Emma Enderby is a curator, writer, and lecturer of modern and contemporary art. She is currently curator-at-large at The Shed. Previously she worked as a curator for the Public Art Fund, New York, and the Serpentine Galleries, London. She also worked in exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Whitechapel Gallery, as well as in public programs at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Enderby has been a visiting lecturer, critic, and speaker at a number of universities and institutions, as well as an editor and writer for various books and catalogues. She holds degrees from University College London and Oxford University.

Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London and senior artistic advisor of The Shed. Prior to this, he was the curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show World Soup (The Kitchen Show) in 1991, he has curated more than 300 exhibitions.

Obrist has lectured internationally at academic and art institutions and is a contributing editor to the magazines Artforum, AnOther Magazine, and 032C, and a regular contributor to Mousse and Kaleidoscope. He writes columns for Das Magazin and Weltkunst. In 2011, he received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence, and in 2015, he was awarded the International Folkwang Prize for his commitment to the arts.

His recent publications include Mondialité, Conversations in Mexico, Ways of Curating, The Age of Earthquakes with Douglas Coupland and Shumon Basar, and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects.

Tomás Saraceno’s (b. 1973) work envisions ethical relationships with the terrestrial, atmospheric, and cosmic realms, deepening our understanding of environmental justice and interspecies cohabitation, carried out through floating sculptures, immersive installations, and the artist-initiated projects Aerocene and Arachnophilia. Arachnophilia is a not-for-profit, interdisciplinary spider/web research community that builds on innovations arising from Saraceno’s collaborative research into spider/web architectures, materials, modes of vibrational signalling, and behavior. Through this community, Arachnophilia explores concepts and ideas related to spiders and webs across multiple artistic, scientific, and theoretical disciplines, including vibrational communication, biomateriomics, architecture and engineering, animal ethology, nonhuman philosophy, anthropology, biodiversity/conservation, sound studies, and music.