Linda Williams is a cultural historian and emeritus professor of RMIT University. She has published widely on histories of human-animal relations and western concepts of nature and curated several international exhibitions on climate change and multispecies imaginaries. She led an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded Project Spatial Dialogues: Public Art & Climate Change which produced the co-authored book Screen Ecologies: Art, Screen Culture and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region (MIT Press, 2016). She currently leads the Extinction Imaginaries: Mapping Affective Visual Cultures in Australasia ARC project with Saffron Aid and Greenpeace https://circlesofextinction.org/.

Helen McDonald is an art historian and curator, and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her books are Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art (Routledge, 2001) and Patricia Piccinini: Nearly Beloved (Piper Press, 2012). Her recent co-edited book is Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art (Routledge, 2023) and her latest co-edited journal special issue is Australian Art and its Aboriginal Histories, Australian Historical Studies (Special Issue) 2023. Her current research interests are rock art and climate change in a global context.