Ann Davis is Director of The Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary and a prominent art critic, curator, and teacher. She is the author of The Logic of Ecstasy: Canadian Mystical Painting 1920-1940 and numerous articles and essays on twentieth-century Canadian art. Peggy Gale is an independent curator and critic whose texts on contemporary art have become artistic benchmarks. Videotexts, a selection of her essays, was published in 1995, and she was the winner of the 2006 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Diana Nemiroff is Director of the Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa and a former senior curator at the National Gallery of Canada. She is also an adjunct professor with the School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University and in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa. She has published extensively on contemporary Canadian and feminist art. Thierry de Duve is a historian, curator, teacher, and theorist of contemporary art. Born in Belgium, he has been a visiting professor at University of Lille III and the Sorbonne, among others, and has authored numerous books, including Kant after Duchamp (1996).