Vibeke Sorensen is a Professor and artist working in film, video, digital multimedia and computer animation, interactive architectural installation, and visual-music performance. Her work in experimental new media spans three decades and has been published and exhibited worldwide, including in books, galleries, museums, conferences, performances, film festivals, on cable and broadcast television, and on the internet. Her work combines documentary photography/film, ethnography, and architecture using hybrid physical-digital systems. She has a background in historic preservation for the State of New York, USA and has worked to integrate cultural preservation into new media development, and vis versa. She has a long history of collaboration with scientists and engineers, as well as with artists and designers, in developing new technologies that are multicultural and interdisciplinary, including at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Southern California (USC), and Princeton University. Her research has been supported by the US National Science Foundation, the USC Annenberg Center for Communication and Zumberge Fund for Innovation in Research, as well as Intel Corporation. She is a 2001 Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in Film/Video/Multimedia. Currently, she is a Professor and Chair of the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

T. Kanaga Sabapathy is one of the most respected art historians in Southeast Asia. As a historian, curator, critic and adviser, he has influenced artistic opinion and shaped knowledge of visual art for over 30 years. Currently an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore, Sabapathy has researched and published extensively on art in Southeast Asia.

Kirti Trivedi is a Professor at the Industrial Design Centre,Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai. After obtaining a first degree in Mechanical Engineering, he did postgraduate studies in Industrial Design from IIT, Bombay and the Royal College of Art, London.

In 1981, he worked as a UNESCO Fellow in Japan, under the guidance of Prof. Kohei Sugiura, and was introduced by him to the intellectual depth and the richness of Asian Design. Trivedi also pioneered India’s first Master’s Degree Programme in Visual Communication that year. He has since been engaged in research and documentation of the classical design traditions of India since 1984, with several publications on Indian Design Traditions.

Besides teaching and carrying out design research, he is active as a design consultant in the areas of graphic design, book design, exhibition and museum design, environmental graphics, signage and product design, with numerous publications and awards both nationally and internationally.

Kwok Kian Woon (Ph.D, University of California at Berkeley) is Associate Professor, Associate Chair (Academic) and Head, Division of Sociology at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU. His teaching and research interests relate to the historical and comparative understanding of modern social transformation and contemporary social change.

He was a Fellow in the Asia Leadership Program in Japan since 1996 and a recipient of the Fulbright Research Grant at Harvard University in 1998. He is actively involved in civil society and the public sector, including as Honorary Chairman, National Archives of Singapore, Past President, Singapore Heritage Society, Member of the National Heritage Board and the Singapore Art Museum Board, Member of the Steering Committee on the National Art Gallery (and Chairman of its Museological Advisory Group), and Co-Chairman of the Steering Committee for the Singapore Biennale 2006.

Ishu Patel is an acclaimed animation film director, animator and educator whose films have received theatrical and television distribution worldwide. His many international awards include two Oscar nominations, the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the British Academy Award, and the Grand Prix at both Annecy and the Montreal World Film Festival.

Patel graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University, Baroda and completed his graduate studies in Visual Communication at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and advanced Graphic Design at Allegemeine Gewerbschule in Basel, Switzerland. A Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship brought him to the National Film Board of Canada.

He produced and directed numerous award-winning films such as The Bead Game, Afterlife, Top Priority, Divine Fate and Paradise, co-produced animation with NHK, Japan and Channel Four, Britain.

Formerly a tenured Professor at the School of Cinema and Television, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, he is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.