Tom Morton

Tom Morton is a contributing editor of Frieze Magazine, and co-curator (with Lisa Le Feuvre) of ‘British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet’. He has worked as curator at the Hayward Gallery, where he curated exhibitions by Erik van Lieshout, Matthew Darbyshire, and Cyprien Gaillard, and at Cubitt Gallery, London, where he curated exhibitions by Charles Avery, Matthew Day Jackson, and Annika Eriksson, among others. He was co-curator of the 2008 Busan Biennale, and curated the exhibition 'How to Endure' for the 2007 Athens Biennale. He is the author of numerous exhibition catalogues, and his writing has appeared in Metropolis M, Bidoun, and Map among other publications.

Hilary Lawson

Hilary Lawson is a philosopher, filmmaker and video artist. Director of The Institute of Arts and Ideas and Vice-chair of the Forum for European Philosophy. Pioneer of the Video Painting and founding artist of the initial group that developed the video painting medium. As a philosopher he is best known for his philosophical work ‘Closure’ (2001). Video painting developed from the aesthetic theory outlined in the work. ‘Closure’ has been described as the first non-realist metaphysics and is an attempt to overcome the crisis of postmodernism, which he first identified in an earlier work: ‘Reflexivity: the Postmodern Predicament’.

Stuart Croft

Stuart Croft is an artist-filmmaker who writes and directs largely character-driven films for the gallery environment. He graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 1998 with an MA in Fine Art and has since shown his work at group and solo exhibitions around the world. He has shown retrospectives at FACT Liverpool (2007) and Gallery de Civica di Modena, Italy (2008). His most recent exhibition, entitled Comma 39 takes place at Bloomberg SPACE this month, as a result of an awarded commission in London this year. He is also currently tutor at the Moving Image Studio at the RCA.