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Contributors

Victoria Camblin is an editor at 032c magazine, Berlin, and a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge.

Eric Baskauskas is the Visiting Graphic Artist for this issue of Motherwell. He's currently working toward his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the department of Visual Communication Design. He recently returned from Smyrna, Tennessee with new hubcaps on his 1994 Nissan Sentra. Prior to the journey, arguably his greatest accomplishment to date, he removed all the paint from the vehicle with an electric sander and painted it grey.

Barry MacGregor Johnston is a poet and artist from Belleville, Illinois. He holds degrees in Fine Art from Webster University and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Getting his start in the St. Louis Hardcore scene in the mid-Nineties, Barry has performed his keynote youth rally body invocations in clubs, parties, and yards throughout America and Europe. As a collaborator, he has worked on various actions, bands, and installation projects with artists including Karthik Pandian, Anna Parkina, Jason Triefenbach and his long time partner in the band Phallus Chalice, William Gass. In 2004 and 2005 he hosted the radio program OVAJ on EFM radio in Sarajevo, Bosnia, a Bosnian/English language show that offered the possibility of mixing live performance with disc jockeying, interviews, news and propaganda. His poems have appeared in the journals F.R. David, Novel, and The Journal of the Valkenberg Hermitage. He has had a solo exhibition (2008) at Overduin & Kite in Los Angeles and group exhibitions at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi in Berlin (2008) and International Project Space in Birmingham (2009). He is currently working on his first book of poetry and preparing sculptures for an exhibition in Berlin. Barry lives in Los Angeles, very near the river.

Paige K.  Johnston is founding editor of Motherwell.

Alexander Keefe is a freelance writer and occasional blogger.  He currently divides his time between northern Vermont and New Delhi.

Karthik Pandian is an artist and Editor-at-Large of Motherwell. His most recent exhibition was a collaborative installation with Mathias Poledna at Galerie Meyer Kainer in Vienna. He is currently at work on a solo exhibition opening at Midway Contemporary in Minneapolis in September, 2010. Pandian will serve as guest editor for Motherwell Volume III which will be released in conjunction with his show at Midway. His work is represented by Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles.

Roman Petruniak is the co-founder of the Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and the Everyday (InCUBATE), a research group seeking to better understand the situation of non-commercial creative practices in the context of today’s contemporary art world.  He is currently on a Fulbright scholarship to research the development of alternative art spaces throughout Ukraine and Eastern Europe.   www.incubate-chicago.org // www.pomij.com

Becca Schlossberg is currently pursuing a dual MA in Modern Art History and Arts Administration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, specializing in the history of photography and artists' books.  Before relocating to Chicago, she lived in Brooklyn, NY, where she worked for artists Doug and Mike Starn.

Chitra Venkataramani is a graduate student at the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She has an undergraduate degree in architecture and is trained as an illustrator and animator. She has been working as a freelance graphic designer for four years.

Jeremy F. Walton is assistant professor and faculty fellow in the New York University Program for Religious Studies.  His academic research focuses on civil Islam in Turkey, with a broader eye to questions of secularism, cosmopolitanism, and globalized discourses of ethics and aesthetics.  In general, he'd rather be idling over conversation and coffee, tea, or raki on the shore of the Bosporus, though he likes teaching and writing, too.

Danica Willard is an independent curator, and co-founder and co-curator of PROCESSPROJECTS, a curated web archive exploring processes of creative and cultural production with Ariel Pittman. Danica previously curated a retrospective of the works of Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz at the American University of Cairo and interned at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She is currently pursuing a double master’s degree in contemporary art history and arts administration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Danica’s research engages the ways in which text and image interface in post-war and contemporary art practices.