks, introducing us to workers, engineers, planners, politicians, and those marginalized by the global transport system.

Allan Sekula is a photographer and writer whose works make critical contributions to questions of social reality and globalization. French artist Bruno Serralongue employs the techniques of photojournalism to expose the conditions of contemporary humanity. 

Franklin Sirmans is the Terri and Michael Smooke Department Head and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. From 2006 to 2010, he was the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Menil Collection in Houston, TX.

Maria Nordman began working on city streets, in neighborhoods, and in public parks beginning in 1967. Her work, which emphasizes site and time specificity, has taken many forms, including musical interventions, interperformances, architectural construction, and language.

Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG, an online publication containing interviews, book reviews, and researched facts focusing on architecture, landscape, and the built environment. He combines unusual forms of criticism, reasoned speculation, and science fiction into a unique literary form.

Nicole Eisenman came to prominence in the early 1990s for her witty figurative installations combining mural painting, sculpture, drawing, and multi-media work, often viewed through a lens of gender politics. Moving between representation and abstraction, Eisenman addresses overarching human themes of love and friendship, isolation and mortality.

In a lengthy career notably devoted to the concept of legacy and institutional critique, Stephen Kaltenbach has created conceptual gestures, magazine advertisements, diagrammatic propositions, “Street Works,” time capsules, and photorealistic paintings. Constance Lewallen is Adjunct Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Monique Prieto is a Los Angeles-based artist whose paintings combine figurative abstraction and text, with a sense of playfulness and balance in her use of form and color.

Amie Siegel works variously in film, video, sound, and writing to reflect on absence, historical disorientation, and nostalgia. She is currently featured in East Meets West in the Walter and McBean Galleries, and has exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the Walker Art Center, and the Berlin International Film Festival, among other venues.