Ann Stephen (Author)
Dr Ann Stephen is an art historian and curator at the Powerhouse Museum. She is the author of On Looking at Looking: The Art and Politics of Ian Burn (Miegunyah Press, Carlton, Vic., 2006); co-author of The Necessity of Australian Art (Power Publications, Sydney, 1988); editor and co-author of Pirating the Pacific: Images of Travel, Trade and Tourism (Powerhouse Publishing, Sydney, 1993) and Visions of a Republic: The Work of Lucien Henry (Powerhouse Publishing, Sydney, 2001). Stephen is principal curator of Modern Times: The Untold Story of Modernism in Australia exhibition.

Andrew McNamara (Author)
Dr Andrew McNamara is Associate Professor, Art and Design, Queensland University of Technology. He is the coordinator of a new research grouping at QUT: the Arts, Media, Design and Modernity (AMDM) research group. He is also an editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art. Recent publications appear in The Dreams of Interpretation (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2007) and Image and Narrative, Belgium (2008).

Philip Goad (Author)
Philip Goad is Professor of Architecture at the University of Melbourne. Internationally known for his research and publications on modernism and Australian architecture, he is the author of Melbourne Architecture (Watermark Press, Sydney, 1999), New Directions in Australian Architecture (Pesaro Publishing, Sydney, 2001), editor and co-author of Bates Smart: 150 Years of Australian Architecture (Craftsman House, Sydney, 2004) and co-author of Australian Modern: The Architecture of Stephenson & Turner (Miegunyah Press, Carlton, Vic., 2004).