Contributors

Daniel Coffeen Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer Gabriel Ritter Christine Wong Yap

Daniel Coffeen

Daniel is an independent writer, reader, teacher, and philosopher living in San Francisco.

He has a PhD in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley where he taught adjunct for many years (he also taught graduate seminars in critical theory at the San Francisco Art Institute). Never considering himself an academic, Daniel works independently, writing about contemporary art, film, language, Deleuze, perception, Uni, capitalism, emergent shapes, pleasure, new media, and tequila.

He founded the once-exquisite ArtandCulture.com as well as the mix-widget, 10Plums.com.  He makes money by naming products, writing copy, and branding companies.  But, frankly, he misses teaching.

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Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer is an art writer, critic, and curator in Los Angeles. She edits the sporadic publication Pep Talk and has recently founded an experimental exhibition venture called Finley Gallery.

Gabriel Ritter

Gabriel Ritter is an independent curator and art historian specializing in modern/contemporary Asian art. He received a master of art history from UCLA, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Japanese art history. His recent curatorial projects include In Focus: The Humorous – Recent Video Art from Israel, Japan and Mexico (2011) at REDCAT, Tokyo Nonsense (2008) at SCION Installation L.A., and Out of the Ordinary: New Video from Japan (2007) at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He has also contributed catalog essays to the monographs of artists Makoto Aida and Koki Tanaka. Gabriel currently lives in Tokyo, where he is a Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellow at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

Christine Wong Yap

Christine Wong Yap makes art to elicit viewers’ optimistic or pessimistic attitudes, perceptions, and emotions. She works across multiple media— installations, sculptures, multiples, and works on paper. A longtime resident of Oakland, CA, she relocated to New York, NY last year.