Shantell Martin is a British visual artist best known for her signature black and white small and large-scale drawings. She has had solo shows at The New Britain Museum of Art, 92Y Gallery, and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, New York. Martin has collaborated with iconic brands such as Nike, Max Mara, Tiffany & Co. as well as with New York City Ballet and Kendrick Lamar for Miami Art Basel. Martin is an adjunct professor at NYU Tisch ITP and a visiting scholar at MIT Media Lab. She lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.

Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968) is a world-renowned curator and the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. Alongside his curatorial practice, Obrist has written extensively on and around contemporary art, with a particular interest in the interview format.

Katharine Stout, Director at the Focal Point Gallery and Associate Director and co-founder of the Drawing Room, has been Deputy Director of Institute of Contemporary Arts, London since 2017, and previously as Head of Programme since 2013.

Prior to the ICA, Stout was Curator of Contemporary Art at Tate Britain (1999 to 2013), curating exhibitions with artists such as Liam Gillick, Gary Hume, Eva Rothschild and Patrick Keiller, group exhibitions such as 'This Was Tomorrow: Art & the 60s', as well as co-curating the Art Now series, Turner Prize exhibitions and Collections displays. She was previously the Contemporary Art Consultant at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, where she inaugurated the contemporary art programme.

Stout serves on the Board of Artist's Studios organisation, Tannery Arts, and has published numerous texts on contemporary art and artists in books, journal and magazines.