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Hans Ulrich Obrist is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since 1991 he has curated more than 250 shows. Obrist’s publications include A Brief History of Curating, Project Japan: Metabolism Talks with Rem Koolhaas, Do It: The Compendium, Think Like Clouds and Ai Weiwei Speaks.

Visual artist Olafur Eliasson grew up in Iceland and Denmark. In 1995, he founded Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, which today comprises a team of craftsmen, architects, archivists, researchers, administrators, cooks, art historians, and specialised technicians. Natural phenomena – such as water, light, ice, fog, and reflections – feature prominently in Eliasson’s often-large-scale artworks.

Educated at Oxford, cognitive scientist Pireeni Sundaralingam has held research posts at the Department of Brain Sciences at MIT and UCLA. She is a Research Analyst at the Center for Humane Technology and a Fellow at the pioneering science-art-and-human perception museum, the Exploratorium.