Leda Cempellin (PhD, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy) is Professor of Art History at South Dakota State University, USA. Her interdisciplinary research spans late modernism, SoTL in Art History, Museum Studies, collaboration, metacognition, wayfinding, AI, and critical thinking. She is the author of The Ideas, Identity and Art of Daniel Spoerri (2017) and co‑editor of Museum Studies for a Post‑Pandemic World (2024), reflecting her focus on collaborative and transitional practices.Melissa Geiger is Associate Professor of Art History at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA. She studies major paradigm shifts in art, including the impact of photography and Rauschenberg’s Experiments in Art and Technology. Her interdisciplinary approach led to co‑founding the Paragone Society and co‑designing its inaugural conference in collaboration with the University of Michigan, Flint Art Department and the Flint Museum of Art. Geiger also curates exhibitions and engages in community‑based arts initiatives.