Boris Groys is a philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist and internationally renowned expert on Soviet-era art and literature, specifically the Russian avant-garde. He is a Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University, a Senior Research Fellow at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe and a professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School / EGS. His work engages radically different traditions, from French poststructuralism to modern Russian philosophy, yet is firmly situated at the juncture of aesthetics and politics. Theoretically, Boris Groys’s work is influenced by a number of modern and postmodern philosophers and theoreticians, including Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze and Walter Benjamin.

Cuauhtémoc Medina is a curator, critic and art historian. He has a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex and a Bachelor’s in History from the UNAM, where he has been a researcher at the Institute of Aesthetic Research since 1993. From 2002 to 2008, he served as the first associate curator of Latin American art at the Tate Modern. In 2012, he directed the ninth edition of the European contemporary art biennial Manifesta, held that year in Genk, Belgium. In 2018, he was the curator of the Twelfth Shanghai Biennale. Since 2013, he has been the curator-in-chief of the UNAM’s University Museum of Contemporary Art.

Amanda de la Garza is a curator and art historian. She is currently the General Director of the Visual Arts Department and the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) at the UNAM. Her professional practice has been focused on contemporary art and archival exhibitions. She has served as adjunct curator at the MUAC. In collaboration with Cuauhtémoc Medina, she has curated exhibitions of renowned artists such as Harun Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Vicente Rojo and Jeremy Deller, and has individually curated exhibitions of Isaac Julien and Jonas Mekas, among others. She has developed an independent practice in Mexico and abroad at the junctures between contemporary art, literature, dance and documentary photography. She was cocurator of the XVII Photography Biennial at Centro de la Imagen and of Readings of a Fractured Territory, the first archival exhibition of the Museo Amparo’s contemporary art collection. She has published countless essays, interviews and reviews in catalogs, books and specialized magazines.