Olafur Eliasson Softcover - 2002

Madeleine Grynsztejn is Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She was previously Curator of the 1999 Carnegie International and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art since 1997.

Daniel Birnbaum is a contributing editor to Artforum and the author of several books on art and philosophy, including The Hospitality of Presence: Problems of Otherness in Husserl's Phenomenology (1998) and Production (2000, with the artist Carsten Hller). From 1998 to 2000 he was the Director of IASPIS, an artists' residency programme based in Stockholm. Since January 2001 he has been the Director of Portikus and the Stdelschule Art Academy, both in Frankfurt.

Michael Speaks is an architectural theorist who has taught in the graphic design department at the Yale School of Art and in the architecture departments at Harvard University and Columbia University, among others. He is currently Graduate Program Head at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles. The founding editor of Polygraph and Senior Editor at ANY magazine in New York, he was also the Series Editor for Writing Architecture, published by the MIT Press. Speaks has edited several books on contemporary architecture and culture including The Critical Landscape (1997).