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Stan Douglas is a visual artist who lives and works in Vancouver. His films, videos, and photographs have been seen in exhibitions internationally, including Documentas IX, X and XI (1992, 1997, 2002) and three Venice Biennales (1990, 2001, 2005). A comprehensive survey of his work, Past Imperfect: Works 1986-2007, was mounted by the Württembergischer Kunstverein and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in the fall of 2007. Between 2004 and 2006 he was a professor at Universität der Künste Berlin and since 2009 has been a member of the core faculty in the Grad Art Department of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He has been the subject of numerous books and catalogues, including Stan Douglas (Phaidon), Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971 (Arsenal Pulp) and Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 West Hastings Street (Arsenal Pulp/Contemporary Art Gallery), and is the editor of Vancouver Anthology (Talonbooks).

Reid Shier is currently Director of the Polygon Gallery (formerly Presentation House Gallery) in North Vancouver; he is the former Curator of the Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver, the Power Plant in Toronto, and Vancouver's Or Gallery. He was editor of Boo Magazine and his essays have been published in Art Text, Canadian Art, Fuse, Flash Art, and Poliester magazines, as well as in the Arsenal Pulp Press/Artspeak anthology Vancouver Art & Economies.

Samir Gandesha is Associate Professor in the Department of the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.