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296 Contributors
Chris Gilbert wrote the essay in this volume when he was curator of contemporary
art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. At that time he was engaged
in academic research on the Art & Language group and was pursuing an
exhibition practice that had frequent recourse to art-subculture collectives.
He now lives and works in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Brian Holmes is a cultural critic who lives in Paris and works at the intersections
of artistic and political practice. He is the author of collections of
essays, Hieroglyphs of the Future and Unleashing the Collective Phantoms, and
the editor of publications for “Documenta X,” Kassel, Germany, 1997. He
has been engaged in many activist collaborations. He contributes to the journals
Multitudes, Brumaria, Springerin, and Open, and is a survivor of the international
mailing list Nettime. He is currently working on the seminar and
book project Continental Drift. A full archive of his work is available at http://
www.u-tangente.org.
Alan W. Moore was active in the artist groups Colab and ABC No Rio in the
1980s and published ABC No Rio: Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery with
Marc Miller. His doctoral thesis concerned New York City artist organizations
between 1969 and 1984. He wrote “Local History: The Art of Battle
for Bohemia in New York,” in Alternative Art New York, 1965–1985 (edited
by Julie Ault; Minnesota, 2000).
Gregory Sholette is a New York–based artist, writer, and founding member
of the artists’ collectives Political Art Documentation/Distribution and
REPOhistory. In 2004, he mounted a survey of his work from 1980 to 2003
at the Colgate University Art Gallery in New York. He coedited (with Nato
Thompson) The Interventionists: A Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption
of Everyday Life and has published essays in Moscow Art Journal, Oxford Art
Journal, Third Text, Exindex, Glänta, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Afterimage,
and Artforum.
Blake Stimson teaches art history and critical theory at the University of
California, Davis. He is the author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and
Its Nation.
Jelena Stojanović, a visiting scholar at Cornell University, teaches and writes
about European modernism. She is Wnishing a book on European cold war
art and culture. She holds a PhD in art history from the University of Sorbonne,
Paris.