David Joselit (Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Working as a curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, during the 1980s, Joselit co-organized several exhibitions that helped to define the art of that decade, including "Endgame: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture" (1986). He taught in the Department of Art History and Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies at University of California–Irvine from 1995 to 2003, and at Yale University from 2003 to 2013, where he served as Department Chair from 2006 to 2009.

Pamela M. Lee (Jeanette and Willian Hayden Jones Professor, Stanford University)

Lee received her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She also studied at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Her area is the art, theory, and criticism of late modernism and contemporary art. Among other journals, her work has appeared in October, Artforum, Assemblage, Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, Grey Room, Parkett and Texte zur Kunst.

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Thanks to the Leonardo Art, Science and Technology China Lecture Series.